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You are more than welcome to counter any arguments, disagree with what people are posting. That's what this thread is about. Tell us why you think Dutton should be elected this year. Tell us the awesome things that Trump is doing. Contribute to the thread, rather than *smile*ing moaning all the time.
You totally miss the point.And before you ask what point.Plenty here have given their views re Trump/Dutton what *smile* me that opposing views are met with derision(and you are guilty of that) as if there is only one way-YOUR way. More moaning for you?
 
So I did not find it first time.Big deal.It was a simple question that once again you and your mutual admiration society needed to make smart arsed comments.Seriously getting boring.So just before I go let me get this right. Everything the ALP has done now and previous has been right. Everything that the Coalition has ever done and in the future has been wrong.Everything written in the Age is correct.Everything written in the Australian is wrong.And the Sun?????Blasphemy.Everything Trump does is wrong.Everything Biden did was right.Albo is amazing Dutton is only dangerous.Think I get it now.Zealotry at its best.

No doubt your cohort will revel in this.
You are only reading what you want to read.
There has been plenty of criticism of the ALP and Albanese in particular, but yes pretty much everything the Coalition has ever done and in the future has been wrong. There in plenty of criticism of the Age, but yes pretty much everything in the Oz is wrong, and the Hun is almost entirely rubbish.
Yes, pretty much everything Trump does is wrong, but no one has cliamed Biden was always right, and eh has received plenty of criticism.
Albanese receives a lot of criticism on here, and has received very little praise, especially in the last 12 months or so. And yes Dutton is dangerous.
 
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You are only reading what you want to read.
There has been plenty of criticism of the ALP and Albanese in particular, but yes pretty much everything the Coalition has ever done and in the future has been wrong. There in plenty of criticism of the Age, but yes pretty much everything in the Oz is wrong, and the Hun is almost entirely rubbish.
Yes, pretty much everything Trump does is wrong, but no one has cliamed Biden was always right, and eh has received plenty of criticism.
Albanese receives a lot of criticism on here, and has received very little praise, especially in the last 12 months or so. And yes Dutton is dangerous.
In your opinion.OK?
 
In your opinion.OK?
No, some things are facts.
Labor have been criticised, Albanese has been criticised. The Age has been criticised. Biden was criticised.
Facts cannot just be dismissed as opinion because they do not suit.
 
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Found the info around this Journal? Certainly fits in with the mutual admiration society. Found plenty of articles praising the ALP.Only found articles denouncing anything Coalition. No bias there.
To be fair, it's tough for any reasonable, intelligent, informed, person interested in good policy that benefits the nation to be anything but critical of the Coalition, considering they time and again show themselves to be a bunch of stupid, nasty, corrupt, incompetent, slaves to their masters Gina and Rupert. Luckily for them, so are the corporate media, so they get a charmed run in spite of how comically useless, morally bankrupt and bereft of ideas they are.
 
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To be fair, it's tough for any reasonable, intelligent, informed, person interested in good policy that benefits the nation to be anything but critical of the Coalition, considering they time and again show themselves to be a bunch of stupid, nasty, corrupt, incompetent, slaves to their masters Gina and Rupert. Luckily for them, so are the corporate media, so they get a charmed run in spite of how comically useless, morally bankrupt and bereft of ideas they are.
Now there is a balanced view.
 
No, some things are facts.
Labor have been criticised, Albanese has been criticised. The Age has been criticised. Biden was criticised.
Facts cannot just be dismissed as opinion because they do not suit.
Yes and as you say SOME things are facts.Get a balance.
 
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Now there is a balanced view.
It's the only view a reasonable, intelligent, informed, person interested in good policy that benefits the nation could possibly form about the Liberal-National Party. The evidence is overwhelming.
 
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It's the only view a reasonable, intelligent, informed, person interested in good policy that benefits the nation could possibly form about the Liberal-National Party. The evidence is overwhelming.
Got a link for that?
 
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I am so tired of people being called anti semitic for criticising Israel. It is so intellectually wrong to do so that the only conclusion is that the fear of doing it has become too great for many.

Not once ever has Dutton mentioned the suffering of the Palestinian people in Gaza or the thousands of innocent people killed in Lebanon or the continuing murder of Palestinians in the West Bank by illegal settlers. He never mentions the human beings that are suffering, ever !!

There is nothing new here.

I remember being asked whether supporting Palestine was anti-semitic on live radio back in the late 1980s.

The cynicism of the Israel lobby, which weaponises anti-semitism for their own ends, which has relentlessly promoted an equivalence between Israel and Judaism, is a deliberate ploy to attempt to associate support for Palestinian self-determination as somehow being anti-semitic.

The tide is turning, the ghettoisation of Gaza, the relentless attacks in the West Bank, these are not the actions of victims, these are the acts of perpetrators. They are more and more being seen as the acts of a regime which simply wants to ethnically cleanse the occupied territories and take them over to create Greater Israel.

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It's the only view a reasonable, intelligent, informed, person interested in good policy that benefits the nation could possibly form about the Liberal-National Party. The evidence is overwhelming.
A reasonable, intelligent, informed, person interested in good policy wouldn't vote for any of these parties. There's a dearth of quality politicians in Australia. Pay peanuts, get monkeys (no disrespect to the higher IQ monkeys).
 
If you have any data of instances of divine intervention, and the correlation with beauty, I'd be happy to consider it.

By the way, it's nice to see you agree on increasing CO2 levels and a warming planet.

Also, man did not evolve from Apes. Man is an ape, and like all Apes, evolved from an early primate ancestor.

Another thing of which we have direct evidence.

