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Forgive me, as this is all apropos of nothing, and has probably all been said before and better by others in this thread. But I feel the need to say this somewhere. 1) Sky News Aus. are loving awful. They are trying SO hard to be Fox News, and whilst they have the fascist leaning, 'everything the other guy does is evil, everything our guy does is golden' partisanship down. They still manage to be loving bland and unwatchable. When Andrew Bolt sitting in front of a green screen intoning "climate change doesn't exist" dirge like is your flagship next to the short angry bearded guy, (sorry dunno his name) calling Dan Andrews a socialist dictator as your exciting programming. Your entire station is stinky poopy nonsense. 2) How loving pissweak is the Victorian Opposition. Don't get me wrong, I stand with Dan, and this interminable lockdown is working in terms of numbers etc. But any half competent opposition should be tearing strips off the man. There is the Hotel Quarantine bungle to attack him on. There is the rising sense of frustration and anger at lockdown to build upon. There is even a "look at other states, they can have a drink at the pub, why can't we!" simple arse slogan to rouse the apathetic. Yet the Vic. Libs are doing very little of this, and what they are doing they are doing badly. Andrews himself is even making himself a target by being on TV everyday. and 3) Scomo is still a prick.
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Knobb Manwich posted:Amazing that even years later "dog fucker" jumps to mind before "Chris Kenny". Nah, not him. There's a chubby guy with a full brown beard. A cursory search says his name is Paul Murray. I think he is a Sydney radio guy.
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re ACT elections: I am sorry is this is a flash of the blinding obvious, or has been discussed earlier. But I just had a realization as to why it has been won by Labor for 6 times in a row. Nobody actively goes to the ACT to retire, so less olds. Nobody rich wants to live in the ACT, so less rich people. Most people who live in Canberra are public servants with young families, so as well as less olds, less boomers and more educated white-ish collar workers. So to hurt the Liberal "base", there are less uneducated old boomer posh Tories. Hence 6 Labor victories in a row. This is a slightly classist, half arsed personal theory mind you, so feel free to tear it and me down.
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Oct 18, 2020 09:23
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lih posted:another aspect of the continued failures of the ACT Liberals is that they've long been controlled by the socially conservative right-wing of the party which does little to help their popularity in the most socially progressive jurisdiction in the country Again forgive me, as I know very little about ACT local politics. But wouldn't this cause a huge feedback loop? i.e. ACT gov. legalizes marijuana/is good to the LGBTQ community/isn't actively hateful to immigrants etc., this makes the conservative Liberals angry. SO they go harder on the "family values kick", which energizes the progressives to do something else like fight against Domestic Violence/push for Carbon Neutrality/etc., which again further angers the powerless Libs to rage further about Political Correctness gone mad harder. And so on and so forth with Libs getting angrier, and the young weird haired hippy commos with their weird ideas of equality etc. more empowered.
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Oct 18, 2020 10:54
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In non COVID, non CelestialScribe being an arsehole news regarding Australian political figures: https://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/national/clive-palmer-bad-for-my-image-twisted-sister-frontman-tells-court-20201020-p566qo.html Clive Palmer vs Twisted Sister has finally made it to court. And it looks like Clive was intentionally violating copyright, (he asked for the license to use the song, baulked at the price, claimed "fair use, parody" got told to gently caress off, but realised they couldnt get the ads off the air in time, so continued to use the song." So it looks like he will lose, but in true Palmer fashion won't pay a cent coz he is a fat fuckhead. Also unrelated to this court case. But Dee Snyder is apparently a Trump supporter, so gently caress him as well.
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Oct 20, 2020 04:18
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On the Gladys stuff: Whilst she looks clearly guilty of a bunch of shady stuff. I have been surprisingly impressed with the lack of 'slut shaming' of Ms Berejiklian. Given the shitshow we have as a media in this country, I would have expected all the coverage to be a breathless schoolyard "The Premier has a boyfriend!! She liked him and had a close emotional connection with him!!! OOOOOOH"
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Oct 24, 2020 03:13
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Urcher posted:Word cloud for September: Die NSW Police Man! or alternatively Why NSW Guy?
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Oct 28, 2020 10:42
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Has Clive paid the workers at his Nickel mine yet? Has he lost the law suit to Twisted Sister yet?
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Nov 1, 2020 08:59
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realbez posted:I’ve got shaddap you face stuck in my head now thanks cartoon Whatsamatter you?
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Homora Gaykemi posted:I find that my life is better for seeing Jordy's big rant blaming the Betoota Advocate for Gladys' win and just ignoring him ever since Sorry for my ignorance, but what was his reasoning? "A local satirical website made too much/not enough fun of a premier. Therefore it's all their fault."
