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Can politicians choose their father? https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2015/sep/10/canning-byelection-andrew-hastie-refuses-to-give-his-views-on-creationism If a politician can be condemned for their father being a creationist surely another can be condemned for his uncle being a...

I've found Twitter to be the most useful social network, but it's a net good for society if Elon Musk actually kills it off (intentionally or unintentionally.) https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/a-global-town-square-is-a-terrible-idea-elon-q7q0czfc7

If that was a consistent standard I'd be fine with it. But given we already see the political beliefs or actions of a politicians spouse or family members dragged into the limelight and ask for an explanation from the politician why shouldn't it be noteworthy that the new Democrat House Speaker...

Bit of a difference between being a hoarder and an open racial supremacist and anti-Semite.

I think the issue you'll find is the largest constituency in this country is what the UK call the "fund the NHS, hang the paedos" group. They're the opposite of your vision for the Liberal party; they're happy to see the introduction of price controls, nationalisation and trade protection, but...

You're the one who made the absurd claim that Biden is closer to traditional Republican beliefs than the current Republican party. I think it's on you to defend that. Russel's teapot and all that.

Well that's a misleading graphic. The asylum seekers on the platform refer to people in Eastern Europe displaced by the Soviet Union and Communism; supporting them was obvious and a very different issue to millions of people streaming across the Southern Border illegally. On unions the...

What's that got to do with anything? Also Reagan was a follow-on from Goldwater, and I'm not sure "Democrats best represent Republicans who liked the party the way it was before 1964" is a great argument for anything. Joe Biden exemplifies the traditional Republican value of thinking that...

Sorry mate. Biden's entire shtick in his decades in office has been that he supports whatever the mainstream of the Democrats supports. If you think he somehow represents "Republican values" I don't know what to tell you.

Republicans will retake the house, but by a much narrower margin than they'd want with a +5 R vote. Lesson here is less that the Republicans are dead and more: 1. The economy, illegal immigration and crime are winning issues for Republicans. "Stop the steal" and loyalty to Trump are not. 2...

Will note two things: 1. I note you haven't bothered listing anything the Coalition has done either, other than just claiming the undefined things they did were egregiously bad in a way that throwing billions of taxpayer dollars at Victorian infrastructure projects ahead of an election without...

Looks like we're going to get Roughead as our new AFLW coach. Seems like a great win for us, given his experience with the Bulldogs and Magpies AFLW programs. Club is making exactly the kind of solid but bold decisions needed for success.

Looks like we're targeting Roughead to take over.

Republicans under DeSantis winning Florida in landslide. The non-conservative platform of speaking out against CRT and radical gender theory of schools seems to be a winner.

The difference here is whether R rated media or age-restrictions on pornographic material are examples of cancel culture? Cause I don't think they are.

Well, the traditional value of not showing children sexually explicit content in schools for starters... https://www.foxnews.com/media/california-school-broadcasts-sexually-explicit-books-covering-pedophiles-kink-pornographic-images

Yeah, I don't think the Liberal Party really has a place for those left-of-centre. It does at its core have a place for conservatives and classical liberals, but if you're looking to support a Nordic social welfare state (or something like that) in a political party that explicitly says it...

Just as a rapid fire: 1. When you have Democrats in the Senate voting down bills like the "Born Alive Survivors Protection Act" (which guarantees a baby born alive after an abortion will receive medical care rather than being left on a medical table for hours to slowly die unless the mother...

And then morphed into letting thousands of (probably more than ten thousand) young girls in Britain be raped without intervention from the state because the perpetrators are from South Asia and the victims are white trash. https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-south-yorkshire-61868863...

Bloke whinging that the AFL coach is under-performing and needs to be knifed whinges that the AFLW coach got knifed for under-performing....

I saw a fair number of people on this thread bagging out the Morrison government for "corruption" and citing it as a reason they couldn't vote for the Liberals. I wonder what they make of Albanese so far: 1. $2.2b reassigned to Victoria's suburban rail loop in the budget, despite the project...

Geez, I'd love to see what you think conservatism should actually be. I have a feeling it's just going to boil down into something along the lines of Labor-lite or Democrat-lite. Also I don't see any reason for Republicans to abandon their positions about any of the things you mentioned. 1...

Weird angle to focus on. Should be asking how popular McGowan is; he'd still rewin government but his support has dropped off pretty significantly from the last election.

Here's some people that aren't social media that are pissed. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-10-24/west-coast-fever-boss-concerned-future-sponsors-may-be-dissuaded/101569254

Most people are backing Gina on this though?

If Hancock Prospecting can't donate to save Netball because Lang Hancock was a horrible racist in the 1980s just wait till Geelong are informed of what Henry Ford said about the Jews.

I mean the point is that Oil and Gas, alongside the resources sector in general, is vital to our way of life. It's a bit of a s**t starting point that clubs like Freo can't have any sort of association with them, given that if we applied the standards activists want to there'd be very few...

I'll leave this here for you. https://thediplomat.com/2014/10/how-the-soviet-union-created-central-asias-worst-environmental-disaster/ Socialism is well known for it's love of the environment. ;)