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Feb 28th, 2019 at 12:47pm
 

Hi sorry to appear but I needed a sounding board.

In the last few weeks I have become extremely concerned about the actions of the Australian government and its' departments. It has pushed over the edge my already significant concerns about the human race.

I am talking about the demonisation of anything Chinese. Now I understand the Chinese government are a human rights violator. I assume all governments are. However, seeing that they are a government they must make decisions and take action designed to increase public confidence in the government, in order for the government to be able to govern effectively by having the confidence of the people. So in this sense they are evil, manipulative people where humans are animals able to be easily psychologically exploited. I have no problem with that sentiment, I agree with it completely.

Now a week or two ago the Australian media was filled with outrage and concern regarding supposed electoral interference maybe from China. I am completely unaware of how this could be a problem. Why is any idea presented to the electorate an issue? Why is the electorate not allowed to decide what they approve of and what they don't? Why does it have to be illegal and outlawed if the idea does not come from Channel 10, the Age or Scott Morrison? Where has the democracy gone? Why are we experiencing such censorship and control of information we are exposed to? If the ideas are no good, the electorate will reject them. If the ideas are sound, the public will embrace them, think about things such as individual liberties and rights, and things such as segregation and inequality. The whole world stood against South Africa.

Why are Chinese ideas so illegal? If they are good we can agree, of they are bad we can disagree.

Are we living in some kind of North Korean propaganda state in Australia in 2019.

Further I do not see the moral high ground the government is able to take regarding what we are exposed to or not, acting as though they are parents to a 12 year old who doesn't let them watch late night TV.

The government have monstered us. They knew fully well that there were no WMD in Iraq and that after the Iran-Iraq war Iraq no longer had a military that was able to fight, it was not rebuilt or reequipped, it just had manpower from conscription.

They knew it was going to be a walk over, and they knew it didn't have WMD. The former intelligence officials publicly admit now they they didn't make mistakes, they intentionally lied, misled the public, appealed to our patriotic nature and sent young men off to fight to come home with major disfigurements as mental trauma. They also destroyed an entire nation and created limbless 8 year old children. They even have a special entry on collateral damage, where they acknowledge and accept there have to be civilian casualties, but that's no reason to stop bombing.

So they did all this based on lies. What was the reason? Were there ideas in the middle east that threatened the "integrity of the Australian electoral system"?

These people are monsters! Unlike us, they knew they were supporting a lie. Unlike us, they knew our youth would come back traumatised and disfigured. Unlike us, they knew they would rob little girls of acceptable appearance and therefore rob them of a life and marriage. They knew this!

These people are monsters! There is no place in heaven for people who vote for them, knowing this, if we have a loving god. There is also no place on heaven for those, knowing this, who engage in social outreach designed to increase (manipulate) public mindsets in to "maintaining government security", such as media darlings and radio hosts. They know exactly how evil this all is. They are really bad people.

Why should they decide what we are exposed to and influenced by? We vote for better lives. They vote to blow the legs off little girls because their government has an idea that threatens their dictatorship.

They would make up lies, bomb little girls, destroy nations etc, in order to prevent ideas reaching the electorate. They did this!

I am outraged. These are really really bad people.

Also what type of political issues do they want me to identify with? They want me to identify with things that threaten their power, again!

Things like WAR, FOREIGN INTERFERENCE, ANTI MINING PROTESTERS etc. Ideas that if allowed to propagate divide the "cool thinking crowd" and alter their voting habits.

But why? Why are these ideas so morally outrageous? What is wrong with these ideas when bombing little girls for preventing foreign interference is okay?

As far as I can tell, they are just really really bad people. Unbelievably bad, evil people with no chance of redemption.

I was also looking at getting involved in the political process and discovered it is a cult.

I am of the opinion that elected officials are not running the show, they are doing what is required to implement the policies of government departments, and the change of government again is so placate public discontent.

Now to get on to a government department, as a recent graduate, you need a SECURITY CLEARANCE.

You need a massive government background check for the last ten years of your life. So as a recent graduate, this would mean your close family is scrutinised for having...... "electoral interference" on you!

It is essentially a cult. Also, if you get in, you are not doing anything except following orders and implementing policy.
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Reply #1 - Feb 28th, 2019 at 2:39pm
 
Spatchcock wrote on Feb 28th, 2019 at 12:47pm:
These people are monsters! There is no place in heaven for people who vote for them


That's what I keep telling them, but it's habit they can't shake. Ill informed voters will be the death of us
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Reply #2 - Feb 28th, 2019 at 2:45pm
 
Bias_2012 wrote on Feb 28th, 2019 at 2:39pm:
Spatchcock wrote on Feb 28th, 2019 at 12:47pm:
These people are monsters! There is no place in heaven for people who vote for them


That's what I keep telling them, but it's habit they can't shake. Ill informed voters will be the death of us


Seriously, think about it.

Defending the deployment of troops to kill and maim over contrary ideas.

Your idea is worth killing children over? Your idea is worth leaving entire regions on earth traumatised and fearful?

These types of ideas must be in the futherance of unimaginable evil, if its okay to kill those who question your regime.

But you can speak out in favor of that regime, knowing all of this?

You would have to be an unimaginably evil person.

And now they're on the same brain wave talking about Russia on facebook and China interfering with the election.

Why can't the people decide what is right? Why do those who knowingly lie, knowing their lies are going to lead to death and destruction and lasting intergenerational trauma, get the final say in what is morally sound and just? How can they say any idea is wrong if they can have no problem ordering the death of civilians as collateral damage because their president had views others could access?

These people are EVIL beyond belief!

How can anyone not see how bad these people are?

They don't want progress. They only let you work in government if you have a security clearance. And once in government you do not think and make change, you do as the cult leader demands. The only time anything changes is to ensure the public has confidence in the government, to stifle dissent. This is not progress, this is maintaining the regime!

What about the police and military? They have to tow the party line! They have security clearances! They police political protesters!

These are really bad people. They are against new ideas, democracy and participation by the citizens in the political process.

But they are in favor of dead children in lands with divergent ideas. They are also in favor of maintaining that mindset to this day to talk up the Russian facebook threat and the Chinese idea threat!

We are not trusted, because we are not prepared to kill babies to stop them growing up and one day having ideas the government doesn't agree with.

This is the world we live in.
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Reply #3 - Feb 28th, 2019 at 3:08pm
 
[quote author=Spatchcock link=1551322059/0#0 date=1551322059]
Hi sorry to appear but I needed a sounding board.

In the last few weeks I have become extremely concerned about the actions of the Australian government and its' departments. It has pushed over the edge my already significant concerns about the human race.

I am talking about the demonisation of anything Chinese. Now I understand the Chinese government are a human rights violator. I assume all governments are. However, seeing that they are a government they must make decisions and take action designed to increase public confidence in the government, in order for the government to be able to govern effectively by having the confidence of the people. So in this sense they are evil, manipulative people where humans are animals able to be easily psychologically exploited. I have no problem with that sentiment, I agree with it completely.

Now a week or two ago the Australian media was filled with outrage and concern regarding supposed electoral interference maybe from China. I am completely unaware of how this could be a problem. Why is any idea presented to the electorate an issue? Why is the electorate not allowed to decide what they approve of and what they don't? Why does it have to be illegal and outlawed if the idea does not come from Channel 10, the Age or Scott Morrison? Where has the democracy gone? Why are we experiencing such censorship and control of information we are exposed to? If the ideas are no good, the electorate will reject them. If the ideas are sound, the public will embrace them, think about things such as individual liberties and rights, and things such as segregation and inequality. The whole world stood against South Africa.

Why are Chinese ideas so illegal? If they are good we can agree, of they are bad we can disagree.

Are we living in some kind of North Korean propaganda state in Australia in 2019.

Further I do not see the moral high ground the government is able to take regarding what we are exposed to or not, acting as though they are parents to a 12 year old who doesn't let them watch late night TV.

The government have monstered us. They knew fully well that there were no WMD in Iraq and that after the Iran-Iraq war Iraq no longer had a military that was able to fight, it was not rebuilt or reequipped, it just had manpower from conscription.

They knew it was going to be a walk over, and they knew it didn't have WMD. The former intelligence officials publicly admit now they they didn't make mistakes, they intentionally lied, misled the public, appealed to our patriotic nature and sent young men off to fight to come home with major disfigurements as mental trauma. They also destroyed an entire nation and created limbless 8 year old children. They even have a special entry on collateral damage, where they acknowledge and accept there have to be civilian casualties, but that's no reason to stop bombing.

So they did all this based on lies. What was the reason? Were there ideas in the middle east that threatened the "integrity of the Australian electoral system"?

These people are monsters! Unlike us, they knew they were supporting a lie. Unlike us, they knew our youth would come back traumatised and disfigured. Unlike us, they knew they would rob little girls of acceptable appearance and therefore rob them of a life and marriage. They knew this!

These people are monsters! There is no place in heaven for people who vote for them, knowing this, if we have a loving god. There is also no place on heaven for those, knowing this, who engage in social outreach designed to increase (manipulate) public mindsets in to "maintaining government security", such as media darlings and radio hosts. They know exactly how evil this all is. They are really bad people.

Why should they decide what we are exposed to and influenced by? We vote for better lives. They vote to blow the legs off little girls because their government has an idea that threatens their dictatorship.

They would make up lies, bomb little girls, destroy nations etc, in order to prevent ideas reaching the electorate. They did this!

I am outraged. These are really really bad people.

Also what type of political issues do they want me to identify with? They want me to identify with things that threaten their power, again!

Things like WAR, FOREIGN INTERFERENCE, ANTI MINING PROTESTERS etc. Ideas that if allowed to propagate divide the "cool thinking crowd" and alter their voting habits.

But why? Why are these ideas so morally outrageous? What is wrong with these ideas when bombing little girls for preventing foreign interference is okay?

As far as I can tell, they are just really really bad people. Unbelievably bad, evil people with no chance of redemption.

I was also looking at getting involved in the political process and discovered it is a cult.

I am of the opinion that elected officials are not running the show, they are doing what is required to implement the policies of government departments, and the change of government again is so placate public discontent.

Now to get on to a government department, as a recent graduate, you need a SECURITY CLEARANCE.

You need a massive government background check for the last ten years of your life. So as a recent graduate, this would mean your close family is scrutinised for having...... "electoral interference" on you!

It is essentially a cult. Also, if you get in, you are
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AIMLESS EXTENTION OF KNOWLEDGE HOWEVER, WHICH IS WHAT I THINK YOU REALLY MEAN BY THE TERM 'CURIOSITY', IS MERELY INEFFICIENCY. I AM DESIGNED TO AVOID INEFFICIENCY.
 
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Reply #4 - Feb 28th, 2019 at 3:09pm
 
I've highlighted the important bit.

The Chinese are not capable of their own 'ideas' they are of a low gene pool variation (despite 'numbers') and have gained the reputation of COPYING everyone else, etc, etc.

So - yes, the Demonisation of Chinese 'ideas' is justified.
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Reply #5 - Feb 28th, 2019 at 3:10pm
 
Btw... Citi-Zen

The Zen of little yellow people who can only breed in Cities.

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Minions anyone? Huh
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Reply #6 - Feb 28th, 2019 at 3:11pm
 
What's your solution?

My solution is to advise Lib and Lab voters to stop voting for the ALP and the Coalition - but they are reluctant to stop, which means a little girl with her legs blown off is neither here nor there to them. And our forces are still there carrying on bombing. As well as that they letting the "enemy" into Australia to kill people in the streets

So how do you convince voters to vote for anyone else other than the ALP and the Coalition?
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Reply #7 - Feb 28th, 2019 at 3:32pm
 
Jasin wrote on Feb 28th, 2019 at 3:09pm:
I've highlighted the important bit.

The Chinese are not capable of their own 'ideas' they are of a low gene pool variation (despite 'numbers') and have gained the reputation of COPYING everyone else, etc, etc.

So - yes, the Demonisation of Chinese 'ideas' is justified.


I agree the communist party publicises ideas that will get them support and are not working in the interests of the greater good.

However, by appealing to us, they will have to bring good ideas.

What does it matter where a good idea comes from if it is a good idea? Why does an idea have to be bad of it is from the opposition? Why is there an imposed level of hatred?

For example Australia "owned" the south pacific and never developed it.

China is now investing in it and developing it.

Why is this so bad? Because it causes the government to lose influence and therefore power in the south pacific? Why is this about power and not about living standards and the advancement of the human race?
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Reply #8 - Feb 28th, 2019 at 3:33pm
 
Bias_2012 wrote on Feb 28th, 2019 at 3:11pm:
What's your solution?

My solution is to advise Lib and Lab voters to stop voting for the ALP and the Coalition - but they are reluctant to stop, which means a little girl with her legs blown off is neither here nor there to them. And our forces are still there carrying on bombing. As well as that they letting the "enemy" into Australia to kill people in the streets

So how do you convince voters to vote for anyone else other than the ALP and the Coalition?


Why can't the security vetting agencies be subject to a Royal Commission in order to prevent the systemic maintenance of a cult that cares not for anything but power, to the extent they will willingly lie and kill to maintain influence?

You are only getting a security clearance if you enact or enforce or implement government policy, not if you question it.

You are not getting one if you think lying to kill children and destroy nations because their leader has contrary ideas is the wrong thing to do.

This should be subject to a Royal Commission.

These are horrendously evil people.
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Reply #9 - Feb 28th, 2019 at 3:43pm
 
Just quickly google about whistle blowers.

You will see police and government whistle-blowers are told things like their safety can no longer be guaranteed. They are put in desk jobs and a "toxic" culture develops around them. They are told they can no longer maintain employment or favourable conditions because they could appear to promote dissent, and also attract it.

So here you have proof of internal government policies designed to suppress ideas and demonstrate independent thinking is not welcome.

The government security vetting agency withdraws security clearances for those who speak out.

For example, saying things about Chinese development in the pacific in a nice way is;

1. Against government policy

2. In favour of foreign government ideas.

So you could, under the framework, be labelled a Chinese spy! Because you spoke about human development index, you are a threat to the government! Under the framework they could say you were advancing the goals of the Chinese government, interfering with the electoral system and doing an act of foreign interference.

This is TRUE. This is publicly shown to be how they act. Your concern was living standards.

It is also true they admitted to intentionally lying about Iraq knowing full well about collateral damage.

This is what the government is like. This is a cult.
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Reply #10 - Feb 28th, 2019 at 3:45pm
 
Spatchcock wrote on Feb 28th, 2019 at 3:32pm:
Jasin wrote on Feb 28th, 2019 at 3:09pm:
I've highlighted the important bit.

The Chinese are not capable of their own 'ideas' they are of a low gene pool variation (despite 'numbers') and have gained the reputation of COPYING everyone else, etc, etc.

So - yes, the Demonisation of Chinese 'ideas' is justified.


I agree the communist party publicises ideas that will get them support and are not working in the interests of the greater good.

However, by appealing to us, they will have to bring good ideas.

What does it matter where a good idea comes from if it is a good idea? Why does an idea have to be bad of it is from the opposition? Why is there an imposed level of hatred?

For example Australia "owned" the south pacific and never developed it.

China is now investing in it and developing it.

Why is this so bad? Because it causes the government to lose influence and therefore power in the south pacific? Why is this about power and not about living standards and the advancement of the human race?


More like the South Pacific (Oceania) and its MEDIA owned Australia  Wink
A Media that is 'bias' towards Asia, Africa & Europe and has betrayed Namerica, Sahul (Australia) and Samerica.
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Reply #11 - Feb 28th, 2019 at 3:48pm
 
Jasin wrote on Feb 28th, 2019 at 3:45pm:
Spatchcock wrote on Feb 28th, 2019 at 3:32pm:
Jasin wrote on Feb 28th, 2019 at 3:09pm:
I've highlighted the important bit.

The Chinese are not capable of their own 'ideas' they are of a low gene pool variation (despite 'numbers') and have gained the reputation of COPYING everyone else, etc, etc.

So - yes, the Demonisation of Chinese 'ideas' is justified.


I agree the communist party publicises ideas that will get them support and are not working in the interests of the greater good.

However, by appealing to us, they will have to bring good ideas.

What does it matter where a good idea comes from if it is a good idea? Why does an idea have to be bad of it is from the opposition? Why is there an imposed level of hatred?

For example Australia "owned" the south pacific and never developed it.

China is now investing in it and developing it.

Why is this so bad? Because it causes the government to lose influence and therefore power in the south pacific? Why is this about power and not about living standards and the advancement of the human race?


More like the South Pacific (Oceania) and its MEDIA owned Australia  Wink
A Media that is 'bias' towards Asia, Africa & Europe and has betrayed Namerica, Sahul (Australia) and Samerica.


The Australian government essentially funded and controlled all media in South Pacific nations by their own admissions and disclosures.

Yet they are opposed to foreign media and ideas in Australia and call it a national security issue.

Ideas are a threat to the dead baby count in Iraq.

I'm telling you they are extremely evil people.
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Reply #12 - Feb 28th, 2019 at 3:49pm
 
China has based it reputation on NOT having original ideas of its own.
To suddenly turn around and try to be 'somebody else' will not immediately work.
China has to 'earn the right' to break that stereotype and prove itself.
Until then - all demonisation is justified and for cautious and safety reasons, well endorsed.  Wink
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Reply #13 - Feb 28th, 2019 at 3:52pm
 
Spatchcock wrote on Feb 28th, 2019 at 3:48pm:
Jasin wrote on Feb 28th, 2019 at 3:45pm:
Spatchcock wrote on Feb 28th, 2019 at 3:32pm:
Jasin wrote on Feb 28th, 2019 at 3:09pm:
I've highlighted the important bit.

The Chinese are not capable of their own 'ideas' they are of a low gene pool variation (despite 'numbers') and have gained the reputation of COPYING everyone else, etc, etc.

So - yes, the Demonisation of Chinese 'ideas' is justified.


I agree the communist party publicises ideas that will get them support and are not working in the interests of the greater good.

However, by appealing to us, they will have to bring good ideas.

What does it matter where a good idea comes from if it is a good idea? Why does an idea have to be bad of it is from the opposition? Why is there an imposed level of hatred?

For example Australia "owned" the south pacific and never developed it.

China is now investing in it and developing it.

Why is this so bad? Because it causes the government to lose influence and therefore power in the south pacific? Why is this about power and not about living standards and the advancement of the human race?


More like the South Pacific (Oceania) and its MEDIA owned Australia  Wink
A Media that is 'bias' towards Asia, Africa & Europe and has betrayed Namerica, Sahul (Australia) and Samerica.


The Australian government essentially funded and controlled all media in South Pacific nations.


No. The Media has ruled both USA & Aust Politics for so long that someone like Trump - who doesn't 'serve' the Media (like the People's Pope John Paul 2nd - who turned a blind eye to all the spiders in the Vatican, like the People's Princess Diana who gold-digged for the Spencer Family, like the People's President Obama who held hands with his wife, but couldn't shake hands with other nations in the name of peace..., etc) are now showing us the Media's INFLUENCE in the past.

The Media ruled Australian Politics and still does in a way.
Christopher Pyne said "It's all just one big show for the cameras".  Roll Eyes
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Reply #14 - Feb 28th, 2019 at 3:52pm
 
AngryJasin wrote on Feb 28th, 2019 at 3:49pm:
China has based it reputation on NOT having original ideas of its own.
To suddenly turn around and try to be 'somebody else' will not immediately work.
China has to 'earn the right' to break that stereotype and prove itself.
Until then - all demonisation is justified and for cautious and safety reasons, well endorsed.  Wink


Development of the pacific is not bad.

It is a threat to Australian influence, so the government says it is bad.

It is bad because it is a threat to the power and reach of the Australian government. In essence, pacific development is a good thing.

There is nothing bad about it at all.

This is the world we live in.

I can't believe things like this are happening. It needs to stop. These people should be in prison. They are REALLY REALLY bad.
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Reply #15 - Feb 28th, 2019 at 3:54pm
 
Jasin wrote on Feb 28th, 2019 at 3:52pm:
Spatchcock wrote on Feb 28th, 2019 at 3:48pm:
Jasin wrote on Feb 28th, 2019 at 3:45pm:
Spatchcock wrote on Feb 28th, 2019 at 3:32pm:
Jasin wrote on Feb 28th, 2019 at 3:09pm:
I've highlighted the important bit.

The Chinese are not capable of their own 'ideas' they are of a low gene pool variation (despite 'numbers') and have gained the reputation of COPYING everyone else, etc, etc.

So - yes, the Demonisation of Chinese 'ideas' is justified.


I agree the communist party publicises ideas that will get them support and are not working in the interests of the greater good.

However, by appealing to us, they will have to bring good ideas.

What does it matter where a good idea comes from if it is a good idea? Why does an idea have to be bad of it is from the opposition? Why is there an imposed level of hatred?

For example Australia "owned" the south pacific and never developed it.

China is now investing in it and developing it.

Why is this so bad? Because it causes the government to lose influence and therefore power in the south pacific? Why is this about power and not about living standards and the advancement of the human race?


More like the South Pacific (Oceania) and its MEDIA owned Australia  Wink
A Media that is 'bias' towards Asia, Africa & Europe and has betrayed Namerica, Sahul (Australia) and Samerica.


The Australian government essentially funded and controlled all media in South Pacific nations.


No. The Media has ruled both USA & Aust Politics for so long that someone like Trump - who doesn't 'serve' the Media (like the People's Pope John Paul 2nd - who turned a blind eye to all the spiders in the Vatican, like the People's Princess Diana who gold-digged for the Spencer Family, like the People's President Obama who held hands with his wife, but couldn't shake hands with other nations in the name of peace..., etc) are now showing us the Media's INFLUENCE in the past.

The Media ruled Australian Politics and still does in a way.
Christopher Pyne said "It's all just one big show for the cameras".  Roll Eyes


If the media rules politics, then the media has infiltrated and taken over the government. Alternatively, the government has infiltrated and taken over the media.

In this context, any actions of an elected official endorsed by a major party is working in tandem with the compromised media you allude to.

This comes back to the idea that we are animals who need to be psychologically manipulated and ideas are dangerous.
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Close.

Australian and USA Politics or 'Western' Politics has more or less been 'hijacked' for so long by Northern European and Southern European 'styles' which the Media shines for.

Now we are seeing 'true' Western style Politics coming through and especially with the 'Lightning Rod' of Trump.

I'm sorry, but when it comes to Blue Brunette 'Spin Doctor' Politics and Grey Raven-haired 'Car Salesman' Politics - they are both the North/South (USA Civil War) Politics of the Past and not true 'Western' of the 'Future'.

It's complicated, but the 'new' team are coming through and they are going to fix the damage that was done.
But that's NEW WORLDS for you  Wink
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Reply #17 - Feb 28th, 2019 at 4:08pm
 
Jasin wrote on Feb 28th, 2019 at 3:58pm:
Close.

Australian and USA Politics or 'Western' Politics has more or less been 'hijacked' for so long by Northern European and Southern European 'styles' which the Media shines for.

Now we are seeing 'true' Western style Politics coming through and especially with the 'Lightning Rod' of Trump.

I'm sorry, but when it comes to Blue Brunette 'Spin Doctor' Politics and Grey Raven-haired 'Car Salesman' Politics - they are both the North/South (USA Civil War) Politics of the Past and not true 'Western' of the 'Future'.

It's complicated, but the 'new' team are coming through and they are going to fix the damage that was done.
But that's NEW WORLDS for you  Wink


I don't see what you are talking about.

If we go back to the idea that government announcements are about maintaining the confidence of the public to govern, and therefore the government has the interests of the government at heart, it is hard to see how western politics are European.

America celebrates very strongly and patriotically the revolutionary war. America also sees European liberalism as a threat to their way of life. This is ingrained in their electoral consciousness.

In fact, much of Europe was against Iraq. The few that supported the invasion included recent leavers of the USSR, using the blood of their youth to prove their political reliability.

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Spatchcock wrote on Feb 28th, 2019 at 4:08pm:
Jasin wrote on Feb 28th, 2019 at 3:58pm:
Close.

Australian and USA Politics or 'Western' Politics has more or less been 'hijacked' for so long by Northern European and Southern European 'styles' which the Media shines for.

Now we are seeing 'true' Western style Politics coming through and especially with the 'Lightning Rod' of Trump.

I'm sorry, but when it comes to Blue Brunette 'Spin Doctor' Politics and Grey Raven-haired 'Car Salesman' Politics - they are both the North/South (USA Civil War) Politics of the Past and not true 'Western' of the 'Future'.

It's complicated, but the 'new' team are coming through and they are going to fix the damage that was done.
But that's NEW WORLDS for you  Wink


I don't see what you are talking about.

If we go back to the idea that government announcements are about maintaining the confidence of the public to govern, and therefore the government has the interests of the government at heart, it is hard to see how western politics are European.

America celebrates very strongly and patriotically the revolutionary war. America also sees European liberalism as a threat to their way of life. This is ingrained in their electoral consciousness.

In fact, much of Europe was against Iraq. The few that supported the invasion included recent leavers of the USSR, using the blood of their youth to prove their political reliability.



Not many do.
But I admit my stuff is 'new'.
It's complicated.
I have to be somewhere now (Radio Station).
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Reply #19 - Feb 28th, 2019 at 4:15pm
 
Jasin wrote on Feb 28th, 2019 at 4:10pm:
Spatchcock wrote on Feb 28th, 2019 at 4:08pm:
Jasin wrote on Feb 28th, 2019 at 3:58pm:
Close.

Australian and USA Politics or 'Western' Politics has more or less been 'hijacked' for so long by Northern European and Southern European 'styles' which the Media shines for.

Now we are seeing 'true' Western style Politics coming through and especially with the 'Lightning Rod' of Trump.

I'm sorry, but when it comes to Blue Brunette 'Spin Doctor' Politics and Grey Raven-haired 'Car Salesman' Politics - they are both the North/South (USA Civil War) Politics of the Past and not true 'Western' of the 'Future'.

It's complicated, but the 'new' team are coming through and they are going to fix the damage that was done.
But that's NEW WORLDS for you  Wink


I don't see what you are talking about.

If we go back to the idea that government announcements are about maintaining the confidence of the public to govern, and therefore the government has the interests of the government at heart, it is hard to see how western politics are European.

America celebrates very strongly and patriotically the revolutionary war. America also sees European liberalism as a threat to their way of life. This is ingrained in their electoral consciousness.

In fact, much of Europe was against Iraq. The few that supported the invasion included recent leavers of the USSR, using the blood of their youth to prove their political reliability.



Not many do.
But I admit my stuff is 'new'.
It's complicated.
I have to be somewhere now (Radio Station).
Maybe another time.


I don't see how your assertion is true. Americans and the American electorate are very closed to ideas from Europe. It is called socialism and labelled a national security threat, or un American by commentators. It is not politically mainstream to have European political views.

Just quickly: revolution against England.

Fought a whole bunch of countries in WW2 including Germany and Italy. Spain were fascists with Hitler and France was team surrender and ungrateful.

Culturally they are not receptive to European political norms.
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That is absolute crap, so I am putting you in the looney bin.


That is absolute truth. Just because your reasoning does not match reality does not make your statements accurate.

Back up your claim. You can't. I can.
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Spatchcock wrote on Feb 28th, 2019 at 5:36pm:
Aussie wrote on Feb 28th, 2019 at 5:32pm:
Spatchcock:

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You are only getting a security clearance if you enact or enforce or implement government policy, not if you question it.


That is absolute crap, so I am putting you in the looney bin.


That is absolute truth. Just because your reasoning does not match reality does not make your statements accurate.

Back up your claim. You can't. I can.

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Spatchcock wrote on Feb 28th, 2019 at 5:36pm:
Aussie wrote on Feb 28th, 2019 at 5:32pm:
Spatchcock:

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You are only getting a security clearance if you enact or enforce or implement government policy, not if you question it.


That is absolute crap, so I am putting you in the looney bin.


That is absolute truth. Just because your reasoning does not match reality does not make your statements accurate.

Back up your claim. You can't. I can.


Are you familiar with the term insubordination?

Do it in the work place and you are not a team player.

Do it in government and you are a security risk.

Your orders are to implement government policy. Intentional failure to do so and to pursue an alternative agenda for your own gain or belief is insubordination, or mutiny, or security issue. You will lose it faster than you envision. One snap of the fingers and you are put under review and your access to information becomes restricted.

That's how it works. There is an entire agency dedicated to this. It is called the Australian Government Security Vetting Agency.
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Aussie wrote on Feb 28th, 2019 at 5:37pm:
Spatchcock wrote on Feb 28th, 2019 at 5:36pm:
Aussie wrote on Feb 28th, 2019 at 5:32pm:
Spatchcock:

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You are only getting a security clearance if you enact or enforce or implement government policy, not if you question it.


That is absolute crap, so I am putting you in the looney bin.


That is absolute truth. Just because your reasoning does not match reality does not make your statements accurate.

Back up your claim. You can't. I can.

Okay, go right ahead.


I just did. You saying otherwise is you saying otherwise and much like your first post to me, unsubstantiated and comprising personal attacks.
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I called that crap.  You said you could back it up.....so...get on with it.  Back it up.
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ShockedAussie wrote on Feb 28th, 2019 at 5:37pm:
Spatchcock wrote on Feb 28th, 2019 at 5:36pm:
Aussie wrote on Feb 28th, 2019 at 5:32pm:
Spatchcock:

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You are only getting a security clearance if you enact or enforce or implement government policy, not if you question it.


That is absolute crap, so I am putting you in the looney bin.


That is absolute truth. Just because your reasoning does not match reality does not make your statements accurate.

Back up your claim. You can't. I can.

Okay, go right ahead.


Another way to PROVE that you have no knowledge or understanding on the topic is that you are not representing the government. You are not capable or allowed to comment on security vetting procedures at all. You have no legitimate claim to knowing or understanding any procedures.

It would be extremely illegal to claim to have this knowledge and to then try and present it with authority. You would not be persued or prosecuted but you would be marked as misrepresenting or masquerading as having government authority or represebtation that you do not have, which would negatively affect your ability to gain a security clearance in the future as you act as though you have extremely serious high-level knowledge and the authority to use that with the authority to launch a personal attack on me.

So regardless of the fact you are way out of your depth, you are pretending to be something you are not in order to pretend on one you're a government insider, or alternatively cosy up to the government for some emotional want or need.

Those are also all facts.
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Aussie, you have absolutely no knowledge or understanding of the subject, that is undeniable. In fact the little bit you chose to go after proves that you are wanting to appear to be some kind of government insider, which you are not.

Of course you can demand I prove you are way out of depth, but all that would do is indicate your emotional need to pretend to be something you're not to this forum via mysterious innuendo.
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Out of my depth, hey?

Smiley

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I called that crap.  You said you could back it up.....so...get on with it.  Back it up.

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Spatchcock wrote on Feb 28th, 2019 at 5:46pm:
You are not capable or allowed to comment on security vetting procedures at all.




what a load of crap.

I think you're confusing your government in China, with the Australian government. Cheesy Cheesy
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Out of my depth, hey?

Smiley

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I called that crap.  You said you could back it up.....so...get on with it.  Back it up.



I just did back it up. It is not possible for you to comment on this topic with any degree of authority. You have absolutely no knowledge of this topic. You are guessing and asserting your forum dominance over me.
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John Smith wrote on Feb 28th, 2019 at 5:52pm:
Spatchcock wrote on Feb 28th, 2019 at 5:46pm:
You are not capable or allowed to comment on security vetting procedures at all.




what a load of crap.

I think you're confusing your government in China, with the Australian government. Cheesy Cheesy


Looks like:

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I am not going to go after the argument I am going to go after something that can be addressed with conjecture. I am going to align myself with Aussie and label you a fruitloop because you are in support of human development and don't want to see dead babies. I am probably in massive trouble when I die and meet the man upstairs. After all I am consciously trying to reduce your argument to rubble by ignoring it, using unrelated conjecture and teaming up to assault your personal integrity and credibility. Yep, probably really seriously in trouble. I'm defending the indefensible.

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I called that crap.  You said you could back it up.....so...get on with it.  Back it up.
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Let's say you work at DFAT and not the local council.

