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Posted by alexandra_k on December 25, 2020, at 21:59:02
and it likely truly really is the case... that given where things are at with the world right now...
the vulnerable people will not get access to the vaccines.
largely because they are undocumented. if they don't have bank accounts and they don't have drivers lisences and if they are unable to present to the ER if anything should happen to them... if they are giving birth outside hospitals because they are that afraid of ICE...
and how many of them are there, then? nobody knows. i saw something to say they recknon 10-20,000 in the state of Rhode Island. that's 1 million people
(I go on about it because it's small so it's comparatively easy for me to feel like I get some kind of a handle or understanding of what is sort of may be going on).
that's a lot. and they aren't turning up for Covid testing -- are they? can they have phones? i guess not on a plan... can they have burner phones? do they have access to the results if they get a test?
they're not likely to get a vaccination, then, either, are they, now. noppers.
so... Faucci has this moving target with vaccination... where nobody knows what's required for herd immunity but you want to set aspirational goals that are potentially achievable to help with the whole hope thing... but then what percentage of the population is undocumented, then? and were these people polled when they were asking about whether people would get vaccinated once the vaccines were available to or for them?
and when, exactly is it planned for vaccinations to be made available to people who are illegal, anyway?
was that why the USA commissioned the manufacture and purchase of more vaccinations than it needed? because it wanted to vaccinate illegals, too?
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i think... the problem with illegals is going away as people get their tracking devices... will do. i think it won't be so very far into the future that it won't really be any kind of a problem, at all.
i kind of think... it is only a problem insofar as the USA chooses to allow it presently? i am not sure on that.
if they started doing ICE raids and deporting people... i guess there are enough gangsters who were born in the USA now to put a stop to that...
it is quite the problem.
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it does matter what people look like. it's not about skin color... but there is something there. authenticity.
there was quite the market in new zealand that new zealand tried to cash in on and exploit of training or educating internationals to be indistinguishably new zealand. in accent. and in everything else.
and of course we sold out. and then we sold them out. and now most of the world has rather an army of disgruntled people who have experience of being screwed over trying to do good business with new zealand. quite the army of indistinguishably new zealand people...
they are even at Harvard. even asking questions in impeccably 'international' dememour. who knows whether they set foot in new zealand.
and then little touches of something recognisably... something recognisably...
the thing is that you alter your dememour depending on the environment. so... the little mannerisms and the speed of speech and the slurring and so on that you get rid of when you are talking to international english people. very different from local... dialect? even the mannerisms. so hard to quantify properly.. many of the non-verbals...
the sort of ironed maaori i see in new zealand parliament...
the couple years i spent being trekked around various marae for weddings and 21st and so on... with sue and alf... the tribe of foster kids...
and growing up where i did with a secondary school that was at least 1/4 maaori i want to say. and apparently more like 1/2 now. a somewhat authentic marae where we used to hang out and faff about with poi... hangi...
and a friend who hated his family so much. hated being maaori. he was pretty white maaori except he had a very black traditional maaori face. he hated maaori because his father was maaori and he sexually abused him. as did many of hte men. and he grew up gay which nobody accepted at all. and so i was accepted as part of their family and the family would do visible celebrations when i crashed in his bed... because there was nothing like that between us.
and these things that are buried deep that you just can't fake...
so they iron them out and away. so all that's left is the fake...
but then you end up with the...
and this depends on teh context...
most recently... someone who looks Italian (looks dominant socio-economic group) but says he's hispanic and black as well. so he gets ALL the things in the name of equity.
that aspect to things...
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what's it for?
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i suppose it is for when there's a knock on the door at 3am...
and the people inside don't know if it's ICE or teh dawn raids (nz version for pacific islanders).
and the people are armed... oh yes. they have pretty great weapons these days...
they need to. to protect themselves from the government.
only, it's not the government. it's someone claiming to be one of them who wants to give them immunisations in the name of peace and love.
and they look like them -- do they?
do they sound like them??
little... mannerisms... little things.. little things...
little spying eyes...
yeah.
