Auspol April - Long Live the Glorious State of North Queensland

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Pickled Tink: Apr 28, 2012; Have you heard about First Dog? It's a very good comic I just love.

Also, wear your bike helmets kids. I copped several blows to the head but my helmet left me totally unscathed.

Finally you should check out First Dog as it's a good comic I like it very much.; Fun Shoe

Mr Chips posted:

these morons don't realise that the CSIRO's greatest commercialisable successes have come from public good research that wasn't focussed on short term commercial "impact".

It isn't that. They are well aware of that fact. They were put there to gut the body and destroy its reputation, and they are doing both spectacularly well. Once the thing has been sufficiently mangled they'll privatise it and sell off all those juicy successes. They just know they couldn't get away with doing it now, but if you trash it enough first then people won't object.

It's the same thing they are trying to do with public health services, just a different approach.

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# ¿ May 12, 2024 14:48

Pickled Tink: Apr 28, 2012; Have you heard about First Dog? It's a very good comic I just love.

Also, wear your bike helmets kids. I copped several blows to the head but my helmet left me totally unscathed.

Finally you should check out First Dog as it's a good comic I like it very much.; Fun Shoe

EvilElmo posted:

*shrug*

You live in a poo poo state, not sure what else you want from me here.

Where I live, it is less poo poo. The ALP support it and won't get punished for supporting it because it isn't a poo poo state like QLD.

The Federal ALP support safer schools, it should be a national program and it shouldn't be an issue for states to find funding for it. Hell, all education should be a national program so poo poo states like QLD can be less poo poo.

edit: QLD should get on board and if the LNP win the Federal election and don't continue to fund it, they should either fund it or develop a QLD specific program that achieves the same outcome.

This is the best post you have made in Auspol, perhaps ever. The reason isn't because you criticised the ALP, but because you expressed your own opinion and suggested a solution to a problem you saw rather than just being a straight party shill. More posts along that line, please.

# ¿ Apr 6, 2016 15:27

Pickled Tink: Apr 28, 2012; Have you heard about First Dog? It's a very good comic I just love.

Also, wear your bike helmets kids. I copped several blows to the head but my helmet left me totally unscathed.

Finally you should check out First Dog as it's a good comic I like it very much.; Fun Shoe

LibertyCat posted:

I was listening to a "please give blood" plea on the radio this morning, and a thought occurred to me - why not (as long as it is medically ok) make Centrelink conditional on being a blood donor?

You could set up donation centers inside Centrelink offices and make it part of the regular appointment. If you're unemployed you're not exactly short of time like most workers. The Red Cross would save money on advertisements and mobile vans. It could save a heap of lives with no real downside.

I visited the UK during the BSE scare (And I lived in europe then). I was a child. I am now unable to donate blood (or plasma) anywhere in the world outside of the UK. It is nice to know that I will be unable to claim welfare.

Furthermore, unemployed people are more depressed as a result of their unemployment and the onerous restrictions already placed on them. Firstly, literally sucking out their blood make them more depressed because, poo poo, the only way to get worse than that would be mandatory live organ donation or making them mandatory participants in human experiments. Secondly, they are less healthy to begin with. There is a reason that blood donors are required to be healthy, and it isn't all for the health of those who receive blood. Losing the amount of blood you'd give in a donation is something a healthy person can handle, but it'll gently caress up others.

There are also a bunch of religious objections to it. Jehova's Witnesses for instance.

Blood also has a shelf life of up to 42 days, so you'd be collecting vastly more blood than would be needed, and almost all of it would have to be destroyed.

Finally, you run the very real risk of creation an underground industry in disease infection where people who are unemployed see dealing with some illness to be preferable to being forced to give blood. Also, since current laws preclude males who have had sex with other males, and pregnant women, there will probably be a rise in both. A woman could game the system by getting pregnant repeatedly and aborting over and over again at 18 weeks, for instance. Men have it easier: They can just lie about porking Joel down at the pub.

open24hours posted:

I don't remember anyone complaining about 'ethics' when people suggested vaccinating your kids should be mandatory.