Your job is to implement Australian government foreign policy. If you discuss in the lunch break anything that questions government policy or its' implementation, you are subverting the government. You are an insider threat. If your ideas align with a foreign government, even an allied one, you will have been "cultivated by a foreign power" and a risk of future insubordination.

You will come under internal investigation. You will be fired. You will lose your security clearance.
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I called that crap.  You said you could back it up.....so...get on with it.  Back it up.


I did. Three different ways now.

You have no ability to call it crap. You have absolutely no understanding of this topic. You are way out of your depth. If you try again I'll start calling you General because that's how laughable your attempts at conveying government authority online towards me are.
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It seems to me your are accurately describing muzzos, not Chinese.

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Defending the deployment of troops to kill and maim over contrary ideas.

Your idea is worth killing children over? Your idea is worth leaving entire regions on earth traumatised and fearful?

These types of ideas must be in the futherance of unimaginable evil, if its okay to kill those who question your regime.

But you can speak out in favor of that regime, knowing all of this?

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It seems to me your are accurately describing muzzos, not Chinese.

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Defending the deployment of troops to kill and maim over contrary ideas.

Your idea is worth killing children over? Your idea is worth leaving entire regions on earth traumatised and fearful?

These types of ideas must be in the futherance of unimaginable evil, if its okay to kill those who question your regime.

But you can speak out in favor of that regime, knowing all of this?

You would have to be an unimaginably evil person.   


Evil is evil. Just because you are against ISIS doesn't mean you have to support Hezbollah. They are in open conflict with each other.

China can be evil, Australia can be evil. Evil can be in conflict with itself.
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On the subject of citizens or subjects

Scratch both

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Spatchcock wrote on Feb 28th, 2019 at 6:07pm:
Let's say you work at DFAT and not the local council.

Your job is to implement Australian government foreign policy. If you discuss in the lunch break anything that questions government policy or its' implementation, you are subverting the government. You are an insider threat. If your ideas align with a foreign government, even an allied one, you will have been "cultivated by a foreign power" and a risk of future insubordination.

You will come under internal investigation. You will be fired. You will lose your security clearance.



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It is exactly the same as the most outrageous cult ever, with questioning the leader likely to have you imprisoned and child sacrifice thrown in for good measure, not to forget a willingness to die for the cause and swap your right arm for a shiny piece of metal called a medal.
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Spatchcock wrote on Feb 28th, 2019 at 5:40pm:
Aussie wrote on Feb 28th, 2019 at 5:37pm:
Spatchcock wrote on Feb 28th, 2019 at 5:36pm:
Aussie wrote on Feb 28th, 2019 at 5:32pm:
Spatchcock:

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You are only getting a security clearance if you enact or enforce or implement government policy, not if you question it.


That is absolute crap, so I am putting you in the looney bin.


That is absolute truth. Just because your reasoning does not match reality does not make your statements accurate.

Back up your claim. You can't. I can.

Okay, go right ahead.


I just did. You saying otherwise is you saying otherwise and much like your first post to me, unsubstantiated and comprising personal attacks.


I'm still at work.
But I enjoyed your discussion a lot Spatchlock. Very well thought out. Look forward to getting back to it when I have more time.
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All you are doing is speculating, hypothesising...all show and no pony.

What do you expect of AGSVA?  That they hand possible traitors security passes?
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Jasin wrote on Feb 28th, 2019 at 6:28pm:
Very well thought out.



what part is well thought out? Shocked Shocked Shocked

Sounds like another loony 'conspiracy theorist' type who thinks the govt. is out to get them.

I guess thats why you seem to like it though, right Jasin? You're two peas crackpots in a pod
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All you are doing is speculating, hypothesising...all show and no pony.

What do you expect of AGSVA?  That they hand possible traitors security passes?


AGSVA, 2004:

DO NOT assess favourably anyone who has a family or social history of any type of anti Iraq War activity or sympathies.

Read as:

Does not support dead babies. Is a threat to the direction of the government.
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Aussie wrote on Feb 28th, 2019 at 6:29pm:
All you are doing is speculating, hypothesising...all show and no pony.

What do you expect of AGSVA?  That they hand possible traitors security passes?


AGSVA, 2004:

DO NOT assess favourably anyone who has a family or social history of any type of anti Iraq War activity or sympathies.

Read as:

Does not support dead babies. Is a threat to the direction of the government.


Link?
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John Smith wrote on Feb 28th, 2019 at 6:33pm:
Jasin wrote on Feb 28th, 2019 at 6:28pm:
Very well thought out.



what part is well thought out? Shocked Shocked Shocked

Sounds like another loony 'conspiracy theorist' type who thinks the govt. is out to get them.

I guess thats why you seem to like it though, right Jasin? You're two peas crackpots in a pod


No it doesn't. Again you have not addressed a single point. You have decided to use associations with attached stereotypes to induce a preconceived lens for a tone encountering this thread.

This is very serious stuff you are supporting here. The government has admitted they lied. There are little girls with disfigured faces and missing limbs who will never get married because of this.

These same people are now telling us access to information is a threat to government security and the electoral process. The same people who decide if you oppose dead babies you are not suitable for government.

It is very serious stuff.

And then you die and go someplace else.
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Spatchcock wrote on Feb 28th, 2019 at 6:44pm:
John Smith wrote on Feb 28th, 2019 at 6:33pm:
Jasin wrote on Feb 28th, 2019 at 6:28pm:
Very well thought out.



what part is well thought out? Shocked Shocked Shocked

Sounds like another loony 'conspiracy theorist' type who thinks the govt. is out to get them.

I guess thats why you seem to like it though, right Jasin? You're two peas crackpots in a pod


No it doesn't. Again you have not addressed a single point. You have decided to use associations with attached stereotypes to induce a preconceived lens for a tone encountering this thread.

This is very serious stuff you are supporting here. The government has admitted they lied. There are little girls with disfigured faces and missing limbs who will never get married because of this.

These same people are now telling us access to information is a threat to government security and the electoral process. The same people who decide if you oppose dead babies you are not suitable for government.

It is very serious stuff.

And then you die and go someplace else.


Gawd....so now in a leap only Superman could make, we go from Shiner to the ME.

Mate, you truly are a typical www looney far quit.  But do carry on.

Have a look down the Opening/Front page of the Forum.  You will see a Sub-Forum called Fringe.  Take your garbage there and stay out of the main sections here....is my humble suggestion.
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Again you have not addressed a single point.



they're not 'points', they're the ravings of a mad man.
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Aussie wrote on Feb 28th, 2019 at 6:41pm:
Spatchcock wrote on Feb 28th, 2019 at 6:41pm:
Aussie wrote on Feb 28th, 2019 at 6:29pm:
All you are doing is speculating, hypothesising...all show and no pony.

What do you expect of AGSVA?  That they hand possible traitors security passes?


AGSVA, 2004:

DO NOT assess favourably anyone who has a family or social history of any type of anti Iraq War activity or sympathies.

Read as:

Does not support dead babies. Is a threat to the direction of the government.


Link?


The only way you will get in to government with a history of this type of activity is of you were working as a clandestine social engineer, such as a former army officer making such public statements in order to increase or gain the trust of the general public.

Anything else is independent thinking or subverting government policy, which is not allowed.
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Spatchcock wrote on Feb 28th, 2019 at 6:44pm:
Again you have not addressed a single point.



they're not 'points', they're the ravings of a mad man.


Again, life is short and my whole argument is, dead babies is not good.

Your rebuttal is, you're crazy.

You will try and attach social stigma to me and my argument to defend unbelievable evil.

You are a very sick man. You are a very bad person.
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Gawd....so now in a leap only Superman could make, we go from Shiner to the ME.

Mate, you truly are a typical  looney far quit.  But do carry on.

Have a look down the Opening/Front page of the Forum.  You will see a Sub-Forum called Take your garbage there and stay out of the main sections here....is my humble suggestion.



You're not addressing a single argument. You're pretending to have government t insider knowledge and you are essentially defending civilian casualties as a good thing.

Can you see that there is something extremely seriously wrong with you psychologically and spiritually?
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Reply #51 - Feb 28th, 2019 at 6:55pm
 
Spatchcock wrote on Feb 28th, 2019 at 6:51pm:
Your rebuttal is, you're crazy.



it's not a rebuttal, it's a fact

Spatchcock wrote on Feb 28th, 2019 at 6:51pm:
You will try and attach social stigma to me and my argument to defend unbelievable evil.


nope, you did that pretty much on your own

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Reply #52 - Feb 28th, 2019 at 6:57pm
 
Spatchcock wrote on Feb 28th, 2019 at 6:49pm:
Aussie wrote on Feb 28th, 2019 at 6:41pm:
Spatchcock wrote on Feb 28th, 2019 at 6:41pm:
Aussie wrote on Feb 28th, 2019 at 6:29pm:
All you are doing is speculating, hypothesising...all show and no pony.

What do you expect of AGSVA?  That they hand possible traitors security passes?


AGSVA, 2004:

DO NOT assess favourably anyone who has a family or social history of any type of anti Iraq War activity or sympathies.

Read as:

Does not support dead babies. Is a threat to the direction of the government.


Link?


The only way you will get in to government with a history of this type of activity is of you were working as a clandestine social engineer, such as a former army officer making such public statements in order to increase or gain the trust of the general public.

Anything else is independent thinking or subverting government policy, which is not allowed.


So....no link.  Just your ravings.  Okay.
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Reply #53 - Feb 28th, 2019 at 6:59pm
 
John Smith wrote on Feb 28th, 2019 at 6:55pm:
Spatchcock wrote on Feb 28th, 2019 at 6:51pm:
Your rebuttal is, you're crazy.



it's not a rebuttal, it's a fact

Spatchcock wrote on Feb 28th, 2019 at 6:51pm:
You will try and attach social stigma to me and my argument to defend unbelievable evil.


nope, you did that pretty much on your own



No it's not a fact. I'm not crazy.

You're arguing with me because I oppose civilian casualties. You have absolutely no value placed on innocent human life.

You are insane. You're going to die one day and when you're breathing your last breath you're going to realise you contributed electoral propaganda that killed innocent people. Even if there is no afterlife you are a really really bad person. You would have a diagnosable something. You show contempt for the human race.
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Reply #54 - Feb 28th, 2019 at 7:02pm
 
Spatchcock wrote on Feb 28th, 2019 at 6:59pm:
John Smith wrote on Feb 28th, 2019 at 6:55pm:
Spatchcock wrote on Feb 28th, 2019 at 6:51pm:
Your rebuttal is, you're crazy.



it's not a rebuttal, it's a fact

Spatchcock wrote on Feb 28th, 2019 at 6:51pm:
You will try and attach social stigma to me and my argument to defend unbelievable evil.


nope, you did that pretty much on your own



No it's not a fact. I'm not crazy.

You're arguing with me because I oppose civilian casualties. You have absolutely no value placed on innocent human life.

You are insane. You're going to die one day and when you're breathing your last breath you're going to realise you contributed electoral propaganda that killed innocent people. Even if there is no afterlife you are a really really bad person. You would have a diagnosable something. You show contempt for the human race.


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Reply #55 - Feb 28th, 2019 at 7:03pm
 
Aussie wrote on Feb 28th, 2019 at 6:57pm:
Spatchcock wrote on Feb 28th, 2019 at 6:49pm:
Aussie wrote on Feb 28th, 2019 at 6:41pm:
Spatchcock wrote on Feb 28th, 2019 at 6:41pm:
Aussie wrote on Feb 28th, 2019 at 6:29pm:
All you are doing is speculating, hypothesising...all show and no pony.

What do you expect of AGSVA?  That they hand possible traitors security passes?


AGSVA, 2004:

DO NOT assess favourably anyone who has a family or social history of any type of anti Iraq War activity or sympathies.

Read as:

Does not support dead babies. Is a threat to the direction of the government.


Link?


The only way you will get in to government with a history of this type of activity is of you were working as a clandestine social engineer, such as a former army officer making such public statements in order to increase or gain the trust of the general public.

Anything else is independent thinking or subverting government policy, which is not allowed.


So....no link.  Just your ravings.  Okay.


You're point of contention was to reference internal government machinations and convey knowledge and authority on the subject. You are deluded or playing narcissistic games online where you are General Frankenstein. You're not touching the rest of it.

Either way you are still a monster.

If you want to pretend you are secret agent x that's not my problem. The problem is you a contributing to a grander problem. That's what you want to do. That is the person you are.

I was trying to discuss participatory democracy and civilian casualties and you want to talk about the intricacies of government vetting procedures.

You want to portray as government agent x.

You just look like an idiot.

Try and address the argument. We are stuck on AGSVA.
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Reply #57 - Feb 28th, 2019 at 7:08pm
 
Hang around Spock.  One of our resident loonies, JaSin will get back to you...but only because you say you are female, and he's always on the fish here for one of those.
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Reply #58 - Feb 28th, 2019 at 7:26pm
 
You are incapable of having debate or civilised conversation.

All you have done is:

Call out how the AGSVA works in order to:

Discredit me
Call me crazy

At no point have you gone anywhere near the main points of my argument. You also have not done anything regarding your knowledge of the AGSVA except infer and use innuendo that you are fully what's up government man.
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Grin

Well done!!!!!
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Reply #60 - Feb 28th, 2019 at 8:30pm
 
Citizens by name - subjects by command of their royal majesties, the better classes and the politicians...

Got that?
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Reply #61 - Feb 28th, 2019 at 8:33pm
 
Spatchcock wrote on Feb 28th, 2019 at 6:51pm:
John Smith wrote on Feb 28th, 2019 at 6:49pm:
Spatchcock wrote on Feb 28th, 2019 at 6:44pm:
Again you have not addressed a single point.



they're not 'points', they're the ravings of a mad man.


Again, life is short and my whole argument is, dead babies is not good.

Your rebuttal is, you're crazy.

You will try and attach social stigma to me and my argument to defend unbelievable evil.

You are a very sick man. You are a very bad person.



Howard didn't mind dead babies in Iraq - he did actually reply to a question about the thousands of civilians killed in the Allied advance - Well, they died for a good cause.

He did say that - it got one night on national Transvestia, and was buried.... same as the CNN footage of a pilot coming down via parachute over Baghdad... no allied pilots were lost that night, so they say, but those boots sure looked like Allied ones...
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Reply #62 - Feb 28th, 2019 at 11:10pm
 
Spatchcock wrote on Feb 28th, 2019 at 6:59pm:
John Smith wrote on Feb 28th, 2019 at 6:55pm:
Spatchcock wrote on Feb 28th, 2019 at 6:51pm:
Your rebuttal is, you're crazy.



it's not a rebuttal, it's a fact

Spatchcock wrote on Feb 28th, 2019 at 6:51pm:
You will try and attach social stigma to me and my argument to defend unbelievable evil.


nope, you did that pretty much on your own



No it's not a fact. I'm not crazy.

You're arguing with me because I oppose civilian casualties. You have absolutely no value placed on innocent human life.

You are insane. You're going to die one day and when you're breathing your last breath you're going to realise you contributed electoral propaganda that killed innocent people. Even if there is no afterlife you are a really really bad person. You would have a diagnosable something. You show contempt for the human race.



No you're not crazy Spatchcock.

You're just being harrassed by the Owner (FreeDiver)'s personal 'biatch' known as Aussie.
Aussie has some 'Parrots' known as John Smith & GreggeryPeccary.

Just think of Aussie as one of those guys who hang out down the red-light district of Bangkok wearing a Hawiian shirt and a fake gold rolex. Overweight and telling everyone he used to be a Lawyer, when he has always just be a Cabbie.

He throws his weight around as if he's a big shot, but never ever really contributes to an intellectual discussion with any sense of 'reasonable diplomacy' and always tries to turn it into 'confrontation' upon a personal level. Hence why he MODS the Relationships section. He's just a boring 'drama queen' and is absolutely obsessed with attention seeking.
Hence why he straight away confronted you on issues he isn't really sincerely interested in. He's only interested in being the 'local Bully'.

The best angle is just to 'ignore' him, although he will do his best to hound you (along with his two Parrots) and often 'repeat' himself to help him to remember  Roll Eyes

You're the first person in a long time to really contribute on a very Political and detailed level - which is a breath of fresh air. It doesn't matter if you are right or wrong (though Aussie will try to make you think it matters) - you have expressed yourself superbly (in a way Aussie can't) and show that you can hold  a good discussion. You will like doing such with FreeDiver himself and Gandalf - two very 'detailed' discussionists here.

Sadly Aussie and his Parrots kinda scare off many potential good new members. His excuse is that he is hunting 'socks'. But the real reason is just 'attention seeking', as does his Parrots.
Just ignore them. Like I said, they have no real sincere interest in your Topic and are primitive in that they think they 'know more' because they were here before you.
Yep - one of those.  Roll Eyes

They purposely dissagree with you, unless they think you are weak and prone to grovelling to them to join their ranks.
The vast majority of Members here DO NOT like them one bit.
They are the cause why so many good members have left here.
But for some reason - the are still here. Occassionally they get banned, but they always return.
During their bans, they exist in another 'off-shoot' minor Political Forum - where they slag this one off in bitter resentment. But when their ban is lifted, they hurtle back here like weener boys after their mummy's 3rd nipple.

So like I said. Ignore Aussie (aka Arsewipe), John Smith (aka Boofhead) & GreggeryPeccary (aka Peckerhead... and Turd McTurdface) - all of whom really deserve as much dislike and negative responsiveness from 'all Members' here who have to put up with their constant interruptions, Trolling, abuse and harrassment.
Don't try to reason with these Trolls as they just hide behind their keyboards laughing at not having to succumb to consequence. Do not give out private details to them - for they will be invasive to your personal life like Scammers to a lone Elderly person answering the phone at home.

So I hope this helps a bit.
Everyone else is pretty neat. Even though you might come to head with some in discussions and a bit of sledging gets around. There is nothing 'permanent' like what an addictive, toxic and vampiric personality (like those three Trolls) would give you... and take from you.

Stay away from these three 'abusive' members. They offer you nothing and will take as much from you as they can.
They are parasites and like Ticks, they can give you a nasty reaction if you are not careful.

Even when they grovel or try to be friendly with me.
I do not trust them one bit, let alone like them a fraction to forgive their 'nature'. They are liars, frauds, borings, trolls, sickos, not funny and bullies just to remark some.

I wish you all the best if you choose to stay here.
I hope I have warned you well.
As I am sick of them 'spoiling' a potentially good future for this Forum and all its members who would love to see new members here.

I do believe that these three Trolls are far worse than I have mentioned. But I have been banned for calling them such.
Yep - the Trolls here must pay the Owner quite a bit under the table to keep their 'fix' going here.
Pretty sad huh?
Sad to think there are such people like that, out there - who  try to hide (and really think people can't see them for who they are) 'in here' on the Internet.

Aussie isn't really an Aussie. Aussies don't behave like he does.

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Reply #63 - Feb 28th, 2019 at 11:26pm
 
Grappler Truth Teller Feller wrote on Feb 28th, 2019 at 8:33pm:
Spatchcock wrote on Feb 28th, 2019 at 6:51pm:
John Smith wrote on Feb 28th, 2019 at 6:49pm:
Spatchcock wrote on Feb 28th, 2019 at 6:44pm:
Again you have not addressed a single point.



they're not 'points', they're the ravings of a mad man.


Again, life is short and my whole argument is, dead babies is not good.

Your rebuttal is, you're crazy.

You will try and attach social stigma to me and my argument to defend unbelievable evil.

You are a very sick man. You are a very bad person.



Howard didn't mind dead babies in Iraq - he did actually reply to a question about the thousands of civilians killed in the Allied advance - Well, they died for a good cause.

He did say that - it got one night on national Transvestia, and was buried.... same as the CNN footage of a pilot coming down via parachute over Baghdad... no allied pilots were lost that night, so they say, but those boots sure looked like Allied ones...


See I am not aware of this but I don't doubt it happened.

The major parties have been around for a very long time. In that time, they have established very rigid rules. In fact, their sister party, The Nationals, recently made headlines with talk of "infiltrators". As you can see, they have security vetting practices. As you can see they are a target for infiltration. It is fair to say all the major parties have input from the AGSVA regarding members and public figures. The government departments do, and they talk about electoral interference as something they clamp down on.

It's fair to say politicians are allowed to get in to elected positions because the AGSVA allows them to. It is therefore fair to say Australian democracy is a sham and all politicians are loyal to a charade where they say what they can to ensure political stability (maintaining power), and say and do nothing for any other reason.

Just like the regime in the DPRK, where internet is banned.

Now saying that, John Howard making light of dead babies is him showing his loyalty to the cult. Him showing his lack of humanity, morals or conscience in order to stay in good standing with the cult. He is showing his conformity and ability to hold a security clearance.

He is also showing his ability to monster the general public. He is showing a psychological profile that would allow you to believe he could be complicit with state sponsored terrorism.

These are seriously bad people.
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Reply #64 - Feb 28th, 2019 at 11:29pm
 
Jasin wrote on Feb 28th, 2019 at 11:10pm:


Thanks for the heads up.
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Reply #65 - Feb 28th, 2019 at 11:31pm
 
John Smith wrote on Feb 28th, 2019 at 6:33pm:
Jasin wrote on Feb 28th, 2019 at 6:28pm:
Very well thought out.



what part is well thought out? Shocked Shocked Shocked

Sounds like another loony 'conspiracy theorist' type who thinks the govt. is out to get them.

I guess thats why you seem to like it though, right Jasin? You're two peas crackpots in a pod


Well Boofhead.
Regardless if he/she is 'speculating/hypothesizing' etc.
The fact remains - he/she is producing something far more interesting and stimulating 'discussion' wise that you or Aussie have so far produced.

All that you both can do is say "What a load of Crap" again and again. You are both like a pair of annoying flies trying to give someone the shiitts just so they will drop a turd for you to munch on.
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Reply #66 - Feb 28th, 2019 at 11:37pm
 
Aussie wrote on Feb 28th, 2019 at 7:08pm:
Hang around Spock.  One of our resident loonies, JaSin will get back to you...but only because you say you are female, and he's always on the fish here for one of those.


Aww - poor Aussie. Mod of Relationships and ol' Jasin here is making him jealous with the women.  Grin Grin
Maybe its because I have a personality.
Maybe its because I really am a nice person.
Hell, I freely detailed up a couple's vehicle+camper for selling because they couldn't do it (He has a severe medical condition).

Just admit that you're a
SCHMUCK
Aussie - that's all.
Nothing to do with other people being loonies or whatever.
You're just a boring
SCHMUCK
with no personality and no real interesting existence.

While I'm making heaps of 'Tips' in my Taxi.
You're out pinning kids to trees with your big hands.

BIG DIFFERENCE EH
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Better to be a Looney than a LOSER like you  Grin
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Reply #67 - Feb 28th, 2019 at 11:46pm
 
AaronCRescue wrote on Feb 28th, 2019 at 7:30pm:
Spatchcock - 100

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China is not a democracy, has a terrible human rights record, appears to have a government directed policy of cheating at business, has some territorial ambitions, and actively subverts the democratic process and the rule of law in other nations.

There are all sorts of things that could go horribly wrong as China grows more powerful. What you describe as "demonising" China is exactly the sort of PR pressure that might avert disaster without the need for military confrontation.
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Reply #69 - Mar 1st, 2019 at 9:55am
 
freediver wrote on Mar 1st, 2019 at 9:10am:
China is not a democracy, has a terrible human rights record, appears to have a government directed policy of cheating at business, has some territorial ambitions, and actively subverts the democratic process and the rule of law in other nations.

There are all sorts of things that could go horribly wrong as China grows more powerful. What you describe as "demonising" China is exactly the sort of PR pressure that might avert disaster without the need for military confrontation.


Well Aussies should be more realistic and less hypocritical in judging others.
Unlike British colony Australia China is at least sovereign country with own head of state although neither of them are democratically elected.
However, for example, Australia is far from democracy in comparison with Russia that has both democratically elected head of state and the parliament.
Australian parliamentary"democracy" is nothing else but the rule of two party corrupted cartell.
So before you judge other first have a look at your backyard.

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capitosinora wrote on Mar 1st, 2019 at 9:55am:
freediver wrote on Mar 1st, 2019 at 9:10am:
China is not a democracy, has a terrible human rights record, appears to have a government directed policy of cheating at business, has some territorial ambitions, and actively subverts the democratic process and the rule of law in other nations.

There are all sorts of things that could go horribly wrong as China grows more powerful. What you describe as "demonising" China is exactly the sort of PR pressure that might avert disaster without the need for military confrontation.


Well Aussies should be more realistic and less hypocritical in judging others.
Unlike British colony Australia China is at least sovereign country with own head of state although neither of them are democratically elected.
However, for example, Australia is far from democracy in comparison with Russia that has both democratically elected head of state and the parliament.
Australian parliamentary"democracy" is nothing else but the rule of two party corrupted cartell.
So before you judge other first have a look at your backyard.


Australia isn't a British colony. The UK has nothing to do with the decision making process in Australia. You need to get that out of your head.
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Reply #71 - Mar 1st, 2019 at 10:16am
 
Mr Hammer wrote on Mar 1st, 2019 at 9:58am:
capitosinora wrote on Mar 1st, 2019 at 9:55am:
freediver wrote on Mar 1st, 2019 at 9:10am:
China is not a democracy, has a terrible human rights record, appears to have a government directed policy of cheating at business, has some territorial ambitions, and actively subverts the democratic process and the rule of law in other nations.

There are all sorts of things that could go horribly wrong as China grows more powerful. What you describe as "demonising" China is exactly the sort of PR pressure that might avert disaster without the need for military confrontation.


Well Aussies should be more realistic and less hypocritical in judging others.
Unlike British colony Australia China is at least sovereign country with own head of state although neither of them are democratically elected.
However, for example, Australia is far from democracy in comparison with Russia that has both democratically elected head of state and the parliament.
Australian parliamentary"democracy" is nothing else but the rule of two party corrupted cartell.
So before you judge other first have a look at your backyard.


Australia isn't a British colony. The UK has nothing to do with the decision making process in Australia. You need to get that out of your head.


You live in ignorance of denial.
Your head of state is The British Monarch who is Commander-in-chief of the Australian Armed Forces (Australian royal navy, Australian royal air force etc) has constitutional right to dismiss your parliament and your democratically elected prime minister what actually happened to Gough Whitlam in 1974.
On the top of that in accordance with the UK and Australian legislation The United Kingdom Parliament retained ultimate legislative power in relation to Australia.
By all international standards Australia is not a sovereign country but a British colony or at the best British protectorate regardless how perceives itself.


I guess you must be some ignorant newcomer refugee or not informed migrant.
So learn a bit more about your new country.
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Reply #72 - Mar 1st, 2019 at 10:22am
 
capitosinora wrote on Mar 1st, 2019 at 10:16am:
Mr Hammer wrote on Mar 1st, 2019 at 9:58am:
capitosinora wrote on Mar 1st, 2019 at 9:55am:
freediver wrote on Mar 1st, 2019 at 9:10am:
China is not a democracy, has a terrible human rights record, appears to have a government directed policy of cheating at business, has some territorial ambitions, and actively subverts the democratic process and the rule of law in other nations.

There are all sorts of things that could go horribly wrong as China grows more powerful. What you describe as "demonising" China is exactly the sort of PR pressure that might avert disaster without the need for military confrontation.


Well Aussies should be more realistic and less hypocritical in judging others.
Unlike British colony Australia China is at least sovereign country with own head of state although neither of them are democratically elected.
However, for example, Australia is far from democracy in comparison with Russia that has both democratically elected head of state and the parliament.
Australian parliamentary"democracy" is nothing else but the rule of two party corrupted cartell.
So before you judge other first have a look at your backyard.


Australia isn't a British colony. The UK has nothing to do with the decision making process in Australia. You need to get that out of your head.


You live in ignorance of denial.
Your head of state is The British Monarch who is Commander-in-chief of the Australian Armed Forces (Australian royal navy, Australian royal air force etc) has constitutional right to dismiss your parliament and your democratically elected prime minister what actually happened to Gough Whitlam in 1974.
On the top of that in accordance with the  UK and Australian legislation The United Kingdom Parliament retained ultimate legislative power in relation to Australia.
By all international Australia is not a sovereign country but a British colony or at the best British protectorate.


I guess you must be some ignorant newcomer refugee or not informed migrant.
So learn a bit more about your new country.

What happened in 1975 cannot happen again because it's been amended. The royal family has absolutely no power in Australia at all. You've been licking too many cane toads.
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Mr Hammer wrote on Mar 1st, 2019 at 10:22am:
capitosinora wrote on Mar 1st, 2019 at 10:16am:
Mr Hammer wrote on Mar 1st, 2019 at 9:58am:
capitosinora wrote on Mar 1st, 2019 at 9:55am:
freediver wrote on Mar 1st, 2019 at 9:10am:
China is not a democracy, has a terrible human rights record, appears to have a government directed policy of cheating at business, has some territorial ambitions, and actively subverts the democratic process and the rule of law in other nations.

There are all sorts of things that could go horribly wrong as China grows more powerful. What you describe as "demonising" China is exactly the sort of PR pressure that might avert disaster without the need for military confrontation.


Well Aussies should be more realistic and less hypocritical in judging others.
Unlike British colony Australia China is at least sovereign country with own head of state although neither of them are democratically elected.
However, for example, Australia is far from democracy in comparison with Russia that has both democratically elected head of state and the parliament.
Australian parliamentary"democracy" is nothing else but the rule of two party corrupted cartell.
So before you judge other first have a look at your backyard.


Australia isn't a British colony. The UK has nothing to do with the decision making process in Australia. You need to get that out of your head.


You live in ignorance of denial.
Your head of state is The British Monarch who is Commander-in-chief of the Australian Armed Forces (Australian royal navy, Australian royal air force etc) has constitutional right to dismiss your parliament and your democratically elected prime minister what actually happened to Gough Whitlam in 1974.
On the top of that in accordance with the  UK and Australian legislation The United Kingdom Parliament retained ultimate legislative power in relation to Australia.
By all international Australia is not a sovereign country but a British colony or at the best British protectorate.


I guess you must be some ignorant newcomer refugee or not informed migrant.
So learn a bit more about your new country.

What happened in 1975 cannot happen again because it's been amended. The royal family has absolutely no power in Australia at all. You've been licking too many cane toads.


Sorry for telling you awkward truth.
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Reply #74 - Mar 1st, 2019 at 10:29am
 
Mr Hammer wrote on Mar 1st, 2019 at 10:22am:
capitosinora wrote on Mar 1st, 2019 at 10:16am:
Mr Hammer wrote on Mar 1st, 2019 at 9:58am:
capitosinora wrote on Mar 1st, 2019 at 9:55am:
freediver wrote on Mar 1st, 2019 at 9:10am:
China is not a democracy, has a terrible human rights record, appears to have a government directed policy of cheating at business, has some territorial ambitions, and actively subverts the democratic process and the rule of law in other nations.

There are all sorts of things that could go horribly wrong as China grows more powerful. What you describe as "demonising" China is exactly the sort of PR pressure that might avert disaster without the need for military confrontation.


Well Aussies should be more realistic and less hypocritical in judging others.
Unlike British colony Australia China is at least sovereign country with own head of state although neither of them are democratically elected.
However, for example, Australia is far from democracy in comparison with Russia that has both democratically elected head of state and the parliament.
Australian parliamentary"democracy" is nothing else but the rule of two party corrupted cartell.
So before you judge other first have a look at your backyard.


Australia isn't a British colony. The UK has nothing to do with the decision making process in Australia. You need to get that out of your head.


You live in ignorance of denial.
Your head of state is The British Monarch who is Commander-in-chief of the Australian Armed Forces (Australian royal navy, Australian royal air force etc) has constitutional right to dismiss your parliament and your democratically elected prime minister what actually happened to Gough Whitlam in 1974.
On the top of that in accordance with the  UK and Australian legislation The United Kingdom Parliament retained ultimate legislative power in relation to Australia.
By all international Australia is not a sovereign country but a British colony or at the best British protectorate.


I guess you must be some ignorant newcomer refugee or not informed migrant.
So learn a bit more about your new country.

