AUSPOL DEC-APR: New South Wales is bad at Sim City 3000

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fiery_valkyrie: Mar 26, 2003; I'm proud of you, Bender. Sure, you lost. You lost bad. But the important thing is I beat up someone who hurt my feelings in high school.

Brown Paper Bag posted:

Funny how one of the few female Liberal MPs (Jane Prentice) got dumped in preselection and there was nothing that could be done, but they somehow find a way to save the invaluable Craig loving Kelly

He�s helping to keep up their quota of Sky news appearances.

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# ¿ May 18, 2024 04:36

fiery_valkyrie: Mar 26, 2003; I'm proud of you, Bender. Sure, you lost. You lost bad. But the important thing is I beat up someone who hurt my feelings in high school.

tithin posted:

https://twitter.com/dissent831/status/1069367667813838848?s=19

Amazing.

# ¿ Dec 3, 2018 03:04

fiery_valkyrie: Mar 26, 2003; I'm proud of you, Bender. Sure, you lost. You lost bad. But the important thing is I beat up someone who hurt my feelings in high school.

It�s a shame we�ll probably never get any follow up to those �I bought 30 houses by the time I was 25 (and am carrying a debt load of $10 million)� articles

# ¿ Dec 4, 2018 07:27

fiery_valkyrie: Mar 26, 2003; I'm proud of you, Bender. Sure, you lost. You lost bad. But the important thing is I beat up someone who hurt my feelings in high school.

Why is everything so poo poo right now?

quote:

Former Adelaide archbishop Philip Wilson is set to walk free after his conviction for concealing child sexual abuse was quashed by a judge.

....

Newcastle Local Court convicted Father Wilson in May of concealing abuse committed by paedophile priest Jim Fletcher in the Hunter Valley dating back to the 1970s.

It found that in 1976 a victim, Peter Creigh, confided in Father Wilson that he had been sexually abused, yet Father Wilson failed to report it to police when Fletcher was charged with other child sex offences in 2004.

Before overturning Father Wilson's conviction, Judge Roy Ellis said the former archbishop was honest and consistent.

"There were very honest features of his evidence to provide a strong platform for him to be an honest witness," he said.

"[He] did not attempt to blacken the name of Peter Creigh and allege he was a liar.

"He was clearly an intelligent and articulate witness.

"There is no proper basis on which I can rely to reject the evidence of [Father Wilson]."

Judge Ellis said the crown failed to prove its case beyond reasonable doubt, upheld the appeal and then ordered that the clergyman be released.

At that point a Catholic clerical abuse survivor stood up in the courtroom gallery and shouted, "Bullshit, that is a disgrace".

....

In his judgment, Judge Ellis highlighted what he called inconsistencies in a Mr Creigh's evidence.

He also questioned Mr Creigh's memory in relation to the timing of his alleged conversation with Father Wilson, when he claimed he raised the alarm about Fletcher's abuse.

He also said there were inconsistencies in relation to the length of the conversation and frequency of the abuse.

"Was the duration of the abuse, six or nine months?" the judge asked.

This is such bullshit. Claiming the victim isn�t consistent about details of something that happened 40 years ago, and when you�re talking about whether something was 6 or 9 months. This is just more reason why victims don�t speak up, because they are treated like the ones on trial and predators get off free on the flimsiest of technicalities.

# ¿ Dec 6, 2018 08:07

fiery_valkyrie: Mar 26, 2003; I'm proud of you, Bender. Sure, you lost. You lost bad. But the important thing is I beat up someone who hurt my feelings in high school.

This is a really interesting article about how being in such a traumatic situation can affect memory and how when police start from a place of disbelieving the victim it biases and hinders the investigations. It�s a very good read.

https://www.propublica.org/article/false-rape-accusations-an-unbelievable-story

# ¿ Dec 6, 2018 08:24

fiery_valkyrie: Mar 26, 2003; I'm proud of you, Bender. Sure, you lost. You lost bad. But the important thing is I beat up someone who hurt my feelings in high school.

Memento posted:

Yeah I had to think about who this muppet was for more than a few seconds.

https://twitter.com/mnkearney/status/1074466687687090176

Oh yeah, that guy.

My favourite part of these scandals is always the breathtaking hypocrisy.

# ¿ Dec 17, 2018 03:28

fiery_valkyrie: Mar 26, 2003; I'm proud of you, Bender. Sure, you lost. You lost bad. But the important thing is I beat up someone who hurt my feelings in high school.

quote:

However, during the intimate dinner, things quickly turned sour after Andrew, 43, complained about the menu prices, boasted relentlessly about his new role as assistant minister to the deputy prime minister and began to act inappropriately.

