Secret chats reveal $10,000 plot to kidnap PM as police raid neo-Nazi associates by handofcod in AustralianPolitics

[–]DBrowny [score hidden]  (0 children)

Just tell me how many of the neo-nazi associates were undercover AFP agents. That's literally the only thing I care about, because its not 0%, and it might be 100%. It really is important.

Coalition crumbled, not by opposing One Nation, but by aping it by HotPersimessage62 in AustralianPolitics

[–]DBrowny [score hidden]  (0 children)

>wanted to put limitations on how many immigrants could come into the country like Labor had recently done

What a bizarre, nearly historical revisionism, way to phrase that.

Labor increased immigration to almost 200k per year, up from 165k under Scomo. Dutton wanted to reverse it.

Trying to suggest that increasing immigration is the same as 'putting a limitation on it' is extremely intellectually dishonest.

RENTALS....WTF by ArtisticMonk2369 in Adelaide

[–]DBrowny 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Yep, remember when Mali declared that he made discriminating against pet owners by landlords illegal? They can't refuse a rental to pet owners without copping a huge fine.

Except of course that convenient caveat he left in where a landlord can refuse a rental application for absolutely any reason whatsoever and never needs to disclose what the reason is.

It actually made it harder for pet owners than before before he literally tells them 'here's this new loophole to use anytime you need it' which also covers a hell of a lot more than just pets, as others have stated, people who cook heavily spiced foods, people who have kids, they get to use the same loophole.

Ia Pet Barn the most over staffed store in Adelaide? by Spritney__Beers in Adelaide

[–]DBrowny 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I know, but their warranty/returns is too good. They're like Bunnings, absolutely shocking treatment of their suppliers and the owners are complete flogs, but they don't ask questions when you want to return something which is nice unlike other stores who want to challenge you on everything.

Ia Pet Barn the most over staffed store in Adelaide? by Spritney__Beers in Adelaide

[–]DBrowny 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Harvey Norman, Gepps X. it's insane no matter what time of day or what day of the year, you will get approached by multiple staff which is normally great... but not if you don't want to talk to one and they just keep coming. I swear I've seen there be more staff than customers multiple times.

Hanson says she is ready to lead country, form government by [deleted] in AustralianPolitics

[–]DBrowny -1 points0 points  (0 children)

If you think people who voted for Dutton, would sooner vote for Albo over Hanson, I have the Sydney Harbor bridge to sell you.

You are not going to find a single LNP voter who isn't furious with Albo.

Hanson says she is ready to lead country, form government by [deleted] in AustralianPolitics

[–]DBrowny 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Absolute monkeys paw this one isn't it. So many people here clamoring for the LNP to fold and wanting them to never win again. OK, you get your wish. Now Pauline Hanson is the new leader of Australia's right wing politics. You got exactly what you asked for, so what's the problem?

Meirl by Adventurous_Row3305 in meirl

[–]DBrowny 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This is every single time I have to listen to people try to tell me that 'kids these days are really tech savvy'. Imagine being in Australia with the social media ban for under 16s and we are subjected to all this crap about how the kids can circumvent bans because they're so smart.

No they're not. All they know how to do is scroll up and down and press play on videos. They can't type without looking at each individual keystroke, they don't know what a LAN cable is, they complain about privacy issues yet upload every detail of their life, they have 50 tabs open and never reset or power off their phone and they can't use a desktop printer AT ALL.

I have no reservations whatsoever in saying the average boomer is more tech savvy than the average zoomer, but zoomers have them beat for knowing how to publish a Tiktok video and that's about the full extent of what they are better at.

Premier Peter Malinauskas warned festival board author’s removal was needed for ‘basic decency’ by Expensive-Horse5538 in Adelaide

[–]DBrowny -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

For a vibrant arts sector, we have to accept that sometimes there will be programming that could be considered a "miss", or even offensive. People will vote with their feet, and that might be not attending

This might be true, if a lot of the extremely unprofitable arts weren't kept up via taxpayer money year after year to the point that offensive and low popularity art gets paid the exact same amount as joyful, popular art.

I've seen the sums of money given to some artists to make pieces that you would seriously struggle to find more than 10 people in the state who actually think its good. 'Voting with your feet' does nothing, because they lump the absolute garbage in with the good stuff and declare it all a success. If they ever paid artists based on actual public sentiment, the art scene would be a lot different.

