Grappler Truth Teller Feller wrote on Apr 10
th, 2023 at 2:10pm:
I'm not promoting anything -
Face it, you have an either or approach; namely apartheid, or cultural integration, without regard to the special cultural and hence economic burdens (among them the despised 'sit-down money') borne by blacks.
Quote:I'm giving a response to what can be done to settle the grievance industry of the Indigenous - and particularly along the very lines they themselves advocate or have advocated.
Both they and you are fumbling along with false narratives.
Fact is: in a modern money-based economy, all need paid work to prosper.
Quote:Surely, O Great One, you have no objection to 600,000 adult citizens doing things their way regardless of laws and every other citizen and being handed everything they demand including profligate grants of land (illegal these days of non-colonialism) that they can never use and will never use other than as sticks with which to beat other people in this nation of equals.
Given the generous gifting of vast lands to them by stupid governments ......[etc etc
I do object to that, I'm surprised you even suggest it.
You know I limit 'sovereignty' to law promoting
collective welfare and security, most other "rights" (to land etc) are mere selfish desires of individuals or tribes.
Quote:they can surely make a living out of those vast lands.
Apartheid won't be practicable in Oz.
Quote:Others did it once with an axe and a shovel......
..and a gun, better military technology always wins in the end...
Quote:I doubt it is I who has it backwards.
sometimes you have the wrong narrative (eg we "choose" to live in poverty, or not.)
Quote:YOU spoke to Pat Dodson - well - that'll help - he sure won't be giving up his chance of a permanent seat on the Voice to actually do something for his fellow Aborigines, same as the rest of them.
My point is: when the voice fails to close the gap, he will be less inclined to accept Albo's rejection of (non-market -based) paid-work-creation schemes, to eradicate welfare dependency.
Quote: Kinda reminds you of that film Lawrence of Arabia, don't it, when Lawrence was bracing General Allenby for artillery and such and Allenby responded by mumbling "Yes' to everything, but actually meaning "I understand what you are asking for, but that's it." Well played... of course Dodson would say Yes to everything... he has no intention of ever doing it and losing his incomes and power.
Don't worry, I have already pointed that out to several polies already; Pat won't be able to ignore it with a clear conscience.
Quote:You cannot be serious. I keep thinking of Kevin Rudd when I hear you talk naivety.
Hopefully I have shown I'm not so naive re polies' tricks/self-delusions.