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3. The Agony Aunt
Watching Jason Micallef on Bondi+ you could easily begin to tear the hair out of your head. One by one. Jason Micallef really believes that there is no problem for PL if they attract people to their fold simply “ghax imwegghin” (because they are hurt) even if it is evident that there could be no solution for their hurts.
Take the scantily dressed man who was celebrating at the Labour victory and very evidently believed that with this vote he could now practise his hobby of “insib” (catching birds). Jason Micallef smiled gleefully when asked whether he was not aware that Labour could never give the man his hobby back.
To Jason Micallef what counts is that “in-nazzjonalisti dahku bih” (the Nationalists cheated him) and that only Labour can empathise with that fact. Jason Micallef is absolutely unable to see an anomaly in the fact that he is planning to emulate the Nationalists in four years time by leading this very man to believe that Labour will implement what neither it, nor the PN, can implement.
A vote for Labour in this current stage of evolution means shifting from a valueless, unsympathetic party in government to a hopeless, clueless and directionless party that simply exists in the hope of wining an election without any thoughts beyond that. Thank God there are EP elections for them to let off steam.
The Haiku
labour empathy
vote a shoulder to cry on
get gvern tal-biki
sophism
2. any false argument or fallacy. — sophister, n. — sophistic, adj.
