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Dude McAwesome
Sep 30, 2004

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I would blow Dane Cook posted:

He nutted in the lady.

Woah fella don’t get ahead of yourself

Anyone could have nutted in that nice lady

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Dude McAwesome
Sep 30, 2004

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Anidav posted:

Wow! Little girl earns 10 dollars per hour and performs tricks at mother's friends children's birthday party while amused capitalists throw her tips!

I’m the parent cutting into her profit margins by charging her for transport and consumables.

Dude McAwesome
Sep 30, 2004

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Could any of you lovely people with a subscription to the Hun post today's article attacking MFB firefighters?

Cartoon posted:

School yard bully taunts, "Your Mum's a rent seeker!"

Guillotine.

Dude McAwesome
Sep 30, 2004

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Welp, after turning into clickbaity trash it looks like ABC has gone full Murdoch and is now just copy/pasting full articles from the Herald Sun. Un-fact-checked full union bashing articles.

Imagine having some dickhead describe your weekends as “annual leave.”

http://mobile.abc.net.au/news/2018-...lnews_melbourne

Dude McAwesome fucked around with this message at 10:54 on Mar 6, 2018

Dude McAwesome
Sep 30, 2004

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iajanus posted:

"Sorry page not found "

?

Fixed the link. Sorry about that. Phoneposting.

Dude McAwesome
Sep 30, 2004

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JBP posted:

I'm loving all of the sad losers getting angry about the MFB deal. Unions are useless! They don't do anything! Unions are too powerful! Unions are controlling the government and get perks from Labor! I won't join my union I get the "benefits" anyway!

"WHAT DOES THE UFU HAVE ON DANIEL ANDREWS?!?!" is probably my favourite insane conspiracy theory.

The Before Times posted:

my favourite thing is that they're implying staff are going to take advantage of ALL THE LEAVE. it's not like they get paid out if they don't take the 4 days' bereavement leave or whatever

4 weeks annual leave. 13 public holidays. Average firefighter works 42 hours a week (48 hours over 5 days). Gets paid for 38. Unpaid hours get accrued as leave. It's really not that remarkable. But the Hun loving hates the UFU. They've given the UFU something like 35+ front pages over the last few years. And now other agencies are jumping on a lovely, half-baked story.

Dude McAwesome
Sep 30, 2004

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JBP posted:

They'll piss themselves to death if change the rules can make headway on industry level bargaining

Sorry JBP, what does this mean?

Are there big changes coming to industry level bargaining? (EBAs?)

Dude McAwesome
Sep 30, 2004

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Intoluene posted:

ALP wants to make it so, iirc.

They'll gently caress it up somehow. All workers get two weeks mandatory coal mining leave. All workers must participate in locking up refugees.

Dude McAwesome
Sep 30, 2004

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Cartoon posted:

Are we accepting of Truecrimesweekly as benchmark journalism these days?

Maybe we should take ABC as the benchma... oh.

Everything that's not Buzzfeed is dead to me.

Dude McAwesome
Sep 30, 2004

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Anidav posted:

Can someone Photoshop him just covered in ribbons

It’s Malcolm’s version of 10-flags-Tony

Dude McAwesome
Sep 30, 2004

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You Am I posted:

Especially the entire Liberal Party in Victoria. They loving hate the level crossing removals and the Metro tunnel

Their solution is to remove 50 roundabouts and sets of traffic lights. It’s genius level stuff. Because if there’s no traffic lights then cars will never have to slow down!

JBP posted:

I'm thinking of starting a single issue Xenophon type party to just run in the senate called the corporate taxation enforcement party and just loving block and poo poo on everything until it happens.

Vote 1 JBP.

Dude McAwesome
Sep 30, 2004

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“Property can only go up and booms last forever.”

Sucked in dickhead. Zero sympathy here.

Dude McAwesome
Sep 30, 2004

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Anidav posted:

Man Bill Shorten really hit the beehive here, i haven't seen this many angry triggered Boomers in comments sections like this in years.

May as well go after the people who aren’t gonna vote for you anyway!

Dude McAwesome
Sep 30, 2004

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I signed up to Patreon just so I could give Boonta Vista Socialist Club money.

Worth every cent.

Dude McAwesome
Sep 30, 2004

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JBP posted:

Going on strike is legal :viggo:

Don’t you need to be in bargaining and for it to be ratified by Fair Work and even then it has to be voted on by the majority, which the employer can oppose for the most farcical of reasons? And after it’s approved if the strike doesn’t occur in 90 days you need to reapply?

Dude McAwesome
Sep 30, 2004

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idgi

Dude McAwesome
Sep 30, 2004

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JBP posted:

What does Alex Bhathal actually do for a job? Does anyone even know?

Social worker

Dude McAwesome
Sep 30, 2004

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Doctor Spaceman posted:

JBP's chronic alcoholism strikes again.