There is a very important difference:

Vaccination: Making people resistant to horrible and potentially lethal diseases, and getting the immunity rates up high enough to protect those who, for whatever reason, cannot be vaccinated (Children, immunocompromised people).

Mandatory Blood Donation: A procedure that is supposed to be done only on the healthy would overload screening mechanisms, increasing the risk of disease transmission. The risk of complications, while low, would result in numerous compensation claims against the government since a public good argument cannot be made for mandatory donation (As I said above, blood only stores for a bit over a month, almost all of what's collected under such a regime would be tossed out).

# ¿ Apr 7, 2016 16:52

Pickled Tink: Apr 28, 2012; Have you heard about First Dog? It's a very good comic I just love.

Also, wear your bike helmets kids. I copped several blows to the head but my helmet left me totally unscathed.

Finally you should check out First Dog as it's a good comic I like it very much.; Fun Shoe

LibertyCat posted:

In turn, how many of you are on Centrelink?

I'm on centrelink, but not if your "Blood for Payments" policy gets implemented. Are you going to answer any of the criticisms of that, by the way? Or are you just going to quietly drop it without retracting it like the brain fart it was?

# ¿ Apr 9, 2016 09:28

Pickled Tink: Apr 28, 2012; Have you heard about First Dog? It's a very good comic I just love.

Also, wear your bike helmets kids. I copped several blows to the head but my helmet left me totally unscathed.

Finally you should check out First Dog as it's a good comic I like it very much.; Fun Shoe

LibertyCat posted:

If the policy encourages more people to enter the workforce - isn't that a success?

By that same reasoning, you would support the application of rape and torture to people on unemployment benefits to get them off welfare.

# ¿ Apr 9, 2016 10:15

Pickled Tink: Apr 28, 2012; Have you heard about First Dog? It's a very good comic I just love.

Also, wear your bike helmets kids. I copped several blows to the head but my helmet left me totally unscathed.

Finally you should check out First Dog as it's a good comic I like it very much.; Fun Shoe

First Dog is BACK!

And here are the kittens. They have grown:

And here is a ferocious feral cat showing a human what for:

# ¿ Apr 11, 2016 21:44

Pickled Tink: Apr 28, 2012; Have you heard about First Dog? It's a very good comic I just love.

Also, wear your bike helmets kids. I copped several blows to the head but my helmet left me totally unscathed.

Finally you should check out First Dog as it's a good comic I like it very much.; Fun Shoe

Freudian Slip posted:

Like a pike?

I am not a monarchist by any stretch, but given the alternative to Queen Elizabeth II is King Charles, I say Long Live The Queen (Until Charles is dead, then off with her head).

# ¿ Apr 12, 2016 02:28

Pickled Tink: Apr 28, 2012; Have you heard about First Dog? It's a very good comic I just love.

Also, wear your bike helmets kids. I copped several blows to the head but my helmet left me totally unscathed.

Finally you should check out First Dog as it's a good comic I like it very much.; Fun Shoe

First Dog:

Kittens:

Yesterday another cat there gave birth. So Even more kittens for you all:

And what the gently caress? Another cat there is having kittens (At time of posting, though she is having a long break between them). Here you go:

# ¿ Apr 13, 2016 09:13

Pickled Tink: Apr 28, 2012; Have you heard about First Dog? It's a very good comic I just love.

Also, wear your bike helmets kids. I copped several blows to the head but my helmet left me totally unscathed.

Finally you should check out First Dog as it's a good comic I like it very much.; Fun Shoe

This article should be required reading for everyone:

Alarmism, economic idiocy, and Orwellian appointments: three years of political disaster posted:

How to explain the trainwreck that is the last three years of the federal government? The debacle poses a challenge that will dog journalists, policy wonks and historians for decades to come. The explanations for its dysfunction and sustained under-achievement are complex, but there are at least two distinct theories worth considering.

