US Politics April: A Series of Fantastically Bad Ideas

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Doctor Spaceman: Jul 6, 2010; "Everyone's entitled to their point of view, but that's seriously a weird one."

SedanChair posted:

Are poligoons liking House of Cards? I just started watching it and really like it, but the actual stunts Underwood pulls really strain my suspension of disbelief.

The policy stuff is largely implausible, and the show relies on almost everyone being cynical but almost nobody being savvy. It's fun, but it's not as clever as it thinks it is, and has less to say about stuff than, say, The West Wing.

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Doctor Spaceman: Jul 6, 2010; "Everyone's entitled to their point of view, but that's seriously a weird one."

JT Jag posted:

Using a picture as basis for painting is pretty commonplace these days. It's not like Bush traced the pictures or anything. I don't see the problem.

A former world leader did paintings of other world leaders, based on whatever photos Google and Wikipedia gave him.

It's not immoral or anything, just funny.

# ¿ Apr 10, 2014 10:17

Doctor Spaceman: Jul 6, 2010; "Everyone's entitled to their point of view, but that's seriously a weird one."

Captain_Maclaine posted:

Unrelated to taxchat but depressingly predictably, Congressman Dennis Ross (R-FL) knows just what the working poor deserve: not a raise. Why, you ask? Well in addition to the tired "but then crappy burgers will cost more!" nonsense, the minimum wage hides even more sinister implications:

Basic labor laws: an intolerable affront to liberty.

Said by someone whose salary and working hours are determined by the government.

# ¿ Apr 16, 2014 17:23

Doctor Spaceman: Jul 6, 2010; "Everyone's entitled to their point of view, but that's seriously a weird one."

Australia doesn't take a large number of refugees, nor do we get a large number of people seeking refugee status. The situation exists in part because governments have (with varying levels of success) tried to tap into racism and xenophobia for political reasons. One of the previous governments demonised "boat people" while having record high numbers of legal immigration, for instance.

Install Windows posted:

There's a bunch of countries with major strife relatively close to Australia. And Australia has signed on to multiple treaties (which many othe rcountries haven't) stating they're willing to accept refugees, even though subsequent governments have tried to make it harder.

Our neighbours aren't the main source of our refugees though. The major countries of origin for people arriving by boat (the politically contentious category of arrivals) are places like Sri Lanka, Afghanistan, Iran and Iraq.

# ¿ May 6, 2014 04:02

Doctor Spaceman: Jul 6, 2010; "Everyone's entitled to their point of view, but that's seriously a weird one."

Install Windows posted:

Those are fairly close to Australia, as compared to other signatories of the relevant refugee treaties which are also places worth escaping to. For example, most of Africa is signatory to most of the treaties, but they aren't countries that you'd escape the problems you're trying to escape in.

Given that Kabul is closer to Greenland than it is to Western Australia, no, they're not "fairly close".

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