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AusPoliGAF |OT| Boats? What Boats?
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Is this terrible? It feels terrible.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-10-09/islamic-state-like-youve-never-seen-them-before/5803048
No where in the report does it mention that the video shows a Jewish woman and Satan 'birthing' ISIS.
Apparently it was edited to remove references to gulf states who have funded ISIS (A fact) And still retains the Jewess.
Isnt it kind of terrible to ignore that?
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-10-09/islamic-state-like-youve-never-seen-them-before/5803048
No where in the report does it mention that the video shows a Jewish woman and Satan 'birthing' ISIS.
Apparently it was edited to remove references to gulf states who have funded ISIS (A fact) And still retains the Jewess.
Isnt it kind of terrible to ignore that?
Marky Mark
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This is the slimiest photo on the planet.
"...kill meeeeeeeee"
"NOT UNTIL I'VE TAKEN ALL YOUR POWER, JOHN"
And god-damned Tony Abbott always has those slightly-hunched-shoulders-as-if-he-is-expecting-a-bomb-to-go-off-nearby-at-any-given-moment.
http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/que...nd-rail-guard-goes-viral-20141012-114v70.html
team strayyyyaaaaaaaaaa
team strayyyyaaaaaaaaaa
What is it about trains and buses that attracts these fuckwits?
Midday trains through Brisbane are pretty average. Come in, sit down, pump awful music through speakers at a volume intended to get a reaction.
Marky Mark
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I love the dig at the end. "Lucky for him, there's proof."
Labor's Anthony Albanese floats wind-back of 'draconian' journalist laws
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-10-12/albanese-floats-wind-back-of-draconian-journalist-laws/5807762
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-10-12/albanese-floats-wind-back-of-draconian-journalist-laws/5807762
What will our champion of free trade Tony Abott do about this?
Any (misguided) hope that mining will keep proping up the economy should be gone now. I don't expect those fuel rebates that BHP and their ilke enjoy to disappear soon.
Any (misguided) hope that mining will keep proping up the economy should be gone now. I don't expect those fuel rebates that BHP and their ilke enjoy to disappear soon.
shanshan310
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Gross, I couldn't even watch the video. My brother has the misfortune of knowing the guy though. Apparently he's a 17yo high school drop out with a heroin addiction who regularly picks fights on the train. A real quality kid :/ Really crossing my fingers that this doesn't make its way into off topic though. The last thing we need is this to go viral internationally
Gotta say, I feel a lot more comfortable catching the bus. There are always creepy people on the train.
shanshan310
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You think so? I thought it was pretty widely known about and vocalised already. Plus these videos going viral also brings more assholes out of the woodwork who are probably more likely to circlejerk than listen to "PC liberal green muslim-loving un-australian whoever-makes-them-feel-justified-in-ignoring-debate"ers. Even being aware I'm not sure what more I can do that 1. not being asshole and 2. standing up for people if I see something like that happening, and even then it runs the risk of being assaulted by a maniac. I'm all for shaming them but I don't want idiots to represent Australia more than they already do, ya know?
I feel where you're coming from, when some asshat racially assaulted that poor French girl who was singing on a bus a while ago the response from the French media was hysterical. I mean, it was a lot more negative than when a French student was murdered, stripped naked and dumped in public earlier this year.
shanshan310
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What kind of constructive things do you think we should be doing? I'm honestly at my wits end with these people and I'm curious. I feel like these kind of people are already out in the open and a lot of the time it's just kind of brushed over of accepted. In the current climate of attacks on Muslim women for wearing hijabs, government members proposing changes to the discrimination acts, sending helpless refugees to friggen Cambodia instead of letting them into our country, and general islamaphobia/ racism I just don't see how shaming asshole individuals will really change much.
And now a public service announcement from famous thinkers quoting herald sun readers:
Committing crimes against the elderly: unaustralian!
you cant shame the arseholes but you sure can shame into action the people that either dont think they're that big a deal or try and sweep it under a rug every time the international media picks up on the latest racist outburst
shanshan310
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That honestly made me feel a lot more okay with Australia.
