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teacup posted:So Morrison leading the charge to get an international investigation into the origins of coronavirus- what is the end game here? We've probably been chosen to provide "evidence" for the USA's next invasion.
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Gridlocked posted:Oh also we don't want to risk the new born getting exposed to anything. Gridlocked had a baby 😊. Congrats mate! (pincushion)
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Quantum Shart posted:Don't conflate legitimate criticism of the CCP as racism. Definitely not meaning to come across that way. Most of the responses seem to confirm my suspicion that... the libs legitimately want an investigation into it to just be better at it next time and are willing to stick their necks out for it? I am just so used to spineless bullshit they I dismissed this before
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teacup posted:Definitely not meaning to come across that way. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-05-15/australia-china-trade-stoush-over-coronavirus-inquiry/12241640 With any luck this completely myopic and out of proportion 'stoush' will cause a bunch of primary producers to tell the Nats and LNP to go gently caress themselves when the time comes (lol like that will ever happen). Not that China is blameless here in promoting this discord to further it's own agenda. That however, if anything, points out what complete plonkers we, as a nation, would have to be to let things get to this point.
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The today show woman beat up on a kid speaking on behalf of UV kitchen workers by calling him lazy and then telling him to get a job in another industry. Why would you even agree to go on a show that only has demented boomer reach? Pointless.
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Gonna be a interesting tight rope walk for the gov. Keep the rhetoric up while also getting as many international students back into the country as possible.
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realbez posted:Gridlocked had a baby 😊. Congrats mate! (pincushion) Not my baby, my friends baby.
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realbez posted:Well wishes withdrawn. Please donate them to someone in need.
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JBP posted:The today show woman beat up on a kid speaking on behalf of UV kitchen workers by calling him lazy and then telling him to get a job in another industry. Why would you even agree to go on a show that only has demented boomer reach? Pointless. What is the best response to this idiotic thought process? "Alright, I'd like your job please, I'm sure I could do a better job."
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Konomex posted:What is the best response to this idiotic thought process? "Alright, I'd like your job please, I'm sure I could do a better job." "Get hosed."
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Konomex posted:What is the best response to this idiotic thought process? "Alright, I'd like your job please, I'm sure I could do a better job." If all the people who did my job disappeared, or all the people who did your job disappeared, which do you think the general public would choose? So maybe we don't want all workers in my position to "get a better job". Alternatively JBP posted:"Get hosed."
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While that would make for some compelling television I would probably watch 5 times over, it'd just make them look like a twat. I'd rather enjoy watching the host search for an answer when it's up to them to solve the issue.
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What do you guys call that psychological life stage in parents and grandparents where they want Dick Smith to be everything. Went over for Mothers Day earlier and Dick Smith should: Buy Virgin, Buy Telstra, Fix NBN, Become Prime Minister, Stop Coronavirus. All in one conversation. Does Dick Smith regular in Sky News because my older section of the family now wants him to fix everything because he is a "smart businessman"
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Anidav posted:What do you guys call that psychological life stage in parents and grandparents where they want Dick Smith to be everything. I get people thinking an Aussie should (I think it’s dumb nationalism but I get it) like if they said Gerry Harvey or something because at least he had a successful at the moment business. But dick smith has what? A failed food line, a failed chain of shops?
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Anidav posted:What do you guys call that psychological life stage in parents and grandparents where they want Dick Smith to be everything. Sounds like your grandparents are just die hard superfans.
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What was that ad he had years ago where it was interspersed with people saying "I love dick"
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teacup posted:I get people thinking an Aussie should (I think it’s dumb nationalism but I get it) like if they said Gerry Harvey or something because at least he had a successful at the moment business. Buddy being in business for 50+ years and selling the majority to Woolies for a huge amount of cash is hardly the definition of a failure in retail. E: wow I had a look, he sold the entire business to Woolies in the 80s. JBP fucked around with this message at 00:03 on May 17, 2020 |
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JBP posted:Buddy being in business for 50+ years and selling the majority to Woolies for a huge amount of cash is hardly the definition of a failure in retail. I didn’t realise he did that. Regardless then what has he done lately.
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Didn't Dick Smith try to unseat Tony Abbott? He can't be that bad.
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Illuminti posted:Also your new born is probably one of the safest humans in the world from Corona! While they did think this was true for a long time; and newborns are STILL far safer from this than seniors and people with heart conditions and hypertension etc; there is a growing concern among paediatricians working in Corona hot spots about an inflammatory condition similar to Kawasaki syndrome that seems to follow the virus in children. It's still a small minority of cases, but it does highlight once again the fact that we have been overly focused on the case fatality rate, rather than the potential long term impacts of COVID-19. You definitely shouldn't take any risks with regards to your children under the commonly misheld assumption that the virus would just pass through them and leave them unaffected either way.
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teacup posted:I didn’t realise he did that. Regardless then what has he done lately. Nothing lately but he did a fair bit in the 80s as a young man. He seems preoccupied with nothing but protectionist lobbying after 2000. The food business was a nfp I think.
