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Fruity Gordo
Aug 5, 2013

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Anidav posted:

If Pyne and Bolt had a baby:


Cruel and unusual

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Fruity Gordo
Aug 5, 2013

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SynthOrange posted:

So yeah, what's the odds on that letter being written on Lambie's own stationery?

Laserface posted:

Maybe someone should cut her header off.

Fruity Gordo
Aug 5, 2013

Neurotic, Impotent Rage!

Gough Suppressant posted:

NSW is a bad state of bad people and the rest of us would be better off if it sank without warning into the sea.

'NSW' is a funny way of spelling 'Australia'.

Fruity Gordo
Aug 5, 2013

Neurotic, Impotent Rage!
I think it takes a certain kind of gregariousness to actually enjoy door knocking. I really enjoy it but I'm the kind of person who strikes up conversations with randoms in the doctor's office if I get the feeling they wouldn't be disturbed by it. I totally get how it could make a person feel really uncomfortable and drained because you really have no clue whether you're about the be abused or not, and you're trying to immediately make a connection with people you have zero clue about.

Fruity Gordo
Aug 5, 2013

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Highest voted comment on ABC fb post of the Lambie article:

quote:

She's Tasmanian. That means she has a spare head. No problem
Presented with no comment, except

quote:

lol

Fruity Gordo
Aug 5, 2013

Neurotic, Impotent Rage!

Zenithe posted:

Apparently I get $200 in food vouchers for not having power for a week (ninth day now though).

And you don't have to pay electricity! Score!

(You will stil have to pay electricity)

Fruity Gordo
Aug 5, 2013

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Orkin Mang posted:

what is it with these stupid hyperbolic posts

what's the DEAL with auspol? - one of the goofiest posters in existence

Fruity Gordo
Aug 5, 2013

Neurotic, Impotent Rage!

Murodese posted:

hey fruity you don't have to make up a month's worth of missed posts in a day just so you know

Citation needed bro.

Fruity Gordo
Aug 5, 2013

Neurotic, Impotent Rage!

I'm sorry I rev u up.

Fruity Gordo
Aug 5, 2013

Neurotic, Impotent Rage!

Gorilla Salad posted:

Threats of violence are never okay.

But that in no way means I have to believe for a loving second this one is anything other than bullshit sent by some massive loving bigot "for the cause".

P much, except comedy threats of violence on forums and facebook are fine and admirable imo.

This is inevitably gendered, because patriarchy hates women and fascists are flamboyantly patriarchal. I don't doubt that Lambie has received more death threats and more expressions of support from 'Islamic' fascists and white supremacists recently than her compatriots like Bernardi in parliament who are crusading against Muslim Australians. Except.... I follow Australian politics and I can't name a single member of parliament more vocally Islamophobic than Lambie than the Prime Minister and his deranged backbench pal in the senate. and Bernardi doesn't hold the balance of power. The one difference is that she will have received a fuckload of rape threats and probably threats against her children. THAT is the unequivocally gendered aspect, but it's not the one she publicised. She publicised a beheading threat, because that fits the narrative.

That means the release is not as gendered as MUYB is implying. Nothing Jackie Lambie says would seem less mad if she were a guy. I would expect anyone to receive death threats in the current climate if they were an independent and said the poo poo she says. She p much definitely gets a lot more hatemail than she would if she were a dude, but this idea from MUYB that it's suddenly unfunny for a toxic political figure to be a figure of ridicule when they foolishly publicise a death threat before it's investigated because of their gender is just rank paternalism masquerading as allied feminism. Women can be absolutely contemptible fuckwits worthy of scathing ridicule too, and pretending that that's not a thing that's allowed is supremely anti-feminist.

Fruity Gordo fucked around with this message at 05:31 on Mar 1, 2015

Fruity Gordo
Aug 5, 2013

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COMEDY IS INHERENTLY POLITICAL WOULD YOU LIKE TO FIGHT ME ABOUT IT

TUESDAY AFTERNOON BEHIND THE SHEDS

Fruity Gordo
Aug 5, 2013

Neurotic, Impotent Rage!
Don't hit me hard tho bc I'm a girl

Fruity Gordo
Aug 5, 2013

Neurotic, Impotent Rage!

Gough Suppressant posted:

Yeah, why would anyone take issue with claims of a death threat being greeted with the immediate assumption that it was the person themselves creating a false threat lighten up geeze :rolleyes:

Because they're a paranoid opportunist who Tasmania faceplanted into parliament?

Fruity Gordo
Aug 5, 2013

Neurotic, Impotent Rage!
And because she's a darling of far right white supremacists?

