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- Sat Apr 27, 2024 6:05 pm
- Forum: Politics
- Topic: The Murdoch Myth
- Replies: 5
- Views: 170
Re: The Murdoch Myth
The effect of the right wing press can be over-stated. That is true. However, it's not complete bollocks. These statistics don't exist in a vacuum, and have to be interpreted in the context of the overall national picture in 2024, which shows us that after years of well-publicised incompetence and ...
- Fri Apr 26, 2024 9:26 am
- Forum: Politics
- Topic: Police using Gay Pride events to sanitise their public image?
- Replies: 13
- Views: 390
Re: Police using Gay Pride events to sanitise their public image?
To he clear, there are also two groups (at least) and they may be conflated at times. The LGBTQ+ community and the Queer community. Being Queer as a political alignment and subset of LGBTQ+ people is more closely aligned to anarchist thought. The reject the notion of marriage equality, because they ...
- Wed Apr 24, 2024 11:25 am
- Forum: Politics
- Topic: War, what is it good for?
- Replies: 1064
- Views: 116886
Re: War, what is it good for?
https://youtu.be/rzQcDcDs8-A
On Israel and Iran
On Israel and Iran
- Sun Apr 21, 2024 5:52 pm
- Forum: Politics
- Topic: War, what is it good for?
- Replies: 1064
- Views: 116886
Re: War, what is it good for?
Not the nuclear site itself, in fact. Israel, in a brilliant display of hotspur, targeted the missile defence system that protects the nuclear site. So, the dialogue of the last few weeks can be summised as follows Israel assassinate Zahedi while he thinks he's safe in the fake consulate: "We're pi...
- Sun Apr 21, 2024 5:40 pm
- Forum: Politics
- Topic: War, what is it good for?
- Replies: 1064
- Views: 116886
Re: War, what is it good for?
That it isn't a fact is Jamie's opinion That it is a fact is Fritz's opinion One of those opinions happens to be true, but it is a fact that regardless of how strongly those opinions are held it is not possible to conclusively prove which one is correct. I by and large disagree. It is entirely poss...
- Fri Apr 19, 2024 6:15 pm
- Forum: Politics
- Topic: Police using Gay Pride events to sanitise their public image?
- Replies: 13
- Views: 390
Re: Police using Gay Pride events to sanitise their public image?
The assumption is that they are needed, Pride events can't police themselves, or don't have their own arrangements. If a gay cop wants to take off their uniform and attend pride, that is sligthly different (though I know some would oppose that aswell). Strategically there is definitely a Queer and a...
- Fri Apr 19, 2024 9:10 am
- Forum: Politics
- Topic: Police using Gay Pride events to sanitise their public image?
- Replies: 13
- Views: 390
Re: Police using Gay Pride events to sanitise their public image?
Police and corporations using these events to make themselves look good is not particularly new. Is there a queer counter movement protesting this?
Seems likely that anarchists would hang around these kinds of groups, but I don't know anything about anarchist in Australia.
Seems likely that anarchists would hang around these kinds of groups, but I don't know anything about anarchist in Australia.
- Fri Apr 19, 2024 8:56 am
- Forum: Politics
- Topic: War, what is it good for?
- Replies: 1064
- Views: 116886
Re: War, what is it good for?
Iran made a complete pig's ear of its response. But if it were to attack an Israeli - US meeting that would be a massive strategic mistake and unleash a world of pain on another level, which is why they're not going to do it. On this we are agreed. But it is not a moralistic position (unless you be...
- Thu Apr 18, 2024 7:02 am
- Forum: Politics
- Topic: War, what is it good for?
- Replies: 1064
- Views: 116886
Re: War, what is it good for?
So Israel provoked Iran by bombing their Embassy, what is the appropriate level of responce to someone blowig up your embassy and killing your citizens? What would the US or UK do in these circumstances? How has this changed the media narratives /likely good of further deaths in Gaza? The US and th...
- Thu Apr 18, 2024 6:57 am
- Forum: Politics
- Topic: War, what is it good for?
- Replies: 1064
- Views: 116886
Re: War, what is it good for?
Or maybe Iran provoked Israel by sponsoring a terror group that murdered 1,000+ civilians last fall? Or the decades of support for Hamas and Hezbollah? Or their stated aim to get nuclear weapons and use them to finish what Hitler started? Obviously Israel isn't blameless here but it's ridiculous to...