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it likely is the case that the people we most want to die already...
this will expediate their deaths.
that's the point of it.
the rest is just collateral damage.it's forcing the issue of trade and trade-sanctions.
my thesis of 2018 talked about that. trade-sanctions as a way of forcing governments to comply with internationally accepted and agreed upon standards for what was going to happen to and with their people.
people.
you know.
like how i am a person. and this nation is supposed to be one in which we have rule by law.
not rule by angry mob. not rule by biggest mob. not whatever i say because i have the power and you don't hahaha whatever i want and too bad for you you lose.
rule of law.
what laws?
i f*ck*ng know. tell me about it.
if we only had one law there would still be dementors screaming that they are incapable of comphrehending it and what you going to do about it! what you going to do about it? what you going to do about it??
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it's f*ck*ng tiresome that they ruin all the things.
the screaming of dementors.
Posted by alexandra_k on December 25, 2020, at 22:27:02
In reply to vaccination, posted by alexandra_k on December 25, 2020, at 21:59:02
and, well, i guess that's why.
the people go 'why would you help us? the way that we have treated and abused you, why would you help us?'
so the people are pretty committed to making sure i stay kicked back and down and making sure i don't have any kind of power at all because they know full well they betted against me from the very very earliest of years. they chose to treat me badly and abuse me and hurt me betting that i would never be able to do anything about it.
so they are very very committed to my being rubbish and being percieved to be rubbish.
my mother included. my mother particularly.
sometimes i feel a bit bad for her... but other times i remember some of the... senseless... psychological torture things. or aspects. when she just decided to be arbitrarily cruel. how she started going to all these 'tough love' things and she went through this phase of getting a kick out of telling everyone how bad and evil i was. how i was always being punished because i was such a horrible unloveable child.
just seriously unnecessarily cruel and f*ck*d up.
and now she laughs nervously 'you remember all that?' and she says 'you can't possibly remember that you were only a child' all accusatory. and then sometimes she just says 'i don't remember' or whatever. but i have glimmers or glimpses that she does remember. and she did it... because she could. because she got a kick of making me feel bad. 'now you know how i feel'. or something like that. 'now you know how terribly bad i feel and i can't just pull myself up by my bootstraps'. i guess an element of that. and then i was the outward expression of her misery. and then she didn't need to feel it anymore.
shame she couldn't have chosen something like... keeping a diary. or talking to a therapist. a victimless means of expression. relatively speaking.
but there we go.
i imagine it must have been hard to be the only daughter of a man who lost the church because he didn't think the government was doing the right thing in forcing certain special chosen young men to go off to die around teh other side of the world.
she did say, recently, there was a lot of shame. people saying her father was a coward. how only cowards didn't stand up for themself.
yeah... you have to be a coward to stand up for what you believe when the angry mob puts you in a concentration camp detention facility for your belief. that's cowardly. yeah. it's hate it love and 2+2=5 the only thesis this country would ever have accepted from me, double-speak delusonal garbage garbage garbage carrots cabbages potatoes.
so she was pretty used to feeling a lot of shame. and being bullied and ridiculed. and in a time when what you did was marry... who wants to marry the daughter of a defiled pastor who lost the church? only someone who likes to abuse her -- because what is anybody going to do about that?
yeah.
i think that was the situation. basically. something like that.
and the government appears to have been at it ever since...
that. something like that.
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that's why the concientious objectors had to be... upstanding people. community builders. they needed to not be unruly guys to be driven off so everyone else can live in relative peace.
they needed to be polite and respectful and orderly. they needed to be kind. they needed to engage in community building (not destroying) activities.
that's why the churches tried...
but the government put them in detention facilities / concentration camps. it didn't value their lives at all. it wanted to drive them away. like how sealions and many other animals drive away the young males until they come back and kill the male leaders once they are past their prime.
the government treats it's people like animals
Posted by alexandra_k on December 25, 2020, at 22:38:35
In reply to Re: vaccination, posted by alexandra_k on December 25, 2020, at 22:27:02
so i guess the point of the ironed maaori or whatever it is... the maaori who aren't recognisably maaori... who aren't identifiably maaori to me...