Fruity Gordo
Aug 5, 2013

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And far right white supremacists love doing actual false flags and are continually trying to incite race riots?

Fruity Gordo
Aug 5, 2013

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And if you are a parliamentarian you usually don't fart out a press release because you got a scary email, you give it to the AFP and don't publicise it, bc that is really really stupid?

Fruity Gordo
Aug 5, 2013

Neurotic, Impotent Rage!

Orkin Mang posted:

i was just pointing out that you exaggerate to the point that you sound like a puerile idiot

dont sign your posts

Fruity Gordo
Aug 5, 2013

Neurotic, Impotent Rage!

Gough Suppressant posted:

So in your view Jacqui Lambie is both stupid enough to falsify her own death threat and yet too smart to have released information on a legitimate death threat rather than following proper procedure
Never said she falsified it, champ. The empty quotes I did upthread on yesterpage were purely for punning purposes. There's no doubt in my mind that she's quoting emails she received from randoms she doesn't know.

She chose to publicise the most convenient death threat. Beheading, ISIS, all that good poo poo, all in one email. Her fixation is veterans affairs and she is stuck in the ideology of the system she wants to reform. She honestly believes in the clash of civilisations. And she's been disenfranchised long enough to be radicalised against the system but still in support of it if it can finally be made to work for her.

She's not smart and she doesn't think critically. I doubt her staff are much cleverer. My bet is that they received the email in question, sent it to the AFP, the AFP said 'ok we will investigate this' and they went gently caress YOU and released it themselves for publicity and idiot reasons

It would not surprise me at all if this email was sent by white supremacists, because they send this poo poo out constantly trying to incite exactly this.

Fruity Gordo
Aug 5, 2013

Neurotic, Impotent Rage!

Graic Gabtar posted:

I'll try not to.

I hit my 40 hour week Wednesday arvo and got home last night.

I've been drinking heavily since I woke up at about 11 but I'm still OK.

As tired as I am I still can't believe how no-one recognizes how talented Andrew Bolt is.

At what point do you think the contempt for you will be so crait that you'll have to create a new account and have another craic?

Fruity Gordo
Aug 5, 2013

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No, it's a legit question, MUYB. If you want me to look like a fuckwit, explain why I'm a fuckwit. Where did I say she or her people wrote the thing, rather than that they jumped on it as an opportunity for publicity? If you can't find it, pls let me know why it's illegitimate to say that she's an opportunist. And just for extra fun, pls explain why you've apparently given up on your strident feminist critique of making fun of Jackie Lambie

Fruity Gordo
Aug 5, 2013

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Gough Suppressant posted:

Splode, I know you're excited because Fruity's back and she's the only poster here who can make you look intelligent by comparison, but you should probably just quit while you're only this far behind.

Fruity's post of



was in fact a response by her to this



and the reason most people can tell that's the case is because she quoted it in her post and started with the word "because"

You're enormously weird

Fruity Gordo
Aug 5, 2013

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Like, you're weirder than me. And I'm really loving weird. I can at least follow the argument I'm having.

Fruity Gordo
Aug 5, 2013

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Like I read the entire thread I'm posting in.

Fruity Gordo
Aug 5, 2013

Neurotic, Impotent Rage!

Gough Suppressant posted:

Fruity, what did you think you were replying to when you quoted my post saying that unfounded claims of her writing it herself are loving offensive? I'm guessing you misread and thought I was referring to it being an exterior false flag thing?

No, I understood that you were affronted by the notion that she invented death threats against her. I agree that she didn't need to invent death threats bc she it a target.

My point is well established by now but I guess I need to do it again because the delicate and idiosyncratically useless brains of men need to be considered and accounted for.

Lambie is a public figure
Public figures get hatemail
Lambie is a public woman figure
They get more hatemail
Fascist public figures who advance hate get hatemail
They also get love mail from white supremacists
Woman fascists get more of both
When you're the most public face of a certain kind of fascism you might be more of a target for hatemail and lovemail

Who do we know sends ISIS emails to public figures?
Foreign ISIS freaks
Domestic ISIS wannabe freaks
Domestic white supremacists legit trying to incite a race war
Domestic white supremacist internet trolls
Foreign white supremacists trying to incite race wars

I'm pretty loving sure I implied all of that in my posts itt but if you have any further questions feel free to pay me cash money for my expertise in being able to loving read.

Fruity Gordo
Aug 5, 2013

Neurotic, Impotent Rage!

Gough Suppressant posted:

If you read the entirety of auspol then you're definitely not the less weird one.

