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Whitlam
Aug 2, 2014

Some goons overreact. Go figure.

froglet posted:

Yeah, my main concern is that personal choices don't happen in a vacuum - I want to make sure people are adequately supported before making this choice rather than feeling backed into a corner. :)

Definitely fair enough, and a standard that should apply for both sides, whether they're for it or against.

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thatbastardken
Apr 23, 2010

A contract signed by a minor is not binding!
i sometimes forget to be grateful for a father whose worst trait is being kind of annoying, rather than being a murderer.

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.

thatbastardken posted:

i sometimes forget to be grateful for a father whose worst trait is being kind of annoying, rather than being a murderer.

It's probably healthier for your brain to acknowledge something good he does rather than go "at least he isn't x" because that's how people get mental illness.

Solemn Sloth
Jul 11, 2015

Baby you can shout at me,
But you can't need my eyes.

JBP posted:

It's probably healthier for your brain to acknowledge something good he does rather than go "at least he isn't x" because that's how people get mental illness.

Uh

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.

It's not good for you to look at people worse off and compare yourself in the same way that it's not good to look at people better off and compare yourself, particularly if you're looking for something to be grateful about.

e: also "at least my father didn't murder my mother" is setting a pretty loving low bar for their behaviour

JBP fucked around with this message at 07:32 on May 11, 2018

Solemn Sloth
Jul 11, 2015

Baby you can shout at me,
But you can't need my eyes.
https://www.theage.com.au/business/workplace/fascinating-test-uni-student-nab-locked-in-pay-dispute-20180510-p4zek1.html

On the one hand gently caress wage theft

On the other hand gently caress commerce students

On the other hand gently caress banks

The Before Times
Mar 8, 2014

Once upon a time, I would have thrown you halfway to the moon for a crack like that.

Solemn Sloth posted:

https://www.theage.com.au/business/workplace/fascinating-test-uni-student-nab-locked-in-pay-dispute-20180510-p4zek1.html

On the one hand gently caress wage theft

On the other hand gently caress commerce students

On the other hand gently caress banks

you have three hands?

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.
Yes. gently caress people that choose a career and go to university then get stolen from.

NTRabbit
Aug 15, 2012

i wear this armour to protect myself from the histrionics of hysterical women

bitches




I like the part where the University is selling its students as free labour to corporations for a small cash payment and not even having the decency to give them course credit for it

Eediot Jedi
Dec 25, 2007

This is where I begin to speculate what being a
man of my word costs me

what

NAB is paying the uni which is paying the student a paltry amount

thatbastardken
Apr 23, 2010

A contract signed by a minor is not binding!
Oh I already have a bunch of mental illness.

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.

thatbastardken posted:

Oh I already have a bunch of mental illness.

Try not to double down and make them worse with comparisons buddy :)

Anidav
Feb 25, 2010

ahhh fuck its the rats again
Polls when?

Reclines Obesily
Jul 24, 2000



Hey Moona!
Slippery Tilde
sunday night, the latest poll was essential which was 52 (or 53?) for labor and that was a few days ago

Solemn Sloth
Jul 11, 2015

Baby you can shout at me,
But you can't need my eyes.

JBP posted:

Yes. gently caress people that choose a career and go to university then get stolen from.

he was stealing from other people

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.

Solemn Sloth posted:

he was stealing from other people

He was doing menial clerical work for his employer.

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.
This just in, every employee on earth that isn't working for some social enterprise horseshit is evil.

NTRabbit
Aug 15, 2012

i wear this armour to protect myself from the histrionics of hysterical women

bitches




JBP posted:

This just in, every employee on earth that isn't working for some social enterprise horseshit is evil.

Also some of those are too, see Oxfam

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.
Gonna google me up some Oxfam I didn't realise.

The Peccadillo
Mar 4, 2013

We Have Important Work To Do
Donate money as directly as you can

Gentleman Baller
Oct 13, 2013

JBP posted:

This just in, every employee on earth that isn't working for some social enterprise horseshit is evil.

Wage slavery is a choice.

bandaid.friend
Apr 25, 2017

:obama:My first car was a stick:obama:
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-05-11/salim-mehajer-arrested-for-allegedly-breaching-bail-conditions/9752288

quote:

Former Auburn deputy mayor Salim Mehajer has been arrested after allegedly breaching his bail conditions.
Mehajer, 31, was arrested at Sydney's Bankstown Police Station at 10:00am this morning.
It is alleged Mehajer used two mobile phones, in breach of his bail conditions.
He faced Bankstown Local Court today where he was refused bail and is due to face court again on June 6.

bigis
Jun 21, 2006
Unless you’re a basket weaving greens volunteer, gently caress you.

