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NTRabbit
Aug 15, 2012

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

bitches




Shoplifting from Coles and Woolworths is small time, she should be organising raids on their trucks and warehouses, and distributing the goods to the homeless and destitute

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Anidav
Feb 25, 2010

ahhh fuck its the rats again
Fruity Grodo?

Count Chocula
Dec 25, 2011

WE HAVE TO CONTROL OUR ENVIRONMENT
IF YOU SEE ME POSTING OUTSIDE OF THE AUSPOL THREAD PLEASE TELL ME THAT I'M MISSED AND TO START POSTING AGAIN
Australian version of Broad City looking good.

Tokamak
Dec 22, 2004

Also, she's overthinking her shoplifting technique.

I would blow Dane Cook
Dec 26, 2008

Anidav posted:

Fruity Grodo?

nah too sane

Lizard Combatant
Sep 29, 2010

I have some notes.
Lol what ever happened to FG? We've got the Count back.

Don Dongington
Sep 27, 2005

#ideasboom
College Slice
Didn't gross goons dox her and cause her to delete her account

Anidav
Feb 25, 2010

ahhh fuck its the rats again
I thought Andrew Bolt doxxed her and 4chan Facebook stalked her.

Dude McAwesome
Sep 30, 2004

Still better than a Ponytar

tbh her stealing poo poo makes her way more relatable to a lot of people.

Doesn’t mean she’s an idiot for not getting rid of all that stuff. You’d think that would be in the “running for senate 101”

NTRabbit
Aug 15, 2012

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

bitches




So now she renounced her Australian citizenship to comply with section 44 for nothing

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.
She seems like a classic millennial very online shitbag to me.

I would blow Dane Cook
Dec 26, 2008


Meanwhile in ausgbs:

Laserface posted:

Is Coles more strict than woolies wrt self serve checkout weight sensors or is it just the one near my office due to being a lovely suburb?

Like I can't even put my backpack on the bag holder and load stuff into that. I have to put it on the ground and put each item on the bag holder then pay they put it all in my backpack. And if anything moves you gotta wait for the assistant to come over.

Woolies I just put my backpack on the thing and load it up and even if I get a bit lazy on the scanning it doesn't seem to give a poo poo.

Whitlam
Aug 2, 2014

Some goons overreact. Go figure.

Is that picture from the Hun? Because if so, 1st implies at least a 2nd is coming. Not that I think this particularly is one (and not that I think anyone who votes Green generally reads the Herald Sun), but you know what I mean.

Rock Puncher
Jul 26, 2014
voting greens again for surenow

Don Dongington
Sep 27, 2005

#ideasboom
College Slice

Whitlam posted:

Is that picture from the Hun? Because if so, 1st implies at least a 2nd is coming. Not that I think this particularly is one (and not that I think anyone who votes Green generally reads the Herald Sun), but you know what I mean.

It's just porn for middle aged tory shitbags.

Nevermind the almost weekly scandals by Liberals and Nationals in all levels of government..

Whitlam
Aug 2, 2014

Some goons overreact. Go figure.

Don Dongington posted:

It's just porn for middle aged tory shitbags.

Nevermind the almost weekly scandals by Liberals and Nationals in all levels of government..

Oh yeah absolutely, I just mean I wonder if "1st scandal" means they have more "scandals" coming up. Hope she didn't quit her job.

Frogfingers
Oct 10, 2012

quote:

In another, she called federal Liberal MP Michaelia Cash a “fkn disgusting smug parrot”, adding “a woman in the f---ing liberal party is like a jew in the nazi party”.

Where's the lie?

I'm not really down with shoplifting but you gotta do what you can to put Coles and Safeway out of business surely.

snoremac
Jul 27, 2012

I LOVE SEEING DEAD BABIES ON 𝕏, THE EVERYTHING APP. IT'S WORTH IT FOR THE FOLLOWING TAB.
There’s nothing wrong with anything she said or did and I wish more people like that got into politics.

Chicken Parmigiana
Sep 12, 2007

She sounds exactly like all of my Australian friends on facebook, esp. millennials and gen X single mums trying to make ends meet.

Are the Greens afraid of spin or something? This is spinnable. “The backseat popes at the Herald Sun are very quick to suggest this charming young person is a criminal — while making every effort to valorise their heroic pals burying the Great Barrier Reef in coal, I might mention. But where the smugger, nastier elements of this country see shoplifters, clearly our candidate sees fellow young people struggling to make ends meet and having to resort to extremes. The backseat popes must have forgotten to send out the memo that empathy and good humour are crimes now. Or maybe they’re just full of poo poo. We’re happy to back CANDIDATE NAME and let the people of SEAT NAME decide for themselves.”

