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the old ceremony posted:RING THE BELLS! RING THE BELLS! Gimme bi-cameral legislature
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BBJoey posted:sometimes i think that things will only improve when we bring back political assassinations to maximise accountability, but then i think about how the right would retaliate with assassinations of their own, and then i resign myself to my meaningless bourgeois life. I think about this more than I should.
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iajanus posted:Wait people actually go into David Jones stores? My mum does because she works there as a sales consultant for a brand sold in the store
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ring the bells that still can ring forget your perfect christmas pudding test result: there's poo in everything that's how the light gets in
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quote:Madeline hit back on Tuesday, saying she was not a homophobe and should not have been fired for having an opinion. hey madeline fyi homophobia is a set of opinions and you should be fired for them hth ttyl
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bandaid.friend posted:There's a number of catchphrases going around that strawman the social justice movement, or joke as if a concept (like a gender spectrum) cannot be real. They spread very well on reddit I think the first time I heard it was the 56 custom gender options on twitter. And of course that gets turned into "They want to make there 76 genders lol!!!"
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Sep 20, 2017 05:37
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"I don't understand why people are firing me for being against other people having rights"
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Is it too cynical to wonder if this isn't viral marketing? [EDIT: It looks like she shut down her company's Facebook page and Instagram, so maybe not] open24hours fucked around with this message at 05:54 on Sep 20, 2017 |
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Sep 20, 2017 05:48
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Nobody seems to question right wing talking points half the time. On Q&A they had a guy blaming those storm damage blackouts on renewables yet again, and, despite Penny Wong and Sarah Hanson-Young sitting right there clowning him on everything else, they didn’t call him out. Or like the government talking about poor people paying no taxes and nobody bothering to mention what the T in GST stands for.
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Tokamak posted:I think about this more than I should. it really is fascinating reading about turn of the (20th) century politics where, in europe, the standard way for registering your displeasure with a government's programs and policies was to shoot the minister responsible
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Sep 20, 2017 05:58
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I received this in my mailbox today. There are a lot of families with kids in my area so the target is not surprising but the message is nuts. According to these crackpots schools will be forced to teach our kids gay and lesbian sexual activities in the classroom and all parents will lose rights. Warning: like my usual posts this may trigger you.   
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Sep 20, 2017 06:00
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The problem with propaganda of the deed was that it was an individual revolutionary action and not one of organisation. Guillotines are more effective than pistols.
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Sep 20, 2017 06:17
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Radical Gay Sex Education.
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Sep 20, 2017 06:25
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Does it make me a bad person that my only qualms with mass execution of conservatives are practical rather than ethical?
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Solemn Sloth posted:Does it make me a bad person that my only qualms with mass execution of conservatives are practical rather than ethical? Were you sitting around rubbing your hands together while Irma was bearing down on Florida? asking for a friend
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Sep 20, 2017 06:27
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Severing posted:I received this in my mailbox today. There are a lot of families with kids in my area so the target is not surprising but the message is nuts. This is going to work, isn't it?
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Sep 20, 2017 06:33
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Sep 20, 2017 06:34
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We are gonna get a bunch of boomers and middle class 40yo mothers agreeing with Cory Bernardi temporarily. Aren't we? 52/48 to no, isn't it? I want to die.
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Solemn Sloth posted:Does it make me a bad person that my only qualms with mass execution of conservatives are practical rather than ethical? No. Also in regards to practicality, the lowered rate of tobacco smoking makes executions a lot cheaper on resources and I hope you take this into account. We can also steal the shirts off their backs in order to create blindfolds. Reduce, reuse, recycle.
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Sep 20, 2017 06:41
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Don Dongington posted:Were you sitting around rubbing your hands together while Irma was bearing down on Florida? Seems like a hurricane would have way worse impact on minorities and vulnerable groups, so not really. Need something way more targeted like Madame guillotine.
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Sep 20, 2017 06:41
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Are there leaflets available to counter these claims or vaccinate against them?
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Intoluene posted:Are there leaflets available to counter these claims or vaccinate against them? Sadly no. Vaccinating against dumb would be a killer blow to most conservative movements.
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Sep 20, 2017 06:56
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Intoluene posted:Are there leaflets available to counter these claims or vaccinate against them? Sending such a leaflet would be militant lesbianism and Marxism.
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JBP posted:Sending such a leaflet would be militant lesbianism and Marxism. "hard green-left transgender activists"
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Sep 20, 2017 07:06
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Alt-left terrorist called me a regressive.
