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yeah, but extremely mild conditional criticism of capitalism is considered anticapitalism now.
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you know, these days, theyll arrest you and put you in jail, if you say your a worker. its political correctness gone mad.
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http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-10-24/police-raids-at-awu-headquarters-in-sydney-melbourne/9081416

union offices raided by federal police
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Petrol posted:

you know, these days, theyll arrest you and put you in jail, if you say your a worker. its political correctness gone mad.


one of the many reasons why i endeavour to work as little as possible

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Chthonic_Goat_666 posted:

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-10-24/police-raids-at-awu-headquarters-in-sydney-melbourne/9081416union offices raided by federal police


on the one hand i hate shorten and the AWU isnt exactly a bastion of integrity

on the other hand its nice to see we definitely live in a proto-fascist state with a police force more than willing to participate in this kind of entirely political nonsense

especially when it also came out today that the AFP is apparently so underresourced theyve had to drop about 2 dozen recent major drug trafficking investigations, lol http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-10-24/afp-operations-under-threat-due-to-lack-of-resources/9080624?pfmredir=sm

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the us ambassador to nz apparently annoyed some people in samoa recently by saying something rude, which isn't very interesting, but this quote where he talks like a william gaddis character is pretty good
"When we found out what the issues were what the comments were, yes I absolutely said the first thing, we both did. Absolutely told people they could make great waitresses. I would say that to my kids too, in between jobs, hustling one, two, three jobs. Just get some money in your pocket and get out of there.

"And as a result of that I was told that, 'you know, listen you're not Scott Brown from Ryan, New Hampshire any more, you're an ambassador and you have to be culturally aware of different cultures, and different sensitivities' and I'm always welcoming that kind of advice."
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i think that all the government people criticising capitalism in the most mild terms is actually quite interesting because of where we are in the buisiness cycle at the moment - things are actually pretty good at the moment for capital and the imperialist countries so it feels significant that people like theresa may are having to go on tv to defend capitalism on the back foot when were in the bit of capitalism where everything is "good" so i wonder what it will be like when the bad bit of capitalism swings back around - comming soon watch this space:
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ahahahahaha

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-10-27/citizenship-decision-handed-down-by-high-court/9061302

http://eresources.hcourt.gov.au/showCase/2017/HCA/45
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Words and phrases – "a subject or a citizen … of a foreign power", "constitutional imperative", "foreign citizenship", "incapable of being chosen", "knowledge", "natural-born", "naturalised", "reasonable steps", "voluntariness", "voluntary act", "wilful blindness".


cool poem

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christ...
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haha wow

and a cherry on top
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so much refugee camp stuff lately that im just kinda depressed aout it and not really following.... i'll be posting some more historical stuff (like colonial era) soon. will probably read another Henry Reynolds thing
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yeah manus is a real shitshow

reynolds came up in some research i was doing for one of my final essays this semester. i came across some really interesting victorian-era british liberal opposition to the dispossession of the aboriginal people. i will have to write some of it up here once exams are over
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oh how convenient. recall that stories like that are exactly how the howard government were able to gain immediate bipartisan approval for the NT intervention
http://www.news.com.au/national/politics/men-detained-on-manus-island-had-sex-with-girls-bought-drugs-in-town-australian-officials-told/news-story/2ac84105cc6cf2bee3af2ccb8118ff0f
so much i could say about this but i dont have the words right now. fuck to australia
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lol
#297
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the sexism i have experienced from Australian men is surreal they are the fucking worst and all fucking obsessed with anal

Everyday sexism:
Australian women’s experiences of street
harassment
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i grew up male-but-not-masculine-enough in rural australia and the terror i felt daily being around Aussie Men is hard to describe, all i can say is that i know as an adult in urban australia i have it nowhere near as bad as the average woman here but that terror is still ingrained in me and on that level i can definitely relate. my body still locks up when i have to walk down a footpath past or, worse, through a group of average young australian men, because the vibe is deafening.

also TAI is liberal af but they do some good and solid research, thanks for the link
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Cuntessa_Markievicz posted:

the sexism i have experienced from Australian men is surreal they are the fucking worst and all fucking obsessed with anal

Everyday sexism:
Australian women’s experiences of street
harassment


it would be interesting to compare this with nz because i think our masculine culture is fairly similar in a lot of ways but it does have its own identity as well, and not being a woman i dont really know what its like

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Cuntessa_Markievicz posted:

the sexism i have experienced from Australian men is surreal they are the fucking worst and all fucking obsessed with anal

Everyday sexism:
Australian women’s experiences of street
harassment



the miriam dixson book i reviewed earlier in this thread talks about australian men being especially boorish, ill dig up an exceprt or two for ya...