Assistant to the Regional Manager.

# ¿ Dec 17, 2018 03:32

fiery_valkyrie: Mar 26, 2003; I'm proud of you, Bender. Sure, you lost. You lost bad. But the important thing is I beat up someone who hurt my feelings in high school.

Brown Paper Bag posted:

Every new detail in this story is a delight

https://twitter.com/evanwilliams/status/1074534082204205056?s=21

So this guy only became a politician to fulfill some sexual fantasy right?

# ¿ Dec 17, 2018 13:50

fiery_valkyrie: Mar 26, 2003; I'm proud of you, Bender. Sure, you lost. You lost bad. But the important thing is I beat up someone who hurt my feelings in high school.

snoremac posted:

On top of what�s been pointed out, Peterson believes makeup is a sexual provocation and that we need to re-examine whether women should be in the same workplace as men. He�s a hardline reactionary in the trappings of an effete philosopher who�s just asking questions.

Thank you.

He also tries to normalise sexual harassment of women in the workplace and blame the victims by basically parroting old school �looked at how she dressed/acted. She was asking for it� bullshit.

Women wearing makeup are being sexually provocative because the only reason women wear makeup is to be more sexually attractive (ignoring the social history and pressures for women around makeup), men shouldn�t be held responsible for their actions because they�re confused about the �rules� regarding male/female social interaction in a professional setting, etc.

He points out facts about men that are true and important (like higher male suicide rates) and that show areas where men are disadvantaged but then extrapolates that into all situations are disadvantageous for men and uses it as an excuse to justify discrimination of others and poor behaviour of men.

Dress all that up in a package of a highly educated authority figure, who speaks in a rational and intelligent manner and you have a guy whose views are given a wide platform. That�s the risk JBP.

# ¿ Dec 20, 2018 00:19

fiery_valkyrie: Mar 26, 2003; I'm proud of you, Bender. Sure, you lost. You lost bad. But the important thing is I beat up someone who hurt my feelings in high school.

JBP posted:

This is so weird lmao

That�s because he�s a creepy weirdo who never considers women as anything other than sexual objects.

# ¿ Dec 20, 2018 06:15

fiery_valkyrie: Mar 26, 2003; I'm proud of you, Bender. Sure, you lost. You lost bad. But the important thing is I beat up someone who hurt my feelings in high school.

Gridlocked posted:

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-01-22/clive-palmer-sets-up-kiwi-company-threatens-to-sue-taxpayers/10734744

The gently caress

Who doesn�t want to vote for the political candidate who simultaneously wants to sue Australia?

# ¿ Jan 22, 2019 11:53

fiery_valkyrie: Mar 26, 2003; I'm proud of you, Bender. Sure, you lost. You lost bad. But the important thing is I beat up someone who hurt my feelings in high school.

freebooter posted:

How does Hildebrand manage to explain the Norman invasion and then somehow say that the British Empire was descended from Vikings. How does he even manage to get his smarmy fancy booklearning history wrong.

I think he trying to be uber smart, by referring to the Normans origins in Scandinavia. There is also the point where he mentions that the Viking Empire was at its greatest extent in the 18th century.

So English �> Norman �> Viking

But he seems to have forgotten the final step:

Everyone �> Africans.

So really, how can anyone be racist when we are all actually African??

# ¿ Jan 30, 2019 12:31

fiery_valkyrie: Mar 26, 2003; I'm proud of you, Bender. Sure, you lost. You lost bad. But the important thing is I beat up someone who hurt my feelings in high school.

From the guardian article on the Murray Darling RC, a couple of points I thought were worth reading

quote:

The 746-page report contained 111 findings and 44 recommendations.

Walker was particularly critical of the plan�s lack of consideration of climate change and has called for it to be central to a rewrite of the plan.

He pointed to the 2008 CSIRO study which said the the southern basin would get warmer and drier, likely resulting in �significantly less run-off into the river systems in the 21st century�.

�Based on the evidence of climate change experts, these projections are conservative � it is possible the reduction in run-off could be catastrophic ,� he warned.

quote:

Blair and the NSW deputy Premier, John Barilaro, who was in Menindee to inspect the site of the fish kills on Thursday, made it clear they would resist further cuts to the water entitlements of farmers, as recommended by the report.

�We will fight tooth and nail for our rural and regional communities,� the Nationals politicians said. �They need certainty. They need to know they have a future in the towns they love, communities they work in and the places they raise their families.

