Picnic Princess posted:

Change "millennials" to "consumers aged 25-40" and laugh even harder at the ridiculousness of these articles.

HugeGrossBurrito posted:

Screaming Idiot posted:

We deserve global warming

steinrokkan posted:

Mayonnaise > avocado

Mr. Fix It posted:

good news, global warming is just the earth running a fever to kill off the infection

Inept posted:

https://twitter.com/CNN/status/1030061977027133441

Inept posted:

https://twitter.com/CNN/status/1030061977027133441

HugeGrossBurrito posted:

Screaming Idiot posted:

We deserve global warming

ate all the Oreos posted:

"Identity Condiments?" So mayo is anti-trans?

ate all the Oreos posted:

There's already several small island nations that have made arrangements with other countries (Australia in particular I think) to relocate their population when their country literally ceases to exist in the next few decades but I can't imagine that kind of goodwill will last long once the number rises from a few thousand to millions and the timescale of the move changes from "long after the current government is out of office" to "right now, they're literally on boats already"

ate all the Oreos posted:

"Identity Condiments?" So mayo is anti-trans?

ToxicSlurpee posted:

Trying to figure out why millenials won't buy things while simultaneously deliberately impoverishing them is the most capitalism thing possible.

ToxicSlurpee posted:

Wow, missed opportunity. Should have just been MANDLE and also come in smells like "power tools" and "insecurity."

COMRADES posted:

Isn't Australia letting a bunch of migrants drown in the ocean and then fishing bodies out while the gov't goes "see we are tough on immigration?"

quote:

According to Hingston, Millennials' distaste for mayo could be because it jiggles, it looks like a gross bodily fluid, and it seems like "a boring white food," as opposed to something more exotic, like aioli (mayonnaise with garlic)

ekuNNN posted:

That's the EU you're thinking of

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PAPUA NEW GUINEA – On Manus Island in Papua New Guinea, the Australian government is creating a humanitarian catastrophe.

More than 600 men, mostly from the Middle East, Africa and South Asia, have been imprisoned there for over four years. This Australian government has shut off their food, electricity, medication and drinking water. Over 20 percent of them are clinically depressed or suffer from post-traumatic disorders and have had their access to crucial psychotropic medication cut off. It’s over 30 degrees Celsius (86 degrees Fahrenheit) every day, choking with humidity and swarming with mosquitoes. The men have resorted to digging holes for water and adding hoarded salt and sugar to the water they do get.

The deprivations they have suffered have taken a massive toll on their physical and mental health. They have witnessed murder, riots, beatings and suicides. They have been attacked by locals and have come under machine-gun attack from Papua New Guinea navy personnel. These men have fled war and persecution — some are Rohingya Muslims, fleeing violence in Burma. Australia is just compounding their trauma.

The Papua New Guinea Supreme Court declared the Manus Island prison illegal last year. Rather than accept its ruling and bring the men to safety and freedom in Australia, the Australian government set an arbitrary date for closure. There is not enough safe or suitable accommodation elsewhere on the island. The men have resisted being relocated to the nearby town of Lorengau because it is simply not safe for them there. Multiple knife and machete attacks by locals, some so serious that the victims have required medical evacuation to Papua New Guinea’s capital, Port Moresby, for treatment, have made them too scared to come out.

So they are determined to resist, because despite the obvious threats to their life and health, they genuinely believe their Manus Island prison is the least unsafe place for them to be.

How on earth did this humanitarian emergency happen? The past 16 years of Australia’s treatment of refugees and people seeking asylum have been a foul stain on our national conscience. It began in 2001, when a group of 433 asylum seekers were rescued from drowning at sea by the Norwegian freighter MV Tampa. A terrible standoff followed when the Tampa was banned from entering Australian waters for many weeks. The Liberal government, fearing the electoral threat posed by the white-nationalist One Nation party, created the “Pacific Solution.”

It involved sending people who arrived by boat seeking asylum to offshore detention centers — Australia’s Southern Hemisphere version of rendition. These detention centers, on Manus Island and the tiny Pacific island nation of Nauru, were designed to be as harsh and inhospitable as possible. They were deliberately meant to inflict serious harm to persuade other desperate people to seek safety elsewhere. In other words, they were designed to torture.

Years of international condemnation of Australia followed, and the policy of offshore detention was abandoned in 2008, when the Labor Party came back into power. But with the flow of boats increasing and under sustained attack from Rupert Murdoch’s media and right-wing extremists, Labor caved and reopened Manus Island in 2012.

Offshore detention and boat turn-backs are, and always have been, driven by racism and xenophobia. In 2011, then-immigration spokesman Scott Morrison urged his colleagues in government to capitalize on concerns about “Muslim immigration,” “Muslims in Australia” and the “inability” of Muslim migrants to integrate. It’s no mere coincidence that neo-Nazis and far-right extremists across Europe have become cheerleaders for the Australian government’s slogans and imagery.

In 2013, facing electoral oblivion, then-Prime Minister Kevin Rudd promised that no asylum seeker who arrived by boat would ever settle in Australia. It failed in saving his political career but succeeded in delivering years of mass human suffering and misery. We simply do not know how many people have drowned, or were returned to suffer or die at their persecutors’ hands, because of Australia’s actions. The detention centers are remote and inaccessible by design, so the disgraceful treatment of men, women and children can be hidden from the world. The government claims that the policy is designed to prevent drowning at sea, but the grim reality is that all it has achieved is to get the deaths off our television screens.

HugeGrossBurrito posted:

Emulator posted:

Whats this from?

EugeneJ posted:

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7692572/

quote:

It looks like we don't have any Trivia for this title yet.

COMRADES posted:

Isn't Australia letting a bunch of migrants drown in the ocean and then fishing bodies out while the gov't goes "see we are tough on immigration?"

COMRADES posted:

HugeGrossBurrito posted:

It was in the cspam trump thread, my apologies.

COMRADES posted:

oh word

HugeGrossBurrito posted:

I dont usually like youtube personality stuff but this is great.

Chomp8645 posted:

Narrator: They died.

COMRADES posted:

Got me all depressed for a minute lol

HugeGrossBurrito posted:

haha my bad I'll try to make sure poo poo is real first. Anyway here's some bread.