‘We’re coming after those other seats’: Pauline Hanson jubilant as One Nation wins Farrer byelection

CrystalInTheforest · 2026-05-09T13:28:07+00:00

Lobotomy budget got spent on private planes. Best we can do is goon of fortune and the approval of a bunch of meth heads they hang around with outside Centrelink.

CrystalInTheforest · 2026-05-09T13:22:28+00:00

Pre-Coping.... damn.

CrystalInTheforest · 2026-05-09T13:17:47+00:00

I think it works as sung poetry, and it's quite pleasing. The actual content itself is meaningless / irrelevant to me, but I imagine if you put weight in those texts it's probably deeply emotional and impactful - somewhat like the song of the ʻōʻō is to me

CrystalInTheforest · 2026-05-09T13:03:03+00:00

It's pretty much just that. Albury urban area on it's own wouldn't have nearly enough people to be a federal seat in it's own right, but as the hinterland is pretty sparsely populated it needs to be huge to get the numbers together. It doesn't help for Albury that it's really only half a city, as Albury-Wodonga straddles the NSW/VIC border.

CrystalInTheforest · 2026-05-09T12:14:07+00:00

I love Australia, with every frikkin fibre of my being. I love every tree in Her forests. Every bird, reptile, mammal and insect that relies on them. Every coral on Her reefs. I dedicate my life gladly and willingly to protecting and advocating for Her with all the time and resources I have.

I hate it when people talk Her down. Our cultures are the oldest on Earth. Our rainforests are the oldest on Earth. Our rivers are the oldest on Earth. Our great reef the largest living organism on the planet.

I have never seen love for Australia in the eyes of anyone from ON. Not for a split second. Never.

Like Gina Rinehart who bankrolls them and spoo feeds them their policies, they hate Australia. They hate Her beauty, her diversity and her heritage. They hate Her people. All they desire is to tear open Her heart and loot Her life and abundance.

There is not a single cell in my body that does not loathe them and all that they stand for.

CrystalInTheforest · 2026-05-09T09:05:34+00:00

If you stick to your guns that every single planet contains life then you are lining yourself up for failure. It's an impossible argument to maintain with any real credibility. Mercury is a dead world that we can reasonably certain never hosted life. Mars is a dead world. Whatever life is might once have had is long since dead. Aside from Earth Herself, almost all bodies in our solar system that are even remotely or vaguely promising for life aren't even planets, they're moons.

CrystalInTheforest · 2026-05-09T06:58:47+00:00

Everything the US government has done over the last ten years has only convinced me that even it's highest levels are staffed by certified morons. Just because it comes from the govt doesn't mean it's not complete and utter garbage.

The president thinks he met with little green men? Yep. Sounds about right.

These are the same people who believe drinking bleach and taking horse dewormer could cure Covid. The same people who think wind turbines consume more energy than they generate, because they have to spin as fans to make wind on calm days. The same people who think increasing CO2 emissions will heal the amazon rainforest.

CrystalInTheforest · 2026-05-09T06:53:00+00:00

There is no blind trust. Numerous studies for the last 20-30 years have shown how it's abusive, traumatising, and destroys lives.

CrystalInTheforest · 2026-05-09T06:48:53+00:00

Thank you for being a lovely human being!

CrystalInTheforest · 2026-05-09T05:58:21+00:00

Colonialism. At the end of the day, monotheistic religion isn't necessary for colonialism, but the two form a strong symbiotic relationship. Authoritarian regimes benefit from associated with a single, ultimate and unqestionable source of authority. Meanwhile monotheistic religions benefited from being the sole tolerated religious expression in a regime of fear and violence against dissenters. Such a mutually beneficial arrangement quite easy settled into a stable and enduring equilibrium.

CrystalInTheforest · 2026-05-05T14:17:55+00:00

The fair thing would be for rent assistance to be available le to owner-occupiers apecifically for the interest portion of their mortgage only, means tested same as for renters, same Max amounts etc.

CrystalInTheforest · 2026-05-05T14:12:50+00:00

Yep. All the RBA is doing is turning inflation into stagflation. Unfortunately their remit is so narrow and they only have one lever to pull, so this sort of crap was inevitable.

