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papabear

Pretty good odds since he hasnt won the republican primary yet. Been watching Ramaswamy a lot, I like his approach and energy. I do not like how he views ukraine or foreign policy at all. Ultimately, you can be America first without leaving good countries out to dry and encouraging dictators to take...

papabear

I don't want to get involved in this Middle East discussion for a variety of reasons, but I do want to point out to Papa that the Australian government is regularly criticising other countries for abstaining in important votes in important forums. You see it regularly with China refusing to say any...

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It’s not the kindest possible interpretation. It is the interpretation any reasonable reader should arrive at. It’s like someone saying that the country of China is an exponent of human rights abuse and interpreting that as them calling 1.4 billion Chinese citizens human rights abusers. Farcical. W...

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Meanwhile cowardly nations like Australia are abstaining from calling for a ceasefire because the “wording” isn’t “balanced enough” No I do not think it is. I also do not think how australia votes on a UN resolution that wasn’t requiring Australia’s vote defines the country. What does a cowardly na...

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Why have 120+ Palestinians been killed in the West Bank by settlers over the last couple weeks ? There is no Hamas there? 🤔 Self defence again? Collateral damage? Terrorism? What is it? Edit: and dozens (hundreds?) of Palestinians massacred in a refugee camp in Jabalia. Meanwhile cowardly nations l...

papabear

yeah if savage is a handy full back then hopefully fogarty and savage are enough to create a game plan and points around.

papabear

Mickey_Raider wrote: ↑October 23, 2023, 11:36 am I don’t think questioning Boomers international law bona fides is much of a personal attack. I don’t think his views properly account for the nuances or realities of international law.

It’s the inference behind the question.

I mean you can semantic away, but it is what it is..

papabear

Mickey_Raider wrote: ↑October 21, 2023, 10:38 am

Absolute mess of a take. Old mate boomer will never ever be accused of being an international lawyer, or having any clue about international law.

I don't think you should lower this into personal attacks.

papabear

Papenhayzun would be great

Tbh I’d be satisfied with savage in the 1. But if you have papenhayzen and savage in the same side we are no longer a slow side that can’t finish a try…

papabear

I'm running with the Hamas killing their own civilians at the hospital and am siding with Biden. Sent from my SM-A536E using Tapatalk The evidence I've seen this morning suggests that it likely was caused by a misfired Islamic Jihad rocket. As with most discussions, I'm happy to admit I was more th...

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re the hospital bombing its a terrible tragedy. Old mate putin bombed a bunch of his own people and blamed it on chechens to kick of one of those wars didn't he, not saying I believe the IDF or hamas or anyone really. It could be as simple as the IDF bombed the hospital and then lied, to be honest t...

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For anybody interested in knowing who Jordan Peterson is and what he stands for, read the following article: https://www.theguardian.com/science/2018/feb/07/how-dangerous-is-jordan-b-peterson-the-rightwing-professor-who-hit-a-hornets-nest I read your article and whilst it was an interesting perspec...

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In the supposedly offensive scenario you have raised whereby the value of the property drops, does that not correspond with the tax payable on that unrealised value dropping at that time too? In any case, the raison d’être of the change is to move super closer towards what its proper object and pur...

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Spud Dutton is probably in the midst of a three day Festival of No bender right now, and the bloke is likely too stupid to realise that he just stamped his papers to never be PM of this country, if it was ever in doubt. Literally every single inner city seat which he needs to reclaim to win governm...

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I guess we’ll see. I don’t share you confidence currently Zaius or Nickman. I think it is entirely possible that Dutton is able to be elected, and by garnering a populist vote from the centre, rather than traditional Liberal areas. This - i think its a good summing up - imo though its labors to los...

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Spud Dutton is probably in the midst of a three day Festival of No bender right now, and the bloke is likely too stupid to realise that he just stamped his papers to never be PM of this country, if it was ever in doubt. Literally every single inner city seat which he needs to reclaim to win governm...

papabear

I said last night i wouldnt blame ALP and Albo for this and i won't but the more i think about it the more i think they dropped the bag pretty badly here. And where this falls down badly imo is what Doc was saying, people are busy and if they dont care about an issue they're not going to waste time...

papabear

It takes an amazing amount of ignorance to blame the electorate….

papabear

For me a yes vote is more inherently racist. Yes says unless you get this politically expensive circus as an indigenous person can’t succeed - imo that is racist. I think indigenous just like any other group can find great success in which ever area of life they put their time skills and efforts int...

papabear

Hamas says in their charter they want a complete elimination / destruction of Israel..