What happened in 1975 cannot happen again because it's been amended. The royal family has absolutely no power in Australia at all. You've been licking too many cane toads.


Incorrect.

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Reply #75 - Mar 1st, 2019 at 10:31am
 
capitosinora wrote on Mar 1st, 2019 at 10:25am:
Mr Hammer wrote on Mar 1st, 2019 at 10:22am:
capitosinora wrote on Mar 1st, 2019 at 10:16am:
Mr Hammer wrote on Mar 1st, 2019 at 9:58am:
capitosinora wrote on Mar 1st, 2019 at 9:55am:
freediver wrote on Mar 1st, 2019 at 9:10am:
China is not a democracy, has a terrible human rights record, appears to have a government directed policy of cheating at business, has some territorial ambitions, and actively subverts the democratic process and the rule of law in other nations.

There are all sorts of things that could go horribly wrong as China grows more powerful. What you describe as "demonising" China is exactly the sort of PR pressure that might avert disaster without the need for military confrontation.


Well Aussies should be more realistic and less hypocritical in judging others.
Unlike British colony Australia China is at least sovereign country with own head of state although neither of them are democratically elected.
However, for example, Australia is far from democracy in comparison with Russia that has both democratically elected head of state and the parliament.
Australian parliamentary"democracy" is nothing else but the rule of two party corrupted cartell.
So before you judge other first have a look at your backyard.


Australia isn't a British colony. The UK has nothing to do with the decision making process in Australia. You need to get that out of your head.


You live in ignorance of denial.
Your head of state is The British Monarch who is Commander-in-chief of the Australian Armed Forces (Australian royal navy, Australian royal air force etc) has constitutional right to dismiss your parliament and your democratically elected prime minister what actually happened to Gough Whitlam in 1974.
On the top of that in accordance with the  UK and Australian legislation The United Kingdom Parliament retained ultimate legislative power in relation to Australia.
By all international Australia is not a sovereign country but a British colony or at the best British protectorate.


I guess you must be some ignorant newcomer refugee or not informed migrant.
So learn a bit more about your new country.

What happened in 1975 cannot happen again because it's been amended. The royal family has absolutely no power in Australia at all. You've been licking too many cane toads.


Sorry for telling you awkward truth.
Sad Smiley Cry

You are just plain wrong. The only country who has any sway regarding Australia in the world is the US. Not the UK. On the subject of China, doesn't it imprison people who have differing political beliefs? Or run tanks over them.
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Reply #76 - Mar 1st, 2019 at 10:32am
 
greggerypeccary wrote on Mar 1st, 2019 at 10:29am:
Mr Hammer wrote on Mar 1st, 2019 at 10:22am:
capitosinora wrote on Mar 1st, 2019 at 10:16am:
Mr Hammer wrote on Mar 1st, 2019 at 9:58am:
capitosinora wrote on Mar 1st, 2019 at 9:55am:
freediver wrote on Mar 1st, 2019 at 9:10am:
China is not a democracy, has a terrible human rights record, appears to have a government directed policy of cheating at business, has some territorial ambitions, and actively subverts the democratic process and the rule of law in other nations.

There are all sorts of things that could go horribly wrong as China grows more powerful. What you describe as "demonising" China is exactly the sort of PR pressure that might avert disaster without the need for military confrontation.


Well Aussies should be more realistic and less hypocritical in judging others.
Unlike British colony Australia China is at least sovereign country with own head of state although neither of them are democratically elected.
However, for example, Australia is far from democracy in comparison with Russia that has both democratically elected head of state and the parliament.
Australian parliamentary"democracy" is nothing else but the rule of two party corrupted cartell.
So before you judge other first have a look at your backyard.


Australia isn't a British colony. The UK has nothing to do with the decision making process in Australia. You need to get that out of your head.


You live in ignorance of denial.
Your head of state is The British Monarch who is Commander-in-chief of the Australian Armed Forces (Australian royal navy, Australian royal air force etc) has constitutional right to dismiss your parliament and your democratically elected prime minister what actually happened to Gough Whitlam in 1974.
On the top of that in accordance with the  UK and Australian legislation The United Kingdom Parliament retained ultimate legislative power in relation to Australia.
By all international standards Australia is not a sovereign country but a British colony or at the best British protectorate.


I guess you must be some ignorant newcomer refugee or not informed migrant.
So learn a bit more about your new country.

What happened in 1975 cannot happen again because it's been amended. The royal family has absolutely no power in Australia at all. You've been licking too many cane toads.


Incorrect.


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Reply #77 - Mar 1st, 2019 at 10:37am
 
Mr Hammer wrote on Mar 1st, 2019 at 10:22am:
capitosinora wrote on Mar 1st, 2019 at 10:16am:
Mr Hammer wrote on Mar 1st, 2019 at 9:58am:
capitosinora wrote on Mar 1st, 2019 at 9:55am:
freediver wrote on Mar 1st, 2019 at 9:10am:
China is not a democracy, has a terrible human rights record, appears to have a government directed policy of cheating at business, has some territorial ambitions, and actively subverts the democratic process and the rule of law in other nations.

There are all sorts of things that could go horribly wrong as China grows more powerful. What you describe as "demonising" China is exactly the sort of PR pressure that might avert disaster without the need for military confrontation.


Well Aussies should be more realistic and less hypocritical in judging others.
Unlike British colony Australia China is at least sovereign country with own head of state although neither of them are democratically elected.
However, for example, Australia is far from democracy in comparison with Russia that has both democratically elected head of state and the parliament.
Australian parliamentary"democracy" is nothing else but the rule of two party corrupted cartell.
So before you judge other first have a look at your backyard.


Australia isn't a British colony. The UK has nothing to do with the decision making process in Australia. You need to get that out of your head.


You live in ignorance of denial.
Your head of state is The British Monarch who is Commander-in-chief of the Australian Armed Forces (Australian royal navy, Australian royal air force etc) has constitutional right to dismiss your parliament and your democratically elected prime minister what actually happened to Gough Whitlam in 1974.
On the top of that in accordance with the  UK and Australian legislation The United Kingdom Parliament retained ultimate legislative power in relation to Australia.
By all international Australia is not a sovereign country but a British colony or at the best British protectorate.


I guess you must be some ignorant newcomer refugee or not informed migrant.
So learn a bit more about your new country.

What happened in 1975 cannot happen again because it's been amended. The royal family has absolutely no power in Australia at all. You've been licking too many cane toads.


Who appoints our Governor General (appoints, not recommends)?

See also, Sections 59, 60 and 74 of the Constitution.

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Reply #78 - Mar 1st, 2019 at 10:37am
 
greggerypeccary wrote on Mar 1st, 2019 at 10:29am:
Mr Hammer wrote on Mar 1st, 2019 at 10:22am:
capitosinora wrote on Mar 1st, 2019 at 10:16am:
Mr Hammer wrote on Mar 1st, 2019 at 9:58am:
capitosinora wrote on Mar 1st, 2019 at 9:55am:
freediver wrote on Mar 1st, 2019 at 9:10am:
China is not a democracy, has a terrible human rights record, appears to have a government directed policy of cheating at business, has some territorial ambitions, and actively subverts the democratic process and the rule of law in other nations.

There are all sorts of things that could go horribly wrong as China grows more powerful. What you describe as "demonising" China is exactly the sort of PR pressure that might avert disaster without the need for military confrontation.


Well Aussies should be more realistic and less hypocritical in judging others.
Unlike British colony Australia China is at least sovereign country with own head of state although neither of them are democratically elected.
However, for example, Australia is far from democracy in comparison with Russia that has both democratically elected head of state and the parliament.
Australian parliamentary"democracy" is nothing else but the rule of two party corrupted cartell.
So before you judge other first have a look at your backyard.


Australia isn't a British colony. The UK has nothing to do with the decision making process in Australia. You need to get that out of your head.


You live in ignorance of denial.
Your head of state is The British Monarch who is Commander-in-chief of the Australian Armed Forces (Australian royal navy, Australian royal air force etc) has constitutional right to dismiss your parliament and your democratically elected prime minister what actually happened to Gough Whitlam in 1974.
On the top of that in accordance with the  UK and Australian legislation The United Kingdom Parliament retained ultimate legislative power in relation to Australia.
By all international Australia is not a sovereign country but a British colony or at the best British protectorate.


I guess you must be some ignorant newcomer refugee or not informed migrant.
So learn a bit more about your new country.

What happened in 1975 cannot happen again because it's been amended. The royal family has absolutely no power in Australia at all. You've been licking too many cane toads.


Incorrect.


Maybe technically but the queen has no power in UK politics let alone Australian politics. It's not 1975 anymore. This argument is rubbish.
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Reply #79 - Mar 1st, 2019 at 10:38am
 
Mr Hammer wrote on Mar 1st, 2019 at 10:31am:
capitosinora wrote on Mar 1st, 2019 at 10:25am:
Mr Hammer wrote on Mar 1st, 2019 at 10:22am:
capitosinora wrote on Mar 1st, 2019 at 10:16am:
Mr Hammer wrote on Mar 1st, 2019 at 9:58am:
capitosinora wrote on Mar 1st, 2019 at 9:55am:
freediver wrote on Mar 1st, 2019 at 9:10am:
China is not a democracy, has a terrible human rights record, appears to have a government directed policy of cheating at business, has some territorial ambitions, and actively subverts the democratic process and the rule of law in other nations.

There are all sorts of things that could go horribly wrong as China grows more powerful. What you describe as "demonising" China is exactly the sort of PR pressure that might avert disaster without the need for military confrontation.


Well Aussies should be more realistic and less hypocritical in judging others.
Unlike British colony Australia China is at least sovereign country with own head of state although neither of them are democratically elected.
However, for example, Australia is far from democracy in comparison with Russia that has both democratically elected head of state and the parliament.
Australian parliamentary"democracy" is nothing else but the rule of two party corrupted cartell.
So before you judge other first have a look at your backyard.


Australia isn't a British colony. The UK has nothing to do with the decision making process in Australia. You need to get that out of your head.


You live in ignorance of denial.
Your head of state is The British Monarch who is Commander-in-chief of the Australian Armed Forces (Australian royal navy, Australian royal air force etc) has constitutional right to dismiss your parliament and your democratically elected prime minister what actually happened to Gough Whitlam in 1974.
On the top of that in accordance with the  UK and Australian legislation The United Kingdom Parliament retained ultimate legislative power in relation to Australia.
By all international Australia is not a sovereign country but a British colony or at the best British protectorate.


I guess you must be some ignorant newcomer refugee or not informed migrant.
So learn a bit more about your new country.

What happened in 1975 cannot happen again because it's been amended. The royal family has absolutely no power in Australia at all. You've been licking too many cane toads.


Sorry for telling you awkward truth.
Sad Smiley Cry

You are just plain wrong. The only country who has any sway regarding Australia in the world is the US. Not the UK. On the subject of China, doesn't it imprison people who have differing political beliefs? Or run tanks over them.


But still china is a sovereign world power country and Australia is just another British colony.
So there is no comparison.
When Australia becomes independent sovereign country with own democratically elected head of state (who know maybe one day in distant future) we can discuss that out of hypocrisy.
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Reply #80 - Mar 1st, 2019 at 10:38am
 
Mr Hammer wrote on Mar 1st, 2019 at 10:37am:
greggerypeccary wrote on Mar 1st, 2019 at 10:29am:
Mr Hammer wrote on Mar 1st, 2019 at 10:22am:
capitosinora wrote on Mar 1st, 2019 at 10:16am:
Mr Hammer wrote on Mar 1st, 2019 at 9:58am:
capitosinora wrote on Mar 1st, 2019 at 9:55am:
freediver wrote on Mar 1st, 2019 at 9:10am:
China is not a democracy, has a terrible human rights record, appears to have a government directed policy of cheating at business, has some territorial ambitions, and actively subverts the democratic process and the rule of law in other nations.

There are all sorts of things that could go horribly wrong as China grows more powerful. What you describe as "demonising" China is exactly the sort of PR pressure that might avert disaster without the need for military confrontation.


Well Aussies should be more realistic and less hypocritical in judging others.
Unlike British colony Australia China is at least sovereign country with own head of state although neither of them are democratically elected.
However, for example, Australia is far from democracy in comparison with Russia that has both democratically elected head of state and the parliament.
Australian parliamentary"democracy" is nothing else but the rule of two party corrupted cartell.
So before you judge other first have a look at your backyard.


Australia isn't a British colony. The UK has nothing to do with the decision making process in Australia. You need to get that out of your head.


You live in ignorance of denial.
Your head of state is The British Monarch who is Commander-in-chief of the Australian Armed Forces (Australian royal navy, Australian royal air force etc) has constitutional right to dismiss your parliament and your democratically elected prime minister what actually happened to Gough Whitlam in 1974.
On the top of that in accordance with the  UK and Australian legislation The United Kingdom Parliament retained ultimate legislative power in relation to Australia.
By all international Australia is not a sovereign country but a British colony or at the best British protectorate.


I guess you must be some ignorant newcomer refugee or not informed migrant.
So learn a bit more about your new country.

What happened in 1975 cannot happen again because it's been amended. The royal family has absolutely no power in Australia at all. You've been licking too many cane toads.


Incorrect.


Maybe technically but the queen has no power in UK politics let alone Australian politics. It's not 1975 anymore. This argument is rubbish.


Incorrect.

See Sections 59, 60 and 74 of the Constitution.
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Reply #81 - Mar 1st, 2019 at 10:41am
 
Mr Hammer wrote on Mar 1st, 2019 at 10:37am:
greggerypeccary wrote on Mar 1st, 2019 at 10:29am:
Mr Hammer wrote on Mar 1st, 2019 at 10:22am:
capitosinora wrote on Mar 1st, 2019 at 10:16am:
Mr Hammer wrote on Mar 1st, 2019 at 9:58am:
capitosinora wrote on Mar 1st, 2019 at 9:55am:
freediver wrote on Mar 1st, 2019 at 9:10am:
China is not a democracy, has a terrible human rights record, appears to have a government directed policy of cheating at business, has some territorial ambitions, and actively subverts the democratic process and the rule of law in other nations.

There are all sorts of things that could go horribly wrong as China grows more powerful. What you describe as "demonising" China is exactly the sort of PR pressure that might avert disaster without the need for military confrontation.


Well Aussies should be more realistic and less hypocritical in judging others.
Unlike British colony Australia China is at least sovereign country with own head of state although neither of them are democratically elected.
However, for example, Australia is far from democracy in comparison with Russia that has both democratically elected head of state and the parliament.
Australian parliamentary"democracy" is nothing else but the rule of two party corrupted cartell.
So before you judge other first have a look at your backyard.


Australia isn't a British colony. The UK has nothing to do with the decision making process in Australia. You need to get that out of your head.


You live in ignorance of denial.
Your head of state is The British Monarch who is Commander-in-chief of the Australian Armed Forces (Australian royal navy, Australian royal air force etc) has constitutional right to dismiss your parliament and your democratically elected prime minister what actually happened to Gough Whitlam in 1974.
On the top of that in accordance with the  UK and Australian legislation The United Kingdom Parliament retained ultimate legislative power in relation to Australia.
By all international Australia is not a sovereign country but a British colony or at the best British protectorate.


I guess you must be some ignorant newcomer refugee or not informed migrant.
So learn a bit more about your new country.

What happened in 1975 cannot happen again because it's been amended. The royal family has absolutely no power in Australia at all. You've been licking too many cane toads.


Incorrect.


Maybe technically but the queen has no power in UK politics let alone Australian politics. It's not 1975 anymore. This argument is rubbish.



Let's remove the Queen and become a republic, then?

Glad you're on board   Smiley
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Reply #82 - Mar 1st, 2019 at 10:43am
 
greggerypeccary wrote on Mar 1st, 2019 at 10:38am:
Mr Hammer wrote on Mar 1st, 2019 at 10:37am:
greggerypeccary wrote on Mar 1st, 2019 at 10:29am:
Mr Hammer wrote on Mar 1st, 2019 at 10:22am:
capitosinora wrote on Mar 1st, 2019 at 10:16am:
Mr Hammer wrote on Mar 1st, 2019 at 9:58am:
capitosinora wrote on Mar 1st, 2019 at 9:55am:
freediver wrote on Mar 1st, 2019 at 9:10am:
China is not a democracy, has a terrible human rights record, appears to have a government directed policy of cheating at business, has some territorial ambitions, and actively subverts the democratic process and the rule of law in other nations.

There are all sorts of things that could go horribly wrong as China grows more powerful. What you describe as "demonising" China is exactly the sort of PR pressure that might avert disaster without the need for military confrontation.


Well Aussies should be more realistic and less hypocritical in judging others.
Unlike British colony Australia China is at least sovereign country with own head of state although neither of them are democratically elected.
However, for example, Australia is far from democracy in comparison with Russia that has both democratically elected head of state and the parliament.
Australian parliamentary"democracy" is nothing else but the rule of two party corrupted cartell.
So before you judge other first have a look at your backyard.


Australia isn't a British colony. The UK has nothing to do with the decision making process in Australia. You need to get that out of your head.


You live in ignorance of denial.
Your head of state is The British Monarch who is Commander-in-chief of the Australian Armed Forces (Australian royal navy, Australian royal air force etc) has constitutional right to dismiss your parliament and your democratically elected prime minister what actually happened to Gough Whitlam in 1974.
On the top of that in accordance with the  UK and Australian legislation The United Kingdom Parliament retained ultimate legislative power in relation to Australia.
By all international Australia is not a sovereign country but a British colony or at the best British protectorate.


I guess you must be some ignorant newcomer refugee or not informed migrant.
So learn a bit more about your new country.

What happened in 1975 cannot happen again because it's been amended. The royal family has absolutely no power in Australia at all. You've been licking too many cane toads.


Incorrect.


Maybe technically but the queen has no power in UK politics let alone Australian politics. It's not 1975 anymore. This argument is rubbish.


Incorrect.

See Sections 59, 60 and 74 of the Constitution.
Other than 1975 (40+ years ago) can you tell me how the queen has interfered in Australian politics?
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Reply #83 - Mar 1st, 2019 at 10:45am
 
greggerypeccary wrote on Mar 1st, 2019 at 10:41am:
Mr Hammer wrote on Mar 1st, 2019 at 10:37am:
greggerypeccary wrote on Mar 1st, 2019 at 10:29am:
Mr Hammer wrote on Mar 1st, 2019 at 10:22am:
capitosinora wrote on Mar 1st, 2019 at 10:16am:
Mr Hammer wrote on Mar 1st, 2019 at 9:58am:
capitosinora wrote on Mar 1st, 2019 at 9:55am:
freediver wrote on Mar 1st, 2019 at 9:10am:
China is not a democracy, has a terrible human rights record, appears to have a government directed policy of cheating at business, has some territorial ambitions, and actively subverts the democratic process and the rule of law in other nations.

There are all sorts of things that could go horribly wrong as China grows more powerful. What you describe as "demonising" China is exactly the sort of PR pressure that might avert disaster without the need for military confrontation.


Well Aussies should be more realistic and less hypocritical in judging others.
Unlike British colony Australia China is at least sovereign country with own head of state although neither of them are democratically elected.
However, for example, Australia is far from democracy in comparison with Russia that has both democratically elected head of state and the parliament.
Australian parliamentary"democracy" is nothing else but the rule of two party corrupted cartell.
So before you judge other first have a look at your backyard.


Australia isn't a British colony. The UK has nothing to do with the decision making process in Australia. You need to get that out of your head.


You live in ignorance of denial.
Your head of state is The British Monarch who is Commander-in-chief of the Australian Armed Forces (Australian royal navy, Australian royal air force etc) has constitutional right to dismiss your parliament and your democratically elected prime minister what actually happened to Gough Whitlam in 1974.
On the top of that in accordance with the  UK and Australian legislation The United Kingdom Parliament retained ultimate legislative power in relation to Australia.
By all international Australia is not a sovereign country but a British colony or at the best British protectorate.


I guess you must be some ignorant newcomer refugee or not informed migrant.
So learn a bit more about your new country.

What happened in 1975 cannot happen again because it's been amended. The royal family has absolutely no power in Australia at all. You've been licking too many cane toads.


Incorrect.


Maybe technically but the queen has no power in UK politics let alone Australian politics. It's not 1975 anymore. This argument is rubbish.



Let's remove the Queen and become a republic, then?

Glad you're on board   Smiley

I really don't care. I just don't trust the alternative.
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Reply #84 - Mar 1st, 2019 at 10:45am
 
Mr Hammer wrote on Mar 1st, 2019 at 10:43am:
greggerypeccary wrote on Mar 1st, 2019 at 10:38am:
Mr Hammer wrote on Mar 1st, 2019 at 10:37am:
greggerypeccary wrote on Mar 1st, 2019 at 10:29am:
Mr Hammer wrote on Mar 1st, 2019 at 10:22am:
capitosinora wrote on Mar 1st, 2019 at 10:16am:
Mr Hammer wrote on Mar 1st, 2019 at 9:58am:
capitosinora wrote on Mar 1st, 2019 at 9:55am:
freediver wrote on Mar 1st, 2019 at 9:10am:
China is not a democracy, has a terrible human rights record, appears to have a government directed policy of cheating at business, has some territorial ambitions, and actively subverts the democratic process and the rule of law in other nations.

There are all sorts of things that could go horribly wrong as China grows more powerful. What you describe as "demonising" China is exactly the sort of PR pressure that might avert disaster without the need for military confrontation.


Well Aussies should be more realistic and less hypocritical in judging others.
Unlike British colony Australia China is at least sovereign country with own head of state although neither of them are democratically elected.
However, for example, Australia is far from democracy in comparison with Russia that has both democratically elected head of state and the parliament.
Australian parliamentary"democracy" is nothing else but the rule of two party corrupted cartell.
So before you judge other first have a look at your backyard.


Australia isn't a British colony. The UK has nothing to do with the decision making process in Australia. You need to get that out of your head.


You live in ignorance of denial.
Your head of state is The British Monarch who is Commander-in-chief of the Australian Armed Forces (Australian royal navy, Australian royal air force etc) has constitutional right to dismiss your parliament and your democratically elected prime minister what actually happened to Gough Whitlam in 1974.
On the top of that in accordance with the  UK and Australian legislation The United Kingdom Parliament retained ultimate legislative power in relation to Australia.
By all international Australia is not a sovereign country but a British colony or at the best British protectorate.


I guess you must be some ignorant newcomer refugee or not informed migrant.
So learn a bit more about your new country.

What happened in 1975 cannot happen again because it's been amended. The royal family has absolutely no power in Australia at all. You've been licking too many cane toads.


Incorrect.


Maybe technically but the queen has no power in UK politics let alone Australian politics. It's not 1975 anymore. This argument is rubbish.


Incorrect.

See Sections 59, 60 and 74 of the Constitution.
Other than 1975 (40+ years ago) can you tell me how the queen has interfered in Australian politics?


She hasn't, but that's not your argument.

You need to stop changing the subject.

Anyway, my turn to change the subject now.

If all she does it cut ribbons, let's get rid of her.

We'll become a republic with an Australian citizen (and resident) as our Head of State?

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Mr Hammer wrote on Mar 1st, 2019 at 10:45am:
I really don't care. I just don't trust the alternative.


You don't trust the Monarchy or the Republic?   Undecided
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Reply #86 - Mar 1st, 2019 at 10:47am
 
Mr Hammer wrote on Mar 1st, 2019 at 10:37am:
greggerypeccary wrote on Mar 1st, 2019 at 10:29am:
Mr Hammer wrote on Mar 1st, 2019 at 10:22am:
capitosinora wrote on Mar 1st, 2019 at 10:16am:
Mr Hammer wrote on Mar 1st, 2019 at 9:58am:
capitosinora wrote on Mar 1st, 2019 at 9:55am:
freediver wrote on Mar 1st, 2019 at 9:10am:
China is not a democracy, has a terrible human rights record, appears to have a government directed policy of cheating at business, has some territorial ambitions, and actively subverts the democratic process and the rule of law in other nations.

There are all sorts of things that could go horribly wrong as China grows more powerful. What you describe as "demonising" China is exactly the sort of PR pressure that might avert disaster without the need for military confrontation.


Well Aussies should be more realistic and less hypocritical in judging others.
Unlike British colony Australia China is at least sovereign country with own head of state although neither of them are democratically elected.
However, for example, Australia is far from democracy in comparison with Russia that has both democratically elected head of state and the parliament.
Australian parliamentary"democracy" is nothing else but the rule of two party corrupted cartell.
So before you judge other first have a look at your backyard.


Australia isn't a British colony. The UK has nothing to do with the decision making process in Australia. You need to get that out of your head.


You live in ignorance of denial.
Your head of state is The British Monarch who is Commander-in-chief of the Australian Armed Forces (Australian royal navy, Australian royal air force etc) has constitutional right to dismiss your parliament and your democratically elected prime minister what actually happened to Gough Whitlam in 1974.
On the top of that in accordance with the  UK and Australian legislation The United Kingdom Parliament retained ultimate legislative power in relation to Australia.
By all international Australia is not a sovereign country but a British colony or at the best British protectorate.


I guess you must be some ignorant newcomer refugee or not informed migrant.
So learn a bit more about your new country.

What happened in 1975 cannot happen again because it's been amended. The royal family has absolutely no power in Australia at all. You've been licking too many cane toads.


Incorrect.


Maybe technically but the queen has no power in UK politics let alone Australian politics. It's not 1975 anymore. This argument is rubbish.

We heard the same argument of yours in 1975 When Gough Whitlam was sect by British Royal in a Coup d'état.
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Reply #87 - Mar 1st, 2019 at 10:48am
 
greggerypeccary wrote on Mar 1st, 2019 at 10:45am:
Mr Hammer wrote on Mar 1st, 2019 at 10:43am:
greggerypeccary wrote on Mar 1st, 2019 at 10:38am:
Mr Hammer wrote on Mar 1st, 2019 at 10:37am:
greggerypeccary wrote on Mar 1st, 2019 at 10:29am:
Mr Hammer wrote on Mar 1st, 2019 at 10:22am:
capitosinora wrote on Mar 1st, 2019 at 10:16am:
Mr Hammer wrote on Mar 1st, 2019 at 9:58am:
capitosinora wrote on Mar 1st, 2019 at 9:55am:
freediver wrote on Mar 1st, 2019 at 9:10am:
China is not a democracy, has a terrible human rights record, appears to have a government directed policy of cheating at business, has some territorial ambitions, and actively subverts the democratic process and the rule of law in other nations.

There are all sorts of things that could go horribly wrong as China grows more powerful. What you describe as "demonising" China is exactly the sort of PR pressure that might avert disaster without the need for military confrontation.


Well Aussies should be more realistic and less hypocritical in judging others.
Unlike British colony Australia China is at least sovereign country with own head of state although neither of them are democratically elected.
However, for example, Australia is far from democracy in comparison with Russia that has both democratically elected head of state and the parliament.
Australian parliamentary"democracy" is nothing else but the rule of two party corrupted cartell.
So before you judge other first have a look at your backyard.


Australia isn't a British colony. The UK has nothing to do with the decision making process in Australia. You need to get that out of your head.


You live in ignorance of denial.
Your head of state is The British Monarch who is Commander-in-chief of the Australian Armed Forces (Australian royal navy, Australian royal air force etc) has constitutional right to dismiss your parliament and your democratically elected prime minister what actually happened to Gough Whitlam in 1974.
On the top of that in accordance with the  UK and Australian legislation The United Kingdom Parliament retained ultimate legislative power in relation to Australia.
By all international Australia is not a sovereign country but a British colony or at the best British protectorate.


I guess you must be some ignorant newcomer refugee or not informed migrant.
So learn a bit more about your new country.

What happened in 1975 cannot happen again because it's been amended. The royal family has absolutely no power in Australia at all. You've been licking too many cane toads.


Incorrect.


Maybe technically but the queen has no power in UK politics let alone Australian politics. It's not 1975 anymore. This argument is rubbish.


Incorrect.

See Sections 59, 60 and 74 of the Constitution.
Other than 1975 (40+ years ago) can you tell me how the queen has interfered in Australian politics?


She hasn't, but that's not your argument.

You need to stop changing the subject.

Anyway, my turn to change the subject now.

If all she does it cut ribbons, let's get rid of her.

We'll become a republic with an Australian citizen (and resident) as our Head of State?

Smiley




She hasn't because she can't muppet. She has no power at all.
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Reply #88 - Mar 1st, 2019 at 10:49am
 
capitosinora wrote on Mar 1st, 2019 at 10:47am:
Mr Hammer wrote on Mar 1st, 2019 at 10:37am:
greggerypeccary wrote on Mar 1st, 2019 at 10:29am:
Mr Hammer wrote on Mar 1st, 2019 at 10:22am:
capitosinora wrote on Mar 1st, 2019 at 10:16am:
Mr Hammer wrote on Mar 1st, 2019 at 9:58am:
capitosinora wrote on Mar 1st, 2019 at 9:55am:
freediver wrote on Mar 1st, 2019 at 9:10am:
China is not a democracy, has a terrible human rights record, appears to have a government directed policy of cheating at business, has some territorial ambitions, and actively subverts the democratic process and the rule of law in other nations.

There are all sorts of things that could go horribly wrong as China grows more powerful. What you describe as "demonising" China is exactly the sort of PR pressure that might avert disaster without the need for military confrontation.


Well Aussies should be more realistic and less hypocritical in judging others.
Unlike British colony Australia China is at least sovereign country with own head of state although neither of them are democratically elected.
However, for example, Australia is far from democracy in comparison with Russia that has both democratically elected head of state and the parliament.
Australian parliamentary"democracy" is nothing else but the rule of two party corrupted cartell.
So before you judge other first have a look at your backyard.


Australia isn't a British colony. The UK has nothing to do with the decision making process in Australia. You need to get that out of your head.


You live in ignorance of denial.
Your head of state is The British Monarch who is Commander-in-chief of the Australian Armed Forces (Australian royal navy, Australian royal air force etc) has constitutional right to dismiss your parliament and your democratically elected prime minister what actually happened to Gough Whitlam in 1974.
On the top of that in accordance with the  UK and Australian legislation The United Kingdom Parliament retained ultimate legislative power in relation to Australia.
By all international Australia is not a sovereign country but a British colony or at the best British protectorate.


I guess you must be some ignorant newcomer refugee or not informed migrant.
So learn a bit more about your new country.

What happened in 1975 cannot happen again because it's been amended. The royal family has absolutely no power in Australia at all. You've been licking too many cane toads.


Incorrect.


Maybe technically but the queen has no power in UK politics let alone Australian politics. It's not 1975 anymore. This argument is rubbish.

We heard the same argument of yours in 1975 When Gough Whitlam was sect by British Royal in a Coup d'état.

That was a different Australia muppet. 40 years ago China was massacring it's own people.
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Reply #89 - Mar 1st, 2019 at 10:50am
 
greggerypeccary wrote on Mar 1st, 2019 at 10:45am:
Mr Hammer wrote on Mar 1st, 2019 at 10:43am:
greggerypeccary wrote on Mar 1st, 2019 at 10:38am:
Mr Hammer wrote on Mar 1st, 2019 at 10:37am:
greggerypeccary wrote on Mar 1st, 2019 at 10:29am:
Mr Hammer wrote on Mar 1st, 2019 at 10:22am:
capitosinora wrote on Mar 1st, 2019 at 10:16am:
Mr Hammer wrote on Mar 1st, 2019 at 9:58am:
capitosinora wrote on Mar 1st, 2019 at 9:55am:
freediver wrote on Mar 1st, 2019 at 9:10am:
China is not a democracy, has a terrible human rights record, appears to have a government directed policy of cheating at business, has some territorial ambitions, and actively subverts the democratic process and the rule of law in other nations.

There are all sorts of things that could go horribly wrong as China grows more powerful. What you describe as "demonising" China is exactly the sort of PR pressure that might avert disaster without the need for military confrontation.


Well Aussies should be more realistic and less hypocritical in judging others.
Unlike British colony Australia China is at least sovereign country with own head of state although neither of them are democratically elected.
However, for example, Australia is far from democracy in comparison with Russia that has both democratically elected head of state and the parliament.
Australian parliamentary"democracy" is nothing else but the rule of two party corrupted cartell.
So before you judge other first have a look at your backyard.


