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Group: aus.mediawatch · Group Profile
Author: aususa
Date: Jul 15, 2007 16:05

On Jul 15, 10:52 pm, ri...@tpg.com.au (Rifty) wrote:
> aususa gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Jul 11, 10:57 am, "Clubsprint" nospam.com> wrote:
>>> It's funny that you guys say "educated lefty" like it's some sort of insult.
>>> So would that make you "uneducated righties" as you guys seem to like to
>>> define the world as "black and white", "wrong and right" etc.
>
>> Universities and public schools brainwash students with left wing
>> propaganda
>
> I guess left wing propaganda must be showing students that there are at
> least two sides to every story.
>
>> because the lecturers / teachers are all dependent on the
>> government for their source of income and are seldom held accountable
>> for their performance like you would be in the private sector.
>
> You don't know much about how performance is measured in the academic
> world, do you?

Sure do, at the university level it is solely based on how many papers
you get published. At the high school and primary school, a persons
pay is based on how many years they have been a teacher.

The most successful academics have to be the most
> self-centred, self-promoting intellectual capitalists the world has ever
> seen. Your vision is at least forty years out of date, which is funny
> because you can't possibly have made it to forty yourself. You think and
> write like an adolescent, though you are older, which means you have
> less excuse for your naivety.

Obviously you are still in school and believe all the left wing crap
you are fed.
>
>> So
>> educated lefty is an accurate description of academic with no real
>> world experience.
>
> Like who? Give an example. This phenomenon you are describing is a
> figment of your rather flaccid imagination.
>
>>Think you'll find the average liberal party
>> supporter has higher education levels than labor supporters.
>
> Ah then, they don't seem to have been tainted by association with all
> these left academics trying desperately to convince them to let other
> people work to provide them their living. Your head is empty of
> everything except out of date stereotypes.
>
>>> I've generally found that the more you are willing to question and analyse
>>> politics and the media the more that your views will move left.
>
>> There is a famous saying from a French philospher that he would
>> disinherit his son if he was 20 and not a socialist for not having a
>> heart, but would disinherit him if he was 40 and not a capitalist for
>> not having a brain. Think you'll find your comments merely reflect
>> your personal bias not fact, as people get older they tend to be more
>> conservative.
>
> Your forgot the last part of his statement - that if by 60 he had not
> gained enough compassion for his fellow human beings to want nothing
> more than to serve those less fortunate than himself, his life would
> have been worth nothing.

That was not part of this famous saying. If by 40 you haven't figured
out that capitalism is a better system than socialism you have no
brain.
>
>>> I think you will find that Liberals generally have a selfish and self
>>> centred attitude. > It's the "I'm alright Jack" mentality.
>
>> Not at all true, it is the leftest that is more selfish, they want
>> someone else to support them with social welfare instead of working
>> hard to get ahead and supporting themselves.
>
> If you seriously believe that, then whatever education you have had has
> been entirely worthless.

Well most of it was useless in the real world. I think the whole
system is badly in need of reform so students have skills that can get
them jobs, not wasteful memorisaton and regurgitation. Universities
should value research based on commercial outcomes not academic paper
and teachers should be evaluated by students and parents which impacts
their pay, not years of service.
>
>
>
>> Hence the "I don't watch the ABC so I
>>> don't want
>>> my tax dollars spent on it" statements. Do you want your tax dollars spent
>>> on
>>> public Health, Education, Old Age Pensions, Human Resources? Probably not
>>> because it
>>> doesn't benefit you. What about then arts? Coservation?
>
>> Oh spare us the rhetoric, the ABC is not an essential service lik
>> public health or education.
>
> If you seriously believe that, then you have not the faintest idea how
> information is bought and sold.

I pay for my Foxtel, you should pay for your ABC.
>
>
>
>>> Are you happy for your tax dollars to be spent on private schools to the
>>> exclusion of
>>> public schools to help guarantee the next round priviledged bigots?
>
>> You are showing more ignorance. Private schools receive less funding
>> per student than public schools which means taxpayer parents must pay
>> more for the right to send their children to a better school. Why
>> shouldn't private schools receive the same funding as public schools
>> if you really want fairness?
>
> Why should not each child with the same abilities as another have the
> same opportunity at an equal quality of education in a country rolling
> in surplus capital?
>
>>> Tell us what else you don't want your tax dollars spent on?
>
>> Social welfare for able bodied people. The dole should be cutoff for
>> those physically able to work.
>
> And if they cannot find a job, in spite of their best endeavours? What
> then, little fella?

