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Recoome: Nov 9, 2013; Matter of fact, I'm salty now.

LibertyCat posted:

^^Muslim isn't a race as you well know. You can't help being born Black, but religions are a human invention. You can help believing in an ideology whose adherents cause most terrorist attacks.

rofl

# ? Jul 29, 2016 05:42

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# ? May 13, 2024 04:14

Recoome: Nov 9, 2013; Matter of fact, I'm salty now.

look I said it before and I'll say it again, there's no point engaging with LibertyCat because he's an actual nazi and he's proved it before, and he's proving it now.

Like jesus christ guys just don't engage, like it's a real point and laugh example of some weird white dude who's got a hosed up worldview.

# ? Jul 29, 2016 05:47

open24hours: Jan 7, 2001

https://twitter.com/kevinforsg/status/758853424259538944

Is this a real account?

[edit: Nevermind, no it's not.]

open24hours fucked around with this message at 06:54 on Jul 29, 2016

# ? Jul 29, 2016 06:24

Starshark: Dec 22, 2005; Doctor Rope

MonoAus posted:

And this is when I knew you couldn't possibly be serious.

I started laughing when he argued THERE'S A MILITARY TARGET IN AMONGST ALL THE CIVILIANS SO YOU CAN'T SAY WE TARGET CIVILIANS. Comedy gold.

# ? Jul 29, 2016 06:49

EvilElmo: May 10, 2009

quote:

The report advised the Greens that �Liberal and Labor are NOT going to focus on health in the upcoming federal election�

# ? Jul 29, 2016 07:02

Doctor Spaceman: Jul 6, 2010; "Everyone's entitled to their point of view, but that's seriously a weird one."

EvilElmo posted:

That is pretty dumb.

# ? Jul 29, 2016 07:21

MonoAus: Nov 5, 2012

Starshark posted:

I started laughing when he argued THERE'S A MILITARY TARGET IN AMONGST ALL THE CIVILIANS SO YOU CAN'T SAY WE TARGET CIVILIANS. Comedy gold.

Don't get me wrong it was all awful. But everything before that seemed like something someone deranged might actually think.

# ? Jul 29, 2016 07:26

WhiskeyWhiskers: Oct 14, 2013; "هذا ليس عادلاً."
"هذا ليس عادلاً على الإطلاق."
"كان هناك وقت الآن."
(السياق الخفي: للقراءة)

Maybe the Greens just didn't expect Labor would sink to the depths of depravity they did with their MEDISCARE campaign. :smuggo:

# ? Jul 29, 2016 08:09

RC Bandit: Sep 7, 2012; Hanson: It's Time; Grimey Drawer

I've received my census login details in the mail.

Which I immediately requested a paper form.

# ? Jul 29, 2016 08:20

I would blow Dane Cook: Dec 26, 2008

Romeo Charlie posted:

I've received my census login details in the mail.

Which I immediately requested a paper form.

As you may or may not realise, the next Australian Census will be taken in one month�s time on Tuesday, 9th August, 2016.

For the first time this year there will be a �No Religion� option. Please be careful how you answer this question. Bear in mind that although many Australians have no religion these days, the Muslim population in Australia will all declare that they are Muslim and this fact will be counted to ascertain what type of country we are in regard to religion.

Even though you may now have no religion, please consider entering the religion you were christened or born into, when answering this question. Otherwise in time Australia will officially be declared to be a Muslim country � because the Australian Bureau of Statistics Census will reflect this. Just imagine the repercussions if that were to happen.

For Australia�s future I would ask you to please pass this message on to your family members and friends.

# ? Jul 29, 2016 08:46

WhiskeyWhiskers: Oct 14, 2013; "هذا ليس عادلاً."
"هذا ليس عادلاً على الإطلاق."
"كان هناك وقت الآن."
(السياق الخفي: للقراءة)

Jumpingmanjim posted:

As you may or may not realise, the next Australian Census will be taken in one month�s time on Tuesday, 9th August, 2016.

For the first time this year there will be a �No Religion� option. Please be careful how you answer this question. Bear in mind that although many Australians have no religion these days, the Muslim population in Australia will all declare that they are Muslim and this fact will be counted to ascertain what type of country we are in regard to religion.