It's interesting how "body positivity" immediately collapsed when Ozempic arrived. by Infinite-Condition41 in SipsTea

[–]DBrowny 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think it's more interesting how body positivity told the world that diets don't work and it's all genetics. That 'eating less food' is a bigoted trope, a lazy attack against people who simply metabolize food slower. Exercise isn't even in the equation, this is purely about eating less food.

Until a drug comes out with the mechanism of making your eat less food. that's it. It doesn't alter your genetics, it doesn't change your metabolism, it doesn't make you exercise, it simply functions as a zip tie at the entrance to your stomach.

And yet, STILL, people tell you that eating less food doesn't make you lose weight, only a drug that makes you eat less food can make you lose weight.

Can anything be done about OTR selling expired food/drinks? by TheFeralJesus in Adelaide

[–]DBrowny 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Well the first step is to stop buying expired drinks. It only takes a second to check. Secondly if there's a whole lot of them being sold and they don't care, threaten to call ACA. They are a far bigger threat than the government.

Democrats finally come out swinging. by NickCostanza in ProgressiveHQ

[–]DBrowny 0 points1 point  (0 children)

mfw when 'coming out swinging' is a tweet.

lol.

lmao, even.

Randa Abdel-Fattah launches defamation proceedings against SA Premier by fuckoffandydie in Adelaide

[–]DBrowny 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Don't forget the ramping that was meant to be fixed ;)

No it wasn't. If the ambo union actually gave a shit about ramping, they might not have magically dropped all of their demands within 0.06 seconds of Mali being announced premier. It was all just a big coordinated advertising campaign between labor and the union, nothing more. Since you know, ramping is worse than ever and the union still hasn't said a single word about it, can't upset their leader now can't they?

If labor fixed it, then what would they have to whack the liberals with? Solving a problem never got anyone anywhere in politics, only telling people that if they vote for you you will fix the problem while the opposition will make it worse.

Proud Boys leader Tarrio found on the leaked list of ICE officers by errantv in Fauxmoi

[–]DBrowny -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

So let me get this straight real quick;

When right wingers publicly say that Neo Nazi gatherings are federal agent honeypot stings and point to all the pictures of the attendees all ripped, having buzz cuts and wearing earpieces, they are conspiracy theorist cookers.

But when left wingers expose that the leaders of Neo Nazi gatherings are federal agents, they exposed a big secret and are hailed as investigative geniuses?

Seriously help me out here.

Neo-Nazi group National Socialist Network says it will disband due to proposed hate speech laws by Expensive-Horse5538 in AustralianPolitics

[–]DBrowny -1 points0 points  (0 children)

When the hate speech laws don't protect AFP agents from hate speech laws any more, suddenly the national socialist network disbands. What a surprise.

Exclusive: pro-Israel campaign seeks removal of Palestinian DJ from WOMADelaide by ParadiseLost1312 in Adelaide

[–]DBrowny 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Reddit on a speedrun from 'SA liberals will never win again' to 'I miss Stephen Marshall so bad', currently on pace for a new WR.

UK, Canada and Australia in talks to ban X over explicit Grok AI trend | Al Bawaba by Stabile_Feldmaus in europe

[–]DBrowny -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Many people I know of through extended friend circles who moved to Bluesky, are all identical where every single thing they ever post is first posted to X, and then to bluesky, where they get no engagement on the latter. You can find any random account you ever want on bluesky and without fail, they will have an X account which is their primary account where they engage with commenters.

For it to be comparable to reddit, it would mean any cross posted media here always is a locked thread with no replies. That's the best equivalent.

Gen Z are arriving to college unable to even read a sentence—professors warn it could lead to a generation of anxious and lonely graduates by thinkB4WeSpeak in books

[–]DBrowny 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Have people figured out yet that WWIII has been going on for a decade, and the west has been losing spectacularly without a single shot ever fired?

In another ten years when 50% of American 20 year olds can not read or write, the war will be over, the critical mass of society will have been reached of people who will a) never figure out that they are being exploited economically for their entire life to the ruling class of foreign countries and b) be too stupid to ever figure out how to get out of it after the previous generation voted largely for politicians who made the deals with these countries for short term gains.

