Knobby22
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useful idiot
1. a person who is easy to persuade to do, say, or believe things that help a…dictionary.cambridge.org
I agree.100%
Some people will believe anything they are told if it aligns with their beliefs.
That is the problem. They easily fall for propaganda and become sad computer junkies eagerly consuming stuff designed to keep them online and toeing the line to the purposes of the propagandist. designed to build anger and become polarised. that goes for the right and the left.
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Oh jeez, do we really want to fill the next 346,854,965,654,644 post with such examples from across the spectrum?Some useful idiots.
This guy had a history I'm sure.No matter what you think about the lockdowns, this arrest was @#$&in ridiculous; truly disturbing and alarming.
At times, we hear of people complaining they Have to vote in Oz, but it does force people to actually vote and it means that noisy minorities find it easy to win Polls but hard to win elections (or referendums)Further to above, Ohio gerrymandering is extreme which allows them complete control of the courts and state government despite the state often voting Democrat overall.
It is hard to set up a fascist one party state if people have equal votes, hence attempted change to constitution.
Ohio votes under 'extreme' gerrymandering that favors Republicans
Once a swing state, Ohio has turned solidly red. Extreme gerrymandering of legislative and congressional districts could keep it that way for a long time. Although Republicans control statewide offices such as governor, secretary of state and attorney general, the state is pretty evenly split...publicintegrity.org
It took Quensland a long time to rid itself of the Joh gerrymander.At times, we hear of people complaining they Have to vote in Oz, but it does force people to actually vote and it means that noisy minorities find it easy to win Polls but hard to win elections (or referendums)
Compulsory turning up at polling booths is one of those things that in a perfect world can be argued against but in practice it's the lesser of the available evils.At times, we hear of people complaining they Have to vote in Oz, but it does force people to actually vote and it means that noisy minorities find it easy to win Polls but hard to win elections (or referendums)
Compulsory turning up at polling booths is one of those things that in a perfect world can be argued against but in practice it's the lesser of the available evils.
It at least blunts the power of fringe radicals.
And then there are the ones that don't put a mark on the ballet paper and the donkey voters.I'm a bit ambivalent about compulsory voting.
One one hand it's a bit disturbing having governments elected by people who don't care about what they are voting for, on the other hand in Australia at least people seem to make the right decisions when they actually turn up. Except at the 2019 election when Morrison was returned which was a blunder imo.
I think you have everything @55 backwards. While I don't condone threatening judges, the woman concerned believes herself to be fighting against an obvious tyranny.To impose tyranny you need foot soldiers.
"They claim to be super-patriots, but they would destroy every liberty guaranteed by the Constitution."-George Wallace.
Texas woman arrested after threats to Trump judge Tanya Chutkan
The 43-year-old allegedly uses a slur against Judge Chutkan and warns: "You are in our sights."www.bbc.com
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