Even though you may now have no religion, please consider entering the religion you were christened or born into, when answering this question. Otherwise in time Australia will officially be declared to be a Muslim country � because the Australian Bureau of Statistics Census will reflect this. Just imagine the repercussions if that were to happen.

For Australia�s future I would ask you to please pass this message on to your family members and friends.

Like how does anyone even twist their head around that much to think that 'No Religion' would be uncounted and we would default to the next largest minority?

WhiskeyWhiskers fucked around with this message at 08:52 on Jul 29, 2016

# ? Jul 29, 2016 08:47

hooman: Oct 11, 2007; This guy seems legit.; Fun Shoe

Jumpingmanjim posted:

As you may or may not realise, the next Australian Census will be taken in one month�s time on Tuesday, 9th August, 2016.

For the first time this year there will be a �No Religion� option. Please be careful how you answer this question. Bear in mind that although many Australians have no religion these days, the Muslim population in Australia will all declare that they are Muslim and this fact will be counted to ascertain what type of country we are in regard to religion.

Even though you may now have no religion, please consider entering the religion you were christened or born into, when answering this question. Otherwise in time Australia will officially be declared to be a Muslim country � because the Australian Bureau of Statistics Census will reflect this. Just imagine the repercussions if that were to happen.

For Australia�s future I would ask you to please pass this message on to your family members and friends.

Please stop quoting liberty cat.

# ? Jul 29, 2016 08:56

Doctor Spaceman: Jul 6, 2010; "Everyone's entitled to their point of view, but that's seriously a weird one."

WhiskeyWhiskers posted:

Like how does anyone even twist their head around that much to think that 'No Religion' would be uncounted and we would default to the next largest minority?

There are more Buddhists than Muslims in Australia too.

# ? Jul 29, 2016 09:00

MonoAus: Nov 5, 2012

Jumpingmanjim posted:

As you may or may not realise, the next Australian Census will be taken in one month�s time on Tuesday, 9th August, 2016.

For the first time this year there will be a �No Religion� option. Please be careful how you answer this question. Bear in mind that although many Australians have no religion these days, the Muslim population in Australia will all declare that they are Muslim and this fact will be counted to ascertain what type of country we are in regard to religion.

Even though you may now have no religion, please consider entering the religion you were christened or born into, when answering this question. Otherwise in time Australia will officially be declared to be a Muslim country � because the Australian Bureau of Statistics Census will reflect this. Just imagine the repercussions if that were to happen.

For Australia�s future I would ask you to please pass this message on to your family members and friends.

I rate this post 'E'

# ? Jul 29, 2016 09:02

Anidav: Feb 25, 2010; ahhh fuck its the rats again

hooman posted:

Please stop quoting liberty cat.

Actually he's quoting Peter

# ? Jul 29, 2016 09:12

WhiskeyWhiskers: Oct 14, 2013; "هذا ليس عادلاً."
"هذا ليس عادلاً على الإطلاق."
"كان هناك وقت الآن."
(السياق الخفي: للقراءة)

Doctor Spaceman posted:

There are more Buddhists than Muslims in Australia too.

And what happens when the Royal Commission into Islam finds it's an ideology not a religion anyway? :confused:

# ? Jul 29, 2016 09:14

BBJoey: Oct 31, 2012

Jumpingmanjim posted:

As you may or may not realise, the next Australian Census will be taken in one month�s time on Tuesday, 9th August, 2016.

For the first time this year there will be a �No Religion� option. Please be careful how you answer this question. Bear in mind that although many Australians have no religion these days, the Muslim population in Australia will all declare that they are Muslim and this fact will be counted to ascertain what type of country we are in regard to religion.

Even though you may now have no religion, please consider entering the religion you were christened or born into, when answering this question. Otherwise in time Australia will officially be declared to be a Muslim country � because the Australian Bureau of Statistics Census will reflect this. Just imagine the repercussions if that were to happen.