I mean it’s a first draft but you get the angle. I reckon that’d be a winner with voters who won’t be in the ground within a decade. I mean, why not give it a shot? Get some practice in, anyway. Spin doesn’t have to be evil.

Whitlam
Aug 2, 2014

Some goons overreact. Go figure.

Chicken Parmigiana posted:

I mean, why not give it a shot?

Minor effort post incoming. I'm purely responding to the question, not saying my opinion or whether I agree or not.

My bet would be because (my understanding is) it's a very winnable spot, and they'd rather not take the chance of loving up what should be an easy goal. The "sympathetic to shoplifters" demographic isn't a huge one, especially in an election where crime is an issue for a lot of people. I honestly don't see any situation in which this wins her more votes than it loses, so why not sever? Candidates have fallen on less.

Joking and irony posting aside, rightly or wrongly, most neutral audiences are actually not down with voting for someone who is actively bragging and joking about theft and drug use on social media, even if it's from years ago, even if it's against a mega corp who won't feel the effects of it. If nothing else, best case scenario is it shows exceedingly poor judgement. If I'm an undecided/unaligned voter, why am I going to take a chance and vote on someone who seems, at best, a bit of a nuffy? Nobody who wasn't already predisposed to voting for the Greens is going to read that and go "well I was on the fence about voting for her, but a home delivery service for nangs? Sign me the gently caress up!"

Chicken Parmigiana
Sep 12, 2007

Whitlam posted:

Minor effort post incoming. I'm purely responding to the question, not saying my opinion or whether I agree or not.

My bet would be because (my understanding is) it's a very winnable spot, and they'd rather not take the chance of loving up what should be an easy goal. The "sympathetic to shoplifters" demographic isn't a huge one, especially in an election where crime is an issue for a lot of people. I honestly don't see any situation in which this wins her more votes than it loses, so why not sever? Candidates have fallen on less.

Joking and irony posting aside, rightly or wrongly, most neutral audiences are actually not down with voting for someone who is actively bragging and joking about theft and drug use on social media, even if it's from years ago, even if it's against a mega corp who won't feel the effects of it. If nothing else, best case scenario is it shows exceedingly poor judgement. If I'm an undecided/unaligned voter, why am I going to take a chance and vote on someone who seems, at best, a bit of a nuffy? Nobody who wasn't already predisposed to voting for the Greens is going to read that and go "well I was on the fence about voting for her, but a home delivery service for nangs? Sign me the gently caress up!"

ALL FAIR POINTS, I should add that I was commute-posting and don't know who she is and didn't read the article.

Personally I'm heavily biased against respectability, and I do wonder if I'm really in such a minority in that respect. I kind of want to hold Australia's face an inch away from the coals and go, "She's a larrikin, mate! It's that famous Aussie irreverence! It's dinky-di down under larrikinism, mate, don't you believe in larrikinism, you pompous boring prick?"

GoldStandardConure
Jun 11, 2010

I have to kill fast
and mayflies too slow

Pillbug

Chicken Parmigiana posted:

Are the Greens afraid of spin or something?

yes

froglet
Nov 12, 2009

You see, the best way to Stop the Boats is a massive swarm of autonomous armed dogs. Strafing a few boats will stop the rest and save many lives in the long term.

You can't make an Omelet without breaking a few eggs. Vote Greens.
I've had a few conversations with members of the Greens where it becomes apparent they don't want to sell/spin the Greens to people who don't have a problem with Torture Island or climate change.

Which is totally understandable, but you don't win elections (and thus advance your agenda) without managing to convince people to vote for you (or at least vote for a party/independent whose HTVs preferences you highly), even if it's for the entirely wrong reasons.

Like I know there are people who seriously don't give a poo poo about the kids on Nauru, but vote Greens because the concentration camp is expensive. Which is utterly hosed, but I'd rather the $2 or whatever of someones #1 vote went to the Greens that to parties who are cool with kids sustaining permanent kidney damage from hunger striking.

