The election thread - Two middle-late aged white men trying to be blokey and convincing..., same old shit, FFS.
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bear the bear
Is a real bear
Monopoly was originally created by a woman protesting capitalism and the cost of housing (in NY, I think).
It's a pretty wild history and worth a read:
The secret history of Monopoly: the capitalist board game’s leftwing origins
In 1903, a leftwing feminist called Lizzy Magie patented the board game that we now know as Monopoly – but she never gets the credit. Now a new book aims to put that right
www.theguardian.com
Monopoly was invented to demonstrate the evils of capitalism
Monopoly's inventor, Elizabeth Magie, would have sent herself straight to jail if she’d lived to see just how influential today’s twisted version of her game turned out to be.
www.bbc.com
The History of Monopoly: When Was Monopoly Invented?
Discover the history of Monopoly with a timeline of key dates in the invention, patent and publication of Monopoly and its inspiration, The Landlord's Game.
www.monopolyland.com
ForkinGreat
Knows his Brassica oleracea
The Snowden post actually does relate to Australian domestic politics, as the concept is universal, And we have seen examples of it in recent times.
Kindly don't frame it as a baby and bathwater situation. The principle idea is sound, and was unfortunately used in more recent times to great effect by potatohead to kill off the voice to parliament. "I'm going to need more detail" etc, and also by the LNP, when they won the election in 2019 that should have been a cakewalk for Labor, by repeating a bunch of mantras that were essentially lies or misconstruing facts or taking statements way out of context.
eg
'Shorten wants to end the weekend' ( Morrison attacks Labor's electric vehicle policy)
"The Bill You Can't Afford"
Labor's proposed Changes to franking credit policy were a "Death Tax" or a "Retirement Tax"
and "Labor will tax you to death"
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Flow-Rider
Burner
bear the bear
Is a real bear
bear the bear
Is a real bear
The disturbing thing is, that she is tipped to take over the top spot of the company....FFS!!!!
pink poodle
気が狂っている男
The was no corruption
Isildur
The Real Pedant
What corruption?
Haakon
has an accommodating arse
And on it goes. The world keeps getting uglier and it isn’t slowing down. Argentina and now Holland this week join the fray.
www.theguardian.com
Geert Wilders aims to become Dutch PM after shock election win
Far-right leader also says he wants EU exit referendum, as other parties meet to consider joining coalition
www.theguardian.com
Jabubu
let you google that for me
This is what happens when you become ambivalent in the face of hate and anger. One group is motivated to vote and be heard, the other just think it'll be ok.. until these chunts get elected and the hate and anger gets normalised.And on it goes. The world keeps getting uglier and it isn’t slowing down. Argentina and now Holland this week join the fray.
Geert Wilders aims to become Dutch PM after shock election win
Far-right leader also says he wants EU exit referendum, as other parties meet to consider joining coalition
Haakon
has an accommodating arse
Yep.
ForkinGreat
Knows his Brassica oleracea
ForkinGreat
Knows his Brassica oleracea
Sky_Collapsed
Not particularly enlightened
its just a standard correction. over the past probably ten years the world has been left to borderline far left and what usually happens is it swings around every so often towards right/ far right-ish.And on it goes. The world keeps getting uglier and it isn’t slowing down. Argentina and now Holland this week join the fray.
Geert Wilders aims to become Dutch PM after shock election win
Far-right leader also says he wants EU exit referendum, as other parties meet to consider joining coalition
Not sure why you're pretending to be surprised as it's a pretty well known voting pattern.,