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Messages - PaulP

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Blah-Blah Bar / Re: Trumpled (Alternative Leading)
Not exactly new, but as the date for the mid terms draws closer, concerns and discourse are mounting that the Reps and particularly DJT, will refuse to accept any results he doesn't like, and has been planning for a long time for all manner of tactics to interfere as he deems necessary, including canceling the election altogether.

It's really quite something to watch the major superpower become a 3rd world, corrupt, strife-ridden, shambolic state, in real time.
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Blah-Blah Bar / Re: Shawny’s concerns about Victorian and Australian Governments
Quote from: Micky0 – on
I wrote a big long post but deleted it because this is my place to read about footy - but
I cant take anyone seriously that will vote ON and cbf with the argument - Im still hurting from a close friend spewing the same pro ON bullcrap she reads in the HS.

Suffice to say imo most rational empathetic people want betterment for all.  I dont see Poorline or her alcoholic sidekick Barnaby having that in mind.

There's 30 years of PH history there for people to draw upon if they so choose. A proven history of punching down and sucking up. She and her flunkies are as much a friend of ordinary workers as her No1 benefactor.
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Blah-Blah Bar / Re: Shawny’s concerns about Victorian and Australian Governments
It's pretty obvious reading between the lines that a number of folks on here think the Greens are either a joke or a political non entity, or maybe both. Whether or not this is a meritorious position is debatable, but for people that think that way, I'd be curious to know why they think the Greens are a joke but PHON is a legitimate political entity. If one is going to think that way about the Greens, I'm not sure how you can think differently about, and give support to, a party that has no policies, no internal coherence, is plagued with scandal and embarrassment, and is about as far away from supporting the average person as it's possible to be. There's no consistency as far as I can see. 
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Blah-Blah Bar / Re: Shawny’s concerns about Victorian and Australian Governments
There's already too many of these Hanson types on the world stage, and they are taking an already struggling, teetering planet and making it worse. The track records of Orban, Milei, Erdoğan, Trump and others are appalling.

But I have been given assurances that if elected, she will close all borders and deport many brown people, which will see crime rates plummet to basically zero.
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Blah-Blah Bar / Re: Shawny’s concerns about Victorian and Australian Governments
Quote from: Baggers – on
The French are very different to Aussies. They have history, over centuries, similar to what we're seeing there now. Just look what happened when speed cameras were instituted in France and what the citizenry did in response... similar to Texas! Here, we just accept things like this and then whinge. And let's not forget what happened in France when Renault sacked thousands of employees... bad day for the CEO. Think I'd rather our culture but perhaps we could learn something when it comes passively accepting some new/unjust laws.

Not just different to Australians, but different to other Europeans. That fighting spirit is uniquely French, and goes back several generations.
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Blah-Blah Bar / Re: Trumpled (Alternative Leading)
She was fired because she was a sh1thouse liar, not because she was incompetent. Even a lazy examination of appointments under this administration makes it clear that competence is the last thing they look for.

The previous administration, less vulgar but no less evil, could at least claim that their appointments (Nat Sec Advisor, Sec Of State etc) were smart and knew what they were doing.

It's frankly hard to know which is worse.
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Blah-Blah Bar / Re: Trumpled (Alternative Leading)
Quote from: LP – on
It's been asserted RedTrump's appointments follow a conservative fundamentalist policy, in which females have a specific place and role in society.

I couldn't help but think of that discussion in context of @Thryleon's tongue in cheek comment about RedTrump.

The debates I refer to stem from the recent "Unsteady State" series published on The Philosopher's Zone, starting with the recent Alan Saunders lecture, well worth a listen.

The short answer is I don't know. Trump, so far as I can tell, is an idealogical void. I don't know whether it's him or those around him that do the hiring and firing, but his focus is power and financial enrichment, and whatever serves those twin motives in the moment is what carries the day, even if it's the direct opposite of what he said yesterday.

Whether this new woman or Hegseth or many others are there to look good in front of the cameras, or to distract the population with theater whilst the country is looted and pillaged, or to simply do what they're told, or to be sufficiently incompetent as to be easily manipulated, I can't say.

If there is a belief that women have a specific (subordinate) place and role in society, I dare say this has nothing to with adherence to any idealogical belief, and purely about a consolidation of power.
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The Sports Desk / Re: NRL / Origin
I was watching the Knights player take that intercept pass, and for the first couple of seconds I thought, “why isn’t he bouncing the ball?”😔