I guess I don't like it being blown up internationally because it becomes how we are viewed and you get students who would rather go and study in America or New Zealand because they are afraid of being assaulted here because they are foreign. It's sad and it shouldn't represent us - because it isn't us, it's some fuckwit kid on a train trying to cause trouble. I want us to have an honest and open discussion in Australian society about our issues, but without people who don't understand the situation jumping in to pot stir, and racist morons who don't give a shit and just ruin our reputation.
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Can't fault him for being prepared. He walks like he's readying to draw a pair of six-shooters as well, it's amazing that so many have been able to get a drop on the man. Although maybe he's in a constant state of hyper-alertness due to past encounters with journalists, satirists and the like.
Come on people, at least read all the comments before you go getting all warm and fuzzy.
That'll teach them bloody Muslims a lesson about how we'll stand up for them, what's your excuse for joining ISIS now you psychos?
Tim the Wiz
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Uplifting story... until you read the comments. Wow.
if thats what it'll take for industries incredibly reliant on tourism/immigration/international students to actually use their political and social influence to fight against the rising undercurrent of racism in this country then
http://www.smh.com.au/national/raci...nts-report-cultural-shift-20140405-365a5.html
What did I miss? What happened?
Well, at least it's making world news just how much of a fuckstick he is.
Is there a thread for it? The entirety of GAF deserves a platform from which to shit on Abbott from a great height.
The MH17 disaster wasn't even murder. Putin's been a colossal dick about his role in it to be fair, but the fact that the PM goes on camera to announce to the country that he's going to stand up for Australia before he does it smacks of grandstanding. If you want us to be seen as something other than the insignificant speck that we are just go out there and do it.
shanshan310
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God this government is so dumb when it comes to saying things about other governments.
hmmm, if I thought they'd do anything maybe I'd be more inclined to agree It disgusts me as much as you but it's hard to force social change, especially with the government pot stirring and bogans boganing. Bad reputations last a long time, I'd rather the change come from within.
if thats what it'll take for industries incredibly reliant on tourism/immigration/international students to actually use their political and social influence to fight against the rising undercurrent of racism in this country then
http://www.smh.com.au/national/raci...nts-report-cultural-shift-20140405-365a5.html
hmmm, if I thought they'd do anything maybe I'd be more inclined to agree
It disgusts me as much as you but it's hard to force social change, especially with the government pot stirring and bogans boganing. Bad reputations last a long time, I'd rather the change come from within.I'm not being serious. I don't genuinely want him to physically assault Putin, that's ridiculous. However, I do appreciate the strong rhetoric, even if it is only rhetoric. Russia walk around doing whatever they want because they know it's not possible for anyone to actually retaliate. Since that's the case I'd at least like our leaders to call out their bull crap rather than meekly standing by. I understand that it's political grandstanding and in the end nothing more but pointless bluster, but I don't care.
I would have thought the left would be more up in arms about Putin's visit considering the whole imprisoning gay people thing he's got going.
I would have thought the left would be more up in arms about Putin's visit considering the whole imprisoning gay people thing he's got going.
Agreed. That's actually different to threatening personal physical violence.
It's worse than that. It's taking a risk against a world superpower for cheap votes.
Don't know of many lefties defending Putin. Do you know of any?
Some brief speculation on 3AW this morning suggested that maybe Abbott meant "button-holing" and got confused:
"In England, it means to confront someone, perhaps against their will... the image being of hooking one's finger through the buttonhole of their jacket to hold onto them and forcibly keep their attention"
If that's the case, who knows what Abbott has started by making a George W.-esque flub.
"In England, it means to confront someone, perhaps against their will... the image being of hooking one's finger through the buttonhole of their jacket to hold onto them and forcibly keep their attention"
If that's the case, who knows what Abbott has started by making a George W.-esque flub.
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