For Australia�s future I would ask you to please pass this message on to your family members and friends.

how idiotic do you have to be to think like this

# ? Jul 29, 2016 10:02

Zenithe: Feb 25, 2013; _{Ask not to whom the Anidavatar belongs; it belongs to thee.}

everyone lie to the government - a patriot

# ? Jul 29, 2016 10:07

gay picnic defence: Oct 5, 2009; I'M CONCERNED ABOUT A NUMBER OF THINGS

BBJoey posted:

how idiotic do you have to be to think like this

Probably whatever the average Australian is.

# ? Jul 29, 2016 10:08

Doctor Spaceman: Jul 6, 2010; "Everyone's entitled to their point of view, but that's seriously a weird one."

Anidav posted:

Actually he's quoting Peter

It is a chain email.

# ? Jul 29, 2016 10:12

Mysticblade: Oct 22, 2012

I was gonna put down "No religion" but I guess I'll put "Muslim" on my census

# ? Jul 29, 2016 10:23

Cleretic: Feb 3, 2010; Can't post for 4 days!

I pledge my eternal soul to Nora Legion. May she bring us victory.

# ? Jul 29, 2016 10:51

birdstrike: Oct 30, 2008; i;m gay

Mysticblade posted:

I was gonna put down "No religion" but I guess I'll put "Muslim" on my census

inshallah

# ? Jul 29, 2016 10:54

Starshark: Dec 22, 2005; Doctor Rope

What happens when we go from a you-beaut fair dinkum Aussie Aussie Aussie country to a Muslim one? Do we change the national food from lamb to... lamb?

# ? Jul 29, 2016 11:03

Mysticblade: Oct 22, 2012

Democracy sausage's are now made of lamb

I'm not really a fan of beef but I can't remember ever eating a lamb sausage. I've eaten lamb but not a lamb sausage.

# ? Jul 29, 2016 11:08

Synthbuttrange: May 6, 2007

Its not baad.

# ? Jul 29, 2016 11:11

Amoeba102: Jan 22, 2010

Lamb and rosmary sausages are nice.

# ? Jul 29, 2016 11:16

Comstar: Apr 20, 2007; Are you happy now?

Is putting down Jedi still a thing, and does it outnumber any more religions that the Turnball government already listen too?

# ? Jul 29, 2016 11:17

Doctor Spaceman: Jul 6, 2010; "Everyone's entitled to their point of view, but that's seriously a weird one."

Amoeba102 posted:

Lamb and rosmary sausages are nice.

Yeah, they're pretty good. Put them in a pan with some olive oil, herbs, potatoes and bread and chuck them in the oven and you've got a really tasty dish.

# ? Jul 29, 2016 11:34

Starshark: Dec 22, 2005; Doctor Rope

Just for the record I want to say that I didn't intend to start two pages of foodchat.

# ? Jul 29, 2016 11:35

Doctor Spaceman: Jul 6, 2010; "Everyone's entitled to their point of view, but that's seriously a weird one."

Starshark posted:

Just for the record I want to say that I didn't intend to start two pages of foodchat.

We could go back to arguing with LibertyCat if that helps?

It does not help. It never helps.

# ? Jul 29, 2016 11:37

open24hours: Jan 7, 2001

Lamb is by far the best meat.

# ? Jul 29, 2016 12:15

Tokamak: Dec 22, 2004

Mysticblade posted:

Democracy sausage's are now made of lamb

I'm not really a fan of beef but I can't remember ever eating a lamb sausage. I've eaten lamb but not a lamb sausage.

kafta owns

# ? Jul 29, 2016 12:17

Ten Becquerels: Apr 17, 2012; My Little Tony: Leadership is Magic

Poor old KRudd, he actually thought that he was going to get nominated.

So despondent he got a lazy eye.

On the topic of the NT govt. countersuing those kids, what the hell is the point of doing that? Do these two kids who've been in juvie have any money at all, let alone $160,000? Seems like a pointless endeavour to try and make a point that's also incredibly poorly timed - if they'd waited a week 95% of Australia would probably have gone back to forgetting that the NT exists and they could have pointlessly sued children for trying to escape an abusive environment to their heart's content.

# ? Jul 29, 2016 12:34

Brown Paper Bag: Nov 3, 2012

Poor Malcolm. No-one will pursue a grievance like a butthurt Kevin Rudd.