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Nov 27, 2020 07:39
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If you'll indulge me, I have a few bullshit thoughts about the Chinese SAS soldier tweet. This reeks to me of "Sandpaper-gate" (When the Aussie Cricket team was busted using sandpaper to cheat.) Because Australians are, although not to the same extent as China, sanctimonious nationalistic whiny babies about certain things. Our ability at sport being one, and the sanctity and purity of 'the diggers' being another. Unlike the US, we dont brag about how big and tough and scary our military is. We brag about how good and noble they are. The military things we revere are Gallipoli, (a defeat), and Simpson and his donkey, (a bloke who would walk to and from the battlefield ferrying the wounded to base on his donkey). So when it came out that the Australian SAS were shooting handcuffed prisoners in the back of the head for fun, Everybody has lost their minds. The right, (with ScoMo being on this side), saying "How dare you accuse our good noble butter wouldn't belt in their mouths boys of something so horrible? There must be some mistake! You are obviously unaustralian baddies for bringing it up" etc. And the rest of the country pearl clutching at the disgrace of it all and the stain on our national character and reputation as the good and noble goodies that we think we are. Much like in Sandpaper-gate where we all lost our collective minds about the cricket team being a bunch of cheating cunts, (which they had been for decades and everybody knew). Yes, it's a horrible image, and put out as a classic piece of CCP whataboutism. But it is showing Scomo being more outraged at the insult and obvious trolling than he is about the dead civillians that the SAS executed which reeks of Australia being more concerned with how the world sees us, ( and most importantly how we see ourselves), than anything else. It also serves as a kind of smokescreen for both parties. Australia can't criticize the Xinjiang death camps because China can just say "your troops do warcrimes, so shut up.", and Australia can quickly skim over the fact that our soldiers are shooting handcuffed men in the back of the head, and instead focus our anger on "The bloody foreign Chinese".
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One of his reasons that Melbourne is going to the dogs is that it went from hosting the artistic glitterati of Barry Humphries and David Williamson, to being proud of the laneways filled with street art that are a legitimate tourist attraction. No mention at all of Melbournes once proud live music scene. (I am an old, and havent lived in Melbourne for 10 years so I dunno how vibrant it is these days.) Then there is the "nobody speaks English here anymore", and his insistence that Apex African gangs roam the streets and graffiti filled laneways terrorizing good white middle class citizens. Also the swipe at Hannah Gadsby for no reason at all. Who, if I remember correctly is actually from small town Tasmania? This may be considered a harsh, and unpopular take, but Andrew Bolt is poopy.
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Dec 3, 2020 10:25
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Coal yeah.
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Whilst YAY for relaxations and easing of restrictions of any kind. Wearing a mask isn't the hardship, or inconvenience that everyone is making it out to be. I often forget to take mine off when I am walking home from the shops, of just on a walk. Yes, it's silly to have to keep putting it on and off in between sips of your beer/coffee. But any "Hallelujah! I am finally free of the oppression" poo poo because you can now go unmasked is stupid. If I worked retail, then I would be still wearing my mask, mandate or not. At the least of it to be considerate of others that may come into my shop.
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Dec 6, 2020 07:34
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freebooter posted:Please tell me you are not actually doing this No. Of course not. As I said, that would be silly, and I am the very dictionary definition of sensible. But I seem to remember, (probably wrongly), that doing so was recommended at one time.
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Dec 7, 2020 02:48
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I would blow Dane Cook posted:gently caress marry kill? gently caress the fundie, marry the ineffectual leader, and kill the oval office.
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Tokamak posted:Weird article to write after your kid has been on hormones for a year. So they fought with their kid to such an extent that a social worker intervened and it seems like there haven't been any regrets, or other major issues. I guess the material reality of the situation doesn't matter when you are obsessed with your bigotry. No, you see that the issue isn't that my son is now comfortable in his own skin, and is receiving the medical and psychological help to allow him to do so. The issue is that my pretty pretty princess of a daughter is just being trendy. I don't care how unhappy my child is, they'll grow out of it. It must be a fad, no matter how much pain that stopping them from transitioning will cause them.
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Dec 13, 2020 07:17
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lih posted:it's something like the third article of this sort published by the SMH in the last week, terrible to see a non-News Corp publication joining in on this poo poo. News Corp spent most of last year making a serious transphobic push, especially The Australian, which was terrible but mostly I was just glad that somehow the Coalition didn't show any appetite for it. this poo poo spreading beyond News Corp's hard right line is really not a good sign though One of the first things Morrison the happy clapper did once he became PM was spend thousands of taxpayer dollars to remove gender inclusive language from the toilets in his department. TERF arseholery is entirely up his, and his party of fundie regressive arseholes street
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freebooter posted:I actually don't give a gently caress about Christmas per se, but it would've been nice to see my family after a year stuck in my apartment in Melbourne Whilst I also give no fucks about Christmas, in my personal situation I have the opposite reaction to you. I have been stuck in Melbourne at my parents house since June, (due to my job in Korea going balls up due to COVID, and nobody hiring anywhere also due to COVID). So under normal circumstances it would have been nice to maybe share a Christmas phone call with my parents/family at Christmas time. The fact that I have been here with them for most of the year, in close quarters for most of it, makes me long for the days when I was a continent away. As, all things being equal, I should be again from March next year.
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Do you think ScoMo will put his Order of Merit Award from Trump next to his "I stopped these" boat thing in his office?
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