Members DramatistDreamer Posted March 17, 2019 Members Share Posted March 17, 2019 (edited) The New Zealand PM Jacinda Ardern gives me hope that New Zealand will emerge from this tragedy with stronger systems in place for preventing this type of tragedy in that country going forward. Edited March 17, 2019 by DramatistDreamer 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members AdelaideCate007 Posted March 17, 2019 Members Share Posted March 17, 2019 The Ilhan Omar story has been in the news here a pretty fair amount. A lot of our right wing/conservative really love Trump and want Trumpism to spread down here so they bring up anything he's involved in or says and use it as an excuse to why he's right and we need to all follow his lead. We have a lot of fringe right wing crazies (like the shooter) and they've gotten very emboldened by Trump and the American Republicans. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members DramatistDreamer Posted March 17, 2019 Members Share Posted March 17, 2019 You're in Australia, right? That's a shame. Thinking about that post that I made, I probably shouldn't have made a generalization about New Zealanders, in general but keep it to those who were directly affected by the mosque attacks on Friday. Most likely, right now they have far pressing concerns on their minds, like burying their dead. It just reminded me about how just days after 9/11 many in the U.S. were already beating the war drums and most New Yorkers (myself included) were just concerned about how we were going to pull our daily lives back together into something that resembled a normal routine. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members DramatistDreamer Posted March 18, 2019 Members Share Posted March 18, 2019 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members I Am A Swede Posted March 18, 2019 Members Share Posted March 18, 2019 Three people have been killed in a possible terrorist attack in the Dutch city of Utrecht https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-47615231 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members marceline Posted March 18, 2019 Members Share Posted March 18, 2019 (edited) Beto's in Cleveland today. It's telling that he's doing his appearance at a restaurant that's a fave with the factory workers in the area because it's right by the steel mill. Edited March 18, 2019 by marceline 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members DramatistDreamer Posted March 19, 2019 Members Share Posted March 19, 2019 This is vile. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Khan Posted March 19, 2019 Members Share Posted March 19, 2019 The Republican representative was accused of having sex with an incapacitated woman against her will. Apparently, that's the only way some Republicans can have sex. Amirite, Brett Kavanaugh? ;) 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members JaneAusten Posted March 19, 2019 Members Share Posted March 19, 2019 There is also a name for that act. Exactly why is the news media not calling the act by it's name? All of it darn sick 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Khan Posted March 19, 2019 Members Share Posted March 19, 2019 Yep. It's called "frat party antics." I'm kidding. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members JaneAusten Posted March 19, 2019 Members Share Posted March 19, 2019 Oh I know you're kidding but don't think there is not a reason they refuse to refer to it as rape. And you're not far from what they would like to say. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Juliajms Posted March 19, 2019 Members Share Posted March 19, 2019 Not surprising at all. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members DRW50 Posted March 19, 2019 Members Share Posted March 19, 2019 I hear people talk all the time about how right wing the BBC is and how they are desperately attempting to stay in line with the Tories above all else. Moments like this, where they harass the speaker of the House of Commons and openly brag about it, don't disprove that point. Good luck with any of those morons if they tried this with Nancy Pelosi. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members DramatistDreamer Posted March 19, 2019 Members Share Posted March 19, 2019 Now that Floridians have voted to restore voting rights to former felons (excluding rape and murder, of course), perhaps it was inevitable that the state would try to find a workaround in which to disenfranchise more people. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members DRW50 Posted March 19, 2019 Members Share Posted March 19, 2019 More of Bernie hiring the best people... 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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