Spudd posted:

The op is an 'eh' out of 10.

Now someone post some news so cat liberty can poo poo up the thread for another month.

Amethyst posted:

30 day probation for defending himself from pages of insults. Badass, funny, and above all, win.

Solemn Sloth posted:

aboriginal people are the most privileged in this country

want to see who is truly powerful? find who you are not allowed to criticise

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We will implement a Debit Tax at a flat rate of 2%. This new tax will replace all existing taxes - such as the income tax, the GST, council rates, fuel-excise etc... The Debit Tax is not only fair, but it is easy to understand and to implement. Best of all – we can generate over $320 Billion a year more than is currently generated through the existing complicated and burdensome tax system. Be advised; do not be quick to dismiss this claim until you have read our policy in full. To date, no one in academia has been able to comprehensively disprove that our policy works using official stats and figures!

Jumpingmanjim posted:

The 2% transaction tax was proposed by one nation back in the day.

Jumpingmanjim posted:

Is that any less reasonable than say, helicopter money?

Jumpingmanjim posted:

Solemn Sloth posted:

I actually don't think Culleton should be sentenced to over 12 months jail over what he's done

SMILLENNIALSMILLEN posted:

Lmao freep have been doing that for years with 0bama etc

Lid posted:

At TAFE in a first class on journalism we were asked what did we want to write about.

One boy said, and i quote, "i have two passions - video games and atheism".

Cleretic posted:

I consciously never mentioned my love of video games in as many university courses as possible for exaclt this reason.

Frogfingers posted:

My major.

ewe2 posted:

A woman at my WFTD said she'd put herself down as Christian even though she's atheist "to stop those bloody Muslims having more say".

open24hours posted:

Abusing refugees was always the plan. Sends a strong message to people smugglers.

open24hours posted:

The government has access to all the advice they need to prevent this kind of thing from happening. Any argument that it was unpredictable or unexpected strains credibility.

EvilElmo posted:

You mean by doing the same thing that's happened every other time?

EvilElmo posted:

Really? That's the quality of response now. "YOU GOT YOUR LINES FROM HQ! Hurrrr"

Get hosed.

Also, if you read my post, you'll see I provided the answer to your question. Here it is again.

Lid posted:

The Turnbull government’s knee-jerk reaction to the thoroughly misleading ABC special on the treatment of ­inmates at the NT’s Don Dale Youth ­Detention Centre marks yet another failed ­response to the real issue hiding in plain sight.

Like the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sex Abuse, the latest show promises to feed those most in need of public reassurance of their own innate sense of morality and do little for those most at risk.

Had Labor Prime Minister Julia Gillard’s government not been so obsessed with the Roman Catholic Church it would have acknowledged that the overwhelming majority of cases of child sex abuse take place within the home, and that among those cases, there was a significant over-representation of children from broken homes, or de facto ­relationships, and yes, sad but true, of children identified as indigenous.

The terms of reference restricted Justice Peter McClellan to examine child sexual abuse in institutional context; ring-fencing the real problem from much-needed scrutiny.

So, too, do the Letters Patent for Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull’s commission into “the Child Protection and Youth Detention Systems of the Government of the Northern Territory”, ignore the bigger, almost existential, problem facing the young indigenous people who make up a staggering 97 per cent of the children in detention in the Northern Territory.

Turnbull’s Rudd-like bull-at-the-gate approach to government meant that his first Royal Commissioner, the former NT Chief Justice Brian Martin, had been replaced within a week of his appointment, by the familiar and ­almost permanently outraged indigenous figure Mick Gooda and former Queensland Supreme Court judge Margaret White, who should bring to the commission the judicial experience Gooda lacks.

Before bailing out, Martin said he would look at “questions about the culture in the system” adding that “whether racism does or doesn’t play a role will be a part of the ­inquiry.” He jumped ship saying he did not have the “full confidence” of sections of the indigenous community and was not prepared to compromise the inquiry.

Therein lies the problem.

Questioning the culture of the system is like looking at the paint job on a crashed car without asking whether the lack of brakes may have been the cause of the smash.

