General UK ELECTION NIGHT
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You realize rice is the most consumed food in the world? My country is the second biggest exporter of rice, without me you go hungry. Ignorant Brit.
Are you always such a racist?
You being a victim now?
Is that your defence? Really?
Dude. You have taken the piss out of me. You thought it would be amusing to insult me.
Don’t start crying when I hit back.
And don’t start me on your promiscuous mother.
Your only comeback is that I’m Asian? Pasty guava.
Ok. Mate.
Lets do this
Not looking good for the ol Jeremiah is it?
Nah Australia, just interested in politics/elections in general...I don't have a dog in the fight, just a keen observer.
Ya great gar-loo
You a fan of your current incumbent?
The climate denial twat as Sydney chokes on smoke from climate change?
Climate denial? You’re adorable.
Not really. I don't think he's atrocious, but not great either. Imo politicians these days just do enough to keep themselves in a job and nothing more. They get us hooked on shit like rock-bottom interest rates but nothing to protect us when/if shit ever hits the fan (and they - i mean shit like the low interest rates, tax stimulus - certainly haven't done anything to combat our slowing economy).
I wouldn't call myself the biggest fan of ppl like Trump, but I understand why his "drain the swamp" catchcries resonate well with a lot of people.
I think that’s fair if not spot on.
But I do have a problem when you kind of give the likes of Trump a free hit.
Johnson has been given a free hit and I promise you he will fuck up the weaker members of our society. And not progress us.
We have to say no.
We are a planet of finite resources. We should be getting our shit together. Or at least getting our ducks in a row to make it happen by the turn of the century.
Capitalism has failed. It failed when we printed bits of paper and called it money. Or quantative easing. It was the same as communist Russia when people kept building tractors but had no one to sell them to. But they kept building them so folks had something to do.
We need a drastic change.
I agree to an extent with this. I remember the 2017 NZ election when Winston Peters decided to go into coalition with Labour he said that "capitalism needs to regain its human face".
Resonated with me.
I don't have a problem with Chinese, Indian or anyone, but I guess my issue is that all of the powers that be kind of let globalisation go out of hand. I don't live in a city that's considered "major", but major cities like Melbourne and Sydney have houses that go for $1-$2 million - ordinary houses. Like wtf man? Have ppl lost their minds?
dont worry about corbyn. boris is king now
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There's a hodgepodge of thinking in there, but part of it is skewering Keynesian economics which is a crux of socialist market intervention. How do you rationalize that with capitalism being the problem?
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There's a tech/social/economic paradox occurring that we haven't solved yet. A microcosm of this is Obama's plan for TPP as a counterweight to China.
It was a wonderful chess move in geopolitical strategy. Typical smooth Obama maneuvering around the problem and to win the long game.
But it also bought fully into the current market/social system that is split. TPP would outsource low skilled jobs to poor SEA. Then in response you'd see American intellectual and tech get patent and other recognition. We would export cheap jobs. And grow the economy. Overall our economy would grow. But the top would get a further increase while the bottom got further gutted. Obama believed in solving this through government intervention policies. Grow the economy as big as you can and then move the money down via policy. This is against the principals of many and so you were faced with surely exporting the jobs, surely enriching the top, but not surely redistributing the money back down to those just put out of work to make the bigger economy. It became a rallying cry for those as opposite as Sanders and Trump.
The inherent problems here are solving the reduced friction in the global market place, technology advancing at a logarithmic instead of linear pace, and a new definition of work in an age of data and automation. Like my man
@Kneeblock once said, "I support UBI (and Splinty) because I'm a capitalist".
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Youd have to be a real twat to lose to this guy:
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