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DancingShade posted:I can't help but wonder where he's sleeping these days. Do you suppose he has a mattress and sleeping bag in a back room at his local office? One of the things I read says he's living with his sister right now.
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The Lord Bude posted:Can someone who was paying attention to Politics back then explain to me how someone as nasty and Alt-rightish as Mark Latham ever managed to become leader of the Labor party? Basically, he was seen as a welcome alternative to Kim Beazley, whose image was that of a genial doormat, but even back then people quickly realised Latham's "spirited" temperament was just him being a weird arsehole. I also suspect there are more than a few Labor people who held similar views to Latham re: women - not 2017 Latham; as with so many, social media melted his brain - but the garden-variety egocentric chauvinism he was spouting many years previous. The question I still don't get is how anyone could bring themselves to line up behind a dunce like Abbott, let alone how he got elected, but that'll seem like ancient history once fuckin' Dutton gets the nod.
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Latham didn't go alt-right until fairly recently. He was always an aggro wierdo particularly about women, but most of the stuff he talked about as Labor leader was standard centre-left stuff - e.g. Buzzfeed posted a video of him spruiking the Racial Discrimination Act in parliament back in the 90s. I'm not convinced in his heart of hearts he really believes most of the poo poo he says these days (aside from the sexist and racist stuff, that was always bubbling under the surface), it's more like a case of late-stage relevance deprivation syndrome. He's alienated everyone else he was associated with up to this point due to his aggro wierdness, so now he has to pall around with people he used to poo poo on like Alan Jones and Miranda Devine, and other ostracised dorks like Milo.
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JBP posted:It was you all along. You got me, I'm mark latham.
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ili posted:Chiropracters don't do ballsack waxes. About as effective at curing ailments as what they actually do.
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Latham kinda started to show signs of a mental illness in the run up to the 2004 election and the manner in which he quit the party afterward also kinda lends itself to this. Yes it's fun to tease him for being an irrelevant old crank but I kind of think he's not right in the head and hasnt been for at least a decade.
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In non Queensland or Barnaby loving his staff news, the SA pre-election campaign of good ideas from Labor continues https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D8zlUUrFK-M A cable car, a hotel and an Australiana shopping village could be coming to Cleland Wildlife Park, under new plans the South Australian Government hopes will turn it into a world-class tourism destination. The Government has released concept plans for the site, but is now searching for investors to make it a reality. The plans were designed by businessman Allan Zeman, who is known for turning Hong Kong's Ocean Park into a bigger success than Hong Kong's Disneyland. Launching the Cleland concept plans, Mr Zeman said, like Cleland, Ocean Park was government owned and had become run down. "I came to Adelaide at the invitation of the Premier and looked at Cleland Park and I was blown away with it. "I saw the same vision that I saw with Ocean Park." While it is still in the concept stage, building the park is likely to cost $150 million, and the Government has not locked in an investor. Mr Zeman suggested he would consider investing, but has not committed. "If it looks like it's good. If people get excited, we'll go to the next step of having to raise the capital and see how we can do that," he said. Mr Zeman is good friends with Australian businessman Lindsay Fox, who was also at the concept launch. He suggested he is also considering investing, but still wants to see more detail. "I'd put money into anything Allan did," he said. "I've known Allan for over 40 years and I'm here primarily because a month ago he left a message with me that he's coming to Adelaide. "We've had no communication until I walked into the hotel door this morning and had a cup of coffee." Plans would be approached 'sensitively' The Government would not be without opposition to its proposal — in the late 1980s a plan to run a cable car to Cleland from Waterfall Gully failed in large part due to intense opposition. Premier Jay Weatherill said it would be approached in a sensitive way. "We are seeking people's views about this," he said. "We're excited by it and we want to see whether others are similarly excited by it. "This is going to be very sensitively designed to make sure it protects all the natural values so the whole point here, I think Allan has a philosophy, keep the best, improve the rest." --- The response from Stephen... Marshawn? with the Liberals was their proposal to turn this area into a new national park http://www.glenthorne.com.au My response is, vote Labor, why not have both? Apart from the reservoir being part of it of course, that's not gonna work.
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The Dark Project posted:Anyone with a subscription to the monthly able to share this piece by Noel Pearson on just how hosed over he was by the Libs? An ABC article quoted parts of it http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-11-27/noel-pearson-says-turnbull-government-burned-bridges/9197694
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hiddenmovement posted:Latham kinda started to show signs of a mental illness in the run up to the 2004 election and the manner in which he quit the party afterward also kinda lends itself to this. Yes it's fun to tease him for being an irrelevant old crank but I kind of think he's not right in the head and hasnt been for at least a decade. Yeah, it's this. It's a real problem for Labor - his doctors can't come out and say he's nuts, please stop giving him attention so he can get help (medical confidentiality), he isn't going to (crazy people aren't great at identifying when they're crazy), if Labor comes out and comments then it looks petty, there's no proof, the medical confidentiality thing, and it gives him attention and reminds people that he was ever associated with them. "How do you solve a problem like Mark Latham?" is a question being asked but so far nobody has any real ideas beyond "ignore him and leave him be".
