rainynight65

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[–] rainynight65 13 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

Lucky Number Slevin

Man On Fire

Syriana

Equilibrium

And for some solid Australian cinema: Mystery Road

[–] rainynight65 109 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

Boss announces he will break the law.

[–] rainynight65 11 points 4 weeks ago

Because he has no plan to address the causes of crime, only a plan for harsher punishments. So he has no realistic way of reducing victim numbers.

No surprises here.

[–] rainynight65 3 points 1 month ago

Ja, ist schon ein bisschen eine 'Wasser macht nass' Meldung. Wenn die Politik nur endlich mal ernsthaft was dagegen unternähme, und zwar nicht nur Verbote, sondern auch richtige Hilfe für Suchtkranke. Wir wissen schließlich, dass diese Spiele aufs perfideste darauf zugeschnitten sind, Leute süchtig zu machen. Diese Branche sollte eigentlich nur in strengstens regulierter Form existieren.

[–] rainynight65 4 points 1 month ago

Glücksspiel ist in Australien eine ernsthafte Krise, aber weder Staatsregierungen noch der Bund unternehmen bislang etwas ernsthaftes dagegen. In fast jedem Pub gibt es Spielmaschinen (im Prinzip elektronische einarmige Banditen - 'Pokies' genannt) sowie Keno, ein andauerndes Tippspiel. Überall wird man mit Werbung für Sportwetten zugeschüttet. Und ständig liest man in den Medien Berichte darüber, wie sich Leute immer wieder um ihre ganze Habe spielen und wetten, wie gefährlich die Spielsucht ist, und was da für Unmengen an Geld im Spiel sind.

[–] rainynight65 11 points 1 month ago (1 children)

wir achten aber auch unsere deutsche Sprache und wollen Abnormalitäten, so schlimm oder so schön sie auch sein können, in der Natur nicht zur Normalität erklären.

Aha. Frauen sind für die AfD also Abnormalitäten. Gut zu wissen.

[–] rainynight65 2 points 1 month ago

It still means that fewer young people commit crimes than what used to be the case. It's not like people stopped having children. And if the youths who used to commit crimes are now adults who commit crimes, they no longer class as youth crimes.

[–] rainynight65 3 points 1 month ago

If the Libs win, I hope they go full Newman again and get kicked out after one term. I'm not exactly enamoured with QLD Labor but bloody hell anything is better than the toxic Libs in this state.

[–] rainynight65 2 points 1 month ago

If only you could see the 'newspapers' in Queensland, every other front page has 'young crims' scaremongering and they make it sound like Townsville and such are hellholes where people are terrorised by young criminals day and night without reprieve.

Weird how the LNP's only answer to this is 'adult crime, adult time'. Like, literally, zero policies on how to prevent youth crime, how to help children with better education and more perspectives for their future. Nothing. Just harsher punishments.

[–] rainynight65 2 points 1 month ago

If a woman seeks abortion at that stage, it is almost guaranteed to be due to a condition that would seriously endanger her, the baby, or both, if the pregnancy was carried to term. Nobody just decides after 27 weeks that they simply don't want the baby. In these cases, inducing to deliver the baby will likely not help the baby and it could still seriously harm the mother.

What this guy proposes would be, in most cases, indistinguishable from an abortion, but way more harmful for everyone involved. It's telling that it is usually men who try to push these kinds of law.

[–] rainynight65 5 points 1 month ago

Thing is, I am actually Gen X. Early even. And I look at the Boomers and see the generation who kept pulling up the ladder. They got free education and privatised it to make it expensive for us. They got free healthcare and privatised it to make it expensive. They got into the housing market for cheap and started using it as an investment and speculation vehicle, making it harder for each subsequent generation to get into it. They were pretty much the last generation in which it was possible to raise a family on a single income. Climate change is front and center of mind in my generation, we've known for over 30 years what's coming. When you look at those who most fervently oppose climate change action - all old fogeys, and I say that being very conscious of the fact that I am approaching 'old fogey' status from the perspective of Gen Z and Gen Alpha.

I can only imagine how todays teenagers and young adults feel...

[–] rainynight65 7 points 1 month ago

Aber wird man als Anhänger abwegiger Theorien nicht so regelmäßig verarscht, dass man mit der Zeit Antennen für so etwas entwickelt?

Wenn sie in der Lage dazu wären, dann würden sie vermutlich gar nicht erst auf viele dieser abwegigen Theorien hereinfallen. Das ist doch genau die Zielgruppe vieler dieser Was-weiss-ich-Theorien - Leute, die einfältig genug sind, auf Unsinn hereinzufallen, den ein halbwegs rational denkender Mensch i.d.R. klar als Unsinn erkennt.

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