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Doctor Spaceman
Jul 6, 2010

"Everyone's entitled to their point of view, but that's seriously a weird one."

Starshark posted:

They can't really depose Turnbull without looking like RuddGillardRudd, can they? They're sort of stuck with this dead fish. And I love it.

After they knifed Abbott all bets were off.

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Doctor Spaceman
Jul 6, 2010

"Everyone's entitled to their point of view, but that's seriously a weird one."
https://twitter.com/GhostWhoVotes/status/870996941756178432
https://twitter.com/GhostWhoVotes/status/870997248435343362

Doctor Spaceman
Jul 6, 2010

"Everyone's entitled to their point of view, but that's seriously a weird one."

I would blow Dane Cook posted:

There are dozens of us, dozens!
by Bettina Arndt

Doctor Spaceman
Jul 6, 2010

"Everyone's entitled to their point of view, but that's seriously a weird one."

Au Revoir Shosanna posted:

Dogs are more sympathetic than human beings.

Didn't realise you had an account here Chris.

Doctor Spaceman
Jul 6, 2010

"Everyone's entitled to their point of view, but that's seriously a weird one."

xPanda posted:

Pretty sure JR Hennessy posted here. Don't remember the username though.

Julia Trillard?

Doctor Spaceman
Jul 6, 2010

"Everyone's entitled to their point of view, but that's seriously a weird one."
I'm glad to see immigrants adapting so well, cultural cringe is an important part of Australian culture.

Doctor Spaceman
Jul 6, 2010

"Everyone's entitled to their point of view, but that's seriously a weird one."

https://youtu.be/b97zJxKEqAk

Doctor Spaceman
Jul 6, 2010

"Everyone's entitled to their point of view, but that's seriously a weird one."

hooman posted:

Teresa "Charge Old People For Their Own Care" May is very left wing guys. Charging old people for their own care is a policy that is totally consistent with the ideological standpoint of "the left".

Did you not consider that she didn't push as hard for austerity as she could have?

Doctor Spaceman
Jul 6, 2010

"Everyone's entitled to their point of view, but that's seriously a weird one."

Zenithe posted:

Do they like being in opposition or something?

Labor did better in the 2016 election than expected and their polling has only improved since then. From their perspective there is no reason to change tacks.

Doctor Spaceman
Jul 6, 2010

"Everyone's entitled to their point of view, but that's seriously a weird one."

You Am I posted:

I meant about us three. I can't remember anyone else in this thread posting back in the LF days. Most of them have either left SA or burnt out.

LF lives on in our hearts.

Doctor Spaceman
Jul 6, 2010

"Everyone's entitled to their point of view, but that's seriously a weird one."

JBP posted:

Red Symons potentially hosting a show called what's the deal with Asians is funny as hell though.

Would you say he was Living in the 70s?

Or that he was Hot for the Orient?

Doctor Spaceman
Jul 6, 2010

"Everyone's entitled to their point of view, but that's seriously a weird one."

JBP posted:

I was trying to promote some non dogshit political analysis from the esteemed D&D auspol community, but apprently this thread only understands how to tear down and denigrate, rather than build and create.

I don't think much of that analysis because there wasn't much actual analysis.

Here's something to consider as a part of any comparison between our last election and the UK's: they had the lowest level of third party votes in a decades, while we had the highest levels in decades. Why the disparity? Is it significant?

Doctor Spaceman
Jul 6, 2010

"Everyone's entitled to their point of view, but that's seriously a weird one."

Cartoon posted:

What does everyone think of the Red Simmons fiasco the past couple days?
He's living in the 70s.

Doctor Spaceman
Jul 6, 2010

"Everyone's entitled to their point of view, but that's seriously a weird one."
The exemptions (on things like fresh food) were a compromise to get it passed, that's it.

Doctor Spaceman
Jul 6, 2010

"Everyone's entitled to their point of view, but that's seriously a weird one."
Yeah the 1998 election was as close to a referendum on the GST as you'd get under our system.

Doctor Spaceman
Jul 6, 2010

"Everyone's entitled to their point of view, but that's seriously a weird one."
Yes but he posted funny tweets so we all love him.

Doctor Spaceman
Jul 6, 2010

"Everyone's entitled to their point of view, but that's seriously a weird one."

Bogan King posted:



News really needs to have radicalised family court dads think they're pushing sharia law and burn the place down.

The article was pretty interesting in places, but the headline was dumb and giving airtime / column inches to conspiracy nuts was a mistake.

Doctor Spaceman
Jul 6, 2010

"Everyone's entitled to their point of view, but that's seriously a weird one."

Birdstrike posted:

Truck Poorpork's doing a book!

Doctor Spaceman
Jul 6, 2010

"Everyone's entitled to their point of view, but that's seriously a weird one."

