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Surely the most appropriate option would have been to leave the statue in place but saw its head off. https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2023/aug/24/william-crowther-statue-franklin-square-hobart-taken-down-beheaded-aboriginal-man

Damn! Matildas won. Hard to imagine the media frenzy could be any more OTT, but fasten your seat belts. You ain’t seen nothing yet. It’ll make what we’ve had so far look like a Sunday school picnic.

Ron Swanson says “I’ll have the goddamn Lagavulin.”

Anyone else find Sam Kerr a little unsettling to look at? Baby face coupled with cold dead eyes.

A particular favourite of mine was the primary school trying to raise funds for girls’ education in Africa, and boys could wear a dress to school that day if they brought a gold coin. In previous years they had raised maybe a few hundred dollars for a good cause. Then Cory Bernardi got hold of...

Ooh, mark my words, they'll get to sport.

Why we have to resist with all our power any suggestion of making voting non-compulsory, or non-preferential, or of undermining in any way the independence of the AEC. Three things we do really well in Australia. And fortunately, we're not a virtual theocracy like the States. But no time for...

Good. He was the crappest leader of the crappest government Australia has ever seen. I really don’t care if the Liberal Party disappears down a drain, but for those who do care for it, it’s blindingly obvious they need to clear out toxic Scott and his ratbag supporters as the first step to...

No thanks. What a nightmare. Fairy floss on waves.

I don’t even know what you’re referencing, but anyone who wants overwhelming scientific evidence of the existential threat posed by climate change need only do a few mouse clicks. But clearly you’re not looking for overwhelming scientific evidence. Way to out yourself.

Yep. But at the current rate, humans will not survive to see it. If history is any guide, our species’ inability to co-operate beyond national, ideological, cultural, religious and racial differences, to tackle existential threats means we are all pfhucked. I’m hoping we can prove human...

FMD that's moronic. Global warming is a scientific fact. Socialism has nothing to do with global warming. Time waster. Onto Ignore.

So my point is, you're talking as if these things are universally-agreed absolutes, and government just "needs to get out of people's lives", but I doubt we agree on the meaning of well over half of the things you described. So it's not nearly as clear-cut as you want to make it out to be...

I certainly didn't know that. My kids all went to public schools and got good solid educations and there was zero indoctrination.

So we can take it you concede all of Bloods86 's other points, given you didn't address any of them?

I actually agree with a great deal of that but I suspect our definitions of many of the terms differ wildly.

Well if they want small government they should damn well stay out of government. That'll keep it good and small, because the only people in government will be people that actually believe in what they're doing. I don't vote for someone to schitte on the position they're running for. Any fool...

Given your stink bomb-throwing methodology why would you get the benefit of the doubt from anyone on here?

It's like the Libs saying "we believe in the rights of the individual". So maybe don't band together into a political group to fight for the rights of the individual, dipschitte.

Given he was running for government, one of the more idiotic statements of a leader in modern times. But emblematic of the fundamentally contradictory rubbish that right wingers swallow in order to stay the course.

Like Jim Jeffries on US gun control: Idiot American: You can NOT change the second amendment!!! JJ: Ah, yes you can? It's called an AMENDMENT.

Actually, on second thoughts, it’s totally King Of The Hill (prem. 1997). Feels about right.

Given virtually nothing depicted in that odious video actually took place, how exactly is it “summing up” anything? (Or are you just excited that the right wing has finally discovered hip cartooning, what, 30 years after Beavis and Butt-Head?)

Hard to disagree with a word of that.

This guy? They (and we) need more of his type in politics. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clinton_Tyree

Thanks, I read heaps but I had never heard of Laurence Shames until now. What is it about Florida? Such a home for whackjobs. In truth, I'm sure you could write a non-fiction book about the place that is just as hilarious as anything these fiction writers come up with.

Thanks, will definitely read it. Trump is such a plum target for satire and it’s always kind of baffled me that more fiction writers haven’t done the decent thing and ripped him to shreds. But who better than Carl Hiaasen? I always love Hiaasen and up until a few years ago had pretty much...

Re Trump, saw this elsewhere: “it's pretty unfair of us to expect the guy who doesn't understand how science works or how running a casino works or how not cheating on your wife works or how closing a ******* umbrella works to suddenly understand how not stealing state secrets works”

In a contest between two right-wing politicians like Biden and Trump, this lefty will always go for the certifiably sane one who currently occupies the Oval Office. Sheesh.

I knew Askin was crooked as; didn't know that about Bolte.