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I'm looking forward to seeing how Hockey & Tones spin their upcoming tax hike as not an actual tax increase. Most people are referring to it as a levy, I prefer "temporary refund adjustment".
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Bifauxnen posted:The gently caress is a "human right to property"? Maybe I should steal that wording when I'm arguing about basic income. Human right to property *human right purchased from VTAC after local council refused approval*
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# ? Apr 28, 2014 03:52 |
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Gorilla Salad posted:Also, I would like to thank Woolworth's for putting swastikas on their new homebrand rice. Good for a laugh. I'm pretty sure this is the sayagata which is (among other things) a japanese buddhist pattern
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# ? Apr 28, 2014 03:57 |
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Captain Pissweak posted:Legalise euthanasia.
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# ? Apr 28, 2014 03:58 |
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Concatenation posted:I'm pretty sure this is the sayagata which is (among other things) a japanese buddhist pattern Basmati rice, which is Indian, so a swastika pattern is in fact justified, if confusing to the average Australian.
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# ? Apr 28, 2014 04:09 |
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Shadeoses posted:Basmati rice, which is Indian, so a swastika pattern is in fact justified, if confusing to the average Australian. BUT NAZIS!!!! I can't wait for the sensationalist complaints and news articles that will follow. Australian media is so predictable.
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# ? Apr 28, 2014 04:22 |
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I think even most Australians would realise it's just a symbol of prosperity. Swastikas were everywhere in Nepal last time I was there. Like during the November election, people voted by using a stamp with a swastika on it to mark the party they voted for. Also, all the Maoist election posters in Kathmandu had a swastika superimposed on a hammer and sickle, which kind of amused me because it reminded me of that "Commie-Nazis" thing from The Simpsons.
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# ? Apr 28, 2014 04:25 |
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My Indian friend has a swastika on his doormat with a short Hindu blessing or something written around it.
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# ? Apr 28, 2014 04:41 |
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Wasn't the Nazi swastika inverted from the Hindu one anyway?
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# ? Apr 28, 2014 05:14 |
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Can't even properly appropriate a good luck symbol Mr.
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# ? Apr 28, 2014 05:19 |
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webmeister posted:Wasn't the Nazi swastika inverted from the Hindu one anyway? Before that it was seen as a symbol of good luck and prosperity and is still used as such in Asia where it gets easily confused on imported goods - for instance when it appeared on a Pokemon card.
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# ? Apr 28, 2014 05:31 |
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News just in: NSW politicians are all corrupt. http://www.smh.com.au/nsw/liberal-mp-marie-ficarra-asked-to-step-aside-over-corruption-inquiry-20140428-zr0np.html
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# ? Apr 28, 2014 05:36 |
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ShoeFly posted:News just in: NSW politicians are all corrupt. THERE WAS ACTUALLY A LIBERAL SLUSH FUND ALL ALONG!
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# ? Apr 28, 2014 05:58 |
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imagine my surprise.
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# ? Apr 28, 2014 06:04 |
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But I thought I could trust the LiberAHHAHAHAHah
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# ? Apr 28, 2014 06:15 |
https://twitter.com/TonyAbbottMHR/status/362469775730946048
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MysticalMachineGun posted:THERE WAS ACTUALLY A LIBERAL SLUSH FUND ALL ALONG! That's it, my irony gland has finally burst sned hlep e: quote:Chief Liberal fund-raiser Paul Nicolaou has agreed in private evidence that the foundation was used to hide money from prohibited donors. adamantium|wang fucked around with this message at 06:31 on Apr 28, 2014 |
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The ICAC is ripping up the NSW LNP and uprooting deep seated corruption and Dial Tone's media manager is just pointing at the Labor party, "Was them. Not us" Its like a 5 year olds lie.
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Kommando posted:The ICAC is ripping up the NSW LNP and uprooting deep seated corruption and Dial Tone's media manager is just pointing at the Labor party, "Was them. Not us" That tweet is from almost a year ago.
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# ? Apr 28, 2014 06:44 |
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I don't know if anyone else was watching the Joint Standing Committee on Electoral Matters, but they were dealing with the concept of Senate reform. They had submissions from the Nationals, Labor, Liberals, Greens, and finally some input from our favourite fuckknuckle-elect David Leyonhjelm. The man is a clown. I mean, he's refreshingly honest, but he seems to have literally no filter whatsoever. He didn't even try to deny being involved in preference harvesting or trying to drum up votes based on nothing but slogans. He referred to the Greens as preference harvesters for Labor. He admitted if he had the time he'd set up 20 preference-harvesting microparties to direct votes to the LDP. He admitted he's been administrator/party officer for multiple parties simultaneously and that they share membership, and refused to give an idea of how many people are financial members. He called Glenn Druery a "bastard" and "a black hole of principles" after admitting they allowed Druery to run for them as a candidate. He then finally admitted that the LDP directed their preferences in the NSW group voting ticket out of spite, and not out of any actual ideological overlap or shared values, essentially confirming that the GVT system is a loving shambles. I mean, we all knew it was the case, but it's hilarious to hear him admit it without a trace of shame.
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Wheezle posted:That tweet is from almost a year ago. drat.
