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Doctor Spaceman
Jul 6, 2010

"Everyone's entitled to their point of view, but that's seriously a weird one."
:siren: Boat people have infiltrated the highest levels of our government :siren:

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Brown Paper Bag
Nov 3, 2012

quote:

'G'day': Refugee boat welcomed to Australia by tinnie

Amid chaos and as thousands of Vietnamese tried to flee the communists, Hieu Van Le, aged 22, and his sweetheart Lan decided to make the perilous trip in a small boat bound with hopes of reaching Australia.

"It was very dangerous and very risky, like many other refugees out there, I guess," he said.

He said they endured weeks of monsoonal downpours and storms and feared ending up in the bottom of the sea.

But finally the tiny boat made it to Australian waters and a remarkable welcome.

"Out of this curtain of mist we saw the little tinnie coming toward us, quite fast, and there were two blokes standing in it, shorts and singlets, sunhats on, white zinc cream on their noses, the fishing rod sticking up into the sky," he recalled.

"They waved at us and they come very close, very close and very fast to our boat and one of them raises the stubbie up as if proposing a toast.

"'G'day, mate!' he shouted. "Welcome to Australia."

:australia:

Times sure have changed.

Splode
Jun 18, 2013

put some clothes on you little freak

Guest posted:

Yeah, what if those parents came looking for their dead child's femur, and it wasn't there? Boy would those scientists have egg on their face.

I was more concerned that the found strontium 90 in every capital city.

Thanks for nuking us, England! Much appreciated! With allies like these...

xutech
Mar 4, 2011

EIIST

Brown Paper Bag posted:

:australia:

Times sure have changed.

37 years ago....

:smith:

Fruity Gordo
Aug 5, 2013

Neurotic, Impotent Rage!
There are videos of fishies and stevedores helping Vietnamese refugees out of boats and giving them cigarettes and stubbies on the beaches and wharves.

webmeister
Jan 31, 2007

The answer is, mate, because I want to do you slowly. There has to be a bit of sport in this for all of us. In the psychological battle stakes, we are stripped down and ready to go. I want to see those ashen-faced performances; I want more of them. I want to be encouraged. I want to see you squirm.
My dad maintains that the narrative around Vietnamese boat arrivals was generally "wow these people are brave, risking their lives on such a dangerous journey! Of course they can stay" :smith:

dr_rat
Jun 4, 2001

webmeister posted:

My dad maintains that the narrative around Vietnamese boat arrivals was generally "wow these people are brave, risking their lives on such a dangerous journey! Of course they can stay" :smith:

And god we all know how that turned out, what with all the Vietnamese who stole everyone jobs, while living off welfare and bring their violent mystery religion to Australia and never fitting in with 'Australian culture'. God what a nightmare that was, I can totally see why we wouldn't want any more refugees after that mess.

Sort of want to read the right wing newspaper articles at the time to see what was actually being printed at the time. Or was the right of Australia for it due to the whole them fleeing from communist and everything? From what I've read despite some pretty decent general acceptance of the Vietnamese refugees there was still quite a bit of yellow peril/Asians are going to take over Australia crap, going on a the time.

Synthbuttrange
May 6, 2007

As far as my personal experience as a yellow person, that was still going strong til about a decade and a half back then it suddenly switched over to fear of muslims and indians.

Anidav
Feb 25, 2010

ahhh fuck its the rats again
Australia: Afraid of everything because it knows nothing.

dr_rat
Jun 4, 2001

Anidav posted:

Australia: Afraid of everything because it knows nothing.

Bolts told us everything we need to know. :smuggo:

Anidav
Feb 25, 2010

ahhh fuck its the rats again
There was a multicultural festival in Newmarket today which had Glen Elmes MP as a guest known as Queensland's Minister for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander and Multicultural Affairs. The festival was held at the big International City Church and generally had decent food and music. However, when Glen Elmes went to the stage to make his speech, he rather oddly and continuously joked about how much money he gives to this particular church and the Church Minister's wife had to awkwardly smile and lead him off-stage.

He was pretty much "Man multiculturalism is amazing, hey do you know how much money I give to this church?"

plumpy hole lever
Aug 8, 2003

♥ Anime is real ♥

webmeister posted:

My dad maintains that the narrative around Vietnamese boat arrivals was generally "wow these people are brave, risking their lives on such a dangerous journey! Of course they can stay" :smith:


Fruity Gordo posted:

There are videos of fishies and stevedores helping Vietnamese refugees out of boats and giving them cigarettes and stubbies on the beaches and wharves.


xutech posted:

37 years ago....

