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by Boomercm
December 25, 2023, 7:54 am
Forum: Current Affairs
Topic: The Politics Thread 2023
Replies: 1341
Views: 170092

Re: The Politics Thread 2023

Interesting take Boomer. Let's not forget that the suet against Trump in Colorado was filed by Republicans. It doesn't quite fit your narrative. I'm with GE. There is a fairly obvious difference between the behaviour that Trump and his supporters have exhibited, and anything that Biden has supposed...
by Boomercm
December 25, 2023, 5:24 am
Forum: Current Affairs
Topic: The Politics Thread 2023
Replies: 1341
Views: 170092

Re: The Politics Thread 2023

That could have come straight from Rachell Maddow herself, GE. You should try for a gig as a writer at CNN or MSNBC. I'll be curious to see how the fair application of the rule of law is perceived if and when most this stuff is thrown out by the Supreme Court*. *Standard disclaimer. I don't like Tru...
by Boomercm
December 24, 2023, 10:33 pm
Forum: Current Affairs
Topic: The Politics Thread 2023
Replies: 1341
Views: 170092

Re: The Politics Thread 2023

It's got that 1930s Germany feel about it. A slow spiral into a fascist dictatorship. which side are the fascists? The one led by the populist asshat that tried to overthrow an election result, or the one that openly uses the courts, federal agencies, and pressures the mega cap social media compani...
by Boomercm
December 24, 2023, 9:10 pm
Forum: Current Affairs
Topic: The Politics Thread 2023
Replies: 1341
Views: 170092

Re: The Politics Thread 2023

So, the Colorado Supreme Court has found that Trump participated in the insurrection and has deemed him ineligible for the Presidential election, removing his name from the primary ballot. No doubt that the Federal Supreme Court that he stacked will overturn it, and it will mobilise his rabid suppo...
by Boomercm
December 24, 2023, 8:57 pm
Forum: Current Affairs
Topic: The Politics Thread 2023
Replies: 1341
Views: 170092

Re: The Politics Thread 2023

I know how easy is to think of those people as undeserving of being in this country and to be given support by our government, because i once held views similar to that. In many ways those views were institutional as a result of the people raising me and what views i was exposed to. Not a lot of ba...
by Boomercm
December 24, 2023, 8:46 pm
Forum: Current Affairs
Topic: The Politics Thread 2023
Replies: 1341
Views: 170092

Re: The Politics Thread 2023

Haha the response from boomer sure is taking a fair bit longer than his original bravado suggested it would, isn't it? it's a busy time of year, and I have a 3 month old child. I look forward to finishing a reply, but other things have been more important - like prepping for a US trip (with childre...
by Boomercm
December 24, 2023, 8:41 pm
Forum: Current Affairs
Topic: The Politics Thread 2023
Replies: 1341
Views: 170092

Re: The Politics Thread 2023

It's got that 1930s Germany feel about it. A slow spiral into a fascist dictatorship. which side are the fascists? The one led by the populist asshat that tried to overthrow an election result, or the one that openly uses the courts, federal agencies, and pressures the mega cap social media compani...
by Boomercm
December 19, 2023, 9:33 pm
Forum: Current Affairs
Topic: The Politics Thread 2023
Replies: 1341
Views: 170092

Re: The Politics Thread 2023

gangrenous wrote: December 19, 2023, 8:22 pm Why haven’t you surrendered and made peace with me after you lost our argument? [emoji13]
It's a tricky subject and it is taking some time. You also used an unusual definition, which was my own fault for letting you define it :cry:
by Boomercm
December 19, 2023, 8:28 pm
Forum: Canberra Raiders
Topic: Raiders player signing speculation 2023
Replies: 3787
Views: 602901

Re: Raiders player signing speculation 2023

As an addition: Bluesbrother, you're on record as criticising the bulldogs for their recruitment strategy. But on what grounds can you be critical of them? Do you know more than them? More than Phil Gould? But despite not knowing as much as them, despite not having all the facts, you seem more than...
by Boomercm
December 19, 2023, 8:16 pm
Forum: Current Affairs
Topic: The Politics Thread 2023
Replies: 1341
Views: 170092

Re: The Politics Thread 2023

Israel are lurching from one war crime to the next, bombing hospitals, slaughtering journalists and indiscriminately killing civilians in Gaza to the extent that they are now murdering their own white flag waving hostages. Absolute PR disaster for them. And pretty soon the only people who will be s...
by Boomercm
December 17, 2023, 9:43 pm
Forum: Canberra Raiders
Topic: Raiders player signing speculation 2023
Replies: 3787
Views: 602901

Re: Raiders player signing speculation 2023

You’ve got a flaw in your elimination of (1). Ricky has a demonstrated history of liking/supporting a player and then flipping on them quite quickly (although usually his flipping point is long after everyone else came to the conclusion so it’s not as apparent as for Savage). Edrick Lee, BJ, Valeme...
by Boomercm
December 17, 2023, 2:57 pm
Forum: Canberra Raiders
Topic: Raiders player signing speculation 2023
Replies: 3787
Views: 602901

