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Cartoon posted:Maybe if enough brain dead blokes get Filipino/Thai wives it will all happen without too much effort in any case. 
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May 1, 2016 05:10
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Please forums poster Cartoon tell me more about being braindead and marrying a Thai or Filipino lady.
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May 1, 2016 05:13
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We should have built Nuclear subs.
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May 2, 2016 04:54
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If anyone could make good use of Nuclear subs it's Australia. Ideally unmanned ones that could lie dormant for months then suddenly surface in Jakarta Bay, unleash a swarm of drones, then vanish.
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May 2, 2016 05:17
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Jobs, baseload power that is way safer and cheaper than anything else on a $/joule metric, and greatly improved defenses more suited to our region. We have low population density, stable geotectonics and a shitload of empty space to store waste. It's madness that we aren't nuclear already.
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May 2, 2016 05:33
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^^^ because we're an island and it's way better to sink ships before they drop an invasion force on our shore. Haven't you ever played Civ?
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May 2, 2016 05:34
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Who said it'd be trivial? The best way to maintain peace is not to look like an easy target.
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May 2, 2016 05:39
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Periphery posted:I have found a solution to the issue of buying expensive military equipment form other countries: and then we can all hold hands and sing Kumbaya, secure in the knowledge that there will never be a military threat to Australia ever again.
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May 2, 2016 08:45
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KennyTheFish posted:Can I go with the humane asylum seeker policy? I think it's a stretch to call it Torture. We're not waterboarding them, nor tearing off their fingernails, nor forcing them to go without sleep. They made the choice to try to come here knowing what would happen and are free to return to their own country at any time. If I could teleport them instantly back to say Indonesia, I would.
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May 2, 2016 12:03
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meteor9 posted:People are literally killing themselves rather than go back to whatever they escaped from, and you keep trotting this out like they're just on loving vacation or something. They didn't step across the border from some wartorn shithole and into Australia. They crossed through a heap of other countries first. If we're such bastards why not pick somewhere closer.
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May 2, 2016 13:02
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and as I keep saying, we're being taken for fools and should just back out of the Refugee convention. This isn't WW2. edit: As a hypothetical, suppose we did just this. Realistically are asylum seekers lives any worse off? According to this thread we're already torturing people until they kill themselves, and I doubt even Australia will create Holocaust 2.0, so I doubt it. Without the convention in place we have much more freedom to come up with a cheaper, arguably more humane solution on the mainland. We are also free to take the worst of the troublemakers (rapists who use the "cultural differences" defense, murderers etc) and just put them on a cannon and shoot them into the sea without worrying about refoulement bs. LibertyCat fucked around with this message at 13:24 on May 2, 2016 |
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May 2, 2016 13:16
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WhiskeyWhiskers posted:So these other countries should be made to take them while not being party to the convention, and we should pull out of the convention...so that we don't have to take them? Other countries should not be able to put their fingers in their ears and go "you signed that bit of paper, you take em, we're just gonna let them travel through our borders and there's nothing you can do nyah nyah nyah"
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May 2, 2016 13:26
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WhiskeyWhiskers posted:Why? We signed the bit of paper because we thought that refugees should be protected. Circumstances change. I'd like to see it an election issue. UN conventions I'd like Australia to scrap: Refugee Convention Nuclear Non-Proliferation Ottawa Treaty Rights of the Child Anything involving Agenda 21 (USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)
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May 2, 2016 13:40
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GoldStandardConure posted:what the serious gently caress is wrong with you
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May 2, 2016 13:55
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I doubt we'd ever need them but why limit ourselves for no good reason? Australians are probably just a little more disciplined than troops involved in a decades-long civil war. With suitable R&D you could have minefields that could be remotely turned on and off via an encrypted radio link, minimizing the chance of civilian causalities after the conflict is over, but instantly denying enemy use of chokepoints. Minefields are also good because they are defensive-only. Suppose we mined the poo poo out of parts of Australia. It would increase our defense capability without presenting any threat to other countries. If we used the same money to buy fancy new long-range bombers nearby countries would get nervous and upgrade their own bombing fleet. LibertyCat fucked around with this message at 14:09 on May 2, 2016 |
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May 2, 2016 14:07
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Tokamak posted:What is your opinion on the Chemical Weapons Convention? If we're at the point where we'd seriously use chemicals weapons, we're already screwed.
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May 2, 2016 14:16
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Cleretic posted:You realize that, if we did get invaded (un-loving-likely), they would be arriving on the coastlines, right? What with there being literally no other way to hit us? We can mine shorelines etc. Look, I'm not advocating we temporarily close Surfers Paradise to put in a remotely-activated minefield. We'd probably never deploy them. But why restrict ourselves?
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May 2, 2016 14:19
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I'll stop posting here for as long as Negligent shuts up about
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May 3, 2016 03:09
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As soon as there are more people locked out of the housing market due to greedy fucks negatively gearing en masse, than negative gearers, it will become an election issue. It will happen eventually.
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May 3, 2016 07:35
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Big Willy Style posted:My theory was that with the refugee crisis going on in Europe and things being up in the air there that they would leave dutton so if poo poo goes south for them he could be the scape goat being one of the last remnants of team Abbott. But now he just seems to be an albatross hanging around the LNPs neck. The way I remember it, the albatross brought good luck until some idiot killed it.
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May 3, 2016 10:04
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Negligent posted:i get a tax cut gently caress them so hard for setting the GST-free threshold to 0 though. Way to add a ton of PITA processing fees just to protect local rip-off merchants.
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May 3, 2016 11:42
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This budget has me seriously considering voting ALP
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May 3, 2016 11:45
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Jumpingmanjim posted:Bill Shorten hasn't even delivered his speech yet and this feckless Libertarian youth has already switched his vote. "considering". The GST thing really, really annoys me. Setting it to zero means they're going to make it a complete PITA to buy stuff and the processing could cost much more than the price of the item. It will probably cost me more than I'd save in tax cuts. I also think Negative Gearing is terrible even though I am likely to personally benefit from it if Turnbull wins.
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May 3, 2016 11:57
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Anidav posted:Or just raise Newstart by 200 dollars rather than creating a poo poo workplace environment with no protection. Raising Newstart does not mean "fiddly office poo poo" will get done.
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