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p1kef1sh @p1kef1sh (45681) 5 Jan 13

Western countries generally operate a two party system, one leftwards leaning the other tends to look to the right. Conservative and Socialist is the typical configuration. Often, especially in Europe, there is a centre party too...

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grandpa_lash There is a whole subdiscipline in Sociology on this sort of media issue, as I discovered when looking at the media in relation to the Greens for my thesis. One of the main points that came up is that the media is primarily owned by big business, so it's hardly...

5 Jan 13

p1kef1sh @p1kef1sh (45681) 5 Jan 13

Western countries generally operate a two party system, one leftwards leaning the other tends to look to the right. Conservative and Socialist is the typical configuration. Often, especially in Europe, there is a centre party too...

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grandpa_lash p1ke, like you I once believed firmly in centralisation, and even in what we now call Globalisation, but as I've matured and seen the damage done to, say, rural areas because all the voting power is in the urban centres, I have gone completely the other way....

5 Jan 13

MsTickle @MsTickle (25180) • Australia 31 Dec 12

I'm just listening to the news and there has been a report regarding the death of a 20 year old medical student who was gang raped in India. The report goes on that government sees the importance of stopping this sort of thing...

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grandpa_lash I agree, it's not a specifically male trait to refuse to accept responsibi8lity for our actions, but I've rarely heard of a woman killing multiple men and never heard of multiple women raping a man (it may happen, but so rarely as to be irrelevant). Lash

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p1kef1sh @p1kef1sh (45681) 5 Jan 13

Western countries generally operate a two party system, one leftwards leaning the other tends to look to the right. Conservative and Socialist is the typical configuration. Often, especially in Europe, there is a centre party too...

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grandpa_lash The current Australian situation echoes both of p1ke's points: on the one hand, we have the dirtiest, most virulently personalised parliamentary debate I think we've ever seen, and my political leanings apart, it is mostly on the part of the Conservative side...

5 Jan 13

p1kef1sh @p1kef1sh (45681) 5 Jan 13

Western countries generally operate a two party system, one leftwards leaning the other tends to look to the right. Conservative and Socialist is the typical configuration. Often, especially in Europe, there is a centre party too...

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grandpa_lash Oddly, Cuba under Castro devolved most of the practical day-to-day stuff to local councils, and the result took them from among the worst of 3rd World countries to equal to most OECD countries in terms of the UN assessment of social indicators (e.g. infant...

5 Jan 13

MsTickle @MsTickle (25180) • Australia 31 Dec 12

I'm just listening to the news and there has been a report regarding the death of a 20 year old medical student who was gang raped in India. The report goes on that government sees the importance of stopping this sort of thing...

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grandpa_lash My point is that in respect of this issue, all countries are backward. The West has made certain cosmetic changes that make it appear that we are not as backward, but effectively the same attitudes still exist within our societies, even if not as much as they...

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MsTickle @MsTickle (25180) • Australia 31 Dec 12

I'm just listening to the news and there has been a report regarding the death of a 20 year old medical student who was gang raped in India. The report goes on that government sees the importance of stopping this sort of thing...

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grandpa_lash The point of my flippant punishment is that shame and embarrassment are possibly more effective with onlookers than the normal punishments.

2 Jan 13

MsTickle @MsTickle (25180) • Australia 31 Dec 12

I'm just listening to the news and there has been a report regarding the death of a 20 year old medical student who was gang raped in India. The report goes on that government sees the importance of stopping this sort of thing...

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grandpa_lash Khashmere, this attitude is not restricted to "backward" countries, it is still extremely common in all so-called developed, "civilised" countries, even at the judicial level. Perhaps it would be wise of you not to showcase your Western arrogance quite as...

1 Jan 13

grandpa_lash @grandpa_lash (5225) • Australia 21 Dec 12

The world din't end yesterday. ROFLMAO at the paranoid religious fringe. Lash

idiots

millenialism

religious mania

revelations of stupidity

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grandpa_lash There really are times when I wish the opening poster had the power to delete responses. Quel dommage. Bones, I often use the metaphors of sharks or wolves to describe that proportion of the population which are probably best described collectively as...

22 Dec 12

grandpa_lash @grandpa_lash (5225) • Australia 21 Dec 12

The world din't end yesterday. ROFLMAO at the paranoid religious fringe. Lash

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grandpa_lash Well, what do they say? There's seven million born every minute? Lash

22 Dec 12

grandpa_lash @grandpa_lash (5225) • Australia 21 Dec 12

The world din't end yesterday. ROFLMAO at the paranoid religious fringe. Lash

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grandpa_lash I've been amazingly busy getting all the legal and practical matters out of the way for our move to Tasmania, including buying a house rather sooner than we had originally planned, and the only reason I'm here at all is that I've been extremely efficient lol...

21 Dec 12

grandpa_lash @grandpa_lash (5225) • Australia 21 Dec 12

The world din't end yesterday. ROFLMAO at the paranoid religious fringe. Lash

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grandpa_lash As far as I'm concerned, it all ended with the advent of economic rationalism thirty years ago. Everything since then has been a collective slide through Purgatory. Lash

21 Dec 12

grandpa_lash @grandpa_lash (5225) • Australia 21 Dec 12

The world din't end yesterday. ROFLMAO at the paranoid religious fringe. Lash

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grandpa_lash For a second there I thought you'd uploaded a picture of a Ku Klux Kristmas. Lash

21 Dec 12

grandpa_lash @grandpa_lash (5225) • Australia 21 Dec 12

The world din't end yesterday. ROFLMAO at the paranoid religious fringe. Lash

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grandpa_lash Despite what Californians might think, California is not the world. Lash

21 Dec 12

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