the maaori who look like the ones in a... goldie painting. the modern day ones in parliament and the like, i mean. the ones with the traditional tattos and the modern woolen blankets or ties or whatever.. whatever..
so different from the ones hanging out at the marae...
the gentle spirits. that's what's missing. the sensitive. the... sparkle in the eye. the quickness of mind.
where did they go??
there's a veneer...
i get a sense or feeling that there's on some level a genuine attempt or effort or something... that it's not fair of me to criticise because it will take some time for people to find their feet. to try different things. to find their own voice. to learn to ask good questions within the scope. and so on.
and then i remember the kids on the marae from my youth. and i remember the quickness of mind and the gentleness and the sensitivity and the spark...
and i think...
couldn't they find anyone anyone anyone at all who had a bit more of a natural aptitude?
like...
when they started getting the people they chose to acknowledge as maaori leaders in to the ethics seminars at otago. and then all of a sudden i wasn't allowed to ask questions anymore. and the questions they were asking... hmm... 'it's okay if you like vanilla ice cream. i like chocolate -- but we don't need to kill each other about it'.
they couldn't find any other maaori leaders to acknowledge? to allow to lead? nobody? nobody? nobody at all? those were the best they could scrounge up?
mind you, this is while the head of the centre for bio-ethics goes through a series of... uh... strokes...? not sure. seems so... turning up sometimes with unwashed clothes. teeth knocked out. from anasthetic?
things were seriously disturbingly f*ck*d up down there.
the seminars were live streamed for wellington. people were watching what was going on.
why didn't anybody do anything?
what the f*ck.
Posted by alexandra_k on December 26, 2020, at 0:00:22
In reply to Re: vaccination, posted by alexandra_k on December 25, 2020, at 22:38:35
and i guess the idea is that when my mother put her money into bonus bonds (loaned it to the government) other people brought houses.
for their kids?
maybe... perhaps... i guess...
one way of looking it might be that they put their retirement funds... or their kids inheritance... into purchasing property. for their kid, i guess.
and that's the return that people got who saved their money. the big boom in housing prices.
and so if you look at the very most basic aspect of the financials. when mother purchased her house for her to live in... what happened to property prices... how they went up and up and up... how she was saving money in bonus bonds... that didn't pay interest, even.
why didn't she choose to invest in.... even in a more expensive house for her (and me) to live in? why didn't she choose to invest in a better neighbourhood, even? a place with a better public school? a place that wasn't surrounded by state houses and so on?
or... why not invest in a rental property, then?
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i guess she wasn't focused on money money money money money money money on making more and more and more and more money and i guess she wasn't focused on having people living in her property / on her land / paying her rent or whatever.
i guess...
though we did have a property with a rental unit / flat on it for a while, there, so no... that's not it. that's not it, at all.
i don't know why mother and father both got out of property all of a sudden...
chose to keep mortgage low and stay in 'forever family homes' in decidedly... modest... neighbourhoods.
maybe it was something to do with Dad being sad about people being (according to him) over-mortgaged. building houses that were bigger than they could afford. leaky buildings. rotting foundations... uneven piles... not partaking in teh 'give it a lick of paint and flick it off' way of making dollar dollar bills...
invest in the stock market they reckon.
who is they?
people who made considerable money off of it while it crashed for most.
likely them.
diversify your portfolio. seems to make the most sense.
otherwise... i don't really get the difference between 'insider trading' and simply knowing facts about who is running what companies and who they are employing and the like. and then some personal knowledge when it comes to aptitudes and abilities and the like. to make an educated guess as to whether they are likely onto a good thing / worth investing or not.
i don't see... another way to understand that. and some people are in the position to have the knowledge to make good educated decisoins and mostly people are not.
and it all depends on what they do wieth their money.
why the hospital merger? is it a genuine attempt for fairer systems?
i guess time will tell and we will see...
fibre... fibre for the kids of central providence. some of them might be able to learn from home. that's a good thing. genuinely. that's a good thing.
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