:smith:


this is why i dont read this thread any more


too loving depressing

CATTASTIC
Mar 31, 2010

¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Stevedore sounds like a guy tasked with sheparding your drunk mate through populated areas, making sure he doesn't get into trouble.

e. also world fukt as usual, i guess

drunkill
Sep 25, 2007

me @ ur posting
Fallen Rib

Fixed that for you.

Fruity Gordo
Aug 5, 2013

Neurotic, Impotent Rage!
Noice.

CATTASTIC
Mar 31, 2010

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

drunkill posted:

Fixed that for you.

#wow & #woah

Lid
Feb 18, 2005

And the mercy seat is awaiting,
And I think my head is burning,
And in a way I'm yearning,
To be done with all this measuring of proof.
An eye for an eye
And a tooth for a tooth,
And anyway I told the truth,
And I'm not afraid to die.
Nile concluded by outlining what his ideal society would look like.

“[It would be] a society marked by faithful, lasting, lifelong marriages between a man and woman,” he said.

“A drug-free society. A pro-life society. No pornography or prostitution. A society with wholesome public entertainment. A God-honouring, Christ-centred Christian nation.”

Three people gave him a standing ovation.

...

Key themes from the day included equating sexual health with sterilisation and abortion; and criticising fatherless families for leading to broken homes and homeless children.

...

Louise Kirk, UK coordinator for Alive to the World character education, spoke about a “scourge” overtaking schools – sex education.

“This is a scourge because from a breakdown of the passing down of values from parents in all our societies, children are lost,” she said.

“And there is no one to pick them up and aspire them to marriage.”

She said children had spiritual imagination which was filled with God.

“And if they’re not filled with God there isn’t a vacuum,” she said.

“Without God they get filled with they get filled with pornography or terror or computer games.

“If you’re going to teach children sexuality you need to teach children correctly with the best teachers. And the best teachers are the parents. The parents protect their modesty.”

freebooter
Jul 7, 2009

dr_rat posted:

Sort of want to read the right wing newspaper articles at the time to see what was actually being printed at the time. Or was the right of Australia for it due to the whole them fleeing from communist and everything? From what I've read despite some pretty decent general acceptance of the Vietnamese refugees there was still quite a bit of yellow peril/Asians are going to take over Australia crap, going on a the time.

Read this in the Monthly the other day (whole article is great and worth a read):

http://www.themonthly.com.au/issue/...campaign=buffer

quote:

The public has long been opposed to asylum seekers arriving by boat. Malcolm Fraser’s decision in the mid 1970s to take in Vietnamese boat people might be one of the most politically unpopular ever undertaken in Australia – it had less than 10% support when enacted. Even Fraser started talking about deportation once significant numbers of onshore arrivals started. The golden age of asylum policy in Australia wasn’t golden, and it was never popular.

Seagull
Oct 9, 2012

give me a chip

And then three people stood up and clapped.

Cleretic
Feb 3, 2010


Ignore my posts!
I'm aggressively wrong about everything!

Lid posted:

Nile concluded by outlining what his ideal society would look like.

“[It would be] a society marked by faithful, lasting, lifelong marriages between a man and woman,” he said.

“A drug-free society. A pro-life society. No pornography or prostitution. A society with wholesome public entertainment. A God-honouring, Christ-centred Christian nation.”

Three people gave him a standing ovation.

...

Key themes from the day included equating sexual health with sterilisation and abortion; and criticising fatherless families for leading to broken homes and homeless children.

...

Louise Kirk, UK coordinator for Alive to the World character education, spoke about a “scourge” overtaking schools – sex education.

“This is a scourge because from a breakdown of the passing down of values from parents in all our societies, children are lost,” she said.

“And there is no one to pick them up and aspire them to marriage.”

She said children had spiritual imagination which was filled with God.

“And if they’re not filled with God there isn’t a vacuum,” she said.

“Without God they get filled with they get filled with pornography or terror or computer games.

“If you’re going to teach children sexuality you need to teach children correctly with the best teachers. And the best teachers are the parents. The parents protect their modesty.”

These people are describing the most boring loving society. Like, even aside from the moral bankruptcy that causes them to say this stuff, they are describing the most joyless, bland civilization I could ever think of.