In Malcolm Turnbull�s second ministerial reshuffle in February, Alex Hawke was promoted to the office of assistant minister to the treasurer. In 2005, the then young Liberal office holder prophesied that conservative politics in Australia would move increasingly towards an American model. Hawke explained that: �The two greatest forces for good in human history are capitalism and Christianity, and when they�re blended it�s a very powerful duo.�

Can the relentless incoherence and incompetence of the current government be attributed to a particular blend of capitalism and religion that has found favour in the US? Perhaps. British author Will Hutton argues that a malaise has swept the political right throughout the west and that it has given up on the Enlightenment and in doing so has rejected �tolerance, reason, democratic argument, progress and the drive for social betterment as cornerstones of society.�

If there is a serious contest about capitalism being waged in Australian politics, it is invisible to most of us. To the extent that there is a debate, it focuses on neoliberal capitalism. Perhaps Hawke�s invocation of capitalism is another way of expressing an opposition deep within the modern Australian conservative; an opposition to taxes and to government itself. Despite the rhetoric, the recent experience of conservative governments including the current government is that they levy more tax than their Labor counterparts.

Christianity is, if you will forgive me, a broad church. It�s a fair bet that Alex Hawke�s reportedly preferred flavour, Hillsong, has little in common with that promulgated by the world�s most prominent Christian, Pope Francis, who condemns �ideologies that defend the absolute autonomy of the marketplace and financial speculation.�

Christianity is invoked by politicians of left and right to rationalise almost any policy. Witness prime minister Rudd�s reliance on �the biblical injunction to care for the stranger in our midst� in support of a humane asylum seeker policy. In reversing that approach, prime minister Abbott declared: �Jesus knew that there was a place for everything and it is not necessarily everyone�s place to come to Australia�. If Christianity helps us understand the federal government, then it is a particularly aggressive and intolerant strain.

Alex Hawke�s prediction that Australian conservatives would look to their counterparts in the US resonates precisely because the US Republicans increasingly make no sense. As the success of the abusive, racist demagogue Donald Trump seems increasingly assured in the GOP primary race, there is a very real possibility of a seismic split.

Malcolm Turnbull is no Donald Trump but he is surrounded by many unusual politicians with strange cultural obsessions and hostilities, many of which appear to be derived from the Tea Party and fringe right wing groups in the US. Many of them voted for him to replace Tony Abbott as the prime minister.

And yet, there is also a far more prosaic explanation for the mess.

The federal government is hostage to the campaign run by Abbott in opposition � a campaign had three essential features: it was ruthlessly prosecuted, very successful and, finally, completely and utterly irrational.

The opposition inculcated a state of perpetual crisis that was the envy of professional catastrophists the world over. The crises said to beleaguer the nation under a Labor government formed an impressively long list: the cost of living crisis, the retail crisis, the productivity crisis, the debt crisis, the deficit disaster, emergency low interest rates, sovereign risk crisis, the budget emergency.

None of the crises were real. Rather, they were a fiction borne of a political strategy designed to destabilise and remove the Labor government which, for all its faults presided over a stunning macroeconomic performance and successfully ducked a recession in the wake of the global financial crisis.

It is one thing to proclaim a series of crises. It�s another to promulgate the solution. The then opposition�s program was remarkably simple and painless: �No cuts to education, no cuts to health, no change to pensions, no change to the GST and no cuts to the ABC or SBS.� Critically, there would also be tax cuts.

Exactly how the federal government would cut taxes, reduce government debt and transition to a budget surplus, boost infrastructure and not cut major expenditure like health, education and the pension was never made clear. Nor could it be made clear. The laws of mathematics do not accommodate such idiocy.

Economic illiteracy can be masked by theatrical bluff and bluster for only so long. The government�s 2014 budget cut a swathe through its pre-election promises including gouging an $80bn hole in funding for health and education. Taxes weren�t cut; in fact, there was an attempt to raise a new tax � for visiting a GP.

The Senate kept the government to its pre-election promises and it has been stuck in a paralysing funk ever since.

In its short life the LNP government has levied more tax as a proportion of GDP than its predecessor. Government spending as a proportion of GDP has also increased, the budget deficit has more than doubled[url] from its �crisis� levels in 2013, and gross government debt has ballooned by over $100bn.

