What Is Going On In Australia?

[Mary Terry]

What Britain desparately needs these days is common sense.

We need some of that in the US, too. It's a worldwide shortage problem.

 

[Outdated]

I'm a "center/moderate in almost everything, and am (in the current environment at least) inclined to see merit in this viewpoint:
Horseshoe theory - Wikipedia

My own theory, based on how I saw politics growing up in Australia. Essentially we have two parties, one that supports business and commercial concerns, and one that supports social concerns. Both of these concepts can cause great harm if allowed to devolve in to extremism yet we need both.

Imagine a big pendulum swinging between these two ideals. For healthy growth that pendulum needs to keep swinging. In a perfect situation that pendulum will pause at the end of each swing, so when it swings towards commercialism it will pause there for long enough to achieve required aims, but not so long that people's attitudes start to swing in that direction.

And when that pendulum swings more towards socialist ideals once again it should pause there for long enough to achieve aims but not so long as to start swinging the general populations views in that direction. In this manner we achieve healthy growth in both sectors.

Some governments settle on the idea of a happy medium somewhere in the middle with no pendulum swinging. These governments achieve stagnation - no growth in either sector.

 

[Judge]

Social media gave us a term for it - Click Bait. Some of them actually believe what they write, they must have such sad little lives.

IMO that's a global dynamic that is completely out of control at the present time.

One too many YouTube taglines or images which were either patently false to the actual content presented, or non-sequiturs having nothing to do with it. "Click-Bait" to the extreme.

 

[Hypnalis]

I just watched the video. It looks like Australia is a little more extreme, but exactly the same thing is happening in every Western country, with the same objectives and the same techniques.

It seems that in New South Wales, the only way for a husband and wife to have safe sex is to have at least 4 JPs as witnesses (two for each side) /lol.

Of course this will be misused.
Of course it will make life much more difficult for women in the medium term.
Of course the people making it happen know what they're doing, how they're doing it, and why.

I'll leave the DV part out for now, but she's right about that too. I've actually seen "financial abuse" here in AF from NT's looking for our support to help them harm an ND husband that they're discarding.

Not from NDs though. I suspect we're a bit nicer than NTs, but I've never seen any supporting data.

 

[Outdated]

I'll leave the DV part out for now, but she's right about that too. I've actually seen "financial abuse" here in AF from NT's looking for our support to help them harm an ND husband that they're discarding.

That is all too common and doesn't seem to be specific to one sex or the other. I've seen quite a few horror stories in my life as well yet I've never experienced any of that myself.

 

[Hypnalis]

That is all too common and doesn't seem to be specific to one sex or the other. I've seen quite a few horror stories in my life as well yet I've never experienced any of that myself.

I think trying to treat an ex-spouse poorly in divorce is probably split 50/50 (of the proportion of hostile divorces). What's changed over time is the "Family Court" systems, which are currently very biased in the larger Anglophone countries.

And OFC imbalance has a double effect: whichever side has more power gets better results from abusing it, so they're more motivated to do so. If the courts aren't fair, they'll be misused to do harm.

BTW, just for the record:
I've been through a divorce which was amicable, and on balance reasonably fair. It's possible.
But like you, I've personally seen bad ones. Not many compared to the total, but they're very destructive to the "loser" if there is one.

 

[Tom]

Men hating and woman hating, I don't think are natural healthy conditions. Its more like Mumps and Measles, an illness that you might even catch if you hang around them too long.

 

[Kayla55]

It's those deadly funnel web male spiders, thank goodness only survive that area and don't hitch rides in airport luggage. But also related to weather, when spiders get flooded they have to go swimming and don't think they really like that.

Darn, wish we could all just chill out and have lamb chop BBQ, life too short to worship the spiders.