- Tue Apr 16, 2024 11:06 pm
- Forum: Politics
- Topic: War, what is it good for?
- Replies: 1064
- Views: 116886
Re: War, what is it good for?
So Israel provoked Iran by bombing their Embassy, what is the appropriate level of responce to someone blowig up your embassy and killing your citizens?
What would the US or UK do in these circumstances? How has this changed the media narratives /likely good of further deaths in Gaza?
What would the US or UK do in these circumstances? How has this changed the media narratives /likely good of further deaths in Gaza?
- Wed Apr 10, 2024 11:05 am
- Forum: Politics
- Topic: War, what is it good for?
- Replies: 1064
- Views: 116886
Re: War, what is it good for?
There remains to this day a significant religious minority in Israel which has a particular direction they are pushing policy. I am not claiming they are the only force in Israeli politics, but they are significant. Being that my point was religion and conflict can go hand-in-jand, especially since ...
- Tue Apr 09, 2024 10:36 am
- Forum: Politics
- Topic: War, what is it good for?
- Replies: 1064
- Views: 116886
Re: War, what is it good for?
If you want to talk about the bible then create a thread about it. If you want to talk about the one state which is controlled by right wing, some would say extremists, adherents of the Jewish faith, using their past to justify committing genocidal acts against an oppressed population. Then by all m...
- Sun Mar 31, 2024 9:26 pm
- Forum: Politics
- Topic: Medical Experts
- Replies: 78
- Views: 9711
Re: Medical Experts
If the option was "do nothing and watch deaths mount" or "try rolling out a vaccine to as many people as possible" which would you choose? Given that the vaccine had some effects, it did also have risks, but they were lower than the risk of catching covid at the time, so vaccinations everyone instea...
- Sun Mar 31, 2024 11:14 am
- Forum: Politics
- Topic: Confusing idealogies
- Replies: 30
- Views: 1597
Re: Confusing idealogies
Is the Right Wing fascination actually not so much about the state, it is about having a single strong leader, which they see as able to do no wrong? Like cult worship? It is fascist leaning (also an ideology associated with authoritianism) rather than Communist Authoritarian. But it follows all the...
- Sun Mar 31, 2024 11:01 am
- Forum: Politics
- Topic: Confusing idealogies
- Replies: 30
- Views: 1597
Re: Confusing idealogies
That said "Comminism" explicitly has only ever been formed by revolution taking power and redistributing wealth, usually in the name of the people but actually in practice the state was the main beneficiary, and the party/state. One party states tend towards authoritarian, though examples like the S...
- Sun Mar 31, 2024 9:21 am
- Forum: Politics
- Topic: Confusing idealogies
- Replies: 30
- Views: 1597
Re: Confusing idealogies
Let's be clear, any economic model can be authoritarian. Like a monarch with complete control of the state. They could implement whatever type of system they wanted for the economy. That said, a system where the monarchy retains power has to take into account the material reality of that state. Cont...
- Sat Mar 30, 2024 7:33 pm
- Forum: Politics
- Topic: Confusing idealogies
- Replies: 30
- Views: 1597
Re: Confusing idealogies
You appear to be confused, Brainbomb. Russia today is not communist or socialist at all. The USSR ceased to exist in 1991. Putin's Government is quite conservative and has much in common with US Republicanism, in fact. I was under the impression that Russia is still run by Oligarchs or an Authorita...
- Tue Mar 19, 2024 9:22 am
- Forum: Politics
- Topic: Trump v. Biden - How worried should I be?
- Replies: 92
- Views: 5018
Re: Trump v. Biden - How worried should I be?
If you want to discuss the past litics of the bible, feel free to create a thread, and we can focus on bashing the bible bashers there.
That is off topic for this thread.
That is off topic for this thread.
- Fri Mar 08, 2024 9:50 am
- Forum: Politics
- Topic: Yes, Prime Minister
- Replies: 11
- Views: 1083
Re: Yes, Prime Minister
Small difference? It went from a clear majority (45 to 38) in favour of national service to an even clearer majority (48 to 34) against. A 21 point swing is pretty significant in any context, and if error bars are big enough to hide it then it's pointless doing any polling at all. Elections are typ...