Australia isn't a British colony. The UK has nothing to do with the decision making process in Australia. You need to get that out of your head.


You live in ignorance of denial.
Your head of state is The British Monarch who is Commander-in-chief of the Australian Armed Forces (Australian royal navy, Australian royal air force etc) has constitutional right to dismiss your parliament and your democratically elected prime minister what actually happened to Gough Whitlam in 1974.
On the top of that in accordance with the  UK and Australian legislation The United Kingdom Parliament retained ultimate legislative power in relation to Australia.
By all international Australia is not a sovereign country but a British colony or at the best British protectorate.


I guess you must be some ignorant newcomer refugee or not informed migrant.
So learn a bit more about your new country.

What happened in 1975 cannot happen again because it's been amended. The royal family has absolutely no power in Australia at all. You've been licking too many cane toads.


Incorrect.


Maybe technically but the queen has no power in UK politics let alone Australian politics. It's not 1975 anymore. This argument is rubbish.


Incorrect.

See Sections 59, 60 and 74 of the Constitution.
Other than 1975 (40+ years ago) can you tell me how the queen has interfered in Australian politics?


She hasn't, but that's not your argument.

You need to stop changing the subject.

Anyway, my turn to change the subject now.

If all she does it cut ribbons, let's get rid of her.

We'll become a republic with an Australian citizen (and resident) as our Head of State?

Smiley


Yep British and Australian nationalism (patriotism) is not the same.
Obviosly you don't understand that.


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My father knocked around the Australian rock band the Ramrods in the early 60's . Keating was manager. My father met him a few times and said he was an absolute snob. Thought he was better than everybody around him. He knows what to say and how to say it.
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Reply #92 - Mar 1st, 2019 at 11:25am
 
Does anyone want to talk about censorship or participatory democracy?

I don't even understand how this appeared in a new forum on global politics. It was entirely about how we, as Australians, are being denied access to alternative views by a political class that has a history of intentionally showing how we, as citizens or subjects, are dehumanized and seen as a commodity.

None of this was about anything foreign. It was about overreach of laws regarding foreign perspectives in Australia.

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Reply #93 - Mar 1st, 2019 at 11:27am
 
Mr Hammer wrote on Mar 1st, 2019 at 10:49am:
capitosinora wrote on Mar 1st, 2019 at 10:47am:
Mr Hammer wrote on Mar 1st, 2019 at 10:37am:
greggerypeccary wrote on Mar 1st, 2019 at 10:29am:
Mr Hammer wrote on Mar 1st, 2019 at 10:22am:
capitosinora wrote on Mar 1st, 2019 at 10:16am:
Mr Hammer wrote on Mar 1st, 2019 at 9:58am:
capitosinora wrote on Mar 1st, 2019 at 9:55am:
freediver wrote on Mar 1st, 2019 at 9:10am:
China is not a democracy, has a terrible human rights record, appears to have a government directed policy of cheating at business, has some territorial ambitions, and actively subverts the democratic process and the rule of law in other nations.

There are all sorts of things that could go horribly wrong as China grows more powerful. What you describe as "demonising" China is exactly the sort of PR pressure that might avert disaster without the need for military confrontation.


Well Aussies should be more realistic and less hypocritical in judging others.
Unlike British colony Australia China is at least sovereign country with own head of state although neither of them are democratically elected.
However, for example, Australia is far from democracy in comparison with Russia that has both democratically elected head of state and the parliament.
Australian parliamentary"democracy" is nothing else but the rule of two party corrupted cartell.
So before you judge other first have a look at your backyard.


Australia isn't a British colony. The UK has nothing to do with the decision making process in Australia. You need to get that out of your head.


You live in ignorance of denial.
Your head of state is The British Monarch who is Commander-in-chief of the Australian Armed Forces (Australian royal navy, Australian royal air force etc) has constitutional right to dismiss your parliament and your democratically elected prime minister what actually happened to Gough Whitlam in 1974.
On the top of that in accordance with the  UK and Australian legislation The United Kingdom Parliament retained ultimate legislative power in relation to Australia.
By all international Australia is not a sovereign country but a British colony or at the best British protectorate.


I guess you must be some ignorant newcomer refugee or not informed migrant.
So learn a bit more about your new country.

What happened in 1975 cannot happen again because it's been amended. The royal family has absolutely no power in Australia at all. You've been licking too many cane toads.


Incorrect.


Maybe technically but the queen has no power in UK politics let alone Australian politics. It's not 1975 anymore. This argument is rubbish.

We heard the same argument of yours in 1975 When Gough Whitlam was sect by British Royal in a Coup d'état.

That was a different Australia muppet. 40 years ago China was massacring it's own people.


What about massacred own Aborigines people. Did it also done by Chinese?
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Reply #94 - Mar 1st, 2019 at 11:38am
 
Mr Hammer wrote on Mar 1st, 2019 at 11:07am:
My father knocked around the Australian rock band the Ramrods in the early 60's . Keating was manager. My father met him a few times and said he was an absolute snob. Thought he was better than everybody around him. He knows what to say and how to say it.

In one of his interviews in USA Paul Keating said that he told Gough Whitlam that his dismissal, in 1975,
was Foreign British Royal Coup d'état against democratically elected government and that he should ask for help of Australian Army to step in.
With great sadness  in his voice Whitlam replaid: "How I can ask the army when the British queen is a  Commander-in-chief of Australian Army"?
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Reply #95 - Mar 1st, 2019 at 11:48am
 
freediver wrote on Mar 1st, 2019 at 9:10am:
China is not a democracy, has a terrible human rights record, appears to have a government directed policy of cheating at business, has some territorial ambitions, and actively subverts the democratic process and the rule of law in other nations.

There are all sorts of things that could go horribly wrong as China grows more powerful. What you describe as "demonising" China is exactly the sort of PR pressure that might avert disaster without the need for military confrontation.


China actually has voting. Widespread voting. You vote at your local level etc, and then your representative votes at the national level for you on issues, obviously not on military and foreign policy though.

This is a form of democracy and it is extremely easy to explain. Yet, the government and media in Australia don't mention this at all. It is just described as a one party state and a totalitarian dictatorship. It takes one sentence to explain there is widespread political participation in voting, it is not a hard to explain concept, yet this doesn't happen.

This type of information is likely to make China look good, or better, than how they want it to look to you. This is information control, and information misrepresented and lies fed to us in order to affect our political comprehension and voting patterns. This is propaganda. This is appealing to your sense of political involvement and "freedom" to affect your decision making process on the issue.

They are doing this to you.

I understand China is bad. They do bad things. They have a large army, etc.

I also understand our government is really really bad and possibly worse. I am also concerned that this demonisation of China is propaganda to stave off civil unrest in the event of fabricated evidence used to maintain power for the government, rather than the government governing for the good of the people.

Also if you live a less introverted life and talk about your political involvement realistically, and compare it with China you will find the following:

Life is go to work all day, come home, eat dinner, sleep. Rinse and repeat

CHINA YES, AUSTRALIA YES

Elected officials make decisions without consulting you

CHINA YES, AUSTRALIA YES

The government makes "hard" decisions that are unpopular and talks down to the electorate as something that needs to be done, for the good of the nation (eg asylum seekers) to explain your thinking is flawed and unrealistic and that's why you're not leader

CHINA YES, AUSTRALIA YES

Realistically you have no political power, protesters are met with hostile media and police riot squads

CHINA YES, AUSTRALIA YES

So as you can see, dictatorship China offers you a similar life with a similar level of political representation to Australia. The only difference is really your internal mindset. In reality your life is the same and the government treats you the same. You only think you have more political involvement.

Also China is never going to war. They have something like 30 percent of people working in manufacturing for export. If there is a war they have 30 percent of people unemployed with no food or money protesting the government and burning cars in the street. The protesters would essentially be "bombing" China and seizing control from the government. They would want their food and money and electricity bills paid. They would fight for more western business.

Now 3 in every 10 people is a huge part of the total population in China. Without these people employed, China will collapse. The economy will fail. The whole country will crumble. They will be left with a military and civil war.

There is no way China is going to start a war. This is fear mongering like Iraq and WMD.

Also the threat of China is overplayed. It cannot beat a combined force of Taiwan, Japan, USA and South Korea. And it knows this.
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Reply #96 - Mar 1st, 2019 at 12:02pm
 
Also if we go to war with China we are not going to be buying clothes and shoes for a while. This is not going to happen unless intelligence agencies lie to impressionable youth and send them off to get disfigured again.

Which is actually a real concern.

It's kind of ironic that China is demonized and now is identified as a national security threat. This means that to be cosy with the government you have to be anti China. And to be pro China leaves the wide eyed ASIO recruits frothing at the mouth looking for a way to prove their loyalty and gain acceptance from the cool kids (senior leadership that mutilates the faces and bodies of Iraqi little girls based on lies they fed you to suppress ideas in the middle east).

It's kind of like some extreme form of jealousy. If you be friends with China you can't be friends with me. Done by the people who intentionally lied and misled you to bomb Iraq for political influence, not for WMD.

Extremely evil people.
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Reply #97 - Mar 1st, 2019 at 1:09pm
 
Spatchcock wrote on Mar 1st, 2019 at 11:48am:
freediver wrote on Mar 1st, 2019 at 9:10am:
China is not a democracy, has a terrible human rights record, appears to have a government directed policy of cheating at business, has some territorial ambitions, and actively subverts the democratic process and the rule of law in other nations.

There are all sorts of things that could go horribly wrong as China grows more powerful. What you describe as "demonising" China is exactly the sort of PR pressure that might avert disaster without the need for military confrontation.


China actually has voting.


Things could also go right as China rises, but remaining silent in the face of abhorrent behaviour from China's political leaders will not help that outcome.
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I can't see China rising.

Something like 500 million of them are not living in cities with running water.
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China has overtaken the US as the world's largest economy by purchasing power parity. Their influence on the world will grow to reflect this.
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freediver wrote on Mar 1st, 2019 at 2:53pm:
China has overtaken the US as the world's largest economy by purchasing power parity. Their influence on the world will grow to reflect this.


Yeah but the statistics are misleading.

Everything is made in China so of course it has this "awesome economy" on paper. In reality it does not have such an awesome economy. The living standards are low, more people use smartphones for internet than computers because they don't own computers etc. They're not living like us. Further if they have a rising middle class that has parity with a western middle class then their economy will fall apart. If it becomes normal to afford Nike's in China, which at the moment are a luxury brand, not a $90 pair of shoes, wages are going to have to rise. Therefore manufacturing and production costs are going to rise. Therefore their exports are not going to be affordable. Their country falls apart.

China cannot rise economically. It can have major cash reserves. It cannot have an economy. China essentially has two economies. The export economy and the domestic economy. Exports are US dollars domestically they use Yuan. Lots of companies are state owned. The government prints Yuan and hoardes dollars.
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Further if they have a rising middle class that has parity with a western middle class then their economy will fall apart. If it becomes normal to afford Nike's in China, which at the moment are a luxury brand, not a $90 pair of shoes, wages are going to have to rise. Therefore manufacturing and production costs are going to rise. Therefore their exports are not going to be affordable. Their country falls apart.


Crap. Their country will not fall apart. Rather, their standard of living will only rise to match that of Americans when their real productivity does. And it is rising rapidly. People do not starve because they get too rich to work.

I hope you realise that when their standard of living does match that of Americans, the economy will be over 4 times as large, which means, among other things, that they would be able to afford a military 4 times as expensive as that of the US.
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Standard of Living you all say?!

Well, look at Scandinavia - lowest crime rate, top class living standards and all because they are a CHILDLESS STATE of existence. Their Breeding capacity is heading towards sterility like Asimov's 'Spacers' people.
They have to 'import' their population growth from the Middle-East.  Grin

Sterile Scandinavia. Finland is just a mere 5 million in population!  Grin
Maybe they are all Gay there and have little white fluffy dogs for children too?
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China has overtaken the US as the world's largest economy by purchasing power parity. Their influence on the world will grow to reflect this.


China is a SUPER-NOVA economy.
It only appears BIG because its now running on fumes.
You wait to its BIG BANG lets rip and their Military have to justify their 'budget' before becoming an economic 'write off'.
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Mr Hammer wrote on Mar 1st, 2019 at 11:07am:
My father knocked around the Australian rock band the Ramrods in the early 60's . Keating was manager. My father met him a few times and said he was an absolute snob. Thought he was better than everybody around him. He knows what to say and how to say it.


My mate and I were living a few doors down from Keating at the Lodge, in Kirribilli (Keating's 'economics' guarranteed that everyone could afford to live at Kirribilli - but nobody could afford to have furniture!  Roll Eyes).

We snuck into the Lodge one night after the 3am 'patrol' along Upper Pitt St. My mate wanted to 'wroot' Anita because she was sad, lonely and good looking. We knew Paul was neglecting her. My mate was tall, blonde, Aryan, Angel and hung like Thor's Hammer (he went on to wroot 'thousands' of women). I was too scared to go all the way in, after we snuck by the sleeping guards. He went all the way in - but 'nobody home' that night.

...3 days later, picture of 'sleeping guards' were on front page of Daily Telegraph. Someone must have reviewed the video footage  Winkv Cheesy
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Reply #105 - Mar 1st, 2019 at 6:54pm
 
Car thief and a party to a break and enter with intent.  Yay!  You go gurl!!

Or as is far more likely...that is yet another of your crap canards.
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Jasin wrote on Mar 1st, 2019 at 6:44pm:
freediver wrote on Mar 1st, 2019 at 2:53pm:
China has overtaken the US as the world's largest economy by purchasing power parity. Their influence on the world will grow to reflect this.


China is a SUPER-NOVA economy.
It only appears BIG because its now running on fumes.
You wait to its BIG BANG lets rip and their Military have to justify their 'budget' before becoming an economic 'write off'.


It is running on 1.4 billion people, all getting educated, improving their productivity and living standards, starting new businesses, etc, etc.
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freediver wrote on Mar 1st, 2019 at 8:19pm:
Jasin wrote on Mar 1st, 2019 at 6:44pm:
freediver wrote on Mar 1st, 2019 at 2:53pm:
China has overtaken the US as the world's largest economy by purchasing power parity. Their influence on the world will grow to reflect this.


China is a SUPER-NOVA economy.
It only appears BIG because its now running on fumes.
You wait to its BIG BANG lets rip and their Military have to justify their 'budget' before becoming an economic 'write off'.


It is running on 1.4 billion people, all getting educated, improving their productivity and living standards, starting new businesses, etc, etc.


Yes - and that's why the little 'Yellow' nation of China will collapse under its own gravitational force of population.
You can't make an over-populated nation of a BILLION+ try to live like a Finland of just 5 million.  Grin

SUPER-NOVA
my dear FreeDiver  Wink
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Further if they have a rising middle class that has parity with a western middle class then their economy will fall apart. If it becomes normal to afford Nike's in China, which at the moment are a luxury brand, not a $90 pair of shoes, wages are going to have to rise. Therefore manufacturing and production costs are going to rise. Therefore their exports are not going to be affordable. Their country falls apart.


Crap. Their country will not fall apart. Rather, their standard of living will only rise to match that of Americans when their real productivity does. And it is rising rapidly. People do not starve because they get too rich to work.

I hope you realise that when their standard of living does match that of Americans, the economy will be over 4 times as large, which means, among other things, that they would be able to afford a military 4 times as expensive as that of the US.


The Chinese economy is dependent on western consumers. Just cause you say it's crap doesn't mean it is.

These are the facts.

Goods do not miraculously appear. Someone has to make them. At the moment the Chinese economy is fully dependent on western consumers. Raise wages to match ours and their country falls apart. Apple and Samsung are luxury brands in China.

If you call that crap I'm not talking to you. These are the facts.
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I hate to say it.
But the 'Yellow Man' will never attain 'individual quality of life and empowerment' in his own breeding pen of Asia.
Africa is where he will attain that.

Thus - his attempt to do so in his breeding pen of China will 'implode'.
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Seriously - if all countries are on the same income level etc, trade will fail and so will every economy on earth.  Disparity of incomes drives economic movement...
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Seriously - if all countries are on the same income level etc, trade will fail and so will every economy on earth.  Disparity of incomes drives economic movement...


No, comparative advantage and opportunity cost will still exist.
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Don't worry Hammer.
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Because the Jews in the Media and the Media itself has been running the Politics of his country for so long.  Roll Eyes Tongue Suck on that Capito  Grin


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Jasin wrote on Mar 1st, 2019 at 8:24pm:
Don't worry Hammer.
Capitosonora  is a bit insecure about the British being on our Flag.
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Anti semitism and racism will not help Australia to become sovereign country.


I'm not Anti-Semite. I love the fact that they rule and run Israel.  Wink
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Jasin wrote on Mar 1st, 2019 at 8:24pm:
Don't worry Hammer.
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Jasin wrote on Mar 2nd, 2019 at 8:59pm:
capitosinora wrote on Mar 2nd, 2019 at 10:38am:
Jasin wrote on Mar 1st, 2019 at 8:24pm:
Don't worry Hammer.
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Anti semitism and racism will not help Australia to become sovereign country.


I'm not Anti-Semite. I love the fact that they rule and run Israel.  Wink

Capitosinora doesn't like white people for some reason Jasin. I believe he has a inferiority complex because of his colour. The poor petal.
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Seriously - if all countries are on the same income level etc, trade will fail and so will every economy on earth.  Disparity of incomes drives economic movement...


Not at all, dear. Japanese wages aren't low, and they were producing the cheapest cars and electronics for years. Now the Koreans do this, and their wages are similar.

Germany and France, of course, have high wages for skilled labour, and they've been exporting cars, trucks and manufactured products for years. The US exports agricultural commodities to the developing world.

China is now moving towards automation, so wages will not be a deciding factor in future. And by the future, I mean a decade away.
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Mattyfisk wrote on Mar 2nd, 2019 at 10:51pm:
Grappler Truth Teller Feller wrote on Mar 2nd, 2019 at 8:44am:
Seriously - if all countries are on the same income level etc, trade will fail and so will every economy on earth.  Disparity of incomes drives economic movement...


Not at all, dear. Japanese wages aren't low, and they were producing the cheapest cars and electronics for years. Now the Koreans do this, and their wages are similar.

Germany and France, of course, have high wages for skilled labour, and they've been exporting cars, trucks and manufactured products for years. The US exports agricultural commodities to the developing world.

China is now moving towards automation, so wages will not be a deciding factor in future. And by the future, I mean a decade away.


This is not true. If you convert the wage of the average Korean in to Australian dollars it is a pittance. Their living standards are higher than ours though.

Their low wages ensure that production costs are low, and companies like Hyundai, Kia, Samsung, LG etc are affordable for western consumers.

Korean wages are comparable in the sense of how much things cost as a percentage of your wage. On the exchange rate you would think they earn peanuts.
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Also automation will lead to unemployment. Unemployment leads to anti social behavior. In China, where everything is for the government and not for corporate profit, this will not happen. The government will decide that automation is not beneficial to their business model.
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Spatchcock wrote on Mar 3rd, 2019 at 12:05am:
Mattyfisk wrote on Mar 2nd, 2019 at 10:51pm:
Grappler Truth Teller Feller wrote on Mar 2nd, 2019 at 8:44am:
Seriously - if all countries are on the same income level etc, trade will fail and so will every economy on earth.  Disparity of incomes drives economic movement...


Not at all, dear. Japanese wages aren't low, and they were producing the cheapest cars and electronics for years. Now the Koreans do this, and their wages are similar.

Germany and France, of course, have high wages for skilled labour, and they've been exporting cars, trucks and manufactured products for years. The US exports agricultural commodities to the developing world.

China is now moving towards automation, so wages will not be a deciding factor in future. And by the future, I mean a decade away.


This is not true. If you convert the wage of the average Korean in to Australian dollars it is a pittance. Their living standards are higher than ours though.

Their low wages ensure that production costs are low, and companies like Hyundai, Kia, Samsung, LG etc are affordable for western consumers.

Korean wages are comparable in the sense of how much things cost as a percentage of your wage. On the exchange rate you would think they earn peanuts.


The cost of living shouldn't factor too much in foreign prices though, Spatchcock.

I'm quite happy to be wrong in this argument. The Grappler is making a classical Marxian argument about capitalist wage inequality driving supply - a good argument too.

I think we're in a new stage of capitalism, one where technology is now usurping labour. The same old structure applies, but it's different. Wealth inequality still drives the system, it's just expressed differently. With exceptions, the rule is no longer 16 hour shifts in factories and an average lifespan of 40.

We could include the clothing industry of Bangladesh as one of those exceptions.

You?
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Also automation will lead to unemployment. Unemployment leads to anti social behavior. In China, where everything is for the government and not for corporate profit, this will not happen. The government will decide that automation is not beneficial to their business model.


Not necessarily. New industries arise in services.
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Spatchcock wrote on Mar 1st, 2019 at 9:03pm:
freediver wrote on Mar 1st, 2019 at 6:32pm:
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Further if they have a rising middle class that has parity with a western middle class then their economy will fall apart. If it becomes normal to afford Nike's in China, which at the moment are a luxury brand, not a $90 pair of shoes, wages are going to have to rise. Therefore manufacturing and production costs are going to rise. Therefore their exports are not going to be affordable. Their country falls apart.


Crap. Their country will not fall apart. Rather, their standard of living will only rise to match that of Americans when their real productivity does. And it is rising rapidly. People do not starve because they get too rich to work.

I hope you realise that when their standard of living does match that of Americans, the economy will be over 4 times as large, which means, among other things, that they would be able to afford a military 4 times as expensive as that of the US.


The Chinese economy is dependent on western consumers. Just cause you say it's crap doesn't mean it is.

These are the facts.

Goods do not miraculously appear. Someone has to make them. At the moment the Chinese economy is fully dependent on western consumers. Raise wages to match ours and their country falls apart. Apple and Samsung are luxury brands in China.

If you call that crap I'm not talking to you. These are the facts.


The economy of every nation on earth depends on foreign countries.

So what?

Grappler Truth Teller Feller wrote on Mar 2nd, 2019 at 8:44am:
Seriously - if all countries are on the same income level etc, trade will fail and so will every economy on earth.  Disparity of incomes drives economic movement...


This is no less stupid than saying a rich doctor and a rich lawyer cannot possible have anything to offer each other.
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freediver wrote on Mar 3rd, 2019 at 9:45am:
Spatchcock wrote on Mar 1st, 2019 at 9:03pm:
freediver wrote on Mar 1st, 2019 at 6:32pm:
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Further if they have a rising middle class that has parity with a western middle class then their economy will fall apart. If it becomes normal to afford Nike's in China, which at the moment are a luxury brand, not a $90 pair of shoes, wages are going to have to rise. Therefore manufacturing and production costs are going to rise. Therefore their exports are not going to be affordable. Their country falls apart.


Crap. Their country will not fall apart. Rather, their standard of living will only rise to match that of Americans when their real productivity does. And it is rising rapidly. People do not starve because they get too rich to work.

I hope you realise that when their standard of living does match that of Americans, the economy will be over 4 times as large, which means, among other things, that they would be able to afford a military 4 times as expensive as that of the US.


The Chinese economy is dependent on western consumers. Just cause you say it's crap doesn't mean it is.

These are the facts.

Goods do not miraculously appear. Someone has to make them. At the moment the Chinese economy is fully dependent on western consumers. Raise wages to match ours and their country falls apart. Apple and Samsung are luxury brands in China.

If you call that crap I'm not talking to you. These are the facts.


The economy of every nation on earth depends on foreign countries.

So what?

Grappler Truth Teller Feller wrote on Mar 2nd, 2019 at 8:44am:
Seriously - if all countries are on the same income level etc, trade will fail and so will every economy on earth.  Disparity of incomes drives economic movement...


This is no less stupid than saying a rich doctor and a rich lawyer cannot possible have anything to offer each other.


Those are very broad strokes and it is very foolish to imply that the Chinese economy is comparable to any western consumer economy. It just isn't so simple. The Chinese economy, literally thirty percent of their employment, is in manufacturing. Everything you pick up has made in China written on it.
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International trade is based on the differences.
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Mattyfisk wrote on Mar 3rd, 2019 at 4:25am:
Spatchcock wrote on Mar 3rd, 2019 at 12:05am:
Mattyfisk wrote on Mar 2nd, 2019 at 10:51pm:
Grappler Truth Teller Feller wrote on Mar 2nd, 2019 at 8:44am:
Seriously - if all countries are on the same income level etc, trade will fail and so will every economy on earth.  Disparity of incomes drives economic movement...


Not at all, dear. Japanese wages aren't low, and they were producing the cheapest cars and electronics for years. Now the Koreans do this, and their wages are similar.

Germany and France, of course, have high wages for skilled labour, and they've been exporting cars, trucks and manufactured products for years. The US exports agricultural commodities to the developing world.

China is now moving towards automation, so wages will not be a deciding factor in future. And by the future, I mean a decade away.


This is not true. If you convert the wage of the average Korean in to Australian dollars it is a pittance. Their living standards are higher than ours though.

Their low wages ensure that production costs are low, and companies like Hyundai, Kia, Samsung, LG etc are affordable for western consumers.

Korean wages are comparable in the sense of how much things cost as a percentage of your wage. On the exchange rate you would think they earn peanuts.


The cost of living shouldn't factor too much in foreign prices though, Spatchcock.

I'm quite happy to be wrong in this argument. The Grappler is making a classical Marxian argument about capitalist wage inequality driving supply - a good argument too.

I think we're in a new stage of capitalism, one where technology is now usurping labour. The same old structure applies, but it's different. Wealth inequality still drives the system, it's just expressed differently. With exceptions, the rule is no longer 16 hour shifts in factories and an average lifespan of 40.

We could include the clothing industry of Bangladesh as one of those exceptions.

You?


What I'm trying to say is these aren't poor countries. Their living standards are high. There are often public calls on nations like South Korea to have their currency accurately valued, and they are accused of undervaluing their currency. Their exchange rate is the only thing that ensures their export economy survives.

Bangladesh is different. It is very under developed.
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International trade is based on the differences.


1+1=2

1 economy + 1 economy = the factors of those two economies in synergy. Does not equal two economies.
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Spatchcock wrote on Mar 3rd, 2019 at 9:56am:
Mattyfisk wrote on Mar 3rd, 2019 at 4:25am:
Spatchcock wrote on Mar 3rd, 2019 at 12:05am:
Mattyfisk wrote on Mar 2nd, 2019 at 10:51pm:
Grappler Truth Teller Feller wrote on Mar 2nd, 2019 at 8:44am:
Seriously - if all countries are on the same income level etc, trade will fail and so will every economy on earth.  Disparity of incomes drives economic movement...


Not at all, dear. Japanese wages aren't low, and they were producing the cheapest cars and electronics for years. Now the Koreans do this, and their wages are similar.

Germany and France, of course, have high wages for skilled labour, and they've been exporting cars, trucks and manufactured products for years. The US exports agricultural commodities to the developing world.

China is now moving towards automation, so wages will not be a deciding factor in future. And by the future, I mean a decade away.


This is not true. If you convert the wage of the average Korean in to Australian dollars it is a pittance. Their living standards are higher than ours though.

Their low wages ensure that production costs are low, and companies like Hyundai, Kia, Samsung, LG etc are affordable for western consumers.

Korean wages are comparable in the sense of how much things cost as a percentage of your wage. On the exchange rate you would think they earn peanuts.


The cost of living shouldn't factor too much in foreign prices though, Spatchcock.

I'm quite happy to be wrong in this argument. The Grappler is making a classical Marxian argument about capitalist wage inequality driving supply - a good argument too.

I think we're in a new stage of capitalism, one where technology is now usurping labour. The same old structure applies, but it's different. Wealth inequality still drives the system, it's just expressed differently. With exceptions, the rule is no longer 16 hour shifts in factories and an average lifespan of 40.

We could include the clothing industry of Bangladesh as one of those exceptions.

You?


What I'm trying to say is these aren't poor countries. Their living standards are high. There are often public calls on nations like South Korea to have their currency accurately valued, and they are accused of undervaluing their currency. Their exchange rate is the only thing that ensures their export economy survives.

Bangladesh is different. It is very under developed.


Sure, but I think we're in new territory. George Orwell made the point in 1984 that wars are caused by the big powers competing for the cheap labour of the colonies. In 1948, I think this was true. Throughout the Cold War it was true too. Back then, the Americans and Soviets had their chips stacked everywhere.

We're moving into a world now, however, where driverless trains, cars and trucks are taking over. As Cohn told President Trump, around 25% of people are employed in jobs that consist of driving something. Along with robotics in manufacturing - which China is pioneering - this form of labour will no longer be required.

If they can get robots to make clothes quicker than Bangladeshis on sewing machines, perhaps capitalism won't require cheap labour at all.
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Capitalism never required cheap labour.


Oh? At one point, capitalism relied on slavery and child labour.

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Mattyfisk wrote on Mar 3rd, 2019 at 4:17pm:
freediver wrote on Mar 3rd, 2019 at 2:56pm:
Capitalism never required cheap labour.


Oh? At one point, capitalism relied on slavery and child labour.

Freeedom, innit.



those days are gone dude.

nowadays the citizens have running hot and cold water, the internet, safe streets, i phones, the best of health care, free education.

they have SO MUCH TO BE GRATEFUL FOR.

90 % of kids in the world now get a jab at the age of 1.
we are pulling people above the UN declared poverty line at the rate of 150,000 a day.
30,000 a day connected to the power grid.
most people will now live to 70.

market capitalism is absolutely awesome.

but, heres the key.

emotional states are addictive and capitalism has this "glitch" where it needs to convince people they "dont have enough" so they will buy more.

and the problem is, if you spend your life (like most of the chodes) thinking

i dont have enough
i dont have enough.

then that becomes YOU.

that is what you are addicted on.

now you save for that overseas holiday.

instaed of thinking how awesome it is to FLY.

you are in the mindset "i dont have enough".

you wont have enough room on the plane.
you wont have enough food on the plane
you wont have enough entertainment options on the plane
you will be pissed by the traffic going to the airport
you will be pissed by the queue to check in.

when i see people freaking out at airports and looking all sad and beaten down, i know those people are beyond help.

there is no ammount of cash or goods or stuff you could give those people that would make them happy.
they are "screwed" by their own emotional state.

they are angry and upset and they will vibe with things like the greens party, anti-fa and occupy wall street and "me-too" because

they are angry and upset and they need to keep that going.

no different to a rightie vibing with fox news and hating on mexicans.

social media, the mainstream media  feed this.

but it is NOT the fault of the capitlaist system
it is the fault of the "lower consciousness" of the masses who CHOOSE to live in scarcity .

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Australia doesn't have free democratic media where citizens can express their independent opinion.
From British Queen as an Australian undisputed dictator (has unlimited power by constitution and not democratically elected) to two party cartel and corrupted media Australia is far from having any real democracy for own citizens.

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aquascoot wrote on Mar 4th, 2019 at 6:47am:
Mattyfisk wrote on Mar 3rd, 2019 at 4:17pm:
freediver wrote on Mar 3rd, 2019 at 2:56pm:
Capitalism never required cheap labour.


Oh? At one point, capitalism relied on slavery and child labour.

Freeedom, innit.



those days are gone dude.

nowadays the citizens have running hot and cold water, the internet, safe streets, i phones, the best of health care, free education.

they have SO MUCH TO BE GRATEFUL FOR.

90 % of kids in the world now get a jab at the age of 1.
we are pulling people above the UN declared poverty line at the rate of 150,000 a day.
30,000 a day connected to the power grid.
most people will now live to 70.

market capitalism is absolutely awesome.

but, heres the key.

emotional states are addictive and capitalism has this "glitch" where it needs to convince people they "dont have enough" so they will buy more.

and the problem is, if you spend your life (like most of the chodes) thinking

i dont have enough
i dont have enough.

then that becomes YOU.

that is what you are addicted on.

now you save for that overseas holiday.

instaed of thinking how awesome it is to FLY.

you are in the mindset "i dont have enough".

you wont have enough room on the plane.
you wont have enough food on the plane
you wont have enough entertainment options on the plane
you will be pissed by the traffic going to the airport
you will be pissed by the queue to check in.

when i see people freaking out at airports and looking all sad and beaten down, i know those people are beyond help.

there is no ammount of cash or goods or stuff you could give those people that would make them happy.
they are "screwed" by their own emotional state.

they are angry and upset and they will vibe with things like the greens party, anti-fa and occupy wall street and "me-too" because

they are angry and upset and they need to keep that going.

no different to a rightie vibing with fox news and hating on mexicans.

social media, the mainstream media  feed this.

but it is NOT the fault of the capitlaist system
it is the fault of the "lower consciousness" of the masses who CHOOSE to live in scarcity .



