Ghost Leviathan posted:

Cops are dumb thugs as a rule and completely used to having absolutely no repercussions for their actions, the media universally just not reporting on their actions in anything but the most glowing sense no matter how heinous and all.

They are not in any way prepared for and have no idea how to response to even the slightest change in the discourse that puts their actions under even casual scrutiny. They're going to double down hamfistedly, because it's the only thing they know how to do.

I would blow Dane Cook posted:

JBP posted:

Bigger cash rate should take care of this one. I am an economist.

City of Stirling Mayor Mark Irwin posted:

Sometimes there are those people who have still got their squeegees, quite often the squeegee looks like it's going to make your car more dirty than clean, and then they have an expectation they're going to get paid for it

hooman posted:

I would blow Dane Cook posted:

When is this place going to become normal?

Bucky Fullminster posted:

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do it on my face posted:

Doctor Spaceman posted:

https://twitter.com/6NewsAU/status/1643461684370223109
https://twitter.com/6NewsAU/status/1643462328246226945

Animal Friend posted:

G-Spot Run posted:

Recoome posted:

I'm still waiting for these ALP die-hards to explain to me why keeping the stage 3 tax cuts/cutting better access scheme session numbers is really good and consistent with the ALP core.

Like the ALP holds government presently they can change things, but I suppose it's easier to just do some hand-wringing and act in exactly the same way if Morrison's government was re-elected.

The Peccadillo posted:

I knew mine as kid. I assume he's dead, he was old as hell twenty years ago. Nice dude

Wizard Master posted:

They shall grow not old,
as we that are left grow old;
Age shall not weary them,
nor the years condemn.
At the going down of the sun and in the morning
We will remember them.
Lest we forget.

I would blow Dane Cook posted:

https://twitter.com/Mia__Kennedy/status/1652463716284370944

Senor Tron posted:

Reports coming out that job seeker is getting a boost.

Only for over 55's lol.

JBP posted:

Why is this a fantasy for Labor? The Teals and climate 200 are the direct competitor to the greens. It seems like hubris to just disregard them taking 7 seats in one election when the greens haven't achieved the same, despite being in politics since the early 90s.

Don Dongington posted:

Apparently the ALP just announced "the first budget surplus in 15 years", so look forward to the media churning out editorials about how "budget surpluses are bad, actually" (they are, but that's not the point)

Splode posted:

RBA is predicting 4.5% unemployment rate, which they argue is necessary for the economy to function (and all economists agree you must have some unemployment or poo poo goes sideways).
The government's own research has demonstrated that jobseeker is not enough to live on to the point of being a barrier to finding work.
I still don't know how they can hold these two facts in their head at the same time.
4.5% of the potential working population is hosed and they do not give a single poo poo. By my calculations thats 603 000 people.

I wish these 4.5% of people would resort to crime, specifically on these politicians and bankers. 603 000 people is enough for a pretty spectacular revolution.
But I suppose of course most of them are unable to find work due to being disadvantaged, and this disadvantage is likely some form that makes it challenging for them to, for example, burn down parliament house.

I am surprised how disappointed I am by Labor being poo poo now they're in power. I should know better, but in my defence, things did get slightly better in the K Rudd / Julia Gillard years. Looks like we're poo poo out of luck this time around, when these idiots are banging on about government budget surpluses ahead of an RBA induced recession, while simultaneously not reversing insane tax cuts for the rich and submarine deals that just make us alienate our most important trading partner.

lih posted:

6. Restoring Capitalism

Non Compos Mentis posted:

https://twitter.com/PeterDutton_MP/status/1656601018942238721

GrandMaster posted:

At least this time the cops bashed them instead of protecting them

Autisanal Cheese posted:

what the gently caress, did they get an American trainer in or something?

hooman posted:

Almost like we need some social contract to operate a business in this country, and if you break it, you get loving nationalised.

hooman posted:

archive.is

Edit: For anyone not Perth, the demolition of Brownlie towers was unambiguously a good thing, concentrated poverty housing is a terrible idea and that place constantly had people coming in and out for corpses. However, I don't think that's a defence at all for the number of social housing units falling, because yes you needed to get rid of that, but you also needed to at the same time produce places for the people displaced by that change to live.

The West is a poo poo paper and you should never trust the reporting but it's also a pretty poo poo defence of lower public housing units by McGowan.

SecretOfSteel posted:

That's somewhat of a relief. I guess I'll return Labor back to their "poo poo, but not as poo poo as the LNP" status.

Man, lucky I wasn't watching A Current Affair if I'm going to bite that easy...

starkebn posted:

What . The . gently caress ?

Recoome posted:

This is what happens when we outsource economic decisions to a central bank though. We are seeing results of the sins of previous Liberal and Labor governments at various levels.

Nothing will happen, I'm afraid due to the way these firms are constructed.

Cartoon posted:

Just another victim of the culture wars and the toxic woke agenda. Nah really just inject the shardenfruden straight into my viens. This is the gift that keeps giving. What we need now is for Kerry Stokes to go "Nah mate I only promised you the money 'cause I thought you were innocent but it turns out you are a complete piece of poo poo.

ADF saying that there has been a complete change of culture since

Bucky Fullminster posted:

Ben Roberts Smith Is A War Hero

Nutsak posted:

As a person that generally lurks, I would rather read seventy posts by Bucky than defeatist poo poo like this. Instead of telling him he doesn't know what he's talking about point him in the direction of resources.

The bloke rambles, but he's trying to make his area better.

I would blow Dane Cook posted:

Tim Smith travels to Kyiv, slams ongoing embassy closure

MysticalMachineGun posted:

Expecting 10s of posts of people barrelling in going "Van Badham did what?!"