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The Peccadillo: Mar 4, 2013; We Have Important Work To Do

Synthbuttrange posted:

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-12-17/qld-police-shooting-nathaniel-train-rammed-border-dumped-guns/101783696

Apparently the Train man just crashed through the border dumping guns during lockdown and they never followed up on him til he shot a bunch of cops dead?

"He jumped out of the car and started ditching all the stuff out of the car and throwing it into the creek. I thought, 'that looks sketchy.'"

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I would blow Dane Cook posted:

https://twitter.com/SharazDavid/status/1629643042683781123

Waiting for next "are you okay #aruokay" day to quizz and harang the man my guy's spuriously perceived suicidal ideation, and tell him I appreciate it

At least got a glimmer of self awareness

The Peccadillo fucked around with this message at 11:01 on Feb 26, 2023

# ¿ Feb 26, 2023 10:59

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hooman posted:

I'm not trying to have a go at you here, but America has the largest prison population in the world by raw numbers and 6th now by % all of whom are legally allowed to be enslaved to capital. 698/100,000. China meanwhile sits at 91/100,000, very close to Australia at 92/100,000.

American also has the nightmare of death by cop, 1000 people per year. ~3.5 per million residents. The only one in the top 10 that isn't a "developing" country. Australia 0.17. I can't find any stats for China so I'm not willing to take that one was a big L for the old USA but hoo boy.

China is totalitarian, but the USA has full 2 party agreement on brutal border policies, and not holding police accountable, and allowing pharmaceutical companies to extort people for their very lives, with an electoral system that basically ensures it's only ever R or D holding the helm. When your only two parties don't differ on a whole huge swathe of policy where is the actual choice? It's the old joke that "The United States is also a one-party state but, with typical American extravagance, they have two of them." (note Democrats are significantly better than republicans on the small areas of difference, eg. womens rights, though they fail to effectively defend them, and LGBT rights.) A heap of poo poo that Trump was loudly (and rightly) criticised for doing, Biden has simply kept in place.

Like I get that the US has been propagandising us for years, and I personally feel revulsion towards making this point because of how democracy good communism bad brain poisoned I recognise that I am. Yeah China has absolutely committed atrocities, probably genocides, it's belligerent and expansionist and a threat to it's neighbours but my god, have you looked at anythign the USA has been doing for the last 40 years. How many countries have the CIA explicitly or implicitly couped? How much power does the USA have to offload its inflation problem to everyone else through rate rises? How about political prisoners in the US, except it's not for their views it's about threatening corporate domincance or the military industrial complex. Look at what's happened to Steven Donzinger for daring to hold Chevron accountable for dumping chemicals and poisoning land. gently caress man, look at the train derailments and poisoning their own citizens, the lead in the water. America is not and has never been a bastion of human rights.

Have you ever actually travelled to or worked in China? How about the rest of South East Asia? Have you worked in or been to the USA?
If you honestly asked me if I would felt safer working the USA or working in China, I'd rather go back to China.

You are totally free to disagree, like if you've been to and worked in both as well and say, "nah I felt way safer in America" that's fine and I respect that, but please don't pretend that American Imperialism is somehow fundamentally different to Chinese Imperialism. Both are hosed and dogshit and both should end, but they won't, so here we are.

China wins because when their main baby formula manufacturer killed a bunch of babies the ceo was executed and when it happened in america they were like "overhead costs are too high boo hoo" and it went away

# ¿ Mar 22, 2023 07:02

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I get so many fuckin' ads with Dom's face on them accusing him of pot holes in Sydney and health care workers hating their wages, because the ACT has the same marketing as NSW. I don't live there! I literally can't vote against him leave me alone!

# ¿ Mar 23, 2023 05:32

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bewilderment posted:

SBS no longer having the rights to stream subtitled If You Are the One (or Fei Cheng Wu Rao is a serious loss to Australia-China relations in terms of getting Aussies to see what the average mainstream Chinese person things, in a romantic/family context.

It's basically lost media at this point except for a couple eps on youtube which is nuts.

That show was so goddamned weird, it's nuts how rudeness is a culturally conditional thing rather than a universal thing

# ¿ Mar 23, 2023 05:42

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Non Compos Mentis posted:

wait, why? so parliament doesnt have its own separate secret police?

