snoremac posted:

I disagree with this Americanisation of Auspol thread.

hambeet posted:

Ghost Leviathan posted:

'Folks' is a useful word, though. And it's one syllable, handy for Australian linguistic laziness.

bandaid.friend posted:

The looney left is at it again. This time, the PC crusade is targeting plural nouns

GoldStandardConure posted:

Ask any of your male (straight) friends if they gently caress guys and that will let you know if its gendered or not.

Anidav posted:

I am a firm believer that immigration policy will shift into something good once they are in government.

Whitlam posted:

I don't think anyone is arguing that greater racial representation in Parliament is bad, just that "I'm X race, you're X race, therefore you should vote for me" is lovely reasoning. If a white candidate ran against a non-white candidate and said "vote for me because I'm white", the thread would (rightfully) be up in arms.

Anidav posted:

As someone who has to read newspaper comments sections daily I can tell you that most people in those bubbles are self funded retiree weirdos who think anything that wasn't made in the 1980s is communism. The disadvantage of comments sections in journalist websites is that the comments section itself is sometimes more important to read than the article itself. What this means is you end up with a community of commenters who use other commenters in order to comment on the article itself which is often distorted from the original tone of the article.

Then you know companies know this because they write articles to feed the commenters so they can meet their unique visits or clicks KPI but no one really reads the full article.

So the Australian's percentage becomes believable when you put a asterisk next to it clarifying that people who read the Australian trust themselves to be correct in the comments section in an article written in order to feed the comments section so a journalist can reach their KPIs.

Anidav posted:

What?

Don Dongington posted:

Australia being 5 years behind the rest of the world in anything

tithin posted:

fwiw, you are coming across as being condescending / disbelieving with that post

tithin posted:

I'll bash your fash

Anidav posted:

gently caress Labor

Count Chocula posted:

Other things my housemate believes: 9/11 was an inside job. The Roman Catholic Church invented Islam. Refugees get tons of money and housing and are treated really well, including the ones on Manus Island. The media is covering up a massive Muslim gang problem. The Virgin Mary was artificially inseminated by aliens. The Egyptian pyramids were generators for Tesla energy. Russian time travelers have gone back in time to ensure we live in the best timeline. White people were responsible for the American civil rights movement.

GoldStandardConure posted:

except when you know people like this IRL and you are in hospital due to your genetic illness and they are all "have you tried jamming activated crystals up your rear end? big pharma is poisoning you"

say hello.jpg posted:

I went to uni with the guy I was actually in a group assignment with him in database 1. He would spend the classes reading time cube with his nose pressed up against the monitor was pretty surreal. Apparently he interrupted/hijacked a lecture to try to tell people about time cube. I ended up deferring and after I got back I found out what happened. I only found out about how far his obsession went here on SA quite a few years later.

Onto conspiracy things. I've been told that we have nukes however they are disassembled into components. Now normally if these components are within a certain distance of one another they are still classed a nuclear device. The theory is that because of the size of Aus we can store the components with out them being close enough to be classed as nukes.

GoldStandardConure posted:

The Neon Demon is currently on Netflix.

Synthbuttrange posted:

And this is contentious because...

hidys posted:

Katherine Murphy

hidys posted:

Craig Laundy

BBJoey posted:

Does anyone know what's precipitated the sudden deluge of sympathy for asylum seekers (at least, some of them)? Indefinite detention has been going on for over half a decade now and all of a sudden it's front page news. Remember that the US transfer deal came about before Donald Trump was even president. It makes me feel like some conspiracy theory psycho but I can't help but wonder if some higher ups in the media foodchain are pushing everything to cripple ScoMo to whatever end.

MysticalMachineGun posted:

They've written multiple biographies for loving horses

These people are insane

GoldStandardConure posted:

using italics just returns us to the days of kislerger kid or however the gently caress you spell his name

Frogfingers posted:

I've had a VPN for 3 years now. Anyone else bothered by it does too. It's an issue put to bed already.

MysticalMachineGun posted:

Still loling at this btw

bell jar posted:

You should read...GBS

Solemn Sloth posted:

What would be the point of a federal EPA?

Schlesische posted:

If it was a Porsche Macan GTS they might convince Caulfield to vote even more Liberal than they already will. If it's just a Volvo then clearly "they just aren't the right kind of people".