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hindy111

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Hopefully that whole region finds peace

But it feels like The world is falling apart slowly. Kind of busting at the seams. I sense some shit is going to go down over the next 10yrs. Peoples quality of life and living standards are going down pretty fast. It's snoballing. Could be kinda capitalism in its final stages. Before people start getting really pissed off.
 
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hindy111 said:
But it feels like The world is falling apart slowly. Kind of busting at the seams. I sense some shit is going to go down over the next 10yrs. Peoples quality of life and living standards are going down pretty fast. It's snoballing. Could be kinda capitalism in its final stages. Before people start getting really pissed off.
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I don't think so. I've said this before on here that feeling is just a result of watching way too much news, current events and having too much social media. Just get off it for two week and I guarantee you will feel different. Then judge.
I have a friend who does way too much social media, he knows everything that is going on, we live in the same town and he says to me "everyone just seems on edge right now". I was walking with him in town the other day and he said it and he was noticing people's behaviour and I said to him "buddy it seems like you are on Ice" this is the chillest town in the world (Newcastle). These are a few deros here, the poor bastards, but it was definitely worse in the 80s.

There is way more petty theft I will give you that. Also the kids are going to start playing up big time knowing the Australian dream is over meanwhile some kids get to be born to a parent that greedily reaped the whirlwind (I just looked this phrase up and it doesn't mean what I always thought it meant - from Young Guns obviously - it should mean what I thought it meant and in this instance it does so).
 
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I don't think so. I've said this before on here that feeling is just a result of watching way too much news, current events and having too much social media. Just get off it for two week and I guarantee you will feel different. Then judge.
I have a friend who does way too much social media, he knows everything that is going on, we live in the same town and he says to me "everyone just seems on edge right now". I was walking with him in town the other day and he said it and he was noticing people's behaviour and I said to him "buddy it seems like you are on Ice" this is the chillest town in the world (Newcastle). These are a few deros here, the poor bastards, but it was definitely worse in the 80s.

There is way more petty theft I will give you that. Also the kids are going to start playing up knowing the australian dream is over meanwhile some kids get to be born to a parent that greedily reaped the whirlwind.
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Worldwide its becoming issue.I doubt you'd see a noticeable difference yet. Give it 10yrs but.
 
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Well considering a few on here declared British PM Starmer safe as houses last week.

This is further signs of a shambolic mess that his leadership and party are becoming.

He wont survive the year.
 
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@Gronk doesn’t have it in him. He’ll scream about climate change while idling his fossil-fuelled car on the way to a protest, block traffic on the bridge draped in a Palestinian flag with Bob Carr and the usual moral-grandstanding deadshits, then jump back into the same car, swing by Chiswick for a smug little feed, and finish the day posturing as a saint at the local soup kitchen.

Have I missed anything old mate? When do you get time to post on LU?
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That's a lot of nuance. Even I didn't miss it.
You forgot the 19 cats though.
 
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got to blame that on hamas and the people who keep voting them in.
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They were voted in once - in 2006.

www.lfi.org.uk

Analysis: First Palestinian elections since 2006 postponed once again

Elections to the Palestinian Legislative Council and presidency, respectively scheduled for 22 May and 31 July, have been postponed indefinitely – and effectively cancelled. What happened Palestinian Authority president Mahmoud Abbas announced on Thursday that the elections, which would have...
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In a speech during President Biden’s visit to Israel last week, he urged the nation’s military to do all it can to minimize civilian casualties in its war with Hamas. “The vast majority of Palestinians are not Hamas,” he said. “Hamas does not represent the Palestinian people.”

How did Hamas come to power in Gaza in the first place? That history is worth revisiting now, two and a half weeks into the war, as it tests whether Biden’s point is true.

It was in January 2006 that the Palestinian territories held what turned out to be their last parliamentary elections. Hamas won a bare plurality of votes (44 percent to the more moderate Fatah party’s 41 percent) but, given the electoral system, a strong majority of seats (74 to 45). Neither party was keen on sharing power. Fighting broke out between the two. When a unity government was finally formed in June 2007, Hamas broke the deal, started murdering Fatah members, and, in the end, took total control of the Gaza Strip. Those who weren’t killed fled to the West Bank, and the territories have remained split ever since.

In other words, Hamas’ absolute rule of Gaza is not what the Palestinians voted for back in 2006. In fact, since the median age of Gazans is 18, half of Hamas’ subjects weren’t even born when the election took place. Since they have known no alternative, have absorbed little information but Hamas propaganda, and have witnessed periodic outbursts of violent conflict with Israel throughout their lives, it is impossible to know what they really think about their rulers.

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slate.com

How George W. Bush Helped Hamas Come to Power

In Bush’s naïveté about the magic of elections, he ignored a crucial point about democracy.
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Prue thought it was woke. What a miserable old thing she is.

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An intellectually bankrupt idiot with presidential fantasies, cheered on by a pack of equally clueless clowns who thought it was remotely achievable.

I went through and read some of your posts pre last US presidential election. f**k me, give yourself an uppercut. Almost as bad as some of your league insights which is why you are best served just posting on here, old mate.
 
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For the record I didn’t think the Winter Olympics opening ceremony was woke. Far from it. I only saw men and women in their traditional form.
 
King-Gutho94

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For the record I didn’t think the Winter Olympics opening ceremony was woke. Far from it. I only saw men and women in their traditional form.
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I reckon Gronky didnt even watch it or have a proper opinion on what went on.

It popped up on his lefty ChatGPT app this morning and went RWNJ lets post this get a few likes and some virture signalling.
 
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No.
Just absolutely f**king no.
Hamas may be f**kwits but that does not excuse the Israelis attempting to exterminate an entire region of innocent people.

Also there hasn’t been an election in Gaza since 2007. How can the people there be blamed for that?
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Calm down. Most people disagree with you even though you live an echo chamber that makes you think most people do agree with you. Comments like the bolded are pure stupidity. I picture you as that twit with the man bun trying to organise that rally in Sydney for today - totally unhinged.

Palestinians hate Israel to the point of wanting to eliminate them (a truly disgraceful 75% of Palestinians disgracefully supported 7 October) and they love Hamas and they voted them in and will again. That is well accepted.
 
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