Dude McAwesome
Sep 30, 2004

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CrazyTolradi posted:

Upon translation, the static is found to read "THE PLIGHT OF TRUE WORKER"

"YOU'RE SPLITTING THE PROGRESSIVE VOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOTE"

Dude McAwesome
Sep 30, 2004

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JBP posted:

I bet he only bulk bills for political points.

Do his motivations really matter when he's providing affordable healthcare for people who need it? Or does that somehow lessen the good he undoubtedly does?

Dude McAwesome
Sep 30, 2004

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You doing some day drinking JBP?

Because I'm down with that.

Dude McAwesome
Sep 30, 2004

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I just had a quick look at Ged's FB and literally every policy is "if you elect me then we'll throw money at the electorate! yay!".

Except for the one that's "we'll extend a tram line."

Dude McAwesome
Sep 30, 2004

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Zenithe posted:

http://www.abc.net.au/news/elections/batman-by-election-2018/

Currently zero (0) first preference liberal votes in 1.5% counted.

Libs didn't run a candidate

Dude McAwesome
Sep 30, 2004

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Zenithe posted:

Lol, fair enough then.

I think at this point they realise in inner Melbourne they're persona non grata.

Dude McAwesome
Sep 30, 2004

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Doctor Spaceman posted:

Don't whiteant a solid candidate either.

jfc this. gently caress The Darebin Greens. loving idiots.

Dude McAwesome
Sep 30, 2004

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bell jar posted:

Congrats to the Batman Greens who somehow managed to outleak the ALP and lose their easiest election ever

Guillotine.

Dude McAwesome
Sep 30, 2004

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So best states now VIC, WA and QLD?

Dude McAwesome
Sep 30, 2004

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What the gently caress did the PM achieve this week? Steel tariff exemptions?

Dude McAwesome
Sep 30, 2004

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Paracetamol posted:

And gently caress negative gearing off for existing properties too. Oh and guillotine the rich.

100% with you on both of those.

If you’re not contributing to new housing stock why the gently caress is there a tax incentive attached. It’s madness.

Dude McAwesome
Sep 30, 2004

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Hey friends, what was the website that shows how an MP has voted? I wanted to show a person at work that Xenophon, Hanson et al basically vote Liberal most of the time.

Dude McAwesome
Sep 30, 2004

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No Xenophon unfortunately. I was hoping there was a different one. Thanks anyway :)

Dude McAwesome
Sep 30, 2004

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Jonah Galtberg posted:

the funniest part of that saga was her bitterness over (maybe?) losing her job because of violent posts she made with her real name attached

What/when in the actual gently caress was this?

Dude McAwesome
Sep 30, 2004

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Yowzers. That’s rough.

Dude McAwesome
Sep 30, 2004

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Lucy Valentine and the rest of Boonta Vista are god drat national treasures.

Dude McAwesome
Sep 30, 2004

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jfc australians are an absolute pack of dumb cunts

Dude McAwesome
Sep 30, 2004

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ShoeFly posted:

That’s a Russian bot. I guess they’re getting into stirring poo poo in Australia now too?

Ah, it turns out that it is I who is the dumb one.

Well played Russian twitter bot. You’re hardly distinguishable from the human trash that make up this country.

Dude McAwesome
Sep 30, 2004

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JBP posted:

This is what I've been trying to say.

Feel free to quote me in future. For any and all occasions.


:lol: :lol: :lol:

What in the actual gently caress?

Dude McAwesome
Sep 30, 2004

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trunkh posted:

Here's a thought. Don't put either party in the poster and keep it the same? The 'so and so fault' stuff strikes me as the question time blame game bullshit everyone's sick of.

Yep, agreed. All it had to say is that people aren't getting paid penalty rates and the greens are trying to get them back. Not that loving hard really. Ugh, really hoping Larissa Waters gets number one spot on the greens ballot in QLD next election. She was cool and good.

Dude McAwesome
Sep 30, 2004

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This was at the end of ~21 hours of debate on the bill, that went all night and all morning.

gently caress the Libs. gently caress them so hard. The sneaky dog rat cunts.

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Dude McAwesome
Sep 30, 2004

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The Before Times posted:

I can't see a way the LNP comes out of this looking good. First, the bill was (I think) about compensation for firefighters whose cancer was contracted in their line of duty.

LNP have an ideological hatred of professional firefighters. Because we’re heavily unionised. So the flip side of that is they love ARE VOLUNTEERS and are trying to secure votes in regional electorates by carrying on about how they love CFA HERO VOLUNTEERS and won’t KOWTOW TO UNION THUGS FROM THE CITY.

Should fire service reform and cancer legislation have been tied up together? Probably not. But there was no loving way in hell of getting fire service reforms through without tying it to presumptive cancer legislation for firefighters.

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