When I was there in 1971, a shocking number of people I talked to were insistent that Australians were not racist for their treatment of the Aborigines because “Abos aren’t human.”
I will never defend the concept of terra nullius. However, I will also unequivocally state that referring to an alleged position of some Australians that predates the Whitlam Labor government is totally irrelevant now.
Skull based. Nice!
I will never defend the concept of terra nullius. However, I will also unequivocally state that referring to an alleged position of some Australians that predates the Whitlam Labor government is totally irrelevant now.
Wrong, not to the left in the US.
You will all be racists soon unless your admit your white guilt & do penance. You are guilty of things done before your time just because you are white.
Also until you open your borders to all comers including covid positive, dirt poor, & just let them go anywhere they like while you are under restriction, given them housing, paid all their bills, & given them all $3,500, and they get to “work” off their debt to drug cartels through pedophilia prostitution, prostitution, or being held in captivity in work camps, you are racists!
Exactly what is that post referring to?
Exactly what is that post referring to?
The left, here & in Australia. You understood though…don’t be coy…
The current Australian federal government is right of centre. Three of the Australian state governments are right of centre.
I will never defend the concept of terra nullius. However, I will also unequivocally state that referring to an alleged position of some Australians that predates the Whitlam Labor government is totally irrelevant now.
I agree … just like the racial situation in this Country in the Jim Crow days is irrelevant today.
The current Australian federal government is right of centre. Three of the Australian state governments are right of centre.
Right of center in a left of center country. In politics, left and right are relative.
We are not a left of centre country. It is pure and unadulterated nonsense to assert same.
Of course you are, among “free” countries.
westaussie:I will never defend the concept of terra nullius. However, I will also unequivocally state that referring to an alleged position of some Australians that predates the Whitlam Labor government is totally irrelevant now.
I agree … just like the racial situation in this Country in the Jim Crow days is irrelevant today.
Funnily or sadly enough Australia had some of the most racist laws in the world when it came to the aborigines. It put jim crow to shame.
Yes, because this where it stops being even close to simple.
That answer is exactly correct, as a summary. And, in good faith. Anything further involves a suspension of obsolete notions about currency, up to and including accepting a non-negotiable starting point: that the US has effectively unlimited and therefore never fully realizable capital, plus force of arms, plus treaty protections, plus the global reserve currency, plus command of the IMF, plus sufficient concentration of wealth, to be, in actual practice, able to offset any so-called debt with so much real capital (and everything else listed above) that it in truth has no debts, and only clients and competitors. The debt that it holds on its books, then, is policy - policy whose aim and outcome is the production of favorable balance of trade.
Baloney. If that’s the case, print all you like, with no effect. Pay off the national debt, stop charging anyone taxes, & just print whatever you need or want.
tnt:Check the deficit under trump before you blame the Ds.
Obama cut the deficit in half. What did trump do to it?
So what? The debt skyrocketed.
The debt matters more.
You fundamentally misunderstand how fiat currency works.
You fundamentally misunderstand how fiat currency works.
Really? How would you know? You don’t even understand basic economics.
westaussie:Our current federal government is a right of centre government. In terms of diversity around a quarter of all Australians were not born in Australia and Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane are in the top 10 cities in the world with the largest foreign born populations. Specifically with respect to Sydney, 250 different languages are spoken and around 36% of residents speak a language other then English at home.
Right of center down under is the far left from a northern hemisphere perspective.
I love it when people tell natives of other countries how it is in their countries…like people here know better than the natives.
I wonder if that is a uniquely American thing to do…
I’m not telling him how it is in his country, I’m telling him how his country is compared to other countries.
I’m not telling him how it is in his country, I’m telling him how his country is compared to other countries.
No you’re telling him how it is in his country.
In order to make such a definitive statement, you’d have to know what right wingers are like in his country.
No I am not. I am telling him that compared to other free countries, his country is not a rightist country.