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JBP: Feb 16, 2017; You've got to know, to understand,
Baby, take me by my hand,
I'll lead you to the promised land.

Anidav posted:

There does seem to be a shift to the left despite Bill Shorten while The Greens are moving to the right despite there being no need.

The greens need to defend their constituency's capital.

# ? Mar 24, 2018 14:44

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# ? May 24, 2024 23:46

hiddenmovement: Sep 29, 2011; "Most mornings I'll apologise in advance to my wife."

They are both being changed from within at the same time

# ? Mar 24, 2018 14:52

DancingShade: Jul 26, 2007; by Fluffdaddy

hiddenmovement posted:

They are both being changed from within at the same time

Is it change or a cyst?

# ? Mar 24, 2018 15:03

AgentF: May 11, 2009

JBP posted:

The greens need to defend their constituency's capital.

Lord knows where you keep getting the idea that Greens voters are somehow richer than Labor voters. You need to come to my branch and tell them about how rich they apparently are.

# ? Mar 24, 2018 15:33

Whitlam: Aug 2, 2014; Some goons overreact. Go figure.

AgentF posted:

Lord knows where you keep getting the idea that Greens voters are somehow richer than Labor voters. You need to come to my branch and tell them about how rich they apparently are.

Literally the demographics of who is voting for them and the average incomes of areas in which they're doing well? Nobody is saying "you must be at least this rich to vote Greens" but if you think Greens voters are basically comprised of the poor starving masses then just lol. This data comparison of average jobs of ALP/Liberal/Greens voters is five years old now, but look at the job listings and tell me which group you think has higher average income out of the ALP and Greens.

# ? Mar 24, 2018 15:41

AgentF: May 11, 2009

Who gives a poo poo? Oh, we better defend the capital of Social Professionals, Welfare Workers and University Tutors. It's just yet another stupid attack on the Greens to try and frame them as somehow being amazingly well-off and I have no idea why you would defend that.

# ? Mar 24, 2018 15:49

Amoeba102: Jan 22, 2010

Who do I need to elect around here (NSW) to buy a bottle of red from Aldi before 10 on a Sunday?

# ? Mar 24, 2018 23:27

Recoome: Nov 9, 2013; Matter of fact, I'm salty now.

Whitlam posted:

Literally the demographics of who is voting for them and the average incomes of areas in which they're doing well? Nobody is saying "you must be at least this rich to vote Greens" but if you think Greens voters are basically comprised of the poor starving masses then just lol. This data comparison of average jobs of ALP/Liberal/Greens voters is five years old now, but look at the job listings and tell me which group you think has higher average income out of the ALP and Greens.

Mmm yes the Greens demographic is truly the picture of the over-payed inner-city ruling elite

# ? Mar 24, 2018 23:52

Aesculus: Mar 22, 2013

Recoome posted:

Mmm yes the Greens demographic is truly the picture of the over-payed inner-city ruling elite

Don't forget retirees! The first Greens local branch I was a part of was split 80/20 between over 60s and under 25s with basically noone in between.

# ? Mar 25, 2018 00:09

hooman: Oct 11, 2007; This guy seems legit.; Fun Shoe

Guys, the greens aren't perfect. My bubble is shattered. Time to join the LNP since if the greens aren't perfect there's literally difference.

# ? Mar 25, 2018 00:15

Wrageowrapper: Apr 30, 2009; DRINK! ARSE! FECKIN CHRISTMAS!

Bloody ABC and their communist think-pieces
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-03-25/free-up-the-market-for-economic-growth/9580198

# ? Mar 25, 2018 00:22

Recoome: Nov 9, 2013; Matter of fact, I'm salty now.

lol yes exactly

by the way the inside scoop is that Oxfam are not paying their retail store employees holiday loadings for Easter.

# ? Mar 25, 2018 00:27

Tasmantor: Aug 13, 2007; Horrid abomination

hooman posted:

Guys, the greens aren't perfect. My bubble is shattered. Time to join the LNP since if the greens aren't perfect there's literally difference.

no* difference

So is the line off shore detention? Otherwise that argument applies to the ALP just as easily. Like it's starting to look like the greens are attracting born to rule types and rotting at the core, just like the ALP did when it turned to poo poo. So yeah they are still better but are they loosing their good status?

