nigel99

https://www.watoday.com.au/national/western-australia/cafe-bar-check-ins-to-be-mandatory-in-wa-from-december-5-20201125-p56hx6.html I am really strongly opposed to this! Yes I know Facebook, Apple and google all have the same information but this is government mandated registration. I essentially do not have a choice but to comply. With the Facebook etc I can choose not to be involved

Believe me my resolve is made. He is 80 years old and selfish. I will most likely never see him again. His behaviour is not due to being old, he’s been like this his entire life.

Well he’s on his way back to the UK. Pretty much drove me out of my own home. Sunday I get my house back! I have spent the last few weeks at a friends house. My son also stayed with friends. I came home tonight to rubbish literally all over the kitchen can’t even use the stove as it’s piled with shit and rubbish strewn all over the kitchen floor. Pots with mould growing out of them.

Yeah, but we are sliding into a state where there isn’t much substance on the forum. One or two people persist in being total arseholes and all sensible debate and discussion gets lost in the noise. Take the one liners to PM’s or ignore and don’t engage. There are 2 pages of comments and it didn’t even make it through one page of substance.I don’t expect the mods to be able to keep up with the amount of childish shit that is happening.

First of all, I’m not in the USA so the whole US national security issue is a non issue to me. Secondly at a personal level I do t trust the US government any more than I do the Chinese (the US has a long history of ignoring privacy concerns and trampling all over European data protection laws) I know full well that Google, Apple and Facebook collect and exploit data. I have some confidence though that while they exploit it for commercial reasons it is unlikely to be used by governments for tracking and other negative reasons. Tik-Tok to me poses a dual threat. Firstly there are known links to China, but I also don’t trust the US government. Being a non US company and platform I can easily see the US exploiting that and harvesting data in the interests of “national security”. The US has proven it has little respect for international law and privacy, I don’t need shit if I need to go to the US and they decide that sharing anti Trump videos etc makes me a risk...

I agree. Think there is enough evidence to show it isn’t an app that I want

At least you know not to invite him to your next orgy

Of course Mitch hasn’t flipped at all. I’m surprised you aren’t embarrassed by your hypocrisy

That ladies and gentlemen is how Trump manages to do so well with his base. Provided the headline or sound bite is good, he knows that they are too lazy to actually read. Provide a good headline, trigger an emotional response and get them to spout off and within 20 seconds the entire content is forgotten and irrelevant.

I’m genuinely surprised at some of the attitudes here. Within my family age gap relationships have been quite common and both ways. My brothers wife was 21 years older than him and they were very happy until she passed away after 20+ years of marriage. i has an 18 year gap

You’re making some big ass assumptions. I’ve spent a decent portion of my life working around F-16’s and JSF. I’m interested in military aircraft. So no I didn’t need people to tell me what the planes were. I don’t know rifles so wouldn’t know an AK-47 from an M-16 And there you have it, your blind bias. Your hero Trump fucked up badly, and your response is “well Biden would have to”. Pathetic really. I actually struggle to see how this was a genuine mistake. I think someone decided to take the piss out of Trump and his teams gross incompetence. Support “our” troops and it just happens to be Russian hardware by mistake? I’d be willing to bet that most stock pictures of cool military jets are of US warplanes

What a joke. Honestly that is not a nothing mistake. Whoever did that needs to be fired unless Trump is using the Kremlin PR department for his artwork in which case give them a raise for pulling off a fantastic PR stunt!

Holy shit. Talk about patriots. It’s a nothing burger when your PRESIDENT uses images from another countries military and not even an ally. I don’t see how you can have any shred of self respect defending that view. It is frankly such a slap in the face to the US armed forces, intentional or not.

Count on you to defend Trump. I’ve got news for you. An executive who employs incompetent people is incompetent. This is not a school project where any old stock image is ok. It’s your president, a man you vehemently defend. You’ve got no issue with his incompetent staff using Russian pictures and yet you believe they are capable of making complex decisions? What a joke... Goes to show what blind partisanship does to people

I thought this was a joke, but actually true! Moscow times have also run the story. Our resident Trumpies must be so proud of their Commander in Chief. But no they won’t vote for Biden because...

Wait for the Trump apologists to jump in and defend him. Rather surprised Turtle hasn’t already jumped in with a rationalisation

I know. Due to bias you will never vote Democrat as you’ll go out of your way to see the issues. Whether you vote for Trump or not you will defend and continue to defend him to the bitter end. I get the feeling your “I’m not voting Trump” is simply leaving a back door open if in the future his behaviour comes back to bite him, Trump who...?

I can’t see much hope for the USA when people are so blinded by hatred and fear. I would say that as a generalisation most people I know see Americans as being very fearful people. More so than you’re average nation. Trump has tapped into that fear and is exploiting it. The one good thing I will say is he has drawn the bigotry out into the open. All those middle aged white men who feel marginalised because they see the world as transactional and that if a woman or minority gets the same rights as them, they have somehow “lost” some of their masculinity and rights. For the election, I think it’s going to be close. Look at the percentage of posters here that are now clearly in the Trump camp.

I think many Christians use that as an excuse to suspend all critical thinking and abdicate responsibility for their actions.It’s not like Christians run around in nappies because Jesus told them to be like little children. There are many facets to being child like.I see children as playful and curious. Curiosity and learning are good childlike qualities, many adults become closed minded and unable to adjust their world view

https://www.logically.ai/articles/qanon-key-figure-man-from-new-jersey At the risk of stoking the fires of Q belief. This is interesting, who would have thought that an IT geek would be behind a lot of this nonsense. I wish I had the insight and lack of morality to exploit people. Whole thing reminds me of that guy who got paid to take on pets in the event of the rapture. Perfectly legal to exploit people’s beliefs

Agreed. The Trump cult will follow him regardless

The best way this little boy could have helped is to stay at home and let the police do their jobs. I am genuinely surprised to see how strongly you support the vigilante”s. I know Ron is completely open about his support. It is rare to see you unequivocally standing behind something. And it’s attitudes like yours that justify vigilante actions that make me believe the USA could face serious unrest if Trump loses and he calls if you to arms.

It is the job of the police to enforce law and order. What this guy did was the definition of vigilante. He should have stayed home not gone looking for trouble. I honestly can’t believe you are prepared to dig your heels in and continue to defend his actions. The views you are expressing here would be classified as domestic terrorism if you were Islamic and I’m pretty sure you would be pretty vocal about it. Pretty blatant double standards

But he’s white so it doesn’t count. He was defending the constitution and Trump

I agree with this. From first hand experience. My ex came from a family of drugs and crime who never worked. She left that state to start a new life which is when I met her. She lasted just over 3 years with me and then went back and is herself now immersed in drugs (meth) and crime. She struggled with me working, she had never experienced the man in the house being away all day. She would beg me to leave work at all times of the day. She started a Uni degree and dropped out. At the end of the day she simply didn’t have the skills, knowledge or willpower to make the change. Her kids now are repeating the cycle of her childhood (foster system etc). As you say it’s a vicious cycle and I don’t know how you change it. She had “everything” with me, stable and safe home. But in the end it was her roots that won