Auspol August: Half-baked enraged drivel

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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.

Australia is a terrible country populated by racists. Discuss.

House of Representatives:

Liberal Party of Australia - the adults in charge whose policies tend to revolve around killing the poor and stopping the boats. In coalition with the Nationals
Nationals - in coalition with the Liberals, endorse the aforementioned killing of the poors and (according to their website) are apparently the party for regional Australia
Labor - the previous government, tried to be more right wing than the Libs in the run up to the election and failed miserably, subjecting us to another couple of years of Liberal bullshit
The Greens - Those hippy dippy treehugging bastards that can't make government because nobody votes for them because they can't make government because nobody votes for them be-
Andrew Wilkie - independent, doesn't support the indefinite detention of children in our foreign concentration camps, which is a nice change
Cathy McGowan - independent, unseated Sophie Mirabella at the last election
Katter's Australia Party - from Queensland, 'nuff said
Palmer United Party - lead by none other that Clive Palmer, a mining billionaire who got kicked out of the Libs and started his own party.

Senate:

The Coalition - 33
Australian Labor Party - 25
The Greens - 10
Palmer United Party - 3
Motoring Enthusiast party - 1 (Ricky!)
Democratic Labour Party - 1
Liberal Democrat Party - 1 (Leyonhjelm)
Family First - 1
Nick Xenophon - the only independent senator this time around. Is simultaneously neoliberal and anti-pokies

I might pretty this up later with pictures, but who knows.

Previously, on Auspol

Jobseekers will have to apply for double the jobs on top of work for the dole to get a meager payout
Businesses complain this will lead to them being flooded with applicants, the solution proposed being cutting payments to jobseekers found spamming to reach the target
We're being loving awful to asylum seeker children and it's being covered up
Xenophon floated the idea of first home buyers using their retirement savings to help them buy their first home.
The Aussie government broke international law by handing back Sri Lanka asylum seekers (refoulment) all in the name of sovereign borders
The carbon tax was repealed

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froglet fucked around with this message at 01:51 on Aug 1, 2014

# ¿ Aug 1, 2014 01:37

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# ¿ May 11, 2024 10:53

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.

Mattjpwns posted:

where are the amusing OP pictures, we have standards around here

Let me put it to you this way: The Age of Entitlement is over.

We should not take this as cause for despair. It is our market based economies which have forced this change on unwilling participants.

# ¿ Aug 1, 2014 02:46

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.

Tirade posted:

I'd love to see someone ask why this shouldn't also be extended to the pension and veteran's benefits. Why should my tax dollars be spent so some old lady can feed her pokie addiction?

"Because at least she had a job! She worked hard, paid into the system and it would be unfair to pull the rug underneath her. If Granny has a pokie addiction, she is in need of treatment by professionals, not judgement by latte-sipping champagne socialists."

# ¿ Aug 1, 2014 14:03

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.

Hey guys I'm at my new job and the things I have heard help :stare:

"I agree with Lang Hancock's aboriginal solution"
"This program hangs like a friend of the family from a tree"
"You're one of the good lefties froglet coz you don't expect the government to do everything for you"

:stare:

# ¿ Aug 15, 2014 03:30

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.

BCR posted:

Whats your job mate? Did you get a contract? Do you know your award? Did you get to choose your super? Do you know who your union is?

I'm a software tester. I don't think there is a union. :negative:

Casual Fridays at my work are apparently for casual racism, not just casual clothes!
"Hey giving them royalties for places like Uluru is a great idea, means the abos can stop claiming loving Centrelink!"

:suicide:

# ¿ Aug 15, 2014 06:09

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.

TobyObi posted:

https://www.news.com.au/finance/rea...l-1227034374596

Man involved in burdening poor people with crushing debt complains he can't burden them with quite so much crushing debt.

Something something global financial crisis something property always goes up!

I really don't understand how anyone but the already wealthy affords housing here. I ran into a guy I went to uni with a few weeks ago, he was commuting from Kwinana to Morley (to give an idea of how far that is, it's a ~45 minute drive assuming no traffic, god knows how long that was taking him on public transport) every day for work because the only house he could afford to rent was under the rental affordability scheme. Meanwhile, some mutual friends of ours are out househunting and the places in their pricerange are either massive shitholes with serious structural/cosmetic problems, or 1 bedroom apartments.

My partner and I decided to take a look at the real estate pages just a few days ago, and found that everywhere we actually wanted to live was far too expensive to even entertain the idea of buying. Hurray, forever renting!

# ¿ Aug 24, 2014 14:27

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.

Scenes from my racist workplace:
"I've earned my racism"

"Oh I'm sure there's some good ones out there... Somewhere"

"I can say there's bad in all our species..."

"Back in my day the coons were not allowed at the pub"

:catstare:

# ¿ Aug 28, 2014 07:47

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.

Oh my god now one of them is advocating genocide. Kill me.

# ¿ Aug 28, 2014 07:55

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.

Freudian Slip posted:

Ahh the employment adventures of Froglet & Anidav continue

Which race is he (I assume he) after?

I am going with the entire middle east

Nope, aboriginals.

Bonus quote:
"I'm not racist, this is my from my personal experience!"

# ¿ Aug 28, 2014 08:08

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.

Gough Suppressant posted:

Froglet got a job at Hancock prospecting?

No, but one of them did say they agreed with Lang Hancock's solution to "the aboriginal problem"!

# ¿ Aug 28, 2014 08:31

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.

BlitzkriegOfColour posted:

Don't put up with this filth.

Get them all fired.

My boss said that and she's buddies with the CEO. :negative:

I'm going to try and stick it out for 6 months since I have only been here less than 3 weeks and I'm not sure what my chances of getting another job are.

froglet fucked around with this message at 09:25 on Aug 28, 2014

# ¿ Aug 28, 2014 09:23

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.

Les Affaires posted:

It's also worth mentioning that for every person that does this, there has to be tens of thousands more who live a normal life in order to sustain hers.

Unless she is living purely from fish caught by hand, weaving seaweed into clothing, and repairing her yacht using a cement made of faeces, urine and human hair, the materials she needs to live on that yacht can only come from a functioning worldwide economy.

I heard the interview on triple J. She was in Melbourne for the writers festival and wondered why nobody her age was living the same lifestyle as her. I thought she was completely out of touch with reality, which probably isn't surprising considering she spends months out at sea.

# ¿ Aug 29, 2014 06:49

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# ¿ May 11, 2024 10:53

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.

Update on my job - they may have been paying somebody's super using the voluntary contribution BPAY details for the past 5 years at least. This has only come to light because I am with the same superannuation fund as that guy. :suicide:

Edit: this is bad because crazy tax implications, ATO getting involved, etc.

froglet fucked around with this message at 10:36 on Aug 29, 2014

# ¿ Aug 29, 2014 10:20

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