# ? Jul 29, 2016 13:13

Redcordial: Nov 7, 2009; TRUMP TRUMP TRUMP

lol the country is fed up with your safe spaces and trigger warnings you useless special snowflakes, send the sjws to mexico

I'm glad that they dismissed the counter claims with such haste, it made my complaints through various channels feel powerful, albeit how small they may have been..

On topic, I will be at Melbourne's rally and demonstration for justice for children in detention and for those who are suffering from abuse. It is tomorrow at the Victorian state library at 1pm, and thousands are expected.

Here is the Facebook link:

https://www.facebook.com/events/1642691622711240/

And here is the info for the rally, for those who don't have the book of faces:

Emergency rally - justice for the children tortured in Don Dale and all prisons

Sack the NT Government, sack the guards - lay charges now
Stop stealing children - build communities not prisons
Self-determination now!

The video footage on Four Corners of Aboriginal children being tortured in Don Dale correction centre have shocked the country. But this is the tip of the iceberg of the racist �child protection� and prison systems that subject Aboriginal children to institutionalised child abuse across the continent on a daily basis.

Malcolm Turnbull and Adam Giles have announced a Royal Commission into the centre - but their own racist Intervention and �tough on crime� policies systematically breach the recommendations of the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody (RCIADIC).

Countless inquiries have already been done. We already know the facts of this case. We demand justice immediately. The prison guards responsible must be sacked and charged. So too should the NT Government who have consistently demonised and criminalised Aboriginal children and bear ultimate responsibility for this abuse. Minister Scullion also must be sacked.

Across Australia, Black children make up 50 per cent of the prison system. More children are being forcibly removed today than at any point in Australian history - taken from their families and put into foster care or prison cells.

This emergency rally will demand an end to the incarceration of children and self-determination for Aboriginal people. We need to build on the outrage and take forward the ongoing struggles against the racist police, prison and �child protection� systems. #BuildCommunitiesNotPrisons

I'll be there with my new GoPro that I bought for riding my motorbike to/from uni for security purposes. I'm planning on giving it a nice trial while partaking and attempting to get some great shots of the rally.

# ? Jul 29, 2016 13:47

Redcordial: Nov 7, 2009; TRUMP TRUMP TRUMP

lol the country is fed up with your safe spaces and trigger warnings you useless special snowflakes, send the sjws to mexico

Also regarding census: Inshallah

# ? Jul 29, 2016 13:50

Comstar: Apr 20, 2007; Are you happy now?

How the cabinet meeting about Kevin Rudd and the United Nations really played out

quote:

Here's the official transcript of Thursday's cabinet meeting that was meant to decide if Australia would support Kevin Rudd's bid for the top UN job. Please burn after reading.
Andrew P Street

Interior, cabinet room, day. Prime Minister MALCOLM TURNBULL is cramped at a table surrounded by his newly expanded 42-member Coalition ministry, who are spilling out into the corridor.

MALCOLM TURNBULL: Right, team: we need to make a decision about whether or not we're going to endorse former Labor PM Kevin Rudd as UN Secretary General. What do you think, Julie?
Pause

JULIE BISHOP: I think it's very important to show bipartisanship on this issue, so we should really stand with Labor and say "we don't want him as leader either".

BARNABY JOYCE: As Deputy Prime Minister, I think�

GEORGE BRANDIS: [interrupting, as though he hadn't heard anything] As Attorney-General I'm a little concerned that endorsing Mr Rudd would be seen as a dangerous acknowledgement of the existence of the United Nations. After all, our entire immigration policy has been largely predicated upon pretending it doesn't exist.

PETER DUTTON: [startled] Sorry, what?

GEORGE BRANDIS: You know, silly little things like the United Nations Refugee Convention of 1951. We start paying attention to that and god knows where it's going to end.

PETER DUTTON: I've never heard of it. How's it spelled? [pulls up Wikipedia on his phone]

CHRISTOPHER PYNE: [shrugs] To be fair, the post of UN Secretary General is a meaningless sinecure with no power or influence. It's like making someone ambassador to the United States: it's the perfect job for a useless duffer with no skills that's humiliated themselves in public, time and time again, and you just want to boot off somewhere out of sight so they don't embarrass you any further every time they open their mouth.