Yeah, lucking out on the stopped clock of the electorate is pretty poo poo, but... What else can be done? Appealing to people's better nature isn't working and we're almost out of time to tackle issues like climate change and ocean acidification and all the other poo poo in the world. :smith:

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.
The Young Nats "we are not neo nazis" resignation letter is amazingly hitlerish


The other letter, An Open Defence, by Clifford Jennings, accused the National Party of being complicit in a “trial by media” and questioned the party’s immigration policy.

Mr Jennings, the party’s former coordinator for Sydney metro region, wrote at length on his alleged treatment by the party, with the three-page letter outlining a number of complaints.

The letter also delved into immigration policy, with Mr Clifford writing “young white Australians” were rebelling against the “hopeless Coalition leadership that has dragged down Australia since the 1970s”.
“They see a grim future for themselves and their children, of becoming a minority in their own country,” Mr Clifford wrote.
“Opening Australia to mass third-world immigration is not ‘moderate’. It is extremist.
“The fact that this policy has been followed by the Coalition parties for the last four decades does not make it moderate. It is treasonous.”

teacup
Dec 20, 2006

= M I L K E R S =
https://twitter.com/newscomauhq/status/1057039475379826688?s=21

Not sure how to embed tweets but when news.com.au starts talking about this does this really mean the tide is turning on “boat people”?

Or am I stupidly having faith in Australians again

Anidav
Feb 25, 2010

ahhh fuck its the rats again
news wants to show Shorten how quickly it can build a narrative on Morrison so when Shorten is PM they can do the same thing except with deaths at sea or something.

hambeet
Sep 13, 2002

Anidav posted:

news wants to show Shorten how quickly it can build a narrative on Morrison so when Shorten is PM they can do the same thing except with deaths at sea or something.

yeah I said it earlier, it's a pointed reminder to both parties about who's the boss

hambeet
Sep 13, 2002

P.s. It's not Tony Danza

Phobophilia
Apr 26, 2008

by Hand Knit
last I checked the daily telegraph was boo hooing about nauru prisoners being rude



bitch being worried that your concentration guard victims are throwing rotted food at you is the least of your worries, you should be scared of getting hung at nuremberg

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.
I saw a debate on Facebook re whether you'd become a Nauru guard and people said yes so they could help people from inside and smile at them politely.

bell jar
Feb 25, 2009

JBP posted:

I saw a debate on Facebook re whether you'd become a Nauru guard and people said yes so they could help people from inside and smile at them politely.

Did you post the bunch of stories of people who have tried to do this and have been traumatised by the experience

Solemn Sloth
Jul 11, 2015

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

JBP posted:

I saw a debate on Facebook re whether you'd become a Nauru guard and people said yes so they could help people from inside and smile at them politely.

This but whether you’d join the Australian Labor Party

Anidav
Feb 25, 2010

ahhh fuck its the rats again

Solemn Sloth posted:

This but whether you’d join the Australian Labor Party

I tried this once.

MysticalMachineGun
Apr 5, 2005

JBP posted:

I saw a debate on Facebook re whether you'd become a Nauru guard and people said yes so they could help people from inside and smile at them politely.

See I've had fantasies of taking a boat (how ironic) to Nauru and cutting through the wire fence to bust people out but not "I'll help these people by joining the oppressing force!"

hambeet
Sep 13, 2002

JBP posted:

I saw a debate on Facebook re whether you'd become a Nauru guard and people said yes so they could help people from inside and smile at them politely.

Change from within?

hambeet
Sep 13, 2002

Solemn Sloth posted:

This but whether you’d join the Australian Labor Party

loving gdi muyb

PoPcornTG
Mar 26, 2007

Dogs day afternoon
Bleak Gremlin

bell jar posted:

I tried getting into the dollop after old mate was on chapo, I listened to an episode about women to start off, and they had the guy's mum on, and she was funny, but goddamn that Gareth guy was just supremely unfunny and I stopped listening.

Tell me more about the things you don’t find funny.

Anidav
Feb 25, 2010

ahhh fuck its the rats again

JBP posted:

I saw a debate on Facebook re whether you'd become a Nauru guard and people said yes so they could help people from inside and smile at them politely.

More *clap* Progressive *clap* Guards *clap*

bell jar
Feb 25, 2009

PoPcornTG posted:

Tell me more about the things you don’t find funny.

G-gareth???

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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.

bell jar posted:

Did you post the bunch of stories of people who have tried to do this and have been traumatised by the experience

It gave me the impression that people perceive the situation as being a bad one, but only so bad that being nice to the refugees by saying hello and talking to them while smiling would fix it.

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