Marijuana is honestly not my thing, but it is an utter waste of time and resources to prosecute people who want to smoke it. Prosecute if they drive high or operate machinery under the influence, but it is a waste of time to go after people for simple possession of small amounts.

Possibly the worst case of testing in production in history. Maybe people will finally abandon Winshit and learn how to Linux. There is literally zero reason to not run a mainstream Linux distro unless you absolutely have to use a program with zero compatibility.

The shitholification of the UK will only progress even faster under a Labour government. It makes no difference whether you back red or blue, things will continue to get worse.

Something much more worthwhile talking about is the fact that FPTP is an archaic system that needs to be thrown into the garbage bin. Whatever you think of Reform's politics, the fact that a party can pull nearly 15% of the total vote and only end up with 5/650 seats in a system that calls itself "representative" is a sick joke. Even in the Bahamas it is high time to throw FPTP out, both the DNA in 2012 and CoI in 21 won enough of the popular vote that they deserved representation in Parliament. The archaic FPTP system is what is stifling third parties in this country, as no third party has the financial resources to actively compete in an election, and it's what makes both the FNM and PhellP completely dependent on shady "investors" and scandalous expats to fund their campaigns. Abolishing FPTP should be priority number one for any Bahamian government seeking to implement real political reform in this country, but we all know why that isn't going to happen. Personal interests always supersede national ones in this country.

I don't see where you keep coming from with the angle that the Chinese own our government, I saw you mention something similar on the article regarding the Palestinian recognition. I don't see anything to suggest that the Chinese strong armed the government into recognizing Palestine, but we have documented proof that we were forced to sanction Russia by the US "government" lest we (implicitly) end up sanctioned ourselves (a conflict that has nothing to do with our day to day lives and in which the moral lines are a lot greyer than the Palestine issue). The Chinese have a presence here but anyone who lives here can see that the American influence is far greater, which was even admitted to by the Chinese embassy a while back. As it relates to FTX, some American politicians took huge payouts just like some Bahamian ones did. They are all in on it together, and many of the worst here have ties with the worst over there. It's all a big club.

I don't get this line of thinking that just because our MPs don't trade blows on the floor (although it has come close to that a few times) everything is fine and dandy with our political system. Nobody is complaining about politicians being rambunctious, we are complaining that Parliament is completely useless and does nothing to fix this country anytime they are in session. Another summer is upon us and the power is still going out, making people sweat and burning up appliances/equipment. You would think that this issue would be fixed by now considering it has been happening for decades but nothing really changes no matter who is in charge. Power will still shut off, juicy no bid contracts will still be given out, and taxes will still be squeezed on a shrinking middle and growing poor class to pay for it all. What is the point in voting if nothing ever gets fixed/improves? I would rather have a competent dictator rule the country and keep everything in order than to keep marking an X pretending that that is doing something while the power and water shut off, crime spirals out of control, taxes keep going higher for no benefit other than feeding increasingly fatter politicians, etc. The only thing that matters is results.

The thing with you Minnis supporters is that you conveniently ignore the 32-7 spanking he took 4.5 years later. That is an outright rejection that cost the FNM several strongholds that were unthinkable for the PHellP to carry in the past. Even Perry had the common sense to retire from politics after he took his similar spanking in '17.

There is still a decent chunk of time left until the next election, but as it stands I think it is going to be the closest one since '07 as long as Pintard remains leader of the FNM. Davis is not nearly as unpopular as Minnis and Perry were, but neither has he done anything to inspire a lot of turnout for him. Pintard hasn't shown himself to be the next coming of Ingraham, but putting Minnis to head the FNM is just giving Brave a next 5 years considering how stink he is in the eyes of the public. Pintard is the least bad out of a bunch of bad FNM candidates, and should at least have his shot at an election. A good politician would have let Pintard had his chance and then try again for power if he took a big loss, but Minnis has not displayed political aptitude during any of his time in or out of power.

Prior to 1948, the area of the nation state of Israel was known as the British Mandate of Palestine (emphasis on that last part) and that area has always been called Palestine since the days of the Romans. The Balfour Declaration is what caused this entire problem as it promised a group of people land that they had no rights to. Another example of the British (controlled by Zionist finance of course (Rothschild and his money was key to the declaration)) mucking up parts of the world that they had no business being in. Picking apart the claims of "persecution" is another matter entirely (and a rabbit hole that can go on for hours), but it really reflects poorly on a group of people as a collective if they have just finished being "genocided" and "ethnically cleansed" only to go to another part of the world and do literally the exact same thing they just alleged happened to them. Turns out expelling and killing your neighbors arouses a certain degree of hatred, who would have thought. The only reason Israel as a nation state even exists today is because Arab military commanders were two cents short of a dollar and made incredibly incompetent military decisions; the fact that literally every Arab nation in the region put aside their differences and allied to fight against them (for a time atleast) speaks volumes.

"This is a democracy. We have a right to protest. But we don’t have a right to destroy property and harm individuals.”

Funny I didn't hear any of that in 2020. Thing is I haven't seen a single one of these protests turn violent on the part of the protesters, and have certainly not seen the degree of anarchy that was prevalent in four years ago. The only violence I have seen has been from LEOs firing rubber bullets into crowds and beating people with signs. One can only wonder if leftists will finally wake up on who owns the institutional power in the United States, turns out "free speech" only applies when you are criticizing certain regime approved groups.

Your analogy is backwards, Palestinians lived in Palestine for millennia before Zionists created the nation state of Israel and ethnically cleansed the region of the natives (Christian and Muslim) while bringing in boatloads of people that had zero connection that region to create their own little enclave. Palestine is a testing ground for the policies that they want to enact on us in the future.

I also have to laugh at the irony regarding your mention of Abaco and the governments argument of "self-determination" considering that Abaco was denied self determination decades ago because it was conchy joes that asked for it. Abaco had (and still has to some degree) a distinct heritage and had every right to choose to remain as part of the UK (or become it's own independent nation), but yet "self-determination" didn't apply to a group of White people that wanted to have a say over their own affairs. Hypocrisy at it's finest from the government.

Matter like this kind of blurs the line between public and private affairs. I'm fairly certain Tribune locks comments on matters pending before the courts for liability concerns, but I imagine they probably left this one open out of public interest.