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  A friend of my wife has gone into politics, she’s a total piece of shit.
context: With Rishi Sunak’s appointment to PM I’ve been thinking about the concept of a representative. He is a man who was parachuted into a safe conservative victory seat. He’s a man worth $700 million married to the daughter of an Indian billionaire. He has admitted he has no working class friends. He isn’t from the North, much less North Yorkshire specifically.
  So how exactly does Sunak represent North Yorkshire? In what way does he re-present North Yorkshire in parliament? >
  
  Enough voters put in the ballot of his party in the urn. >
  
  What? >
  
  The urn. You put your voting ballot in the urn and then run through the wickets before the ballot tallier can roll the hoop past three mark. It’s how the Brits have always done it. >
  
  As is tradition >
  
  He used to do investment banking and his wife is worth $800+ million.
  A homeless person's mind is simply locked in the "survival" mode, making it one day at the time. Financial service position is the farthest thing in his/her mind.
  People like Sunak are so far removed from reality that it begs the question that they should be even allowed to speak to an average person. >
  
  It begs the question if we should allow for circumstances to make people have 800 Million, while the same circumstances allow for others to not even have a own bed. >
  
  There is no reason one person should be allowed that much wealth. 
  I’m all for the hustle and manifesting a good life without worrying about finance but there should be a damn limit. >
  
  Australia has a show called filthy rich and homeless.  Everyone should watch it.  It follows rich people who voluntarily sleep rough to highlight what life is like for people experiencing homeless.  I think it does a good job of highlighting many of the issues. I do note that the show isn’t a true reflection of homelessness, as the participants are fully aware that they will go back to their life of luxury in just a few days.  
  It’s on SBS and you can just vpn to watch it. >
  
  
  It’s on SBS and you can just vpn to watch it.
  
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  magnet:?xt=urn:btih:06bec99f229afee35b59a05067a22f3a414a7712&dn=Filthy.Rich.and.Homeless.S03.720p.WEBRip.AAC2.0.x264-BTN%5Brartv%5D&tr=http%3A%2F%2Ftracker.trackerfix.com%3A80%2Fannounce&tr=udp%3A%2F%2F9.rarbg.me%3A2870&tr=udp%3A%2F%2F9.rarbg.to%3A2890&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Ftracker.slowcheetah.org%3A14760&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Ftracker.fatkhoala.org%3A13740
  
  I have no idea what these gibberish means, it's just that the power of Christ compelled me to type them up from memory.
  Now if you'll excuse me, my car download is almost complete. >
  
  I don't understand how magnets work. >
  
  You know how you click a hyperlink and it redirects you to another website? It's that, but on PCP >
  
  Cringe overload. >
  
  They are so out of touch. Why do people vote for these shit heads. Are labour really THAT bad? >
  
  Well the young and in this case the homeless don't vote.
  Basically there are more affluent older folks who always vote and that's how they stay on power. Plus the system favours the Tories to a certain degree. >
  
  So how do you prevent social collapse when the homeless people refuse to get jobs?! Damn, who is making bricks anyways? Oh im so out of touch i dont even know how much a jug of milk is worth, it must be 16 dollars by now, yeah? /s 💀 >
  
  you ok? >
  
  It was a joke, but i guess when you live in a joke its hard to tell? Or are you just counter trolling me? Lol “you okay, m8?” >
  
  Or it was a bad joke >
  
  Terrible, really. >
  
  It’s one banana Michael, what could it cost? 10 dollars? >
  
  I worry that this joke will stop to make sense in a few years >
  
  And then, paradoxically, make sense again. >
  
  Tory PM to homeless "Get a job!" >
  
  What's worse than his comment is that there are people who will see nothing wrong in it. >
  
  This is the problem.
  There are far too many people in this country who believe we should be ruled by those who are completely disconnected from our lifestyles and realities.
  "Well why would he understand what is like to be homeless? He's a rich successful person, exactly the kind of person who should be in charge"
  Worshipping wealth and allowing the wealthy to rule is why wealth keeps flowing to the wealthy. >
  
  
  There are far too many people in this country who believe we should be ruled by those who are completely disconnected from our lifestyles and realities.
  
  Here is the dichotomy... who would replace them? If the world is run by these people how would other, altruistic, philosophies of government fare? How would a country survive if those around them declined to trade with a non-profit country?
  Abrupt changes won't work. A consensus catastrophe might, but I think a sustained and unavoidable demise of wealth control, might be a better course. >
  
  Not suggesting a non profit country, but one where our representatives represent us.
  Honestly I think doing away with the whip, would be a good start, I dunno I'm not the person who should create a new form of government. Plus it's more a cultural change we need to see.
  Like I say it's the worship of wealth that is the problem. Too many people consider the wealthy superior to themselves and conflate that with ability to lead the country, then vote for them.
  We need to be valuing, and voting for community leaders, upstanding citizens, experts in their fields, not just generationally rich Eton graduates. >
  
  The real problem is, only people who want to be 'in charge' put themselves forward  for political positions.
  Of all the people you know, who would make good representatives for you and your community, want to be politicians?