The bluff and bluster was resurrected when treasurer Scott Morrison recently tweeted: �Labor�s plan is to tax, spend and borrow. Our plan is to back Australians who are working, saving and investing.�

quote:
Labor�s plan is to tax, spend and borrow. Our plan is to back Australians who are working, saving and investing. #qt #auspol
� Scott Morrison (@ScottMorrisonMP) [url=https://twitter.com/ScottMorrisonMP/status/696549026460598272]February 8, 2016

By January 2016, even conservative partisans at the Australian could no longer maintain the fiscal fantasy. Judith Sloan wrote: �I�m calling it here: the Turnbull government is a big spending, big taxing government with no real intention to pare back the growth of government spending, let alone cut it.� In other words, Turnbull continued where Abbott left off.

The wild irrationality that has infected the government has manifested itself in a series of government appointments. A climate science denier, Maurice Newman, was one of the government�s first, appointed to head its Business Advisory Council.

As Australian temperature records fell like dying birds from burning eucalyptus trees, Newman called for an inquiry into the Bureau of Meteorology. Since the 2013 election, the BOM has persisted in issuing extreme weather forecasts and documenting the overwhelming number of climate records being broken. To his credit, Turnbull revoked the appointment on being elevated to prime minister.

How are we to rationalise the abolition of the office of the disability discrimination commissioner and the appointment of the first national wind farm commissioner? The elimination of a key role to assist the large number of people with disabilities and their families, many of whom live below the poverty line and struggle with endemic disadvantage, followed by the creation of a new role to address a syndrome that doesn�t exist.

The appointment of Tim Wilson to the role of �freedom commissioner� was an Orwellian coup for the extreme right lobbyists at the IPA, effectively outsourcing Wilson�s labour costs to the taxpayer.

The man who specialised in the dehumanisation of asylum seekers and perpetuated the incarceration of children, Philip Ruddock, secured an appointment as special envoy for human rights. More Orwell.

The government�s professed attachment to free speech and other �traditional freedoms� is impossible to reconcile with its actions. It sought to silence, intimidate and then remove the president of the Human Rights Commission, Professor Gillian Triggs. It has enacted laws to prevent doctors speaking about the harm being inflicted on refugees.

There are the measures taken to silence NGOs including community legal centres who are banned from advocating for law reform. The work of environmental organisations including the Environmental Defenders� Office has been sabotaged notwithstanding the government�s failed attempt to prevent environmental groups accessing the legal system. So much for the rule of law.

One of the first notable and ominous acts of the federal government was, in fact, an omission � the first government in over 70 years not to appoint a science minister. Since then, the country�s peak scientific research body, the CSIRO, has responded to funding cuts by shedding scientists like dead skin. A world renowned research program into climate change has been ditched.

Against a background of attacks on scientific research and the debacle that is the country�s major innovation and infrastructure project, the NBN, Turnbull announced a new innovation policy.

Who or what is responsible for the government�s many other strange cultural and religious obsessions? Eric Abetz�s insistence on a link between breast cancer and abortion, notwithstanding the science that discredited this theory five decades ago. The attempt to ban the burqa in the confines of Parliament House. The campaign to water down racial vilification laws in support of the right to be a bigot. The havoc wreaked on investment in renewable energy as the government campaigned against �ugly� wind turbines. The many attacks on the ABC, culminating in a government black-ban on appearing on its current affairs flagship, Q&A. The attack on Safe Schools.

Endless fuel to stoke the fires of satire � perhaps � but there is another more disturbing dimension to these obsessions. The federal government almost always �punches down�. The coalition caucus is a toxic brew of fierce antagonism directed at minority groups, the disadvantaged and victims of discrimination.

Those targeted to be disadvantaged by its policies are invariably minorities, the less well-off and those with little or no political voice: those with the smallest superannuation balances, Muslims, cleaners of Canberra offices, food processing workers employed at SPC, the unemployed (the attempt to impose a six-month qualification period to qualify for unemployment benefits), children in disadvantaged schools (the sabotage of Gonski education reforms), the strenuous attempts to chisel lowly paid workers with intellectual disability out of backpay owed to them, the calculated and deliberately cruel infliction of injury on refugees fleeing war zones including Syria.

