I wandered in to my poling place wearing a TShirt by a Band that is favoured by the Progressive Political People.
The drone handing out A3-sized Greens How-To-Vote broadsheets offered me one and I said “no thankyou”. He aggressively replied “Typical!” to his contracted colleagues.
One of them then thrust the so-big-it-was-impossible to read Labor HTV card at me, “what about one of these ones”.
I decided to jump on my anti-HTV soapbox and let them all have it with both barrels, including describing them as a “Corruption of Our democracy”.
The next 5 voters who queued also declined HTV cards.
When the Environmentalist party is littering the suburbs with non-recyclable single-use plastic corflutes, fastened to signs with single-use plastic cable-ties and then wasting paper like this, you really have to wonder about their commitment to the Environment.
Corflutes and HTVs are used widely by all parties, not just the Greens. But the Greens are the target of your critique because someone allegedly hurt your feelings? (Both materials are 100% recyclable, by the way.)
I’m more concerned about the dozens of new coal and gas project approvals under Labor. Billions of tonnes of pollution is a bit more impactful that a few thousand printed pamphlets and signs, that everyone else is doing anyway.
Guarantee your outburst was completely pointless and quickly forgotten.
My feelings are not hurt, my tolerance for hypocrisy is what being tested.
Don’t get me wrong, the Greens are currently the only way out of the Fossil-Fuel-Funded Two Party system we are currently in, but do they really need to do the exact opposite of what they are campaigning for?
Things that are 100% recyclable are not always (actually hardly ever) recycled at all, let alone to 100%. They should be using biodegradable, renewable materials, or even better, don’t publish them in the first place. The absence Greens Junk Mail would be a better message to send their constituents than continuing to status quo.
I wandered in to my poling place wearing a TShirt by a Band that is favoured by the Progressive Political People.
The drone handing out A3-sized Greens How-To-Vote broadsheets offered me one and I said “no thankyou”. He aggressively replied “Typical!” to his contracted colleagues.
One of them then thrust the so-big-it-was-impossible to read Labor HTV card at me, “what about one of these ones”.
I decided to jump on my anti-HTV soapbox and let them all have it with both barrels, including describing them as a “Corruption of Our democracy”.
The next 5 voters who queued also declined HTV cards.
When the Environmentalist party is littering the suburbs with non-recyclable single-use plastic corflutes, fastened to signs with single-use plastic cable-ties and then wasting paper like this, you really have to wonder about their commitment to the Environment.
Corflutes and HTVs are used widely by all parties, not just the Greens. But the Greens are the target of your critique because someone allegedly hurt your feelings? (Both materials are 100% recyclable, by the way.)
I’m more concerned about the dozens of new coal and gas project approvals under Labor. Billions of tonnes of pollution is a bit more impactful that a few thousand printed pamphlets and signs, that everyone else is doing anyway.
Guarantee your outburst was completely pointless and quickly forgotten.
My feelings are not hurt, my tolerance for hypocrisy is what being tested.
Don’t get me wrong, the Greens are currently the only way out of the Fossil-Fuel-Funded Two Party system we are currently in, but do they really need to do the exact opposite of what they are campaigning for?
Things that are 100% recyclable are not always (actually hardly ever) recycled at all, let alone to 100%. They should be using biodegradable, renewable materials, or even better, don’t publish them in the first place. The absence Greens Junk Mail would be a better message to send their constituents than continuing to status quo.
How impressive of you.