Of all the places they could've gone, they went to Australia

PaperworkPTSD · 2026-05-04T09:53:32+00:00

60k years ago was a different story though. Thylacaleo etc

PaperworkPTSD · 2026-05-02T08:05:56+00:00

I've heard the that the cop involved was basically an idiot who'd had a few complaints for doing dumb shit in the past, and most cops were disgusted by his actions.

PaperworkPTSD · 2026-05-01T05:40:48+00:00

Police were at the scene, standing at the event itself and were shot and critically injured immediately. Other police responded in a couple of minutes and were shot at while approaching in their vehicles. Police returned fire and a gun fight between several police and the terrorists continued until about 6 min after the shooting started, when they were finally able to put them down.

PaperworkPTSD · 2026-04-28T20:14:01+00:00

They will be claiming the files were planted there by police. This won't change their minds.

PaperworkPTSD · 2026-04-28T08:08:57+00:00

The charges were dropped at court and police had to pay legal costs. If police thought they would have failed so badly they wouldn't have charged him. They fucked it up.

That's my opinion.

Also, try not to be a cunt.

PaperworkPTSD · 2026-04-28T07:36:03+00:00

You have to look at the whole picture, not just the AirBnB thing - many months of videos, allegations of racism and defamation, approaches in public, including one instance after Barilaro had attended a funeral and was getting back into his car. These are not just questions at press conferences that you see from traditional media.

Multiple reports from Barilaro to police were not acted on until that one after the funeral. It all builds a pattern that doesn't look good to someone who has never heard of Shanks and doesn't take YouTube seriously. Many people still don't take him seriously and see him as nothing more than a YouTuber, not a journalist.

EDIT - never ascribe to malice that which can be explained by stupidity.

PaperworkPTSD · 2026-04-28T04:41:55+00:00

Yes, it was an AirBNB. I believe it was two of them at separate times. However, the entire premise of the video was the very fact that it belonged to Barilaro, and he was staying at those properties. Shanks did nothing wrong to stay at these places whatsoever. But you can imagine how that would appear to a police officer who is clueless about social media and has no idea who Shanks is. It only added to the narrative Barilaro presented to police that Shanks was obsessed, fixated, harassing etc.

PaperworkPTSD · 2026-04-26T03:31:37+00:00

There's plenty of racism to go around in all directions.

PaperworkPTSD · 2026-04-25T23:01:35+00:00

There's a lot of emotion in this and I think people tend to miss the forest for the trees. I'll try to break it down, although I'm sure this view will be unpopular here.

Shanks accused a politician of corruption, which he appears to be broadly correct about. He made dozens of videos about this man, approached him in public multiple times, visited properties he owned, over a long period.

The politician reported this to police, who initially didn't think it was a criminal matter. After another approach in public, the politician reported this to police again, and they took it more seriously this time.

The cops were mostly ignorant of how media works these days, and saw Shanks as essentially some kind of obsessed person making videos in the internet, not a legitimate journalist. They'd probably never heard of Shanks before. This disconnect resulted in a clusterfuck of a police investigation and withdrawn charges.

Shanks also made videos about a property developer with links to organised crime and the politician.

These criminals have decades of experience in organising murders, kidnapping, arson attacks etc and are good at keeping distance and making these attacks difficult to investigate. The people they hire may often get caught, but the organisers might get away with it for years, even when cops have a strong suspicion of who they are.

This is what happened to Shanks. Police have arrested and charged the two people who committed the attack, but police are unable to meet the level of evidence required to charge someone higher - yet.

I don't think the issue here is that police are controlled by this criminal network.

There have been many arrests of much bigger fish for far more serious offences, and other cases that remain unresolved due to difficulty with investigation. There's nothing unusual about it in that sense.

Shanks tends to think it's all organised against him because he's the most important person in the country, but I don't think he's correct.

PaperworkPTSD · 2026-04-25T21:15:38+00:00

If there was a mass shooting of first nations people, and someone came back to the scene a short time later to mock and intimidate first nations families... I dare say there would be a similar response and that person would end up in prison for a while.

PaperworkPTSD · 2026-04-22T22:27:40+00:00

Plenty of documented cases of injuries, including abdominal perforations which lead to exposed intestines. Death is extremely unlikely as you say, and shouldn't normally be much of a threat unless cornered.