Taalib
May 5, 2011

The Age posted:

Diversity, hope and strength: Why I'm proud to be Israeli

I am proud to be Israeli. I'm proud that, in Israel, a bacon-eating Jew and a beer-drinking Muslim can sit in the same parliament as devout co-religionists, and everyone can speak their minds.

I'm proud that Israel, like Australia, is a place where journalists, academics and everyone else can air their grievances without fear of retribution. Oh, they might involve themselves in an argument, but they won't be gaoled or tortured or shot.

Two weeks ago in this paper, an anonymous Israeli declared shame in her citizenship. I'm proud that she has the right to do this, and can do so safely, both here and in Israel. However, her anonymity was insulting. Australia and Israel is not Gaza or Nazi Germany. Israelis and Australian Jews can, and do, criticise Israel.

Although I'm sad that it has been forced to do so, I'm really proud that Israel has invested billions of dollars on bomb shelters and air-raid sirens and radars to detect incoming rockets and missiles to shoot down those rockets, all in the name of protecting its people.

I'm proud that I could do my small part in protecting other Israelis by serving in the army. The army consists of people just like you and me; people who would prefer to start their adult life earlier, but understand the importance of defending their country. That said, I hated the idea of fighting Palestinians.

For, whether we like it or not – or they like it or not – Israelis and Palestinians share a homeland. We could fight each other for another few generations, or we could divide the land so both sides have a state. I'm proud that successive Israeli governments, buoyed by majority opinion, have been willing to do just that. We have engaged in peace talks, we have made offers. I know there are Palestinians who also want to stop fighting. I don't know how many, because their media remain full of calls for Israel's destruction, many of their politicians describe Jews as sub-human and their leaders keep turning down Israeli peace offers.

But I know peaceful Palestinians exist, and exist in significant numbers, and I look forward to the day that I can safely sit down for a coffee with these people in the centre of Nablus or Khan Yunis to talk about our differences and our collective future.

What I also know is that Hamas hates me – not because I'm an Israeli, but because I'm a Jew. I know that Hamas sees itself as being in an inter-generational war with my people. That is why it launches rockets and digs tunnels to provoke fighting with Israel. Not because it thinks it will win, but because it thinks that, after another 10, hundred, thousand such rounds of conflict, the Jews will find somewhere else to live.

Well, we won't. And while I'm proud that the Israeli army does what it must to protect Israelis, it breaks my heart when innocent Palestinians die. I believe that their deaths are the result of Hamas's unbelievably cynical tactics, and I'm proud of the lengths to which Israel goes to prevent Palestinian casualties.

Israelis and Palestinians have a lot in common, and not just a homeland. We both see in our history a large measure of victimhood. And while I feel the Palestinians' plight is mostly their own making, that is my opinion, and I can't take away from Palestinians how they view the world.

I can say, however, that after the Holocaust, Jews had to choose between being shaped by our victimhood or being defined by it. The same went for the nearly one million Jewish refugees from Arab lands. Jews chose the former and this, in part, is a secret of our success.

But Palestinians have chosen to be defined by their victimhood. And for as long as they continue to do so, they will not take hold of their destiny but continue denying responsibility for their fate or actions. Israel cannot change the Palestinian leadership – that is up to the Palestinians.

I would beg of Palestinians, from someone destined to live next to you forever, take hold of your destiny. Be shaped by your past, but don't be defined by it. Concentrate on building up Palestine, not tearing down Israel. I will help you. My people will help your people.

In the meantime, Israel will keep protecting its people, by fighting when it needs to, but at all times offering an olive branch in peace. Because Israel and its leadership know the Palestinians are there to stay. It's just waiting for the Palestinian leadership to come to the same realisation.

Dana Amir is an Israeli living in Australia. She served in the Israel Defence Force from 1998 until 2001.

TheIllestVillain
Dec 27, 2011

Sal, Wyoming's not a country

Taalib posted:

Diversity, hope and strength: Why I'm proud to be Israeli

They sure are proud of that diversity

*sterilises Ethiopian Jews*

break-up breakdown
Mar 6, 2010

if you're not subscribed to tony toons, you should be

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aPOZqIAsUlc

Cartoon
Jun 20, 2008

poop

quote:

The public has long been opposed to asylum seekers arriving by boat. Malcolm Fraser’s decision in the mid 1970s to take in Vietnamese boat people might be one of the most politically unpopular ever undertaken in Australia – it had less than 10% support when enacted. Even Fraser started talking about deportation once significant numbers of onshore arrivals started. The golden age of asylum policy in Australia wasn’t golden, and it was never popular.
The difference is a faceless person decided that if the numbers were 10 % for then the ~ 90% against might be worth targeting for votes. That turned our "yellow peril, tora! tora! tora!" sentement from saluting boat people with a tinny levels of "meh couldn't be hosed" to the current rabid Nationally championed desire to kill and maim.

