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New Zealand police arrest pair trying to enter Auckland with ‘large amount’ of KFC:
The men were arrested after allegedly trying to flee from police near the Auckland border. When their car was searched, police said they found a large quantity of KFC, as well as the cash and a number of empty ounce bags.
The arrest struck a chord with New Zealanders – especially Aucklanders, who have spent a month in a strict level four lockdown that does not allow restaurants to open or residents to order takeaway food.
[...] After the KFC arrest, a police spokesperson said “officers noticed a suspicious looking vehicle travelling on a gravel road, and upon seeing the police car, the vehicle did a U-turn and sped off trying to evade police.
[...] A breach of the Covid-19 Public Health Response Act can result in imprisonment for up to six months; or a fine of up to $4,000.
The men will appear in court for breaching the health order, and police said further charges were likely.
(Score: 5, Insightful) by Opportunist on Tuesday September 21 2021, @08:42PM (35 children)
If you think you got commies in the US, you went off the far right deep end long ago...
(Score: -1, Offtopic) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday September 21 2021, @09:10PM (26 children)
The goal is NOT to end up as a shitty Euro-style country. Hence, the desire to NOT let it get as bad as them.
(Score: 5, Insightful) by Azuma Hazuki on Tuesday September 21 2021, @09:16PM (25 children)
Yeah, shitholes like Finland and Sweden and Norway and Germany with their...their...fuckin', universal healthcare and lower maternal mortality rates than the US and shit. Total hellholes, right? Thank Republican Jesus that'll never happen here and people will continue to die of treatable conditions because a $5 vial of insulin costs $700 and stuff.
Fuck. Off.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 0, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday September 21 2021, @09:50PM (10 children)
And yet... and yet... immigrants still choose to come to America in large numbers. Do they not know how AWFUL it is here? Why is no one telling them? Why, in America, people DIE IN THE STREETS, WRITHING IN AGONY because hospitals aren't free. Oh wait, THEY ARE. Just go to the ER and by law you cannot be turned away.
(Score: 5, Insightful) by Mykl on Tuesday September 21 2021, @10:39PM (6 children)
Yes, lots of immigrants come to America. The majority of those are doing so from countries that have an overland route to the US. They come to the US based on the promise of US life that your culture ships around the world via the media (white picket fences, friends catching up in coffee shops near Central Park etc). Most of them don't realise that life is much harder in the US than most people have told them. It's NOT because the US is the greatest country in the world (which it most definitely isn't unless you're counting the number of bombs you have).
Here's a thought experiment - if it were just as easy for Central and South American people fleeing persecution to make it to Canada instead of the US, do you think most would still pick the US, or the country with a better safety net and protections for lower income people?
Interesting that the majority of middle-Eastern refugees make their way to Europe rather than the US. Is that perhaps because Europe is closer?
Here's something odd. Almost all people trying to arrive in Australia from Asia by boat are Asian!
Strange - countries like New Zealand (which many ultra-rich people are trying to move to) and the Scandinavians have very low levels of 'illegal' border crossings by people trying to get in. Maybe that isn't because they're shitholes - more likely it's because they're REALLY FRICKEN HARD TO GET TO!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday September 21 2021, @11:47PM (5 children)
So, I hear you're saying that the US is both better than a lot of shitholes, and accessible.
Like, even better than Mexico, which is way less shitholey than a lot of other places (such as Haiti, to take a case from recent news).
Dang, Mexico has some pretty nice spots, the USA must be freakin' great!
(Score: 2) by Mykl on Wednesday September 22 2021, @01:07AM (1 child)
Try reading harder. I said that the US is perceived by prospective immigrants to be better than where they are, based on the media they see.
To be honest, large parts of the US probably are better than some of the places these people are trying to leave. But don't be so silly as to claim that all of the US must be better than all of Mexico because some Mexicans come to the US.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 22 2021, @01:22AM
Mexicans aren't even coming anymore, I'm pretty sure there's more returning than coming here. Central/South America is where the migrants are coming from.
(Score: 1, Offtopic) by Runaway1956 on Wednesday September 22 2021, @01:20AM (2 children)
You skipped a bit of Mexican immigration policy. Like, Mexicans don't welcome immigrants like US Democrats do. Immigrants are tolerated, if they don't intent to stay long in Mexico.
Abortion is the number one killed of children in the United States.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 22 2021, @01:26AM
Pretty much all of latin america has a similar policy: invest $XX thousand USD in a local company and you get in. Not a bad deal for USians, as cost of living is low enough to live better than the US for cheaper than anywhere outside of a slum.