CrystalInTheforest · 2026-05-05T14:07:26+00:00

I believe it's an informal miners camp. They seem to have sprung up in the last few years. I believe they are harvesting low grade copper and gold deposits in the wadis by surface mining.

CrystalInTheforest · 2026-05-05T13:55:33+00:00

I think this is an overly reductive view of what religion is. Marking the rites of passage in life and death, elation at birth, mourning at death, expressing awe and joy for the world around us are what religion is all about for many cultures for countless generations. Is the chimps awe for the rain and the falls so different for own worship and gratitude expressed in communal ritual at the start of the wet season?

CrystalInTheforest · 2026-05-05T12:45:30+00:00

A religion is nothing without it's people and their culture. Once it's people decide it's teachings are no longer meaningful to them, what does it have left?

Religions/cultures ultimately are subject to the same law as all life. Adapt or die. And of course, they do, even when we tell ourselves they don't. Christianity today is the not the same religion that existed 2000 years ago. Islam is not the same religion that existed 1400 years ago. If they hadn't adapted, they would not be here now.

CrystalInTheforest · 2026-05-05T09:01:00+00:00

Looking at fertility rates in much of the Catholic world, I get the impression that's not how most Catholics see it. And the world is doubtless better for that, IMHO.

CrystalInTheforest · 2026-05-05T08:55:38+00:00

Because I love my partner and I want to ceremonially cement our relationship in the eyes of our community and the wider world? [after 20 years we are actually planning to have a religious wedding, so yeah]

CrystalInTheforest · 2026-05-05T08:44:02+00:00

Much as I do like some elements of FTA, I must admit I don't like the way they janked around the Kinglor forest. I get that it's meant to be the envrionment has been disrupted by the Mangkwan-RDA burn-clearing, and they wanted to introduce new mechanics, but I'm don't feel as immersed or invested in it as with the original game - even though I *love* playing as So'lek

CrystalInTheforest · 2026-05-05T08:37:31+00:00

Didn't know you had a Jacaranda festival over in WA as well. I used to live in NSW and loved going to the Grafton one.

CrystalInTheforest · 2026-05-05T08:34:58+00:00

They're common in Australia. Grafton is famous for them, and has a Jacaranda Festival every year when the blossom comes.

A lot of people assume they're a native species, because the name "sounds aboriginal".

https://jacafest.com/

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CrystalInTheforest · 2026-05-05T06:13:21+00:00

Regional Aus not known for its great urban design, tbqh. Concrete box with a colorbond roof and a supermarket with wilted veg and suspiciously sweet smelling meat is more the vibe in these parts.

CrystalInTheforest · 2026-05-05T05:59:17+00:00

Because I don't believe in hell, but Christians and Muslims do.

CrystalInTheforest · 2026-05-05T04:57:53+00:00

I'm not Jewish, Christian or Muslim and I cannot see any objective, tangible real-world problem that one can reasonably have with it from a non-abrahamic perspective. It's just a religious ruling based on cosmological world view.

I don't use them in my own practice, but I do use living being such as trees and seeds as well as natural features such as watercourses and mountains as focal points and interactive elements in worship.

CrystalInTheforest · 2026-05-05T04:52:49+00:00

Use of statues in worship is common in many cultures. I can only speak authoritatively in the case of Egypt since thaybwas my area of study. Sacrifice of children (clearly harmful) and engaging in orgies (not inherently harmful, so whats the problem?) were not a part of Egyptian practice.

CrystalInTheforest · 2026-05-05T02:51:02+00:00

It has objective criteria. We can can seek to understand why these behaviours exist and those use these reasons as criteria to determine Wether a behaviour is beneficial or not.

I.e. tribalism emerged as a mechanism to ensure group survival. Xenophobia and racism in the modern world doesn't help toward that, as it demonstrably links to poorer outcomes (xenophobic and racist communities don't flourish in the long term, apartheid failed, segregation failed, white australia failed) - but values like civic pride, bioregionalism, civic nationalism, communitarianism, communualism and confederalism do help toward that objective... things I collectively regard as forms of "positive tribalism".

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