# ? Mar 25, 2018 00:41

Recoome: Nov 9, 2013; Matter of fact, I'm salty now.

now only the socialist alternative has ideological purity

# ? Mar 25, 2018 00:42

hooman: Oct 11, 2007; This guy seems legit.; Fun Shoe

Tasmantor posted:

no* difference

So is the line off shore detention? Otherwise that argument applies to the ALP just as easily. Like it's starting to look like the greens are attracting born to rule types and rotting at the core, just like the ALP did when it turned to poo poo. So yeah they are still better but are they loosing their good status?

Yeah if at some point in the theoretical future the greens become, in a practical and policy sense, worse than labor, I'll quit. Dumb slapfighting and internecine bullshit isn't that point.

# ? Mar 25, 2018 00:56

Comstar: Apr 20, 2007; Are you happy now?

Looks like Australian Cricket just destroyed their reputation. The batsman admitted to ball tampering and the Captain just said the entire leadership team (but not the Coach!) knew about. The ABC commentator is calling it complete arrogance and total hypocrisy.and their position is untenable. We're at the embattled and soon to be disgraced stage.

If they have justice the leadership team, coach and everyone else's career just died. It will be interesting to see if that applies to white guys.

The Something Awful Forums > Discussion > Debate & Discussion > Auspol April - #itsjustnotcricket. It's going to dominate the news for the next few days, and the LNP will probably get their 30 billion tax cut through under the noise.

# ? Mar 25, 2018 01:36

Recoome: Nov 9, 2013; Matter of fact, I'm salty now.

My partner's family is south african now I will live in shame forever thanks to a dumb sport i don't watch

# ? Mar 25, 2018 02:06

I would blow Dane Cook: Dec 26, 2008

Comstar posted:

Looks like Australian Cricket just destroyed their reputation. The batsman admitted to ball tampering and the Captain just said the entire leadership team (but not the Coach!) knew about. The ABC commentator is calling it complete arrogance and total hypocrisy.and their position is untenable. We're at the embattled and soon to be disgraced stage.

If they have justice the leadership team, coach and everyone else's career just died. It will be interesting to see if that applies to white guys.

The Something Awful Forums > Discussion > Debate & Discussion > Auspol April - #itsjustnotcricket. It's going to dominate the news for the next few days, and the LNP will probably get their 30 billion tax cut through under the noise.

https://twitter.com/GostosaMN/status/977539394113589248

this some weird porn

# ? Mar 25, 2018 02:26

Cartoon: Jun 20, 2008; poop

Amoeba102 posted:

Who do I need to elect around here (NSW) to buy a bottle of red from Aldi before 10 on a Sunday?

A right wing poo poo smear because Aldi= :moreevil:

DancingShade posted:

Anyone who uses the word "triggered" unironically needs to be left on the roadside some place remote in the interior.

What the gently caress have you got against indigenous people!?

# ? Mar 25, 2018 03:07

Konomex: Oct 25, 2010; a whiteman who has some authority over others, who not only hasn't raped anyone, or stared at them creepily...

Wrageowrapper posted:

Bloody ABC and their communist think-pieces
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-03-25/free-up-the-market-for-economic-growth/9580198

shitpost posted:

"Neoliberalism" has been blamed for everything from rising prices, to creating loneliness, to making us physically sick.

However, the root cause of Australia's economic problems is better understood as the absence of free market capitalism, not its prevalence.

Cutting Australia's high corporate tax rate would help turn this around. The Treasury � hardly a bastion of free-market thought � estimated that reducing the business tax rate to 25 per cent will increase GDP by 1 per cent, or $17 billion each year.

Who really emerges as the winners? Business editor Ian Verrender looks at the push for a 25pc company tax rate.
This windfall would be shared among customers (through lower prices), shareholders (through higher returns) and employees and households (through higher wages).

Economists differ on the exact breakdown. But Treasury estimated about two-thirds would go to households, mostly through higher wages.

Even Former Treasury Secretary Ken Henry stated, "if the company income tax were to be cut, the principal beneficiaries will be workers �"

Daniel Wild is a research fellow at the Institute of Public Affairs.

