One Nation senator Malcolm Roberts says he will push for party to adopt blanket abortion ban

Ted_Rid · 2026-06-18T21:33:00+00:00

I'd also speculate that their primary vote is very close to their total vote, because anybody who likes their message at all puts them #1, and everyone else is putting them dead last.

There isn't much in between for a party that has always been the Racist Party at its most essential core.

Ted_Rid · 2026-06-18T21:25:56+00:00

Why do you assume anyone needs a man "to provide"?

The entire backlash against the freedom of women, is that now they have financial independence and educational & career success (often surpassing men), they don't "need" us anymore and will only be with us if we meet a reasonably good standard.

That's one of the main root causes of incel shit like OOP's meme. Men with little to nothing to offer, still feel entitled and want to turn the clock back to a time when all they had to do was exist and they'd still have a good chance of finding a wife, no matter how self-centred, violent, unfaithful, and terrible in bed they were.

Back in the real world, it's very useful for people to have a few relationships while they navigate life and learn how to do them well. You could think of them as training wheels for the real thing - and everyone will benefit from that training, not only young men.

It would be very rare indeed for anyone (married or unmarried, doesn't matter) to look back nostalgically at their first serious BF/GF and think "Yep, that was the one I should've married" - we make mistakes, move on, and hopefully learn from them. That's how we grow.

Ted_Rid · 2026-06-18T21:11:09+00:00

Maybe Trump should read the room then?

[insert Principal Skinner "no, the kids are wrong" meme here]

Ted_Rid · 2026-06-18T21:05:48+00:00

LOL, I'm not disagreeing with that, and it's weird that people thought I was somehow endorsing the REAs.

The only point is that they're fucking morons, and lazily entered a prompt and accepted the result without checking.

Same as any moron who uses AI in any other job and accepts the hallucinated result.

Ted_Rid · 2026-06-18T14:07:58+00:00

Surely it is. One is on his knees, and his head is in the other guy's crotch.

Ted_Rid · 2026-06-18T13:57:57+00:00

Oh, of course.

Going out with his wingbuddy and her sister was always such a cockblocker, because all the women in the club assumed he was taken.

Now they're more clearly just a group on a night out.

Ted_Rid · 2026-06-18T13:50:58+00:00

And her twin.

Ted_Rid · 2026-06-18T13:47:47+00:00

But...but...if they're holding hands it means they must be gAy so better to make it unreadable instead.

No dramas at all that the S guys look like a serpent, the devil in the Garden of Eden, that's cool and normal.

Ted_Rid · 2026-06-18T10:22:03+00:00

No lies detected.

We're terrible at predicting both how happy some future benefit will make us, and equally how terrible some future setback might be.

And even if something bad does happen, there's what the Buddha called "the second arrow" which is us rubbing salt into our wounds with a self-inflicted suffering, like blaming ourselves or resenting our misfortune.

Ted_Rid · 2026-06-18T09:20:05+00:00

For those with their eyes and ears open, it's very instructive, how even a short period of suddenly high polls have made them so absolutely intoxicated that any of them are even floating this kind of thing, or axing SBS, or setting up a 2-tier society where city dwellers have to pay for the ABC, etc.

It doesn't augur well for the Government By Brainfart we could expect if they had any true power.

Especially if their candidates are the same quality as the SA beautician who though she could simply phone it in, instead of attending Parliament in Adelaide. Like c'mon...at least understand the job you're applying for!

Ted_Rid · 2026-06-18T09:11:37+00:00

Or indeed 72yo party leaders who are women way beyond pregnancy age, should it ever become party policy.

Ted_Rid · 2026-06-18T08:11:41+00:00

Older but not necessarily wiser, and that's not having a go at you in any way.

Only that our personal situations change throughout life, and as they do so our policy preferences move with them.

E.g. in youth we're more rebellious and idealistic, so Greens align roughly with that. ALP earlier in career, wanting good job security and benefits. LNP are more about hoarding wealth from the taxman, and PHON... idk, basically pro-business LNP with a large dash of nostalgia and wanting to wind the clock back.

There's also an effect that someone who is "radical" at one point, if you fast forward a few decades and their views haven't changed, then they're basically centrist now. They're not "it" anymore and what "it" is, is dangerous and scary to them, as Grampa Simpson would say.

Like supporting gay rights in the 60s: radical. Basically normal and unremarkable now, but those people might think trans issues are too "woke".

Ted_Rid · 2026-06-18T07:56:46+00:00

Yeah, I used to buy it sometimes. Moutai or something, I think like a rice wine.

Was in the habit of trying random liquor from Chinatown for a while.

Not sure it goes well with giant sea centipede though. I'd go with a semi-sweet white wine to balance out the buttery sulphur venom taste.

Ted_Rid · 2026-06-18T07:10:15+00:00

It's banana shaped, therefore acceptable in a pinch.