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I got my vote thingo in the mail today and the final four letters of the barcode are "NAZ1" 
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https://thewest.com.au/news/australia/warehouses-full-with-baby-formula-stockpiled-to-send-to-china-ng-b88604764z Wade through the dogwhistle racism for a moment, to the last sentence: The Worst posted:Consumer watchdog, the ACCC says they aren't breaking any laws and there are even some in government who support the buying frenzy saying it’s a boost to the economy Yeah, these people are paying other people cash in hand (tax free), probably a few dollars a tin to buy out entire supermarkets, and sending livegiving baby formula over the sea where it's being sold for $75 a unit, where it is also not generating tax revenue. Explain how this is boosting the economy again? If the supply was meeting the demand (and resulting in greater revenue for the supermarket and supplier), then people wouldn't be complaining about the inability to get baby formula. Oh yeah baby formula doesn't even have a GST component, so allowing this activity is literally doing nothing for the economy, or tax revenue, and causing big problems for parents. Fair enough, this isn't the ACCC's problem - but the federal govt could probably pull their finger out of their collective rear end in a top hat on this one.
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Cool, I'll just ignore the racism.
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Speaking of racism,Adelaidenow posted:IN a major political blunder, One Nation has failed to register for the next South Australian election and will not contest any seats.
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Sep 20, 2017 07:42
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The original Facebook post got deleted, but it was full of dickheads complaining about "chines" going around buying all the formula and good "local" babies going without. The original news article was even worse with dog-whistle poo poo. My sister's friend ended up writing to them and got the language amended. loving infuriating to see that poo poo and no one should skip over it.
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Don Dongington posted:https://thewest.com.au/news/australia/warehouses-full-with-baby-formula-stockpiled-to-send-to-china-ng-b88604764z Ah, gently caress. I know the exact thing going on here. They're the reason why my old store enacted that people can only buy 4 tins of baby formula a day.
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Sep 20, 2017 07:48
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Chinese people aren't buying Australian baby formula because they want to make drugs out of it, they're buying it because they have good reasons to believe Chinese baby formula will poison their babies. To an extent the dangers of that are overblown but it's pretty repulsive that this of all things is the issue that keeps reappearing to justify Chinese people as evil plotters trying to loot the country.
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rapeface posted:The original Facebook post got deleted, but it was full of dickheads complaining about "chines" going around buying all the formula and good "local" babies going without. The original news article was even worse with dog-whistle poo poo. My sister's friend ended up writing to them and got the language amended. I didn't see the original, and I never said we should ignore it; I was just drawing people's attention to that particular issue, but ok.
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ModernMajorGeneral posted:Chinese people aren't buying Australian baby formula because they want to make drugs out of it, they're buying it because they have good reasons to believe Chinese baby formula will poison their babies. I have to wonder why baby formula companies aren't seeing this demand and catering to it directly.
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Don Dongington posted:https://thewest.com.au/news/australia/warehouses-full-with-baby-formula-stockpiled-to-send-to-china-ng-b88604764z I'd guess even without GST it still provides a pretty sizeable economic boost. There are transport costs, wages for the buyers and exporters and all the other ancillary costs. They also increase the profits of the manufacturers, supermarkets and everyone else in the supply chain, and they (are supposed to) pay tax on those. Isn't the problem here simply that the manufacturers aren't producing enough to keep up with demand?
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open24hours posted:I'd guess even without GST it still provides a pretty sizeable economic boost. There are transport costs, wages for the buyers and exporters and all the other ancillary costs. They also increase the profits of the manufacturers, supermarkets and everyone else in the supply chain, and they (are supposed to) pay tax on those. It's more that without any increase in supply, there's no actual improvement to the economic bottom line as a result; just a massive detriment to people trying to feed their loving kids.
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Severing posted:I have to wonder why baby formula companies aren't seeing this demand and catering to it directly. I suspect it's because a) doing business in China is hard and b) the more that a company is officially involved in the Chinese market, the more people will suspect the products might be made in China or subject to poor standards somewhere along the process like other Chinese baby formulas (whereas you have more confidence in something that your friend or relative bought in Australia and carried to you on a plane)
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Sep 20, 2017 07:58
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Severing posted:I have to wonder why baby formula companies aren't seeing this demand and catering to it directly. one tried http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-12-02/bellamy-shares-tumble-40-per-cent-as-chinese-rules-sour-business/8087446
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Coles has a whole area of their phone support to dealing with this baby formula stuff. Orders on Coles Online get flagged if you order multiples of it, too. But yeah, walk around Melbourne and you'll find dozens of little shops with nothing but a desk, one young man or woman sitting behind it, and boxes upon boxes of A2 Baby Formula cartons. They make a fair bit of money doing it. But yeah, the reason it's done is because there was a big issue a few years ago where some Chinese baby formula was found to contain a whole lot of heavy metals or something.
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Other things that were in the baby formula powder circles: certain brands of multi vitamins and supplement tablets, Minion-branded Tic Tacs.
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