Most of the arguments I've heard against capitalism are about wasting your life working to buy a Ferrari for driving to woollies to buy bread.

Not that we have electricity, but that we have no life. And if we don't be a part of the workforce, we have no car or woollies.
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capitosinora wrote on Mar 4th, 2019 at 10:05am:
Australia doesn't have free democratic media where citizens can express their independent opinion.
From British Queen as an Australian undisputed dictator (has unlimited power by constitution and not democratically elected) to two party cartel and corrupted media Australia is far from having any real democracy for own citizens.

How's the 'Cotton Pickin' going Rastus.........Oh my Lordy?


Instead to rediciosly mumble you better try to contribute in bringing democracy to a British colonial Disneyland.
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Reply #137 - Mar 4th, 2019 at 2:19pm
 
capitosinora wrote on Mar 4th, 2019 at 1:14pm:
Fuzzball wrote on Mar 4th, 2019 at 10:09am:
capitosinora wrote on Mar 4th, 2019 at 10:05am:
Australia doesn't have free democratic media where citizens can express their independent opinion.
From British Queen as an Australian undisputed dictator (has unlimited power by constitution and not democratically elected) to two party cartel and corrupted media Australia is far from having any real democracy for own citizens.

How's the 'Cotton Pickin' going Rastus.........Oh my Lordy?


Instead to rediciosly mumble you better try to contribute in bringing democracy to a British colonial Disneyland.
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Are we citizens or subjects??

We are subjects of the glorious British Empire!!!
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Spatchcock wrote on Mar 4th, 2019 at 11:08am:
aquascoot wrote on Mar 4th, 2019 at 6:47am:
Mattyfisk wrote on Mar 3rd, 2019 at 4:17pm:
freediver wrote on Mar 3rd, 2019 at 2:56pm:
Capitalism never required cheap labour.


Oh? At one point, capitalism relied on slavery and child labour.

Freeedom, innit.



those days are gone dude.

nowadays the citizens have running hot and cold water, the internet, safe streets, i phones, the best of health care, free education.

they have SO MUCH TO BE GRATEFUL FOR.

90 % of kids in the world now get a jab at the age of 1.
we are pulling people above the UN declared poverty line at the rate of 150,000 a day.
30,000 a day connected to the power grid.
most people will now live to 70.

market capitalism is absolutely awesome.

but, heres the key.

emotional states are addictive and capitalism has this "glitch" where it needs to convince people they "dont have enough" so they will buy more.

and the problem is, if you spend your life (like most of the chodes) thinking

i dont have enough
i dont have enough.

then that becomes YOU.

that is what you are addicted on.

now you save for that overseas holiday.

instaed of thinking how awesome it is to FLY.

you are in the mindset "i dont have enough".

you wont have enough room on the plane.
you wont have enough food on the plane
you wont have enough entertainment options on the plane
you will be pissed by the traffic going to the airport
you will be pissed by the queue to check in.

when i see people freaking out at airports and looking all sad and beaten down, i know those people are beyond help.

there is no ammount of cash or goods or stuff you could give those people that would make them happy.
they are "screwed" by their own emotional state.

they are angry and upset and they will vibe with things like the greens party, anti-fa and occupy wall street and "me-too" because

they are angry and upset and they need to keep that going.

no different to a rightie vibing with fox news and hating on mexicans.

social media, the mainstream media  feed this.

but it is NOT the fault of the capitlaist system
it is the fault of the "lower consciousness" of the masses who CHOOSE to live in scarcity .



Most of the arguments I've heard against capitalism are about wasting your life working to buy a Ferrari for driving to woollies to buy bread.

Not that we have electricity, but that we have no life. And if we don't be a part of the workforce, we have no car or woollies.



sure , capitalism dumbs down the masses.

but thats the fault of the masses.

if they want to chow down on their bag of french fries and look at me like i'm a weirdo for chowing down on a cucumber as i stroll the mall, thats on THEM.

if they are feeling all toxic and negative and want to watch the mainstream news which is all rapes and fires and murders and car accidents  so they can feed their "emotional state addiction' thats on THEM.

if they think that a young person who goes to work for a rich guy and is always beaming and positive is just a sucker and then they get butt hurt when the rich guy takes him on yacht to the french riviera, thats on THEM.

if they think they need to buy a rolex and a ferrari to get status with a woman when all you need to do is act high status and she will fall into your frame, thats on THEM.

heres a trick for you that a buddy of mine uses.

whenever a good looking woman comes into his home, he tells them to take their shoes off.
this immediately establishes him as higher in status and not a try hard.

if you are so stupid and lame you need a nice watch , designer jeans and to buy flowers and chocalates to try to suck up to a woman , you are stuck in the capitalist cultural hypnosis.
thats why the mainstream are so often wrong.  the capitalists are just gaming the chodes.
dont blame business, blame the chodes
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Do you know what you are, Aquascoot?

Victimised. Those French-fry munchers should be ashamed of themselves, picking on a poor cucumber-eater like yourself, it's ridiculous.

You do know there are other uses for cucumbers, don't you, dear?
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Mattyfisk wrote on Mar 5th, 2019 at 2:24am:
Do you know what you are, Aquascoot?

Victimised. Those French-fry munchers should be ashamed of themselves, picking on a poor cucumber-eater like yourself, it's ridiculous.

You do know there are other uses for cucumbers, don't you, dear?



NOT AT ALL!!!!

i love it. i love to feel the social pressure and rise above it.

most people lead lives that seem to be "pure garbage".

theres a drink that will make you healthy , mentally sharp, focused, prevent cancer, heal injuries...its called kale and spinach juice.

theres a drink that will cause cancer, cause diabetes, blindness, heart attacks, kidney disease, your teeth fall out, you age prematurely, your brain doesnt work...its called coca cola.

which one do the masses consume??

how many people do you see rocking it at the mall with their kale juice.

people are arranged into a pyramid.

that means by definition most people are at the bottom.
most people are failures.
most people look beaten down by life.

and they are addicted to negative mindsets.
and so, as they age, they get worse.

take the 30 day challenge.

no complaining for 30 days.

for you that would be no complaioning about trump.

every time you feel the need to descend into trump hate, so you can feel all those emotions you like to feel, i want you to have kale juice and go read a chapter of Mandelas "long walk to freedom".

it will be tough. your body will not want to do it.

it likes the sugar , it likes the gossip and bitching online, it likes being stuck in "low vibration energy".

set yourself free karnal.

i am throwing down a rope to you to help you climb the pyramid.

go to the mall, munch a cucumber and resolve to see steve and janeen as "cautionary tales".

life is short, its over in a blink, get cracking !!!!
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Good post Aqua
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Reply #143 - Mar 5th, 2019 at 12:28pm
 
aquascoot wrote on Mar 5th, 2019 at 6:35am:
Mattyfisk wrote on Mar 5th, 2019 at 2:24am:
Do you know what you are, Aquascoot?

Victimised. Those French-fry munchers should be ashamed of themselves, picking on a poor cucumber-eater like yourself, it's ridiculous.

You do know there are other uses for cucumbers, don't you, dear?



NOT AT ALL!!!!

i love it. i love to feel the social pressure and rise above it.

most people lead lives that seem to be "pure garbage".

theres a drink that will make you healthy , mentally sharp, focused, prevent cancer, heal injuries...its called kale and spinach juice.

theres a drink that will cause cancer, cause diabetes, blindness, heart attacks, kidney disease, your teeth fall out, you age prematurely, your brain doesnt work...its called coca cola.

which one do the masses consume??

how many people do you see rocking it at the mall with their kale juice.

people are arranged into a pyramid.

that means by definition most people are at the bottom.
most people are failures.
most people look beaten down by life.

and they are addicted to negative mindsets.
and so, as they age, they get worse.

take the 30 day challenge.

no complaining for 30 days.

for you that would be no complaioning about trump.

every time you feel the need to descend into trump hate, so you can feel all those emotions you like to feel, i want you to have kale juice and go read a chapter of Mandelas "long walk to freedom".

it will be tough. your body will not want to do it.

it likes the sugar , it likes the gossip and bitching online, it likes being stuck in "low vibration energy".

set yourself free karnal.

i am throwing down a rope to you to help you climb the pyramid.

go to the mall, munch a cucumber and resolve to see steve and janeen as "cautionary tales".

life is short, its over in a blink, get cracking !!!!


Make it 10. And in return, you can't complain about leftards or mindless brainwashed chodes who lead lives of pure garbage.

Deal?
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Reply #144 - Mar 5th, 2019 at 1:47pm
 
Mattyfisk wrote on Mar 5th, 2019 at 12:28pm:
aquascoot wrote on Mar 5th, 2019 at 6:35am:
Mattyfisk wrote on Mar 5th, 2019 at 2:24am:
Do you know what you are, Aquascoot?

Victimised. Those French-fry munchers should be ashamed of themselves, picking on a poor cucumber-eater like yourself, it's ridiculous.

You do know there are other uses for cucumbers, don't you, dear?



NOT AT ALL!!!!

i love it. i love to feel the social pressure and rise above it.

most people lead lives that seem to be "pure garbage".

theres a drink that will make you healthy , mentally sharp, focused, prevent cancer, heal injuries...its called kale and spinach juice.

theres a drink that will cause cancer, cause diabetes, blindness, heart attacks, kidney disease, your teeth fall out, you age prematurely, your brain doesnt work...its called coca cola.

which one do the masses consume??

how many people do you see rocking it at the mall with their kale juice.

people are arranged into a pyramid.

that means by definition most people are at the bottom.
most people are failures.
most people look beaten down by life.

and they are addicted to negative mindsets.
and so, as they age, they get worse.

take the 30 day challenge.

no complaining for 30 days.

for you that would be no complaioning about trump.

every time you feel the need to descend into trump hate, so you can feel all those emotions you like to feel, i want you to have kale juice and go read a chapter of Mandelas "long walk to freedom".

it will be tough. your body will not want to do it.

it likes the sugar , it likes the gossip and bitching online, it likes being stuck in "low vibration energy".

set yourself free karnal.

i am throwing down a rope to you to help you climb the pyramid.

go to the mall, munch a cucumber and resolve to see steve and janeen as "cautionary tales".

life is short, its over in a blink, get cracking !!!!


Make it 10. And in return, you can't complain about leftards or mindless brainwashed chodes who lead lives of pure garbage.

Deal?



10 days for no trump hating and i will not hate the chodes.
deal.

but i dont hate the chodes really.
most successful guys just IGNORE steve and janeen.
i am trying to motivate steve and janeen.
to take some god dammed pride in themselves.
i know its probably a hopeless cause Wink

i will be posting stuff from human progress. org so that you can vibe with how awesome things are  Wink
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No, Aquascoot, no "motivating" Fat Steve and Janeen either. We all know this is just your way of practicing elitism.

10 days of being positive about Fat Steve and Janeen. No instruction, no lectures, no bile against those you call leftards. Take it or leave it.
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You can't turn the tables on Aqua Karnal, fat Steves' and Janeens' are the ones who hold back the Economy. Aqua is quite right to criticize them, he only wants them to get off their obese arses and contribute to society other than watching tv and buying McDonalds every evening
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Reply #147 - Mar 5th, 2019 at 2:32pm
 
Bias_2012 wrote on Mar 5th, 2019 at 2:22pm:
You can't turn the tables on Aqua Karnal, fat Steves' and Janeens' are the ones who hold back the Economy. Aqua is quite right to criticize them, he only wants them to get off their obese arses and contribute to society other than watching tv and buying McDonalds every evening


I'll let you in on a secret, Bias. Fat Steve and Janeen don't exist.
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Are we citizens or subjects??

We are subjects of the glorious British Empire!!!


Indeed. Passing judgement on capitalism is as pointless as passing judgement on empires. They are merely the superstructure that distributes goods and services.

Sure, people struggled for change during the British empire. They eradicated slavery and child labour, for example. They reformed the prisons and work houses. They even extended the colonies in the hope of clearing slums, creating a zero-tolerance approach to crime so they could send subjects to Australia and reshape them as a rural proletariat.

Jesus understood the importance of the economy when he said to render unto Rome that which is Rome's. You can't fight the economic superstructure. If you do, another one will arise to replace it. Jesus also said poverty could not be eradicated. Sure, help people, but don't think you can ever end inequality. The poor will always be among us.

Capitalism itself is blind, neither good nor bad. Yes, at the heart of capitalism is inequality, just as it was in the imperial system.
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Reply #149 - Mar 5th, 2019 at 4:38pm
 
Mattyfisk wrote on Mar 5th, 2019 at 2:49pm:
Auggie wrote on Mar 4th, 2019 at 5:57pm:
Are we citizens or subjects??

We are subjects of the glorious British Empire!!!


Indeed. Passing judgement on capitalism is as pointless as passing judgement on empires. They are merely the superstructure that distributes goods and services.

Sure, people struggled for change during the British empire. They eradicated slavery and child labour, for example. They reformed the prisons and work houses. They even extended the colonies in the hope of clearing slums, creating a zero-tolerance approach to crime so they could send subjects to Australia and reshape them as a rural proletariat.

Jesus understood the importance of the economy when he said to render unto Rome that which is Rome's. You can't fight the economic superstructure. If you do, another one will arise to replace it. Jesus also said poverty could not be eradicated. Sure, help people, but don't think you can ever end inequality. The poor will always be among us.

Capitalism itself is blind, neither good nor bad. Yes, at the heart of capitalism is inequality, just as it was in the imperial system.



""Indeed. Passing judgement on capitalism is as pointless as passing judgement on empires. They are merely the superstructure that distributes goods and services. ""


And you say that like its a bad thing. Th e great thing about most capitalist countries is they have democracies, so you get a alliance of political views, There is the push and pull of capitalism and socialism ,It for the best part gives us balance
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State socialism is capitalist too, Mechanic. We live in a world where goods and services are traded, regardless of what brand of politics your state has. Soviet Russia traded with the West, just as North Korea is trying to now.

This is different to the imperial system where wealth was distributed based on your birth. You were a serf or slave, a member of the merchant or money-lending class, or a landowner or aristocrat. There was no mobility between the classes.

Capitalism is just a different system.
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Mattyfisk wrote on Mar 3rd, 2019 at 4:17pm:
freediver wrote on Mar 3rd, 2019 at 2:56pm:
Capitalism never required cheap labour.


Oh? At one point, capitalism relied on slavery and child labour.

Freeedom, innit.


No it didn't. Nor did the economy actually. There is very strong evidence that we would have been richer without slavery, as we are today.

You have swallowed the socialist handbook and equate capitalism with one of it's misrepresentations. Capitalism works so well partly because it seemlessly handles both shortage and surplus. Slavery is not a part of capitalism, because it prevents a free market in human labour. Historically this has been the case politically as well as theoretically. The free market liberalists were natural allies of the anti slavery movement.

If reality does not work, how about an appeal to logic. If capitalism "at one point" relied on slavery and child labour, then capitalism does not actually require those things, unless you think capitalism itself is changing.

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State socialism is capitalist too, Mechanic. We live in a world where goods and services are traded, regardless of what brand of politics your state has.


Capitalism is by definition not controlled by the state. You broaden the meaning of capitalism to the point that it means nothing at all.
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Australia was initially created as an anti-capitalist system. Currency was banned. Trade with other colonies was banned. Australia was founded on a utopian pastoral vision, where the British proletariat would be turned back into peasants, made good by the earth and hard work.

When democracy started in Australia, only landowners were given the vote. Capitalism took hold much earlier than democracy, perhaps with the rum rebellion. Universal suffrage didn't start until the 20th century.

Capitalism and democracy aren't the same thing. One of the most capitalist countries in the world is a one-party state. We're now entering a phase where what we call democracy is fizzling out. People have lost faith in parliaments - just as they did in the 1930s - not surprising as Nazism was a response to the Great Depression, just as Brexit and Trump are a response to the GFC.

In this sense, democratic institutions rely heavily on economic conditions, but only as much as people turned on their rulers in earlier times.
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freediver wrote on Mar 5th, 2019 at 9:20pm:
Mattyfisk wrote on Mar 3rd, 2019 at 4:17pm:
freediver wrote on Mar 3rd, 2019 at 2:56pm:
Capitalism never required cheap labour.


Oh? At one point, capitalism relied on slavery and child labour.

Freeedom, innit.


No it didn't. Nor did the economy actually. There is very strong evidence that we would have been richer without slavery, as we are today.

You have swallowed the socialist handbook and equate capitalism with one of it's misrepresentations. Capitalism works so well partly because it seemlessly handles both shortage and surplus. Slavery is not a part of capitalism, because it prevents a free market in human labour. Historically this has been the case politically as well as theoretically. The free market liberalists were natural allies of the anti slavery movement.

If reality does not work, how about an appeal to logic. If capitalism "at one point" relied on slavery and child labour, then capitalism does not actually require those things, unless you think capitalism itself is changing.


Good point. "Capitalism" did not require those things, the global marketplace at the time did. The system of triangular trade saw slaves shipped from Africa to the Americas to pick cotton to be sent to Manchester to be turned into linen. And yes, in the cotton gins of England, children were needed because their fingers could fit into the machines.

At various points in time, products sell well which require hard labour - harder than anyone's prepared to do. This was the situation when the White Australia Policy was created. Cane growers could only get harvesters from the Pacific Islands. The British were masters at sending indentured labourers all over the globe to work - that was their response to the abolition of slavey. In the US, they imported Chinese workers to build their hardest railway lines.

So yes, capitalism allows for solutions but it's not, in itself, a system of human progress.
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Mattyfisk wrote on Mar 5th, 2019 at 1:52pm:
No, Aquascoot, no "motivating" Fat Steve and Janeen either. We all know this is just your way of practicing elitism.

10 days of being positive about Fat Steve and Janeen. No instruction, no lectures, no bile against those you call leftards. Take it or leave it.



its truly NOT practicing elitism.

i feel for them.

lets look at a scenario.  lets look at someone who has just smashed their iphone.
they are pretty upset about it, they think about it all the time, they cant think of anything else, they are totally focused on it, at night, they lie in bed pissed off about it, they tell all their friends about it, they cant enjoy anything for maybe 2 whole days until they get a new phone.


that person has passion, they have energy they are devoting to something, they feel things very deeply, when they want to,they can really focus.

now say this with me

"opportunity cost"
again
"opportunity cost".

say that 20 times.

then say
"what else"
again
"what else".

see the unsuccessful person has a firehose of passion and focus but its aimed at the wrong things.
the successful person just focuses the hose.

when i tell steve and janeen to get out of the durr state, eat a cucumber, never complain, i am telling them to "focus".  thats not coming from an elite place.

i think they are a superstar.
i think the person who cant sleep because they smashed their phone is a superstar.

if they could bring that level of focus to business, they could start a business and maybe rival Apple, then they would have unlimited phones.

i'm rooting for them
i want them to succeed.
i want them to say "what else".
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Mattyfisk wrote on Mar 5th, 2019 at 9:20pm:
Australia was initially created as an anti-capitalist system. Currency was banned. Trade with other colonies was banned. Australia was founded on a utopian pastoral vision, where the British proletariat would be turned back into peasants, made good by the earth and hard work.

When democracy started in Australia, only landowners were given the vote. Capitalism took hold much earlier than democracy, perhaps with the rum rebellion. Universal suffrage didn't start until the 20th century.

Capitalism and democracy aren't the same thing. One of the most capitalist countries in the world is a one-party state. We're now entering a phase where what we call democracy is fizzling out. People have lost faith in parliaments - just as they did in the 1930s - not surprising as Nazism was a response to the Great Depression, just as Brexit and Trump are a response to the GFC.

In this sense, democratic institutions rely heavily on economic conditions, but only as much as people turned on their rulers in earlier times.


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Reply #156 - Mar 6th, 2019 at 12:44pm
 
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Mattyfisk wrote on Mar 5th, 2019 at 1:52pm:
No, Aquascoot, no "motivating" Fat Steve and Janeen either. We all know this is just your way of practicing elitism.

10 days of being positive about Fat Steve and Janeen. No instruction, no lectures, no bile against those you call leftards. Take it or leave it.



its truly NOT practicing elitism.

i feel for them.

lets look at a scenario.  lets look at someone who has just smashed their iphone.
they are pretty upset about it, they think about it all the time, they cant think of anything else, they are totally focused on it, at night, they lie in bed pissed off about it, they tell all their friends about it, they cant enjoy anything for maybe 2 whole days until they get a new phone.


that person has passion, they have energy they are devoting to something, they feel things very deeply, when they want to,they can really focus.

now say this with me

"opportunity cost"
again
"opportunity cost".

say that 20 times.

then say
"what else"
again
"what else".

see the unsuccessful person has a firehose of passion and focus but its aimed at the wrong things.
the successful person just focuses the hose.

when i tell steve and janeen to get out of the durr state, eat a cucumber, never complain, i am telling them to "focus".  thats not coming from an elite place.

i think they are a superstar.
i think the person who cant sleep because they smashed their phone is a superstar.

if they could bring that level of focus to business, they could start a business and maybe rival Apple, then they would have unlimited phones.

i'm rooting for them
i want them to succeed.
i want them to say "what else".


Come come, dear. You entire world view is that the world is full of ignorant chodes who live lives of pure garbage. Only the superior man is able to focus them, and those men are rare.

They need to have come from a property developing family and had a chauffeur all their lives.

Nietzschean, innit.
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Can obese Steve and Janeen fill out their tax returns correctly? or don't they earn enough to warrant filling one out?
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This wasn't meant to be about capitalism. All the arguments for and against capitalism have been done years ago. Everyone knows this stuff.

And yes, Australia was founded on slavery, or penal servitude where the redcoats were running the show.
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Can obese Steve and Janeen fill out their tax returns correctly? or don't they earn enough to warrant filling one out?


The one in the White House has a team of accountants to do his, Bias.

Yes, he doesn't make enough to pay any tax, but you still have to file a tax return.
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You have swallowed the socialist handbook and equate capitalism with one of it's misrepresentations. Capitalism works so well partly because it seemlessly handles both shortage and surplus. Slavery is not a part of capitalism, because it prevents a free market in human labour. Historically this has been the case politically as well as theoretically. The free market liberalists were natural allies of the anti slavery movement.


It seems to me that while free market liberalists proudly state their opposition to 'slavery' as such, they are ok with slave-like conditions, as long as they can convince themselves that it was entered into willingly and freely. And thats where the lines between slavery and non-slavery become somewhat blurred. To me there is no meaningful difference between a worker forced through absense of bargaining power or worker rights into slave-like conditions simply to survive, and an actual 'slave'.
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This wasn't meant to be about capitalism. All the arguments for and against capitalism have been done years ago. Everyone knows this stuff.

And yes, Australia was founded on slavery, or penal servitude where the redcoats were running the show.


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Mattyfisk wrote on Mar 5th, 2019 at 9:20pm:
Australia was initially created as an anti-capitalist system. Currency was banned. Trade with other colonies was banned. Australia was founded on a utopian pastoral vision, where the British proletariat would be turned back into peasants, made good by the earth and hard work.

When democracy started in Australia, only landowners were given the vote. Capitalism took hold much earlier than democracy, perhaps with the rum rebellion. Universal suffrage didn't start until the 20th century.

Capitalism and democracy aren't the same thing. One of the most capitalist countries in the world is a one-party state. We're now entering a phase where what we call democracy is fizzling out. People have lost faith in parliaments - just as they did in the 1930s - not surprising as Nazism was a response to the Great Depression, just as Brexit and Trump are a response to the GFC.

In this sense, democratic institutions rely heavily on economic conditions, but only as much as people turned on their rulers in earlier times.


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Mattyfisk wrote on Mar 5th, 2019 at 9:35pm:
freediver wrote on Mar 5th, 2019 at 9:20pm:
Mattyfisk wrote on Mar 3rd, 2019 at 4:17pm:
freediver wrote on Mar 3rd, 2019 at 2:56pm:
Capitalism never required cheap labour.


Oh? At one point, capitalism relied on slavery and child labour.

Freeedom, innit.


No it didn't. Nor did the economy actually. There is very strong evidence that we would have been richer without slavery, as we are today.

You have swallowed the socialist handbook and equate capitalism with one of it's misrepresentations. Capitalism works so well partly because it seemlessly handles both shortage and surplus. Slavery is not a part of capitalism, because it prevents a free market in human labour. Historically this has been the case politically as well as theoretically. The free market liberalists were natural allies of the anti slavery movement.

If reality does not work, how about an appeal to logic. If capitalism "at one point" relied on slavery and child labour, then capitalism does not actually require those things, unless you think capitalism itself is changing.


Good point. "Capitalism" did not require those things, the global marketplace at the time did. The system of triangular trade saw slaves shipped from Africa to the Americas to pick cotton to be sent to Manchester to be turned into linen. And yes, in the cotton gins of England, children were needed because their fingers could fit into the machines.

At various points in time, products sell well which require hard labour - harder than anyone's prepared to do. This was the situation when the White Australia Policy was created. Cane growers could only get harvesters from the Pacific Islands. The British were masters at sending indentured labourers all over the globe to work - that was their response to the abolition of slavey. In the US, they imported Chinese workers to build their hardest railway lines.

So yes, capitalism allows for solutions but it's not, in itself, a system of human progress.


No it did not. You assume it was needed merely on the grounds that it existed. Slavery is a waste of human effort. Slaves are generally less productive than free men.

The reason that England surged ahead in the industrial revolution was the absence of slavery. England also transformed serfdom into a paid cash relationship prior to continental Europe. It had a freer market in human labour. People chose to work harder and produce more than slaves or conventional serfs. And again, I am not saying that the industrial revolution was necessary for this to happen. It was already happening in English agriculture and various other endeavors, and England was already seeing its power increase as a result.
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England saw its power and wealth increase from its colonies, FD. If Britain didn't rule the world markets in the 18th and 19th centuries, the French or Germans would have, just as the Dutch and Portugese did in their time.

Just as the US does in our time.

They all used slaves, and they all ran colonies at different points. Britain had bugger all surplus wealth in British agriculture - this went to prop up its aristocracy, which did not come cheap. This is why Britain extended to the colonies - valuable commodities, arable land and forests, and good climate. Britain had no cotton or tobacco crops at home. It didn't even have the spice to make gin. But most importantly, the colonies had the cheap labour to get those crops out of the ground and onto ships, destined for the 4 corners of the world.

The age of European expansion was indeed a necessary stage of capitalism, FD. Capitalism would not exist without the Dutch East India Company, which first floated shares.

The Dutch were more brutal than the British. The Spanish were more brutal than the Dutch, and before them? I hear the Mongols were complete bastards too. The one thing all these empires shared is slaves. Prior to the development of human resources, empires relied on them.
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polite_gandalf wrote on Mar 6th, 2019 at 2:54pm:
freediver wrote on Mar 5th, 2019 at 9:20pm:
You have swallowed the socialist handbook and equate capitalism with one of it's misrepresentations. Capitalism works so well partly because it seemlessly handles both shortage and surplus. Slavery is not a part of capitalism, because it prevents a free market in human labour. Historically this has been the case politically as well as theoretically. The free market liberalists were natural allies of the anti slavery movement.


It seems to me that while free market liberalists proudly state their opposition to 'slavery' as such, they are ok with slave-like conditions, as long as they can convince themselves that it was entered into willingly and freely. And thats where the lines between slavery and non-slavery become somewhat blurred. To me there is no meaningful difference between a worker forced through absense of bargaining power or worker rights into slave-like conditions simply to survive, and an actual 'slave'.


Your sanctimonious pontificating knows no bounds.

Slavery is the ownership of people. They were, and in some cases still are, bought and sold. Your attempt to broaden the meaning is typical of your too familiar obfuscation. But if you wish to expand on slavery and slave-like conditions, let's look at the history of Islamic slavery in Africa. Who went inland and captured and then sold Africans to European and Arabian slave traders? How was this justified?

By considering Infidels to be inferior beings.

In encourage those interested to read:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arab_slave_trade

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_slavery_in_the_Muslim_world


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freediver wrote on Mar 6th, 2019 at 7:08pm:
Mattyfisk wrote on Mar 5th, 2019 at 9:35pm:
freediver wrote on Mar 5th, 2019 at 9:20pm:
Mattyfisk wrote on Mar 3rd, 2019 at 4:17pm:
freediver wrote on Mar 3rd, 2019 at 2:56pm:
Capitalism never required cheap labour.


Oh? At one point, capitalism relied on slavery and child labour.

Freeedom, innit.


No it didn't. Nor did the economy actually. There is very strong evidence that we would have been richer without slavery, as we are today.

You have swallowed the socialist handbook and equate capitalism with one of it's misrepresentations. Capitalism works so well partly because it seemlessly handles both shortage and surplus. Slavery is not a part of capitalism, because it prevents a free market in human labour. Historically this has been the case politically as well as theoretically. The free market liberalists were natural allies of the anti slavery movement.

If reality does not work, how about an appeal to logic. If capitalism "at one point" relied on slavery and child labour, then capitalism does not actually require those things, unless you think capitalism itself is changing.


Good point. "Capitalism" did not require those things, the global marketplace at the time did. The system of triangular trade saw slaves shipped from Africa to the Americas to pick cotton to be sent to Manchester to be turned into linen. And yes, in the cotton gins of England, children were needed because their fingers could fit into the machines.

At various points in time, products sell well which require hard labour - harder than anyone's prepared to do. This was the situation when the White Australia Policy was created. Cane growers could only get harvesters from the Pacific Islands. The British were masters at sending indentured labourers all over the globe to work - that was their response to the abolition of slavey. In the US, they imported Chinese workers to build their hardest railway lines.

So yes, capitalism allows for solutions but it's not, in itself, a system of human progress.


No it did not. You assume it was needed merely on the grounds that it existed. Slavery is a waste of human effort. Slaves are generally less productive than free men.

The reason that England surged ahead in the industrial revolution was the absence of slavery. England also transformed serfdom into a paid cash relationship prior to continental Europe. It had a freer market in human labour. People chose to work harder and produce more than slaves or conventional serfs. And again, I am not saying that the industrial revolution was necessary for this to happen. It was already happening in English agriculture and various other endeavors, and England was already seeing its power increase as a result.


English genocidal pirate nation was the biggest slave trader on earth. They transported millions of black slaves from Africa to America as well as to England.
Only when Americans got rid of British they abolished  slavery. In their colony Australia British didn't need black slaves because they had enough own slave convicts.
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Trying to explain the rise of Britain without any reference to its considerable empire and monopoly of the global slave trade is pretty disingenuous IMO. Arguably the liberalisation of the British economy on the European market was possible only on the back of slavery:

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In his famous 1944 book 'Capitalism and Slavery', the Trinidadian scholar Eric Williams argued that profits from slavery 'fertilised' many branches of the metropolitan economy and set the scene for England's industrial revolution'.

His thesis has focused decades of debate and controversy. It correctly identified the very great intimacy in 18th-century Britain between making money from slavery on the one hand, and the financing of British capitalist development, on the other.


British capitalism was a cause rather than consequence of slave plantation development. But the fit between slave plantation growth and industrial advance in Britain was to be impressive and sustained. The plantation colonies supplied the mother country with a growing stream of popular luxuries - dyestuffs, sugar, tobacco, then later coffee and chocolate as well - and cotton, a crucial industrial input.

