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ewe2 posted:All in favour of sending Tony Abbott to the guillotine say aye.
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bandaid.friend posted:Tony Abbott is a very, very pleasant man for me to poop on
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oh boy Australian preppers. https://www.theguardian.com/society/2018/oct/29/end-game-how-australian-preppers-are-bugging-out-and-hunkering-down quote:Mel calls herself a “latte prepper” because if she is going down, it will be in style and may include chocolate. Her business Chilli Preppers has been going for about five years and she runs courses including food cultivation and preservation, and doomsday prepping. quote:Take Jim Greer, an IT worker from Rockingham, Western Australia, who expects the world to fall apart sometime soon. He is not sure exactly when but he has an eight-tonne truck ready to go at a moment’s notice.
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Synthbuttrange posted:oh boy Australian preppers. If they spent as much time getting involved politically as they did prepping they probably wouldn't need to prep.
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https://twitter.com/nicheholas/status/1056781789455245312?s=20 It’s paywalled so I can’t read it, but WTF? I thought the Telegraph would be whitewashing this scumbag. See? Even Australia’s Murdoch rag isn’t all bad.
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He's not even a preacher, he's just a radio shock jock Actually, let's stick with preacher otherwise he may get a job on 2GB
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Bourke Street accused James Gargasoulas has been found fit to stand trial for murder. Mr Gargasoulas, 28, faces six counts of murder and 28 charges of attempted murder over the events of January 20 last year, when a car hit dozens of pedestrians in central Melbourne. His lawyers last week urged a Supreme Court jury that he was unfit to stand trial because his paranoid schizophrenia and delusions meant he could not enter a plea, understand the evidence against him or properly instruct his lawyers. But that jury on Monday found Mr Gargasoulas was fit to stand trial on the criminal charges, after deliberating for just over three hours. The trial on the murder and attempted murder charges could start, before another jury, as early as next week. Mr Gargasoulas, dressed in a grey windcheater and black pants, nodded as the jury foreman announced the verdict. Monday’s decision comes after an earlier jury was unable to reach a verdict on whether the accused man was fit to stand trial, after deliberating over five days in June. The second fitness to plea hearing was told Mr Gargasoulas believed he was the Messiah and that a comet would strike Earth if he had to stand trial for murder, and two psychiatrists – one a defence witness and one for the prosecution – both assessed him as being unfit. Defence counsel Theo Alexander argued Mr Gargasoulas didn’t meet three of the required elements for standing a criminal trial: that he couldn’t enter a plea, couldn’t understand evidence against him and couldn’t properly instruct his lawyers. The Director of Public Prosecutions, Kerri Judd, QC, said there was no dispute Mr Gargasoulas was schizophrenic and had delusions, but said he was able to ‘‘turn down the volume’’ on those beliefs and could redirect his delusions. A third expert witness, a psychologist, assessed the accused man as being fit to stand trial. Ms Judd told the jury last week that phone calls Mr Gargasoulas made from prison showed he was capable of rational thought. In those phone calls, he spoke of a desire to be held at the Thomas Embling mental health hospital rather than jail, and of being released early if he was found not guilty by way of mental impairment. Ms Judd said it was possible for someone to be delusional and stand trial and told the jury that the accused man was aware of the plea options available and their potential consequences. "Just because someone holds deep delusional beliefs and expresses delusional beliefs, does not mean they cannot function in a meaningful way. It does not mean that are not fit for trial," she said.
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He’s a gang leader/cult leader. Fun Proud Boys facts: they don’t masturbate and they got their name from a cut song in the Aladdin musical. Hopefully Antifa will give Gavin the welcome he deserves.
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Oct 29, 2018 07:05
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bell jar posted:Ambassador for Refugees & Displaced Persons,
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ScoMo on the news: I’ll be going to Warnambool to The Big Cheese! Person off-camera: Cheese World. ScoMo: The Cheese World.
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Synthbuttrange posted:oh boy Australian preppers. sounds like a poo poo version of the guy that runs Primitive Technology youtube channel
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Oct 29, 2018 08:29
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bandaid.friend posted:Tony Abbott is a very, very pleasant man And the Liberal Party is a very fine institution.
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quote:Chances are, by now, your country has some, if not all, of the following. First off, you probably have some kind of local internet troll problem, like the MAGAsphere in the US, the Netto-uyoku in Japan, Fujitrolls in Peru, or AK-trolls in Turkey. Your trolls will probably have been radicalized online via some kind of community for young men like Gamergate, Jeuxvideo.com ("videogames.com") in France, ForoCoches ("Cars Forum") in Spain, Ilbe Storehouse in South Korea, 2chan in Japan, or banter Facebook pages in the UK. https://twitter.com/broderick/status/1056677302959030272
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I think Australians are too lazy to elect a far far right rear end in a top hat. Alot of these countries have big rear end loving riots the day after an election or even the day before an election. Australia is too hung over the day after to get angry enough to be radicalised to the extent other countries voting population has.
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Count Chocula posted:He’s a gang leader/cult leader. Fun Proud Boys facts: they don’t masturbate and they got their name from a cut song in the Aladdin musical. Are they the ones that don't wipe their asses because that would be gay?
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Snowman_McK posted:Are they the ones that don't wipe their asses because that would be gay?