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Kommando posted:drat. But aren't they still acting like "Was them. Not us"?
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# ? Apr 28, 2014 06:55 |
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I don't know about everyone else but fuckknuckle is one of my favourite words.
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# ? Apr 28, 2014 07:20 |
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Which of you is Ben Pobjie? At the end of an article lamenting that the Logies have to choose between critical awards or popularity was this sentence.quote:Then again, Housos won Most Outstanding Light Entertainment Program and Mad as Hell wasn't even nominated, so maybe we should just burn everything down and start again. Hambeet I'm looking in your direction.
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# ? Apr 28, 2014 07:57 |
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Tokamak posted:Doublespeak Everyone should read the book Death Sentence by Don Watson (who at one time was a speech writer for Keating and either wrote the Redfern Park Speech in entirety or collaborated with Keating depending on who you believe) - You'll see the grim spectacle of Newspeak and empty jargon everywhere, in politics, advertising, the corporate world... With the prevalence of it now it's a job in itself not to lapse into platitudinal garbage by accident. And people wonder why we need to teach 'classics' or literature in schools, if it's only use is to stem the tide of such hot air then it's worth it.
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Pred1ct posted:Everyone should read the book Death Sentence by Don Watson (who at one time was a speech writer for Keating and either wrote the Redfern Park Speech in entirety or collaborated with Keating depending on who you believe) - You'll see the grim spectacle of Newspeak and empty jargon everywhere, in politics, advertising, the corporate world... It really is everywhere. One of the main thing I can do with my Creative and Professional Writing degree is translating bank and political garbage, etc, into "Plain English", because it's just so hard for bankers and politicians to write or speak in a way that normal people understand - or, more frequently, because they don't want people to understand what they're actually saying. At its best it is simple ineptness, at worst it's a deliberate attempt at obfuscation. It's become the default language of so many sectors and it's horrifying that more people aren't up in arms about this.
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# ? Apr 28, 2014 08:18 |
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Union got back to me, From investigation, Umart has been playing hot potato with Superfunds with my Super starting at Spectrum Super then being transferred to a variety of different Super providers before landing at Australian Super. All this was happening without my permission. Does anyone know why a business would just open up a trail of accounts in my name and never tell me anything?
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# ? Apr 28, 2014 08:26 |
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The plot thickens (with drying blood) http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/apr/28/scott-morrison-visit-sent-manus-tension-soaring-says-g4s-whistleblower Scott Morrison visit sent Manus tension soaring, says G4S whistleblower posted:Scott Morrison directly contributed to tension in the Manus Island detention centre during a late September visit, according to an explosive set of allegations made by former G4S guard Martin Appleby, who is the first guard to speak publicly since the unrest on Manus in February that left one asylum seeker dead.
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# ? Apr 28, 2014 08:27 |
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"If we hadn't inherited this island hellhole from the previous government it wouldn't be an unending pit of suffering." - the official position of the minister for immigration and border protection Scott Morrison after making inflammatory comments to those he tortures.
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# ? Apr 28, 2014 08:38 |
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And people doubt that we have literal sociopaths occupying top government positions.
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# ? Apr 28, 2014 08:42 |
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CROWS EVERYWHERE posted:And people doubt that we have literal sociopaths occupying top government positions. Who?
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# ? Apr 28, 2014 09:02 |
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Hahahahahahahahahaha (Only NewsCorp currently reporting so screw links) quote:BEN and Jerry's ice cream has been hauled over the coals by the Queensland Government for supporting WWF's “propaganda” save the Reef campaign. Holy poo poo, hahahahahaha. Queensland's list of enemies so far: Clive Palmer, The Great Barrier Reef, Literally Ice Cream.
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# ? Apr 28, 2014 09:11 |
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Big Ice Cream wants to destroy your economy Queensland.
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# ? Apr 28, 2014 09:13 |
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Reminds me of a JW magazine from a few months back labelling (among others) WWF and Amnesty International as dangerous radical groups
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# ? Apr 28, 2014 09:16 |
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Environment Minister of Australia declares war on the WWF and icecream.
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# ? Apr 28, 2014 09:16 |
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Captain Pissweak posted:Big Ice Cream wants to destroy your economy Queensland. So one of those Egg Council creeps got to you too huh?
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# ? Apr 28, 2014 09:17 |
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Umm corporate boycotts impinge on free speech and are therefore bad. Or have I got last month's talking points by mistake?
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# ? Apr 28, 2014 09:20 |
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Doctor Spaceman posted:Umm corporate boycotts impinge on free speech and are therefore bad. It's probably a stretch to conclude whether ministers in Queensland can actually read.
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# ? Apr 28, 2014 09:24 |
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Doctor Spaceman posted:Umm corporate boycotts impinge on free speech and are therefore bad. Just Tories/Lolbertarians suffering a lack of cognitive dissonance... again.
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# ? Apr 28, 2014 09:25 |
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In some actual huge news both Liberal and Labor have joined forces (!) to support optional preferential voting on senate tickets to stop preference harvesting. Of course the Liberals are trying to include a rider in there to make this much worse. http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/apr/28/optional-preferential-voting-plan-by-labor-liberals-to-block-micro-parties quote:
Oh and Clive Palmer showed up too.
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