JBP posted:

Van Badham is cool and good on the Mia Freedman scale of progressivism.

She clears that low bar, yes.

Doctor Spaceman
Jul 6, 2010

"Everyone's entitled to their point of view, but that's seriously a weird one."

JBP posted:

She does a lot of great poo poo for unions and worker's rights to be honest. Too bad for you she didn't believe in Corbyn and shitcanned him (so did I :devil: )
She is incredibly self-righteous about being lefter-than-thou, and for some reason claims to be an anarchosyndicalist communist while doing standard Labor things like phonebanking for David Feeney. She felt the need to repeatedly broadcast her ignorance on Senate voting reforms, despite how embarrsingly uninformed she was. Not to mention how aggressively thin-skinned she is on Twitter.

It's a pity because she's pretty good on so many other things.

Doctor Spaceman
Jul 6, 2010

"Everyone's entitled to their point of view, but that's seriously a weird one."
Malcolm-Ieuan: Roberts., the living soul has outlined his priorities on education.
https://twitter.com/joshgnosis/status/877341432616427520

Doctor Spaceman
Jul 6, 2010

"Everyone's entitled to their point of view, but that's seriously a weird one."
https://twitter.com/workmanalice/status/877490273881698306

Doctor Spaceman
Jul 6, 2010

"Everyone's entitled to their point of view, but that's seriously a weird one."

Bogan King posted:

You know who is a good teacher. Mark Latham, he's great at teaching how the world really works. Genuine salt of the Earth Western Sydney man.



Nice x-axis.

Doctor Spaceman
Jul 6, 2010

"Everyone's entitled to their point of view, but that's seriously a weird one."

GoldStandardConure posted:

For years you have been asking 'Who is Mia Freedman?'

At least the :umberto: has inspired posts like this.

Doctor Spaceman
Jul 6, 2010

"Everyone's entitled to their point of view, but that's seriously a weird one."

Stoca Zola posted:

Forgot to write about why these pollutants are bad. Sulphur dioxide released into the air, in contact with water becomes sulphuric acid and you end up with acid rain. This was a big pollution scare when I was a kid growing up in the eighties but you don't hear about it so much now since everyone is moving toward using cleaner processes.
And part of what prompted people to move to cleaner processes was the introduction of an Emissions Trading Scheme.

Doctor Spaceman
Jul 6, 2010

"Everyone's entitled to their point of view, but that's seriously a weird one."
https://twitter.com/MarkDiStef/status/878123762222223361

Doctor Spaceman
Jul 6, 2010

"Everyone's entitled to their point of view, but that's seriously a weird one."

NPR Journalizard posted:

I thought they could kick her out of the party, but that would just make her an independent. They cant force a byelection without her resigning iirc.

There would be no byelection, she is in the Senate. The Greens would appoint her replacement.

She's also up for re-election at the next election, which could be a little over a year away.

Doctor Spaceman
Jul 6, 2010

"Everyone's entitled to their point of view, but that's seriously a weird one."

MonoAus posted:

What's the last one supposed to mean?

It means get rid of the HRC and 18C.

Doctor Spaceman
Jul 6, 2010

"Everyone's entitled to their point of view, but that's seriously a weird one."

norp posted:

The transperth cards don't work when they are next to an EMV card (visa/MasterCard) so you will just have to choose your favourite and carry around a pile of severed hands for the rest so they don't interfere with each other

Same reason you can only have 2 magic rings in an RPG.

Doctor Spaceman
Jul 6, 2010

"Everyone's entitled to their point of view, but that's seriously a weird one."

Gorilla Salad posted:

He's our own Tiny Trump.

But somehow not as lovely.

Yeah, there's a loving scary thought of the day.
Palmer was our Trump, Abbott is very different.

Doctor Spaceman
Jul 6, 2010

"Everyone's entitled to their point of view, but that's seriously a weird one."

Gorilla Salad posted:

You're right - Abbott is Pence.

Creepily religious white supremacist? Checks out.

Yeah that's not bad actually, especially with the whole failing his way upwards thing.

Doctor Spaceman
Jul 6, 2010

"Everyone's entitled to their point of view, but that's seriously a weird one."

Urcher posted:

That claim is arguably correct. Cyclists take up less space than drivers, but far more than a bus or tram at full capacity. It glosses over the energy efficiency and cycling being the most space efficient of the personal point to point transport options.

Also that cyclists cause essentially no damage to the road, unlike buses (and especially trucks).

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Doctor Spaceman
Jul 6, 2010

"Everyone's entitled to their point of view, but that's seriously a weird one."
He's repeatedly referred to 'the "stolen generations" myth', so there is absolutely no reason to take his articles in good faith.

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