If we can agree on the fact that she probably didn't send it herself, can we also agree on the fact that for the person receiving the death threat, it probably doesn't change the experience very much whether it actually came from an islamic extremist or a christian extremist posing as one.
I've received a fuckload of internet death threats for about six years and yeah, you can actually tell from the first sentence and the experience does change. I could tell within the first year.

If Jackie Lambie reads her public email she is stupider than I gave her credit for, and her staff are more sadistic and opportunist. By the sounds of Seek Other Candidates post I probs gave them more credit than they were due

Fruity Gordo
Aug 5, 2013

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Quantum Mechanic posted:

I had such high hopes for this thread :sigh:

:3:

Make weed legal imo

Fruity Gordo
Aug 5, 2013

Neurotic, Impotent Rage!

Gough Suppressant posted:

It's not about making fun of jacqui lambie, she is a certifiable loving moron, it's about making light of the fact that she received death threats. The only reason I ended up bringing gender into it at all is because women receive more death threats than men do for the same behaviour.

Lmao thanks for proving what I already suspected

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaslighting

Fruity Gordo
Aug 5, 2013

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Avshalom posted:



Welcome back, Fruity. :3:

Same.

Fruity Gordo
Aug 5, 2013

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Look I'm sorry I took a month off and all of you idiots forgot what good posting looks like but it's not my fault.

Fruity Gordo
Aug 5, 2013

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Zenithe posted:

For Clean Up Australia day you should all stop posting.

If you believed that you wouldn't have just littered.

Fruity Gordo
Aug 5, 2013

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Asphyxious posted:

No it's cool Splode was still here.

How loving dare you.

Fruity Gordo
Aug 5, 2013

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homebrew posted:

There is nothing like your reason, rationale and logic that accompanies every auspol discussion about death threats Fruity.

Jonah Galtberg posted:

[ASK] me about making murder threats and telling people to kill themselves on Facebook using my primary personal account while in the employ of a political party

Pickled Tink posted:

Last month we had a pretty good thread for the most part. Interesting things were discussed, the shitposting was at tolerable levels, etc. Even some lurkers felt confident enough to come out of the woodwork and post, or resume posting again. What could have change- Oh, hi Fruity. Guess that explains that.

Seriously, don't you lot have a chat thread somewhere else on the forums to get your more egregious shitposting out of your systems?

All three of you boring, snivelling nerds should eat my butt imo

Fruity Gordo
Aug 5, 2013

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$1.9 billion over three years seems like a really piddly amount, surely our lost revenue from corporate tax evasion would be orders of magnitude higher?

E: Apple alone ripped off $9b over the course of a decade, for example. http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-03-06/tax-expert-explains-how-apple-pays-193m-tax-on-27b-revenue/5303426

Fruity Gordo fucked around with this message at 23:48 on Mar 1, 2015

Fruity Gordo
Aug 5, 2013

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Yeah I don't remember retracting any threats. :confused:

Whoever keeps buying me these is really dedicated to ableism tho, it's adorable.

Fruity Gordo fucked around with this message at 00:45 on Mar 2, 2015

Fruity Gordo
Aug 5, 2013

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The dumbest bubble is bitcoins. :colbert:

Fruity Gordo
Aug 5, 2013

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The most valuable tulip that launched the tulip bubble is almost extinct now, bc the only way you get the streaks on it is by them catching a virus and you can't clone it or something. :( Rip historical comedy tulip cultivar.

Fruity Gordo
Aug 5, 2013

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Cartoon posted:

Hardly worth of a post in this august forum but one thing I have been noticing in senate estimates is the utter lack of any quality in the cut, style and fit of the suits that senior bureaucrats are wearing. They must be the cheapest AT LOWES! shite that they can get their middle-aged overweight hands on. Are we not paying them enough? There was a time when a fitted Armani suit was the stock and trade of a departmental head (or Jack Victor if you had actual taste).

Nothing screams take me seriously less than an empty suit in a cheap badly fitting suit made of poor fabric. If that is the only substance you ever had going for you then at least it should be pretty. I get the feeling they have all stopped trying.
Philistine technocrats dont actually care about good craftsmanship, much like the rest of bourgeois Australians who have never done a second's work with their hands. Tailoring is dying in Australia.

Fruity Gordo
Aug 5, 2013

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'Why are these dinosaur career bureaucrats so completely banal and tasteless?'

Fruity Gordo
Aug 5, 2013

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None of you are invited to my housewarming party when I sink my $20,000 deposit into a $3m two bedder in Chiswick.

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Fruity Gordo
Aug 5, 2013

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Jk, lol at amassing a 20 grand lump sum.

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