Zenithe posted:

Could you actually finish the original Dune rts? I remember getting to the last(?) level and facing three bases and getting nuked every few minutes.

Anidav posted:

Also Australian Politics is literally so dire right now I would rather worship Kane.

Anidav posted:

I never played Renegade because it died so fast.

Also Australian Politics is literally so dire right now I would rather worship Kane.

Anidav posted:

C&C:TD is good
C&C RA1 is average
C&C:TS is excellent
C&C RA2 is excellent
EA GAMES PRESENT C&C3 is good
EA GAMES PRESENTS Red Alert 3 is bad
EA GAMES PRESENTS C&C4 is very bad
Hope this helps.

Don Dongington posted:

I never got to play Dune 2 and now I can?!*

*Probably not unless I trade sleep for gaming and gently caress that

Anidav posted:

I never played Renegade because it died so fast.

Also Australian Politics is literally so dire right now I would rather worship Kane.

Don Dongington posted:

I never got to play Dune 2 and now I can?!*

*Probably not unless I trade sleep for gaming and gently caress that

Don Dongington posted:

Wait so we've gone from the religious freedom report almost certainly spelling certain doom for LGBTIQA+ people in religious institutions to the report actually observing that there is, in all likelihood, TOO much religious freedom in this country, to the detriment of LGBTIQA+ people, as well as non-Christian people's and as such we need to introduce better protections?

Did I sleep through a term?

hawaiian_robot posted:

From a couple of days ago, but:


Yeah my dad is in the CEC. I think i've talked about it a few times in the past, but they'll have some occasionally reasonable things interspersed with poo poo like "THE ASHKENAZI JEWS ARE BEHIND EVERYTHING" or "PRINCE PHILIP WANTS TO REDUCE THE WORLD POPULATION TO ONE BILLION AND REINSTITUTE FEUDALISM"

Don Dongington posted:

Anyone who spruiks population control or mass murder as the only viable solution to the Earth's woes should definitely be the first to volunteer.

quote:

Mathias Cormann has said the Coalition is “absolutely united” in its plan to amend discrimination laws to ensure that students at religious schools cannot be expelled on the basis of their sexuality, as the government struggles to deal with leaked segments of its religious freedoms report before the Wentworth byelection.

quote:

Speaking to the ABC’s Insiders program, Cormann said the party was united on the issue, despite his cabinet colleague, Alex Hawke, telling Sky News earlier in the week religious schools should “absolutely” have the right to discriminate against LGBTI students.

bowmore posted:

Someone needs to invent an epstein drive

Reclines Obesily posted:

Lid posted:

Voting undermines the will of the people – it's time to replace it with sortition

Our representative form of government divides us but installing ordinary people at the heart of power would be transformative

Tim Dunlop

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2018/oct/14/voting-undermines-the-will-of-the-people-its-time-to-replace-it-with-sortition

errrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

quote:

The lessons we learn from these experiences with deliberative democracy is that extending them into a more formal and permanent part of our governing process is worth thinking about seriously, and any claims that such a concept could never work because ordinary people are disengaged or apathetic should be treated with the contempt that these examples suggest they deserve.

If we are really serious about bottom-up reform of our democratic institutions, then reforming the seat of government itself in this way, a way that installs ordinary people at the heart of power, is essential. Our neoliberal economy and the representative form of government that dominates our societies do everything they can to divide us from and pit us against each other. A People’s House transcends these divisions and brings us together. The basic concept of sortition is pretty straight-forward, and introducing it as a replacement for voting in, say, the Australian Senate, while leaving that body’s other powers intact, represents, at least administratively, fairly minimalist change. But on every other level, the potential effect is explosive. In one fell swoop, you diminish the power of the parties and that of many of the lobbyists who exist to influence their decisions. You transform the way in which the media covers politics. You hand control of at least part of the legislative process to a genuinely representative sample of the population as whole, rather than vesting it in a bunch of elites and their representatives. You empower people in a way that the current system could never hope to do, and you reconnect our chief democratic institution with the life in common.

Nothing is going to change until the main source of power in our society, our seat of government, is populated by people who are genuinely representative of the society at large. We have been taught forever that the way to do that is by voting, but that is simply wrong, and the quicker we unlearn it the better, no matter how counterintuitive it might seem at first. If you want a truly representative government of, by and for the people, then you need to choose it not by voting, but by sortition.

Now, that is power.

bandaid.friend posted:

He doesn't say in the article how the sortition would diminish the power of lobbyists or transform the way the media covers politics. Brexit comes to mind. It wasn't even a sample of the population that decided that one. Why would the media suddenly begin acting in the interests of Australians? The sortition'd just assure half the new chamber would vote however Seven and News Corp wanted them to

Maybe the real issue behind the wealthy elites controlling government, is the system where all the wealth and power is concentrated in people who've no interest in the welfare of regular people

Don Dongington posted:

Anyone who spruiks population control or mass murder as the only viable solution to the Earth's woes should definitely be the first to volunteer.

bowmore posted:

I still think a Thanos finger snap would do the world a lot of good

bowmore posted:

I still think a Thanos finger snap would do the world a lot of good

Ghost Leviathan posted:

you just want to impress skinny goth girls