�The gloves are off when it comes to fighting for our water rights.�

# ¿ Jan 31, 2019 11:28

fiery_valkyrie: Mar 26, 2003; I'm proud of you, Bender. Sure, you lost. You lost bad. But the important thing is I beat up someone who hurt my feelings in high school.

quote:

The under-fire Liberal minister Scott Buchholz gave a female air force officer what he described to colleagues as �a hug� � a move which led to an official complaint against him.

Buchholz has issued an apology to the officer following the incident in Darwin last August during a taxpayer-funded exchange with the Australian defence force to observe the military exercise Pitch Black in 2018.

The Defence department has declined to reveal details of the complaint, which was first reported by the ABC. But the Guardian understands Buchholz has told colleagues the nature of the incident was a �hug�.

�He may have misread the situation and the friendly nature of the group,� a defence source said. �If you�re a smaller woman and a big burly bloke throws his arms around you that can be confronting.�

This is such a bullshit excuse. Being a �hugger� is no excuse for touching women you don�t know and who haven�t asked to be physically touched.

So fed up of the �he was just being friendly� excuse for men who think their desire to touch women matters more than what women want. Learn to respect some boundaries idiot.

# ¿ Feb 7, 2019 14:08

fiery_valkyrie: Mar 26, 2003; I'm proud of you, Bender. Sure, you lost. You lost bad. But the important thing is I beat up someone who hurt my feelings in high school.

Dutton�s super-ministry can�t even do their job on time. Clearly the ~~man~~ potato is one of history�s great inspirational leaders.

quote:

The Department of Home Affairs dropped its target of processing 80% of citizenship applications within 80 days after it got through just 15% last financial year, an efficiency review has found.

Of the 15%, nearly all were deemed to be �invalid for processing�, while the rest took up to 337 days.

In one instance a �low� effort case took 422 days to get a decision, of which 413 days was inactivity.

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2019/feb/13/duttons-department-processed-just-15-of-citizenship-applications-last-year

# ¿ Feb 13, 2019 03:54

fiery_valkyrie: Mar 26, 2003; I'm proud of you, Bender. Sure, you lost. You lost bad. But the important thing is I beat up someone who hurt my feelings in high school.

So all these people have been sitting on Manus/Nauru for years and now they have to rush through checking them out because they haven�t done it before. Even though they�ve been locked up and under supervision for years?

As the saying goes: poor planning on your part does not necessitate an emergency on mine.

# ¿ Feb 14, 2019 04:16

fiery_valkyrie: Mar 26, 2003; I'm proud of you, Bender. Sure, you lost. You lost bad. But the important thing is I beat up someone who hurt my feelings in high school.

JBP posted:

Share price has gone apeshit today, it's up nearly 20%

e: I begged the question re their losses versus investor interest "that element relates to the accounting treatment of non-cash items on their balance sheet. I don�t think their decision to write down the value of certain assets impacts their expected cash earnings"

The thing that really stands out is that excluding one-off costs, sales are flat and profit is down. So it cost them more money to achieve the same sales. That�s never a good sign.

# ¿ Feb 15, 2019 04:49

fiery_valkyrie: Mar 26, 2003; I'm proud of you, Bender. Sure, you lost. You lost bad. But the important thing is I beat up someone who hurt my feelings in high school.

JBP posted:

Oh yeah they're in strife it's just the big number isn't really much more than stupid accounting stuff I don't fully grasp

Yep, the elusive �goodwill�.

# ¿ Feb 15, 2019 05:24

fiery_valkyrie: Mar 26, 2003; I'm proud of you, Bender. Sure, you lost. You lost bad. But the important thing is I beat up someone who hurt my feelings in high school.

NTRabbit posted:

Sunset Power International bought Vales Point from the NSW government for $1m in 2015. Two years later it was re-valued at $730m and last year it reported a net profit of $113m.

Its part-owner, coal power advocate and former National Party candidate Trevor St Baker, has flagged extending its operation beyond its expected closure date of 2029 to 2049. Managing director Greg Everett said prolonging the plant�s life was a $400m decision and had nothing to do with its pitch into the emissions reduction fund.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/feb/15/emissions-reduction-fund-could-be-used-to-upgrade-40-year-old-coal-fired-power-plant

FFS. The politicians who signed off on that deal, thereby losing taxpayers a good $500m (conservative estimate) should face criminal charges.

# ¿ Feb 15, 2019 09:10

fiery_valkyrie: Mar 26, 2003; I'm proud of you, Bender. Sure, you lost. You lost bad. But the important thing is I beat up someone who hurt my feelings in high school.

adamantium|wang posted:

Good loving God

https://twitter.com/DrJoshuaRoose/status/1096309435712958464?s=19

Wonder if he employs an au-pair.

