Ed Davies

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• Greg Tingey commented on Same bullshit, new tin
  Rbt Prior I know a number of people, younger than me, who by that definition aren't modern - they are usually called: "Religious Believers" Howard NYC @142 *Go on, with your story, it will "only" be one of the Old Ones, anyway" - U K Le Guin Charles Sheffield made the same discovery, re-writing Orpheus/Euridice, without realising, until he'd done it....
• Greg Tingey commented on Same bullshit, new tin
  On the original theme of old, recycled bullshit ... The new Oswald Moseley has arrived . drifting from the left, through conservatism to fascism...
• JohnS commented on Same bullshit, new tin
  JohnS @ 1749: Incomplete thought: "The other effects" were much better than anything I remember from previous Sci-Fi films....
• MSB commented on Same bullshit, new tin
  So you're saying that in Australia and most other countries that retired politicians can't go to work for big businesses at big salaries? In Germany there were some high-profile cases of retired (or voted-out) politicians then working for companies or for lobby-organisations close to their former field. This often led to (minor) outcries. Former chancellor Gerhard Schröder's position with Russian giant Gazprom (since 2006) led to some major outcries, particularly after February 2022. There are other high-profile cases like former minister for transportation Matthias Wissmann becoming the chief lobbyist for car manufacturers after his tenure. So, the cases exist,...
• JohnS commented on Same bullshit, new tin
  MSB @ 1755: So no, the USian "revolving door" practise is not necessarily viewed as normal or even as desirable in other countries. Seems to me like somewhen in the 1980s (the "Greed is good" decade) many U.S. politicians lost the concept of elected office being public service and it became just another path to wealth accumulation....