Wow, *cue slow, exaggerated, sarcastic mock applause here*. Gas down a whopping 4-point something cents a litre! Gee, THANKS Darrell and all your ‘hard-working’ colleagues with the NS Government’s cabinet for SUCH a much-needed BREAK! Oh, yeah, we owe you big time! Really. *Eyes rolling* and we’ll pay you back, alright, don’t worry: at the polling stations all over the province at the next election! (Oh, and for the electricity hikes, too.) See ya later, bastards. —Tired of Getting Humped at the Pumps
This article appears in Oct 11-17, 2012.
Then stop voting. Simple. Take their power away but playing their game. When you vote, you admit you are a slave. Simple as that.
Sorry…. By ‘NOT’ playing their game …
shrug i realized a long time ago we can do nothing at all about this. The vote has 0 power because all the parties have deals with nsp and other companies. Really no difference at all who you vote in. Could always vote green i suppose but they didn’t even have a budget plan for the last federal election so ya that will take you far
Hell, while were at it, why not have our country declared a military dictatorship? You don’t vote there either. You do what they say or die.
Look, if you don’t want to vote, fine. That’s your perogative. Fill yer boots. However, IMO, by doing so, you forfeit ANY right you think you may have to complain about, find fault with, or protest the current gov’t in all it’s levels. You don’t care enough to vote than you certainly don’t care enough to have your voice heard in other ways.
Wrong !!!! You were born with your freedom and your liberty. They are not the gift of some self appointed dictator, leader, asshole with a title. Wake the fuck up man. The system is controlling you.
I know who I’d want to vote in.
We’d have a grand ol’ time taking back the city.
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Lol @ mclean!!!! All this shit posted by …., wait for it…… A mobile. What an assclown!!!! Just because mom pays your bills (taxes included) doesn’t for a second, make you “free”.
My mom is dead. Along with your sense of humanity. Don’t worry devil worshipper, you’ll get your turn at the trough with the rest of the sheep. Just keep following the one in front. ROFLMAO.
My mom’s dead too. So what?
My point is you are a hypocrite. Using corporate tools to *try* to get your hippy point accross, calling everyone sheep while you type away on your internet accessible phone. You may be behind me in the lineup for “the trough”, but you’re still in line.
YOU say “freedom fighter”, enlightening the sheeple masses of “the true nature of our existence”, explaining how “we all instinctually know what is right and wrong and are capable of holding ourselves accountable to that without laws and the fear of God.” (Explain THAT one to the rape victim or the kid who’s life is now a living hell thanks to some sick pedophile. But I digress..), and how government and schools are unncessary and serve no purpose other than to turn us all into mindless automatons….
I say a twenty-something new-age hipster who thinks he has it all figured out after finding his mom’s copy of The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test and his dad’s Jefferson Airplane albums in the basement, and now has a convenient way of justifying: 1)dropping out of school, 2)not being able to hold a job, 3)scratching out a meagre existance on the backs of the easily influenced/perpetually naive planks that continually give him loose change as he panhandles on the street corner, and 4)not contributing anything remotely close to being productive to society.
Look dood, everything you’re spouting here has all been said before ad infinitum. Turn on, Tune in, Drop out. Peace, Love, Hang 10, California.” Someday, you’ll grow up too.
But hey! Good luck with you’re adorable little Toppling of Big Government project. Yeah, no that’ll work out good for you, I’m sure. Everyone needs a hobby, I guess.
I loved Tom Wolfe and listening to the Airplane. Then I grew up. I still do both in MY house after I pay all MY bills after I buy MY groceries. Well put Avast0, I can’t believe at one point I would have agreed with mclean, what a fuckin hyprocitical tool.
Didn’t read the comments but FFS. The fucking premier of nova scotia doesn’t control the price of gas. Read a book.
Considering that NSPower shareholders are the ones running this province, and the ones in control of the Utility and Review Board, I highly doubt anything will change.
The only change that might affect this place is if everyone just uprooted and left, otherwise, it’s going to be the same cycle. I agree with whoever said that voting does nothing. It really doesn’t. If it did, it would be illegal.
lol wow I’m glad I came back to read the comments..
*tips hat to steve and avast*
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hope everyone’s Monday is going well.
dexter doesn’t have fuck all to do with the price you pay for gas o.p., if you wanna bitch at someone, try stateside. they make up the prices in new york. it’s called speculation, meaning, how much they can charge the suckers.
But, we all agree that Dexters a juicebag, right?