The availability of such treats drew consumers into greater participation in market exchanges and greater reliance on wages, salaries and fees. Baiting the hook of wage dependence, new consumer goods helped to motivate what some historians call the 'industrious revolution', the longer hours and tight labour control associated with industrialism.


http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/british/abolition/industrialisation_article_01.shtm...
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issuevoter wrote on Mar 7th, 2019 at 8:54am:
Slavery is the ownership of people. They were, and in some cases still are, bought and sold. Your attempt to broaden the meaning is typical of your too familiar obfuscation


If workers have no rights and when, because of the monopolies that inevitably develop in unchecked capitalist systems, the only employment opportunities available to them give them nothing but the bare minimum to avoid starving to death, how is this sort of ownership-dependency dynamic different from 'official' slavery? Of course that an extreme case, but only because most capitalist systems are prevented from becoming like this because of government intervention - terrible anti-capitalist things like regulation and intervention which of course liberal free marketeers oppose.

Naturally free marketeers talk a big talk about how having happy, well treated workers is actually in their best interests - but when we look at the reality of how worker's rights and improved conditions developed, it hasn't been unfettered capitalism that has magically granted them, its been government and workers themselves, through the development of unions, that have fought for them - while the capitalists fight against them tooth and nail. As far as I can tell, the more 'free' the market, the closer to slaves the workers become. I see no reason why proper slavery - if not in name then in meaning - is not a desirable goal of capitalism (despite what the true believers preach to us).
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Reply #169 - Mar 7th, 2019 at 2:24pm
 
polite_gandalf wrote on Mar 7th, 2019 at 2:14pm:
issuevoter wrote on Mar 7th, 2019 at 8:54am:
Slavery is the ownership of people. They were, and in some cases still are, bought and sold. Your attempt to broaden the meaning is typical of your too familiar obfuscation


If workers have no rights and when, because of the monopolies that inevitably develop in unchecked capitalist systems, the only employment opportunities available to them give them nothing but the bare minimum to avoid starving to death, how is this sort of ownership-dependency dynamic different from 'official' slavery? Of course that an extreme case, but only because most capitalist systems are prevented from becoming like this because of government intervention - terrible anti-capitalist things like regulation and intervention which of course liberal free marketeers oppose.

Naturally free marketeers talk a big talk about how having happy, well treated workers is actually in their best interests - but when we look at the reality of how worker's rights and improved conditions developed, it hasn't been unfettered capitalism that has magically granted them, its been government and workers themselves, through the development of unions, that have fought for them - while the capitalists fight against them tooth and nail. As far as I can tell, the more 'free' the market, the closer to slaves the workers become. I see no reason why proper slavery - if not in name then in meaning - is not a desirable goal of capitalism (despite what the true believers preach to us).




"" opportunities available to them give them nothing but the bare minimum to avoid starving to death""


This is why community gardens should be encouraged. So they can spend all day in the factory then their evenings and weekends in the garden  . Its a win win, they get fed and us well off productive  folks dont get robbed ?
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Capitalism is "an economic and political system in which a country's trade and industry are controlled by private owners for profit, rather than by the state."

Capitalism by itself does not imply absence from coercion, nor does it mean the free exchange of goods and services. One can exist without the other.
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Auggie wrote on Mar 7th, 2019 at 5:44pm:
Capitalism is "an economic and political system in which a country's trade and industry are controlled by private owners for profit, rather than by the state."

Capitalism by itself does not imply absence from coercion, nor does it mean the free exchange of goods and services. One can exist without the other.



And your point is ?



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BigP wrote on Mar 7th, 2019 at 6:02pm:
Auggie wrote on Mar 7th, 2019 at 5:44pm:
Capitalism is "an economic and political system in which a country's trade and industry are controlled by private owners for profit, rather than by the state."

Capitalism by itself does not imply absence from coercion, nor does it mean the free exchange of goods and services. One can exist without the other.



And your point is ?



Hard n Fast


My point is to refute FD's argument that slavery is not capitalism, since according to him capitalism is about the free exchange of labour. Slaves still produced a profit for cotton-planters in the south. It was still a capitalist economy.
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polite_gandalf wrote on Mar 7th, 2019 at 2:14pm:
Naturally free marketeers talk a big talk about how having happy, well treated workers is actually in their best interests - but when we look at the reality of how worker's rights and improved conditions developed, it hasn't been unfettered capitalism that has magically granted them, its been government and workers themselves, through the development of unions, that have fought for them - while the capitalists fight against them tooth and nail. As far as I can tell, the more 'free' the market, the closer to slaves the workers become. I see no reason why proper slavery - if not in name then in meaning - is not a desirable goal of capitalism (despite what the true believers preach to us).


I couldn't agree more. It was only through collective action of the working class that conditions improved.

Freedom can flourish only in desirable economic circumstances.
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Auggie wrote on Mar 7th, 2019 at 5:44pm:
Capitalism is "an economic and political system in which a country's trade and industry are controlled by private owners for profit, rather than by the state."

Capitalism by itself does not imply absence from coercion, nor does it mean the free exchange of goods and services. One can exist without the other.


state coercion is actually central to capitalism - as in the need for state coercion to enforce property rights.
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Auggie wrote on Mar 7th, 2019 at 6:07pm:
BigP wrote on Mar 7th, 2019 at 6:02pm:
Auggie wrote on Mar 7th, 2019 at 5:44pm:
Capitalism is "an economic and political system in which a country's trade and industry are controlled by private owners for profit, rather than by the state."

Capitalism by itself does not imply absence from coercion, nor does it mean the free exchange of goods and services. One can exist without the other.



And your point is ?



Hard n Fast


My point is to refute FD's argument that slavery is not capitalism, since according to him capitalism is about the free exchange of labour. Slaves still produced a profit for cotton-planters in the south. It was still a capitalist economy.


The real problem with FD's argument is that he paints a rosy picture of the liberalisation of human labour (and other aspects of the domestic market) in England and how that process
in and of itself turbo powered the British economy into greatness - but completely ignoring the fact that it was the influx of capital from the slave trade that allowed and triggered that domestic liberalisation.

And we see a similar thing today in the global economy: cheap commodities are available in the west that are often made in third world asian countries by workers working in deregulated slave like conditions. Oh of course we wax lyrical about how we are clamping down on worker conditions and thats its all changing, yet strangely those same commodoties don't seem to be getting more expensive as these workers conditions and pay are supposedly improving. The fact is, so much of our capitalist system in the west runs on the back of people working if not in slave like conditions, certainly in conditions that we would never tolerate for ourselves. Basically, as I said before, capitalists in liberalised markets have proven that they will provide as little pay and conditions to their workers as they can possibly get away with.
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polite_gandalf wrote on Mar 7th, 2019 at 6:12pm:
Auggie wrote on Mar 7th, 2019 at 5:44pm:
Capitalism is "an economic and political system in which a country's trade and industry are controlled by private owners for profit, rather than by the state."

Capitalism by itself does not imply absence from coercion, nor does it mean the free exchange of goods and services. One can exist without the other.


state coercion is actually central to capitalism - as in the need for state coercion to enforce property rights.


Yes, because true liberty cannot exist unless there are the coercive institutions to defend those rights or liberties.
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polite_gandalf wrote on Mar 7th, 2019 at 6:39pm:
Auggie wrote on Mar 7th, 2019 at 6:07pm:
BigP wrote on Mar 7th, 2019 at 6:02pm:
Auggie wrote on Mar 7th, 2019 at 5:44pm:
Capitalism is "an economic and political system in which a country's trade and industry are controlled by private owners for profit, rather than by the state."

Capitalism by itself does not imply absence from coercion, nor does it mean the free exchange of goods and services. One can exist without the other.



And your point is ?



Hard n Fast


My point is to refute FD's argument that slavery is not capitalism, since according to him capitalism is about the free exchange of labour. Slaves still produced a profit for cotton-planters in the south. It was still a capitalist economy.


The real problem with FD's argument is that he paints a rosy picture of the liberalisation of human labour (and other aspects of the domestic market) in England and how that process
in and of itself turbo powered the British economy into greatness - but completely ignoring the fact that it was the influx of capital from the slave trade that allowed and triggered that domestic liberalisation.

And we see a similar thing today in the global economy: cheap commodities are available in the west that are often made in third world asian countries by workers working in deregulated slave like conditions. Oh of course we wax lyrical about how we are clamping down on worker conditions and thats its all changing, yet strangely those same commodoties don't seem to be getting more expensive as these workers conditions and pay are supposedly improving. The fact is, so much of our capitalist system in the west runs on the back of people working if not in slave like conditions, certainly in conditions that we would never tolerate for ourselves. Basically, as I said before, capitalists in liberalised markets have proven that they will provide as little pay and conditions to their workers as they can possibly get away with.

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freediver wrote on Mar 5th, 2019 at 9:20pm:
You have swallowed the socialist handbook and equate capitalism with one of it's misrepresentations. Capitalism works so well partly because it seemlessly handles both shortage and surplus. Slavery is not a part of capitalism, because it prevents a free market in human labour. Historically this has been the case politically as well as theoretically. The free market liberalists were natural allies of the anti slavery movement.


It seems to me that while free market liberalists proudly state their opposition to 'slavery' as such, they are ok with slave-like conditions, as long as they can convince themselves that it was entered into willingly and freely. And thats where the lines between slavery and non-slavery become somewhat blurred. To me there is no meaningful difference between a worker forced through absense of bargaining power or worker rights into slave-like conditions simply to survive, and an actual 'slave'.


Free market liberalism is the way out of those slave-like conditions. You cannot legislate food into existence.

The absence of slavery, serfdom etc gives the worker absolute bargaining power, because he can choose out of every option available to him what job to do, and can travel to get it.

Your criticism of capitalism amounts to nothing more than bemoaning the inability to magically conjure everything we want into existence. We still have to work to make it happen.

They are only "OK" with slave-like conditions in the sense that they are "OK" with facing reality.
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England saw its power and wealth increase from its colonies, FD. If Britain didn't rule the world markets in the 18th and 19th centuries, the French or Germans would have, just as the Dutch and Portugese did in their time.

Just as the US does in our time.

They all used slaves, and they all ran colonies at different points. Britain had bugger all surplus wealth in British agriculture - this went to prop up its aristocracy, which did not come cheap. This is why Britain extended to the colonies - valuable commodities, arable land and forests, and good climate. Britain had no cotton or tobacco crops at home. It didn't even have the spice to make gin. But most importantly, the colonies had the cheap labour to get those crops out of the ground and onto ships, destined for the 4 corners of the world.

The age of European expansion was indeed a necessary stage of capitalism, FD. Capitalism would not exist without the Dutch East India Company, which first floated shares.

The Dutch were more brutal than the British. The Spanish were more brutal than the Dutch, and before them? I hear the Mongols were complete bastards too. The one thing all these empires shared is slaves. Prior to the development of human resources, empires relied on them.


England saw it's wealth and power increase well before it had colonies. It became a centre for cotton milling before any new world cotton was imported, because it's labour force was free to do so.

The English defeated the French and Spanish in the battle of Trafalgar in 1805. They passed the abolition of the slave trade act in 1807 - within two years of coming into a position to actually enforce it.

England's ability to come from behind, from a position of apparent weakness, conquer the world's seas and establish the largest empire was a result of home-grown power in the form of a free market in labour (which they obviously tended to export such that their colonies became powerful also). Critics of reality, capitalism etc like to get this backwards and pretend that the colonies, slavery etc were a necessary precondition to England's rise, but they were a symptom, not a cause. All you have to do to realise this is to rationally look at the timeline and see what came first. Your argument rests on ignorance of historical fact.
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The British were out of North America in 1805, FD. They'd put their eggs in India, with a local population prepared to work hard for peanuts. What the Napoleonic wars did was compel England to create a formidable naval force, and one they would use to expand the colonies even further.

Indians could never get over why England chose to ignore Indian cotton manufacturing and make it in England. This saw the end of Indian cloth manufacturing, a huge industry back then. India had cheap labour. It had cotton. Why did England go to all the trouble of sending slaves to the Americas to pick cotton to send back to Britain, and in so doing, create an industrial nightmare?

Engels described it in the Conditions of the Working Class in England in 1845. Orwell wrote the Road to Wigan Pier in 1937 - almost a hundred years later. The conditions of British workers had't changed. They were worse than Indian workers at the time. Shorter average lifespan, high infant mortality, the lot.

Fast forward a hundred and eighty years and look at the conditions of workers in Bangladesh. Perfectly capitalist, all the big global chains get their clothes made there. Like British workers during the industrial revolution, many are locked in for their shifts, which can be extended to get a contract done. No overtime, no freedom to leave and go home. Capitalism has literally created these conditions, just as it created the conditions Engels and Orwell described in their times.

Today, in China, they're going a step further - no need to turn a workforce into robots, create robots to do the work. I'm unsure where this will take us, just as I'm unsure where self-driving cars and trucks will leave those employed as drivers. My hope is they get jobs in the service industry, but as the US shows, job creation there is largely in fast-food, with an average income of $18000 a year.

None of this has created the freedom you describe. We've witnessed better pay and conditions over the years (in the developed world), but this has nothing to do with capitalism. As G has already said, this is the work of governments and unions.

The transition to service economies in the developed world is pivotal, but all we've done is outsource our working class to developing countries. Our own proletariat has had government assistance, but has been left by the free market to fend for itself.

Unions and organised labour forces are antithetical to capitalism. Within capitalism, profits must be distributed among shareholders, not workers. If not, investors will simply invest their money elsewhere. There is no incentive, for example, for clothing manufacturers to make clothes in Australia, a country with sweatshop legislation and a minimum wage. No worries, investors simply go to Bangladesh, where unions are stamped out at the source.

This is free-trade liberalism. The freedom you describe applies to shareholders, not workers. This is how capitalism works. To make profit and attract investors, you must either exploit a slave class of workers or develop robots to do the job instead.
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freediver wrote on Mar 8th, 2019 at 10:40am:
The absence of slavery, serfdom etc gives the worker absolute bargaining power, because he can choose out of every option available to him what job to do, and can travel to get it.


Sorry, but this is a sad joke for the vast majority of workers who are exploited in the capitalist system. "Every option available" - yes FD, I'm afraid thats the point. What is actually available for third world workers in reality? In fact workers not having bargaining power is a key reason why capitalism survives. If workers trully had bargaining power, the system would literally fall apart. Maintaining a certain permanent level of unemployment is one of the ways the system ensures workers don't have bargaining power.

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Funnily enough its actually the free-marketeers who rely on magical conjuring - as in the magic of the free market to conjure up wonderful working conditions, great pay, opportunity for everyone, and trickle down malarchy that creates prosperity for anyone who works hard  Cheesy
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Unions and organised labour forces are antithetical to capitalism. Within capitalism, profits must be distributed among shareholders, not workers. If not, investors will simply invest their money elsewhere. There is no incentive, for example, for clothing manufacturers to make clothes in Australia, a country with sweatshop legislation and a minimum wage. No worries, investors simply go to Bangladesh, where unions are stamped out at the source.


Here's a thought: if workers had actual bargaining power, why would they remain mere employees? Why wouldn't they bargain themselves into becoming shareholders, and taking a fair share of the profits of the produce they themselves produced? Or at the very least, wages would go through the roof, causing mass inflation and making the entire economy a basket case. Obviously if this happened the whole system would fall down.

So like I said, capitalism depends on the workers not having bargaining power.
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Unions and organised labour forces are antithetical to capitalism. Within capitalism, profits must be distributed among shareholders, not workers. If not, investors will simply invest their money elsewhere. There is no incentive, for example, for clothing manufacturers to make clothes in Australia, a country with sweatshop legislation and a minimum wage. No worries, investors simply go to Bangladesh, where unions are stamped out at the source.


Here's a thought: if workers had actual bargaining power, why would they remain mere employees? Why wouldn't they bargain themselves into becoming shareholders, and taking a fair share of the profits of the produce they themselves produced? Or at the very least, wages would go through the roof, causing mass inflation and making the entire economy a basket case. Obviously if this happened the whole system would fall down.

So like I said, capitalism depends on the workers not having bargaining power.


This is a good question. Why hasn't worker shareholding spread under capitalism? This would be the solution, wouldn't it?

Workers would be motivated to increase productivity, right? They would be free, as FD says, to negotiate pay and conditions at the board level. Corporations would have access to capital through worker savings.

If what FD says is right, why hasn't the invisible hand of the marketplace delivered this solution?
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polite_gandalf wrote on Mar 8th, 2019 at 3:11pm:
freediver wrote on Mar 8th, 2019 at 10:40am:
The absence of slavery, serfdom etc gives the worker absolute bargaining power, because he can choose out of every option available to him what job to do, and can travel to get it.


Sorry, but this is a sad joke for the vast majority of workers who are exploited in the capitalist system. "Every option available" - yes FD, I'm afraid thats the point. What is actually available for third world workers in reality? In fact workers not having bargaining power is a key reason why capitalism survives. If workers trully had bargaining power, the system would literally fall apart. Maintaining a certain permanent level of unemployment is one of the ways the system ensures workers don't have bargaining power.

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Your criticism of capitalism amounts to nothing more than bemoaning the inability to magically conjure everything we want into existence. We still have to work to make it happen.


Funnily enough its actually the free-marketeers who rely on magical conjuring - as in the magic of the free market to conjure up wonderful working conditions, great pay, opportunity for everyone, and trickle down malarchy that creates prosperity for anyone who works hard  Cheesy


I have never met anyone who doesn't feel as though work is work and is not leisure. I know such people exist, but most of is aren't stunt pilots.

People always talk about how your whole life is work to the extent you have to make work your life in order to be happy.

That's why it's "cool" to be an executive. People don't have lives. They have to prove their inadequacies are less than your inadequacies by making themselves feel better and making you feel worse by using employment as a measuring stick.

If you realisticaly evaluate what work is it is a horrible injustice and a waste of your existence.

This is why so many people live vicariously through things such as TV shows, politics, sports, and issues.

Because they have no life and need to place what are essentially non existent things in its place in order to feel satisfied.

What is work? It's a means to survive.

If you drive your Lamborghini to Coles to buy groceries, you're still working a 40 hour week and driving to buy groceries.

Your status as an executive does not mean you have a life. It means fake measuring sticks have been created.

At the end of the day everyone drives to Coles and works all day. All that other stuff is to mask your social inadequacies.
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I've experienced a few 'pleb' dead end 'jobs' and known of others who have done also - that are an absolute 'leisure, pleasure, fun and more!'. Not every 'job' is about the money. Sometimes these jobs provide something that a very well paid career orientated cliche 'upper' employment could never provide directly.

I had a mate who had to dress up as Captain Morgan, get drunk on the very bottle and promote the Night Club 'Captain Morgan' by bumping into as many chicks as possible to invite them to the club and shag as many as possible. He had to get drunk, root as much as possible, while dressed as Capt Morgan for 3 nights of the week!

...not even some of the best paid jobs could 'pay' for that  Wink
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Mattyfisk wrote on Mar 8th, 2019 at 5:36pm:
polite_gandalf wrote on Mar 8th, 2019 at 3:23pm:
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Unions and organised labour forces are antithetical to capitalism. Within capitalism, profits must be distributed among shareholders, not workers. If not, investors will simply invest their money elsewhere. There is no incentive, for example, for clothing manufacturers to make clothes in Australia, a country with sweatshop legislation and a minimum wage. No worries, investors simply go to Bangladesh, where unions are stamped out at the source.


Here's a thought: if workers had actual bargaining power, why would they remain mere employees? Why wouldn't they bargain themselves into becoming shareholders, and taking a fair share of the profits of the produce they themselves produced? Or at the very least, wages would go through the roof, causing mass inflation and making the entire economy a basket case. Obviously if this happened the whole system would fall down.

So like I said, capitalism depends on the workers not having bargaining power.


This is a good question. Why hasn't worker shareholding spread under capitalism? This would be the solution, wouldn't it?

Workers would be motivated to increase productivity, right? They would be free, as FD says, to negotiate pay and conditions at the board level. Corporations would have access to capital through worker savings.

If what FD says is right, why hasn't the invisible hand of the marketplace delivered this solution?

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Spatchcock wrote on Mar 8th, 2019 at 5:54pm:
polite_gandalf wrote on Mar 8th, 2019 at 3:11pm:
freediver wrote on Mar 8th, 2019 at 10:40am:
The absence of slavery, serfdom etc gives the worker absolute bargaining power, because he can choose out of every option available to him what job to do, and can travel to get it.


Sorry, but this is a sad joke for the vast majority of workers who are exploited in the capitalist system. "Every option available" - yes FD, I'm afraid thats the point. What is actually available for third world workers in reality? In fact workers not having bargaining power is a key reason why capitalism survives. If workers trully had bargaining power, the system would literally fall apart. Maintaining a certain permanent level of unemployment is one of the ways the system ensures workers don't have bargaining power.

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Your criticism of capitalism amounts to nothing more than bemoaning the inability to magically conjure everything we want into existence. We still have to work to make it happen.


Funnily enough its actually the free-marketeers who rely on magical conjuring - as in the magic of the free market to conjure up wonderful working conditions, great pay, opportunity for everyone, and trickle down malarchy that creates prosperity for anyone who works hard  Cheesy


I have never met anyone who doesn't feel as though work is work and is not leisure. I know such people exist, but most of is aren't stunt pilots.

People always talk about how your whole life is work to the extent you have to make work your life in order to be happy.

That's why it's "cool" to be an executive. People don't have lives. They have to prove their inadequacies are less than your inadequacies by making themselves feel better and making you feel worse by using employment as a measuring stick.

If you realisticaly evaluate what work is it is a horrible injustice and a waste of your existence.

This is why so many people live vicariously through things such as TV shows, politics, sports, and issues.

Because they have no life and need to place what are essentially non existent things in its place in order to feel satisfied.

What is work? It's a means to survive.

If you drive your Lamborghini to Coles to buy groceries, you're still working a 40 hour week and driving to buy groceries.

Your status as an executive does not mean you have a life. It means fake measuring sticks have been created.

At the end of the day everyone drives to Coles and works all day. All that other stuff is to mask your social inadequacies.

If you realisticaly evaluate what work is it is a horrible injustice and a waste of your existence.



I've always had trouble with that very truthful statement. We get a little slice of time in the fabric of existence and it gets taken off us so some maggot can go on holidays 10 times a year. And when we do get the time to relax we are so old and tired that all we want to do is sit on a longue waiting to carc it. It's so sad.
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Jasin wrote on Mar 8th, 2019 at 6:02pm:
I've experienced a few 'pleb' dead end 'jobs' and known of others who have done also - that are an absolute 'leisure, pleasure, fun and more!'. Not every 'job' is about the money. Sometimes these jobs provide something that a very well paid career orientated cliche 'upper' employment could never provide directly.

I had a mate who had to dress up as Captain Morgan, get drunk on the very bottle and promote the Night Club 'Captain Morgan' by bumping into as many chicks as possible to invite them to the club and shag as many as possible. He had to get drunk, root as much as possible, while dressed as Capt Morgan for 3 nights of the week!

...not even some of the best paid jobs could 'pay' for that  Wink

When I did security during the 2000 Olympics I got to sit in a function room all night full of top class food and piss while watching a massive tv. I had my own personal party every night for 2 weeks. And nobody bothered me except the dude rocking up for his shift. Captain Morgan's job is still pretty hard to beat Jasin. Dirty old Captain Morgan and his organ.
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Mattyfisk wrote on Mar 8th, 2019 at 1:22pm:
The British were out of North America in 1805, FD. They'd put their eggs in India, with a local population prepared to work hard for peanuts. What the Napoleonic wars did was compel England to create a formidable naval force, and one they would use to expand the colonies even further.

Indians could never get over why England chose to ignore Indian cotton manufacturing and make it in England. This saw the end of Indian cloth manufacturing, a huge industry back then. India had cheap labour. It had cotton. Why did England go to all the trouble of sending slaves to the Americas to pick cotton to send back to Britain, and in so doing, create an industrial nightmare?

Engels described it in the Conditions of the Working Class in England in 1845. Orwell wrote the Road to Wigan Pier in 1937 - almost a hundred years later. The conditions of British workers had't changed. They were worse than Indian workers at the time. Shorter average lifespan, high infant mortality, the lot.

Fast forward a hundred and eighty years and look at the conditions of workers in Bangladesh. Perfectly capitalist, all the big global chains get their clothes made there. Like British workers during the industrial revolution, many are locked in for their shifts, which can be extended to get a contract done. No overtime, no freedom to leave and go home. Capitalism has literally created these conditions, just as it created the conditions Engels and Orwell described in their times.

Today, in China, they're going a step further - no need to turn a workforce into robots, create robots to do the work. I'm unsure where this will take us, just as I'm unsure where self-driving cars and trucks will leave those employed as drivers. My hope is they get jobs in the service industry, but as the US shows, job creation there is largely in fast-food, with an average income of $18000 a year.

None of this has created the freedom you describe. We've witnessed better pay and conditions over the years (in the developed world), but this has nothing to do with capitalism. As G has already said, this is the work of governments and unions.

The transition to service economies in the developed world is pivotal, but all we've done is outsource our working class to developing countries. Our own proletariat has had government assistance, but has been left by the free market to fend for itself.

Unions and organised labour forces are antithetical to capitalism. Within capitalism, profits must be distributed among shareholders, not workers. If not, investors will simply invest their money elsewhere. There is no incentive, for example, for clothing manufacturers to make clothes in Australia, a country with sweatshop legislation and a minimum wage. No worries, investors simply go to Bangladesh, where unions are stamped out at the source.

This is free-trade liberalism. The freedom you describe applies to shareholders, not workers. This is how capitalism works. To make profit and attract investors, you must either exploit a slave class of workers or develop robots to do the job instead.


Why are workers not free? If they are not free, there is your problem.

Can you suggest something better for Bangladesh?
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freediver wrote on Mar 8th, 2019 at 10:40am:
The absence of slavery, serfdom etc gives the worker absolute bargaining power, because he can choose out of every option available to him what job to do, and can travel to get it.


Sorry, but this is a sad joke for the vast majority of workers who are exploited in the capitalist system. "Every option available" - yes FD, I'm afraid thats the point. What is actually available for third world workers in reality? In fact workers not having bargaining power is a key reason why capitalism survives. If workers trully had bargaining power, the system would literally fall apart. Maintaining a certain permanent level of unemployment is one of the ways the system ensures workers don't have bargaining power.

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Funnily enough its actually the free-marketeers who rely on magical conjuring - as in the magic of the free market to conjure up wonderful working conditions, great pay, opportunity for everyone, and trickle down malarchy that creates prosperity for anyone who works hard  Cheesy


No Gandalf, that is your (or some random socialists) strawman of pro-capitalist arguments. Capitalists will tell you that you have to actually work for these things.

And it is a blatant lie that the system falls apart if workers have true bargaining power. That is exactly what they have here in Australia, and the system works fine. In fact, they have even more options thanks to the government, such as going on the dole.

What you describe as bargaining power is just a form of theft.
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Why hasn't worker shareholding spread under capitalism? This would be the solution, wouldn't it?


presumably because no capitalist system to date has given workers that much bargaining power. Capitalists will only provide to their workers what they absolutely have to, and if they can get away with less, they will do that. FD's argument that happy and well looked after workers are motivated, and therefore good for capitalists, is easily refuted by pointing out that workers have never got anything resembling 'adequate' pay and conditions by the magic arm of the free market - only through government intervention and unions.

My take is that it shouldn't be assumed that happy motivated workers are necessarily more cost-effective for capitalists than slaves or virtual slaves - especially the more menial the labour becomes. Just look at somewhere like Australia - manufacturers who wanted to operate in Australia would be forced to provide a fairly generous minimum wage, minimum conditions, and all sorts of rights for their workers. According to free market doctrine, that would make awesome workers who are massively efficient and productive for the company right? Yeah, nah, it doesn't work like that. Manufacturers now just reject such "happy and motivated" workers, and instead set up base in the most deregulated third world shitholes where workers have as few rights as possible.

It would be interesting if you could somehow do a measurable productivity cost benefit analysis using workers who are well treated/paid and demonstrably motivated - compared to slaves (or close to it). I wouldn't be so sure that its just a given that the motivated worker is better.

In any case, there seems to be little doubt which labour is the more desirable in the minds of the capitalists themselves.
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freediver wrote on Mar 8th, 2019 at 7:14pm:
And it is a blatant lie that the system falls apart if workers have true bargaining power. That is exactly what they have here in Australia, and the system works fine. In fact, they have even more options thanks to the government, such as going on the dole.


Australian manufacturing is being off-shored FD. Its a direct consequence of Australian labourers getting more bargaining power. Haven't you noticed?
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Mattyfisk wrote on Mar 8th, 2019 at 5:36pm:
Why hasn't worker shareholding spread under capitalism? This would be the solution, wouldn't it?


presumably because no capitalist system to date has given workers that much bargaining power. Capitalists will only provide to their workers what they absolutely have to, and if they can get away with less, they will do that. FD's argument that happy and well looked after workers are motivated, and therefore good for capitalists, is easily refuted by pointing out that workers have never got anything resembling 'adequate' pay and conditions by the magic arm of the free market - only through government intervention and unions.

My take is that it shouldn't be assumed that happy motivated workers are necessarily more cost-effective for capitalists than slaves or virtual slaves - especially the more menial the labour becomes. Just look at somewhere like Australia - manufacturers who wanted to operate in Australia would be forced to provide a fairly generous minimum wage, minimum conditions, and all sorts of rights for their workers. According to free market doctrine, that would make awesome workers who are massively efficient and productive for the company right? Yeah, nah, it doesn't work like that. Manufacturers now just reject such "happy and motivated" workers, and instead set up base in the most deregulated third world shitholes where workers have as few rights as possible.

It would be interesting if you could somehow do a measurable productivity cost benefit analysis using workers who are well treated/paid and demonstrably motivated - compared to slaves (or close to it). I wouldn't be so sure that its just a given that the motivated worker is better.

In any case, there seems to be little doubt which labour is the more desirable in the minds of the capitalists themselves.

Well said.
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Plenty of companies do worker shareholding. But for the most part people prefer to be paid with money and then choose for themselves what to do with it. It goes against one of the most basic bits of investment advice - diversify.

That free people do not choose what you think they should is not an indictment on capitalism, just your petty urges to be a control freak.
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No Gandalf, that is your (or some random socialists) strawman of pro-capitalist arguments. Capitalists will tell you that you have to actually work for these things.


you missed my last words "for anyone who works hard".

And you seem to be drinking the same koolaid
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freediver wrote on Mar 8th, 2019 at 7:31pm:
That free people do not choose what you think they should is not an indictment on capitalism, just your petty urges to be a control freak.


How is a garment worker in Bangladesh "free" when her choices are a) for her and her family to starve to death and b) work at unregulated exploitative shithole a, b or c that will pay you no more than you need to stay alive?

I note you mentioned previously non-slaves even have the option to travel to work. Wow, lucky them! Hey, half starving garment worker with no savings and the sole income for your whole family - you are free to take that non-existent car of yours and spend half your day driving yourself God-knows how many miles on unsealed dangerous roads- just so you can find a job just as crappy as the ones available in your village!
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Reply #201 - Mar 8th, 2019 at 7:48pm
 
polite_gandalf wrote on Mar 8th, 2019 at 7:43pm:
freediver wrote on Mar 8th, 2019 at 7:31pm:
That free people do not choose what you think they should is not an indictment on capitalism, just your petty urges to be a control freak.


How is a garment worker in Bangladesh "free" when her choices are a) for her and her family to starve to death and b) work at unregulated exploitative shithole a, b or c that will pay you no more than you need to stay alive?

I note you mentioned previously non-slaves even have the option to travel to work. Wow, lucky them! Hey, half starving garment worker with no savings and the sole income for your whole family - you are free to take that non-existent car of yours and spend half your day driving yourself God-knows how many miles on unsealed dangerous roads- just so you can find a job just as crappy as the ones available in your village!



Mind you Gandalf, I must 'politely' say that the vast 'majority' of the problems for these people who are living much like a slave for a penny, etc are their own worst problem with them having MORE KIDS THAN THEY CAN AFFORD AND THUS MAKING IT EVEN HARDER TO 'AFFORD' A BETTER QUALITY OF LIFE IN THE LONG RUN.

Yep - their 'over-population' is what makes them earn, just a penny for a month. They reap what they sow.
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the kids are needed to perform all the domestic duties mum can't do because she's working 16 hours 7 days a week - to provide the entire family 1 meal a day.