# ¿ Feb 15, 2019 09:28

fiery_valkyrie: Mar 26, 2003; I'm proud of you, Bender. Sure, you lost. You lost bad. But the important thing is I beat up someone who hurt my feelings in high school.

adamantium|wang posted:

So this is what his strategic vision is referring to:

I wonder how he squares this away with running a company that helps lock away refugees indefinitely

Oh wait he just reads until the end of verse 33 and stops

So polygamy? Seems very Christian.

# ¿ Feb 15, 2019 11:50

fiery_valkyrie: Mar 26, 2003; I'm proud of you, Bender. Sure, you lost. You lost bad. But the important thing is I beat up someone who hurt my feelings in high school.

Gridlocked posted:

Torturing people on Manus Island that's a Paladin.

insanely lucrative government contracts while having a lovely beach shack on kangaroo Island that's a Paladin

Crazy Rhodesian war criminals you better believe that's the wrongPaladin

Holy poo poo that�s amazing.

:golfclap:

# ¿ Feb 16, 2019 02:41

fiery_valkyrie: Mar 26, 2003; I'm proud of you, Bender. Sure, you lost. You lost bad. But the important thing is I beat up someone who hurt my feelings in high school.

Slugnoid posted:

here it is, the hospital on xmas island that critically ill people are going to be "medevac"'ed to under the scomo govt

There was a news article I read the other day that said the Christmas Island hospital didn�t have the ability to perform operations (not sure if it was due to staff or facility limitations).

So yeah cool, let�s send people in need of serious treatment from specialists to a place that doesn�t have any.

# ¿ Feb 19, 2019 01:37

fiery_valkyrie: Mar 26, 2003; I'm proud of you, Bender. Sure, you lost. You lost bad. But the important thing is I beat up someone who hurt my feelings in high school.

Endman posted:

I honestly didn�t think the next auspol meltdown would be over the innate classism/racism of eating pizza but here we are

That�s an unexpected stance given that the thread melts down every time the words pizza and pineapple are mentioned in the same sentence.

# ¿ Feb 19, 2019 05:53

fiery_valkyrie: Mar 26, 2003; I'm proud of you, Bender. Sure, you lost. You lost bad. But the important thing is I beat up someone who hurt my feelings in high school.

It�s a shitstorm for the Liberals right now.

quote:

During questioning about how the levy would apply, Senator O'Sullivan was exploring other options for the creation of a biosecurity risk.

"Here's my question, there's a bigger chance of us having a biosecurity breach by us having a bloody old Chinaman who brings in his favourite sausage down the front of his undies."

https://mobile.abc.net.au/news/2019-02-21/chinese-backlash-to-senator-osullivan-chinaman-comments/10833452

# ¿ Feb 21, 2019 05:58

fiery_valkyrie: Mar 26, 2003; I'm proud of you, Bender. Sure, you lost. You lost bad. But the important thing is I beat up someone who hurt my feelings in high school.

Turks posted:

Brisbane actually managed to avoid the heatwave this year, but if we get it next year that might finally be the push I need to move to Tassie.

In Hobart it�s forecast for 35 tomorrow and 37 on Saturday. Nowhere is safe.

# ¿ Feb 28, 2019 06:02

fiery_valkyrie: Mar 26, 2003; I'm proud of you, Bender. Sure, you lost. You lost bad. But the important thing is I beat up someone who hurt my feelings in high school.

Knobb Manwich posted:

he earns $90K and it took him two and a half years to save $30K, yep, we should definitely listen to this guy

e: loving moved back home and everything and still

HOW

HOW

And his parents still had to be guarantors for the loan.

# ¿ Feb 28, 2019 07:59

fiery_valkyrie: Mar 26, 2003; I'm proud of you, Bender. Sure, you lost. You lost bad. But the important thing is I beat up someone who hurt my feelings in high school.

I�ve always had my rent increased, every single lease renewal. Multiple states, multiple agencies.

And I always get told I�m a great tenant, get great references whenever I move out.

# ¿ Mar 9, 2019 02:55

fiery_valkyrie: Mar 26, 2003; I'm proud of you, Bender. Sure, you lost. You lost bad. But the important thing is I beat up someone who hurt my feelings in high school.

Don Dongington posted:

Someone who knows the answer confirm: - if you do 1-12 below the line, and Latham isn't one of the 12, your vote exhausts and there is no way Drueryvoodoo can result in your vote going to him, vs numbering every spot below the line where that is remotely possible, however unlikely, correct?

I don�t think Bowmore is concerned about Latham getting his vote, he just wants to be able to put Latham at the very, very, very end of the list.

