Register a SA Forums Account here!
JOINING THE SA FORUMS WILL REMOVE THIS BIG AD, THE ANNOYING UNDERLINED ADS, AND STUPID INTERSTITIAL ADS!!!

You can: log in, read the tech support FAQ, or request your lost password. This dumb message (and those ads) will appear on every screen until you register! Get rid of this crap by registering your own SA Forums Account and joining roughly 150,000 Goons, for the one-time price of $9.95! We charge money because it costs us money per month for bills, and since we don't believe in showing ads to our users, we try to make the money back through forum registrations.
 
  • Post
  • Reply
BBJoey
Oct 31, 2012

Good thread op thx

Adbot
ADBOT LOVES YOU

BBJoey
Oct 31, 2012

Yeah but if you arbitrarily ignored certain polls and paid attention to others they predicted the result perfectly

BBJoey
Oct 31, 2012

quote:

At Bloom, entrepreneurs work together to maximize each others' long term impact.

oh it's one of those """"""companies"""""""

BBJoey
Oct 31, 2012

Anidav posted:

Atleast in the UK you have a gently caress load of media outlets contesting Tory bullshit but here, here on Hell Boomer Island, we got nothing.

BRB Channel 9 fund raiser

Buddy the UK media landscape is even worse than ours

BBJoey
Oct 31, 2012

bandaid.friend posted:

I've heard bad things about UK Guardian, people say it's super transphobic

transphobia is the national sport of the UK

BBJoey
Oct 31, 2012

incoherent fascist trash. he can’t even get his own black armband history straight. “white migrants didn’t come to Australia to change it. well actually they did but it was good so it’s ok”

BBJoey
Oct 31, 2012

nankeen posted:

just a reminder, making welfare excruciating to live on is deliberate and the aim is to get people off welfare and into the military

there's no second step. destroying welfare is both the means and the end.

BBJoey
Oct 31, 2012

lol that Labor’s response to a union busting bill is to try and convince a union leader to resign

BBJoey
Oct 31, 2012

MysticalMachineGun posted:

If international students make up over half the student body and win the election fair and square then what's the problem?

Just because we're rinsing them for all they're worth doesn't mean they should be allowed to do anything, man.

BBJoey
Oct 31, 2012

fauna posted:

when does a chinese person living in australia become an australian?

What do the words “international student” mean to you

BBJoey
Oct 31, 2012

hooman posted:

Excuse me sir, I see a real boob every time I turn off my monitor.

That's a mir- wait. gently caress. What have you done

BBJoey
Oct 31, 2012

LIVE AMMO ROLEPLAY posted:

How long until kickbacks are just an open and accepted part of politics, it's not like there's any pushback to corruption.

They're already open and accepted and there's literally nothing anyone can do about it. Ministers can give money to whoever they want, whenever they want, for whatever they want. Here's an instructive case. https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/government-ignored-advice-not-to-give-2-million-grant-to-bob-day-college-20170511-gw2xk5.html The only thing remarkable in this instance is that the ANAO uncovered written advice against this particular kickback - that's sloppy work on the APS's part, but understandable considering how lax the government has gotten in covering up its corruption.

It's also funny to think that Bob Day is so cheap he sold his critical Senate vote for less than $2 million.

BBJoey
Oct 31, 2012

quote:

"It seems that today's generation don't really want to volunteer themselves and commit to certain things. They want to show up to a rally once a year and apparently that's giving back," Senator Lambie said.

go gently caress yourself you dumb oval office

BBJoey
Oct 31, 2012

Recoome posted:

I also believe that this is actually completely false

it's impossible for feckless millennials to live up to the public contributions of jacqui lambie, notably leeching off the public purse in parliament and appearing on reality TV shows

BBJoey
Oct 31, 2012

John Setka is a good union leader and trying to hound him out is a very good way to further cripple the already moribund labour movement.

But hey at least the political wing of the movement is still going strong

BBJoey
Oct 31, 2012

BrigadierSensible posted:

You know the Fox News "union guy"? And how he is the American right's stereotype of the scary unions.


Well I reckon Setka is the Australian version of that bloke. He is a provably rapey/gropey/sexually harrassy toxic masculinity thug who is only interested in his position of power in the Union administration hierarchy actively trying to hamper productivity
oh for sure dude

BBJoey
Oct 31, 2012

Anidav posted:



Djxhshazhshsbz

quote:

Treasurer Josh Frydenberg on Thursday revealed the 2018-19 budget showed a deficit of $690 million, which in accounting terms is a balanced budget.

why bother

BBJoey
Oct 31, 2012

i don't think the ATO would accept me paying no tax because "in accounting terms", my income is actually $0 (plus or minus $690 million)

BBJoey
Oct 31, 2012

you realise that Morrison himself has referenced that joke, right?