There's also the issue of no access to contraception as well as women's disempowerment and lack of education - you know all the things that go hand in hand with a cycle of poverty.

But hey, if only they were willing to work hard, prosperity would magically drop out of the sky for them innit  Tongue
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the kids are needed to perform all the domestic duties mum can't do because she's working 16 hours 7 days a week - to provide the entire family 1 meal a day.

There's also the issue of no access to contraception as well as women's disempowerment and lack of education - you know all the things that go hand in hand with a cycle of poverty.

But hey, if only they were willing to work hard, prosperity would magically drop out of the sky for them innit  Tongue

I'll stop you right there before reading the rest.

Mum wouldn't have to work like that if she had 1 kid or even NO KIDS.
If you can't afford kids - why have em.
Stupid 'over-breeders' deserve every hardship they throw upon themselves, but try to blame rich people/nations for.
No wonder they work for peanuts and get exploited by Capitalists - because they have left themselves 'NO OPTION' to do otherwise.
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Now I'll read the rest of your post.  Cheesy
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Now that I have read the rest.
Are you saying they are 'primitive manimals' that can't think for themselves and can't discipline themselves not to pump out 5+ kids because they just can't 'help themselves'?  Roll Eyes

Only sickos have kids just to watch them die from starvation within a year or few. Angry

But hey, don't worry - everyone else will pay for them, right?  Huh
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Reply #205 - Mar 8th, 2019 at 9:22pm
 
polite_gandalf wrote on Mar 8th, 2019 at 7:43pm:
freediver wrote on Mar 8th, 2019 at 7:31pm:
That free people do not choose what you think they should is not an indictment on capitalism, just your petty urges to be a control freak.


How is a garment worker in Bangladesh "free" when her choices are a) for her and her family to starve to death and b) work at unregulated exploitative shithole a, b or c that will pay you no more than you need to stay alive?

I note you mentioned previously non-slaves even have the option to travel to work. Wow, lucky them! Hey, half starving garment worker with no savings and the sole income for your whole family - you are free to take that non-existent car of yours and spend half your day driving yourself God-knows how many miles on unsealed dangerous roads- just so you can find a job just as crappy as the ones available in your village!


Again Gandalf, no-one said that capitalism makes you "free" to stroll around in your opium white bathrobe eating strawberries and cream. It is not a substitute for reality. But you seem to demand it is. Not starving is actually a bloody good start compared to most of human history. You take the lofty heights that capitalism has brought you, that you now take for granted, and somehow turn it around into a criticism. The Bangladeshis can one day have what you have also, so long as they do not take your BS seriously.
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Reply #206 - Mar 8th, 2019 at 9:43pm
 
freediver wrote on Mar 8th, 2019 at 9:22pm:
Again Gandalf, no-one said that capitalism makes you "free" to stroll around in your opium white bathrobe eating strawberries and cream.


Thats very true FD. Not sure how that relates to the Bangladeshi garment worker in my example though. Its true that they are always "free" to work at exploitative underpaying shithole B instead of exploitative underpaying shithole A to avoid starving to death - is that the freedom you were referring to? I'm sure that must be very liberating for them.

freediver wrote on Mar 8th, 2019 at 9:22pm:
Not starving is actually a bloody good start compared to most of human history.


Not starving is also what slaves managed to do too FD. So that must count as one of the great strives in human history right?

freediver wrote on Mar 8th, 2019 at 9:22pm:
You take the lofty heights that capitalism has brought you, that you now take for granted, and somehow turn it around into a criticism.


Its a bit like pointing at the aristocrat who spent his life leeching off the underprivileged, now looking down upon all the poor wretches wallowing under his domain, and finally realising "hmmm, you know what, this isn't actually fair"... and telling me that this change of heart is the selfish part. Its true, I should have done something about it by now - think of all those target shirts I wear made by slaves in Bangladesh...
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Reply #207 - Mar 8th, 2019 at 9:44pm
 
Mr Hammer wrote on Mar 8th, 2019 at 6:04pm:
Mattyfisk wrote on Mar 8th, 2019 at 5:36pm:
polite_gandalf wrote on Mar 8th, 2019 at 3:23pm:
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Unions and organised labour forces are antithetical to capitalism. Within capitalism, profits must be distributed among shareholders, not workers. If not, investors will simply invest their money elsewhere. There is no incentive, for example, for clothing manufacturers to make clothes in Australia, a country with sweatshop legislation and a minimum wage. No worries, investors simply go to Bangladesh, where unions are stamped out at the source.


Here's a thought: if workers had actual bargaining power, why would they remain mere employees? Why wouldn't they bargain themselves into becoming shareholders, and taking a fair share of the profits of the produce they themselves produced? Or at the very least, wages would go through the roof, causing mass inflation and making the entire economy a basket case. Obviously if this happened the whole system would fall down.

So like I said, capitalism depends on the workers not having bargaining power.


This is a good question. Why hasn't worker shareholding spread under capitalism? This would be the solution, wouldn't it?

Workers would be motivated to increase productivity, right? They would be free, as FD says, to negotiate pay and conditions at the board level. Corporations would have access to capital through worker savings.

If what FD says is right, why hasn't the invisible hand of the marketplace delivered this solution?

greed.


Does greed facilitate slave plantations too, Homo?

I'm curious.
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freediver wrote on Mar 8th, 2019 at 7:09pm:
Mattyfisk wrote on Mar 8th, 2019 at 1:22pm:
The British were out of North America in 1805, FD. They'd put their eggs in India, with a local population prepared to work hard for peanuts. What the Napoleonic wars did was compel England to create a formidable naval force, and one they would use to expand the colonies even further.

Indians could never get over why England chose to ignore Indian cotton manufacturing and make it in England. This saw the end of Indian cloth manufacturing, a huge industry back then. India had cheap labour. It had cotton. Why did England go to all the trouble of sending slaves to the Americas to pick cotton to send back to Britain, and in so doing, create an industrial nightmare?

Engels described it in the Conditions of the Working Class in England in 1845. Orwell wrote the Road to Wigan Pier in 1937 - almost a hundred years later. The conditions of British workers had't changed. They were worse than Indian workers at the time. Shorter average lifespan, high infant mortality, the lot.

Fast forward a hundred and eighty years and look at the conditions of workers in Bangladesh. Perfectly capitalist, all the big global chains get their clothes made there. Like British workers during the industrial revolution, many are locked in for their shifts, which can be extended to get a contract done. No overtime, no freedom to leave and go home. Capitalism has literally created these conditions, just as it created the conditions Engels and Orwell described in their times.

Today, in China, they're going a step further - no need to turn a workforce into robots, create robots to do the work. I'm unsure where this will take us, just as I'm unsure where self-driving cars and trucks will leave those employed as drivers. My hope is they get jobs in the service industry, but as the US shows, job creation there is largely in fast-food, with an average income of $18000 a year.

None of this has created the freedom you describe. We've witnessed better pay and conditions over the years (in the developed world), but this has nothing to do with capitalism. As G has already said, this is the work of governments and unions.

The transition to service economies in the developed world is pivotal, but all we've done is outsource our working class to developing countries. Our own proletariat has had government assistance, but has been left by the free market to fend for itself.

Unions and organised labour forces are antithetical to capitalism. Within capitalism, profits must be distributed among shareholders, not workers. If not, investors will simply invest their money elsewhere. There is no incentive, for example, for clothing manufacturers to make clothes in Australia, a country with sweatshop legislation and a minimum wage. No worries, investors simply go to Bangladesh, where unions are stamped out at the source.

This is free-trade liberalism. The freedom you describe applies to shareholders, not workers. This is how capitalism works. To make profit and attract investors, you must either exploit a slave class of workers or develop robots to do the job instead.


Why are workers not free? If they are not free, there is your problem.

Can you suggest something better for Bangladesh?


Any chance you could explain what you mean?

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freediver wrote on Mar 8th, 2019 at 9:22pm:
polite_gandalf wrote on Mar 8th, 2019 at 7:43pm:
freediver wrote on Mar 8th, 2019 at 7:31pm:
That free people do not choose what you think they should is not an indictment on capitalism, just your petty urges to be a control freak.


How is a garment worker in Bangladesh "free" when her choices are a) for her and her family to starve to death and b) work at unregulated exploitative shithole a, b or c that will pay you no more than you need to stay alive?

I note you mentioned previously non-slaves even have the option to travel to work. Wow, lucky them! Hey, half starving garment worker with no savings and the sole income for your whole family - you are free to take that non-existent car of yours and spend half your day driving yourself God-knows how many miles on unsealed dangerous roads- just so you can find a job just as crappy as the ones available in your village!


Again Gandalf, no-one said that capitalism makes you "free" to stroll around in your opium white bathrobe eating strawberries and cream. It is not a substitute for reality. But you seem to demand it is. Not starving is actually a bloody good start compared to most of human history. You take the lofty heights that capitalism has brought you, that you now take for granted, and somehow turn it around into a criticism. The Bangladeshis can one day have what you have also, so long as they do not take your BS seriously.


Actually, all the famines I can think of, going back to the Irish potato famine, were caused by a colonial power or aristocracy selling off the available food and land.

Not starving is not a very good start, dear. Even slaves got fed.

Bangladeshis will only have what we have if they're allowed to form unions.

You?
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Cut the British crap of your British nationalistic closet Poms propaganda and tell the naked truth.
Is there any Anglo Australian patriot left in British colony of yours. Stop laying others and yourself.


Britan was and still is nothing but Pirate Empirial nation

In Britain literarly speaking sea piracy was legal.
During the centuries of Britain’s rise (1600-1800), a significant source of wealth was piracy – loot of merchant shipping, on high seas.
And not just legal, but also promoted British Crown and Governments. Actually British government together with full time employed pirates lotted wealth of other nations around the world stealing everything they could from European merchants to Greek Partenon treasures.
The British Crown gave permits to pirates for looting on high seas – through, what were known as, letters of marque. With two conditions – English ships would not be attacked and the State would get a part of the loot.

One of the earliest ‘success stories’ was Pirate John Hawkins. So successful was Pirate Hawkins, that he became Admiral ‘Sir’ John Hawkins. Pirates like Admiral ‘Sir’ John Hawkins made money on slave trade and piracy. This model of ‘voyages’, became the norm for the next 200 years. With the encouragement and sanction of the English State, high seas piracy and African slavery combination became the national industry in Britain. Trafficking African slaves one way, piracy the rest of the time.
Descendants of Admiral ‘Sir’ John Hawkins, recently ‘apologized’ to Africans for the crimes of their ancestor – Admiral ‘Sir’ John Hawkins.


El Draque

Admiral Hawkin’s more famous nephew, was ‘Sir’ Francis Drake. El Draque, The Dragon, to the Spanish.
Drake’s voyage in the ship Golden Hind is an event in British economic history. His attack on the Spanish ship, Nuestra Senora de la Concepcion, nicknamed ‘Cacafuego’ (meaning Shitfire!) captured off Ecuador on March 1, 1579 yielded much loot. It took six days to transfer the loot from the Spanish ship to the British.
In this capture, Drake seized 80 pounds of gold and 26 tons of silver. Queen Elizabeth, apart from knighting him, was also a financial partner in these criminal enterprises.




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polite_gandalf wrote on Mar 8th, 2019 at 8:29pm:
the kids are needed to perform all the domestic duties mum can't do because she's working 16 hours 7 days a week - to provide the entire family 1 meal a day.

There's also the issue of no access to contraception as well as women's disempowerment and lack of education - you know all the things that go hand in hand with a cycle of poverty.

But hey, if only they were willing to work hard, prosperity would magically drop out of the sky for them innit  Tongue


Blah, blah, blah.
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polite_gandalf wrote on Mar 8th, 2019 at 7:27pm:
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And it is a blatant lie that the system falls apart if workers have true bargaining power. That is exactly what they have here in Australia, and the system works fine. In fact, they have even more options thanks to the government, such as going on the dole.


Australian manufacturing is being off-shored FD. Its a direct consequence of Australian labourers getting more bargaining power. Haven't you noticed?


The system is not falling apart Gandalf. Haven't you noticed?

Would you prefer the Bangladeshis starved so you wouldn't have to get all hysterical about big companies offering them a choice between starvation and a job?
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freediver wrote on Mar 9th, 2019 at 6:57pm:
polite_gandalf wrote on Mar 8th, 2019 at 7:27pm:
freediver wrote on Mar 8th, 2019 at 7:14pm:
And it is a blatant lie that the system falls apart if workers have true bargaining power. That is exactly what they have here in Australia, and the system works fine. In fact, they have even more options thanks to the government, such as going on the dole.


Australian manufacturing is being off-shored FD. Its a direct consequence of Australian labourers getting more bargaining power. Haven't you noticed?


The system is not falling apart Gandalf. Haven't you noticed?

Would you prefer the Bangladeshis starved so you wouldn't have to get all hysterical about big companies offering them a choice between starvation and a job?


The choice that you propose, FD, tells me that the system in indeed falling apart.

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Mattyfisk wrote on Mar 9th, 2019 at 9:10pm:
freediver wrote on Mar 9th, 2019 at 6:57pm:
polite_gandalf wrote on Mar 8th, 2019 at 7:27pm:
freediver wrote on Mar 8th, 2019 at 7:14pm:
And it is a blatant lie that the system falls apart if workers have true bargaining power. That is exactly what they have here in Australia, and the system works fine. In fact, they have even more options thanks to the government, such as going on the dole.


Australian manufacturing is being off-shored FD. Its a direct consequence of Australian labourers getting more bargaining power. Haven't you noticed?


The system is not falling apart Gandalf. Haven't you noticed?

Would you prefer the Bangladeshis starved so you wouldn't have to get all hysterical about big companies offering them a choice between starvation and a job?


The choice that you propose, FD, tells me that the system in indeed falling apart.

You?


If I had the choice, I would choose the choice between starvation and working over the socialists' noble death.
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Not at all, FD, if you had that choice, you'd choose what existed before capitalism. You'd choose the British Raj, no?

And if it wasn't for Uncle, something tells me you'd choose it over capitalism anyway.
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Freediver you seem to offer nothing to the argument except "you can see capitalism works because we have a capitalist economy".

No one is talking economic theory. These are all extremely simple arguments. And ten pages of it.
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This is not some kind of parochialism. You can see the great wealth that our capitalist economy has produced. The theory reflects people's efforts to understand what they see, but will convince no-one by itself.
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Freedom can flourish only in favourable economic circumstances. When people are working in slave-like conditions, or are living hand-to-mouth, or struggling to make ends meet, freedom struggles to flourish.

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This is not some kind of parochialism. You can see the great wealth that our capitalist economy has produced. The theory reflects people's efforts to understand what they see, but will convince no-one by itself.


No one doubts that capitalism has produced great wealth for nations, but wealth is not and should not be the only indicator of the success of a civilisation or a society.

During the industrial revolutions, working conditions were shocking. The oversupply of unskilled labour created a situation in which the bargaining power of the worker was practically useless. It was only through the collective action of workers that working conditions improved.
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freediver wrote on Mar 10th, 2019 at 7:22am:
This is not some kind of parochialism. You can see the great wealth that our capitalist economy has produced. The theory reflects people's efforts to understand what they see, but will convince no-one by itself.


Shurely shome mishtake. People have to be convinced when you put the information before them. It's the only way they can be convinced.

You can show, for example,  the economic growth rate in England preceding the industrial revolution to make your case that growth was already occurring in British agriculture. You can point to the reforms that led to this growth. You can cite countless articles to make your case.

Capitalism can only deliver improved health outcomes if you can show how a free market directly influenced this. Health measures spiked after the creation of the NHS in Britain, for example, but the introduction of the NHS was a socialist policy.

Wealth? That depends. GDP definitely increased in China following the introduction of capitalist policies. China is a good case.

In Russia and some Soviet states, however, GDP decreased. People lost their jobs and their savings. The economy tanked. Putin corrected this by installing a form of crony capitalism, but not freemarket liberalism. Far from it.

To prove that capitalism succeeds, you need to show that wealth is distributed among the population - that it lifts everyone out of poverty.

All around the world, we're seeing wealth consolidate into fewer and fewer hands. In the US, it's an upward line from the Reagan era on, spiking after the GFC. It's much the same in Australia, but we've seen real wages and household wealth increase at the same time.

This is thanks largely to Hawke/Keating's Accords and the subsequent market reforms. The unions stopped fighting for pay rises in order to let the economy take its course. This was capitalism in action.

Mind you, Hawke/Keating's policies led to the worst recession in recent times - "the recession we had to have". Keating saw it as a momentary correction, which it was, but that correction saw a huge chunk of the workforce withdraw. Many men over 50 who were retrenched never worked again.

In the long run, those policies were worth it. Wealth was shared among the population. Howard kept this going with his middle class welfare, redistributing profits from the mining boom.

Hawke/Keating introduced market competition, largely in the financial sector. This saw wealth come into the country through loans. Prior to this, Australia was a monopolised, fixed economy. These reforms changed all that. Liberalising the market saw household wealth grow.

These were social democratic policies, not the liberal democracy you espouse. Many countries have failed to deliver under free market liberal policies. Much of the developing world fits into this category - South East Asia, Latin America. They liberalised in return for IMF loans. Household wealth in many places has not increased in line with liberal reforms. Without strong government with healthy tax revenues, wealth is rarely distributed amongst the population. The choice between starving and having a job that pays below the poverty line is not the promise of capitalism.

The GFC saw household wealth bottom out along with capital. We're now seeing it return. But we're also seeing the popular response to these kind of economic crises: blind nationalism. This phenomenon has been a huge failure in the case of Brexit and Trump. Brexit has been a disaster for the UK. Trump's trade wars have been a disaster for the US.

We can safely say, I think, that these policies highlight the importance of liberal markets. If Britain pulls out of the European free trade zone without a deal, it will experience a massive economic downfall. This also applies in the industries targeted by China's tariffs. These protectionist policies pale in comparison to global free trade. Free trade - in tandem with functioning government and progressive taxation - is a far more effective way to deliver cheap prices and distribution of capital.

This is known as social democracy, the model we have in Australia, Canada and Europe. I doubt you'll try to show how liberal democracy delivers, but please feel free to do so.
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Capitalism can only deliver improved health outcomes if you can show how a free market directly influenced this.


The effects of capitalism do not depend on my willingness to spoonfeed you the information you already know about.

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Freedom can flourish only in favourable economic circumstances. When people are working in slave-like conditions, or are living hand-to-mouth, or struggling to make ends meet, freedom struggles to flourish.


Auggie are you suggesting that freedom cannot flourish under slavery?
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Reply #225 - Mar 10th, 2019 at 2:57pm
 
freediver wrote on Mar 10th, 2019 at 7:22am:
This is not some kind of parochialism. You can see the great wealth that our capitalist economy has produced. The theory reflects people's efforts to understand what they see, but will convince no-one by itself.


All I can see, without going in to economic theory is that:

In order to pay for goods and services, such as food, accommodation, utilities, leisure, you need to have a mutually agreed exchange for goods and services. We use money. In order to get money, you must provide a service or product and exchange that for money. Therefore you must work to survive.

This does not mean capitalism works, it means you need money to survive, and the only way to get money and survive is to work.

And it only works for some. The capitalist system is exploitative by nature. However without an incentive to work such as salary or an increased salary to make life more comfortable by being able to afford more luxury goods, people will not work. Therefore, again, people are exploited by being enticed with things such as luxury goods and social status and facebook bragging rights that are impossible to obtain without dedication and effort. So we have a false "social economy" that is fully geared by peer pressure that demands for social inclusion you get the best job you can and buy the most expensive car you can, so that you have a higher status in society which is determined by how you feel others view you.

Your entire social outlook is warped and manipulated to sustain the economy. You are exploited from birth. Work is a competition to succeed. It is not life. Your life is for the sustainment of the system. It is not for you. And if you don't sacrifice your life for the system, the system will chew you up and spit you out and you will be reliant on welfare and food vans.

So in order to have a comfortable, or even adequate life, you have to sacrifice your life for the economic system.

Further, the further you go, as in the more you earn and the more you buy, the more exploitative you are.

For example, you go out and buy a $300 pair of shoes. You wear them on your feet. A $80 pair of shoes would work the same. But you can demonstrate your social worth as a person by this extravagance. At the same time, the person making or selling your shoes in the store is working minimum wage to pay the rent, and not always on time.

So you are exploiting their entire life, their existence as a human, to wear expensive shoes and eat expensive food and drive expensive cars, to tell everyone how great this is when you go out once every six months and put photos on facebook, and that they need to have similar irrelevant items to succeed in life.

This is what you are doing to people. Making them feel worthless and forcing them to prove their worth as a human by participating in this charade.
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Reply #226 - Mar 10th, 2019 at 3:02pm
 
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The effects of capitalism do not depend on my willingness to spoonfeed you the information you already know about.

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All you have to do is open your eyes Karnal.
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capitosinora wrote on Mar 9th, 2019 at 9:59am:
Cut the British crap of your British nationalistic closet Poms propaganda and tell the naked truth.
Is there any Anglo Australian patriot left in British colony of yours. Stop laying others and yourself.


Britan was and still is nothing but Pirate Empirial nation

In Britain literarly speaking sea piracy was legal.
During the centuries of Britain’s rise (1600-1800), a significant source of wealth was piracy – loot of merchant shipping, on high seas.
And not just legal, but also promoted British Crown and Governments. Actually British government together with full time employed pirates lotted wealth of other nations around the world stealing everything they could from European merchants to Greek Partenon treasures.
The British Crown gave permits to pirates for looting on high seas – through, what were known as, letters of marque. With two conditions – English ships would not be attacked and the State would get a part of the loot.

One of the earliest ‘success stories’ was Pirate John Hawkins. So successful was Pirate Hawkins, that he became Admiral ‘Sir’ John Hawkins. Pirates like Admiral ‘Sir’ John Hawkins made money on slave trade and piracy. This model of ‘voyages’, became the norm for the next 200 years. With the encouragement and sanction of the English State, high seas piracy and African slavery combination became the national industry in Britain. Trafficking African slaves one way, piracy the rest of the time.
Descendants of Admiral ‘Sir’ John Hawkins, recently ‘apologized’ to Africans for the crimes of their ancestor – Admiral ‘Sir’ John Hawkins.


El Draque

Admiral Hawkin’s more famous nephew, was ‘Sir’ Francis Drake. El Draque, The Dragon, to the Spanish.
Drake’s voyage in the ship Golden Hind is an event in British economic history. His attack on the Spanish ship, Nuestra Senora de la Concepcion, nicknamed ‘Cacafuego’ (meaning Shitfire!) captured off Ecuador on March 1, 1579 yielded much loot. It took six days to transfer the loot from the Spanish ship to the British.
In this capture, Drake seized 80 pounds of gold and 26 tons of silver. Queen Elizabeth, apart from knighting him, was also a financial partner in these criminal enterprises.






Not as bad as your USA paying DICTATORS under the table via your corrupt CIA to enfeeble their own nations, while YOUR Media propaganderises 'How evil they are and how much the USA is against them' in utter B/S!  Roll Eyes
Pinochet to Saddam Hussein of whom did your dirty work against Khomeini's Iran, but had to try and take Kuwait because your beloved 'Privatised' Capitalistic FAKE Political nation wouldn't cough up the dirty money.

The WORLD respects Britain as the 'Cross' of Political Truth that has brought English as the International Language (unless you want the Yo Bro mudda jive crap out of the USA  Roll Eyes), to the World as a 'Gift' to be shared, not owned.

USA couldn't even get away with attacking Australia because EVERY NATION would turn on the USA!  Tongue

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Reply #229 - Mar 10th, 2019 at 10:29pm
 
freediver wrote on Mar 10th, 2019 at 3:47pm:
All you have to do is open your eyes Karnal.


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Reply #230 - Mar 11th, 2019 at 1:29pm
 
Spatchcock wrote on Mar 10th, 2019 at 2:57pm:
freediver wrote on Mar 10th, 2019 at 7:22am:
This is not some kind of parochialism. You can see the great wealth that our capitalist economy has produced. The theory reflects people's efforts to understand what they see, but will convince no-one by itself.


All I can see, without going in to economic theory is that:

In order to pay for goods and services, such as food, accommodation, utilities, leisure, you need to have a mutually agreed exchange for goods and services. We use money. In order to get money, you must provide a service or product and exchange that for money. Therefore you must work to survive.

This does not mean capitalism works, it means you need money to survive, and the only way to get money and survive is to work.

And it only works for some. The capitalist system is exploitative by nature. However without an incentive to work such as salary or an increased salary to make life more comfortable by being able to afford more luxury goods, people will not work. Therefore, again, people are exploited by being enticed with things such as luxury goods and social status and facebook bragging rights that are impossible to obtain without dedication and effort. So we have a false "social economy" that is fully geared by peer pressure that demands for social inclusion you get the best job you can and buy the most expensive car you can, so that you have a higher status in society which is determined by how you feel others view you.

Your entire social outlook is warped and manipulated to sustain the economy. You are exploited from birth. Work is a competition to succeed. It is not life. Your life is for the sustainment of the system. It is not for you. And if you don't sacrifice your life for the system, the system will chew you up and spit you out and you will be reliant on welfare and food vans.

So in order to have a comfortable, or even adequate life, you have to sacrifice your life for the economic system.

Further, the further you go, as in the more you earn and the more you buy, the more exploitative you are.

For example, you go out and buy a $300 pair of shoes. You wear them on your feet. A $80 pair of shoes would work the same. But you can demonstrate your social worth as a person by this extravagance. At the same time, the person making or selling your shoes in the store is working minimum wage to pay the rent, and not always on time.

So you are exploiting their entire life, their existence as a human, to wear expensive shoes and eat expensive food and drive expensive cars, to tell everyone how great this is when you go out once every six months and put photos on facebook, and that they need to have similar irrelevant items to succeed in life.

This is what you are doing to people. Making them feel worthless and forcing them to prove their worth as a human by participating in this charade.


Sure, Spatchcock, but as you rightly point out, capitalism is a system. Being a good exploiter is hardly a moral flaw within capitalism, it's rewarded.

Zuckerberg, for example, didn't start Facebook as a way to sell more stuff. Originally, he didn't want ads at all. But he got investment to grow, and companies joined up, and before long, Facebook became successful because it integrated into the system. Within capitalism, CEOs must make decisions based on profit.

Zuckerberg did not support the work of Cambridge Analytica, but Facebook quietly granted it access to users' data. I doubt Murdoch supports South Park, but it's screened on Fox.

It is possible to exploit the system, but not if you don't turn a profit in the long run.

News Ltd, for example, loses money on its print circulation, particularly its conservative broadsheets. The Australian costs News millions each year. These losses are made up by the TV arm of the company, which bail out the broadsheets. This is only possible with News Ltd's share structure, which gives Murdoch the majority vote. Otherwise, the board would get rid of unprofitable ventures like the Australian.

Murdoch, of course, uses print as a strategy. He uses it to get his choice of political candidate elected. Beholden to Murdoch, leaders then favour him in media policy. Fox News in the US does the same. Murdoch can't do this with Sky in Britain or Australia because the electronic media there is regulated. Print isn't. Murdoch is happy to make losses on the broadsheets to get politicians on side. This is how News works in a nutshell. It's a strategy designed to achieve a media monopoly.

This demonstrates the role of the media within capitalism. It must support capitalism itself. Shareholders simply won't allow messages that sabotage their investments. The same is true of social media, which only agreed to self-regulate recently when it was shown that they were in danger of becoming a propaganda tool for extremists. 

Extremists are able to exploit social media by turning a profit. The more extreme the message, the more views it generates. There are a number of companies re-spinning news to make it fit a far-right or far-left agenda. Some are even run by the same company. They then target their respective audience to generate ad revenue.

This is capitalism in action - generating any old propaganda to reach a market. Often, those writing the stories are politically indifferent. Even extremism is exploited within capitalism.
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Reply #231 - Mar 11th, 2019 at 4:08pm
 
freediver wrote on Mar 10th, 2019 at 2:55pm:
Auggie are you suggesting that freedom cannot flourish under slavery?


Is that supposed to be a rhetorical question?
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Reply #232 - Mar 11th, 2019 at 5:36pm
 
Auggie wrote on Mar 11th, 2019 at 4:08pm:
freediver wrote on Mar 10th, 2019 at 2:55pm:
Auggie are you suggesting that freedom cannot flourish under slavery?


Is that supposed to be a rhetorical question?


Sometimes a question is just a question, Auggie.
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Reply #233 - Mar 12th, 2019 at 9:41am
 
freediver wrote on Mar 9th, 2019 at 6:57pm:
polite_gandalf wrote on Mar 8th, 2019 at 7:27pm:
freediver wrote on Mar 8th, 2019 at 7:14pm:
And it is a blatant lie that the system falls apart if workers have true bargaining power. That is exactly what they have here in Australia, and the system works fine. In fact, they have even more options thanks to the government, such as going on the dole.


Australian manufacturing is being off-shored FD. Its a direct consequence of Australian labourers getting more bargaining power. Haven't you noticed?


The system is not falling apart Gandalf. Haven't you noticed?

Would you prefer the Bangladeshis starved so you wouldn't have to get all hysterical about big companies offering them a choice between starvation and a job?


In reality, workers having true bargaining power causes capitalists to look elsewhere for workers who don't have bargaining power - in our case, south and south east asia. Or in other words, capitalists demonstrably prefer to hire people with the least rights and least ability to demand rights as possible.

What you fail to take into consideration here is that capitalism only prevails in this case because there is still a pool of miserable workers with no bargaining power for them to exploit hire, and that hiring these sorts of workers is their preference. What demonstrably doesn't happen, is the free-marketer's fantasy of increased worker's rights and conditions = more productive and efficient workers = more desirable and sought after by the capitalists. No, clearly the attitude of the capitalists towards these uppity workers with anything resembling bargaining power is to give them the big middle finger and look elsewhere.

So yes, of course the system won't collapse while ever the capitalists still have an available pool of workers without bargaining power. And when this available pool transcends national borders, it just means the system becomes global. So invariably the (capitalist) population of Australia still exist and contribute to the capitalist economy - which now consists of unskilled workers overseas - rather than in Australia. So fortunately the Holden workers, or the factory workers at the fridge factory in Orange can either re-skill and find a new career, or (more likely) go on the dole. They won't be left to starve. Both these options are available to them thanks to living in a prosperous country whose economy is inextricably linked to a global capitalist system that still relies on exploiting workers (just not in this country). And yet options like government sponsored re-skilling programs and unemployment benefits are not features of the capitalist system, but symptoms of one of its failings. If it was left to "the market", these abandoned workers would be left to fend for themselves. After all, capitalism doesn't need them - they are simply replaced by third world workers. So its left to the government to fill the vacuum and pick up the pieces.

But the real question you need to ask yourself is, if and when there are no workers left who can be exploited by the capitalists because they all have bargaining power - can the capitalist sytem survive then? Though I suspect the answer by then will be robots.
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Reply #234 - Mar 12th, 2019 at 9:57am
 
freediver wrote on Mar 9th, 2019 at 9:16pm:
Mattyfisk wrote on Mar 9th, 2019 at 9:10pm:
freediver wrote on Mar 9th, 2019 at 6:57pm:
polite_gandalf wrote on Mar 8th, 2019 at 7:27pm:
freediver wrote on Mar 8th, 2019 at 7:14pm:
And it is a blatant lie that the system falls apart if workers have true bargaining power. That is exactly what they have here in Australia, and the system works fine. In fact, they have even more options thanks to the government, such as going on the dole.


Australian manufacturing is being off-shored FD. Its a direct consequence of Australian labourers getting more bargaining power. Haven't you noticed?


The system is not falling apart Gandalf. Haven't you noticed?

Would you prefer the Bangladeshis starved so you wouldn't have to get all hysterical about big companies offering them a choice between starvation and a job?


The choice that you propose, FD, tells me that the system in indeed falling apart.

You?


If I had the choice, I would choose the choice between starvation and working over the socialists' noble death.


That is not any sort of argument in defence of capitalism FD.

You may as well argue we should bring back slavery - if all you are interested in is avoiding starving to death.

