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StringerBellend

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On 01/08/2020 at 10:01 AM, Midfielder said:

True just I want Trump out and have a small concern if they run a get rid of Trump campaign only...

Hard to get a clear agenda out given the chaos of COVID and Trump

Biden has been pretty clear what he wants to do but there is little media time space for anything other than COVID and Trumps madness 

Biden could probably stand out of the front out of the White House wearing only a policy agenda tied to his penis and it wouldn’t get noticed now 

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StringerBellend

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Feels like on here 

 

Dems: We'd like cops to stop killing minorities.
Reps: Dems hate police.

D's: Women should have the right to choose.
R's: Dems want to kill babies.

D's: We need reasonable immigration policies.
R's: Dems want open borders.

D's: We kneel in protest of inequality.
R's: Dems hate the flag, soldiers and America.

D's: We should wear masks to protect others.
R's: Dems want to take away your freedom.

D's: We should have background checks.
R's: Dems want to take your guns.

D's: Feds should not be policing in cities.
R's: Dems encourage rioting.

D's: People should have a living wage.
R's: Dems want to give everyone free stuff.

D's: We want religious freedom for everyone.
R's: Dems want Sharia Law.

D's: Taxes should be used for the benefit of everyone.
R's: Dems want socialism.

D's: We want people to be able to vote safely during a pandemic.
R's: Dems want to rig the election.

D's: People need more unemployment assistance.
R's: Dems blocked unemployment assistance.

D's: Listen, we just want to find ways to help people.
R's: Listen, we just want to find ways to misrepresent everything you say in order to scare people into voting for us, even though we offer zero solutions.

- Alex Schiller

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StringerBellend

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I've gone with international as he did it in France

 

https://www.theaustralian.com.au/sport/nrl/israel-folau-declines-to-kneel-in-antiracism-protest/news-story/05a125e9244934dd3b8de8e97db29813

What an absolute weapons grade prick the guy is.. 

The comments section is the best bit though

Willem
 
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Given that the Black Lives Matter organisation is Marxist to the core - check their website to see this - it is not surprising that Israel Folau refuses to kneel. He is quite right to refuse.
Mal.E
 
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Folau was right to stand - All Lives Matter
The BLM movement has been hijacked by the disciples of One World government who are trying to bring down western democracy.
 
 
Pat
 
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Well done Izzy.  Once again it shows you are your own man and will not kneel down for a Marxist organisation.
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MartinTyler

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2 hours ago, StringerBellend said:

I've gone with international as he did it in France

 

https://www.theaustralian.com.au/sport/nrl/israel-folau-declines-to-kneel-in-antiracism-protest/news-story/05a125e9244934dd3b8de8e97db29813

What an absolute weapons grade prick the guy is.. 

The comments section is the best bit though

Willem
 
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Given that the Black Lives Matter organisation is Marxist to the core - check their website to see this - it is not surprising that Israel Folau refuses to kneel. He is quite right to refuse.
Mal.E
 
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Folau was right to stand - All Lives Matter
The BLM movement has been hijacked by the disciples of One World government who are trying to bring down western democracy.
 
 
Pat
 
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Well done Izzy.  Once again it shows you are your own man and will not kneel down for a Marxist organisation.

I don't know why we care these days about what this goose does, says or thinks but then again...it is The Australian !!

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wendybr

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3 hours ago, StringerBellend said:

I've gone with the International (thread)

May as well..... it's not as though we have an Australian Current Affairs Thread to discuss local issues!

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StringerBellend

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1 hour ago, MartinTyler said:

I don't know why we care these days about what this goose does, says or thinks but then again...it is The Australian !!

Yep who cares what the One time union player and god enthusiast has to say but the comments in the Australian are brilliant, they are truely unhinged 

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StringerBellend

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https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/aug/07/german-nudist-chases-wild-boar-that-stole-laptop-berlin-teufelssee?CMP=fb_gu&utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Facebook&fbclid=IwAR1wsWfbd66ME8UgrUICtHmcWwkdInBWHddTEzSpKNwvcbhvE5QbxC_a2GE#Echobox=1596809259

In European News

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MartinTyler

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2 hours ago, StringerBellend said:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/aug/07/german-nudist-chases-wild-boar-that-stole-laptop-berlin-teufelssee?CMP=fb_gu&utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Facebook&fbclid=IwAR1wsWfbd66ME8UgrUICtHmcWwkdInBWHddTEzSpKNwvcbhvE5QbxC_a2GE#Echobox=1596809259

In European News

He was worried about his hard drive....

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marron

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I would have said the same, if the guy didn't corner the pig, and it was then discovered that the pig had made off with the man's rubbish bag and that his laptop was actually still sitting safely on his picnic rug. And then when he was walking back to his spot he had tripped over someone and been charged with sexual assault. 

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Davo

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Plus during the Democratic primaries Harris landed a few blows over racism and bussing which the Republicans could use against Biden. Kinda neutralises that if on top of being VP to America’s first black president he also has a woman of colour on his ticket.

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EmMac

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On 08/08/2020 at 9:16 PM, wendybr said:

Brilliant...

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/political-commentary/covid-19-end-of-american-era-wade-davis-1038206/

A fabulous article

From the article,

"COVID-19 didn’t lay America low; it simply revealed what had long been forsaken. As the crisis unfolded, with another American dying every minute of every day, a country that once turned out fighter planes by the hour could not manage to produce the paper masks or cotton swabs essential for tracking the disease. The nation that defeated smallpox and polio, and led the world for generations in medical innovation and discovery, was reduced to a laughing stock as a buffoon of a president advocated the use of household disinfectants as a treatment for a disease that intellectually he could not begin to understand."

Sorry its so good I have to quote it again

"The American cult of the individual denies not just community but the very idea of society. No one owes anything to anyone. All must be prepared to fight for everything: education, shelter, food, medical care. What every prosperous and successful democracy deems to be fundamental rights — universal health care, equal access to quality public education, a social safety net for the weak, elderly, and infirmed — America dismisses as socialist indulgences, as if so many signs of weakness."

Cult of the individual.....so true

 

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wendybr

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3 hours ago, EmMac said:

A fabulous article

From the article,

"COVID-19 didn’t lay America low; it simply revealed what had long been forsaken. As the crisis unfolded, with another American dying every minute of every day, a country that once turned out fighter planes by the hour could not manage to produce the paper masks or cotton swabs essential for tracking the disease. The nation that defeated smallpox and polio, and led the world for generations in medical innovation and discovery, was reduced to a laughing stock as a buffoon of a president advocated the use of household disinfectants as a treatment for a disease that intellectually he could not begin to understand."

Sorry its so good I have to quote it again

"The American cult of the individual denies not just community but the very idea of society. No one owes anything to anyone. All must be prepared to fight for everything: education, shelter, food, medical care. What every prosperous and successful democracy deems to be fundamental rights — universal health care, equal access to quality public education, a social safety net for the weak, elderly, and infirmed — America dismisses as socialist indulgences, as if so many signs of weakness."

Cult of the individual.....so true

 

Those quoted sections, especially the second,  jumped out at me too.

The idea that the "cult of the individual denies not only the community, but the idea of society" is such a threat to  human wellbeing, and must be fairly unprecedented in human history, I would think.

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mack

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It's hardly a new problem. Thatcher the evil witch believed "there is no society" in order to justify the moral emptiness of her horrendously destructive ideology of privatisation, smashing workers rights & organised labour and redistribution of wealth to the very top while slashing services & support for the lowest of citizens.

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