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Snowman_McK posted:Are they the ones that don't wipe their asses because that would be gay? I'm pretty sure that's just a joke.
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Doctor Spaceman posted:I'm pretty sure that's just a joke. You should read the r/relationships thread in GBS because you are missing out
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Oct 29, 2018 10:02
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Australia is about to elect a center left government. We got our far right chickenpox out of the way with Tony Abbott. Don't be too shocked if there is a massive slide to the left politically over the next few years. Brexit will fail, Trump may go to prison, and Duterte is my hot tip for dying in office.
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Oct 29, 2018 10:05
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Trump’s probably going to win the midterms and 2020 if the Democrats don’t get their act together. Brazil just elected a fascist. Labor is the same as the Liberals politically. We’re hosed.
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Oct 29, 2018 10:13
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Labor is not the same as the Liberals politically. What an outrageously lazy statement to make after the last five years we've had. After the insane levels of corruption, wastefulness, cruelty and economic incompetence we have seen during that time.
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I think the simple fact that we have mandatory voting helps prevent any sort of far right radical government getting in.
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hiddenmovement posted:Don't be too shocked if there is a massive slide to the left politically over the next few years. Brexit will fail, Trump may go to prison, and Duterte is my hot tip for dying in office.
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AgentF posted:Labor is not the same as the Liberals politically. What an outrageously lazy statement to make after the last five years we've had. After the insane levels of corruption, wastefulness, cruelty and economic incompetence we have seen during that time. What alternatives do they offer? They torture refugees. They take money from the gambling lobby. They continue the drug war. It’s the same reason Hillary lost - the centre left party didn’t offer a real alternative.
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Count Chocula posted:Labor is the same as the Liberals politically. We’re hosed.
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Anidav posted:I think Australians are too lazy to elect a far far right rear end in a top hat. Alot of these countries have big rear end loving riots the day after an election or even the day before an election. Australia is too hung over the day after to get angry enough to be radicalised to the extent other countries voting population has. I disagree. I think Australia has been very lucky that a charismatic extremist has yet to emerge. Thankfully Australians expect some degree of intelligence in its leaders but one who could harness the discontent in this country might have a lot of success. I admit that an intelligent-sounding far-right rear end in a top hat is going to be hard to find in this country. We are all very fortunate that Pauline Hanson has no charisma and is dumb as dogshit.
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Count Chocula posted:What alternatives do they offer? They torture refugees. They take money from the gambling lobby. They continue the drug war. It’s the same reason Hillary lost - the centre left party didn’t offer a real alternative. You are not as informed about Australian politics as you think you are if you can make this statement with a straight face. Do Labor do lovely things? Sure. Does that therefore make them exactly the same as the Libs? Not even close. I'm not particularly interested in having the debate in full but Hillary lost for many reasons, not just the Dems not being left enough.
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Count Chocula posted:What alternatives do they offer? They torture refugees. They take money from the gambling lobby. They continue the drug war. It’s the same reason Hillary lost - the centre left party didn’t offer a real alternative. The danger of climate change needs a party that can support drastic change to society. The Alp needs to be pushed a long way still.
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The Dems can flip the House in the midterms. They have some fundamental issues to resolve but the popular support is there at the moment (and could evaporate if they do they resolve those issues).bell jar posted:You should read the r/relationships thread in GBS because you are missing out I know it happens for some of them but it's not an organisational thing in the same way that loving cereals is.
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Oct 29, 2018 10:33
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The ALP have a proud history of snatching defeat from the jaws of victory, but they seem to have learned at least for to stick with someone who seems to work.
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The Lord Bude posted:I think the simple fact that we have mandatory voting helps prevent any sort of far right radical government getting in. 
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Whoopsy, double post.Count Chocula posted:What alternatives do they offer? They torture refugees. They take money from the gambling lobby. They continue the drug war. It’s the same reason Hillary lost - the centre left party didn’t offer a real alternative. Most Australians care about those things, sure, but they're not high compared to "what's going to happen to my job", "what kind of schools are my kids going to go to" and "do I feel safe". Hillary lost because Trump sold a narrative of US economic recovery in sectors it began abandoning in the 80s to a bunch of loving morons in swing states, while Hillary failed to provide a compelling narrative to bring her voters out beyond "you probably shouldn't let Trump win". As time has shown, she was right and he was lying, but that's all hindsight. *A lot of this is hearsay and assumption, I am not an expert in either field.
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hiddenmovement posted:Trump may go to prison, yeah, nah.
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Schlesische posted:Hillary lost because Trump sold a narrative of US economic recovery in sectors it began abandoning in the 80s to a bunch of loving morons in swing states, while Hillary failed to provide a compelling narrative to bring her voters out beyond "you probably shouldn't let Trump win". As time has shown, she was right and he was lying, but that's all hindsight. Also the GOP has spent decades demonising Clinton and given how close it was a near-identical establishment Dem with a different name would probably have won. And then just like Clinton they would have been impeached.
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The US isn't a democracy though. It's a constitutional Republic
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https://twitter.com/abcnews/status/1056847871675252736?s=21 I hope Turnbull continues to undermine the government.
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In fact I would argue by modern standards anything different to Australia's system is an out of date democracy. First past the post, gerrymandering ect. Are all problems Australia has mostly avoided.
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hidys posted:I hope Turnbull continues to undermine the government. I suspect you will be a happy goon.
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