And let us not forget the attempt to wind back consumer protections against predatory crooks in our ethically challenged banks, championed by Turnbull�s key ally, Senator Arthur Sinodinos.

While almost all the attention has been focused on the titular head, you can only begin to understand this federal government by shifting your gaze to what�s underneath: the convulsing, twisting and raging body.

I have maintained most of the articles links. The only exception was a "Malcolm Turnbull" that linked to a category of news stories dedicated to him.

# ¿ Apr 14, 2016 08:20

Pickled Tink: Apr 28, 2012; Have you heard about First Dog? It's a very good comic I just love.

Also, wear your bike helmets kids. I copped several blows to the head but my helmet left me totally unscathed.

Finally you should check out First Dog as it's a good comic I like it very much.; Fun Shoe

First Dog:

Kittens!

# ¿ Apr 15, 2016 08:03

Pickled Tink: Apr 28, 2012; Have you heard about First Dog? It's a very good comic I just love.

Also, wear your bike helmets kids. I copped several blows to the head but my helmet left me totally unscathed.

Finally you should check out First Dog as it's a good comic I like it very much.; Fun Shoe

Higsian posted:

If the Liberals adopt a quota that might mean unqualified people get selected

And how is that any different to the current system?

# ¿ Apr 15, 2016 14:29

Pickled Tink: Apr 28, 2012; Have you heard about First Dog? It's a very good comic I just love.

Also, wear your bike helmets kids. I copped several blows to the head but my helmet left me totally unscathed.

Finally you should check out First Dog as it's a good comic I like it very much.; Fun Shoe

LibertyCat posted:

While the dude in my av is growing on me I really want my Leyonhjelm's Cat av back

Quit asking for a handout like some useless welfare bludger and buy it yourself.

# ¿ Apr 16, 2016 08:21

Pickled Tink: Apr 28, 2012; Have you heard about First Dog? It's a very good comic I just love.

Also, wear your bike helmets kids. I copped several blows to the head but my helmet left me totally unscathed.

Finally you should check out First Dog as it's a good comic I like it very much.; Fun Shoe

It is time for a reading from the First book of Dog:

Oh, and some kittens:

# ¿ Apr 19, 2016 02:58

Pickled Tink: Apr 28, 2012; Have you heard about First Dog? It's a very good comic I just love.

Also, wear your bike helmets kids. I copped several blows to the head but my helmet left me totally unscathed.

Finally you should check out First Dog as it's a good comic I like it very much.; Fun Shoe

First Dog:

Kittens from above:

# ¿ Apr 20, 2016 10:37

Pickled Tink: Apr 28, 2012; Have you heard about First Dog? It's a very good comic I just love.

Also, wear your bike helmets kids. I copped several blows to the head but my helmet left me totally unscathed.

Finally you should check out First Dog as it's a good comic I like it very much.; Fun Shoe

Gods this is bad. Bike chat may be our only hope:

'Four wheels good, two wheels bad': NSW's war on cyclists continues posted:

It�s been over a month since the new �cycling safety� rules came into force in New South Wales. Despite the protests of numerous cycling groups armed with a petition of over 10,000 signatures and a disallowance motion tabled in state parliament by Greens MP, Mehreen Faruqi, the government appears intent on punishing two-wheeled human-powered road users.

Scores of cyclists have been issued major fines for minor offences including not having a bell on the handlebars, riding without a reflector, riding while helmet straps are loose and cycling on a footpath.

If social media can be believed, the evidence is that police are actively enforcing the section of the law that targets cyclists and ignoring the only provision that will truly keep bike riders safe � the one-metre distance required when passing a cyclist. Roads minister Duncan Gay can easily respond to these social media criticisms by releasing the figures on the number of cyclists and motorists fined under the new laws. So far, he hasn�t.

According to the Australian Cyclists Party, NSW police have managed to creatively interpret the �riding dangerously� provision. They�ve apparently fined a cyclist for �track standing� � the practise some cyclists can master of staying upright and cleated into the pedals while motionless at traffic lights. Perhaps the cops just don�t like posers?

