Posts by nzlemming
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Hard News: The Midterms, in reply to BenWilson,
The House being in Democrat hands is a major power shift in the USA, and it will begin manifesting immediately.
I smell...SUBPOENAS!
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What amazes me is the Latinos still voting for Republicans, especially the ones from Cuba. How can they not understand that Trump's "birthright citizenship" bullshit is aimed directly at their kids? (Yes, I know he can't do that without a constitutional amendment which he's never going to get now, but it's a fair indicator of what he will try next.)
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Gillum has conceded to De Santis in Florida.
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Hard News: Lost Men, in reply to Rob Stowell,
Truth in that - but still, things have changed. I grew up with a strong sense of a govt 'safety net' - and no sense that only winners mattered and failure was a crushing personal responsibility. I don't think today's teenagers feel the same way.
The safety net has definitely been whisked away.
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Unfortunately it appears Cruz has held Texistan, but Democrats flipped House seats in Texas, along with their state legislator seats. Cruz may have won in Texas, but overall Dems did, as they were never supposed to be that close, let alone flipping other seats.
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Hard News: Lost Men, in reply to Rob Stowell,
NZ is also moving the wrong way with suicide. and we've adopted this mantra - essentially since Rogernomics, but it's moved to totally occupy the subconcious/deepvalues/mindset of the nation.
It's always been this way in NZ. Mental illness was something that you hid away, in asylums or in cottages out the back of the farm. The whole "man alone" bullshit was about striving and winning against the environment, other people, the Wellington rulemakers etc. Nothing's changed except that we closed the asylums and put people on the street where they can be seen. But mental illness is still something people think they need to be ashamed of.
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Hard News: Lost Men, in reply to Sacha,
There is no unfettered right to speech, especially under the NZ legal and political system rather than the US one.
Not even under the US one. Freedom of speech, as defined in the US Bill of Rights is all about the government not having the power to prevent you speaking, not that you can say anything you want, anywhere you want, without hindrance.