(Score: 2) by c0lo on Wednesday September 22 2021, @05:27AM
I hear the disaster refugees are welcomed in Cancun if they come with money, particularly if their family name is Cruz.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 22 2021, @07:40PM
Jeebus Crisp you dumb, the main draw is the petro dollar where a minimum wage job lets an immigrant send home enough money for their family. Purely the exchange rate which is due to US explotive imperialism, not amazing business acumen.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 23 2021, @05:27AM (1 child)
You don't get turned away, you just get in line and wait your turn for triage.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 23 2021, @07:04AM
So, business as usual?
(Score: 5, Insightful) by FatPhil on Tuesday September 21 2021, @10:46PM (13 children)
Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people; the smallest discuss themselves
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday September 21 2021, @11:29PM
And, the US is at the bottom for infant mortality too. Source, that bastion of commies, the CIA and their "CIA World Factbook". Probably a biased source, but biased in favor of the US which still comes out at the bottom.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 22 2021, @12:26AM (11 children)
You're right, but also just being stupid. The US still has an extremely low rate of maternal mortality, especially when you consider that it is waaay more culturally diverse than any of those countries that are above it.
(Score: 5, Touché) by Azuma Hazuki on Wednesday September 22 2021, @12:31AM (10 children)
What does the cultural makeup have to do with infant mortality? Please explain.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 0, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 22 2021, @12:58AM (4 children)
Do those lovely people of color (excluding assimilated Asians, the "other white people") take care of their pregnancies as well as the other races? No.
(Score: 2) by Tork on Wednesday September 22 2021, @02:27AM
Slashdolt Logic: "25 year old jokes about sharks and lasers are +5, Funny." 💩
(Score: 2) by Opportunist on Wednesday September 22 2021, @05:15AM
They probably would, if they could afford it. Because whether the only doc at your disposal is dancing around your bed with some rattles or whether you can't afford a real one, what is the difference?
(Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Wednesday September 22 2021, @06:01PM (1 child)
Okay, and since this is a culture thing and culture is learned behavior, the solution iiiiiis...?
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 22 2021, @07:46PM
MOAR RACISM! Yeah, that'll do it, that'll fix things right up lickity split!
Why even bother replying to such racist garbage? You think such hate filled people are just a few logical leaps from not being terrible?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 22 2021, @01:30AM (4 children)
When everyone in a country shares the same culture (and likely similar genetics), you can have reasonable expectations about the age, hygiene, medical literacy, etc. of new parents. When you have immigrants, 2nd gen., whacko cultists, etc. literally everywhere you can't make any assumptions, and you are going to have way more issues than a monocultural state. Then you factor in underage and unplanned births, abuse/incest, rape, and other things, you get a much livelier mix.
(Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 22 2021, @04:35AM (1 child)
And this is your argument for why the USA is the best country in the world?
(Score: -1, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 22 2021, @05:20AM
Yeah, because that's totally the argument I was making. Keep fucking that strawman, incel.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 22 2021, @03:58PM (1 child)
You know damn little about pregnancy don't you? Out of 9 long months, how often you think a woman should visit the fucking doctor if nothing is wrong? Doctors don't even wanna see you in the first trimester.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 22 2021, @06:15PM
And where do you see the strawman that you decided to set up this time?
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday September 21 2021, @09:50PM (4 children)
Yeah, right....antifa rioting and burning down cities aren't real commies....
Real Commies, like real communism, has never been tried yet.
I guess that Patrisse Cullors isn't a "real communist" but just a "trained Marxist."
Lefty mindgames are never-ending.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday September 21 2021, @11:18PM (2 children)
We are fucking with you....!! Wooooooh!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 22 2021, @12:15AM (1 child)
I know. Your mother told me last night!
(Score: 2) by Opportunist on Friday September 24 2021, @06:31AM
You can talk to the dead? That's quite impressive.
It even makes me look past your necrophilia.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday September 21 2021, @11:52PM
Maybe.
However, I'm excited about finally being able to see if there's a Posadist road to socialism in a few years.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 22 2021, @01:20PM (2 children)
If you think you got commies in the US, you went off the far right deep end long ago...
Have you been living in a cave the last few years?
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Azuma Hazuki on Wednesday September 22 2021, @06:03PM (1 child)
More likely he's had his head up his ass for a few *decades...*
Remember, "Communist!" is a snarl word 99 times out of 100 or more with these assholes. They wouldn't know an actual communist if one bit them. Plunk them down in the 1930s and they'd be shrieking "Communist!" at the very people who've ensured that they, in the modern world, have things like "weekends" and "OSHA regulations" and so on.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 22 2021, @06:16PM
In the 1930's, those WERE actual communists. It wasn't until McCarthy and deep cold war that communism was really villified.