Les Affaires posted:

Graig Gabtar, can you accept that somebody believing that people arriving by boat to claim asylum should be allowed to is a legitimate position?

CrazyTolradi posted:

Sorry, are you saying just because the majority vote for it, it's ok? I'm confused by your strawmen and sarcasm as to what your actual point is here.

As Fruity has pointed out, democracy isn't infallible, it does fail but of course if you're just willing to shovel all your worries onto the government and the democratic system and hope they'll take care of the rest, what more can I say? You're saying what sums up to "It's better to not worry and have blind faith that it'll work out."

I'm not sure when that's really worked.

Graic Gabtar posted:

Wake me when you decide to get somewhere near your point.

Fruity Gordo posted:

Democracy, much like the free market, will solve all our problems *does not engage honestly and critically in democratic process, allowing democracy to be undermined further*

Graic Gabtar posted:

Who am I to dictate what people should believe?

Les Affaires posted:

I'm not sure that's what I was asking.

Graic Gabtar posted:

What were you asking? Your question seems as loaded as I am fast becoming.

Fruity Gordo posted:

The Real Housewives of Vancouver are objectively the most egregiously horrible of the entire franchise. Discuss.

Fruity Gordo posted:

The Real Housewives of Vancouver are objectively the most egregiously horrible of the entire franchise. Discuss.

Negligent posted:

people¹ can arrive by boat² for the purpose of claiming asylum³

1: by people we mean those who have access to liquid assets or portable wealth. No money? poo poo out of luck.

2: if they are willing seek out and pay people smugglers. Rich people who will resort to crime if it suits them! What great potential Australian residents.

3: Are quite possibly rejected as non-genuine refugees, and as such, are economic migrants who should be deported immediately

hooman posted:

If you come to perth Hambutt you can hang out with cool perthgoons. We're not fancy, but we're tall.


_{Except froglet.}

Graic Gabtar posted:

What were you asking? Your question seems as loaded as I am fast becoming.

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froglet posted:

Oi

So goons, I'm leaving for Melbourne tomorrow. I might not come back to Perth if Melbourne is the lefty paradise promised.

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Les Affaires posted:

My question was whether you think it is legitimate for somebody to believe that people arriving by boat should be allowed to claim aslyum?

Laserface posted:

Truly a hero we can all get behind.

http://www.smh.com.au/victoria/man-accused-of-murdering-masa-vukotic-punched-tony-abbott-in-2006-20150320-1m43sg.html

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Umm, you're asking me if people are allowed to believe things?

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