It's federal territory, every cop is a federal cop

E: I don't mean to be dismissive a ton of people who live here don't know this but every cop is AFP

The Peccadillo fucked around with this message at 15:11 on Mar 23, 2023

# ¿ Mar 23, 2023 15:00

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I was genuinely surprised that the greens and independents didn't get a bigger piece of blowing out the Libs rear end pie

I watched a documentary about owls tonight rather than election coverage, so I kinda just get to watch weirdos burst into tears about wokeism or some poo poo because no one likes the lnp

Owls are loving spooky

The Peccadillo fucked around with this message at 13:38 on Mar 25, 2023

# ¿ Mar 25, 2023 13:28

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Josie posted:

Because a lot of people don't understand preferential voting, a lot of people voted 1 Labor *just to make sure* who might otherwise vote differently (especially with mandatory prefential voting) - I certainly spoke to some of these people today while handing out

Green had some good graphs early in the ABC broadcast about preference flows fed vs state and the difference is stark - if people don't have to preference they mostly don't.

News of the loving decade

Eh, hosed em off

# ¿ Mar 25, 2023 15:34

The Peccadillo: Mar 4, 2013; We Have Important Work To Do

Honestly I would have guessed Fred Nile had been dead and in hell for about ... twenty years, how old is that freak

# ¿ Mar 25, 2023 17:03

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Testekill posted:

https://twitter.com/JohnSafran/status/1648547833329459201

I was already feeling sick today but now I'm just very sad.

I thought he died ages ago. I must be either conflating him with another famous aussie catholic or Mandela effecting him being fired with him dying. Vale Bob

Also I got a robocall today that was in Mandarin so I looked it up and apparently it's a kinda successful scam telling old Chinese people that they owe huge debt and threatens to kill their families? Weird

The Peccadillo fucked around with this message at 08:30 on Apr 20, 2023

# ¿ Apr 20, 2023 07:28

The Peccadillo: Mar 4, 2013; We Have Important Work To Do

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

# ¿ Apr 22, 2023 00:56

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SecretOfSteel posted:

I grew up in a very small town, went to the local catholic primary school where the priest was a kind scruffy old guy quick to laugh, encouraged us to take care of each other, and always had time to listen - and I haven't experienced such a sense of community or place since.

Then I went to a catholic high school in the city where the priest was an overdressed prick and the whole place was one of entitlement and show and that the people should know their place - and I've hated religion ever since.

edit: ok, I don't hate religion. I listen to too many Buddhist podcasts and meditate to hate religion. I do stand by the idea that the start of a religion is a cry for help, and I hate those fuckers that wilfully subvert the message for their own self-interest.

Yeah it's nice to have a bit of religious culture, it's annoying to have to seek it out rather than growing up in it

# ¿ Apr 22, 2023 11:16

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JBP posted:

Hawke and Keating were doing a cool new way and maybe you can credit them with a degree of naivety on top of their bad attributes. The new guys aren't naive they're either poo poo scared or bad. It's basically the exact same ministry as last time too which is a part of the problem.

Haha go on

# ¿ May 5, 2023 13:16

The Peccadillo: Mar 4, 2013; We Have Important Work To Do

Keep going?

# ¿ May 5, 2023 13:28

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I just got a short youtube ad for being a cop and the new recruitment slogan is literally "you should be a cop". At least the military has like a "hey we can pay for higher education in a bunch of fields" thing in their campaigns

# ¿ Aug 2, 2023 05:52

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The pamphlet is weird as gently caress

How do you have a job writing this kind of poo poo and not just ... kill yourself? How do you end up in that job and want to keep living

The Peccadillo fucked around with this message at 14:26 on Sep 1, 2023

# ¿ Sep 1, 2023 13:39

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Non Compos Mentis posted:

oh yeah

To be fair if I close my eyes and picture a tundra polar bears and penguins hang out together. That there are no penguins in the Arctic and no bears in Antarctica is God's cruellest mistake

# ¿ Sep 29, 2023 03:16

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JBP posted:

It's a bit I have been doing for a long time. Look after yourself.

What bit?

# ¿ Oct 12, 2023 02:28

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I was surprised. Thought that was a slam dunk, and when i saw people in this thread confidently saying that it was gonna be "no" I was all "pff ridiculous"

Don't pay enough attention I guess

# ¿ Oct 14, 2023 13:37

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Eediot Jedi posted:

Steps one and two are interchangeable

If you have disabilities or challenges that might make it harder for you to find or search for work, you could try disability job providers. I got put onto one for depression/anxiety and they were actually helpful and not assholes. Although that will vary from place to place I suppose

It depends on the place for sure but also the individual worker you get assigned giving a poo poo. But you can't rely on finding a good fit because the turnover rate is wild, you'll generally only have a particular person for a couple months at most and then have to start from square one with another person because your jobservice person found a different job that is less loving hellish for everyone involved

The Peccadillo fucked around with this message at 01:55 on Oct 29, 2023

# ¿ Oct 29, 2023 01:53

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# ¿ Oct 29, 2023 05:45

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Snowglobe of Doom posted:

Looks like he got those numbers from this paper: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/282293791_Norms_for_the_Standard_Progressive_Matrices_in_the_Gaza_Strip
One of the authors is a well known racist, eugenicist and white nationalist: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Lynn

Yeah those are the only kinda guys who didn't sheepishly put IQ away as a science decades ago

# ¿ Oct 29, 2023 06:16

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thatbastardken posted:

i like the cheese ones in the yellow box

Cop

# ¿ Oct 31, 2023 09:38

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WhiskeyWhiskers posted:

That's not true. There were plenty of Marxist suffragettes, like Sylvia Plankhurstand the WSF in the UK who called for "an industrial republic on Soviet lines,"

It's hard to say because Marxists and socialists and stuff where all just called anarchists for a long while

# ¿ Oct 31, 2023 09:42

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What the gently caress

https://twitter.com/AlexanderDowner/status/1721047631445778644?t=UGFVwiGCba_Mz54QjfcC7w&s=19

# ¿ Nov 6, 2023 09:57

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Calls for a royal commission into the abuse of children in remote communities ignore important research on the issues and perpetuate toxic tropes about Indigenous men. By Marion Scrymgour.

The Peccadillo fucked around with this message at 22:18 on Nov 6, 2023

# ¿ Nov 6, 2023 21:52

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Cartoon posted:

Utopia Season 4 Episode 8

C'mon man

# ¿ Nov 7, 2023 00:30

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BOAT SHOWBOAT posted:

Australia great, free healthcare is being rapidly eroded

We don't have free healthcare

# ¿ Nov 7, 2023 01:28

The Peccadillo: Mar 4, 2013; We Have Important Work To Do

It's a public/private partnership of Medicare and private insurance and private practice

Ain't universal medical care

# ¿ Nov 7, 2023 02:15

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I wonder if we're so hard line pro genocide because AUKUS is still in negotiations and politicians have been told not to say anything that goes against American foreign policy

# ¿ Nov 8, 2023 04:20

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Hasn't passed US congress, I mean, not still in negoch

# ¿ Nov 8, 2023 05:48

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Non Compos Mentis posted:

https://twitter.com/Leo_Puglisi6/status/1722128779378925827

is everyone ready for culture war christmas???

I never got why ham has to go in a canvas bag to keep

# ¿ Nov 9, 2023 06:28

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Non Compos Mentis posted:

oooooh they think its meant to say hamas

oh my loving god

ed:

i thought they got it pulled because of something to do with ham or christmas or something, i didnt make the hamas connection until i saw that tweet

its like things are back to being overly sensitive again? if those are the right words

like people are making connections that dont actually exist and are getting upset about them

Felix from chapo put it pretty good

https://twitter.com/ByYourLogic/status/1722413707526078776?t=FNHsJ6wpEExUbA1xD9xTPQ&s=19

# ¿ Nov 9, 2023 16:44

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GoldStandardConure posted:

bucky may be an unhinged kook, but he is our unhinged kook and we should be proud of him and let him stay in auspol

Yeh weirdos make threads go flavoured

# ¿ Nov 11, 2023 20:46

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# ¿ Nov 20, 2023 15:36

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To be fair to Jeordies that IP media coverage video is pretty good, I had not heard that the opposition called for Buttigieg to disown his teenage son for attending a Palastine rally

# ¿ Nov 20, 2023 22:08

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BOAT SHOWBOAT posted:

A lot of his content is very trashy (although I admit I occasionally find him funny, but hit or miss) but I've heard him justify this as him having a bunch of lol click bait junk content like this means his channel, including his political videos reach an audience who would otherwise be completely tuned out of politics

I agree with plenty of criticisms about him including yea, he's way too easy on Labor, nonetheless, I do think it's absolutely true that he's managed to make people who would otherwise be completely checked out of politics care about some of these issues

I love the

vibes on the bushfire season preparedness video very much

# ¿ Nov 21, 2023 10:10

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George Miller done Max Max 4: 2 and the trailer music is a sneaky cover of Thunderstruck

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XJMuhwVlca4

gently caress I love George miller

Babe, babe 2, Mad Max, those movies about penguins he made because he had young kids and was forced to watch cartoons and was like "I could do that. Then made Mad Max 4, which is the coolest poo poo of all time

# ¿ Dec 1, 2023 07:27

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Trailer cgi is often worse than the finished product. Hopefully in this instance because hell yeah mad max but she's a young girl named furiosa which is almost as cool a name

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# ¿ May 9, 2024 13:08

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I forgot about that movie, it was lovely

# ¿ Dec 1, 2023 08:38

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