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And, the British people will be the instrument of change in the next election, either the Torries will come out on top again or Labour will sneak in a victory. I don’t know anything about Starmer, but at least he doesn’t ooze defeat, rejection and years of shame as Corbyn did.

Our initial attempt at managing the pandemic was admirable. It even took me by surprise (especially since I’ve grown accustomed to a lifetime of living under a regime that oozes failure), HOWEVER they dropped the ball soon thereafter, as it became clear that the ANC’s government’s policies were schizophrenic and not based on any science. The second mini-bus taxis were allowed to operate, I knew the writing was on the wall.

South Africa is still in the top 10 in terms of Covid numbers, and we have higher case numbers than the UK, although our death numbers are much lower (probably a function of demographics – our population is younger after all).

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That’s what happens when rules are tacked on at the last minute. I’ve mentioned the minibus taxi issue on our side. Even during stage 4, you could cram it full of people, keep the windows closed, but you weren’t allowed to drive to a family member, and spend the day with them.

I can imagine that, who knows what was in those Pakistani cigarettes or the actual method they were smuggled into South Africa….

I don’t smoke, but they did have a weird aroma though.

The cigarette and alcohol bans were absolutely idiotic…

I was very vocal against them but they are talking about an alcohol ban on this side now so maybe they were onto something

I think your view of “everyone” may be a little limited.. If the alcohol ban didn’t work then why did emergency rooms report an increase in attendances after the ban was relaxed?

I always remember that morning when the hard lockdown was lifted and you saw all those broken, defeated and tired faces walking along the promenade at Sea Point….

Nope lifted at the same, alcohol ban reinstated after a few weeks and no equivalent drop in emergency room visits.

SA doesn’t drink more than England or Eastern Europe really though. Blaming alcohol is a poor excuse.

It’s ineffective policing and a failing judicial system that I think is the bigger issue for SA

I didn’t say it didn’t work? I said I don’t agree with it. It actually appeared to have helped.

I don’t agree with removing people’s freedoms in general.

The problem I have with people at the moment is that they appear to think everything is binary. Me saying the ANC handled covid better than the Conservatives here is not the same as me saying I support the ANC and they are better than the Conservatives in total.

It’s not a complicated thing to grasp. The current regime here has screwed up the handling of the pandemic on a massive scale and we’re suffering for it. The ANC did not screw up the handling of the pandemic.
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And I said, that you said, that the emergency rooms reported an increase. That’s all. Relax.

This is 100% true. It did work. It stopped many hospitals from being crammed with alcohol related injuries. My boet works in a hospital in Durban and said during the ban it was 50-75% emptier.

Which country you talking about now because you do know that’s the biggest complaint on this side right?

?????

That’s true for England too – :/ Although, they have some very unfortunate looking ladies. It’s one of the reasons why I’m in favour of large scale immigration to the UK. Eventually, you can breed out the ugly.

See below, the community here is welcome as long as they play nice and fit with the narrative. We’re snowflakes and trolls but don’t there fire back.

You must disagree a lot then.

See, another personal jab! It’s only ok if he does it, and definitely only when it involves people like me.

The number of times I’ve hurled insults at people can literally be counted on one hand. You can say a lot about me, but attacking people personally is not something I do. After a decade of being on Lagz, I will mock political views. I will even mock ideology, but I rarely attack someone’s person, unless they’ve done it to me a few times and retaliation is the only option left (especially when moderation is usually one-sided – as what happened with Pariah – who somehow was given immense leeway in how he could interact with others).

But, keep on with the personal jabs, it just highlights the issue so many bring up about Criticalhit. That there is a bias. And that the moderation follows that bias.

What is Lagz? I only find German sites when I Google it. Wanna see what you’re on about.

Haha Pacman.

Critical hit used to be Lagz (lazygamer) and then they changed their name, corporate identity and some would even say their very soul…

Dude, imagine 200 or more comments on nearly every single article…. A large group of commentators from all walks of life. It really was something.

and then we had the ION ladies at the end of the week (some were a little frightful looking but we were all young and innocent then.

