Wem genau hast du zugehört, der dir von diesen Leuten erzählt hat, die sich nur deswegen als Frau identifizieren, weil sie 'kein toxischer Mann und Täter' sein wollen?
Das hast du Dir aber schön zurecht philosophiert.
Leider ist es nur kompletter Blödsinn. Transsexualität ist weder Illusion noch Flucht in eine Opferrolle. Das weiß man, wenn man sich ein bisschen über die Materie informiert, und vor allem den Leuten auch mal zuhört, anstatt sich nur seine eigene Version der Dinge zurechtzulegen.
Die Interessen von Minderheiten sind kein Nullsummenspiel, auch wenn Rechtskonservative gern so tun. Im den allermeisten Fällen haben neue oder zusätzliche Rechte für Minderheiten keine Auswirkung auf die der Mehrheiten. Aber es wird halt gern so getan, als ob z.B. ein durchschnittlicher heterosexueller Mann auf einmal weniger Rechte hätte, wenn man die von Trans-Personen erweitert.
Das ist geschichtlich gesehen auch überhaupt nicht neu, dieses Muster wurde schon immer dazu verwendet, sozialen Fortschritt aufzuhalten. Und Leute fallen immer noch drauf rein, also wird weiter so vorgegangen.
That should put paid to the myth that Trump is 'the antidote to all the wars'.
I always thought that the argument 'no wars were started during his presidency' was bullshit.
He was educated. Didn't make him smart.
I'd say the entire Abbott/Turnbull/Morrison trifecta was terrible.
Abbott was definitely out of his depth as PM, he never stopped being the leader of the opposition and was always pugilistic, impulsive and didn't think things through. He promised stable leadership but didn't have his party under enough control to ensure it - probably because he sort of skated into the role because those who the party actually wanted didn't make it. He got into power on the back of a campaign focused on debt and deficit, but had no policies to address it and I don't think he ever intended to. He played his pet issues but was aggressively ineffective at everything else.
Turnbull was a devastating disappointment. Hated by his own party, only used as a more popular and sensible replacement for the ousted Abbott, but never having any party backing for his agenda. I'd say he flamed out, but he was never even on fire. Reneged on his promises and ambitions for fear of reprisals from his party - a spineless creature whose years in power were an absolute waste and a net loss for the country.
And then of course Morrison. A sociopath who bradbury'd into the role because enough people in the party room had the self-awareness to realise Dutton as party leader would be a disaster. Obviously Morrison schemed his way through that entire leadership crisis and lied whenever he opened his mouth, not least when professing his support for the embattled Turnbull. He was probably the most useless PM, out of the country in times of crisis and actively refusing to show leadership. Not to mention the shameful mishandling of the pandemic.
Collectively these three set back social, economic and political development in this country back by at least a decade. We're all worse off thanks to the nine years of having these three clowns in power.
Howard was to Australia what Thatcher was to the UK and Reagan to the US. He ushered in neoliberalism and set the Liberal Party on an accelerated course towards right wing christian fundamentalism.
Die FDP hat die gesamte Legislaturperiode damit verbracht, in der Ampel querzuschiessen und den beiden (grösseren) Koalitionspartnern ihren Willen aufzuzwingen. Lindners Rausschmiss wundert mich nicht im geringsten, aber das bedeutet natürlich das Ende der Ampel, da sein Nachfolger wohl kaum aus den Reihen der FDP kommen kann und wird.
Allerdings glaube ich auch nicht, dass Scholz die Vertrauensfrage überleben wird. Und bei Neuwahlen dürfte erst mal Schluss mit SPD und Grünen sein.
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Good on this kid for going to such lengths to verify his hypothesis and show a serious weakness in railway infrastructure. I hope he goes on to become a serious railway enthusiast and advocate for safe, efficient rail.
However, there are way too many factors in the number of derailments and safety incidents in US rail operations to pin them down to this one issue. Once the major operators embarked on a journey to squeeze more and more money out of the business, a lot of things happened. Trains became longer - excessively so. Used to be that a train 1.4 miles long was considered massive. These days they are the norm. Can you imagine a train so long that, in hilly terrain, sections of it are being dragged uphill while other sections are pushing downhill?
Reductions in staff, motive power fleets and maintenance have led to trains being badly composed, with loads being distributed in a less than optimal way. An old railway man once told me that the only time he broke a train was when he, in a rush and under pressure, agreed to attach a rake of fully loaded freight cars to the end of a train of empties. Unequal load distribution played a role in a number major derailment incidents, among them a derailment in Hyndman, PA, which required the town to be evacuated for several days.
ProPublica have a series of articles regarding rail safety, and specifically one about the dangers of long trains. So while the worn out springs certainly don't help, they are only one of many things that are impacting rail safety, and probably not even the lowest hanging fruit.
That's nice, but how does that help people who, to this day, can't get any 'NBN' other than satellite?
Actually, he seems to be a guy who's just gallivanting all over the world and posting about it on social media, while others are doing the hard work.
Then again, all I have to go by is his LinkedIn profile...