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It's got the same problem as the Atlantic. It's so determined to show 'both sides' that it ends up giving a mouthpiece to some loving awful ideas and people. The Atlantic is 50/50 between 'racism is inherently woven into the culture of the West in general and the US in particular, here's how to confront that problem' and 'bloody millenials' I realise that is, potentially, a very naive view of Q and A insofar that I am assuming that it has an ideology.
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# ? Feb 14, 2018 05:05 |
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Clearly Barnaby would be doing better if only he appeared on Kitchen Cabinet cooking up a storm of roasted lamb shanks and beetroot with balsamic vinegar in his not partners tiny taxpayer funded a Canberra apartment
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# ? Feb 14, 2018 05:19 |
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i can't believe kylar loussikian works for the telegraph now, back in 2013 he told me i was shortlisted for an interview as the graphic designer for the cofa student mag but then i called him "ms. loussikian" in the response email and he never wrote back to me lol
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# ? Feb 14, 2018 05:31 |
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kylar if you're reading this i'm sorry, my grandmother told me i always had to use a title when emailing about jobs and i tried, i tried, i had to guess
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# ? Feb 14, 2018 05:32 |
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Don Dongington posted:Didn't we determine that the SA State opposition leader was pretty much Xenophon now anyway? Actually country people are exactly that easy to hoodwink
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# ? Feb 14, 2018 05:33 |
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can i design the cofa student mag now. i've been kicked off the dole and i can't pay my rent
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# ? Feb 14, 2018 05:33 |
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Cofa is that stuff in the fridge that looks like food but isn't
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# ? Feb 14, 2018 05:37 |
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it is now called unswad, it was rebranded in my final year at enormous cost
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# ? Feb 14, 2018 05:38 |
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https://twitter.com/SkyNewsAust/status/963634033669308417
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# ? Feb 14, 2018 05:46 |
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Sorry, can someone quickly point me in the direction of why Joyce is all beetroots?
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# ? Feb 14, 2018 05:49 |
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A political debate with... Two sides?!?
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# ? Feb 14, 2018 05:50 |
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https://twitter.com/Mamamia/status/963635733293617152
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# ? Feb 14, 2018 05:50 |
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First guy owns
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# ? Feb 14, 2018 05:51 |
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Tokamak posted:A political debate with... Two sides?!? There are really 4 tho: Support Barnaby Don't support Barnaby Divorcing Barnaby Secretly wanting some Red Rooter
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# ? Feb 14, 2018 05:54 |
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Goddamnit I could murder a Hawaiian pack
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# ? Feb 14, 2018 06:06 |
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There is an ancient principle: You reap what you sow. Never has this been truer than what we have witnessed this week in Canberra. The deputy prime minister is in all sorts of bother due to his personal choices, but that is all I am going to say about that today. Whilst the news cycle has understandably developed into a demanding 24-hour cycle requiring a constant feed of news, the media have sown a modern Canberra commentary that is not about policy, principles or explanation of the issues. Their crop – in full harvest in recent parliaments – is ripe innuendo, rumours and scuttlebutt that ultimately results in leadership change. Salacious matters are far more attractive to news producers and indeed the mass audience than, say, a detailed explanation of just what is happening to the Murray-Darling Basin plan in the Senate at the moment. I will have more to say on that in the Senate later today. As for the political elites here in Canberra – where we have been passing legislation during the soap opera you see on TV – they are reaping a whirlwind they have sown over the years, namely poll-driven, knee-jerk decision-making. Neither the National party nor the government can ignore the circumstances of the deputy prime minister because it is all over the media, and the doomsday clock of 30 Newspolls is about to tick again this weekend. I am not for a moment defending or condemning the deputy prime minister, merely observing that the material you are seeing on your television and your smartphone screen is a direct result of the fatuous, gossipy swamp that the present gaggle of politicians and media have created. There is – as I am wont to say – a better way. Private and family lives of politicians should be off-limits. Yet politicians blur the lines by bringing the public into their lives to get public affirmation. That public affirmation only occurs because politicians have cultivated a ‘selfie’-style, ‘look at me’ approach to their involvement in public policy, rather than devoting time to explain and educate voters about the principles behind their decision-making. Where once Bob Hawke and Kim Hughes stunned us with tears, now the waterworks are regularly deployed to attract public sympathy. I doubt that calmer heads will prevail this week when it comes to the leadership of the National party. I’m not equipped with all the facts or machinations within that organisation, but I would be surprised to see the deputy prime minister serving as acting prime minister next week. I think the Australian people, however, would be with me in saying a line must be drawn under this whole affair. Once a position is settled, we need to get back to talking about the policies and principles that matter in this country. If you don’t like a soap opera on your TV, you have the right to change the channel. We don’t want people switching off of politics, because too much is at stake. Cory Bernadi
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# ? Feb 14, 2018 06:07 |
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Nah, I think Joyce has thrown enough rocks in this glass house to let it shatter around him as gloriously as possible until he's red in the... Face...
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# ? Feb 14, 2018 06:12 |
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quote:The sanctimony of the left could ultimately save Joyce https://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/r...b40c0d1494b94f2
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# ? Feb 14, 2018 06:20 |
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quote:Barnaby, you’re a legend. You’re a straight, white, non-Muslim male, just like me. High standards indeed.