In other depressing news:

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-08-31/iraq-and-kursish-forces-bid-to-break-is-siege-of-town/5708248

quote:

Immigration Minister Scott Morrison told Sky News the Government had not taken the decision lightly and had considered the risks involved.

"Any undertaking in this area involves a careful assessment of these issues and of course they're not risk-free but the Government is taking this step-by-step, very carefully, very measured," he said.

With no more ceremony than an aside by the immigration minister Australia is once again at war.

Of course if you like your racism served with a heaping dose of bigotry you don't have to go far:

http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/sundayextra/outsiders/5706474

Listen to that without throwing something at your monitor. I dare you!

Cpt Soban
Jul 23, 2011

dr_rat posted:

And god we all know how that turned out, what with all the Vietnamese who stole everyone jobs, while living off welfare and bring their violent mystery religion to Australia and never fitting in with 'Australian culture'. God what a nightmare that was, I can totally see why we wouldn't want any more refugees after that mess.

Sort of want to read the right wing newspaper articles at the time to see what was actually being printed at the time. Or was the right of Australia for it due to the whole them fleeing from communist and everything? From what I've read despite some pretty decent general acceptance of the Vietnamese refugees there was still quite a bit of yellow peril/Asians are going to take over Australia crap, going on a the time.

Sad thing is, people like Pauline Hanson continue to peddle this theory. "THEY'LL TAKE OUR JOBS!"

Gough Suppressant
Nov 14, 2008
If you can easily be replaced in your job by some hypothetical uneducated destitute immigrant who can't speak English maybe you should have been better at your job :shrug:

Endman
May 18, 2010

That is not dead which can eternal lie, And with strange aeons even anime may die


Gough Suppressant posted:

If you can easily be replaced in your job by some hypothetical uneducated destitute immigrant who can't speak English maybe you should have been better at your job :shrug:

Mate.

Everyone deserves job security. Even white people.

The whole "immigrants taking our jobs" line is loving stupid though. Immigrants won't take your job because they're subject to the same employment laws you are, outsourcing and 457 visas will take your job in favour of exploiting someone who doesn't have the benefit of living here.

Endman
May 18, 2010

That is not dead which can eternal lie, And with strange aeons even anime may die


Just to clarify: I'm not trying to defend dumb racism. But employment is something people do have genuine fears about, which is why it's such a great conservative dogwhistle to talk about immigrants putting people out of work.

Telling people they can avoid that not by educating themselves, but that they should suck capitalism's dick even harder to make themselves appear more worthwhile to the machine is stupid.

Nibbles!
Jun 26, 2008

TRUMP TRUMP TRUMP

make australia great again as well please
*Immigrants take jobs because they work for cheaper*

*votes for government seeking to dismantle workplace pay and conditions*

Negative Entropy
Nov 30, 2009

March Australia Brisbane Protest Trip report
By Kommando

https://plus.google.com/photos/+DrewTriebe/albums/6053638016263954945



March Australia held an Anti-LNP Anti-Abbott protest today at Queens Park with several speakers.
Larissa Waters, Terry O'Gorman, Peter Ong (E.T.U.), Professor John Quiggin, Selena Ward, Robyn Taubenfield, Jake Schoemer, & Breeze & comedian Mandy Nolan voiced their outrage and disgust at the abominable behaviour exhibited by our Federal and State LNP governments.

There were stalls for The Greens and The Socialist alliance along with smaller represented parties like Abbott Proof Fence and Antifaschistsche Aktion.

The rally was held from 10:30 and at 12:00 began a procession walking around the CBD and ultimatly back to Queens Park before disbanding at 14:00.

Channel 7 and The Australian journalists were in attendance along with a lot of freelance and casual photographers. The QPS was mostly bike mounted, both pedal and motor and the rally was very peaceful if noisy.

I got to speak to my Stafford Greens Candidate about various things but mostly about nuclear power. I bought two Greens pins and wore a shirt marked with FUND CSIRO and had the Parkes Dish on the back.