The sister site (movies.co.za) didn’t get as much foot traffic and was definitely dead in the water. Ironically, they also had the better writers, like Kervyn (who basically kept the movies running on his own). On the lagz side, there were more contributors, but I only really enjoyed Zoe’s writing. She had an incredible way with words.

But, when they merged the sites, they forgot that the reason Lazygamer was popular was because it was a gaming site. A lot of the old gaming commentators left for other sites, but there was also the issue of politics, Critz have a heavy left wing bias, and that’s caused even more of a schism (as we’ve seen with a dozen of the regulars leaving. Chief left, Kasie left… I even left for a bit)

It’s been like pushing a cube into a circular hole.

Initially I thought the rebranding was part of that, in that they were hopeful to get a “woker ” and more progressive audience, the kind that follows Noelle and Tracy (in the cosplayshpere), or black twitter that follows Glenn or even the mutants that follow Sandy and Darren on Twitter.

But that never translated in a new progressive audience. It has just made the old one bitter and more confrontational – because it doesn’t take a genius to know what’s going on.

It’s sad though, because I miss Raptor, Ausious and others just talking about their games or Kromas trying to convince everyone that PC is the only way forward, or OVG (the legend) telling us all we’re too young to understand the realities of gaming.

Wow, it’s like the Hindenburg crashing on the Titanic

We need Mark Wahlberg in his pink cashmere sweater to save us with Tweets!

In the way a piece of old bread matures… as it lies under a table for weeks…

See Gavin, I would never write something like this about you:

“Which is fine, then he gets upset and starts hurling insults and it becomes a problem. I personally think it’s a medical thing he should get checked for but he’s kind of a grown up so he needs to make that choice for himself”

I have never made fun of your intellect (even when it would have been hilarious). I would also not bring up your family, your children or even your wife, because that is the way an ingrate argues.

That is below me.

I would however mock your views. I would even mock your political stance or even your xbox fanboism or your love of the girlie footie game that involves grown men kicking an inflated ball.

But an attack against your psychology, that would definitely be a step-too-far. I don’t know whether you have legitimate mental or psychological issues (and I’m not going to even try to gaslight you on it), and nor do I care, and even if I knew that you had, it would be something that I never touch, not even in jest…

I would never write something like that, because in this day in age, that sort of ableism should be confronted and shamed.

Sounds like you’ve known each other for some time?

I have special permission from the owner because Jim is a troll and needs to be monitored

It’s animal farm – some animals are more equal than others….

That just means people can get banned if they irk the owner enough. Sounds like a one percenter.

Kinda like a dystopian gravy train

I’m stealing this… for future writing and commentary 😛

@disqus_9d4L7lqp4k:disqus isn’t wrong though, although I would go one step further and actually call their approach heavily inspired by the Soviets. And, it’s not that far off because the ANC and many others were funded by the Soviets.

Almost every single liberation movement in Africa was inspired and funded by the Soviets. Our continent was a battleground during the Cold War, and in many respects, if we never had the 1976 uprising, the west would have continued turning a blind eye to the Apartheid government, and the ANC would have continued being sidelined.

Even post-1976 Thatcher and Reagan wanted nothing to do with the ANC, because they were seen as an extension to the USSR. Of course, years later we realise that alliances were formed out of necessity and that for the most part the ANC was also built on healthy opportunism.

The kind of opportunism that’s easily corrupted and eventually embraced the corruption that was already happening under the Nats (i.e. the Stellenbosch cabal – good ol’ Malan’s dealings with the Israelis and the money he funneled out makes for great bedtime reading), and just ran with it… Now we have a growing class of oligarchs, who grow fat through a form of state-sponsored parasitism.

However the very structure of the ANC and the mindset of many (even the oligarchs) are still very much influenced by Soviet-era policies, party structure and lingo (why else do you think, everyone in the ANC is a comrade). As long as that culture is maintained in the ANC, the more they’ll start creeping towards authoritarianism.

There is some flexibility though because you don’t have to subscribe to all the streaming services and that’s also why we’re probably going to see a great Cull soon. Many of those services are not going to exist 10 years from now. The market is saturated, and we’re on the brink of another extinction event.