OT: Current Affairs and Politics

[Bandwagon]

SMH is right leaning? Do their editorial staff and contributors know this?

Yes.

Fairfax is dead.

 

[JokerEel]

Our country has been run by idiots and still is run by idiots.

Selling off all our public assets not taxing the crap out of companies that export our resources.

Letting ever car company to leave the country and then have us import cars at a crazy ass price ..

Rent is stupid crazy so if you run a local business you will be forever on the back foot

 

[The Silverdale Phantom]

The unrepresentative swill of the Senate has been on full display recently.

Probably time to abolish it all together.

And we should be able to elect a pm directly instead of the losers the parties put up.

 

[Gary Gutful]

I'm very much what I call greenie

That's a funny label. You are pro environment and left of centre but I wouldn't label you that way. Labels stop dialogue.

 

[Gary Gutful]

Nine, the owner of the SMH, is most definitely not "right" aligned in a "social" sense

I doubt you'd know much about nine. I was there for 10 years doing IT support and could fill you in.

 

[Gary Gutful]

I think you'll find it's been heading that way over recent years.

It's gone a long way from the very neutral/centrist tones of Hendo reporting the news.

Jokes on you. Hendo was a KKK member.

 

[Gary Gutful]

I myself am further left than the ALP or indeed the Greens when I fill out the "Vote Compass" forms during elections.

But I am also a Trade Unionist and Third Way Socialist. The reason I am an ALP member is I understand that goals are that, and moving incrementally towards them is indeed the only way I have ever seen progress in my life.

Vote Compass intriigued me. This is where I sit.

 

[Gary Gutful]

Well @Gronk, the US is asking the ukkies to lower their conscription age.

*constipation

 

[Gary Gutful]

Fairfax is dead.

Luckily stupid hair is as well.

 

[Gary Gutful]

Would be interested in regulars filling this out and posting results. Lengthy but worth doing. I thought I was more centrist than the results turned out.

Australia Votes 2022 - Vote Compass - ABC News

Vote Compass is an educational tool developed by political scientists designed to help you explore how you fit in Australia’s political landscape.

votecompass.abc.net.au

 

[the phantom menace]

I like vote compass. I guess the dot placement shows how centrist the modern ALP is.

I haven't done it for a while, and am a few years older now... and maybe I'm getting more economically conservative than previously? Mine today ends up:

 

[The Silverdale Phantom]

Luckily stupid hair is as well.

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Not so fast moofy:


The toilet brush is all the rage these days.

 

[Gary Gutful]

I like vote compass. I guess the dot placement shows how centrist the modern ALP is.

I haven't done it for a while, and am a few years older now... and maybe I'm getting more economically conservative than previously? Mine today ends up:
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Thanks Phantom. Would have pinned you as being more progressive than ALP but I am surprised at how far right you are on the economy. It sounds like you are as well.

I hope others fill it out.

 

[Gary Gutful]

Not so fast moofy:

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The toilet brush is all the rage these days.

Just fill out vote compass you shitbag!

 

[the phantom menace]

Thanks Phantom. Would have pinned you as being more progressive than ALP but I am surprised at how far right you are on the economy. It sounds like you are as well.

Yep, I was a bit surprised... I think my dot was further left in in the lead-up to 2022.

Maybe I'm just so off the Greens and Adam Bandt these days that it influenced my responses. Or it could be that from the "safety" of not being under a Scomo government I've "relaxed" a bit to the right?

I hope others fill it out.

Me too, it's quite an interesting and fairly quick process - 30 propositions, plus some demographic-type stuff.

 

[Gary Gutful]

I think my dot was further left

 

[The Silverdale Phantom]

Just fill out vote compass you shitbag!

Turns out I’m a screaming wokey bender.

Call me a “ms” shitbag too you chauvinist pig.

 

[Gary Gutful]

Maybe I'm just so off the Greens and Adam Bandt these days that it influenced my responses. Or it could be that from the "safety" of not being under a Scomo government I've "relaxed" a bit to the right?

This. I have an Environmental Engineering degree that I received in the late 90s and loved the greens in my teens and early adulthood. Maybe I've changed, but they seem to have lost their way in the last decade.

 

[Gary Gutful]

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Turns out I’m a screaming wokey bender.

Call me a “ms” shitbag too you chauvinist pig.

Dirty f**ken greeny!