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Jumpingmanjim posted:https://twitter.com/SkyNewsAust/status/727007711133474821 "I honestly feel dumber for having watched that". Didn't expect the June Auspol title to appear so early in May, but here we are!
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Roy Morgan - 51-49 to the ALP.
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https://twitter.com/workmanalice/status/727011926191001600 The carp herpes is spreading Mr Speaker.
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# ? May 2, 2016 10:00 |
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Jumpingmanjim posted:https://twitter.com/SkyNewsAust/status/727007711133474821 Is anonymous av guy still around? I'd love a CAAAARRRP! av tia
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The budget will come out and the polls will be restored to the proper order of things
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Two million tonnes of CARRRP
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Negligent posted:The budget will come out and the polls will be restored to the proper order of things Logically speaking, the proper order was when Tony was PM and Labor was ahead. Malcolm Turnbull is a disruption to the proper order.
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# ? May 2, 2016 10:05 |
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# ? May 2, 2016 10:06 |
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He cant get the bolt report and he WANTS IT?
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# ? May 2, 2016 10:07 |
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Where's your socialist paradise now? Swedish Leaner.
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# ? May 2, 2016 10:08 |
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Incidentally if anyone wants free sky news, You can download foxtel go and watch it for free. You'll have to pay to get the other channels though.
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# ? May 2, 2016 10:11 |
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or i could just poke myself directly in the eye
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# ? May 2, 2016 10:14 |
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Negligent posted:or i could just poke myself directly in the eye Peta Credlin, Andrew Bolt, Alan Jones, Peter Reith and Michael Kroger all on the same channel what more could you want?
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# ? May 2, 2016 10:17 |
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Cartoon posted:Probably the more interesting question is why maintain close ties with a power that is actively stirring up trouble in the region (The US). The Chinese don't want to fight anybody and will continue to pursue 'peaceful' integration. If we want any say in how that is conducted we probably need to be having constructive talks with China not popping our heads out from behind uncle Sam and poking our tongues out occasionally. I disagree on this point. China is being a regional bully and bullying the poo poo out of its neighbours with its magical 9 dash line in the south china sea that it refuses to clarify with so it can claim as much as possible. To the extent that the local powers want the US back in to balance the Chinese threat.
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A second asylum seeker has set herself on fire on Nauru
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# ? May 2, 2016 10:28 |
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There is usually a lot of lovely and depressing news doing the rounds but this made me quote:Police have questioned an elderly man who flouted new laws aimed at stopping protesters from harassing women outside abortion clinics.
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The so-called ‘psychotically depressed’ person who tries to kill herself doesn’t do so out of quote ‘hopelessness’ or any abstract conviction that life’s assets and debits do not square. And surely not because death seems suddenly appealing. The person in whom Its invisible agony reaches a certain unendurable level will kill herself the same way a trapped person will eventually jump from the window of a burning high-rise. Make no mistake about people who leap from burning windows. Their terror of falling from a great height is still just as great as it would be for you or me standing speculatively at the same window just checking out the view; i.e. the fear of falling remains a constant. The variable here is the other terror, the fire’s flames: when the flames get close enough, falling to death becomes the slightly less terrible of two terrors. It’s not desiring the fall; it’s terror of the flames. And yet nobody down on the sidewalk, looking up and yelling ‘Don’t!’ and ‘Hang on!’, can understand the jump. Not really. You’d have to have personally been trapped and felt flames to really understand a terror way beyond falling. - David Foster Wallace
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# ? May 2, 2016 10:44 |
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Does Skynews have a carp show?
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# ? May 2, 2016 10:47 |
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With the Subs talk if any country did attack Australia the UK and USA would pretty much automatically offer assistance as well as fairly certainly France and Germany and that right there is four armies in the top sevenish strongest armies in the world backing Australia, as the Australia army would most certainly help them in the same situation. The current threat to Australia from a foreign army would probably be a percentage in the decimal range with a lot of zeros at the front of it. Any significant threat to Australia would pretty much have to occur after a very server shifting in Geo-Poltics into something far less stable. Something that might actually pose that sort of threat would be food/water shortages brought on by climate change/pollution/other. If the other countries which we might expect to aid Australia in a military situation were dealing with their own poo poo then Australia might seem a bit better target, particular for a country that was desperate due to you know mass food/water riots and what not. So basically were buying a bunch of subs in case the world starts to go all mad max. Periphery posted:I have found a solution to the issue of buying expensive military equipment form other countries: Generally I like this far better. Apparently Aircraft carriers can be pretty good in large emergency situations due to having a whole bunch of comes on them (good if your helping out in place who''s communication infrastructure just got hosed over. You can chuck a bunch of rescue/supply helicopters on their, and they often have some great water purifying systems on them (100,000-150,000 gallons a day for some). If we really must have some defensive navy kit, stuff that can help also help out in natural disasters and humanitarian crisis would seem far better as very likely that is all were ever going to use it for. And in news utterly unrelated to aquatic threats, new season of Mad as hell starts May 11th!
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Jumpingmanjim posted:A second asylum seeker has set herself on fire on Nauru "The activists need to stop coaching these terro.. boat peop... assylum seekers on how to kill themselves" -P Duddy tomorrow edit: On subs, realistically if we are in an actual war with someone who can actually do something against us, we're talking a world war. I can't see any of our regional neighbours being a problem only China. I doubt the UK/US will allow China to do poo poo to us. So, in that circumstance, assuming we don't just nuke and end it all quickly. All the ships above the surface will get sunk pretty quickly, I would be amazed if the world powers don't live time track them all. This would leave subs the only naval battle worth having. Diesel is always a better option for the waters Australia patrol, nuclear is too loud for shallow water, diesel can get turned off, nuclear can't. EvilElmo fucked around with this message at 10:54 on May 2, 2016 |
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Meanwhile in the ALP Party Room "Hey what if we treated brown people as you know, basic loving human beings?" "Shut the gently caress up" *Union Laughter*
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Anidav posted:Meanwhile in the ALP Party Room Who would you prefer in Government? ALP or LNP?