Re: Raiders player signing speculation 2023

You’ve got a flaw in your elimination of (1). Ricky has a demonstrated history of liking/supporting a player and then flipping on them quite quickly (although usually his flipping point is long after everyone else came to the conclusion so it’s not as apparent as for Savage). Edrick Lee, BJ, Valeme...
by Boomercm
December 17, 2023, 2:21 pm
Forum: Canberra Raiders
Topic: Raiders player signing speculation 2023
Replies: 3787
Views: 602901

Re: Raiders player signing speculation 2023

Same discussion about Savage still happening. Here's the facts: * 2021 - moved by Ricky from Wing to FB in reserves. Sticky decides he can be a FB * was improving rapidly as FB in 2022, * in 2022 signed till end 2025 by Ricky * ends 2022 our first choice FB * comes into 2023 expected to start at FB,...
by Boomercm
December 17, 2023, 8:31 am
Forum: Current Affairs
Topic: The Politics Thread 2023
Replies: 1341
Views: 170092

Re: The Politics Thread 2023

Why do people move from countries involved in decades long conflict, poverty, starvation and just all around **** situations to places with better prospects? Seriously, is that your question? Sent from my SM-G975F using Tapatalk No my question was to give me your best three pieces of evidence. Give...
by Boomercm
December 16, 2023, 5:09 pm
Forum: Current Affairs
Topic: The Politics Thread 2023
Replies: 1341
Views: 170092

Re: The Politics Thread 2023

I assume he spent so long down a right wing rabbit hole in Covid that he’s lost all sense of the real world… As for Boomer’s evidence of systemic racism - What’s your definition? Sounds like you’ll only count overt stuff like white Australia policies. If there’s no bias in the system why are white ...
by Boomercm
December 16, 2023, 5:07 pm
Forum: Current Affairs
Topic: The Politics Thread 2023
Replies: 1341
Views: 170092

Re: The Politics Thread 2023

Why do people move from countries involved in decades long conflict, poverty, starvation and just all around **** situations to places with better prospects? Seriously, is that your question? Sent from my SM-G975F using Tapatalk No my question was to give me your best three pieces of evidence. Give...
by Boomercm
December 16, 2023, 10:25 am
Forum: Current Affairs
Topic: The Politics Thread 2023
Replies: 1341
Views: 170092

Re: The Politics Thread 2023

I didn't see the EPL post, but from the article that Boomer posted, were they encouraging inclusion over performance? In a professional league? If so, then it is an embarrassing post. I based my initial post on the article you read. I would have worded my criticism differently had I seen the origin...
by Boomercm
December 16, 2023, 8:17 am
Forum: Current Affairs
Topic: The Politics Thread 2023
Replies: 1341
Views: 170092

Re: The Politics Thread 2023

an excellent article covering recent events.

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archi ... ge/676350/
by Boomercm
December 16, 2023, 8:13 am
Forum: Canberra Raiders
Topic: Zac Hosking signs with the Raiders on three year deal from 2024
Replies: 226
Views: 74768

Re: Penrith Panthers second rower Zac Hosking tours Canberra Raiders HQ ahead of potential move

Zac Hosking was keeping Luke Garner out of the Penrith side. So there's that. Then dropped him for Garner for the pointy end of the season. If Hosking is on a very small contract Penrith won’t release him unless they have someone who can come in and do the same job at the same price imo. They don’t...
by Boomercm
December 16, 2023, 8:04 am
Forum: Canberra Raiders
Topic: Zac Hosking signs with the Raiders on three year deal from 2024
Replies: 226
Views: 74768

Re: Penrith Panthers second rower Zac Hosking tours Canberra Raiders HQ ahead of potential move

Zac Hosking was keeping Luke Garner out of the Penrith side. So there's that.

On a more serious note, I didn't mind what I saw of him. We were very poor defensively on the edge. And he was solid in one of the best defensive sides i've ever seen.
by Boomercm
December 16, 2023, 7:53 am
Forum: Current Affairs
Topic: The Politics Thread 2023
Replies: 1341
Views: 170092

Re: The Politics Thread 2023

I didn't see the EPL post, but from the article that Boomer posted, were they encouraging inclusion over performance? In a professional league? If so, then it is an embarrassing post. I based my initial post on the article you read. I would have worded my criticism differently had I seen the origin...
by Boomercm
December 14, 2023, 7:09 am
Forum: Current Affairs
Topic: The Politics Thread 2023
Replies: 1341
Views: 170092

Re: The Politics Thread 2023

I didn't see the EPL post, but from the article that Boomer posted, were they encouraging inclusion over performance? In a professional league? If so, then it is an embarrassing post. I based my initial post on the article you read. I would have worded my criticism differently had I seen the origin...
by Boomercm
December 14, 2023, 6:41 am
Forum: Current Affairs
Topic: The Politics Thread 2023
Replies: 1341
Views: 170092

Re: The Politics Thread 2023

Woke is a word **** go with when they don't like/can't understand a concept I used to think this too. But really, there is a very real movement out there that encapsulates cancel culture, identity politics, cultural marxism ideas, the DEI movement, et al. Woke is as good a word as any to describe i...
by Boomercm
December 9, 2023, 1:56 pm
Forum: Current Affairs
Topic: The Politics Thread 2023
Replies: 1341
Views: 170092

