I personally don't care, I don't believe in patriotism/nationalist jingo garbage. It's too often used to, once again, separate people. I understand the indigenous opposition against the current date, but it also doesn't hold reason in my view on the world (i.e. there are no different cultures, nationalities, we are all the one people all around the world)
Honeslty don't know, you have to read wolfie's post for the gist of it
Don't get me wrong, I don't actually support the "invasion" argument. I mean, we did invade but that's how colonisation went at the time. It was shit but it advanced the world. We definitely could have done it better.
Right you give their opinons their due diligence by calling them SJW? and offended people?
Pretty much my stance. I support changing the date because it will make some people happy and has no ill effect (even if Conservatives try to convince you it will). I also support one culture which is why I don't think Aboriginal people should be recognised in the constitution. I think we should stop segregating cultures and treat everyone the same.
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On your second point, I agree with you. I also don't think a treaty will achieve a great deal either.
This is somewhat true oddly enough. His approval ratings have increased constantly since he has taken office. He has done some bad stuff including removing Obamacare, and he's definitely not as liked as Obama was, but he is liked and he is doing some good for the economy.
Went to a wedding a few months back where the celebrant said, "we will be joining this couple in marriage but before we start we would like to acknowledge the kupanboogy tribe who are the original inhabitants and true owners of the land we are standing on. We would also like to apologise for any harm brought forward by our people on your people"
If by good for the economy you mean going golfing and not actually doing anything, then I agree
Yep. Could focus on that, or could focus on the economic data
The problem with presenting those graphs Hacky, which I'm sure you're well aware of, is not everyone knows how to actually read and interpret it. Some will look at only those graphs and come to a conclusion that Trump is a great economic president
Yep. That's why I said that he's so loved now. The fact is that a lot of that economic movement has to do with Trump but a lot of it has to do with economic trends as well. People don't understand that so they just think that Trump is the economic saviour.
Economic trend being the big one. I'm still waiting for someone to call me out on Obama because of economic trend and how much influence a president actually has.
Cutting corporate and mid wage taxes were only achievable because the economy was growing.
Obama's economic work was amazing. He introduced some costly programs but he created a large number of jobs and put in place such a strong economic trend that there was very little chance of screwing it up. Trump is also trying to take credit for all of Obama's work. As I said, Trump did play a part but it's off the back of excellent work put in place by Obama and Trump did it by using dangerous methods that cut spending without looking at long term progress.
As a domestic president he was great, as for his foreign relations a completely different story.