Just quoting the most eye popping sections there. I was not aware that neoliberalism would be so benefitial for our nation, or that these corporate tax cuts would filter down to workers. I was shocked, truly. I had been lead to believe given a company tax cut most companies would pass profits on in the form of further bonuses to their CEOs and such.

# ? Mar 25, 2018 03:09

Sparticle: Oct 7, 2012

Hey bashing my head against the wall isn't fixing my headache, it's kinda making it worse.

"nah dude, it totally works, you just aren't doing it hard enough"

# ? Mar 25, 2018 03:41

Sparticle: Oct 7, 2012

Also gently caress the ABC for continually giving the IPA a platform.

# ? Mar 25, 2018 03:47

Aesculus: Mar 22, 2013

Sparticle posted:

Hey bashing my head against the wall isn't fixing my headache, it's kinda making it worse.

"nah dude, it totally works, you just aren't doing it hard enough"

That's an unfair analogy since eventually if you bash hard enough you'll suffer a subdural hematoma and die from it, while neoliberalism wants you alive for your labour.

# ? Mar 25, 2018 04:05

Capt.Whorebags: Jan 10, 2005

Sparticle posted:

Hey bashing my head against the wall isn't fixing my headache, it's kinda making it worse.

"nah dude, it totally works, you just aren't doing it hard enough"

Maybe, perhaps, we didn't let Hitler go far enough. This and more, tonight on the Bolt Rapport.

# ? Mar 25, 2018 04:12

I would blow Dane Cook: Dec 26, 2008

https://www.facebook.com/abc/videos/1752864234774340/

# ? Mar 25, 2018 04:15

DancingShade: Jul 26, 2007; by Fluffdaddy

Sparticle posted:

Also gently caress the ABC for continually giving the IPA a platform.

"It's your IPA" *jingle plays*

# ? Mar 25, 2018 04:52

Periphery: Jul 27, 2003; ...

Wrageowrapper posted:

Bloody ABC and their communist think-pieces
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-03-25/free-up-the-market-for-economic-growth/9580198

http://www.abc.net.au/contact/complain.htm

# ? Mar 25, 2018 05:14

Lid: Feb 18, 2005; And the mercy seat is awaiting,
And I think my head is burning,
And in a way I'm yearning,
To be done with all this measuring of proof.
An eye for an eye
And a tooth for a tooth,
And anyway I told the truth,
And I'm not afraid to die.

https://twitter.com/TheShovel/status/977747934895792129

# ? Mar 25, 2018 07:03

Reclines Obesily: Jul 24, 2000; Hey Moona!; Slippery Tilde

just as we had finally moved on from the underarm incident of '81

# ? Mar 25, 2018 07:15

DancingShade: Jul 26, 2007; by Fluffdaddy

Lid posted:

https://twitter.com/TheShovel/status/977747934895792129

It's traditional for a crooked cricketer to say God told them it was alright.

Shame tradition seems to have been broken.

# ? Mar 25, 2018 07:53

Lid: Feb 18, 2005; And the mercy seat is awaiting,
And I think my head is burning,
And in a way I'm yearning,
To be done with all this measuring of proof.
An eye for an eye
And a tooth for a tooth,
And anyway I told the truth,
And I'm not afraid to die.

Visidan posted:

just as we had finally moved on from the underarm incident of '81

WE'RE STILL NOT OVER OUR BODYLINE VICTIMISATION.

This is just us getting our deserved payback by making the game equal with those cheats!

# ? Mar 25, 2018 07:54

Zenithe: Feb 25, 2013; _{Ask not to whom the Anidavatar belongs; it belongs to thee.}

Murali tho.

# ? Mar 25, 2018 08:08

Schlesische: Jul 4, 2012

How loving stupid can you be.

# ? Mar 25, 2018 08:37

Lid: Feb 18, 2005; And the mercy seat is awaiting,
And I think my head is burning,
And in a way I'm yearning,
To be done with all this measuring of proof.
An eye for an eye
And a tooth for a tooth,
And anyway I told the truth,
And I'm not afraid to die.