hambeet posted:

gently caress, now I don't know what to call the new greens.

AgentF posted:

Australia Australia Australia Party

Anidav posted:

Budget airline Jetstar is under fire for using foreign cabin crews on Australian routes and paying them a base pay of as little as $100 a week.

Brown Paper Bag posted:

https://twitter.com/michaelkoziol/status/1029286219702652928?s=21

A final solution to the immigration problem

Sparticle posted:

The West has a plague of homegrown terrorists putting Islamic extremists to shame with their frequency and ferocity of attacks: Antifa, an umbrella term for a loose collection of groups and individuals and is meant to be a shortening of the words “anti-fascist”.

The only problem with their self-given label is that Antifa embodies just about everything defining a fascist. Merriam-Webster defines fascism as promoting nation and often race above individuals, standing for a centralised, autocratic government, severe economic and social regimentation, and forcible suppression of opposition.

Contrastingly, there is very little in any of the victims of Antifa which resembles fascism.

We promote the equal rights and interests of individuals – justice which is blind to identity. Far from a centralised government, conservatives commonly advocate federalism – the competition of the states. Contrasting with autocratic government, conservatives champion the smallest government and least regulation necessary. Conservatives generally prefer free markets instead of economic regulation, and social liberty instead of social regimentations such as enforced political correctness through the various para-judicial tribunals and commissions operating as thought police.

Most notably, conservatives personify the opposite of fascism with our strong advocacy of free speech, even when that speech is bad. If you asked me what single greatest change our parliaments could make to increase personal liberty and freedom of speech in Australia, I would answer the abolition of the Human Rights Commission and the various state-based anti-discrimination tribunals. These are tools of forcible suppression of opposition which real fascists should adore.

In Australia, fascistic leftists are frequently seen forcibly suppressing any opposition to their politics. They physically blocked 50 people from entering a venue in Melbourne last year who wanted to listen to a distinguished paediatrician give a lecture on gender dysphoria. A lot of extra police resources were needed to control the violent behaviour at what would have otherwise been peaceful events when Milo Yiannopoulos and Lauren Southern visited Australia. The extreme left are fundamentally fascistic and resort to violence to attempt to silence dissent.

An early advocate of fascism, Italian dictator Benito Mussolini, observed that one of the few principles of fascism is that any type of questioning the status quo is not to be tolerated. If you do not conform with dictated ideas, even the most violent response is justified to prevent your evil ideas from even being heard by anyone else. Sound familiar?

The violent left are the real fascists: those uncivilised barbarians who refuse to protest peacefully and abide the law, but impose their political agendas on all who disagree. Their insatiable appetite for dictatorial power to control other people’s opinions, jack-booted suppression of opposing ideas and socialist control of the means of production bear all the hallmarks of 1940s Germany’s fascism. They lack only fascism’s ultranationalism – menacingly replaced by the other extreme: globalism.

If Antifa were really opposed to fascism they would behave entirely the opposite of how they usually do, and advocate conservative or even classical liberal policies instead of authoritarianism. The only reason the fascistic left pretend to oppose fascism is because they seek to demonise rather than debate.

Two things happen when leftists call conservatives fascist. One, they redefine yet another word, as they have with “marriage” and “racist”. When it means anything, it means nothing. Two, they remove all doubt of their willful ignorance and they simply look stupid to everyone else by personifying that which they claim to oppose.

The domestic terrorists calling themselves Antifa and those of their kind are the real fascists we should all be concerned about.

hambeet posted:

Copy pasta

Intoluene posted:

Malcolm Terminal (thanks Guardian liveblog) looking like he's about to sneeze.

quote:

“There are 600,000 Muslims in Australia, they share no common interest with what we’re on about,” Newman said. 

“They have no common values, they preach to a different deity

Lid posted:

I will enjoy watching Abbott vote for Dutton as Dutton loses two leadership challenges in two days.

Doctor Spaceman posted:

https://twitter.com/SharriMarkson/status/1032430694390059008

Lid posted:

Post Trump world we were always at war with Oceania

Wrestlepig posted:

australian politics is so loving dumb. america thinks it's the worst at politics because they have one azathoth-esque idiot king but our entire political class is a hollow scramble for power by apparatchiks who inherited everything that is pathetic about this nation's culture, and do so in a way that has constantly failed for everyone involved over the course of a decade. the blatant contempt for the idea of a public good is on constant display, and it's all mired in false echoes of blokiness. Once again we have a conflict over whether we get a fascistic oaf uncle or a suit stuffed with millions of dollars, except we don't get a choice at all because the public rightfully doesn't care about inter-party factions when they vote. 6th time's the loving charm though rite

Doctor Spaceman posted:

https://twitter.com/rharris334/status/1032436329722703872

Toys For rear end Bum posted:

Trapezium Dave posted:

https://twitter.com/ljayes/status/1032508296861605888

rapeface posted:

goddddd the chinese guy on the ABC liking Dutton and thinking that we're letting too many people into the country just makes me so sad.

drunkill posted:

Pope is on fire, among other things

Anidav posted:

Wayne Swan next on ABC 24

I think Morrison has a better chance than Bishop, the RWNJ's on the Abbott wing see her as a Turnbull Ally.

rapeface posted:

My lefty, intelligent friend said he preferred her too and I was like wtf

rapeface posted:

He said something like "I'd be worried about the damage Dutton would do in the months leading up to the election" and "she seems like she's competent", which, when you're evil, not a positive so wtf man

I would blow Dane Cook posted:

https://twitter.com/crikey_news/status/1032540976244510720

Ora Tzo posted:

Something of interest.

https://www.canberratimes.com.au/po...821-p4zyv8.html

Prominent MPs and marginal seat holders struggling to secure the millions of dollars needed to mount an effective campaign against Labor.

GoldStandardConure posted:

Rinehart and the other doners are probably pouring money into the IPA and other "think tanks" who will be advertising on the LNPs behalf, so they can point at their empty bank balance and claim they are poor and don't have the unions rivers of gold, while still effectively spending millions on advertising.

monkeu posted:

https://twitter.com/squigglyrick/status/1033210679216369665

quote:

As Malcolm Turnbull stalled on a second leadership vote on Thursday, by demanding those betraying him identify themselves, some of his conservative colleagues were threatening to release damaging information about him to destroy his career.

“We are ready to open the bottom drawer,” a senior MP told The Saturday Paper on Thursday, after key cabinet members had withdrawn their support for Turnbull but before any second vote had been confirmed.

“We know where the bodies are buried.”

AgentF posted:

loving Matthias Corman on ABC 24 on knifing day was a huge waste of time for everyone. "The leadership spill is history and we are all moving forward with next generation leadership". The interviewer took issue with that, telling him you can't write off as history something that happened literally an hour earlier. "It's done and we are ready to move on".

Seriously why bother interviewing Liberal politicians? It's spin so repetitive that it's insulting. ABC wasted their time and ours. If you have an obvious spin doctor in your interview you either need to challenge their claims to bits or otherwise don't bother having them on. We know what they're going to say.