Daily review 26/10/2023

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  1. Johnr 1
    26 October 2023 at 6:09 pm

    I cannot believe the utmost stupidity and arrogance of mercenary Mitchell.

    He believes that removing patches and tattoos will hamstring gangs.

    Does he not realise that the tat and patch guys are the foot soldiers, there to be sacrificed for the common good. The brains trust and money makers will never be exposed by this tactic.

    His first mistake is to assume that they are a bunch thickos. History shows that they are much more astute than that and way ahead of the authorities. Let's face it if the authorities were smarter then the war on drugs would gave been over 20 years ago.

    What to do ?? We need to cut off their financial stream i,e, drug income.

    How ?? Portugal has 10 years of successful solid data, whereby they made all drugs legal and treated addiction as an illness. The money they spent on fighting the drug war they spent on treating addictions as a medical event.

    NZ being surrounded by water seems to me to be a much easier country to implement this than Portugal.

    • ianmac 1.1
      26 October 2023 at 7:00 pm

      Yes John. But the roar from guess who ,would be to convince the gullible that the Portuguese plan would be "Soft on Crime!"

      Interesting idea though.

    • Jilly Bee 1.2
      26 October 2023 at 8:00 pm

      Just for a laff on a Thursday evening, I found a post from some wag on X (Twitter) who came up with the brilliant idea of getting Suzanne Paul to come up with foundation makeup (to cover the facial tatoos) and market it as 'Natural Bro' – I cant stop chuckling about it.

  2. adam 2
    26 October 2023 at 7:22 pm

    God Bless the UWA!!

    Major Victory!

    Ford Tentative Agreement Announcement. This is how workers push their rights. Calm, Collective, and being Frank. Most of all, remind companies it's from our labour where they make their profit.

  3. Peter 3
    26 October 2023 at 8:25 pm

    Naturally the South African rugby hooker was cleared to play this weekend. Of course evidence and proof of a racist jibe was going to be awkward to substantiate.

    That said, if South Africa had lost and the insult had been directed at Bongi Mbonambi by one of the English players all hell would have broken loose.

    • bwaghorn 3.1
      26 October 2023 at 9:02 pm

      Had an old Maori lady scream "kill the honky" while getting elbowed in the head from a player in her team ,

      Have always found it one of my favorite rugby memories,

  4. joe90 4
    26 October 2023 at 8:44 pm

    Theocracy ahoy!

    Speaker of the House Mike Johnson has a history of harsh anti-gay language from his time as an attorney for a socially conservative legal group in the mid-2000s.

    In editorials that ran in his local Shreveport, Louisiana, paper, The Times, Johnson called homosexuality a “inherently unnatural” and “dangerous lifestyle” that would lead to legalized pedophilia and possibly even destroy “the entire democratic system.”

    And, in another editorial, he wrote, “Your race, creed, and sex are what you are, while homosexuality and cross-dressing are things you do,” he wrote. “This is a free country, but we don’t give special protections for every person’s bizarre choices.”

    https://edition.cnn.com/2023/10/25/politics/mike-johnson-gay-sex-criminalization-kfile/index.html

  5. gsays 5
    26 October 2023 at 9:07 pm

    A good hour and change, Graham Linehan interviewed by Andrew Doyle following the book release of this cancelled comedian.

    Tips on writing comedy, Father Ted stories, the role of the jester, "thought terminating cliches", osteoporosis in folk in their 20's.

    Edit; Last half hour is Q and A with audience.

    • Muttonbird 5.1
      26 October 2023 at 11:23 pm

      Graham Linehan has been cancelled because he's a militant, gender denying activist.

      • weka 5.1.1
        26 October 2023 at 11:34 pm

        how does he deny gender?

      • gsays 5.1.2
        27 October 2023 at 6:44 am

        Ahh, right on cue, a "thought terminating cliche".

        Do you say that because someone told you he denied gender?

        In this interview I heard mainly compassion from Graham Linehan for those damaged by others ideology.

        • SPC 5.1.2.1
          27 October 2023 at 8:35 am

          The same compassion for homosexuals was expressed by those who oppose homosexuality, wanting it illegal for men, or as a sign of abnormality requiring treatment for women.

          They also regard modern liberalism, acceptance of homosexual acts and relationships, as a damaging ideology.

          The DSM of 1980, influenced by Freud perhaps, but also observation of the diversity within the two main sexes (intersex) noted divergent psycho sexual development related to hormones in the womb that influenced capability to easily conform to expected gender norms of the 2 sexes. Thus issues impacting individual well being related to conformity to norms within society.

          Which is long hand for, it's complicated. Whenever it's complicated, there will be difference of opinion and people developing a hypothesis/ideology – and where that is a challenge to established tradition, then there will be culture wars.

          There are social conservatives and the religious culture of belief and behaviour obedience, there are the narratives of those of feminism (all born equal regardless of birth sex – safety of women) and homosexuality (from born that way equal rights to freedom to be as pan sexual as one wants).

          The DSM 1980 infers, let the person choose.

          If they need help dealing with the pressure of being gay in a hetero normative society, they get it. If they want help, not to be gay, they would also get it. If they have issues conforming to "birth sex and gender identity expectations of society" issues, they can get it too.

          That could have meant male hormones to the male and more female hormones to the female, as much as the other option associated with gender identity different to birth sex. If chemicals were the method of management/treatment (as per do no harm, looking at the trial evidence)

          1980-2020 a generation of trial evidence (impact on skeletal and brain development of early chemical treatment and the issue of regret at the path taken which give reason for pause before quick, or early treatment).

          But to date, this has been dominated by the acceptance of gender divergence to birth sex as people choose … with some dissent over the consequences for women's safety (and or the reality of biological woman identity) and a block on the emergence of non gender conforming children as homosexuals (tip, most non gender conforming children will be heterosexual and cisgender or bigender/non binary so this all a bit overblown and if schools touch on the topic they should state this)(it's a bit like the high school age girl whose sexual awakening is often bi-curious, but does not lead to lesbian relationships – even though they make for better sexual development/experience/relationships, if not always better quality partners otherwise – they are still human, not perfect).

          HISTORY

          The transvestite/wannabe trans-sexual (confused as guilt ridden gays) only accepted as a woman (only job where they could work dressed as a woman) when a sex worker (and by heteronormative clients). Consorting laws – where males were allowed to be private couples but could not date in public (so one would dress up). Night clubs where all these people had a place and heteronormative males/actors performed in drag because they liked the scene (it was great for developing a character).

          Sorry for the length, but this topic is too often dominated by those peddling a simplistic narrative – such is our social media discourse …

          • gsays 5.1.2.1.1
            27 October 2023 at 12:19 pm

            Chur.

            There is a bit in there.

            One thing that strikes me is the imbalance between the young to mid teen and their strident (ideological?) parent(s).

            I know of a relationship like this, mother happily parading their transitioning child. It is more about Mum's happiness rather than the youth's wellbeing. It's a point Linehan touches on, down the track there will be these parents that have done physical and psychological harm to their children and will never be able to admit it.

            His larger point is the societal response to it. To pretend there is nothing happening. The role of the jester to the king was to inform the monarch what the 'vibe' on the street was. Nowadays the king has been replaced by a mob. All akin to the Satanic Panic in the mid west USA late last century. Fortunately before the internet so it stayed relatively isolated.

  6. Muttonbird 6
    26 October 2023 at 11:28 pm

    Where's the government at?

    We apparently voted for change yet Labour is still in charge.

    Country got cold feet? Yes they did because there is no way this apparent landslide is believable.

    Our new masters couldn't even get a majority on the night so it's left to the left to keep things running smoothly.

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