TONY ABBOTT: Now hold on just a min�

MALCOLM TURNBULL: Tony, what the hell are you doing in here?

TONY ABBOTT: Um� I left my lunch in here. I just came in to get it. [picks up onion] I'll be on my way. [leaves]

PETER DUTTON: [reading his phone with mounting horror] Oh� my� god. Do you know that it's actually illegal to send people back to their country of origin if you know they'll face persecution? It's called "refoulement"! Why did no one ever mention this?

MALCOLM TURNBULL: Shut up Peter. Now, we really need to make a decision. I've had Kevin on hold for 40 minutes, and you know how sweary he is when he doesn't get his way.

JOSH FRYDENBERG: As Environment and Energy Minister, my biggest concern is that Mr Rudd speaks fluent Mandarin. What if we tells the Chinese about what's happened to the Great Barrier Reef? They might not want to invest in our mines! We can't risk it.

MALCOLM TURNBULL: Good point. Scott, what do you think?

SCOTT MORRISON: Um� jobs and growth?

CHRISTOPHER PYNE: [pointedly] Got your heart set on being the next US ambassador there, Scotty?

BARNABY JOYCE: As Deputy Prime Minister, I�

PETER DUTTON: [getting increasingly agitated] Article 31 specifically states that refugees can't be punished for illegal entry into a contracting state! What are we doing? How are we all not in the Hague?

GEORGE BRANDIS: [wrestling him] Give me that phone! People have the right to shut the hell up!

JULIE BISHOP: Malcolm, wasn't the whole point of crippling the NBN specifically so that people wouldn't go finding things on the internet?

PETER DUTTON: [howling] I'M A MONSTER! WE ARE ALL MONSTERS!

TONY ABBOTT: [wearing an unconvincing moustache] Sock him Pete! Use extreme Border Force!

MALCOLM TURNBULL: Everybody sit down! We have to make a decision today: the UN need a nomination, Kevin's on hold, and�

KEVIN RUDD: [from speaker phone on desk] I'm not on hold, Malcolm. I'm still right here.

[everyone freezes]

MALCOLM TURNBULL: Um, Kevin, hi. Sorry about that, just one sec. [places him on hold] George, you told me you put him on hold. He's heard the whole thing!

GEORGE BRANDIS: I, um� look we just rule that this discussion was a matter of national security and therefore covered under the Border Force Act - if he so much as mentions it, we can jail him for two years.

CHRISTOPHER PYNE: Exactly, we just send him to Nauru!

PETER DUTTON: [bursts into tears]

MALCOLM TURNBULL: Everyone shut up: we need a solution. Scott: come on!

SCOTT MORRISON: Um� we don't have a spending problem, we have a revenue problem?

JULIE BISHOP: Oh great, he's overheated again.

MALCOLM TURNBULL: Goddammit, we can't even agree on this? We barely scraped into power, you idiots, Parliament hasn't even sat yet and I've already got the LNP demanding their own party room, a bunch of conservative backbenchers treating Sky News like their personal Mean Girls burn book, and after this I've got yet another meeting with Pauline Hanson to explain, once again, why we can't have a Royal Commission into whether Safe Schools is halal. This is meant to be the easy decision. If we can't manage this, what's this government going to end up looking like?

KEVIN RUDD: [icily, from the phone] I'm right here, Malcolm.

BARNABY JOYCE: As Deputy Prime Minist�

[tape mysteriously ends]

# ? Jul 29, 2016 14:03

Lizard Combatant: Sep 29, 2010; I have some notes.

I think they're giving Dutton too much credit, his potato brain is incapable of empathy

# ? Jul 29, 2016 14:33

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# ? May 13, 2024 04:14

WhiskeyWhiskers: Oct 14, 2013; "هذا ليس عادلاً."
"هذا ليس عادلاً على الإطلاق."
"كان هناك وقت الآن."
(السياق الخفي: للقراءة)

Lizard Combatant posted:

I think they're giving Dutton too much credit, his potato brain is incapable of empathy

Yeah if Wyatt Roy was immigration minister I could see his naive boyish dreams of a liberal party that believes in liberal values being crushed acting like that, but not Dutton.

# ? Jul 29, 2016 14:36

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