Category: politics
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Victim Shaming On Steroids
This is a truly distressing time around the island, given three disappearances around the island at the same time – although one is reportedly resolved – the one involving Karmenu Fino not only holds the innate tragedy in which an elderly human being of questionable health issues walked out of a residential hospital just like…
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It’s the End of the World as We Know It…and I feel fine!
The tsunami alert has caused a wave (!!) of reactions that would amount to, mostly and understandably, a panic not yet rivaling the levels of early COVID; from people insisting it is a figment and a conspiracy, others already panicking, masking with humor and so on and so forth. I am not one to comment…
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Representation Done Right…?
I am a HUGE comic book geek as well as, well, everything you read here so far; including an ally to the struggles suffered by the LGBTIQ community in order to be included. However, I find that inclusion as a whole has been something mainstream media has a strange, strange relationship with that has been…
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Bon Appetit, Babe!
The above quote from Katy Perry’s single “Bon Appetit” as well as the rather questionable video that went with it took me back to a moment in Douglas Adams’ The Restaurant at The End of The Universe in which the protagonists are offered a platter of beef, only the beef is still attached to the…
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“Cut Here”
I love this image; It is highly symbolic of how what we are asked to see instead of needing to see changes everything. That is the danger of agenda. To name two. Conservative entities, traditionalists, will hunker down and insist that “their belief” is the only belief system that should be espoused by the system,…
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Facing the Music
It is truly refreshing when the oppressed fight back isn’t it?Especially in an era where the oppressor abides especially to rhetoric of constant commodification. In this case, we have a case of the commodification of the peace and quiet of the residents of our capital city, Valletta. Granted that the odd Disco is welcome pockmarking…
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Poor Patrol
I really do not want to be “that guy.” But does it not come across as bizarre that certain problematic areas in Malta are miserably under-patrolled? Even for those who are, police intervention seems thoroughly laid back and geared toward minimizing direct involvement as much as possible. I do not desire my country becomes a…
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Inclusion Is…
Inclusion is not a trophy for participating. Inclusion is not just representation. Inclusion is not hand-waving your presence that you are there. Inclusion is not having pity Inclusion is not putting other identities down in order to promote yours. Inclusion is not an unfair advantage over the others. Inclusion is not dumbing down everything so…
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I Do Not Understand…
Some of the best debates can be found online nowadays; anything on the Big Conversation, Slavoj Zizek vs Jordan Peterson, Sri Ravishankar vs Dr. Zakir Naik… I love following these. It allows me to gain a deeper understanding of the world and the varied perspectives that inhabit it as they relate to the other denizens.…
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Blowing Their Tops
It is often said that the “Mediterrenean personality” is stereotyped as being hotheaded and often loudmouthed. This is, of course, but a stereotype, and we all too often use it as an excuse to continue handling discussions and overall dialogue with the grace of a bull on several doses of excess steroids without expecting reprisal.…
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