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speaking of australia, somone just told me theres this place nearby called, of all things, "New Zealand" and its full of off brand brits or something, what the fuck is up with that, can someone c/d
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tears posted:

speaking of australia, someone just told me theres this place nearby called, of all things, "New Zealand" and its full of off brand brits or something, what the fuck is up with that, can someone c/d


new zealand is an urban legend

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it's a cia ruse, specifically.
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the best australian i know is attempting to live in increasingly sparsely populated areas of the country, culminating in a planned move to the northern territory, which makes sense i think. also hello bnw
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Hey friend how's it going.
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one of my favourite conspiracy theories is the allegation that Aum Shinrikyo managed to successfully test a nuclear explosive under a rural sheepstation in western australia
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jools posted:

the best australian i know is attempting to live in increasingly sparsely populated areas of the country, culminating in a planned move to the northern territory, which makes sense i think. also hello bnw


are they indigenous

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I have a cousin that lives in Australia and has 2 kids, hes an actor cum theatre director so sometimes he works construction (like all Irish men in Australia), Due to him being an actor he has a lot of gay friends and he regularly gets accused of being a "homo" cause he happens to be friends with a few gay guys by his partners older brother.
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Cuntessa_Markievicz posted:

I have a cousin that lives in Australia


very sorry to hear that

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Same-sex marriage result: Australia votes 'yes'

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I have some friends and family who will be very relieved to be officially informed that more than half the country doesn't hate them.
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that vote isn't binding on its own right?
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nope, not even a 'vote' as such, but a voluntary postal survey of eligible voters. it cost $120-odd million to find out what polls have been saying for years anyway, a curious instance of a right wing government insisting on a publicly funded solution to a problem genuinely better solved by the private sector. the next step will be watching the really extreme right wingers in parliament attempt to derail and delay the passage of a SSM bill in parliament with as many bullshit attempts at amendments as they are allowed to get away with
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haha wow. salty much

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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5087103/Christopher-Pyne-denies-liking-gay-porn-video.html
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yeah haha

http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/political-news/i-was-hacked-christopher-pynes-twitter-account-in-porn-mishap-20171115-gzmd3m.html

It remains unclear why a hacker would use access to a government minister's social media account exclusively to like a single pornographic post in the dead of night.


when i first saw this article earlier today that was the final paragraph. lol

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just wanna thank australia for kylie and her sis
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Good old kyles, a national treasure
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the only kylie thing that really sticks with me is Can't Get You Out Of My Head. i now thats probably a normie opinion
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There's an analysis of the survey results posted on facebook by a Sydneysider which I'm sure you've all read by now. The comments and the post itself are interesting to say the least. The opinions expressed range from Bush-era Clash-of-Civilizations rhetoric to a more limp-wristed insistence that 'immigrant communities' are more susceptible - on account of the language barrier, you see - to the influence of the local soothsayer and only require a correct education. I'd like to say that this is only a cynical maneuver to divide homosexuals from immigrant communities, but wasn't it the homosexual lobbyists themselves who argued for same-sex marriage on the basis that "we" are "behind" the "rest of the world on this issue"? The whole thing reminds me of Joseph Massad's "incitement to discourse"; The idea that the politics of the LGBT movement provoking people to adopt a position towards specific sex acts/towards people with perverse object-preferences, positive or negative, and that one must consequently define themselves according to a rigid binary ("gay" as opposed to "not-gay") which doesn't actually cohere with the way sexual desire is formed or experienced in real life. I hate to say it, but it looks like Homofascism is rearing it's fabulous head on this here our sunburnt country. It's only a matter of time before an Australian-bred Milo Yiannopoulos or Jack Donovan emerges from the outback to be enthusiastically promoted by our media monopolies. We live in Queer Times, indeed.