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# ? May 2, 2016 11:01 |
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EvilElmo posted:Who would you prefer in Government? ALP or LNP? I would prefer we put you against a wall but
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# ? May 2, 2016 11:03 |
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EvilElmo posted:Who would you prefer in Government? ALP or LNP? There is a third option and they are called The Greens who are like the ALP but have this one vital difference in that they don't pretend to be progressive to win working class votes. They actually are and will continue to gain ground so long as the other half of the ALP tries to be LNP Lite.
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Anidav posted:There is a third option and they are called The Greens who are like the ALP but have this one vital difference in that they don't pretend to be progressive to win working class votes. They actually are and will continue to gain ground so long as the other half of the ALP tries to be LNP Lite. Well, they're not a third option. They've hit double digits for the first time at the last election and are on path to return to under 10% this election. So again, ALP or LNP? quote:Here's a question: how many actions, rallies, meetings or door-knocking campaign activities for refugee rights have taken place in the swing Labor/Liberal seats that determine government in this country? The policy you and I want, isn't popular. Come to grips with that and actually try to change views of people who support it. So the ALP can pick up the flag and charge forward on treating assylum seekers with the dignity they deserve, except that would require them to form Government, so that won't happen if they take that policy to the election. edit: You, or someone else, posted some polling that was meant to show "support in the community for Greens assylum seeker policy", except it did the complete opposite. A tiny number supported it, the vast majority were against it or wanted it to be stronger. It was polling done by Essential poll as well, so a typically lefter response rate than some other polling.
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The Greens will never be in Government because people don't vote Greens because they will never form government because
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# ? May 2, 2016 11:15 |
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EvilElmo posted:Some Guardian columnists Facebook. edit:
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# ? May 2, 2016 11:16 |
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you would have happily voted for hitler
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# ? May 2, 2016 11:18 |
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Anidav posted:The Greens will never be in Government because people don't vote Greens because they will never form government because The Green will never be in Government because the vast majority of Australia don't agree with their policies. I've asked before for polling data that backed up the statement "when asked in detail and the policy was explained to them, people agreed with it", none was given. Some was given on asylum seekers (see above for how that turned out).
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How is that message ever going to proliferate in the minds of people making choices if they don't risk losing their jobs in latte sipping seats across the country or stare wide-eyed at the prospect of a significant portion of their vote coming from people who wouldn't vote for them as a first option because of their horrible policies Oh wait I forgot AusPol let's just pack up the placards and go home early because people won't vote greens because greens will never form government edit: the only game worth playing is a game you win, instantly and completely, because that's all this is right a big game of winners takes all
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Nuclear Spy posted:aka Bad Badbad I think you're probably in denial about exactly what country you're living in, and who else is living in it, if you think that all of the people that gif is referencing suddenly deciding to say gently caress it and vote green would be enough voters for the Greens to win government.
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# ? May 2, 2016 11:22 |
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You guys know the Federal Government does more than immigration law right?
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# ? May 2, 2016 11:23 |
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Oh yay its Mr Boring with your weekly dose of one-eyed idiot ALP flag-waving, well there's more than two choices Mr Boring, and the electorate will avoid your favoured ones enough to keep things interesting. Too bad so sad eh
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# ? May 2, 2016 11:23 |
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EvilElmo posted:Well, they're not a third option. They've hit double digits for the first time at the last election and are on path to return to under 10% this election. Here's the super fun and great thing about Australia's political system: we're allowed to have more than one answer about who we prefer to be in government, because of something called preferential voting! Maybe you've heard of it. It's pretty doubtful that anyone here whose name is not related to felines is going to put the LNP above the ALP. But for those of us here who would prefer the greens to the ALP--which is most of us I think--we're not squandering our votes, because we are, thanks to the system of voting, allowed to say 'if the Greens don't get in I'd prefer the ALP' and have that belief actually matter. It's almost like you don't have to base your entire vote on the lesser of two evils!
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ewe2 posted:Oh yay its Mr Boring with your weekly dose of one-eyed idiot ALP flag-waving, well there's more than two choices Mr Boring, and the electorate will avoid your favoured ones enough to keep things interesting. Too bad so sad eh Well, the one-eye Green flag waving needs some variety. A tiny amount of the electorate will go for another option.
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Cleretic posted:Here's the super fun and great thing about Australia's political system: we're allowed to have more than one answer about who we prefer to be in government, because of something called preferential voting! Maybe you've heard of it. Would you prefer the ALP to have the Greens asylum seeker policy and remain in opposition or for them to have the current policy with a chance of forming Government?
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EvilElmo posted:Well, the one-eye Green flag waving needs some variety. Nobody wants the LNP to beat the ALP. But I'm still voting Greens and preferencing the ALP because the ALP are shitlords. If they weren't terrible shitlords, maybe I'd still be voting for them. Hope this helps.
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EvilElmo posted:Would you prefer the ALP to have the Greens asylum seeker policy and remain in opposition or for them to have the current policy with a chance of forming Government? If the ALP had shown a shred of leadership on the issue we might not have to make the choice you're offering.
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EvilElmo posted:Well, the one-eye Green flag waving needs some variety. I was waving a flag for the Greens on May Day and I have two eyes thank you very much.
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Politics sucks
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