Solemn Sloth
Jul 11, 2015

Baby you can shout at me,
But you can't need my eyes.

JBP posted:

This just in, every employee on earth that isn't working for some social enterprise horseshit is evil.

fuckin finally jbp, i'm proud of you even if you're slow

Jibs Monteef
Dec 13, 2009

if he'd limited himself to one he'd have been fine, but noooo

had to doublefist the mobiles

You Am I
May 20, 2001

Me @ your poasting

Gentleman Baller posted:

Wage slavery is a choice.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7B4wcjANYjg

Tokamak
Dec 22, 2004

Jibs Monteef posted:

if he'd limited himself to one he'd have been fine, but noooo

had to doublefist the mobiles

Gotta make deals fast.

Cleretic
Feb 3, 2010


Ignore my posts!
I'm aggressively wrong about everything!

Gentleman Baller posted:

Wage slavery is a choice.

Hey, I was going to choose to quit my job and go be a starving artist yesterday, but YOU GUYS had to go talk a whole bunch about how lovely the situation is for unemployed people and make me sad and scared.

Dude McAwesome
Sep 30, 2004

Still better than a Ponytar

Cleretic posted:

Hey, I was going to choose to quit my job and go be a starving artist yesterday, but YOU GUYS had to go talk a whole bunch about how lovely the situation is for unemployed people and make me sad and scared.

It’s only lovely for leaners. As long as you’re a lifter you’re golden.

DancingShade
Jul 26, 2007

by Fluffdaddy

If mobile phones were a shovel then Salim doesn't know when to stop digging.

Brown Paper Bag
Nov 3, 2012

https://twitter.com/latikambourke/status/994916504750739458

Don Dongington
Sep 27, 2005

#ideasboom
College Slice
Just found myself looking at a few comments threads on various news articles on FB while waiting for a noisey child to go back to sleep.

We're probably hosed. I know these things are populated by the loud and opinionated, and might not represent the majority; but this country full of uneducated, pigheaded Hard Knocks idiots is going to keep putting the Liberals in power until there's nothing left.

Unless we address the structural damage caused by a sustained assault against public education by both major parties, people are going to keep voting against their interests, because Sunrise or Today Tonight ran a fear peice about a thing, and now they're feeling personally attacked by feminism/Islam/the poor.

Ugh.

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.
Australians, even the educated ones, are pigs.

thatbastardken
Apr 23, 2010

A contract signed by a minor is not binding!
i ran into a bloke who was doing polling booth work for PHON in the state election and he's jumping ship to the greens after seeing a doco on ocean plastic and being upset by pauline's lack of stance on the issue.

maybe some australians just need the right motivation.

Brown Paper Bag
Nov 3, 2012

https://twitter.com/AndrewBurrell7/status/995139189262901248

Lol cowards.

ewe2
Jul 1, 2009

Meanwhile in Queensland...:

quote:

A Brisbane councillor has been chosen over a current Turnbull government assistant minister to stand in a west Brisbane seat at the next federal election.

Walter Taylor Ward councillor Julian Simmonds has been picked instead of Assistant Minister for Social Services and Disability Services Jane Prentice to run in the seat of Ryan at the next election.

The punchline? They got Prentice the same way. It seems the LNP can't find anyone outside the Brisbane City Council to run for seats. And this new boy is hilarious:

quote:

“There will be a very clear choice for voters, the LNP that manages the economy responsibly for the benefit of all Australians, or Labor – who wants to impose higher taxes, and take more income from the pensioners and self-funded retirees who live in this community," he said.

“Locals tell me that they can’t stomach the thought of Bill Shorten becoming Prime Minister. I’ll be doing all that I can to make sure that never happens.

“I’ll be standing up and fighting for our area – I won’t stand by as Labor and the Greens try and take what our residents have spent a lifetime building simply because Labor and the Greens can’t manage a budget or the Australian economy.”

I'm sure he'll do just fine.

Anidav
Feb 25, 2010

ahhh fuck its the rats again
I used to live in Ryan and that seat is as blue as they come.

Brown Paper Bag
Nov 3, 2012


https://twitter.com/Dylan_Caporn/status/995149635252436992

Bit of an opportunity for the Greens here, both Fremantle and Perth have high Green primary votes

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.
Someone find Ludlam's fortress of solitude and coerce him into running in Freo imo.

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Reclines Obesily
Jul 24, 2000



Hey Moona!
Slippery Tilde
Xenophon might lose their Mayo seat YAY

a Downer might take it instead NAY

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