While on the march I spoke on film to a March Australia videographer on the continual cinching of the CSIRO budget leading to drastic cost cutting measures like closing the Parkes Radio Telescope and shutting the Melbourne Biolab that is currently studying Ebola, Hendra and SARS.

It was great to see so many people out today.

Here are some photos. More can be seen at my G+ album
https://plus.google.com/photos/+DrewTriebe/albums/6053638016263954945



The Australian photographer, not taking photos.

























Lid
Feb 18, 2005

And the mercy seat is awaiting,
And I think my head is burning,
And in a way I'm yearning,
To be done with all this measuring of proof.
An eye for an eye
And a tooth for a tooth,
And anyway I told the truth,
And I'm not afraid to die.
Festival of Dangerous Ideas continues its amazing descent into irrelevance.

quote:

Three sex workers stage protest at Festival of Dangerous Ideas

We’re not ‘women for sale’, says Jules Kim after festival failed to invite sex workers to join a panel discussing their profession


Monica Tan
Sunday 31 August 2014 17.50 EST

Three Sydney sex workers have staged a protest at the Festival of Dangerous Ideas over the representation of their profession in a panel discussion on the global sex industry called Women For Sale.

They handed out pamphlets to festival goers and posed with an A3 sign that read “I am a sex worker. I am not for sale”.

This year’s festival has been beset with controversy, including the cancellation of a talk on “honour” killings and calls for a boycott over links to the government’s asylum seeker policy.

“This is a festival of dangerous ideology,” one of the workers, Jules Kim, told Guardian Australia. “Sex workers are not ‘women for sale’. The panel discusses sex workers, but the festival did not invite sex workers to be on the panel even though they are the experts in this field.”

Kim, who is the acting chief executive of the Australian sex workers’ organisation Scarlet Alliance, applied to festival organisers St James Ethics Centre to be included on the panel, which featured four writers and journalists, but had her request denied.

However, at the beginning of the discussion journalist Elizabeth Pisani invited Kim to replace her on stage and she was allowed to take part.

Kim said of the festival organisers: “You would think they’d want an actual sex worker [on the panel], but somehow that’s not important because we’re seen as victims; voiceless and having no agency.”

The co-founder and co-curator of the festival, Simon Longstaff of the St James Ethics Centre, said the intention of the sex workers to contribute to the discussion was “entirely appropriate”.

“However, I think that their cause could have been advanced in a stronger direction if they had used slightly different means. For example, taking the opportunity to express their opinion and then withdrawing back into the audience would have made a clear statement without seeking to dominate an agenda which was always intended to cover a broader range of issues.


“That said, a festival of dangerous ideas is always going to have interesting an exciting moments for which no one could have possibly planned.

“In my opinion what needed to be represented was a broad spectrum of opinion, which included the opinions of sex workers in Elizabeth Pisani, who was able to articulate the opinions that sex workers hold.

“One of the conscious designs of the festival is that ... there is opportunity for people to contribute in the Q&A and in that senses there was always an opportunity for sex workers or parents of sex workers or any part of the community to contribute to this discussion.”

The two other protesters, Zahra Stardust and Cameron Cox, said they were allowed to enter the panel only as audience members on condition they leave a bag carrying their sign and pamphlets at the entrance. Stardust said the festival was part of a “historical, structural, systemic problem”.

The advocate said lack of representation inevitably meant myths and misinformation harmful to the lives of sex workers would be reproduced. Those ideas would be used to justify the criminalisation of their work, and increase stigma and institutional discrimination.

She said among such myths were that all sex work is exploitation, all sex work is a result of human trafficking, sex work is an inherent form of violence against women, all sex workers are young, female and coerced, all clients are male, and that the criminalisation of sex work would end the sex industry.

The protesters said the panel – which overall was highly critical of sex work, emphasising its links to sexual slavery and human trafficking, and calling for the criminalisation of both sex work and its clients – failed to acknowledge the legitimacy of sex work.

They could never live up to Slavoj Zizek again.

Endman
May 18, 2010

That is not dead which can eternal lie, And with strange aeons even anime may die


Sex workers don't need prosecution.

Sex workers need a union.

I would blow Dane Cook
Dec 26, 2008

Endman posted:

Sex workers don't need prosecution.

Sex workers need a union.

The sex workers, united, will never be defeated!