Meanwhile, Sydney continues to suffer under traffic jams of Duncanian proportions. A bingle on the Harbour Bridge recently resulted in queues stretching back a whopping 12km. There was much antagonism on social media as commuters in buses complained that single-occupant cars were filling the transit lane, so even public transport could not get through. The only people moving were pedestrians and ... those lawbreaking cyclists.

A Fairfax Media analysis of the government�s recent Road Report showed that average commuting times have lengthened on a staggering 124 routes. Yet the NRMA keeps its head firmly stuck in the bitumen, claiming it�s the construction work on the new roads that�s slowing commute times. In transport-nirvana, once the work is complete, everyone will zip into the city at top speed!

Or, as report after report has shown, commute times will drop for a brief period before returning to snail-pace as the road clogs with more motorists, left to sit in a slow-moving car park. In some cases, these car-bound lemmings will be paying a toll for the privilege. No wonder so many Sydney motorists are angry and looking for a scapegoat. Ooh look, there goes another lycra-clad fool zipping past me. Arrest that man!

While Melbourne plans to have one-in-four city-bound commuters on a bicycle by 2020, the NSW government builds even more roads so the traffic jams can extend across the whole tortured city. With a blinkered transport policy that thunders �four wheels good, two wheels bad,� the environmentally-friendly, budget-conscious option of a network of bike lanes is ignored. Even the legendary traffic-snarled city of New York has woken up to the folly of building more roads, and instead installed a comprehensive cycle lane network.

Meanwhile, the NSW government has become guardians of an anti-youth, anti-fun agenda. The simple pleasures of cycling, getting a drink at any hour and protesting for what you believe in have all been subjected to hammer and walnut legislation.

If you�re seething about the daily time-consuming commute, direct your indignation at Duncan Gay, the man in charge of Sydney roads. Or buy a bike, plot a cycle route to the office � on what�s left of the city bike lanes � and laugh all the way to your morning latte. And can someone tell the police that fining cyclists for loose helmet straps won�t really solve a crime wave, fix Sydney traffic, or endear them to the community at large.

Welcome to NSW 2016.

NSW worst state.

# ¿ Apr 21, 2016 07:54

Pickled Tink: Apr 28, 2012; Have you heard about First Dog? It's a very good comic I just love.

Also, wear your bike helmets kids. I copped several blows to the head but my helmet left me totally unscathed.

Finally you should check out First Dog as it's a good comic I like it very much.; Fun Shoe

First Dog on the Reef:

Felines:

# ¿ Apr 22, 2016 08:15

Pickled Tink: Apr 28, 2012; Have you heard about First Dog? It's a very good comic I just love.

Also, wear your bike helmets kids. I copped several blows to the head but my helmet left me totally unscathed.

Finally you should check out First Dog as it's a good comic I like it very much.; Fun Shoe

Jumpingmanjim posted:

https://twitter.com/NatalieKotsios/status/723466936609181696

what is this I don't even?

Born to rule black hearted monster shoots mouth off in manner befitting their black heartedness. Later alerted that this kind of thing has consequences and attempts to backpedal.

Consequences like this:

Labor refers Sophie Mirabella's claims to auditor general over $10m �political retribution� posted:

Labor has asked the auditor general to investigate Sophie Mirabella�s claims her former electorate did not receive $10m in hospital funding because it voted her out, arguing it smacks of �political retribution�.

On Thursday in a Sky debate the former member for Indi said: �I had a commitment for a $10m allocation to the Wangaratta hospital that if elected I was going to announce a week after the election.�

�That is $10m that Wangaratta hasn�t had because Cathy [McGowan] got elected.�

Mirabella attempted to clarify the comments on Friday by saying: �it�s about who is a strong advocate when there are dozens of really good cases of hospitals all over regional Australia fighting to get on top of the list.

�It�s about who has the ability and the knowledge and the contacts in government to go to the top of the list, Cathy wasn�t able to do it, I will be.�

However, Mirabella does not appear to have retracted her claim she had a commitment for the funding before the election.

Labor�s health spokeswoman Catherine King has referred the issue to the auditor general, asking him to investigate what she said appeared to be an act of �political retribution�.

