They got the message about the need to crtitique vacuous airheads but for all the wrong reasons.

If not me, then who?

If not now, then when?

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Also, who's doing the bookings for these things?

Ooh, sorry about the fire and flood clash, that was my mistake and poorly timed. I'll be sure to let the fire consume all the stuff so the flood isn't as expensive to remediate.

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Tom Elliott sucking up to Pauline Hanson on 3AW. (sadness in his voice as he accepts this is who they have to get behind now that his beloved Liberals are down the shitter)

'You may not like her, but at least she has a plan'.

Fuck knows what it is. I couldn't understand a word she was saying.

This type of misogyny is so obvious it practically drips off the page, yet when confronted with this truth it hits peak entitlement.

'What misogyny? Jeez, you're an angry leftie!'

More, rather than less, rage is totally warranted.

The disparity of threats alone btw men/women is breath taking.

Came here to say this. I thought Patel *was* Australian after seeing the film. I think colonials generally (and Poms) can do each others accents better than other foreign speakers.

Conservative populism demands fealty to the leader. If you think 2026 is echoing 1933 like this muppet, you'd be picking moral arguments with the head of Christendom too. Besides, *waves hand* liberal democracies have been turning away from religion for decades!

Congratulations!

Colour the world shocked. 'Antisemitism' stripped of meaning through increasingly hysterical accusations of anti-semitism. I wonder where the Joy Division t-shirt incident occurred in the timeline of denegration of the word.

NSW’s highest court strikes down anti-protest law introduced in wake of Bondi beach terror attack Court finds law – which effectively meant protesters could not march without risk of arrest – is unconstitutional

Passed for entirely political reasons, nothing at all to do with 'social cohesion' or 'safety'. The #Minns #NSW govt has knowingly drafted and legislated unconstitutional anti-protest laws twice in the last year. Both aimed at curbing citizens rights and their voices.

#ProtectProtest #Auspol

Also, without trying to sound trite, social scientific research is being conducted inside the test tube it is studying. There are huge temporal factors that cannot be sufficiently weighted for. World events, political shifts, cultural tastes are never static

Ah yes, Australian 'values'. Whenever this perennial issue rises, 'values' always tends toward 1950s white picket fence values rather than banh mi values. Funny that.

It works though - see u16yo media ban, pornography filter etc. Starts small, ends up with racist border laws.

This is why I have always detested the cliche about 'getting the balance right'. Getting a balance between authoritarianism and plain illiberalism is not the balance we need.

Putting aside the blatant and repugnant racist dog-whistling, this position is a rebuke of the work the ABF, AFP and Home Affairs have done to date.

If your boss wanted someone else to review the work you had literally just completed, I'd want to speak to HR.

When in the States years ago I was struggling with an imperial conversion app in a supermarket. In frustration I commented bitterly about the silliness of imperial measures. The cashier was genuine when she said that metric 'scared' her, didn't make sense and the world had 'regressed' with metric.

Monday: [portrays himself as Jesus Christ]

Sunday: [verbally attacks the pope]

Quite the week for the president of the United States on Truth Social.

Sunday: "Praise be to Allah!"

Tuesday: "A whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again."

Thursday: [video of a woman being murdered]

Taylor will use the speech to make the case for a policy that can “discriminate based on values”. “Our nation has paid the price for believing that anyone, from anywhere, will embrace our way of life,” he says. “Not everyone wanting to migrate to Australia has a noble intent. Not everyone wanting to migrate to Australia will be a net benefit to Australia – indeed, many will be a net drain.” He blames migrants for the “erosion of national culture and the Balkanisation of communities” around the country.

Executive Summary Donald Trump’s 2015 presidential campaign announcement contained a direct, widely quoted statement about Mexican immigrants: “When Mexico sends its people, they're not sending their best. They're bringing drugs. They're bringing crime. They're rapists. And some, I assume, are good people.” This exact phrasing was published in multiple contemporaneous transcripts and news reports and immediately sparked national controversy, with diverse outlets documenting and contextualizing the quote

The LNP knows no politics that does not punch down on vulnerable people. When confronted with genuine concerns about the unpalatability of their platform, they punch lower, start kicking and cultural head stomping.

Compare and contrast the statements of 2 conservative leaders. #Auspol #NoToRacism

This really is breathtakingly bad for our country. What a awful pack of ghouls they are. Looking around at the collective wreckage of their party only to unsheath the old, true staple - racism, nativism, and Christian dogma.

@eff.org for the win. Get off legacy outlets that don't protect privacy (where possible). Twitter is indefensibly awful.

#ProtectPrivacy #RightToBeForgotten #DestroySurveillanceCapitalism

And those 2 uni's are just the most egregious *right now*.

At some point we're going to have to admit that Australia's wholesale corporatisation of the tertiary education sector was a huge mistake right?!?

Zipper lane merging lessons should be mandatory for all drivers, every other year, until the age of 75 when licences shall be revoked.

this is the most foreseeable and well-known strategic problem in the course of human history, which most straight men in positions of power scrupulously work to pretend doesn’t exist because of the Implications

I wish no human ill, but HoWARd's will be one obituary I'll read with satisfaction.

I am in no way defending him or his miserly, cruel politics but out of all the current crop of BRS sychophants, he and Lord Downer of Baghdad are the most responsible. They sent the troops into an unwinnable war

World to continue trying to ‘gentle parent’ Israel into not massacring civilians

"Hey buddy, listen, war crimes are not on. Ok?" chaser.com.au/world/world-...

When you say it confidently...

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