"When the people are being beaten with a stick, they are not much happier if it is called 'the People's Stick'"
Category: Social Commentary
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I was watching the following video on YouTube regarding food banks and there are people who take it upon themselves to punch down on those who need help. This punching down comes with the usual blaming decisions people have made as if everything bad that happens is purely the result of the decisions made in…
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Sigh, Just as a follow up to the previous post where I was talking about tactics regarding how to confront the Trump administration, I was watching Real Time Bill Maher last night and one of the guests on the show was Joe Manchin. On a side note, I have my disagreements with Joe Manchin but…
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Normally at this point I’m really looking forward to the final day of the week but apart from the usual work related stuff things have been pretty uneventful. Tonight I went for an 11.6km walk and that was completed in around 1 hour and 40 minutes which good that I am keeping up the pace.…
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The saga regarding SSDs continues as one of the major instigators behind the hysteria admits that they didn’t update their SSD firmware and the firmware on their motherboard was at least 9 months out of date yet he insists on blaming Microsoft. I don’t know about you but if you want any sort of credibility…
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In the wake of recent events there appears to be a narrative doing the rounds by prominent liberal talking heads making out that they’re shocked as if this was the first and only case of politically motivated violence in the United States. This is the same sort of deliberate ignorance of history that far too…
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Once again the ‘don’t politicise the shooting’ types are once again politicising the killing of Charlie Kirk – calling for violent retribution while speculating, based on no evidence at all, as to the politics of the accused killer. Why let facts get in the way of weaving a politically expedient narrative that allows you to…
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For a long time I’ve considered myself centre left primarily because I would consider my position on social matters being that of a civil libertarian but my economic position was a mixture of moderate to centre left – basically a social democrat. Long story short, there is the old saying that you become more conservative…
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I went for a short walk after work today because light rain started and I wanted to avoid getting stuck in a downpour like what happened a few months ago when I thought that some drizzle wouldn’t turn into heavy rain. I came back and had a small snack – a tuna, rice and beans…
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I woke up this morning just before midday and headed down to Awanui Labs which does the blood testing – the test was for liver function and blood sugar to see how things are progressing. I’ve continued losing weight since my last blood test so hopefully that should translate to better blood test results but…
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It is less of a single word but more the use of hyperbole loaded word(s) when talking about something that is more of a minor inconvenience rather than a major issue – it isn’t a major issue, it is just a slight annoyance. A major issue would be turning on your oven, you walk out…
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