�Punishing the people of Indi for electing an independent MP is not legitimate grounds on which to base decisions about the expenditure of a significant sum of taxpayer money.�

The current health minister, Sussan Ley, said �neither I, nor my department, is aware of any public commitment to give Wangaratta Hospital $10m�.

But Ley did not rule out that a private commitment had existed. �I am not going to speculate on private discussions that may have occurred during an election campaign, let alone those I was not even privy to,� she said.

A spokesman for Peter Dutton, who was shadow health minister before the 2013 election and health minister after, referred Guardian Australia to Mirabella�s attempts to clarify the claim of a commitment, but did not answer questions about whether Dutton was aware of such a commitment.

Mirabella has been contacted for comment.

# ¿ Apr 22, 2016 15:34

Pickled Tink: Apr 28, 2012; Have you heard about First Dog? It's a very good comic I just love.

Also, wear your bike helmets kids. I copped several blows to the head but my helmet left me totally unscathed.

Finally you should check out First Dog as it's a good comic I like it very much.; Fun Shoe

hooman posted:

I always do. Also I have twice been hit by cars while riding on footpaths, one time of which my head hit the ground hard enough to break my helmet!

No but helmets are bad because FREEDOM and they mess up your hair.

# ¿ Apr 26, 2016 05:56

Pickled Tink: Apr 28, 2012; Have you heard about First Dog? It's a very good comic I just love.

Also, wear your bike helmets kids. I copped several blows to the head but my helmet left me totally unscathed.

Finally you should check out First Dog as it's a good comic I like it very much.; Fun Shoe

Recoome posted:

https://www.facebook.com/unitedpatriotsfront/videos/274752342859225/

???

I have to ask.

Can people who post facebook links either quote the content or screencap it for those of us who refuse to touch facebook. Quoting or screencapping also hedges against the comments being deleted (This bit also applies to twitter stuff).

# ¿ Apr 26, 2016 15:33

Pickled Tink: Apr 28, 2012; Have you heard about First Dog? It's a very good comic I just love.

Also, wear your bike helmets kids. I copped several blows to the head but my helmet left me totally unscathed.

Finally you should check out First Dog as it's a good comic I like it very much.; Fun Shoe

First Dog:

Also, many kitten pictures:

# ¿ Apr 27, 2016 11:08

Pickled Tink: Apr 28, 2012; Have you heard about First Dog? It's a very good comic I just love.

Also, wear your bike helmets kids. I copped several blows to the head but my helmet left me totally unscathed.

Finally you should check out First Dog as it's a good comic I like it very much.; Fun Shoe

First Dog:

Box of kittens, as seen from above:

# ¿ Apr 29, 2016 08:06

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# ¿ May 12, 2024 14:48

Pickled Tink: Apr 28, 2012; Have you heard about First Dog? It's a very good comic I just love.

Also, wear your bike helmets kids. I copped several blows to the head but my helmet left me totally unscathed.

Finally you should check out First Dog as it's a good comic I like it very much.; Fun Shoe

LibertyCat posted:

tbh if push came to shove I could easily see the government backing out of the treaty and selling it as no longer relevant and overly generous, why should we honor it when Indonesia doesn't, and who wants the UN telling us we can't make our own laws anyway.

Australia helped write the treaty. We signed and ratified it. Many countries have not.

Your position here is basically "We should ever do anything good at all because someone else isn't and/or probably won't and why should we be the only ones doing good things?"

It was written after the events of the early 1940's where a bunch of people denied refugee status got killed in a little thing called "the holocaust". You might have heard of it. There are similar purges (Though not on quite that scale, or with that level of publicity) going on today in countries like Iraq, Syria, Sri Lanka, and the like. You know, those countries where these refugees are coming from? Even Iran, as allegedly moderate as it is, does some pretty horrific poo poo to its people. This is the kind of thing you get when the west deposes governments they do not agree with in order to put radicals who oppose someone they don't like in power. Or when they bomb the country into rubble in an attempt to make friends.

# ¿ Apr 29, 2016 17:07

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