# ¿ Mar 11, 2019 12:06

fiery_valkyrie: Mar 26, 2003; I'm proud of you, Bender. Sure, you lost. You lost bad. But the important thing is I beat up someone who hurt my feelings in high school.

Here�s an inspiring news story about how a couple saved for a house deposit by living in a shack with no electricity or running water!

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-03-14/couple-went-without-water-electricity-to-save-home-deposit/10897324

I�d understand if it was a domain article, but how does an ABC journalist write this and not think �wait, what the gently caress�.

# ¿ Mar 14, 2019 00:25

fiery_valkyrie: Mar 26, 2003; I'm proud of you, Bender. Sure, you lost. You lost bad. But the important thing is I beat up someone who hurt my feelings in high school.

Ugh. Anning keeps some terrible loving company.

adamantium|wang posted:

https://twitter.com/paulsakkal/status/1106801008661815296?s=19
https://twitter.com/paulsakkal/status/1106801691871969280?s=19
https://twitter.com/paulsakkal/status/1106802279510761472?s=19

I hope those fuckers get charged with assault. Choking somebody is incredibly dangerous.

# ¿ Mar 16, 2019 08:09

fiery_valkyrie: Mar 26, 2003; I'm proud of you, Bender. Sure, you lost. You lost bad. But the important thing is I beat up someone who hurt my feelings in high school.

All I remember from high school history was learning about WW1 -> WW2 -> Cold War and also China from Boxer Rebellion to Great Leap Forward.

Definitely learnt more about European history than Australian history, especially indigenous history.

I�m old though, so this was in the late 80�s/early 90�s.

# ¿ Mar 19, 2019 11:46

fiery_valkyrie: Mar 26, 2003; I'm proud of you, Bender. Sure, you lost. You lost bad. But the important thing is I beat up someone who hurt my feelings in high school.

gently caress you Fraser Anning.

quote:

Fraser Anning has admitted on video he knew the person who egged him was a child when he struck him twice in retaliation, saying the boy �deserved it�.

Victorian police are continuing to investigate the incident �in its entirety�, including the actions of the Queensland senator and the five crowd members involved in tackling and restraining the boy.

In one video filmed by a supporter of Anning and posted online, the senator acknowledged he recognised immediately that the boy was a minor.

�Because he�s only a kid I only slapped him with an open hand but you know, he deserved that,� Anning said. �He needs to get a few manners.�

Anning had been telling a reporter the Christchurch terrorist attack was an �unfortunate� tragedy �but it�s going to be eventually accepted or expected that these sort of things happen when people are getting attacked in their own�� when the boy cracked the egg on his head and called him a racist.

Anning turned around and hit him, saying �don�t do you do that�, and appeared to call the boy a �loving mongrel�.

# ¿ Mar 21, 2019 13:51

fiery_valkyrie: Mar 26, 2003; I'm proud of you, Bender. Sure, you lost. You lost bad. But the important thing is I beat up someone who hurt my feelings in high school.

I would blow Dane Cook posted:

Meanwhile in the Courier Heil:

Geez, the level of political discourse in this country. Watch out, the bad man wants to take away the sausage sizzle.

# ¿ Mar 25, 2019 03:08

fiery_valkyrie: Mar 26, 2003; I'm proud of you, Bender. Sure, you lost. You lost bad. But the important thing is I beat up someone who hurt my feelings in high school.

adamantium|wang posted:

The article goes on and on. Ashby and Dickson approached the NRA and Koch Industries for millions in donations and advice on how to provide a counter narrative to mass shootings a couple of months before foreign donations were banned.

A couple of months before foreign donations were banned AND while Hanson was publicly backing the ban.

# ¿ Mar 25, 2019 23:49

fiery_valkyrie: Mar 26, 2003; I'm proud of you, Bender. Sure, you lost. You lost bad. But the important thing is I beat up someone who hurt my feelings in high school.

Dude McAwesome posted:

Their 3 year investigation appears to be conducted by a man in a cowboy hat.

In disguise as a One Nation supporter.

# ¿ Mar 26, 2019 02:28

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# ¿ May 18, 2024 04:36

fiery_valkyrie: Mar 26, 2003; I'm proud of you, Bender. Sure, you lost. You lost bad. But the important thing is I beat up someone who hurt my feelings in high school.

Hobo Erotica posted:

Dickson is filmed telling pro-gun advocates that Australia has been importing "dangerous" Muslims who break into people's homes with baseball bats and steal everything they own.

There�s a direct line between lies like this and the shooting in Christchurch. I�d hope that the media would explicitly call that out, but I won�t hold my breath.

# ¿ Mar 26, 2019 02:32

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