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[disco_cowboy]

 

[7577969923]

I think a fair bit was studied into the systemic rape of Chinese women by the Japanese. Google Nanking.

There is a WW2 museum in Nanjing that is incredibly haunting. The stories of what the Japanese did there are not well known in the West but were crimes against humanity on a very large scale.

 

[Caracas]

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Yes, it would be nice to have our cake and eat it too.


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[rickety]

How in tarnations am I supposed to grumble about what's going on in the world if I can't read any headlines? Be b#ggered if I am subscribing to anything. Do they still have Jeff in the paper? That's Hook not Kennett. Is The Age still ridiculously big? Probably not allowed to have page 3 girls neither. Ah well, no news is good news, as they say .... whoever they are. Mind you, in other news, if you still need some school or office supplies, Officeworks is having a stationary sale :-D

 

[7577969923]

Yes, it would be nice to have our cake and eat it too.


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Not really having our cake and eating too. You listed two different reasons for holding our politicians to account with several carefully selected examples of each. Surely we should be holding our leaders to account for both their acts of gross hypocrisy or callous indifference and their incompetence that has dire outcomes.

 

[Kangaroos4eva]

I think a fair bit was studied into the systemic rape of Chinese women by the Japanese. Google Nanking.

I was discussing in a general manner. Nanking is still riddled with historical myths, thanks to Japanese nationalist historians, but is generally well-studied. It is the exception to the rule though, even with the atrocities of the second Sino-Japanese war being fairly understudied.

 

[Tas]

Do anti-vaxxers also not believe in shoes?

 

[Devington]

Do anti-vaxxers also not believe in shoes?

The irony if he were to tread on a used needle is off the charts.

 

[Tas]

The irony if he were to tread on a used needle is off the charts.

Everyone knows Tetanus is a government conspiracy.

 

[Caracas]

Not really having our cake and eating too. You listed two different reasons for holding our politicians to account with several carefully selected examples of each. Surely we should be holding our leaders to account for both their acts of gross hypocrisy or callous indifference and their incompetence that has dire outcomes.

Absolutely, and I’m sure people would argue that is exactly what is happening every day. Hopefully, we all hold ourselves equally accountable for every single mistake we make too. For my sins, I see the world as one big massive gray area. Ultimately, I’ve settled on the notion of trying to treat everybody with the same degree of respect as I’d like to receive from them. I attended an Uncle Archie Roche concert last night and saw that approach play out in real life. However, regardless of what I think, discord will always be with us. I’ve, obviously, diverged a tad from the specific issue here.


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[Caracas]

At the end of the day, I believe we’ve outsourced far too much accountability for our own lives to our “leaders”.


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[DesertRoo]

At the end of the day, I believe we’ve outsourced far too much accountability for our own lives to our “leaders”.


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And our ‘leaders’ have outsourced way to many decisions to private enterprise..

 

[Kangaroos4eva]

Not really having our cake and eating too. You listed two different reasons for holding our politicians to account with several carefully selected examples of each. Surely we should be holding our leaders to account for both their acts of gross hypocrisy or callous indifference and their incompetence that has dire outcomes.

Judge each one on its individual merit as there are always unique circumstances.

 

[Del191229]

That was indeed my point.

Yeah I prolly didn't word that very well. My point was one definition is regionally based and the other lineage based. I was suggesting that the total population of Arab Jews would be minimal compared to Jews in their entirety. Would they be 5 percent?

There are polish Jews. Russian Jews. Jewish quarters in heaps of cities etc...

When I was in Lebanon I visited the synagogue in Beirut.

When the civil war broke out, locals protected all its stuff as the rabbis et al had to flee.

It was fine for years until the IDF bombed it because they thought a faction was hiding weapons there ffs.

 

[B4Bear]

The irony if he were to tread on a used needle is off the charts.

Have a bottle of red and reread this post.

‘Funny as ****.

 

[Del191229]

I’ve never been through anything like mentioned above, but when I was younger I was glassed and then stabbed in the face. I didn’t want to get any of my friends in trouble but I was told by a lawyer that if I sued the pub I would get a decent payout. I couldn’t go though with it, not for moral reasons but because I was managing panic disorder from an unrelated incident and I literally wouldn’t have been able to sit in the box and tell my story.

I can only imagine how hard it would be for the victims of sexual assault to be cross examined.

I sat through an entire rape trial in Edinburgh. One of the grimmest things I've ever done.

Bloke got off too, despite being obviously guilty.

He proceeded to make a gross face, poking his tongue out and flicking it, at the victim's Mum, a really sexual gesture, just to make sure everyone knew he'd got away with it.

 

[Del191229]

America ... **** yeah

The libertarian imbeciles on this thread who want us going down this path ffs.

 

[B4Bear]

At the end of the day, I believe we’ve outsourced far too much accountability for our own lives to our “leaders”.


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Exactly this.

Official federal and state government position is that you contract out everything; including risk.

‘’Risk is where the game is at, don’t let anyone convince you otherwise.

‘’The debacle in Victoria first time around arose due to risk management.

‘’Government: we need a company to control the security of the quarantine hotel; we don’t know much, so how much?

1st responder: hmm, we want x per day to fulfil your contract due to the risk.

2nd responder: hmm, we want x-n per day to assume the risk and fulfil your contract.

1st responder: hmm, we make a profit subbing it out.

What our leaders fail to understand is that you can contract out the risk; but you can not contract out responsibility.

And responsibility = accountability. Always has, always will.

 

[AnEmptyChair]

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America ... fu** yeah

The libertarian imbeciles on this thread who want us going down this path ffs.

Not a good time for the small government, big corporate types in the US at the movement. And when it's time for the pollies to stand up and actually be a leader, they go on holiday. Lucky we don't have that here...

 

[7577969923]

Have a bottle of red and reread this post.

‘Funny as fu**.

Always sound advice.

 

[7577969923]

America ... fu** yeah

The libertarian imbeciles on this thread who want us going down this path ffs.

“I have always found it quaint and rather touching that there is a movement [Libertarians] in the US that thinks Americans are not yet selfish enough.”

― Christopher Hitchens

 

[Caracas]

And our ‘leaders’ have outsourced way to many decisions to private enterprise..

Touché!


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[DesertRoo]

America ... fu** yeah

The libertarian imbeciles on this thread who want us going down this path ffs.

Anyone who’s actually travelled to America knows it’s not a place to aspire too.. it certainly ain’t like the movies.

 

[Del191229]

“I have always found it quaint and rather touching that there is a movement [Libertarians] in the US that thinks Americans are not yet selfish enough.”

― Christopher Hitchens

I'm astounded they're so heavily armed yet tolerate this shit

 

[Del191229]

Anyone who’s actually travelled to America knows it’s not a place to aspire too.. it certainly ain’t like the movies.

Lowell is where Jack Kerouac from.