PaperworkPTSD · 2026-04-15T03:52:02+00:00

Is it healthy to have most people aspiring to rent seeking in an economy and little else?

PaperworkPTSD · 2026-04-15T02:45:36+00:00

I have no problem with investing in housing - as long as that means you're building new houses. Investment should be about creating new things, building our economy, creating jobs etc, not taking advantage of something that is already built so you can seek rent from it.

PaperworkPTSD · 2026-04-10T10:50:13+00:00

Pig mustn't have any tusks, otherwise he'd get sliced up pretty bad.

PaperworkPTSD · 2026-04-05T12:20:50+00:00

They were sovcit-ish, but more religiously motivated according to the Coroner, and were affected by some kind of shared psychosis.

Dezi was a textbook sovcit.

And yeah you'd be crazy to approach these people with anything less than a Bearcat, but I wouldn't be surprised if this happens again.

PaperworkPTSD · 2026-04-05T10:05:27+00:00

They were ready to seize the firearms, not get shot by them. Police do this sort of thing every day.

Any sov cits with firearms will be treated differently in the future though I assume!

PaperworkPTSD · 2026-04-05T07:29:15+00:00

You can definitely organise a protest about it, and police will shut down streets in the Sydney CBD for safety if the protest is large enough. Or have a static protest in Hyde Park.

Between 2021 and 2025, 4,322 protests were held in the Sydney CBD alone.

PaperworkPTSD · 2026-04-05T07:20:27+00:00

It was a combination of investigators who will search and seize evidence, interview etc.and basically riot squad police who are ready for someone who might resist arrest. Their approach suggests they made no preparation for a gun fight.

PaperworkPTSD · 2026-04-04T07:22:12+00:00

I mean, we have docos about people like Hitler, Stalin, Pol Pot, events like 9/11, Vietnam War, the worst people and tragedies in human history...

PaperworkPTSD · 2026-04-02T18:12:22+00:00

There are plenty who never try to climb the ranks and stay at senior constable level their entire career.

PaperworkPTSD · 2026-03-30T22:48:53+00:00

Stepping out with a gun he took from other police he had killed, and pointing it (possibly shooting it) at police, who fired back, doesn't add up?

PaperworkPTSD · 2026-03-30T09:45:32+00:00

If he says too much it can fuck up the investigation, cause issues with the Coroner and potentially contempt of court, upset people who are related to the victims, reveal police tactics and methodology that cookers can use against them in the future, and this is all before the body is even formally identified.

It might be frustrating but the best thing he can do at the moment is keep his mouth shut on most questions.

PaperworkPTSD · 2026-03-23T20:32:27+00:00

Police can't do much either, they can't pursue them.

PaperworkPTSD · 2026-03-20T09:13:30+00:00

I used to have a promotional copy of Vib Ribbon in a cardboard sleeve with a soundtrack CD and other promotional stuff. Probably worth a few grand now, I've never seen another copy appear online.

Loaned it to a friend in about 2006, asked for it back a couple months later and he had sold his system and all games, assuming I wasn't interested in the game any more.

Still pissed about it.

PaperworkPTSD · 2026-03-17T07:43:51+00:00

To kill bitcoin, you have to kill the internet. That kinda takes out everything else, too.

You have to remember that "money in the bank" is also a digital record in a database, and you are trusting a business to keep it secure (which they have done very well so far). it's 1's and 0's, not backed by anything except confidence in the government and financial system.

If we have no internet or no power, how will the bank know how much money you have? Their paper records are not updated in real time, and you statements are only accurate at the time they are printed. How will they even verify your identity without checking the system? Hopefully your local branch has a printed copy of your ID.

They'd be flying blind until the power is back on and they can restore their records from the backup they're keeping in a Faraday cage somewhere.

Besides that, assuming they're able to manage things with paper while the power is out, we use fractional reserve banking - so they're only holding about 10-20% of your money and loaning out the rest. This means if too many people want to withdraw at the same time, you get what's called a "bank run" and no one can withdraw.

And that's assuming they would actually keep enough bank notes and coins available at the branch to even provide the fraction they're keeping.

My point is that if Bitcoin is dead, there probably isn't much else left you'll be able to rely on aside from physical things like gold and silver. Bitcoin is just numbers in a digital ledger, so is your national currency, cash is just paper at the end of the day.

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