OT: Current Affairs and Politics

[Gary Gutful]

They might have been before my time.

You just weren't cool enough.

 

[Gary Gutful]

Lol he would be for sure. Swearing and complaining about the shit traffic
I just sit in the middle lane. It's a nice spot to be. I'm in no rush. What difference is 5mins to someone's day?

Have you not seen Sliding Doors?

 

[Gronk]

Is that something Twizzle smokes? Sounds like surfie slang

That would be a yes. @Twizzle would have been right into Golden Breed, Tracks magazine and the surfin pig.

 

[Gary Gutful]

Holy shit. Its just like a normal pig, except its surfing!

 

[strider]

He looks like one of those merkins who doesn't let you in when need to change lanes.
I bet f**king strider is one of those merkins.

You lose muthaf**ker. I am the nicest driver around. I even let idiot tradies who drive like lunatics in

 

[Suitman]

That's because I'm a centrist. I think every merkin is wrong.

Which means you think everything you say is right.
It's as boring as f**k.

 

[Poupou Escobar]

Which means you think everything you say is right.

Only until proven wrong.

It's as boring as f**k.

You're wrong.

 

[Gary Gutful]

You're wrong.

No YUO'RE wrong!!!

 

[Poupou Escobar]

*rong

 

[Gronk]

 

[Gary Gutful]

Is it also possible that disenchanted voters have decided that social democracy has failed them during times of need?

I guess it's easier to blame the other side for playing dirty than to accept that your side has dropped the ball.

...its what we do when we play Melbourne.

 

[Gronk]

Is it also possible that disenchanted voters have decided that social democracy has failed them during times of need?

I guess it's easier to blame the other side for playing dirty than to accept that your side has dropped the ball.

...its what we do when we play Melbourne.

I think Kim Carr is partly right (loved his version of Bette Davis Eyes) but I think the most telling factor of both elections was Homer Shorten and Jeremy Corbyn. Both should have won in a landslide. Clealy the punters did not want them at the wheel.

 

[Poupou Escobar]

Is it also possible that disenchanted voters have decided that social democracy has failed them during times of need?

I guess it's easier to blame the other side for playing dirty than to accept that your side has dropped the ball.

...its what we do when we play Melbourne.

Also completely ignores that tribalism (nationalism) is a feature of working class people everywhere.

 

[Gary Gutful]

I think Kim Carr is partly right (loved his version of Bette Davis Eyes) but I think the most telling factor of both elections was Homer Shorten and Jeremy Corbyn. Both should have won in a landslide. Clealy the punters did not want them at the wheel.

They don't have a message that resonates because their basic ideology isn't aligned with an individual's needs. When people feel threatened by big social and ecomomic changes they will vote selfishly.

Major parties on the left of politics will need to reinvent who they are and what they stand for, otherwise they will continue to be in opposition.

 

[Gronk]

They don't have a message that resonates because their basic ideology isn't aligned with an individual's needs. When people feel threatened by big social and ecomomic changes they will vote selfishly.

Major parties on the left of politics will need to reinvent who they are and what they stand for, otherwise they will continue to be in opposition.

Yep and whilst the party in power scaremongers the proposed policy shifts, then merkins are likely to remain with the devil they know. Having said that the current government here will need to do some soul searching because we are facing an economic downturn not unlike the GFC days and also the punters are going to be wondering WTF they have been really doing about climate change whilst at the wheel.

Cutting taxes means cutting spending means no infrastructure pending. Austerity is not the way to combat or to avoid a recession.

Also playing catchup on lowering emissions is going to hinder economic growth. Dumb.

Funny how the UK politics is mirroring ours rn.

 

[84 Baby]

Don’t blame me. I voted for the Coreys

 

[Poupou Escobar]

Yep and whilst the party in power scaremongers the proposed policy shifts, then merkins are likely to remain with the devil they know. Having said that the current government here will need to do some soul searching because we are facing an economic downturn not unlike the GFC days and also the punters are going to be wondering WTF they have been really doing about climate change whilst at the wheel.

Cutting taxes means cutting spending means no infrastructure pending. Austerity is not the way to combat or to avoid a recession.

Also playing catchup on lowering emissions is going to hinder economic growth. Dumb.

Funny how the UK politics is mirroring ours rn.

Once again the implication that only the party in power has any influence over the electorate.

 

[Twizzle]

 

[Gronk]

Once again the implication that only the party in power has any influence over the electorate.

Where does it imply that only the party in power has the influence ?

 

[Poupou Escobar]

Are firefighters free to pick and choose their customers? I thought they were funded by the government.