DancingShade posted:

The circle jerk thread in GBS is the same group of She Speaks For Me hillfolk insiders reposting the same things every day non stop.

I guess they're desperately craving validation or something. On SA of all places. And Auspol at that.

Brown Paper Bag posted:

https://twitter.com/jonathonio/status/969877469850255360?s=21

Chicken Parmigiana posted:

Don't think this has been posted yet. Worrisome but informative piece in the Grau about country Australia's weird obsession with cutting down trees even when there's no bloody point to it. I grew up in the country and the personalities in this article — good and bad — all sound familiar.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/mar/07/scorched-country-the-destruction-of-australias-native-landscape


Also I had no idea how much of the wilderness we've destroyed since invasion.


As much as Anglo-Australia loves to do wise, misty-eyed squints at the horizon while saying something noble about the bush, we also love cutting it the gently caress down non-stop.

It's similar here in Japan I expect; everyone believing they live in harmony with nature while bulldozing it, assuming there must be more somewhere else. There was a whole ad campaign on the trains recently, for the logging industry I assume... I couldn't understand it perfectly but the gist was clearly, "Come and be manly yet sensitive young men, working in the forest and appreciating the rugged beauty of the forest and also cutting down the forest."

quote:

Seabrook says this harsh attitude is partly based on fear and defensiveness. “There’s this mental thing that if you’re feeling guilty – and I think a lot of farmers have been made to feel guilty – you then get very cross if someone is sitting there and they can actually survive very nicely thank you with 30% of native vegetation on their land.”

I would blow Dane Cook posted:

https://www.buzzfeed.com/aliceworkman/big-willie-style?utm_term=.rrREq0lEQ#.mbwQrnaQL

fiery_valkyrie posted:

How many tampons do these men think women use??

The way they’re all carrying on you’d think that 90% of government revenue comes from the gst on tampons.

Forget the companies with turnover in the billions that pay no tax - we’re going to bring the budget back into surplus by keeping the tax on tampons!

hooman posted:

http://junkee.com/black-comedy-sunrise/151038

Birdstrike posted:

what are you talking about?

CrazyTolradi posted:

hooman posted:

Regarding Greer she's a product of a different culture. She's wrong, but it doesn't surprise me she thinks that way. We're all a product of our environment, and in 80 years we'll still be eating meat while our grandchildren will be like "oh my god what is wrong with grandpa why does he eat animals".

NTRabbit posted:

Clive James was born in the same year and moved through the same circles, and despite being a socialist, a supporter of the workers, and an intellectual all his life, in recent years he's been pro-Iraq war and a mild climate change sceptic.

I would blow Dane Cook posted:

http://www.betootaadvocate.com/entertainment/throwback-thursday-dutton-rocks-the-three-quarter-cargos-from-his-undercover-cop-days/