Yep. I've been going to the protests in New Zealand with my family. I am really scared before each one - but I always feel so damned sure I did the right thing afterwards. They have been tame so far. I don't know how brave I can be when push comes to shove. I'm worried I won't be as brave as I want/need to be. But I guess I am going to at least try and find out.
I used to really, really like our Prime Minister. Now I am afraid of her, and I feel the need to protect my child from her. I think she would pretty much murder my child in her sleep to achieve an international magazine cover story. What the hell has happened?
You already said it, hell has happened. Keep protesting and doing what you can. You are so brave to do that. Anything you do helps. No judgement if you stopped...do what you must do. You are appreciated by so many for your courage.
You are leading by example to show your child how to lead a peaceful revolution to ensure there will be a world for him/her that is free and democratic. It is for your child that you are paving the way, remember that when you feel scared. If you don't, who will? For your child and other children; it is for future generations that we are willing to make sacrifices now. We have to save the world for them, or at least try. They deserve to have happy childhoods in a free society....hold onto those words. Keep on keeping on...the journey of 1,000 miles begins with the first step.
This is one of my favorite stories about how courage is contagious and ordinary people save ourselves not government w its 'defense' spending. There's an admitted bias as a NYer with 9-11 heroes but leaning into the untold stories.
The comment at the end is true of all people.. We all have a little hero inside and it will come out when it needs to. Tom Hanks narrates it's 11 min & hopefully inspiring! :~)
You should have been able to see what she was from the start! Did you even look into her history? Where did she come from? Whose daughter is she? Where did she study? Who did she work for? What groups picked her up and elevated her to where she is? All that info has been available from the start. Nothing is random in this sort of shit.
I didn't look into her to that extent, because I never voted for her - I didn't like her policies. I voted for a different political party whose policies I thought were more sensible. My comment on the PM was to do with her character rather than her political abilities. I thought she seemed like a really nice person. Clearly I was mistaken. She isn't nice.
That's cool. It took me a while to really wake up to what was going on. I didn't really want to believe what I was seeing. Got there in the end. I think we have a small handful politicians here who are fairly genuine people - but they all seem to have lost the ability to think rationally. I voted for an obscure party run by a really angry guy that most people hated. He had this crazy idea that politics should all be about evidence-based policy, rather than personalities. He carefully laid out data to back up his policies. Made a nice change. Most people hated him because he once suggested that we had too many cats running around killing our native birds, and we should therefore cull stray cats if we wish to preserve our native fauna. That was enough for the newspapers to turn on him, and most people to hate him. Evidence clearly means nothing, as it turns out. Not a single party here is standing up to what our government is doing. At least Australia has some decent opposition calling out the insanity. We have no one.
Yep. I've been going to the protests in New Zealand with my family. I am really scared before each one - but I always feel so damned sure I did the right thing afterwards. They have been tame so far. I don't know how brave I can be when push comes to shove. I'm worried I won't be as brave as I want/need to be. But I guess I am going to at least try and find out.
I used to really, really like our Prime Minister. Now I am afraid of her, and I feel the need to protect my child from her. I think she would pretty much murder my child in her sleep to achieve an international magazine cover story. What the hell has happened?
The Great Reset, that's what. https://www.stopworldcontrol.com
When you see how bad it really is, it gets easier to be brave.
Forewarned is forearmed.
You already said it, hell has happened. Keep protesting and doing what you can. You are so brave to do that. Anything you do helps. No judgement if you stopped...do what you must do. You are appreciated by so many for your courage.
That's really kind and motivating. Heading out again on Saturday. Have rounded up a few more people to come along. Thanks Laura.
You are leading by example to show your child how to lead a peaceful revolution to ensure there will be a world for him/her that is free and democratic. It is for your child that you are paving the way, remember that when you feel scared. If you don't, who will? For your child and other children; it is for future generations that we are willing to make sacrifices now. We have to save the world for them, or at least try. They deserve to have happy childhoods in a free society....hold onto those words. Keep on keeping on...the journey of 1,000 miles begins with the first step.
This is one of my favorite stories about how courage is contagious and ordinary people save ourselves not government w its 'defense' spending. There's an admitted bias as a NYer with 9-11 heroes but leaning into the untold stories.
The comment at the end is true of all people.. We all have a little hero inside and it will come out when it needs to. Tom Hanks narrates it's 11 min & hopefully inspiring! :~)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MDOrzF7B2Kg
That was beautiful and inspiring. Thank you for sharing it, Pamela.
It’s true NYC and the country came together, and New York around Manhattan became a crew.
You should have been able to see what she was from the start! Did you even look into her history? Where did she come from? Whose daughter is she? Where did she study? Who did she work for? What groups picked her up and elevated her to where she is? All that info has been available from the start. Nothing is random in this sort of shit.
I didn't look into her to that extent, because I never voted for her - I didn't like her policies. I voted for a different political party whose policies I thought were more sensible. My comment on the PM was to do with her character rather than her political abilities. I thought she seemed like a really nice person. Clearly I was mistaken. She isn't nice.
yeah, sorry if I came off a bit snooty, but people who move high in politics are not nice, nor good. (and she seems particularly monstrous to me)
Think about how a nice person could get to be leader of a political party. Not going to happen.
I'm not in NZ and don't know who else there was.
What party seemed sensible? Is there one?
That's cool. It took me a while to really wake up to what was going on. I didn't really want to believe what I was seeing. Got there in the end. I think we have a small handful politicians here who are fairly genuine people - but they all seem to have lost the ability to think rationally. I voted for an obscure party run by a really angry guy that most people hated. He had this crazy idea that politics should all be about evidence-based policy, rather than personalities. He carefully laid out data to back up his policies. Made a nice change. Most people hated him because he once suggested that we had too many cats running around killing our native birds, and we should therefore cull stray cats if we wish to preserve our native fauna. That was enough for the newspapers to turn on him, and most people to hate him. Evidence clearly means nothing, as it turns out. Not a single party here is standing up to what our government is doing. At least Australia has some decent opposition calling out the insanity. We have no one.