As I always tell my students though, we are yet to have a solid theory for how life arose in the first place. If that's where you want to insert a creator, go for it. I wouldn't, but you can. Also, just because life evolves doesn't mean you can't be a spiritual person and believe in a higher power who watches over you. But if you want to be an even halfway reasonable person, you have to accept evolution as a process that has and does occur.
It takes much more faith to believe in your data that says there is not divine inspiration behind everything.

Good luck with that.
 
Trump has hit the ground running.

He is changing the face of global politics and its not even one month!!

Watch the brilliant man at work!!
 
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If you have any data of instances of divine intervention, and the correlation with beauty, I'd be happy to consider it.

By the way, it's nice to see you agree on increasing CO2 levels and a warming planet.

Also, man did not evolve from Apes. Man is an ape, and like all Apes, evolved from an early primate ancestor.

Another thing of which we have direct evidence.

As I always tell my students though, we are yet to have a solid theory for how life arose in the first place. If that's where you want to insert a creator, go for it. I wouldn't, but you can. Also, just because life evolves doesn't mean you can't be a spiritual person and believe in a higher power who watches over you. But if you want to be an even halfway reasonable person, you have to accept evolution as a process that has and does occur.
Genesis 2:7 states, "Then the LORD God formed the man from the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living being." Here, "dust of the ground" is often understood as a reference to clay, emphasizing the humble and earthly origins of humanity.


Much better validation than Climate Science.
 
It's the only view a reasonable, intelligent, informed, person interested in good policy that benefits the nation could possibly form about the Liberal-National Party. The evidence is overwhelming.
In your opinion
 
Genesis 2:7 states, "Then the LORD God formed the man from the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living being." Here, "dust of the ground" is often understood as a reference to clay, emphasizing the humble and earthly origins of humanity.


Much better validation than Climate Science.

It seems a central issue of your posting that you confuse fiction with reality.

But I think we're done here. You've failed to understand or legitimately argue a point about carbon fixation, atmospheric Co2, evolution, and the general scientific method. As you've been comprehensively undone by data on each point, you've moved on to the next without any recognition of your inaccuracies. And, hiding within the last refuge of ignorance, you've started quoting the bible to discuss science. Which is the end of reasonable discussion.

You're allowed to discuss the bible. And love your God and favourite book. I love Gandalf from lord of the rings, I quote him a lot. But these things don't work as contradictions to scientific principles. You can't wade into a science discussion with religious doctrine, because doctrine is the antithesis to discovery.

It's like running onto a football field, punching a bloke in the head, then saying 'It's okay, I actually prefer boxing.'

That's great. Not here.
 
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this articulates well what most reasonable people suspect

author: Prof. Public Policy, Berkeley Cal.


the consolidation and concentration of wealth in an already obscenely disparate world.

oh, but they smashed up the non-binary urinals

drain the swamp - yay.
 
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Ok, so as you think only people with their "finger on the pulse of anything American" should be able to post about your hero, here is an article by someone who definately has.

Feel free to read it and respond with your defence of Trump's words and actions instead of weird rants - but only if you have your finger on the pulse.

For example, what do you think of the following excerpt of the article? Do you support this?

The day after Trump’s inauguration he not only fired the members of the aviation security advisory committee, created in 1989 after the terrorist bombing of Pan Am flight 103 that exploded over Lockerbie in Scotland, but also eliminated the committee entirely. It had recently proposed new regulations for airline safety.

The morning after the crash, Trump warmed to his blaming exercise, expanding his targets as he went on. He began by blaming the policy to hire disabled people as air traffic controllers, saying they suffered, among other disabilities, from “severe intellectual disability, psychiatric disability, and dwarfism”. The policy, in fact, was in effect during his previous administration.

Then he blamed “the FAA’s diversity and inclusion hiring plan”, which he falsely claimed was responsible for the hiring of disabled people. They have been hired under the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990, a signature achievement of President George HW Bush.

Trump jumped to attack the former transport secretary Pete Buttigieg as “a disaster”, throwing in an obscenity. “He’s just got a good line of *smile*,” said Trump, “and he’s run it right into the ground with his diversity. So I had to say that it’s terrible.”

Trump next turned to the “great replacement theory” as his overarching explanation. Somehow, he claimed, the presence of non-white people was the reason for the crash. “It’s a group within the FAA, another story, determined that the workforce was too white, that they had concerted efforts to get the administration to change that and to change it immediately. This was in the Obama administration just prior to my getting there.”

But, he went on, “we took care of African Americans, Hispanic Americans,” and, he said, “it’s one of the reasons I won.” But he asserted again that white people were being pushed out – “too white”. By contrast, “we want the people that are competent”. As he spoke, three of his cabinet nominees – Tulsi Gabbard, Robert F Kennedy Jr and Kash Patel – were being questioned in confirmation hearings about their glaring incompetence. And then Trump blamed Biden.
Reminds me of our current state Govt who is still blaming the last Liberal Govt for the condition of our roads.lol
I mean do they take us for fools?
 
this articulates well what most reasonable people suspect

author: Prof. Public Policy, Berkeley Cal.


the consolidation and concentration of wealth in an already obscenely disparate world.

oh, but they smashed up the non-binary urinals

drain the swamp - yay.
Textbook narcissism but on steroids.

One of the interesting points of the demands of Trump relates to the importation of fentanyl, especially related to Mexico. (I assume he may well use similar tactics related to other illegal drug importations like cocaine, meth etc.). The thing is that illegal drugs is essentially a market, it only exists because there is demand. One of the ways to reduce drug importation is to address the rampant use of certain drugs in the US.
Trump talks about it as if it is totally the responsibility of the supply side but the reality is that it is just another measure of the social decay in the US.
 
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