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I'm not sure where this belongs but I found it interesting.

We've lost the ability to disagree in a healthy way.

It's too easy to shut discourse down with lazy words and labels.

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Quicky said:
I'm not sure where this belongs but I found it interesting.

We've lost the ability to disagree in a healthy way.

It's too easy to shut discourse down with lazy words and labels.

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Exactly. Also the turning on people when they go against what their identity politics opinion should be.

Say an African American calling out gang crime or their own causing of community issues only to be struck down that they should be blaming someone else.

Looking inward would also help solve things.
 
Quicky said:
I'm not sure where this belongs but I found it interesting.

We've lost the ability to disagree in a healthy way.

It's too easy to shut discourse down with lazy words and labels.

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People won't admit it but we've become more like the US than we want to admit.

We consume American tv-shows, American brands, American sports are increasingly very popular and even Australian English is fast becoming extinct in favour of American.

The whole loss of "agree to disagree" is another thing foisted upon us from America in the last decade.
 
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typically today - wherever once was cheap/er catch's up the front runners.
Briz/Gold/Sunny coasts have been on the UP from pre and even more post covid.
Buyers market early sea changers ahead of the curve - many ex vics.
Look at Perf - are we surprised, once cheap a chips but the eastern rise's people have latched on to get away but now the locals would be bitching how expensive and some making a motza selling in the market now.
Swings and roundabouts everywhere.
Maybe time to buy in Melb whilst so down for some to consider.
Nationally medium price $910K.
 
Sharkman84 said:
People won't admit it but we've become more like the US that we want to admit.

We consume American tv-shows, American brands, American sports are increasingly very popular and even Australian English is fast becoming extinct in favour of American.

The whole loss of "agree to disagree" is another thing foisted upon us from America in the last decade.
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We have and we're worse for it imo.
 
Quicky said:
We have and we're worse for it imo.
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I recall my early business trips to the USA I couldn't believe seeing on TV all the Lawyer ads etc.....
I thought thank christ we are not like that and here we are.
We started going their ways 20+yrs ago.
Though I find it very confusing having come to know quite a few merican business colleagues who are life long friends since.
They are so kind and far more polite than us/aussies.
I learnt long ago not to swear in meetings etc it was so offensive to them.
Especially when we have middle management to CEO involved its just not on.
Yet when your travelling EU or elsewhere so many of them are rude buggas because nothing is the same as they get in the US re food wise or service - well hello your in a different place go withe the flow.......

You could say even look at the online behaviour by some :)
I hardly have any SM and I got to say I'm thankful for it what I hear or read about it.
 
LFC said:
Look at Perf - are we surprised, once cheap a chips but the eastern rise's people have latched on to get away but now the locals would be bitching how expensive and some making a motza selling in the market now.
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The mining boom made Perth a rip off, the housing market flowed from that initially.
 
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patjennings said:
How do these provisions apply - they are Australian aren't they - not dual nationals?
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I’m pretty sure they’re also Syrian nationals but I could be wrong. Syria does allow dual citizenship.

Either way, have you heard of what these families did? Funding ISIS, marrying and reproducing with ISIS recruits and fighters, literal slavery of Yazidis. I don’t want that in Australia or anywhere but jail.
 
HonestSpursFan said:
I’m pretty sure they’re also Syrian nationals but I could be wrong. Syria does allow dual citizenship.

Either way, have you heard of what these families did? Funding ISIS, marrying and reproducing with ISIS recruits and fighters, literal slavery of Yazidis. I don’t want that in Australia or anywhere but jail.
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That's fine - but I'm pretty sure they are Australian citizens only. As the AFP spokesman said yesterday, they have been looking at the ISIS brides in general since 2015 and some were already repatriated under Morrison and Albanese (before Bondi shootings). i.e. while the government can stop dual nationals they cant stop Australian citizens. They can, however, if they have evidence, arrest them, and if still investigating, monitor them closely.
 
The women's citizenship status appears clear, they are Australian citizens. However, I am confused by the children's status. If the child was born in Australia, then they are Australian, but if the child was born in Syria, they are not automatically Australian citizens. The parent(s) has to apply to the nearest consulate or embassy within a certain time frame (not sure what this is). So, are those children born in Syria Australian citizens? Australia did not have embassies or consulates in Syria.
 
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