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Wikipedia says that in the last decade Dick Smith has been involved in advocacy for various things including limiting population growth and increasing taxes for the rich. I'm too lazy to read it all but it sounds like his views on population growth are complicated - he seems to want to decrease immigration but accept more refugees. I'm sure there's something bad about it but it doesn't sound terrible.quote:On 6 December 2016, Smith spoke in support of the One Nation party's policy of reducing immigration to historical levels of about 70,000 per annum whilst at the same time rejecting its leader Pauline Hanson's call for a Muslim ban. Unfortunately Wikipedia doesn't say what his opinions on the NBN or Coronavirus are 
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JBP posted:Nothing lately but he did a fair bit in the 80s as a young man. He seems preoccupied with nothing but protectionist lobbying after 2000. The food business was a nfp I think. Maybe I’m just too young to understand why people think he’s a good business man. I’ve just associated him with low key racism and isolationism lately. But then again even if he was successful still it doesn’t mean he can run an airline
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teacup posted:Maybe I’m just too young to understand why people think he’s a good business man. I’ve just associated him with low key racism and isolationism lately. I think you'll find that making money anywhere perfectly qualifies you to make money everywhere.
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Buttcoin purse posted:Wikipedia says that in the last decade Dick Smith has been involved in advocacy for various things including limiting population growth and increasing taxes for the rich. I'm too lazy to read it all but it sounds like his views on population growth are complicated - he seems to want to decrease immigration but accept more refugees. I'm sure there's something bad about it but it doesn't sound terrible. Despite common rhetoric there are legitimate reasons to want population control. It isn't all automatically racism. Speaking in the long term (though not even that long, this century for sure) worldwide population control is going to be the only way to prevent rolling famines. Current food production can support maybe 12 billion people, but current food production is already unsustainable. The best ways to limit population is education of women and free birth control (including vasectomies as well). No death camps, and no means testing or equivalent, including rich nations. Get the global birth rate below 2 and hold it there until our population is back around a billion. Only dumb racists claim that poor countries are currently the problem, but you also have to be pretty blind to not see that poor countries can't get to the point of western resource use with the worlds current population. To say that population control isn't an issue is also saying that we can have a good standard of living using maybe 1/10th or less the per person resource use of the average western nation.
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I think huge African populations would be sustainable with some infrastructure, but you'd have the kill a lot of people who are on the take in the west and in the third world.
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Turks posted:Despite common rhetoric there are legitimate reasons to want population control. It isn't all automatically racism. Isn't the best way to decrease population growth to decrease death rates and improve standards of living. Sadly capitalism works by having a bunch of really poor people to exploit for profit so there isn't an incentive to actually take these steps.
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Improving healthcare and education in developing nations is the best way to combat overpopulation. Any discussion about overpopulation that does not start with this is usually just someone trying to cloak their racism.
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Sparticle posted:Improving healthcare and education in developing nations is the best way to combat overpopulation. Any discussion about overpopulation that does not start with this is usually just someone trying to cloak their racism. This, and gender equality.
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Quantum Shart posted:Don't conflate legitimate criticism of the CCP as racism. Why are people saying CCP rather than PRC in these kind of international relations contexts? Don't really hear ppl saying the Republican Party instead of the USA. Noticing it heaps by fb boomers. Seems like a some sort of red scare dog whistle. Better than just saying generic China I guess.
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Tardscream posted:Why are people saying CCP rather than PRC in these kind of international relations contexts? Don't really hear ppl saying the Republican Party instead of the USA. Noticing it heaps by fb boomers. Seems like a some sort of red scare dog whistle. Better than just saying generic China I guess. Who is the federal opposition party in China?
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JBP posted:Who is the federal opposition party in China? the KMT depending on who you talk to
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Tardscream posted:Why are people saying CCP rather than PRC in these kind of international relations contexts? Don't really hear ppl saying the Republican Party instead of the USA. Noticing it heaps by fb boomers. Seems like a some sort of red scare dog whistle. Better than just saying generic China I guess. 
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Tardscream posted:Why are people saying CCP rather than PRC in these kind of international relations contexts? Don't really hear ppl saying the Republican Party instead of the USA. Noticing it heaps by fb boomers. Seems like a some sort of red scare dog whistle. Better than just saying generic China I guess. Could be red scare but could also just be trying to distinguish between the actions of a totalitarian government vs the people or entire nation. Or the newspapers are doing this and then people just copy and dont think about it, they know that CCP means China but the reference is comparatively educated, so they use that. And it's not just boomers, most everyone tries to use exclusionary/seemingly educated language to prop up their position Because clearly, if you're smart enough to make a complicated thing sound simple, then you must be dumb. The trick is to make simple things sound complicated
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JBP posted:I struggle to understand what this fuckhead thinks he is gaining here. Trumpmentum? He tweeted about DICTATOR DAN like 18 times today alone lmao
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