Tony Abbott - Page 1
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author: amiq
author_rank: Regular Contributor
timestamp: August 16, 2014, 08:07:52 pm
content: How on earth did such a dick-head get voted in?Was the alternative even worse (hard to believe).

author: IanB
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: August 16, 2014, 08:32:50 pm
content: OK, I'm going to pass by your Scottish flag and mention this instead:http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2014/08/15/3471837/queensland-energy-fee-kills-solar/(A story that mentions Tony Abbott as a supporter of of the policies described.)

author: bwat
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: August 16, 2014, 08:40:08 pm
content: He saysQuotethen, of course, he goes on to do just that.Ignore the numpty. Paying heed to politicians just encourages them.

author: Stonent
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: August 16, 2014, 09:14:06 pm
content: IBTL

author: echen1024
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: August 16, 2014, 09:21:52 pm
content: Budgie Smugglers.That will be all.

author: poida_pie
author_rank: Regular Contributor
timestamp: August 17, 2014, 12:37:04 am
content: ..but disgusting to clean up afterwards.

author: wagon
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: August 17, 2014, 12:39:12 am
content: Abbott is the best of a dodgy bunch. Imagine Bill Shorten as PM......

author: wagon
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: August 17, 2014, 01:51:42 am
content: Quote from: wilfred on August 17, 2014, 01:42:02 amAs similar as they are, there are some differences. Abbott is not a union stooge to start with.Ah, politics.

author: IanB
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: August 17, 2014, 02:02:42 am
content: Quote from: wagon on August 17, 2014, 01:51:42 amPolitics = locked threads.Can anyone figure out a way to run a country without politics? (And without dictatorships as the alternative...)

author: T3sl4co1l
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: August 17, 2014, 02:16:17 am
content: Quote from: IanB on August 17, 2014, 02:02:42 amAn interesting question / experiment, to be sure...The biggest problem seems to be, how does one game the system (because everyone's always looking for their little break), and how does one game the game (one of the more prominent problems with inequality, the powerful -- even if not directly involved in legislation -- can and do strongly influence the creation and implementation of laws in their favor, and against their competitors').I don't think there will ever be a solution for that, since either the system is stable as initially started, but too overly simple to support a dynamic society / economy (cannot adapt and change itself), or it is sufficiently nuanced to support such, but the exact same feature which proves beneficial is simultaneously detrimental when inevitably used against common interest.The problem is as old as evolution itself -- some system or process will always find new ways of harnessing what's available, or die. And, I believe the problem is as fundamental as mathematics itself: Goedel's Incompleteness Theorem states that, a system is either consistent but uselessly simple, or sufficiently powerful to be useful, but that, within those rules, one can formulate an expression that is simultaneously true and not true.(Now, if this isn't the most technical effort to pull a political thread into on-topic fields, I don't know what is!)Tim