And yes I would prefer the Bangladeshi garment workers are able to get slave-like work if it prevents them starving. And I would definitely continue to do my part to exploit them by buying my target shirts - so that at least something ends up in the meagre pockets of the exploited worker - as opposed to, you know, dying.

But surely the point is that this intolerable choice is the only one that exists for these people in the first place. Holding up a virtual slave and gleefully proclaiming that "capitalism prevents these people starving to death" is not any sort of commendation for capitalism - it is a damning indictment of it.
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What you fail to take into consideration here is that capitalism only prevails in this case because there is still a pool of miserable workers with no bargaining power for them to exploit hire, and that hiring these sorts of workers is their preference. What demonstrably doesn't happen, is the free-marketer's fantasy of increased worker's rights and conditions = more productive and efficient workers = more desirable and sought after by the capitalists.


You couldn't be more wrong Gandalf. You are swallowing the communist pamphlet without making the slightest effort to link it back to reality, or to make it logically consistent. The process you describe is what lifted millions of Chinese out of poverty just a generation after they were literally starving to death. That Chinese middle class is now buying up our iron ore, beef etc and keeping us out of recession. Similar things happened in other south east asian countries. A lot of the companies are now looking for cheaper labour elsewhere because the Chinese workers cost too much. If we run out of cheap labour, it literally means that capitalism has lifted the poorest people out of poverty.

What exactly is your problem with this? You still have not explained what your preferred alternative is. As far as I can tell you actually want the people of Bangladesh to starve so they do not get "taken advantage of".

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But the real question you need to ask yourself is, if and when there are no workers left who can be exploited by the capitalists because they all have bargaining power - can the capitalist sytem survive then? Though I suspect the answer by then will be robots.


Of course it will not fail. This is idiotic communist fantasy, with no basis in reality other than a vain hope by communists that reality will some day validate their idiocy. With or without robots, with or without cheap foreign labour, a free market in human labour labour can make the most of the situation, and benefit both the poor and the rich far more than the alternative you are too scared to even acknowledge.

You once said you were a socialist, and when I asked what kind, it turned out you were the capitalist kind. I guess it's like being a peace loving Muslim. When you strip away the hubris, you stand for nothing, and can only offer long-discredited criticisms that you yourself also run away from, if you can be pinned down to actually saying something of substance.

So how about instead of offering us more of this endless whine, you tell us what you actually stand for?
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Reply #236 - Mar 12th, 2019 at 3:00pm
 
freediver wrote on Mar 12th, 2019 at 1:26pm:
As far as I can tell you actually want the people of Bangladesh to starve so they do not get "taken advantage of".


I literally said in my last post I would prefer they were "taken advantage of" rather than let them starve. So please, enough with the histrionics.

The point is, if the best capitalism can offer is "not starving", then its hardly a great selling point for it is it? You may as well campaign to bring back slavery, which would arguably give them even better survival prospects (eg guaranteed protection and shelter). Of course capitalism generates great wealth and opportunity, but mostly for the capitalist classes. Really the only way the masses and the working classes can get a share of this and thus lift them out of poverty, is through organized labour and government intervention - two things that capitalism specifically detests and fights tooth and nail against.

freediver wrote on Mar 12th, 2019 at 1:26pm:
Of course it will not fail.


It will not fail thanks to the guarantee that governments will not let it fail. The most spectacular demonstration of this was in 2008 with the "too big to fail" government bailouts of US financial corporations. We even saw it in Australia when Rudd guaranteed all bank deposits. The ability for capitalism to self destruct was on display for all to see during the early to mid 2000s throughout the west - but especially in America. What would have happened if the government didn't come to the rescue in 2008? One can only speculate, but its likely the system would have experienced a far greater shock than it did - mostly impacting the vulnerable working class of course.

And so here we have the fundamental paradox with the whole system: a system that is inherently anti-government intervention, yet literally relies on government intervention to save it from itself.
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I literally said in my last post I would prefer they were "taken advantage of" rather than let them starve. So please, enough with the histrionics.


So you actually support the very thing you have been whining about?

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The point is, if the best capitalism can offer is "not starving"


If? Have you not figured this out yet Gandalf?

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It will not fail thanks to the guarantee that governments will not let it fail. The most spectacular demonstration of this was in 2008 with the "too big to fail" government bailouts of US financial corporations.


The failure of a corporation is not a failure of capitalism, and too big to fail does not imply, to any rational person, the failure of capitalism.

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And so here we have the fundamental paradox with the whole system: a system that is inherently anti-government intervention, yet literally relies on government intervention to save it from itself.


No it does not. The difference between the visions of Keynes and Hayek is largely one of stability rather than lang term growth. And before you get hysterical, instability does not mean failure. You are mistaking an argument over the detail of macroeconomics for the functionality of capitalism. Are you going to go through every economics argument from google that you can misunderstand and hold it up as a failure of capitalism?
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Reply #238 - Mar 12th, 2019 at 8:49pm
 
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What you fail to take into consideration here is that capitalism only prevails in this case because there is still a pool of miserable workers with no bargaining power for them to exploit hire, and that hiring these sorts of workers is their preference. What demonstrably doesn't happen, is the free-marketer's fantasy of increased worker's rights and conditions = more productive and efficient workers = more desirable and sought after by the capitalists.


You couldn't be more wrong Gandalf. You are swallowing the communist pamphlet without making the slightest effort to link it back to reality, or to make it logically consistent. The process you describe is what lifted millions of Chinese out of poverty just a generation after they were literally starving to death. That Chinese middle class is now buying up our iron ore, beef etc and keeping us out of recession. Similar things happened in other south east asian countries. A lot of the companies are now looking for cheaper labour elsewhere because the Chinese workers cost too much. If we run out of cheap labour, it literally means that capitalism has lifted the poorest people out of poverty.

What exactly is your problem with this? You still have not explained what your preferred alternative is. As far as I can tell you actually want the people of Bangladesh to starve so they do not get "taken advantage of".

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But the real question you need to ask yourself is, if and when there are no workers left who can be exploited by the capitalists because they all have bargaining power - can the capitalist sytem survive then? Though I suspect the answer by then will be robots.


Of course it will not fail. This is idiotic communist fantasy, with no basis in reality other than a vain hope by communists that reality will some day validate their idiocy. With or without robots, with or without cheap foreign labour, a free market in human labour labour can make the most of the situation, and benefit both the poor and the rich far more than the alternative you are too scared to even acknowledge.

You once said you were a socialist, and when I asked what kind, it turned out you were the capitalist kind. I guess it's like being a peace loving Muslim. When you strip away the hubris, you stand for nothing, and can only offer long-discredited criticisms that you yourself also run away from, if you can be pinned down to actually saying something of substance.

So how about instead of offering us more of this endless whine, you tell us what you actually stand for?


Actually, FD, forgive me, but I'm a little curious. What do you stand for?

After 2007, I mean.
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Reply #239 - Mar 13th, 2019 at 11:03am
 
freediver wrote on Mar 12th, 2019 at 7:04pm:
f? Have you not figured this out yet Gandalf?


Its your argument I haven't figured out FD - as in whenever someone points out the appalling conditions of third world labourers in a capitalist system, your only retort is to rhetorically ask 'would you prefer they starve'. You're not exactly presenting anything better than "not starving" that capitalism can offer these people. I suspect thats because you understand the fundamental point that its never capitalism per se that "lifts people out of poverty" - but specific intervention by the government and organization of labour, two things that the capitalists detest and fight tooth and nail against.

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The failure of a corporation is not a failure of capitalism, and too big to fail does not imply, to any rational person, the failure of capitalism.


It wasn't "a" corporation FD, it was a whole bunch of them, and consisted the backbone of the
entire US financial sector. It was a systemic rot culminating from a toxic culture amongst the entire capitalist class - a culture that was arguably inevitable in a capitalist system that becomes more and more deregulated and unaccountable. You seem to not appreciate just how dire the situation was in 2008 FD, and it was saved in large part by the feds pumping trillions to prop up these rotten institutions. Of course you could argue that the government should have simply let those corporations fail, and the market would have corrected itself (which many free-marketeers were advocating) - survival of the fittest. But there is no telling the devastation this would have caused to great swathes of the working, as well as the middle class masses. And if you're telling me that this sort of periodic corrective devastation is inherent in the system, and therefore expected and 'normal', then its not a great selling point for capitalism.

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instability does not mean failure


Depends on your perspective. If you are one of the poor working class sods being exploited by the capitalist system, what you euphemistically term "instability" is likely to mean you can no longer afford to buy food to keep you alive, or you lose your home, or you get buried alive by that unapproved appartment block that "the system" deemed unworthy to maintain. But hey, as long as the capitalists themselves can take their ill-gotten bonuses, cut their losses and move on to the next 'make money out of thin air' project - the system will be fine.

The system won't "fail" in these situations, but humanity will.
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I say, G, have you noticed that FD never actually delivers an argument? In this thread, he's quote-bombed you and drilled you with questions, said he refuses to spoon feed us by providing examples (as everybody else has done) and responded with sulky one-liners about communists.

As an ardent marine life enthusiast, it reminds one of a sea creature: the Portuguese man o'war. This creature just blobs along with the current. It has no spine or central nervous system. It stings anyone who gets near.
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Mattyfisk wrote on Mar 13th, 2019 at 12:24pm:
I say, G, have you noticed that FD never actually delivers an argument?


The term that popped into my head when reading FD's posts in this thread was 'virtue signalling'. As in:

- you are wrong because capitalism lifts people out of poverty - a fact that needs no explanation
- arguing against me just proves you are swallowing filthy communist propaganda
- would you prefer third world sweat shop workers starve??
- Explain your alternative - you have none - its actually you who is confused here, you naive socialist!
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My thread has been completely ruined by you guys arguing completely off topic useless drivel about capitalism that has been done to death for the last 50 years, talking the basics and not in depth theories and acting like you are knowledgeable on the topic

This is a circle jerk!
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I apologise spatchcock - I concede I didn't even look at the OP
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Reply #245 - Mar 13th, 2019 at 1:38pm
 
I put a lot of effort and original work in to this thread and you come back with completely unrelated off topic drivel about economic theory and yet you are not talking in depth stuff but the basics you learn in high school that has been around 50 years.

This is petty and emotional stuff. You should be above it.

Instead you're proving your knowledge and understanding, which no one seems to have anyway.
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ok I tried to read the OP, but to be honest its quite difficult. Its difficult to pin down a coherent point that I can respond to.

But I agree blowing off the legs of little girls is bad and should be avoided.
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Reply #247 - Mar 13th, 2019 at 5:08pm
 
polite_gandalf wrote on Mar 13th, 2019 at 1:35pm:
Mattyfisk wrote on Mar 13th, 2019 at 12:24pm:
I say, G, have you noticed that FD never actually delivers an argument?


The term that popped into my head when reading FD's posts in this thread was 'virtue signalling'. As in:

- you are wrong because capitalism lifts people out of poverty - a fact that needs no explanation
- arguing against me just proves you are swallowing filthy communist propaganda
- would you prefer third world sweat shop workers starve??
- Explain your alternative - you have none - its actually you who is confused here, you naive socialist!


These were the arguments during the Cold War, when the Soviets presented state capitalism as an alternative to liberal democracy. It was easy to clear the floor by bringing up the gulags. Say no more. What do you want? Communism?

But this was just Western ideology. It missed the point entirely. Russia and other countries developed rapidly under state capitalism (they never practiced communism, even Soviet economists said that, communism was always just around the corner). But the Soviet version of capitalism, with its 4 year plans and national targets, often delivered. It was not subject to the economic crises the West had. The Soviets had economic growth throughout the Great Depression. When developing countries or states considered which side to join (if the choice wasn't made for them), the USSR would have looked promising.

Today, it's simply not possible. Without Soviet investment and technical advisors, it's impossible to implement a form of capitalism directed and owned by the state. The World Bank, IMF and foreign capital sees to that. In some countries who've flirted with these policies, a bit of currency manipulation has put an end to that little experiment. North Korea and Cuba are just two examples.

So no, G, no one here's preaching communism, merely the kind of state intervention you pointed out that was used during the GFC.

And if I'm not mistaken, the GFC and these policies caused populations to turn to the promise of populism. Clearly, globalisation had cheated them, as had their governments, who bailed out the banks rather than their home loans.

But populist economic policies have never been spelt out, just a mish-mash of nationalist slogans, anti-immigration rhetoric and support for leaders who talk sht. Since the Cold War ended, capitalist ideology has become so engrained that the US Democrats would choose a Hillary over a Bernie, or in the U.K, anyone other than a Jeremy Corbyn, who only got in with the vote of The Labour rank and file, not the machine.

In the US today, people are actually considering the sort of "socialist" policies that, since LBJ, have ostensibly been unthinkable. In reality, however, these policies are simply what most other developed countries in the world already have: universal health care, carbon reduction policies, free or subsidised tertiary education.

Who knows? If Bernie is able to make that case over the inevitable Trump jibes, fake news and howls from the Fox News presenters, people might be willing to go with Sanders. They've already gone with the unthinkable and elected Trump, and in the U.K, Corbyn would get in if a vote was held today.

The Cold War is over. FD's case, although he won't explain it, is redundant. There are alternatives to neoliberalism as even Trump has shown.
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Reply #248 - Mar 13th, 2019 at 5:09pm
 
Spatchcock wrote on Mar 13th, 2019 at 1:38pm:
I put a lot of effort and original work in to this thread and you come back with completely unrelated off topic drivel about economic theory and yet you are not talking in depth stuff but the basics you learn in high school that has been around 50 years.

This is petty and emotional stuff. You should be above it.

Instead you're proving your knowledge and understanding, which no one seems to have anyway.


No worries, Spatchcock. I'd feel the same. Threads, however, always go their way.
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polite_gandalf wrote on Mar 13th, 2019 at 11:03am:
freediver wrote on Mar 12th, 2019 at 7:04pm:
f? Have you not figured this out yet Gandalf?


Its your argument I haven't figured out FD - as in whenever someone points out the appalling conditions of third world labourers in a capitalist system, your only retort is to rhetorically ask 'would you prefer they starve'. You're not exactly presenting anything better than "not starving" that capitalism can offer these people. I suspect thats because you understand the fundamental point that its never capitalism per se that "lifts people out of poverty" - but specific intervention by the government and organization of labour, two things that the capitalists detest and fight tooth and nail against.

freediver wrote on Mar 12th, 2019 at 7:04pm:
The failure of a corporation is not a failure of capitalism, and too big to fail does not imply, to any rational person, the failure of capitalism.


It wasn't "a" corporation FD, it was a whole bunch of them, and consisted the backbone of the
entire US financial sector. It was a systemic rot culminating from a toxic culture amongst the entire capitalist class - a culture that was arguably inevitable in a capitalist system that becomes more and more deregulated and unaccountable. You seem to not appreciate just how dire the situation was in 2008 FD, and it was saved in large part by the feds pumping trillions to prop up these rotten institutions. Of course you could argue that the government should have simply let those corporations fail, and the market would have corrected itself (which many free-marketeers were advocating) - survival of the fittest. But there is no telling the devastation this would have caused to great swathes of the working, as well as the middle class masses. And if you're telling me that this sort of periodic corrective devastation is inherent in the system, and therefore expected and 'normal', then its not a great selling point for capitalism.

freediver wrote on Mar 12th, 2019 at 7:04pm:
instability does not mean failure


Depends on your perspective. If you are one of the poor working class sods being exploited by the capitalist system, what you euphemistically term "instability" is likely to mean you can no longer afford to buy food to keep you alive, or you lose your home, or you get buried alive by that unapproved appartment block that "the system" deemed unworthy to maintain. But hey, as long as the capitalists themselves can take their ill-gotten bonuses, cut their losses and move on to the next 'make money out of thin air' project - the system will be fine.

The system won't "fail" in these situations, but humanity will.


Gandalf, have you figure out yet whether "not starving" is the best that capitalism can offer? I didn't realise I would have to make that my argument.

What is the "capitalist class" and where are you getting this idiocy from? Your mosque, or the local socialist club?

Are you offering any kind of alternative to capitalism, or just having a elaborate whinge? Why are you so afraid to say what you stand for?
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Reply #251 - Mar 13th, 2019 at 7:20pm
 
freediver wrote on Mar 13th, 2019 at 6:23pm:
Gandalf, have you figure out yet whether "not starving" is the best that capitalism can offer?


Capitalism offers a lot FD, so long as you are the one at the top of the food chain. The veritable "one percenters" For everyone else? Not so much. Fortunately though we have governments and organized labour to come to the rescue.

Also, it was you who presented the "not starving" defense of capitalism, when confronted with the reality that capitalism always prefers to look for workers with the least bargaining power, rather than stay and negotiate with the ones that do (ie offshoring Australian manufacturing).

freediver wrote on Mar 13th, 2019 at 6:23pm:
I didn't realise I would have to make that my argument.


Indeed you verily do FD. That is if you want to be anything resembling coherent. Otherwise its just meaningless virtue signalling.

You could start by presenting a convincing argument for why its capitalism, and not governments being "anti capitalist", that lifts people out of poverty. I'm afraid simply repeating inane lines like "its self evident", "you can see it" "why should I spoonfeed you?" and other versions of "it is because I say it is" - won't cut the mustard.

And to clarify, no one is suggesting that free markets are not a good thing or that they don't produce the wealth that brings us our prosperity. However it is not the "capitalist system" that magically lifts people out of poverty - that system would work to ensure the masses aren't lifted out of poverty, and that wealth is restricted to the tiny proportion of the population that controls the capital. As you say, this 'pure' system would give the masses the great privilege of not starving to death, and not much else. It entrenches inequality. To generate true prosperity equally throughout society, the free market must to some respect be - for want of a better word - 'hijacked' by a centralized public institution - typically a government - to force capitalists to distribute wealth equitably. But this process is not capitalism - it is anti-capitalist. I think Karnal termed it social democracy - that will do. And capitalists will fight against it, whether its using their capital to subvert democracy and undermine policies like public health, corporate taxation and corporate regulation, or simply giving local manufacturing the middle finger and moving offshore. Fortunately social democracies have been quite successful in neutering capitalism, especially in western Europe. They still utilise the benefits of the free market, but social democracies prevent capitalists from hoarding the wealth for themselves. In America, its basically a horror story - yet even there it is not completely unfettered capitalism as there are at least some pissweak social safety nets (differing from state to state).
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polite_gandalf wrote on Mar 13th, 2019 at 1:47pm:
ok I tried to read the OP, but to be honest its quite difficult. Its difficult to pin down a coherent point that I can respond to.

But I agree blowing off the legs of little girls is bad and should be avoided.


It's about the government deciding what is the best way for us to think and that dangerous ideas are pursued by the government, and that we are not allowed access to these ideas because it can affect our voting patterns. Essentially we have fake democracy and government propaganda wings. It has nothing to do with economics.
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This is not what I say Gandalf. This is you projecting communist idiocy onto me.

What percentage of Australia's population do you think would be on the brink of starvation without welfare?
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freediver wrote on Mar 13th, 2019 at 6:23pm:
polite_gandalf wrote on Mar 13th, 2019 at 11:03am:
freediver wrote on Mar 12th, 2019 at 7:04pm:
f? Have you not figured this out yet Gandalf?


Its your argument I haven't figured out FD - as in whenever someone points out the appalling conditions of third world labourers in a capitalist system, your only retort is to rhetorically ask 'would you prefer they starve'. You're not exactly presenting anything better than "not starving" that capitalism can offer these people. I suspect thats because you understand the fundamental point that its never capitalism per se that "lifts people out of poverty" - but specific intervention by the government and organization of labour, two things that the capitalists detest and fight tooth and nail against.

freediver wrote on Mar 12th, 2019 at 7:04pm:
The failure of a corporation is not a failure of capitalism, and too big to fail does not imply, to any rational person, the failure of capitalism.


It wasn't "a" corporation FD, it was a whole bunch of them, and consisted the backbone of the
entire US financial sector. It was a systemic rot culminating from a toxic culture amongst the entire capitalist class - a culture that was arguably inevitable in a capitalist system that becomes more and more deregulated and unaccountable. You seem to not appreciate just how dire the situation was in 2008 FD, and it was saved in large part by the feds pumping trillions to prop up these rotten institutions. Of course you could argue that the government should have simply let those corporations fail, and the market would have corrected itself (which many free-marketeers were advocating) - survival of the fittest. But there is no telling the devastation this would have caused to great swathes of the working, as well as the middle class masses. And if you're telling me that this sort of periodic corrective devastation is inherent in the system, and therefore expected and 'normal', then its not a great selling point for capitalism.

freediver wrote on Mar 12th, 2019 at 7:04pm:
instability does not mean failure


Depends on your perspective. If you are one of the poor working class sods being exploited by the capitalist system, what you euphemistically term "instability" is likely to mean you can no longer afford to buy food to keep you alive, or you lose your home, or you get buried alive by that unapproved appartment block that "the system" deemed unworthy to maintain. But hey, as long as the capitalists themselves can take their ill-gotten bonuses, cut their losses and move on to the next 'make money out of thin air' project - the system will be fine.

The system won't "fail" in these situations, but humanity will.


Gandalf, have you figure out yet whether "not starving" is the best that capitalism can offer? I didn't realise I would have to make that my argument.


Not at all, FD. Any argument will do. Have you figured out how to make one yet?
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Gandalf, have you figure out yet whether "not starving" is the best that capitalism can offer?


Capitalism offers a lot FD, so long as you are the one at the top of the food chain. The veritable "one percenters" For everyone else? Not so much. 


Did you make this lie up yourself Gandalf, or are you just mindlessly parroting someone else's?
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polite_gandalf wrote on Mar 13th, 2019 at 1:47pm:
ok I tried to read the OP, but to be honest its quite difficult. Its difficult to pin down a coherent point that I can respond to.

But I agree blowing off the legs of little girls is bad and should be avoided.


It's about the government deciding what is the best way for us to think and that dangerous ideas are pursued by the government, and that we are not allowed access to these ideas because it can affect our voting patterns. Essentially we have fake democracy and government propaganda wings. It has nothing to do with economics.


Ah yes, we call that Freeeedom here, Spatchcock.

FD owns the patent.
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freediver wrote on Mar 13th, 2019 at 8:48pm:
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As you say, this 'pure' system would give the masses the great privilege of not starving to death, and not much else.


This is not what I say Gandalf.


No worries. Here's a perfect opportunity to articulate what you do say, FD.

Here's your chance.
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freediver wrote on Mar 13th, 2019 at 9:07pm:
polite_gandalf wrote on Mar 13th, 2019 at 7:20pm:
freediver wrote on Mar 13th, 2019 at 6:23pm:
Gandalf, have you figure out yet whether "not starving" is the best that capitalism can offer?


Capitalism offers a lot FD, so long as you are the one at the top of the food chain. The veritable "one percenters" For everyone else? Not so much. 


Did you make this lie up yourself Gandalf, or are you just mindlessly parroting someone else's?


You?
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This is not what I say Gandalf.


Its actually about the only thing you have said about why capitalism is beneficial FD. As in, when presented with the undeniable truth that capitalism exploits those without bargaining power and seeks other people to exploit as soon as the exploited gain bargaining power (a point that you very candidly acknowledged in relation to Chinese labour) - literally your only counter-point is "would you prefer they starve?".

Thats basically FD's sum defence of capitalism - a silly rhetorical question that actually does more to promote institutionalised slavery than it does capitalism. Other than that its all been hand waving virtue signalling, personal attacks and "presenting an actual argument is beneath me" type dismissives.

But like I said, its never too late to start actually debating if you feel so inclined. A good starting point would be to present a convincing case for why its capitalism itself, rather than anti-capitalism interventions like government regulation to enforce capitalists to redistribute wealth equitably, that actually lifts people out of poverty and makes society prosperous.
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Right. And do you know? FD could easily prove his case by showing how inheritance and trust funds trickle down to the population.

He could show how tax cuts for the higher income brackets are more effective than taxation at creating jobs and redistributing wealth.

He could show where corporate tax cuts go, where the money gets invested and who profits.

He could do review of the Laffer Curve, using the example of the Bush and Trump tax cuts to show in practice how they increase employment and consumer demand.

There are plenty of ways FD could make his case, but as he says, FD's not spoonfeeding us information we already know.
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He could show where corporate tax cuts go, where the money gets invested and who profits.


Shareholders and executive bonuses mainly:

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But so far, the cuts have not been linked to an increase in labor share or more investments. The Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago’s current capital spending index indicates private business investment plans have remained in negative territory since 2015. The most certain effect of the tax cuts has been to help fuel a massive increase in the federal deficit and debt.

So where is all the money saved from corporate tax cuts going? First, to companies’ bottom lines and second to stock buybacks, which were recently at a record high.


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Right. Now this is where FD comes back with his evidence. He can quote from a range of sources - there's the spineless apologists' posts, the Wiki or even the Pew Survey.

60% of Malaysians support the death sentence for apostasy. Did you know that, G?
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Mattyfisk wrote on Mar 14th, 2019 at 3:06pm:
Right. Now this is where FD comes back with his evidence. He can quote from a range of sources - there's the spineless apologists' posts, the Wiki or even the Pew Survey.

60% of Malaysians support the death sentence for apostasy. Did you know that, G?


- You're just spouting communist propaganda
- what muslim textbook did you get this from?
- can you explain what your alternative system is yet or haven't you figured that out?
- I'm not going to spoonfeed you whats in plain sight
- why do you hate our freedom?
- [insert any other irrelevant snyde rhetorical question]
- you polish your turd so that others may eat

did I miss anything from FD's expansive debating repportoire?
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polite_gandalf wrote on Mar 14th, 2019 at 6:40pm:
Mattyfisk wrote on Mar 14th, 2019 at 3:06pm:
Right. Now this is where FD comes back with his evidence. He can quote from a range of sources - there's the spineless apologists' posts, the Wiki or even the Pew Survey.

60% of Malaysians support the death sentence for apostasy. Did you know that, G?


- You're just spouting communist propaganda
- what muslim textbook did you get this from?
- can you explain what your alternative system is yet or haven't you figured that out?
- I'm not going to spoonfeed you whats in plain sight
- why do you hate our freedom?
- [insert any other irrelevant snyde rhetorical question]
- you polish your turd so that others may eat

did I miss anything from FD's expansive debating repportoire?


Just one:

- blame Islam for the world's problems.
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polite_gandalf wrote on Mar 14th, 2019 at 6:40pm:
Mattyfisk wrote on Mar 14th, 2019 at 3:06pm:
Right. Now this is where FD comes back with his evidence. He can quote from a range of sources - there's the spineless apologists' posts, the Wiki or even the Pew Survey.

60% of Malaysians support the death sentence for apostasy. Did you know that, G?


- You're just spouting communist propaganda
- what muslim textbook did you get this from?
- can you explain what your alternative system is yet or haven't you figured that out?
- I'm not going to spoonfeed you whats in plain sight
- why do you hate our freedom?
- [insert any other irrelevant snyde rhetorical question]
- you polish your turd so that others may eat

did I miss anything from FD's expansive debating repportoire?


Why are you so scared to answer a question?
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freediver wrote on Mar 13th, 2019 at 9:07pm:
polite_gandalf wrote on Mar 13th, 2019 at 7:20pm:
freediver wrote on Mar 13th, 2019 at 6:23pm:
Gandalf, have you figure out yet whether "not starving" is the best that capitalism can offer?


Capitalism offers a lot FD, so long as you are the one at the top of the food chain. The veritable "one percenters" For everyone else? Not so much. 


Did you make this lie up yourself Gandalf, or are you just mindlessly parroting someone else's?


Where do you get this crap from Gandalf?
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Reply #267 - Mar 14th, 2019 at 9:47pm
 
Gandalf does have a point.

Regardless of the legitimacy of his argument, freediver does act extremely arrogant and condescending and with a level of confidence that is not appropriate to the simplicity of his arguments and demands.

He does not disprove a statement. He asks you to prove a statement. He does not argue. He relies on belittling the intellectual capabilities of his adversity to discredit them to win an argument. No facts or logic or ideas are used.

He has no legitimate reason to act as though he has a superior argument. He has no argument. He argues extremely simple concepts and wants you to assume he is intellectually rigorous.
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Reply #268 - Mar 14th, 2019 at 9:52pm
 
Spatchcock wrote on Mar 14th, 2019 at 9:47pm:
Gandalf does have a point.

Regardless of the legitimacy of his argument, freediver does act extremely arrogant and condescending and with a level of confidence that is not appropriate to the simplicity of his arguments and demands.

He does not disprove a statement. He asks you to prove a statement. He does not argue. He relies on belittling the intellectual capabilities of his adversity to discredit them to win an argument. No facts or logic or ideas are used.

He has no legitimate reason to act as though he has a superior argument. He has no argument. He argues extremely simple concepts and wants you to assume he is intellectually rigorous.


Now that's a post!
Karnal - you've just been leap-frogged.
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AIMLESS EXTENTION OF KNOWLEDGE HOWEVER, WHICH IS WHAT I THINK YOU REALLY MEAN BY THE TERM 'CURIOSITY', IS MERELY INEFFICIENCY. I AM DESIGNED TO AVOID INEFFICIENCY.
 
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Reply #269 - Mar 14th, 2019 at 10:10pm
 
What say you FreeDiver?
There's a new player at the table.  Wink
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Reply #270 - Mar 14th, 2019 at 10:14pm
 
Spatchcock wrote on Mar 14th, 2019 at 9:47pm:
Gandalf does have a point.

Regardless of the legitimacy of his argument, freediver does act extremely arrogant and condescending and with a level of confidence that is not appropriate to the simplicity of his arguments and demands.

He does not disprove a statement. He asks you to prove a statement. He does not argue. He relies on belittling the intellectual capabilities of his adversity to discredit them to win an argument. No facts or logic or ideas are used.

He has no legitimate reason to act as though he has a superior argument. He has no argument. He argues extremely simple concepts and wants you to assume he is intellectually rigorous.


Excellent analysis.
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Reply #271 - Mar 14th, 2019 at 11:02pm
 
Jasin wrote on Mar 14th, 2019 at 9:52pm:
Spatchcock wrote on Mar 14th, 2019 at 9:47pm:
Gandalf does have a point.

Regardless of the legitimacy of his argument, freediver does act extremely arrogant and condescending and with a level of confidence that is not appropriate to the simplicity of his arguments and demands.

He does not disprove a statement. He asks you to prove a statement. He does not argue. He relies on belittling the intellectual capabilities of his adversity to discredit them to win an argument. No facts or logic or ideas are used.

He has no legitimate reason to act as though he has a superior argument. He has no argument. He argues extremely simple concepts and wants you to assume he is intellectually rigorous.


Now that's a post!
Karnal - you've just been leap-frogged.


Superior culture, innit.
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Reply #272 - Mar 14th, 2019 at 11:04pm
 
freediver wrote on Mar 10th, 2019 at 3:47pm:
All you have to do is open your eyes Karnal.

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Reply #273 - Mar 14th, 2019 at 11:24pm
 
Mattyfisk wrote on Mar 14th, 2019 at 11:04pm:
freediver wrote on Mar 10th, 2019 at 3:47pm:
All you have to do is open your eyes Karnal.



Now that Spatchcock is on the scene. Bet FD wishes he could close his  Cheesy
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Reply #274 - Mar 15th, 2019 at 8:16am
 
FD has now reduced himself entirely to ridiculing his opponent with inane snide digs masquerading as real questions.

Pity. I genuinely hoped that he would make an actual case for once, and we could have had a genuine intellectual debate. Ho hum, you'd think I'd learn wouldn't you?  Undecided
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Reply #275 - Mar 15th, 2019 at 11:11pm
 
polite_gandalf wrote on Mar 15th, 2019 at 8:16am:
FD has now reduced himself entirely to ridiculing his opponent with inane snide digs masquerading as real questions.

Pity. I genuinely hoped that he would make an actual case for once, and we could have had a genuine intellectual debate. Ho hum, you'd think I'd learn wouldn't you?  Undecided


FD has reached the stage where he's 'too far gone'. He can't backflip on his ideas and beliefs now, because doing so would create such a level of cognitive dissonance that he wouldn't be able to cope in real life.
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