My ancestors spent generations screwing over Māori, maybe not personally (I don’t know) but I’m not prepared to give them a pass on it.

I’m quite happy to let some laziness slide or some rules being taken advantage of or me personally having some tax dollars pent when it’s making up for generations of actual evil.

I’ve been studying our history and it’s pretty fucked… It’s not what we got taught in school.

As opposed to billionaires just buying politicians?

Parents somehow “taking advantage” isn’t the problem.

It’s not like someone can just pop out 100 children to skew votes.

Being able to treat people as things is pretty much the core of it.

Literally anything you find interesting.

Learning begets learning. The more you learn the easier learning becomes.

So start learning things that are interesting… then worry about things tha are “valuable”.

Parents should be allowed a vote on behalf of their children until their children reach whatever age the jurisdiction allows independent voting.

“They had a knife!”

Was it an official act as president?

I realised after posting that my post could easily be read contrary to what I meant too; it could easily read like I’m minimising the problems Māori face (TL;DR: colonisation).

I was trying to imply that an immigrant could be spared attention from our Nazis because the Nazis are already busy being Nazis to Māori.

It’s not like our government has spent the last 150 years being Nazis… Ah shit.

The most vitriolic responses were from fathers who don’t want to admit they mutilated their sons.

Circumcision is genital mutilation.

I think Hilary Clinton said it:

The worst man is still favoured over the best woman.

It’s something like that.

Come to New Zealand.

We still have Nazis but they spend all their energy on hating the Māori population.

Urgh. Now I see an auto-corrected error.

But then they can’t force you to watch claim that you watched the ad at the start of the video for that sweet advertiser revenue.

Meh. Informational labelling is only ever going to be supplanting marketing noise on a product anyway.

Any actual fact printed on the packaging is better than “100% natural ingredients*”, “the healthy choice**”, “99% fat free***”, and non-representative imagery****

* The 17% puréed orphans is entirely natural.

** when consumed at the recommended serving size once a month.

*** but 25% sugar

**** serving suggestion

It’s just this, just simple geology.

The water level is actually irrelevant.

Fascists who cannot win democratically will reject democracy rather than reject racism fasicm.

That’s awesome.

I suspect there’s still ample opportunity for the NSA/etc (indeed any state actor) to interfere with shipping at almost any point and have disclosure that it happened be a crime.

…planted the knife yet.

I assume this text is also plastered all over your car in don’t-dead-open-inside fashion.