Maybe people didn’t think they could do much, it appears they could do a fair bit of damage - and now we will see how well they can defend their position.

papabear

If Cotric doesn’t get dropped is he playing better at season end? You'll say no. I'll say yes. And no one will ever know. But it actually doesnt matter. Hoppa in the best form of his life is not better than Cotric in the worst form of his. As papabear rightly pointed out, Hoppa does one thing well....

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Firstly, let me pull you up a second here, papa... it's not MY article, and I haven't anywhere said I necessarily agree with all of the author's views. Being an Al Jazeera reporter, he's obviously written this article from a heavily Palestinian viewpoint, I've just suggested it's a good read (which...

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A pretty good read here, albeit grim as we lead into Israel's ground assault on Gaza. "Israel is manufacturing a case for genocide" https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2023/10/12/israel-is-manufacturing-a-case-for-genocide Good article. I think this part try’s to sum the situation up as be...

papabear

I’m honestly not fussed. I quite like GE’s plan of Rapana, Savage, Chevy for the back three. My advocating for Hopoate over Cotric was mostly about how little Cotric has been delivering, particularly relative to pay. Why not tell them they’re both too slow for the wing and whoever can successfully ...

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Its a strange move from Hamas - why strike a festival / take innocent hostages. If you are trying to brand yourself as freedome fighters, hit military targets / walls etc.

Going about it the way they did minimises global support for a cause which would have otherwise had growing support.

papabear

There’s no irony. You’re pretending that everyone’s opinions are equal and should be treated as such. They’re not. Some are objectively bad. You have people in this thread who would range from what is considered very left, to those who are considered solidly right and apart from people who are so f...

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https://www.aec.gov.au/referendums/files/pamphlet/your-official-yes-no-referendum-pamphlet.pdf This sums up the two arguments fairly well. What amazes me is the arrogance of some yea voters who try and reduce the strength of the no arguments. Even now where polls are showing yes plummeting. Both sid...

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wouldnt say dropped the ball - he didnt know then what we know now, thought that was clear in the benefit of hindsight comment. Yeah i didnt see a great deal of issue with it whether the idea was practical, reasonable, realistic to gather the forcesand push back immediately as your suggesting, i do...

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wouldnt say dropped the ball - he didnt know then what we know now, thought that was clear in the benefit of hindsight comment.

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Hahaha is Papa really suggesting Australia should’ve sent troops into Russia? ****, that sure would’ve been interesting. Yes I am, now with the benefit of hindsight. I personally think when dictators start shooting down civilian aeroplanes other nations should really take notice and given how expan...

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I’m sure Abbott would have fancied himself to succeed where other pretenders such as Napoleon and Hitler has failed by easily seizing Moscow. im sure australia with the help from other allies could have pushed russia back to its borders out of the donbas pretty easily when it happened. would have s...

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I agree that us politics gets way to much play on here. that said Biden has been really supportive of ukraine (short of getting the gang back together to curb stomp russia out of ukraine). Trump and some other ultra right candidate types same some wierd things about not getting involved etc etc. IMO...

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I'm not sure that picking the most successful club coach at the time necessarily translates into Origin success. It didn't work with Bellamy years ago. Yes you need the smarts to pick the right players, in the right roles and use them at the right time, but you also need to get Origin, and instill ...

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The sad thing is its less likely for republic referendum to even run, one in which I was quite keen to see move forward. Butt Albo/Labor might be thinking yeah / nah if yes is crushed on this one. Even though the republic went down 20 years ago, I think one with a more popular / presidential style v...

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It was one of his campaign promises to hold it in his first term I think holding a promise would be viewed as honourable, and I doubt he'd lose that much popularity if it failed Australia is a typically conservative country, don't do one term govts, run by conservative governments for the majority ...

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