Politics

[Tom Servo]

There's no link between fitness and intelligence. Keep that fat shaming shit to the other thread.

[Crazed_Insanity]

Point wasn’t about linking the two, but how we ought to react to such depressing realities.

[G'day Mate]

It strikes me that nobody calls Trump out on arguments similar to the following which essentially boil down to “no fair, I shoulda gotten away with it”

[Tom Servo]

Kinda fits along with his tendency to criticize people as "rats", which usually means that they started cooperating with the authorities. "This person is bad because he told the FBI about our crimes!"

[Leon]

Poster child for narcissistic personality disorder (untreated) still going strong I see.

[MR2 Fan]

in other news, everyone's favorite son-in-law, Jared, has been using WhatsApp for official white house business

[Tom Servo]

I guess at least it's encrypted?

[SportWagon]

No-one seems yet to have mentioned Mr. Kellyanne Conway getting into a bit of hot water, at least partly for observations which, while seemingly rather obvious, are difficult to substantiate without stepping outside one's own realm of accredited expertise.

[Leon]

I don't know exactly where this comment belongs, because it's politics, and it's guns, but it's NZ not USA.

However.

Since the mass murder in Christchurch NZ 1 week today (actually, one week, and a couple of hours).
The PM has announced there will be a ban on military style semi automatic weapons.
There has been positive "graffiti" and art popping up all over, expressing solidarity with the muslim community.
Women have worn headscarves today to express solidarity and love. There was a national two minutes of silence today, following the muslim call to prayer being played on most TV and radio stations at 1:30pm.
NZ has swung from relatively neutral (with obviously clusters of racist shitbags, because that's human beings for you), to a country very nearly united in absolute support of the practicing muslims in NZ.
The killers name is being shunned.

Here's a big shiny fuck you to that particular scumbag. Your campaign of hate has resulted in probably the most epic backfire in NZ history.

Are we perfect? No. Absolutely not. Are we trying. Bloody right. Will we fuck things up in some ways, for sure. Will we keep trying, yes.

(Translation: Whanau = Family/Community)

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[Tom Servo]

That's awesome, there are a lot of people out here who wish our country could act so decisively.