BBJoey
Oct 31, 2012

thatfatkid posted:

http://www.wrongkindofgreen.org/201...olume-ii-act-v/

well that wasn't blatantly obvious from the get go. love to mobilise the masses to agitate for the greenwashing and woke-ifying of the neoliberal system that created the climate crisis in the first place.

gotta be honest my dude i didn't read this

BBJoey
Oct 31, 2012

Testekill posted:

Has anyone got the feeling in the back of their minds that there might be another spill coming up over the next six months? Morrison is embarassing as gently caress and the potato man has got to be wanting another crack at the leadership now that he's had a taste.

there is absolutely no chance of this happening dude

in case you hadn’t noticed the liberal party room does not share the opinions of the something awful auspol thread

BBJoey
Oct 31, 2012

Interesting to see Devine pivot away from her pro-child abuse stance so quickly

BBJoey
Oct 31, 2012

stopping the climate crisis benefits capitalists as well as socialists, which is why we should support the deforestation of the Amazon

BBJoey
Oct 31, 2012

bowmore posted:

can we swap Labor parties with the Brits

the brits don’t have a Labor party

BBJoey
Oct 31, 2012

Amethyst posted:

They will obviously form a coalition with labor if necessary

Do not discount the Lib Dem's ability to gently caress up monumentally

BBJoey
Oct 31, 2012

Jonah Galtberg posted:

pretty bold assumption that I'm "not contributing" btw

it may be bold but it is nevertheless correct

BBJoey
Oct 31, 2012

i loving hate the government

BBJoey
Oct 31, 2012

thatfatkid posted:

Not to mention that western nations have outsourced their manufacturing to "developing nations" like China so that they take the blame for those emissions. And then at the same time Australia's economy is heavily dependent on exporting resources to China. Love that neo-colonial mindset.

No no China is a developed nation now! That means they have to do more to curb emissions. Ignore that their GDP per capita is 15% that of Australia.

BBJoey
Oct 31, 2012

jbp throws out the laziest bait and you all fight to be the first one to get hooked

BBJoey
Oct 31, 2012

Don Dongington posted:

nobody has used frequently in its original context since the 1980s

lmao

BBJoey
Oct 31, 2012

the theory here is that the 51 year old wife of the prime minister of Australia is online enough to know the meme status of the "ok" symbol on the alt-right

BBJoey
Oct 31, 2012

Don Dongington posted:

Or she had the misfortune of being in the same room as Don Jnr for 30 mins, and really that's all it takes for the brain worms to do their work when you're already down with locking up browns.

i know we have fun throwing around terms like "brain worms" but this isn't how human beings work, going from strangers (albeit fellow travellers) to "so you've heard about pepe the frog, right" is a fairly complicated social maneuver

BBJoey
Oct 31, 2012

Venomous posted:

okay: why is Scott Morrison cosying up with noted nationalist white supremacist Donald Trump if he is not a nationalist white supremacist himself?

why is the prime minister of Australia trying to get into the good books of the infamously temperamental and emotion-driven president of the USA, the most powerful man in the world? top scientists are looking for the answer but we may never know

BBJoey
Oct 31, 2012

I’d just like to point out that if Morrison is a white supremacist due to immigration policy then the ALP is just as guilty, and if you preferenced the ALP at the last election you explicitly supported a fundamentally white supremacist party so go off fam.

BBJoey
Oct 31, 2012

orientals are truly inscrutable

BBJoey
Oct 31, 2012


i considered trying to figure out what this was about, but i saw louise mensch was the top reply and decided against it

BBJoey
Oct 31, 2012


What if he’s right

BBJoey
Oct 31, 2012

Amethyst posted:

He isn't right. Peaceful protest has been ignored. Coordinated civil disobedience is the next logical step. People will join.

I hope you’re right, but struggle to foresee protests reaching critical mass when the Australian public can’t even clear the bar of not electing the Coalition.

BBJoey
Oct 31, 2012

not sure about the effectiveness of anti-Vietnam protests, chief

Adbot
ADBOT LOVES YOU

BBJoey
Oct 31, 2012

I missed that Abbott was appointed to the board of the war memorial, lmao, very cool

  • 1
  • 2
  • 3
  • 4
  • 5
  • Post
  • Reply