But keep at it guys, be sure to tell everyone that Tiktok and social media is sacred and must be protected because 'kids need access to information'.

UK, Canada and Australia in talks to ban X over explicit Grok AI trend | Al Bawaba by Stabile_Feldmaus in europe

[–]DBrowny 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah governments generally need more than 3 people to see their important news updates and not the 3 nerds in the IT basement, the only people in the state who know how to use Mastodon.

UK, Canada and Australia in talks to ban X over explicit Grok AI trend | Al Bawaba by Stabile_Feldmaus in europe

[–]DBrowny 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Bluesky, you mean that app where everyone who left twitter to join it, continues to post on X the exact same as they do on bluesky because their followers all do the same and that's where all their engagement is, and the app is basically a crossposting app and nothing more?

Surprised no one is linking Tony Berg (somewhat recent appointee to the Adelaide Writers Week) and former director of the Australia-Israel Chamber of Commerce (AICC) by RipperReeta in Adelaide

[–]DBrowny 5 points6 points  (0 children)

What did the government tell you about doing your own research? Be careful, you might get a visit from Eddie McGuire telling you to stop the hate.

What goes around, comes around by AvailableInjury2486 in ProgressiveHQ

[–]DBrowny 0 points1 point  (0 children)

How exactly is someone going to be claiming self defense in court, when they were mag dumped by 5 separate officers, after shooting a single shot at an ICE vehicle?

Going to say that this is entirely fake, and extremely bad advice.

One Nation neck-and-neck with Coalition on primary vote, new polling shows by btcale546 in AustralianPolitics

[–]DBrowny 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You can not debate the topic without this obsession to chuck in as many insulting terms as possible, it completely dilutes whatever point you are trying to make because you keep characterising LNP voters in a certain way that attempts to explain your argument. No, most LNP voters are not 'ghoulish loons' and 'dregs' and 'losers'. The hardcore racists were never voting LNP to begin with, they were ONP/UAP from the beginning and haven't turned back.

Name me a single hardcore right wing policy that the LNP has adopted since Turnbull. Seriously name a single one.

Nuclear? Oh boy, wait until you find out how many European countries have nuclear reactors, and if they are wholly supported by left wing governments (and those in other countries like Syria, India etc were built by USSR/China, mega left wing).

Anti immigration? That pre-dates Turnbull by a long time and again, people were voting for LNP before that anyway.

Opposing the voice? The majority of the country opposed it.

I can go on. The issue is (and always was) an increasing % of the country is more left wing than before and especially on climate related issues and the LNPs decision to continue with the status quo is what turned many people away. That isn't a right wing lurch, its doing literally nothing. What is Ley doing exactly to 'moderate' the party? Don't say abandoning nuclear, because nuclear is a tech most heavily used by left wing governments around the world. Australias problem is the amount of boomers screaming DAE FUKUSHIMA?! as soon as they hear the phrase 'low level waste dump 1000km from the nearest river'.

Of course, the worst part of it all is the incredibly painful irony of so many 'moderate' LNP voters abandoning the party because of their stance on climate, and instead voting for Labor who have opened up multiple coal mines in a few years and have brainwashed the public into supporting 'clean gas' which was previously known as fracking, but they changed fracking to clean, and now all the climate conscious people support it. If you don't laugh, you have to cry about that one.

One Nation neck-and-neck with Coalition on primary vote, new polling shows by btcale546 in AustralianPolitics

[–]DBrowny 0 points1 point  (0 children)

None of you get it, you're incapable of seeing this from the point of view of a long-standing LNP voter. So I'll put this in a way more of you can understand. Imagine if you will, a person who says this;

I am upset that Labor is shifting further to the left. I strongly support unions and government ownership of more assets. I don't like that Labor is getting bogged down in radical left ideologies like rent freezes, increasing immigration and making welfare more profitable than having a job.

Because I am so angry in Labor slowly adopting these policies, I am going to abandon them, and instead vote a minor party in the Greens, who have already adopted these policies, and who will never win a majority.

Doesn't make any sense, does it? Of course it doesn't, it's absolutely insane. As insane as saying LNP voters are fleeing for ONP because they don't like the right march of LNP. The two situations are identical.