I am going to go ahead & suggest that if one is talking about supporting defensive capability in the context of an increasingly out of hand war, then it fatally undermines the idea that one is not, in fact, at war. Nuance doesn’t apply in conflict. #auspol
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If an MP is alarmed, but doesn’t say anything publicly, does it make a sound?*
#auspol
(*the answer is no, it fucking doesn’t)
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So pleased we’re signing up to this conflict. Makes me feel much safer. #auspol
(Should add, the thread clarifies AI was used for the school bombing, but it’s unclear if it was Claude)
Hahaha deserved. #Ryanair is so shit.
We have successfully bombed a school, gotten 7 soldiers killed, disrupted the world economy, and replaced an 86 year-old supreme leader with his much younger, more hardline son who is more committed to building nuclear weapons. Operation Middle East Wing is all but complete.
by Donald J. Trump
Artist in the broadest sense. I’ll stick to the Earthsea novels thanks.
And if we’re talking about ‘artist’ here, we are talking a highly derivative one. If I want a story about a boy wizard going to a school of wizardry, facing off against a nameless dark spirit, while living with a scarred face, I’ll stick to the superior Earthsea novels thanks very much.
If there was ever an indicator of why “the markets” are utterly useless, it’s this lurching reaction to a vague suggestion by a man whose behaviour & character have been implausible, unreliable and untrustworthy for decades. The markets have shit for brains.
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As a local councillor, I got threatened with police action by opposition councillors, after dumping sandbags in front of the Tory & Lib Dem council leaders in Preston City Town Hall, protesting the lack of action on local flooding. They cited security issues about sand (a totally inert substance).
The Coalition are right. We’ve entered a war that is unjustified, illegal, has cost innocent lives & has completely decimated global security interests for the bulk of the planet. Diplomatic pressure should be placed USrael to cease their attack. #auspol
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Why would you write ‘fought and killed’ in the context of the murder of a woman, and not, for example, ‘murdered’? The article headline says ‘murdered’.
It’s a fossil fuel crisis. There are energy alternatives that would forestall the implications of this.
No, they couldn’t, unless they had a sufficiently affluent income beyond that of most people. This is a complete fiction.
Executed. She was executed.
Wut?
And why would they be travelling to the US on a state visit anyway? What do they accomplish in lieu of any other human resource? Charles is HoS for other countries too - what does Australia, Canada, Jamaica or any other of the 15 get out of visit like this?
Would love to hear @albomp.bsky.social explanation as to why we’re hearing about this from a foreign government and not our own. Why the effing hell would Trump need to be told anyway? #auspol
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Getting a lot of ‘we want to adopt your baby’ vibes here.
Cocaine Care Bear
The Drunk Godfather
Batman Begins Therapy
Illegal Alien
A Clockwork Chocolate Orange
No Country Music for Old Men
Lock Jaws
Rocky Road
Nightmare Traffic on Elm Street
Break Dances of Wolves
The Foot Bridge on the River Kwai
(Too much time on my hands)
‘Australia has been asked to assist Middle East nations coming under fire from Iran. What could that look like?’
🤔 #auspol
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A lot more.
Yes - the outrages are rolling and varied, and in different leagues. This is a lesser one, but not irrelevant. It’s 50c more expensive than last week, which for a family on a lower income could be crippling. The conversation rolls on to the next outrage, and the next, and the next…
When I left for town this morning the fuel was $1.99 a litre.
Coming back four hours later $2.15.
Here’s to mainstream politicians in #auspol giving uncritical support for this utterly insane bullshit war 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
Senator Michaela Cash etc. The Australian Human Rights Commission just released its new Strategic Plan and it reads like a political manifesto. This taxpayer-funded body declares that colonisers committed ‘genocidal acts’, and that indigenous sovereignty co-exists alongside Australian sovereignty. These are not established legal facts. No court has determined them. The Australian Parliament has not legislated them. A body entrusted with shaping the national conversation on human rights must approach its work with impartiality. It must not be ideologically pre-committed before that work even begins. I will be demanding answers at senate estimates.
Ah crap, sorry I forgot the alt-text (if you can stomach it).
She appears to have forgotten about Mabo (yeah, I know she hasn’t).
Intellectually unhinged, this genocide denialism is pretty sickening, albeit synonymous with conservatism these days. What I do find interesting is the use of the term ‘legal facts’. Fascinated to know what ‘illegal facts’ are compared to ‘legal’…(this is rhetorical, I know perfectly well). #auspol
UK Labor aren’t letting the issues of things climate crisis, war, poverty and fascism get in the way of their casual bigotry, because, you know, priorities right? #ukpol
One assumes these were released because they contain relatively limited or inconsistent details, which helps undermine the veracity of any that follow. It also serves to encourage delay in releasing the rest, on the basis of ‘it’s more of the same’. #epstein
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It doesn’t matter whether the rate of global warming is increasing. It’ll never cease to amaze me that people don’t care that it’s happening at all. It should be the most alarming thing ever.
The what war? Is Iran fighting itself? Did Iran start the conflict? The fuel price rise has been triggered because of the US and Israel starting a war.
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There’s plenty to lay against the Iranian regime for its conduct over the years, but that doesn’t alter the fact that the recent spate of attacks are a result of the unprovoked attack by Israel & US. It simply legitimises Trump & his behaviour. #auspol
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