It has nothing to do hanging ten in Cali, or doing hits on a colourful bus. Been there, done that. It has to do with organizing as a group to say enough of this shit. I never once said get rid of government, the point is to have a government that doesn’t need to be legitimized by a popularity contest. Municipal governments are the easiest to effect change in because it’s far easier to rally a community than it is a country. Unless of course that community is full of dim witted information repeaters like yourself gangnam style (whatever the fuck that means) who wouldn’t know what to do with an original thought if it shit on your face. That lump of shit on top of your neck is called your head and in there (hopefully) is a brain. Now put down the remote or game controller or your dad’s gay porn collection and tune into your community. Stop allowing yourself to be constantly distracted by TV, tits and tequila for just 1 hour a day in your life and you will see son, we are all sheep, and they’ve got us by the short and curlies. Hope you decide to act.
Your use of the word “slaves” probably made people think you wrote the first bitch of the day mclean. You have a lot of rhetoric, do you have any specifics on how to achieve this kind of society you would to see? What’s the first step?
occupy brother, occupy. then go the back out in the real world and get a fucking minimum wage job, like so ,many have to. then you can cry and whine about the system. which i might add, you know fuck all about how it works.
“It has nothing to do hanging ten in Cali, or doing hits on a colourful bus. Been there, done that.”
Well there’s your problem. That explains everything.
“I never once said get rid of government,”
Oh, but I beg to differ. In the bitch titled “Democracy is Slavery” (which, btw, we’re ALL pretty certain you wrote. You’re not fooling anyone, you know), the OB (you?) states:
“We don’t need the government, they need us. Without our support they have no power. This city needs to make a statement to the world that government is unnecessary.”
Then in your post to the same bitch at 10/15/2012 12:05pm, amongst your zen Buddhist, Jedi-esque ramblings about how we used to be one with everything(?), you said, “I agree completely with OP” (Very poor form, btw. Writing a comment to a bitch that YOU posted and then agreeing with the original poster. It’s similar to clicking “like” on your own comment but infinitely more arrogant) But even if you weren’t the person who wrote that bitch, it doesn’t matter. You still “agree completely” with their suggestion that “we don’t need the government” and “government is unnecessary”. So essentially, you DID indeed say get rid of government.
“the point is to have a government that doesn’t need to be legitimized by a popularity contest.”
While I somewhat agree with this statement, I fail to see how we as a society are to put a government in place without electing or choosing our representatives. Unless of course you’re talking about a municipal gov’t in which every single citizen gets to make the decisions on the day-to-day running of the city. No districts, no councillors, no representatives, just 350,000 people all collectively saying yes and no at the same time. I’m sure you’d agree that this is grossly inefficient and totally impractical. NOTHING would ever be decided. NOTHING would ever get accomplished. And how do you propose we choose a leader? Even the most primitive of tribes in deepest, darkest Africa or South America or Australia have a rudimentary form of government. They have chiefs and elders and councils who discuss, argue, weigh options and ultimately decide the best course of action for the survival and betterment of the tribe. Sound familiar?
The rest of your post was just childish, immature name calling. (classy) You mad bro? Did I strike a nerve? Drop another tab there, Moonbeam and don’t get your tie-dyed panties in a bunch. I’m not saying our government is perfect. Not by a long shot. And I would welcome positive change with open arms. And that’s why I AM going to act, as you so thoughtfully hoped I would. I AM going to affect change. I AM going to vote.
You do, (or don’t do),whatever the fuck you want. That’s your right, living in a free elected democracy. We’ll see who’s method works best.
George Carlin has a different opinion on not voting. He doesn’t vote therefore he has no responsibility for the fuck-wits in office, therefore YOU can’t complain because YOU put them there. It wasn’t his fault some idiot got into office, so he has every right to complain.
At the bottom of a ballot there is no box to check for ‘None of the Above’, or ‘Are these the choices?!’, or ‘Please put on a glove first’
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=efKguI0NFek
So all in all, this jerk just wants to be an anarcho-syndicalist commune?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dOOTKA0aGI0
Well, I guess he’s got a point there, General. lol
Apparently, the electronic ballot for the municipal election has an option to “spoil your ballot” which kind of begs the question, if you didn’t want to vote, why the hell would you even bother wasting your time to go online, register and click spoil?
Yeah it seems like an odd practice, Avast. It would be interesting, just for one Municipal/Provincial/Federal election to see how many people would vote for ‘None of the above’. Imagine if that vote cam in at a majority, or even 2nd or 3rd place! Wouldn’t that make people think, eh? I’d have a laugh waiting for the politicians to begin to perspire 😀