The lunatic left

[SirRumpole]

My wife isnt politically active in any shape or form, but she is really interested in sport, she was fuming about the issue and she doesnt get agitated by much at all.
So if she upset by something trust me, it is an important issue. Lol

She was angry that the trans were banned or allowed in in the first place ?

 

[Knobby22]

My wife isnt politically active in any shape or form, but she is really interested in sport, she was fuming about the issue and she doesnt get agitated by much at all.
So if she upset by something trust me, it is an important issue. Lol

Why is she? No sport has let them except for a short time. Just the media pushing buttons.

 

[sptrawler]

She was angry that the trans were banned or allowed in in the first place ?

She is angry that trans were even considered to compete with women, without some sort of scientific biological qualification, women and men are not biologically the the same.
I would put her up against most 65 year old men, she is really fit, but she is from a medical background and isn't happy that men that can identify as women are allowed to compete.
In her opinion, it just excludes women from winning.
But hey from my perspective, she wins at everything with me, so who cares.

 

[sptrawler]

Why is she? No sport has let them except for a short time. Just the media pushing buttons.

That isn't the issue, it isn't that it wasn't allowed, it is the premise that they expected it would be, it was only the backlash that stopped it.

That is the norm now, what was accepted as normal, social, biological and ethical standards, are now being challenged.
That is being done, on the back of a cultural respect of a not being rude, which is an Australian manner.
I wonder how long that will survive

 

[Knobby22]

That isn't the issue, it isn't that it wasn't allowed, it is the premise that they expected it would be, it was only the backlash that stopped it.

That is the norm now, what was accepted as normal, social, biological and ethical standards, are now being challenged.
That is being done, on the back of a cultural respect of a not being rude, which is an Australian manner.
I wonder how long that will survive

It's not allowed world wide! Game over.

 

[wayneL]

It's not allowed world wide! Game over.

Not yet, it should be, but not yet

 

[sptrawler]

It's not allowed world wide! Game over.

Until the next bastion of normal life is challenged, that's the problem with affluence it leads to decadence and that leads to a new norm.
Whether that is better or worse, we are yet to find out.
We are sliding down the scale on the industrialisation index.
We are sliding down the scale on the productivity index.
We are sliding down the scale on the education index.
Yet we are nailing it on the smugness index.
Go figure.
The World's greatest losers, riding on the back of the highest resources to population ratio, mistaking it as an inherent intellectual indicator. Lol

 

[wayneL]

Man punches 70 yo woman in the face

 

[wayneL]

CNN jumps the shark!

Conservative? Absolutely.

Right wing? Most certainly right/centre right.

Extremist? Ridiculous. These people have truly lost their damned marbles.

 

[sptrawler]

Well if the person was right wing, apparently they would have attacked Twiggy, if they were middle of the road, they wouldn't have bothered their ar$e doing anything, so they must fall into this loonie left group. ?
But in this world it could be because he is rich, he deals with China, he owns a beef company, he claims to be "green", he donates a lot of money, so their are lots of hate groups.
My money is on someone who bought a pair of RM Williams shoes and they got blisters, or his missus found out.?

Andrew Forrest cleared of wrongdoing after Fortescue investigation into claims of inappropriate behaviour

Fortescue Metals hired lawyers to investigate the behaviour of its executive chairman Andrew Forrest after receiving an anonymous complaint, but made no adverse findings against the billionaire philanthropist.

www.abc.net.au

Fortescue Metals engaged a law firm to investigate the behaviour of executive chairman Andrew Forrest after receiving an anonymous letter, but cleared him of any wrongdoing.
The statement did not disclose the nature of the allegations and did not say when the internal probe took place.

The Australian Financial Review reported on Sunday the investigation involved whether Mr Forrest had been in a relationship with a Fortescue employee.

Fortescue said it selected Seyfarth Shaw to investigate because the law firm had demonstrated expertise in investigations of this nature and was independent, having never previously represented Fortescue or Mr Forrest.

The law firm's legal fees were not contingent on any particular finding or outcome, and Seyfarth Shaw was provided with full access to electronic records, documents, employees and information to conduct a forensic review, Fortescue said.

Seyfarth Shaw Australian managing partner Darren Perry led the probe.

Fortescue said it provided a number of channels for team members to report complaints either anonymously or in person, in keeping with accepted whistleblower protocols, and remained committed to doing so.

Mr Forrest, 61, and his wife Nicola Forrest announced on Thursday they had decided to separate after 31 years of marriage.

 

[wayneL]

Curiouser and curiouser

 

[moXJO]

Curiouser and curiouser

Canada went full circle.
Are we really that surprised though?
Every woke leftist idea to this point has ended in disaster.
You can't even give the benefit of the doubt. They just end up being terrible ideas that are far removed from reality.

 

[wayneL]

Socialist mathematics

 

[Smurf1976]

Every woke leftist idea to this point has ended in disaster.

I think a key there is to separate what's actually such a thing from what maybe perceived as that but really isn't.

The modern "Left" lays claim to quite a few things it didn't come up with. Among others, equal opportunity, the use of non-fossil energy sources and respecting others' right to live as they see fit are all examples of things that didn't originate from the modern Left but which they've tried to claim credit for.

 

[moXJO]

Riddle me this.

The government has labelled Muslim terrorists as "had right" yet they are supported by and cheered on by the left.

 

[wayneL]

Riddle me this.

The government has labelled Muslim terrorists as "had right" yet they are supported by and cheered on by the left.

Both extreme right and left are rabidly anti-Jewish m, so terrorists just slot into the same pigeonhole I guess. All are freakin psychotic.

 

[sptrawler]

Canada went full circle.
Are we really that surprised though?
Every woke leftist idea to this point has ended in disaster.
You can't even give the benefit of the doubt. They just end up being terrible ideas that are far removed from reality.

I find they are well intended, but vested interests get involoved in the formulation stage and the whole idea ends up being implemented poorly and then slides into an expensive disaster.
The NBN, great idea for cbd's where secure mass data transfer is required and could easily have been paid for by big business and the telecommunication companies.
So what happens? It gets rolled out by the taxpayer to low socio economic areas first where populations are transient and the last thing they needed was internet that doubled in price and the Govt has to write of the build cost and let the telcos off paying it back.
Now Telstra is moving toward over the air internet with low level sattelites, which will be more practicle and supply a better more flexible service for most users especially those that move houses or travel.

Better schools, pour more money into schools, because that is the reason the standards and outcomes are falling, then 10 years later and double the spending they work out it is actually the standard of the teachers being pumped out of the university sausage machine.

The list goes on and services do need to be provided, but the onus has moved from Govt's providing essential services to providing non essential services.
Which goes back to the old saying of privatising their profits and socialising their loses, but the taxpayer wears the burden.
That's where the cost based analysis isn't being applied and the programmes are driven by ideology rather than by experts.
Just my opinion.

 

[TimeISmoney]

 

[SirRumpole]

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Fortunately or not, such things are no longer politically acceptable.

 

[TimeISmoney]

Fortunately or not, such things are no longer politically acceptable.

I think too many people take the world too seriously.