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Freeq O’Nature's avatar

Sometimes switching off is the best self-preservation tactic. It’s just crazy watching all this from the outside.

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Darius's avatar

Hello Freeq, Good to see you around. I hope the Canadian winter is not too harsh for you.

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Freeq O’Nature's avatar

Hey Darius. Winters are always too harsh - anything north of Mexico, that is.

Hope you are well

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Reuben Salsa's avatar

America, like NZ, seems to reverse all laws every 4 years, every initiative, every previous government change to education, everything the majority population thought was a good idea at the time - disestablished.

I'm sure it didn't used to be like that. Once an action had been taken in the UK, it stuck and was very hard to change back. No one reversed Thatcher's policies. There is no reform on gatherings of over 3 people listening to repetitive beats, the poll tax remained, companies stayed private, the national grid was still sold, the railways were still private.

So why is this now the norm? Why do we have successive governments whose only policy is to reverse everything the previous government enacted?

It's tiring. It's divisive. It stops growth.

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Jaap STIJL's avatar

I wonder things like how will end? A bullet to the head? Captured, executed, hung upside down in a public square—paraded like a trophy, reduced to a corpse for the mob? Hunted, found in a hole, dragged to trial, hanged—a long, drawn-out demise, but still ending with the rope snapping taut.? It gives me a modicum of temporary comfort.

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Darius's avatar

First of all you confused me with "3 people listening to tepetitive beats" until I realised what you had in mind— raves :)))

Oh, good times.

Regarding the changes, I think it's done to show that something is being done, a performance, if you like. Politicians have to make work gor themselves, like a middle management in a large corporation.

Reuben, I heard your voice the other day, you sound like a proper English intellectual, mate :))

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