Philosophy Cut To The Bone

True and based.

Bit of a Rant... don't mind me

While I respect the democratic rights of every person who voted against AV in the recent referendum, I have to wonder what the hell they were thinking. The Government said "Would you like a better chance of the people YOU want being elected to office?" and overwhelmingly the populous shouted "No thanks, we'd rather just get shat on".

With AV a party only needs 30% of the vote to get elected, so that means that 70% of the electorate can vote against someone, yet they still get in? how is this really democracy?

Honestly? We had the chance to turn democracy from "the opportunity to vote for the candidate you dislike least" into an actual choice and yet people turned it down, what the hell?

Admittedly, AV is slightly more complicated than FPTP's "Hurr Durr I puts my X in this little box thing and then I walks away" but it would have meant that we'd actually get the people we voted for rather than the people we voted for instead because you have to vote tactically or otherwise your vote doesn't count.

Granted, FPTP got us where we are to day, but then turn over that statement for a few seconds and then look where we are today, is this really such a good thing?

I've heard it mentioned (as a serious anti AV argument) that "AV means that the second choices of the BNP supporters will get considered too" Well so what? they're still human, twisted perhaps but they live in the same democracy we do, perhaps AV would have given them the opportunity to vote for a more grown up second choice that would have actually made a difference.

All in all, I am actually disappointed in this country, we had a golden opportunity to change things but the whole campaign was a total farce - the anti AV argument was based entirely on lies and the yes campaign was so whimsical that it's not really a surprise that nothing has changed.

Bad country, back in your box.

Day Twenty-One - My favourite thing to drink

I must admit, my favourite drink at the moment is Sprite, it's not the most healthy thing to be drinking regularly, so I try to mix things up and have fruit juice too. Though I also admit that I drink rather too much Orange Lucozade too... I probably should cut down on that...

Why do you even care about trans women? You're not even one of them.

Day Fourteen - Valentines Day

I must admit, I'm not a big one for the big V - I don't see why you need only show someone you love them once a year, why not every day?

Unfortunately I don't really have much practice with valentines day anyway, most of my life I've either been a) too young, b) single or c) too far away from my partner, however this year was different! this year I got to spend the evening of Valentines with Amanda (only the evening though because she had uni during the day) and she made me a really nice dinner and then we watched a DVD, yay for snuggles!

The day after that we actually celebrated valentines day, going out to the cinema and just generally having a nice chilled day together, was awesome.

hopefully next year we'll be free to go out for a meal on the day instead *fingers crossed*

so yeah, short post this time, my inexperience shone through I guess?

Love you lots Amanda!

Nik

Some call it cheating, I just call it winning.

via XKCD

johnpaulosaurusas:

I’m just sayin.. you arent cool/cute/ or special for playing Call of Duty.. No one cares about what level zombies you got to or your kill death ratio.. but if you’re a girl who mines for her own diamonds and tames a shit ton of wolves, and owns the fuck out of creepers you have my heart forever !!!

Ahmen

GIRLS THAT PLAY MINECRAFT > GIRLS THAT PLAY CALL OF DUTY.

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