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Blah-Blah Bar / Re: Trumpled (Alternative Leading)
Last post by LP -
Alarmism is part of the right-wing political brief, a tool used by proper tools to foster anarchy as a way to make people react emotively without justification or thought, just act on fear or panic and it is usually mob based.

It will appear everywhere even a thread about vegemite if someone starts one!

It's quite ironic for RedTrump, Putin's diesel fuel shill, to point at France and complain that the very political tool he uses in his own backyard is now apparently evil in socialist France. Capitol Hill happened!
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Blah-Blah Bar / Re: Shawny’s concerns about Victorian and Australian Governments
Last post by Lods -
Quote from: Baggers – on
The French are very different to Aussies.

That about sums it up.
We do have a protesting component but we're mostly a group that will look at that sort of behaviour and shake our heads, let alone get involved in it.
If you want to turn us off your cause...take to the streets and start burning or breaking stuff.
The repsonse will be "Wake up to yourself"
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Blah-Blah Bar / Re: Shawny’s concerns about Victorian and Australian Governments
Last post by LP -
Quote from: shawny – on
How long till the riots in Europe are seen here?
Very very unlikely, and such assertions I just see as alarmist scaremongering.

Let's not forget these started in Paris primarily as socialist party student protests, protests that the reporting of which has been hijacked for political purposes by right wing extremists.

It would not be surprising to find, given EU border freedom, that many involved aren't even from France.
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Blah-Blah Bar / Re: Shawny’s concerns about Victorian and Australian Governments
Last post by PaulP -
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: Shawny’s concerns about Victorian and Australian Governments
Last post by Baggers -
Quote from: shawny – on
How long till the riots in Europe are seen here?

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.
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Blah-Blah Bar / Re: Trumpled (Alternative Leading)
Last post by Lods -
It really is a pain in the bum to try and keep two threads operating on the same topic.
It also makes the thread hard to follow as we switch between overseas and local.

I see you've made comment on the situation in Europe in the Australian politic thread Shawny and related it to the Australian situation.
That's the way to do it if we want to make comparisons.

This thread has over 300 pages and is U.S specific.
With the shenanigans I expect with the mid-terms in a couple of weeks it's probably going to get pretty busy in here so let's keep the two separate.