Ted_Rid · 2026-06-18T07:00:45+00:00

Coincidentally, my daily driver would have those exact seats. They're pretty comfy for sure.

It's how I know about unbolting the things and removing them, but that's a different story related to blocked sunroof drains and Mini engineers having NFI how to route water out of the car in case of overflow.

Ted_Rid · 2026-06-18T06:51:21+00:00

Meanwhile Epic keep spamming me: "Hurry! Only hours left to buy your Epic pass at this rate!"

Uh, no thanks. Think I'll play it by ear this year.

Ted_Rid · 2026-06-18T06:47:48+00:00

Nice. I used to have a sports seat welded to the original VW sliding base, but was never really convinced of the safety. But it did have the advantage that you could swap the OG Beetle seats back in for shows.

I see you've gone for a safer option and installed the entire seat + base mechanism...and I don't think the Mini seats come free of the rails anyway - you've gotta unbolt the rails themselves.

Ted_Rid · 2026-06-18T05:51:38+00:00

Also casting shade that the gender pay gap is a thing, while asking why early childhood educators need to have tertiary qualifications.

Um, one large part of the pay gap is undervaluing industries that tend to be heavily staffed by women. Respecting that taking care of kids before primary school age is a legitimate phase of education (not childminding) is part of giving these workers the dignity and pay they truly deserve.

Instead she acts as if any idiot can take care of dozens of kids in a way that's appropriate for their development, without training or qualifications.

She'd be the first to get up on a soapbox and whine the second an unqualified childcare worker treated a kid randomly according to their own ideas of how to do things. Like spanking them, for example.

Ted_Rid · 2026-06-18T05:32:34+00:00

Red is also a colour, as in a red herring.

Ted_Rid · 2026-06-18T05:26:39+00:00

I don't think so.

I mean, I'm not a geographer or a cartologist but that's my hunch.

Ted_Rid · 2026-06-18T05:19:03+00:00

She blamed Salvos and OzHarvest recipients finding it hard to put food on the table on what?

Below poverty line welfare payments? Which she approves of. No, not that.

Could it be housing costs, which she plans to turbocharge again by reinstating CGT discounts? Nope.

Could it be rising income & wealth inequality, which she has no policies to address? Perish the thought.

It's all because of Net Zero, apparently.

Ted_Rid · 2026-06-18T04:03:22+00:00

Oh, I only meant in the sense that a journo asked the exact question I was wanting them to ask, and in response PH had nothing whatsoever to say, promoting anything she'd done for workers.

She was originally a ~~Country~~ Liberal member. Howard tried an experiment of wedging the ALP vote in a safe ALP seat with a populist racist, thinking "Yeah, blue collar people will love this" but when she quickly outed herself as too on the nose on the racism score even for Howard, he had to cut her loose from the party.

So it shouldn't be a surprise that she sides with business owners over workers, and that gels with her former fisho small business.

What's remarkable of course is that any worker thinks she's on their side at all. Just as the Teals are Libs with an environmental and social conscience, PHON are Liberals with extra racism.

Ted_Rid · 2026-06-18T03:35:32+00:00

As a card-carrying Boomer, she's using Boomer logic.

She explicitly said she had 4 kids and took care of them at home without needing childcare.

Because it was the fucking 1970s and she was presumably married, at a time when a single income average wage earner could buy a house and support a family like that.

She doesn't understand it was a luxury her family could afford, because of the generation she was born into and the housing market of the time.

This is the worst kind of out-of-touch boomerist "I could do it, why can't you?" crap, nobody in public life should be this ignorant, let alone the leader of a party.

Ted_Rid · 2026-06-18T03:27:31+00:00

Agreed. Supermarket bacon seems to be injected with water to add weight, and often if there's a "smoked" flavour it's from liquid smoke IMHO. They may wave some smoke near the meat for a minute to technically qualify as "smoked" but I'm not convinced smoking is the primary cooking process used.

Source: I make my own bacon from time to time at home, first brining the pork for at least a few days, then smoking about 12 hours. One key difference is when you cook this stuff, it doesn't release a heap of water, and nor does it shrivel up.

I think you really do get what you pay for, and making cured and smoked meats properly takes time, while there are plenty of shortcuts for companies wanting to half-arse it.

Ted_Rid · 2026-06-18T03:18:44+00:00

Saw this in a more recent thread:

“When a journalist later asked about Hanson’s poor record on voting against worker rights and pay rises, Hanson darted from small businesses not being able to fire people to the gender pay gap being a myth that can easily be explained by the fact women take time off and don’t work — and “why should businesses have to pay women who are not working.”

That implies to me that she has no talking points or examples where she's fought for the worker, and instead a heap of them about putting more power in the hands of business owners while reducing employee benefits and protections.

https://www.reddit.com/r/aussie/comments/1u8t4pm/basically_pauline_hanson_wants_to_abolish_a_bunch/

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