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With an early election - why do the ordinary punters always whinge about elections? I know we're all political junkies who love them, but seriously, I don't notice any difference whatsoever between ordinary times and election season except a handful of ads on TV. So what gives?
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I would blow Dane Cook posted:all you brutalism haters can gently caress off, you probably don't even like the UTS building. you are the Kevin Andrews of architecture. This the worst opinion ever expressed in this thread
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Dec 8, 2017 00:20
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On modern architecture, from the other week - https://www.currentaffairs.org/2017/10/why-you-hate-contemporary-architecturequote:For many socialists in the 20th century, the abdication of decorative elements and traditional forms seemed to be a natural outgrowth of a revolutionary spirit of simplicity, solidarity, and sacrifice. But the joke was on the socialists, really, because as it turned out, this obsession with minimalism was also uniquely compatible with capitalism’s miserable cult of efficiency. After all, every dollar expended on fanciful balusters or stained glass rose windows needed to produce some sort of return on investment. And since such things can be guaranteed to produce almost no return on investment, they had to go. There was a good reason why, historically, religious architecture has been the most concerned with beauty for beauty’s sake; the more time is spent elegantly decorating a cathedral, the more it serves its intended function of celebrating God’s glory, whereas the more time is spent decorating an office building, the less money will be left over for the developer.
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Dec 8, 2017 05:05
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Anybody just see that thing about the child abuse royal commission on ABC? Pretty intense.
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Dec 12, 2017 12:30
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Synthbuttrange posted:Second arrested person wasnt with the driver, but arrested for filming the incident and having a bag full of knives. Police presser said he was filming the incident, was searched, found to have knives and arrested because of that... but it's "probable" he has nothing to do with the incident. So you have to wonder why he was searched for filming? Surely heaps of people were filming? My guess is that, since he was given as aged 24, he's the younger guy in the red flannel with the beard (not the guy in white shirt being pulled from the car) and was racially profiled.
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Dec 21, 2017 13:44
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Recoome posted:VicPol probably has some amazing amounts of "us vs. them" mentality which, paired with the increasing levels of paramilitarisation of the police services (black uniforms hahah) around Aus makes it a toxic combination The vague impression I get from new coverage and various other stuff is that the foot-level troops are as reactionary and close-ranked and white-supremacist-high-fiving as any other Australian police force, whereas from the top-down level there's an attempt to root that sort of stuff out. Just one example, from the other day: http://www.theage.com.au/victoria/cops-investigate-menace-to-society-gang-after-party-house-trashed-police-pelted-20171220-h085uf.html quote:Inspector Allison said the cultural backgrounds of those involved in the violence was irrelevant, after suggestions from residents that youths with African backgrounds were being protected by police. Not something I would imagine hearing in, say, Queensland.
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