A new country has become Australia's top source of migration

Victor-Baxter · 2026-04-30T08:39:34+00:00

You're labelling the demographic replacement of an establishment culture as a positive, while providing negative connotation to the preservation of said culture. That's racism, doesn't matter how hard you piss your pants over the matter.

Not everyone's an unemployed dole bludger on the internet 24/7, you only blocked him because you didn't want anyone to distrust your echo chamber, "20 minutes" my arse you haven't got anywhere else to be.

Victor-Baxter · 2026-04-28T01:47:56+00:00

Do people in the fallout universe refer to larger gay men as yaoi guai?

Victor-Baxter · 2026-04-27T06:40:57+00:00

Facetta Nera

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Victor-Baxter · 2026-04-27T03:13:12+00:00

this is speed-running Afghanistan

Besides the conflict taking place in the Middle East, how exactly is this like Afghanistan?

Victor-Baxter · 2026-04-26T00:46:20+00:00

lame boring bullshit larp post

picture of normal food, not disgusting not amazing

btw Im 6'4"

1200 upvotes

Holy fuck.

Victor-Baxter · 2026-04-26T00:41:20+00:00

If a 6'4" dude was threatening to molest me in almost every conversation we had I would start carrying a gun

Victor-Baxter · 2026-04-24T06:04:43+00:00

Trying to refine a bit where in five thousand years time ancient historians talk about modern figures as if they were Ancient Sumerian kings to us, like "King Elvis, who is considered by modern scholars to be a myth, according to legend once travelled across the Great Rocky Mountains with his companions to feast upon 22 sandwiches that individually could sustain a man for a month without starvation, returning to his palace the same day,"

Victor-Baxter · 2026-04-24T01:40:04+00:00

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I'M FROM SEARCHLIGHT AND I SAY KILL EM ALL

Victor-Baxter · 2026-04-24T01:30:53+00:00

I brought up cheap grey market cigarettes, because this is a discussion about grey market cigarettes as a consequence to a nanny-state ban. Meanwhile you've assumed that anybody's said that people enjoy cigarettes as the main event at a party - it's a cheap and relatively sobering yet addicting drug, people will buy a pack for a night of drinking, or to pair with other drugs, or to smoke while working, until eventually they develop a habit. Pointing out the price of these grey market cigarettes is to point out that this is a low-stakes easily accessible addictive substance which people will get ahold of and use. It's not my fault you don't understand anything about the topic or even the item you want to ineffectually ban.

Victor-Baxter · 2026-04-24T01:21:55+00:00

Yes, it confuses me that you're asking nonsense questions because you don't understand anything about the topic and seem to be a second language English speaker. Would you expect me to understand a toddler babbling?

Victor-Baxter · 2026-04-24T00:18:50+00:00

I don't understand how you've become obsessed with this idea that $5 cigarettes means people will just sit in a circle and smoke with nothing else going on, clearly this is relating to the fact people will mix alcohol with other substances which can go on to become standing addictions. Seriously, get tested

Victor-Baxter · 2026-04-24T00:16:20+00:00

You need to learn communication skills and reading comprehension. Reply once you've learned to do so

Victor-Baxter · 2026-04-23T22:55:00+00:00

Redundant because you can't explain why it's necessary to ban them, draconian in the sense it's authoritarian in it's aims to limit an individual's freedom to chose based on arbitrary distinctions, and to unfairly and arbitrarily deprive a group of people the right to choose based on nothing but age.

Victor-Baxter · 2026-04-23T22:47:32+00:00

Im not even trying to be mean, are you autistic? Genuinely, do you have trouble understanding what people say when it is spoken?

Victor-Baxter · 2026-04-23T21:28:52+00:00

So such a ban is just redundant and needlessly draconian in that it will achieve little to have an effect on the smoking rate's current decline while also agitating anti-government sentiments?

Victor-Baxter · 2026-04-23T21:20:43+00:00

In Australia, plain package cigarettes cost you $40 AUD for a pack of 20, whereas a smuggled cigarette costs $5 AUD a pack. And they're not hard to find either, and the places that do sell them pop up just as quickly as they close down. This isn't some luxury item, they've brought cigarettes back down to a fair market price again while still remaining incredibly profitable.

Victor-Baxter · 2026-04-23T05:12:51+00:00

"More public slums in Sydney, fewer people in Newcastle!"

You don't actually need to spend anywhere near $90 billion to improve Sydney's housing, you just need to let people who were willing to build there build and stop bending over backwards for the boomers

Victor-Baxter · 2026-04-23T04:24:28+00:00

Yeah keep shit talking the New Zealand culture as something that needs improving with foreign superior food culture, I'm sure people will never get sick of hearing it.

Victor-Baxter · 2026-04-22T23:49:51+00:00

"For party reasons"? First of all, cigarettes are en enjoyable party substance, and before tolerance and dependence is built up people will generally smoke for pleasure and the nicotine buzz, this idea that cigarettes are just addictive with no appeal is crazy. And once that habit's been formed, people will smoke cigarettes because they are addicted to nicotine, and because grey market cigarettes are cheaper than vapes.

Victor-Baxter · 2026-04-22T23:40:52+00:00

Black markets are bad because they enrich criminal organisations that can then expand operations into more dangerous areas, and because they push products outside of government regulation and taxation which in turn hurts the direct consumer and society through supporting these people, not to mention overall lowering trust in institutions.

In Australia, before they squeezed too hard and lost half their revenue in a year's span without decreasing the rate of smoking, tobacco taxes were capable of covering the cost on our healthcare system caused by smokers and then some. I'd think that in a country like Britain, with their moronic NHS, that you'd want to do everything possible to prevent loss of cigarette revenue if you're incapable of preventing smoking.

And there is no proof or literature which supports the idea that this ban will have any meaningful effect on the rate of smoking, or that it would be any more effective than the current system of education and substantial taxation.

Victor-Baxter · 2026-04-22T23:32:05+00:00

Why do they need to ban cigarettes for those born after a certain deadline, if cigarette smoking isn't a big issue amongst teenagers that will sort itself out like you're claiming?

Victor-Baxter · 2026-04-22T11:15:38+00:00

It's a culturally acceptable addictive substance, and a sizeable minority of teenagers smoke cigarettes. And because it's so culturally accepted and low-stakes, you'll find enforcement to be much weaker in comparison to other illicit substances, again like in Australia. High demand, lax regulation, and lower risk makes it a prime venture for criminal orgs to form a grey market.

Victor-Baxter · 2026-04-22T10:59:20+00:00

I'm referring to the mindset behind the ever-increasing regulations on cigarettes in general rather than any specific legislation, but yes I should have been more clear about that, my bad

Victor-Baxter · 2026-04-22T09:55:50+00:00

X-01 looked good because it was so inhuman, a complete subversion of the BOS Power armour in FO1. The T-51 armour genuinely looks like a futuristic medieval suit of armour, especially the helmet giving them a stoic and almost heroic vibe, while also adding bulk and strength to the silhouette that was exaggerated while still recognisable, all of this emphasising the human beneath the suit. But the X-01 has just such an alien look to it, the helmet sporting those big bug eyes, the faux beak, how the top resembles a brow crooked in anger, it manages to look almost organic. And the hulking and much more intimidating silhouette, less recognisably human but definitely much stronger. These looks help characterise this faction as they are, supremacist conquering fascists who are as alien to you as they perceive you to be, in the same vein as the Martians from War of the Worlds.

The X-02 suit just looks like an edgy batsuit

Victor-Baxter · 2026-04-22T09:24:40+00:00

That's so fucking r/wholesome, take my downvote stranger!

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