mariacostel wrote on Nov 27^th, 2015 at 5:30pm:


I think that the Media should be too but then we have NEWS Ltd openly undermining our democracy with no controls of any sort in place.

How many insane righties? .

at my local pub, i would almost be looked upon as a communist leftard apologist. the locals live in a thought bubble echo chamber that is straight out of "one nation".

when my daughters friends from uni come over (several of whom are in young labor), i bear witness to  boys and girls (around 20 to 22) who are emotionally unstable. they vary from crying tears about assylum seekers they have never met to crying tears about transgenders they have never met (but who they think get a hard time) to getting all Raah Raah about the next "get-up" rally.

i personally think that echo chambers are bad for anyone.
they lead to a forced feedback loop and increasing polarisation and loss of rapport.

the greenie hating farmers thru to the church hating lefties.

intelligent people are 2 things

1 economically conservative  (close to the swag position)
2 socially liberal (couldnt care about issues like gay marriage or abortion).

they are socially liberal because they are too busy taking advantage of their economic conservatism.

the lefties who live in australia in 2015 and arent doing well ,
who think times are tough
who think the average joe is being ripped off by the system are close to insane.

to not recognise all the gifts of free enterprise, to not recognise all the opportunities of free eneterprise. to miss out on it all , due to some warped belief system that the "Man" is keeping them ground down.
I'm telling you, thats just insane 

aquascoot wrote on Nov 28^th, 2015 at 6:13am:

Uhmmmmm, you have no idea what social liberalism is.  They don't care about gay marriage in the sense that they don't care who sleeps with who because it's not government business, and hence there should be no laws attributed with it.  But it's not that they "don't care about gay marriage" as you put it.  Those are confused people who pretend they want limited government intervention, but are such religious nut jobs that the government must get involved in upholding their fictional book.

Kiron22 wrote on Nov 27^th, 2015 at 9:07pm:



Ah... the communist speaks... and is ignored because of that fact.

mariacostel wrote on Nov 28^th, 2015 at 8:02am:


I done engineering where there was no influence either way at all.

I knew people in economics and Law and found a strong influence to the right I suspect similar with medical.

The arts are to the left and I imagine some are balanced.

Even in the worst areas the vast majority of educators stay away from politics.

Universities may have changed since I was there due to the difficult time that the Liberals continually give them.

Any Teacher Lecturer or student would be crazy to vote Liberal.

These are obviously not observations you've made any time recently.  I'd guess you either never observed it yourself but went along with the groupthink, or observed it 20 years ago and closed the topic off in your mind forever.

News.ltd was gunning for abbots head since about a month into the job.  I mentioned before how their agenda is identical to the huffing ton post - go and look at the news.com.au and tell me they're right wing.

mariacostel wrote on Nov 28^th, 2015 at 8:04am:


No, you'd be ignoring him because he's essentially correct.

And what he said has nothing to do with communism.

But then, if you actually KNEW anything about communism, you'd know that.