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# ? Feb 14, 2018 06:22 |
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John wrote: “Barnaby, you’re a legend. You’re a straight, white, non-Muslim male, just like me. What you do in your own time is none of my business ... Please be assured that you have my full support.”
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# ? Feb 14, 2018 06:22 |
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Don't let Bast get you down
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# ? Feb 14, 2018 06:23 |
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Christ on a loving cracker, it's only February.
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# ? Feb 14, 2018 06:24 |
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I would blow Dane Cook posted:John wrote: “Barnaby, you’re a legend. You’re a straight, white, non-Muslim male, just like me. What you do in your own time is none of my business ... Please be assured that you have my full support.” Yeah but Islam let's you have multiple wives
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# ? Feb 14, 2018 06:25 |
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Amazing writeup on the comments from the Mamamia facebook page. Thank you.
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# ? Feb 14, 2018 06:25 |
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https://twitter.com/AndrewBGreene/status/963641503288578048
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# ? Feb 14, 2018 06:32 |
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I would blow Dane Cook posted:John wrote: “Barnaby, you’re a legend. You’re a straight, white, non-Muslim male, just like me. What you do in your own time is none of my business ... Please be assured that you have my full support.” what the gently caress
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# ? Feb 14, 2018 06:32 |
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https://twitter.com/SkyNewsAust/status/963641312334548998
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# ? Feb 14, 2018 06:34 |
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BBJoey posted:what the gently caress I think this is called identity politics.
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# ? Feb 14, 2018 06:34 |
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BBJoey posted:what the gently caress I nearly missed that. What the gently caress indeed.
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# ? Feb 14, 2018 06:40 |
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It's been a couple days since the story broke. You'd have to be pretty loving cooked to assume there's not way more dirt yet to come.
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# ? Feb 14, 2018 06:53 |
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Don Dongington posted:It's been a couple days since the story broke. You'd have to be pretty loving cooked to assume there's not way more dirt yet to come. Did you not see that the people being quoted were Nationals MPs?
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# ? Feb 14, 2018 06:54 |
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barnaby's safe and this won't move the 2PP one bit i'm still stunned over the "white straight non-muslim male" comment. i shouldn't be, but it's just so blatant.
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# ? Feb 14, 2018 06:57 |
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Scrunt Nation.
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# ? Feb 14, 2018 07:08 |
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BBJoey posted:barnaby's safe and this won't move the 2PP one bit Have you even seen half the bullshit that gets posted on Facebook from so-called "Patriot Australians" FB Groups? That's pretty much their go-to thing to do "This Muslim man has 18 wives and still gets the dole let's gently caress him out of the country"
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# ? Feb 14, 2018 07:12 |
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Of course there won't be consequences. The citizenship farce should have taught us thatquote:What you do in your own time is none of my business Odds this guy voted no in the plebischite?
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# ? Feb 14, 2018 07:16 |
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There was a point in this where dogfuckenny postulates that the Nationals "need to ask themselves if this is the man who should be leading their party". Mate, the real question is: how the gently caress did that decide it would be him in the first place? How bad were the other choices if Barnababymaker got chosen to lead? What sort of shitshow follows from this supreme disgrace?
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# ? Feb 14, 2018 07:21 |
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Imagine being in such a bad state Barnaby is still the best face for your party. Hey guys, we got you the "most affordable" one. Made in Australia. *morale plummets* It's been a long while since I was in but everyone just wanted Russian poo poo for some reason. I think it was the fact it was proven, reliable and would "work perfectly" in the bush. Or so I was told. Obviously for geopolitical reasons that would never happen in a million years. But the people overseas who are potentially in the market for a bush bashing armored vehicle might have more attractive options. DancingShade fucked around with this message at 07:30 on Feb 14, 2018 |
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BlitzkriegOfColour posted:There was a point in this where dogfuckenny postulates that the Nationals "need to ask themselves if this is the man who should be leading their party". Mate, the real question is: how the gently caress did that decide it would be him in the first place? How bad were the other choices if Barnababymaker got chosen to lead? What sort of shitshow follows from this supreme disgrace? Hmmm why did the guy who held his seat by double digit margins for decades and maintained a high profile throughout become leader? Truly a mystery for the party room to ponder.
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DancingShade posted:It's been a long while since I was in but everyone just wanted Russian poo poo for some reason. I think it was the fact it was proven, reliable and would "work perfectly" in the bush. Or so I was told. There was a period where the DOD had everybody masturbating over Russian hardware because it resulted in much better budgets. I guess that spilled over into allied countries because I remember people frothing over MiG29s and SU27s well into the 2000s too. They still make a pretty scary air defence system, but Russia's GDP is less than some US States now so they're not really approaching peer status the way they were when they were bankrupting the entire soviet union just to keep up. I don't know if anyone is making a decent light tank or troop carrier or whatever that thing is though. The US was particularly bad at doing that sort of thing; look at the M111 and the Bradley for good examples of terrible procurement/design.
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Amethyst posted:Hmmm why did the guy who held his seat by double digit margins for decades and maintained a high profile throughout become leader? Truly a mystery for the party room to ponder. This would be a mystery because he’s only held New England since 2013.
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