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The Lord Bude posted:Can someone who was paying attention to Politics back then explain to me how someone as nasty and Alt-rightish as Mark Latham ever managed to become leader of the Labor party? Touching John Howard infected him with right wing views that are slowly taking over his body until he eventually transforms into Adolf Hitler.
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tithin posted:Loving the LNP salt on the radio this morning about not being able to change the Smith bill http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-11-29/turnbulls-leadership-on-ssm-a-failure-andrew-broad-says/9204060 
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Conservatives and the left united by one thing:quote:Turnbull's leadership on same-sex marriage a 'failure', Nationals MP says e:fb
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Synthbuttrange posted:Conservatives and the left united by one thing: Horseshoe theory!
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NTRabbit posted:In non Queensland or Barnaby loving his staff news, the SA pre-election campaign of good ideas from Labor continues I really hate the idea of a cable car, and the appeal of Cleland is that it isn't just a zoo or a theme park.
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Whitlam posted:Yeah, it's this. It's a real problem for Labor - his doctors can't come out and say he's nuts, please stop giving him attention so he can get help (medical confidentiality), he isn't going to (crazy people aren't great at identifying when they're crazy), if Labor comes out and comments then it looks petty, there's no proof, the medical confidentiality thing, and it gives him attention and reminds people that he was ever associated with them. "How do you solve a problem like Mark Latham?" is a question being asked but so far nobody has any real ideas beyond "ignore him and leave him be". how is it a problem for labor? hasn’t he handed in his membership and joined the lib dems?
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There's a few things in this twitter thread that dings my crank alarm bells, but just pretend it's all true anyway. Guess who might be ineligible under s44? The answer might surprise you... https://twitter.com/NearlyTheNews/status/935432552390713345
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"I had a private conversation with the Prime Minister where I said, 'Have you sat down and got Trevor Evans, Warren Entsch, Dean Smith — people on the Yes side — and put them in the room with Eric Abetz, Andrew Hastie and people on the No side? And come up with a piece of legislation that is Coalition legislation?'" That sounds like the dumbest idea ever.
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Starshark posted:There's a few things in this twitter thread that dings my crank alarm bells, but just pretend it's all true anyway. Guess who might be ineligible under s44? The answer might surprise you... thanks for sharing nazi twitter with the class
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BBJoey posted:how is it a problem for labor? hasn’t he handed in his membership and joined the lib dems? Whenever his name is brought up in the media it's often prefixed by "former Labor leader", and usual healthy Auspol cynicism aside, there are still a couple of people around who genuinely do give a poo poo about getting him help. Personally I think there probably isn't anything anyone can reasonably do. He's clearly mentally ill, but not so much so that he could be committed for treatment or whatever, so he'll probably just continue to exist in that limbo of "nuts, but not enough for anyone to do anything about".
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But it was a garden makeover for a couple who lost family and friends in the Bali bombing that was the final straw for her. "We took it upon ourselves and gave them a beautiful garden," she said. The researcher said it was well-known in the office that while filming the segment things took a strange turn. "I understand he was just swearing at them quietly and smiling at them like a Cheshire cat, while actually he was telling them what he really thought about them and calling them terrible, terrible names like, 'Mr C***y C*** and Mrs C***y C***'." Burke also suggested the couple should have olive trees because they were "woggy", despite the pair's objections. "He said, 'F*** you, I'm paying for this, I'll put olive trees in if I want to put olive trees in and if you don't want orange trees, I'm going to put in more citrus'. He just didn't care what people thought."
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Birdstrike posted:thanks for sharing nazi twitter with the class Eh?
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Starshark posted:There's a few things in this twitter thread that dings my crank alarm bells, but just pretend it's all true anyway. Guess who might be ineligible under s44? The answer might surprise you... JUST MAKE A loving BLOG
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MysticalMachineGun posted:JUST MAKE A loving BLOG Also I've read like 9 tweets so far and he sounds like a paranoid person with inflated self-interest. e: self-image, I should say MysticalMachineGun fucked around with this message at 23:35 on Nov 28, 2017 |
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Starshark posted:There's a few things in this twitter thread that dings my crank alarm bells, but just pretend it's all true anyway. Guess who might be ineligible under s44? The answer might surprise you... the first ten of these tweets are all about this dude wanking himself off over how good his own credentials are, and how right he is to be paranoid Birdstrike posted:thanks for sharing nazi twitter with the class who is this dude? feel like sharing?
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Birdstrike posted:you linked to a crackpot who wants to expose the secret jewish conspiracy, good job Quoted, not linked.
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tithin posted:the first ten of these tweets are all about this dude wanking himself off over how good his own credentials are, and how right he is to be paranoid
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tithin posted:who is this dude? feel like sharing? nfi, but the Law of Return doesn't confer citizenship automatically
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