Well little fella it means people like you have to take any job
available instead of bludging off the system and when you have a job
you save for a rainy day.
>
>>> Better yet tell us how they should be used?
>>> Obviously aususa likes his media to be delivered corporately sanitised for
>>> his digestion.
>
>> You want left wing biased media like the ABC, fine, you pay for it
>> like I pay for my foxtel.
>
> You should certainly have to pay for something as useless and elitist as
> Foxtel.

Spoken like a true elitist brainwashed ABC viewer. I respect your
right to watch what you want as long as you pay for it.

All have the right to access a free and independent broadcasting
> service, paid for by the state. Unfortunately, the ABC feels obliged to
> kowtow constantly to the politicians who hold the purse strings, so I
> use the words 'free and independent' loosely. Hardly surprising when you
> see what they've done to its budget in the past ten years.
>
>>> Tell me do you like your tax dollars being spent on supporting an illegal
>>> military action
>>> to guarantee future oil supplies for the US and it's allies? Brendan
>>> verified.
>>> I suppose you have swallowed the "lie" about "programs of weapons of mass
>>> destruction".
>
>> I oppose the Iraq war, but the Australian people had a chance to voice
>> their opinon in the last election and reelected Howard despite his
>> support for the Iraq war which says it is not a significant issue to
>> the Australian public.
>
> Rubbish. It says that the electorate had other priorities that were more
> important to them, like being frightened witless by lies that they
> couldn't pay their mortgage under Labor. And at that stage people really
> thought there was some morality about that war. They were deluded by
> Foxtel I guess... :)

Excuses, excuses, the Australian public is not as stupid as you claim
or as stupid as you are.
>
>>> Actually saw a debate about Iraq on Channel 9's Sunday program years before
>>> 9/11 where a
>>> weapons inspector confirmed the was no WOMD in Iraq and a sociologist
>>> specialised in
>>> Middle East culture stated that if you remove Sadam you will have years of
>>> civil war and
>>> millions of deaths. Funny that. Someone didn't want to listen eh?
>
>> Yet Bill Clinton and the leaders of Europe all believed Saddam had WMD
>> which could not be verified. Of course people like you could give a
>> rats arse that Saddam over 1 million people during his ruthless rule
>> as long as you can live a relaxed and comfortable lifestyle in the
>> land of Oz.
>
> Only a fool raises the spectre of Saddam's misdeeds when ignoring the
> same sorts of misdeeds of several other dictators around the world at
> the same time. You are kidding yourself. One word, three letters... OIL
> - got it? Right now the US supports or ignores dictators who do just as
> much evil as Saddam, so get that one out of the equation. It's a moral
> sop for simpletons. Right now, Iraq is far, far worse off than it ever
> was under Saddam, and the worst is yet to come for them, thanks entirely
> to US miscalculations, arrogance and ignorance.

Getting rid of Saddam was not a bad think and most Iraqi's were happy
he was gone. Of course you live an easy ife in Oz where you don't
have to care about those who are victims of ruthless dictators. If
Saddam did have WMD as he once had invasion was justified. Since he
didn't the invasion wasn't justified.
>
>>> That's your lovely USA and we bend over for them whenevr asked.
>
>> Australia only has a token force in Iraq and have only themselves to
>> blame, not the USA for having troops in Iraq. Now tell me if Rudd is
>> elected when do you think he will bring the troops home from Iraq and
>> Afganistan?
>
> Of course he will bring them home as soon as he can get them out of
> there without upsetting the Americans too much. That won't be hard, as
> Bush is now a lame-duck president, with support for the war melting away
> in his own ranks.
>
>>> Liberals - selfish ostriches
>
>> Lefties - selfish bludgers.
>
> Love the stereotypes. How far do you seriously think you can get using
> such infantile terminology? You need a genuine education.

Love your typical lefty stereotypes. Why don't you get a real job and
learn how the real world works?
>
> Rifty
> --
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