Lid
Feb 18, 2005

And the mercy seat is awaiting,
And I think my head is burning,
And in a way I'm yearning,
To be done with all this measuring of proof.
An eye for an eye
And a tooth for a tooth,
And anyway I told the truth,
And I'm not afraid to die.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-08-31/unpaid-interns-explore-the-benefits-and-pitfalls/5708926

quote:

Unpaid interns explore the benefits and pitfalls of working for free

Posted about 2 hours agoSun 31 Aug 2014, 7:39pm

For graduates trying to find jobs in a tough market, internships can provide valuable work experience. Some young people who have explored the benefits and pitfalls of working for free, tell their story.

Doctor Spaceman
Jul 6, 2010

"Everyone's entitled to their point of view, but that's seriously a weird one."

Post it in the GBS thread :unsmigghh:

Nuclear Spy
Jun 10, 2008

feeling under?
September thread?

Morrison and Abbott named in International Criminal Court submission

quote:

THE International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague is currently considering a submission calling for an investigation into Australia’s treatment of asylum seekers.

The submission was officially accepted by the ICC on May 19, 2014, and is currently under consideration by the court.

No Fibs has now seen the full submission, however, after advice from experienced investigators, we decided against publishing the document. The advice was publication could harm any possible future investigation. We have published the executive summary (below).

The submission was prepared by lawyer and migration agent Tracie Aylmer, who also does volunteer work in a legal capacity.

Tracie told No Fibs she prepared the submission to ensure international law was upheld and to return humanity to those who have been persecuted.

The submission names:

Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott
Minister for Immigration and Border protection Scott Morrison
Assistant Minister for Immigration and Border Protection Michaela Cash
Minister for Foreign Affairs Julie Bishop
Former Chief of the Defence Force General David Hurley
Commander of Operation Sovereign Borders Lieutenant General Angus Campbell

The submission calls on ICC prosecutors to use Article 17(2) of the Rome Convention in relation to all onshore and offshore processing. It alleges the Australian government is committing atrocities that are in breach of Article 7 of the convention.

In February this year, the New York Times reported: “Australia’s treatment of asylum seekers sent to offshore processing centers is cruel, inhuman and degrading and it violates international law, the United Nations’ human rights office said”.

In July former director of mental health services at International Health and Mental Services Dr Peter Young gave evidence to the National Inquiry into Children in Immigration Detention.

Young told the inquiry The Department of Immigration and Border protection “asked us to withdraw the figures from our reporting” which showed alarming high levels of mental health problems among young detainees.

The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) has been a long-time critic of Australia’s mandatory detention. In 2011 UNHCR regional representative Richard Towle said: “In the Australian context, UNHCR has longstanding concerns that mandatory detention for prolonged periods, particularly in isolated locations and crowded conditions, can quickly impact on the psycho-social health and welfare of asylum-seekers and refugee”.

Kon Karapanagiotidis OAM (@Kon__K) from the Asylum Seeker Resource Centre told No Fibs in a statement today: “Under the Abbott Government we have seen for the first time the average time in detention surpass 300 days. The loss of access to legal representation while in detention, a spike in reports of self harm and increased intimidation and pressure to depart Australia while in detention”.

Aaronicon
Oct 2, 2010

A BLOO BLOO ANYONE I DISAGREE WITH IS A "BAD PERSON" WHO DESERVES TO DIE PLEEEASE DONT FALL ALL OVER YOURSELF WHITEWASHING THEM A BLOO BLOO

Endman posted:

Sex workers don't need prosecution.

Sex workers need a union.

I think you'll find that the prostitution lobby is already hitting the boards pretty hard in Parliament most days.

but that's actually a drat good idea

NPR Journalizard
Feb 14, 2008


http://mobile.abc.net.au/news/2014-08-31/unpaid-internships-disadvantage-poorer-jobseekers-study/5708764

Avshalom
Feb 14, 2012

by Lowtax
Edited: I take it back, I can't troll anymore, my dog is just too cute. :3:

Avshalom fucked around with this message at 14:27 on Aug 31, 2014

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Lid
Feb 18, 2005

And the mercy seat is awaiting,
And I think my head is burning,
And in a way I'm yearning,
To be done with all this measuring of proof.
An eye for an eye
And a tooth for a tooth,
And anyway I told the truth,
And I'm not afraid to die.

Doctor Spaceman posted:

Post it in the GBS thread :unsmigghh:

NOOOOOOOOOOOOPE. You can do it.

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