The institution didn’t put the youngsters in the slammer, but their culture, interpretation of it, or lack of it, did.

The so-called Abu Ghraib hood was being worn by the ­recidivist inmate Dylan Voller because of his unpleasant habit of spitting at law officers.

There’s little doubt that the other tough measures — hosing down and tear gas, as disagreeable as they may seem to middle-class ABC viewers — were also used for good reason most of the time.

The commission will spend a lot of money establishing what two previous inquiries have already established.

It will not, however, probe the dysfunctional habits of the community from which the young inmates have come.

Exploring the crisis in those families which identify as indigenous is unpopular because it will expose the myth that the life of Aboriginal Australians prior to the arrival of Europeans was idyllic.

It might disturb vegans to learn that the early Australians were carnivorous, it might disturb feminists to learn that they were, for the most part, fiercely patriarchal, and it might disturb pacifists to learn that they were often at war with each other.

Sadly, elements of the old culture of wife beating, polygamy and patriarchy still exist within some indigenous communities across the Northern Territory, northern Western Australia and northern Queensland.

Young girls are threatened with arranged marriages to older men, they are routinely treated brutally by their “husbands” and they have little ­redress.

Jacinta Yangapi Nampijinpa Price, a woman with a deep understanding of both European and Aboriginal Australia addressed a meeting at the Centre of Independent Studies in Sydney in late June.

The institution didn’t put the youngsters in the slammer, but their culture, interpretation of it, or lack of it, did.

Speaking plainly and from the heart, she addressed the ­issues that the Royal Commissioners will not.

“What we cannot continue to do,” she said, “is make excuses for violent behaviour. Instead of looking for constitutional recognition or treaties or governments to solve the problems, ownership, responsibility and constructive criticism must take place.

“Yes we’ve worked out the role governments have played in our country’s history but we also must acknowledge our own part in the demise of our people. We must acknowledge what within our own culture is detrimental to us finding solutions to our own problems and work out what changes we must make to move forward.

“Why is it we should remain stifled and live by 40,000-year-old laws when the rest of the world have had the privilege of evolution within their cultures so that they may survive in a modern world? Why in these times should there be an us-and-them mentality? We can’t rid this country of Europeans and the British or those from the rest of the world for that matter who now call Australia home.

“There was a four-decade long campaign to win citizenship rights for Aboriginal Australians but now the absolute fundamental rights of Aboriginal women, girls and children are being denied and ignored by white feminists and human rights lawyers who believe they know better, who believe that the real perpetrators are English speaking white men. We have the same rights as anybody else in this country and it is about time those rights were respected by everybody.”

Ms Price’s commonsense drives deeper to the heart of the basic issue than any Royal Commission has and should be adopted by all Australians.

Ian Winthorpe III posted:

Yeah, so dumb that they got featured and quoted all over the national media. Obviously they cant storm a mosque for various reasons so they did it at a progressive church.

Solemn Sloth posted:

Agreed, I went down to fed square in a socialist alternative t-shirt(nothing else) and started eating my own poo poo. You should see how many people took pictures, checkmate rwnjs

Xerxes17 posted:

It's not so much "being involved in the Philippines" but "openly stealing poo poo" and attacking Filipino fishermen.

I'm opposed to imperialism of all kinds, so when the US is countering Chinese and Russian imperialism I'll cheer them on. But I'll still protest against the USA when they go on an Imperialist venture of their own.

MysticalMachineGun posted:

Australians shocked and angered that Vietnam doesn't want to celebrate the 50th anniversary of a horrible war

Laserface posted:

Get plex and a private tracker and never deal with bullshit television again you clowns.

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Muslims living with Buddhists = Problem

Doctor Spaceman posted:

What's the bet the US asked us to tank it?

Big Willy Style posted:

What makes the Philippines the linchpin of the UN?

Jumpingmanjim posted:

Excuse me Mr Tradie what do you think of Section 18C of the Racial Discrimination Act?

gently caress Me when's smoko oval office?