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[Brookie1973]

We seem to have crossed in the mail ... @Isz I am inclined to agree with your analysis of the intentions behind the structure of the American system; unfortunately for the Americans I think their inflamed politics have crossed over boundaries into their judicial sphere. How to re-separate them, and generally how to lower the temperature before lasting damage is done, those will be the problems they need to solve. Well, just as an outsider looking over the fence.

Not solvable I’m afraid. Seems we are inextricably heading for a one party state (elites) who control the working class (plebs) after the destruction of the middle class. Centralised control will replace personal freedom. The idea of true democracy and one person one vote will likely be discarded to the waste basket of history. Hopefully Manly can win another premiership before then.

 

[lsz]

I have a feeling that Paul Keating's famous slur about the Senate being "unrepresentative swill" is most appropriate for the US Federal judiciary.

For me, the two biggest issues that really set the US up for failure are:

1. The politicised judicial system.
2. The lack of an independent electoral system like we have here. The inconsistency of voting systems and the gerrymandering of electorates just blows my mind.

 

[Woodsie]

For me, the two biggest issues that really set the US up for failure are:

1. The politicised judicial system.
2. The lack of an independent electoral system like we have here. The inconsistency of voting systems and the gerrymandering of electorates just blows my mind.

and a polarising and politically motivated media inflaming passions and division ... not to mention the proliferation of unrestricted fake news ...

 

[Brookie1973]

Turns out the Blackhawk helicopter pilot in the DC airliner crash was a female trainee who ignored directives from her male trainer to turn away to avoid the collision. I recall Trump being lambasted for linking the crash to DEI policies.

 

[CollaroyJo]

So Yes a female captain undergoing night flying annual evaluation!!!
Nothing to do with the fact that the air traffic control was under staffed.... up to a 1/3 below staffing levels and working up to 10 hour shifts and 6 days a week !!!!
Nothing to do with the fact that because the plane and the helicopter were not on the same channel and could not hear each others transmissions!!!!
Plus a host of other systemic errors.
No of course it had to be due to DEI ????
A tragedy that should not be used for political pathetic point scoring

 

[Brookie1973]

So Yes a female captain undergoing night flying annual evaluation!!!
Nothing to do with the fact that the air traffic control was under staffed.... up to a 1/3 below staffing levels and working up to 10 hour shifts and 6 days a week !!!!
Nothing to do with the fact that because the plane and the helicopter were not on the same channel and could not hear each others transmissions!!!!
Plus a host of other systemic errors.
No of course it had to be due to DEI ????
A tragedy that should not be used for political pathetic point scoring

“Not only was the Blackhawk flying too high, its pilot failed to heed a directive from her co-pilot, an army flight instructor, to change course”. Source NYT.

I’m not a Blackhawk pilot, but it sounds to me that if she’d turned when she was instructed to, 70 people might be alive today, regardless of staffing levels in air traffic control, radio frequencies etc.

I’m not saying there may not be other factors involved, but isn't it just as reckless to automatically dismiss DEI hiring practices as a possible cause? It is also interesting that until now, the female pilot was simply being identified in mainstream press as “the third soldier involved” in the crash, not as the pilot.

 

[SeaEagleRock8]

So Yes a female captain undergoing night flying annual evaluation!!!
Nothing to do with the fact that the air traffic control was under staffed.... up to a 1/3 below staffing levels and working up to 10 hour shifts and 6 days a week !!!!
Nothing to do with the fact that because the plane and the helicopter were not on the same channel and could not hear each others transmissions!!!!
Plus a host of other systemic errors.
No of course it had to be due to DEI ????
A tragedy that should not be used for political pathetic point scoring

I didn't know the investigation was completed?
Meanwhile clearly some of our astute rugby league fans assume the fact a pilot was female means she obviously had to be a 'DEI' hire
(Presumably because they believe, who in their right mind would let a female train to be a helicopter pilot)(or something).
These are probably the same people that tell jokes (to each other) about women drivers, no doubt they crack each other up