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Birb Katter posted:Cruz has been declared and Clinton is up .85% with 95% in However, it is also Iowa, which is historically a terrible indicator of how things actually shake out. EDIT: Cracked did an article about it, basically Iowa becomes hell once every four years for tourist reasons, and provides no tremendously useful data for the ongoing election stuff. Cleretic fucked around with this message at 05:53 on Feb 2, 2016 |
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Birdstrike posted:It's a dumb article which happens to raise a couple of good points. Yes, the lockout is a dumb idea, bankrolled by casino interests. But spare me the librtard histrionics. Yeah, that's kinda the pain about this one. He makes good points, and he's genuinely managed to find good data to back them up, but then he just vomits a bunch of libertarian nonsense all over it instead of either following it to its actual source or, better yet, just letting the facts stand and not publishing a boated mess of an article. EDIT: Actually, since I just now got confirmation I'm actually getting a job that will involve me moving to Melbourne. The scene isn't that dire there, is it? Cleretic fucked around with this message at 05:32 on Feb 5, 2016 |
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Birdstrike posted:maybe getting more gestapo to look at, idk, Apple would be more cost effective than the gestapo interrogating gerhard bloggs I wonder how quickly this is gonna peter out and disappear into political esoterica once they find out that most of the money that disappears into this is going to Liberal voter demographics. Like how the Howard government went to great expense to figure out who was scamming welfare, and then quietly dropped it once they found out it was mostly pensioners.
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So largely unrelated to all of this, but I figure you guys might have useful opinions. I'm moving to Melbourne for a job, and as such I've been looking at apartments in the area. The job's in Southbank, so I'm looking there and the immediate surroundings (preferably within reasonable walking distance), so I could use some impressions on the area. All my family that lives there has been able to tell me is to steer clear of apartments around the Franklin Street area due to recent ugliness about international students, and that South Yarra's a 'yuppie area'--I can't even tell if they think that last one's a good or bad thing. Personally I quite like the latte-sipping hipster crowd, but I feel like some of you would have a much better read on the area than I do.
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Recoome posted:REMOVE GREEN remove green I guess the syphilis is having an effect on Abbott.
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WhiskeyWhiskers posted:e:oh wow, no it's right near the base of the trunk. It looks like some creepy middle aged dude. I thought it looked like one of Andrew Bolt's column headshots.
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Recoome posted:Wasn't Barnaby Joyce the guy who is sceptical about climate change because it was cold in Canberra one time While yes, Barnaby did say this, I'm sure you can find similarly damning quotes from every member of the LNP.
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Amethyst posted:The fact that that's the best thing they can come up with to support the "no" side is hilarious. The plebiscite should be a wipe out. And yet it doesn't matter if twenty-six million people came out to vote 'let them marry you loving pillocks', it wouldn't cause anything to happen. That's the lovely part of this plebicite, it's not a matter of anybody winning or losing, because we already know the result, that if it wins they'll ignore it. It's just a question of if it's going to be frustrating or depressing. Cleretic fucked around with this message at 05:35 on Feb 15, 2016 |
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Oh, gently caress those fuckers for even thinking that about LGBTI support. I took over a decade to figure myself out, solely because the people I regularly met and talked to never even broached the subject other than to occasionally ridicule it. I'm certain if I had exposure to that sort of thing growing up I'd be much happier and more comfortable now. But no, instead I grew up confused and hating myself, surrounded only by people that reinforced that.
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Welp, guess the first thing I'm gonna do when my computer gets to my new place is send an email to my new MP about this bullshit. And a thankyou to that Greens gender identity minister.
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I don't know how exactly it would factor, but I know establishment Republicans really do not want Trump to be their representative. Don't expect them to let that happen. He's also polling lower than both Clinton and Sanders routinely, and while that could easily change Trump's also extremely hateable. I wouldn't say it's impossible that he could get the nomination and win the election, but the odds are against him more than they seem. Remember, he's not Reagan. Reagan could seem kind and charismatic; Trump can't not be a total fucknut.
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WhiskeyWhiskers posted:Counterpoint: We elected Abbott a man also incapable of not being a fucknut. Abbott could at least seem like he has a family, and had volumes lower than full. I mean, fair point, but we didn't really elect Abbott so much as vote against Labor's clusterfuck. The Democrats aren't anywhere near the mess that let Abbott skide through.
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WhiskeyWhiskers posted:Too many words, needs to be reduced to 3. Buy Expensive Houses. Or maybe gently caress You, Renters.
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SynthOrange posted:gently caress the nationals. I expected the hardest part of moving and starting a new job in the same week to be possibly having none of my creature comforts, or adapting to a workplace I barely know. I didn't expect it to be my inability to type heartfelt, angry emails at politicians about a subject that's become extremely close to my heart. So thanks, LNP, for making all of my personal difficulties this week seem small in comparison to your pure, unbridled dickbaggery.
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WhiskeyWhiskers posted:I'd say nay, because keeping shorter terms means less time for poo poo things to be forgotten about. Longer terms means larger projects actually get done, though. Shorter terms arguably hosed over the NBN, and on a smaller scale we have stuff like the Gawler train line in SA still not being electrified because it's never on the agenda long enough to not get hosed over by the Liberals on some level.
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If this were a 4x strategy game, Indonesia would be hosed and we'd probably be getting premptive war declarations in March. Since it's not, the people getting hosed are us and completely innocent refugees. Hooray.
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Feb 26, 2016 01:19
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I love how not only did he not answer the question, he not-answered it in a way that directly endorses his opponents' policy. A rare moment when a Malcolm response is actually even worse for the LNP than the theoretical Tony one.
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I feel like Adelaide is the largest that kind of disaster can get in Australia. Manufacturing was all that it ultimately had, so when all the factories shut up shop there's no reason for anything else to stay, either. Cities like Sydney and Melbourne don't have nearly the same kind of centralised industry, so while something big up and leaving would hurt, it's neither as damaging or as likely.
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