Re: The Politics Thread 2023

I was in the Aethiest club at uni. I dislike religious bigots as much (maybe more) than anyone. But you can't suppress people's opinions without it coming back as angst and anger in the population. This is how you end up with other bad things, like Trump. You argue against it, you don't suppress it....
by Boomercm
December 9, 2023, 11:37 am
Forum: Current Affairs
Topic: The Politics Thread 2023
Replies: 1341
Views: 170092

Re: The Politics Thread 2023

“Why can’t we just let bigots be bigots anymore? The world was so much easier when bigots didn’t have to worry that people might actually call them out for being jerks…” Cry me a river boomer. Let's be clear for those that don't read the article. It wasn't Adam D saying that LGBTQI+ status mattered...
by Boomercm
December 9, 2023, 11:15 am
Forum: Current Affairs
Topic: The Politics Thread 2023
Replies: 1341
Views: 170092

Re: The Politics Thread 2023

and on a related but seperate note. What were people's thoughts on this 'controversial' social media post? Does anyone here think that the raiders should be considering LGBTIQ+ representation as more important than performance in our recruiting? https://www.foxsports.com.au/nrl/nrl-premiership/teams...
by Boomercm
December 9, 2023, 11:03 am
Forum: Current Affairs
Topic: The Politics Thread 2023
Replies: 1341
Views: 170092

Re: The Politics Thread 2023

I said a few weeks back that woke culture (I can't find a more acceptable term. I'm not sure what to call it) casting the jews as oppressors and colonisers would lead to a shift in the balance of power, away from that culture. It wasn't a popular opinion, but nonetheless we are beginning to see that...
by Boomercm
November 27, 2023, 12:45 pm
Forum: Current Affairs
Topic: The Politics Thread 2023
Replies: 1341
Views: 170092

Re: The Politics Thread 2023

You may wish it were different, but it is not bollocks. And even most of the folks that wish it were different would flip on a dime if it were their ingroup involved. A good recent example of this general principle was when the US supplied cluster munitions to the Ukraine in July. They were running ...
by Boomercm
November 26, 2023, 11:50 am
Forum: Current Affairs
Topic: The Politics Thread 2023
Replies: 1341
Views: 170092

Re: The Politics Thread 2023

Rule 1, which is really the only rule of war, is to achieve the objective losing as few of your own people as possible. That is every government's first and foremost responsibility to their people. This is why no war has ever been fought in accordance with the official rules. This includes the allie...
by Boomercm
November 16, 2023, 6:18 am
Forum: Current Affairs
Topic: The Politics Thread 2023
Replies: 1341
Views: 170092

Re: The Politics Thread 2023

And secondly, the biggest threat Trump has posed to democracy is that the left are so infuriated by him that they are very willing to dismantle democracy (and the enlightenment really) to try and stop him getting back in. It's like watching the star wars movie where liberty dies to thunderous appla...
by Boomercm
November 12, 2023, 7:47 pm
Forum: Current Affairs
Topic: The Politics Thread 2023
Replies: 1341
Views: 170092

Re: The Politics Thread 2023

"genocide" "the dismantling of democracy as we know it" there is some wonderful hyperbole being thrown around. Firstly (i'll repeat again), everyone needs to stop watching the Hamas propaganda channel. It's bad for you and good for them. And secondly, the biggest threat Trump has...
by Boomercm
November 9, 2023, 7:46 am
Forum: Current Affairs
Topic: The Politics Thread 2023
Replies: 1341
Views: 170092

Re: The Politics Thread 2023

My favourite part was the part about ignoring war crimes because by paying attention to them you may feel sympathy for the Palestinians. By giving them sympathy you make it less likely that they lay down their arms and surrender. You are reinforcing Hamas' behaviour. You become part of the problem....
by Boomercm
November 9, 2023, 7:43 am
Forum: Current Affairs
Topic: The Politics Thread 2023
Replies: 1341
Views: 170092

Re: The Politics Thread 2023

The Nickman wrote: November 9, 2023, 6:46 am You’re a **** idiot if you blame the tens of thousands of slaughtered Palestinians, that are majority children, for any of this.

Absolutely not even worth debating.
It definitely isn't worth debating as it is nothing like what I said
by Boomercm
November 9, 2023, 5:22 am
Forum: Current Affairs
Topic: The Politics Thread 2023
Replies: 1341
Views: 170092

Re: The Politics Thread 2023

Is anyone still arguing that the I/p debate hasn't become a right vs left issue? It's because the various news outlets are carrying very different stories about the events. And imo because of the idiotic oppressor--oppressed lens through which we are all now encouraged to view the world --> it has b...
by Boomercm
November 2, 2023, 9:13 pm
Forum: Rugby League
Topic: Rugby League 2023
Replies: 149
Views: 33560

Re: Rugby League 2023

I'll steel man the PNG NRL side. If having a PNG side is seen as beneficial geopolitically by the Aus govt, then the strategy is not about getting govt money for that one side, it would be about investing in the relationship between the Australian government and NRL (i.e., banking a favour, then hol...