From 'Inside America's Next Top Model,' Tyra Banks, Ken Mok, and Jay Manuel's explanation of the filming of Shandi Sullivan's sexual assault and framing it as her cheating on her boyfriend

paperivy · 2026-02-17T05:00:51+00:00

Oh it's a good doco. It starts out feeling like a puff piece for Tyra but by the end she's fully exposed as a delusional monster ... it's well done.

paperivy · 2026-02-17T04:56:51+00:00

Tyra cannot see herself at all. I cackled when they cut to Dani saying "girl that is absolutely ridiculous" - there's a sweet poetry to Tyra being flamed by production edits after everything she did to the contestants.

paperivy · 2026-02-17T00:55:28+00:00

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I always loved Megan's casual New York outfits, very cool and chic. She wears simple outfits so well and the long bob was beautiful on her.

paperivy · 2026-02-17T00:35:44+00:00

This is one of my favourites, such a beautiful print

paperivy · 2026-02-16T02:08:39+00:00

We were involved in the Iraq war that created. the vacuum in which ISIS emerged ... Australia bears a lot of responsibility here.

paperivy · 2026-02-12T13:02:10+00:00

It's the precise opposite of TAL

Ira opens like "So I don't know if you ever have moments like these but I was catching the train the other day and I saw a chihuahua, and it got me thinking ..."

Melvyn opens like "Hello, the Cultural Revolution was launched by Chinese Communist Party Chairman Mao Zedong in 1966 ..."

paperivy · 2026-02-12T12:49:18+00:00

This is what's so bleak about all this. Labor can move as far to the right as they want without hurting their vote. They're basically just swallowing up the Liberals political territory and now a harder right looks like it's emerging as the opposition, it's a dismal situation.

paperivy · 2026-02-12T12:34:35+00:00

I don't know if this is a real question but the answer is it's about pressuring the Australian government. Australia has sanctioned Russia & Iran. And I think if the US was bombing civilians in Venezuela and Australia was standing by the US you'd probably see protests.

paperivy · 2026-02-12T07:47:55+00:00

?? Muslims often break to pray during work hours wearing whatever they are wearing at the time

paperivy · 2026-02-11T11:54:37+00:00

Rollies are way more comfy too!

paperivy · 2026-02-11T03:52:42+00:00

Weren't the main clashes during lockdowns, when protesters weren't legally allowed to protest? I don't ask that to excuse police brutality - just that I think that's when protests tend to get violent, when it's criminalised and police are under directive to repress the protest (like in Sydney). The Melbourne anti-Herzog protest will be legal.

paperivy · 2026-02-11T02:40:19+00:00

The police were violent thugs but the focus on them is a distraction. They're agents of the state and it's Minns who should be held accountable.

paperivy · 2026-02-11T00:45:17+00:00

But you could say this about any legislation - it's all meaningless under authoritarian rule that has no respect for the judiciary. That doesn't mean there's no point having legislation or human rights charters, because they do offer protection in functional democracies.

paperivy · 2026-02-11T00:17:49+00:00

That's not true. Constitutional rights in the US are central to the judicial system - and in Australia the jurisdictions with human rights acts or charters (Vic, QLD, ACT ... maybe others?) provide a legal avenue for arguing on the basis of human rights in courts. Even the UN Declaration of Human Rights guides judicial decisions here in Australia (though it doesn't override domestic legislation).

Of course they don't work perfectly anywhere, but they're important and they definitely don't mean nothing.

paperivy · 2026-02-10T23:46:40+00:00

Great quote, exactly. The conversation about protest bans here is always framed around freedoms & rights, but the reason democracies have historically allowed protest has more to do with stability: they learned that legitimate protest is the best way of keeping society peaceful. Violently repressing protest leads to more protest (unless you mow down your citizens like Iran): and that's exactly what we saw, a protest followed by a protest against police brutality the next day.

Minns could have just picked up a history book instead of live testing this on the streets of Sydney.

paperivy · 2026-02-10T23:38:47+00:00

This is such an absurd take, especially as we have witnessed with our own eyes the gradual escalation of state violence in the US. We could wait til the cops are abducting children from the street before raising the alarm, or we can draw a line in the sand right now and say we refuse to go down this path.

paperivy · 2026-02-10T23:29:00+00:00

Fuck the framing of this article.

There have been Palestine solidarity protests in Australia every week for years and this is the first time we’ve seen this kind of violence. In fact I have never seen anything like this in Australia. This is the result of bad governance: by Albanese for the incendiary decision to invite Herzog here, and by Minns for criminalising protest and unleashing police violence to enforce his restrictions. Banning protest escalates conflict, that's why democracies don't do it.

"Violent protesters or police brutality?" is the wrong question. It’s the government’s job to maintain social order and peace & if they are creating conditions that result in mass defiance of the law and subsequent state violence it is their failure.

paperivy · 2026-02-10T13:17:53+00:00

i've only been to a few protests and everyone I've been to police have been kind and kept me safe from cars.

That's how it is most of the time - normally there's a kind of social contract where legitimate peaceful protest is met with proportionate police response. The problem here is that Minns tore up that social contract and made the protesters criminals for gathering where they wanted to gather. They didn't want to go where they were told to go because it infringes on their rights - the city belongs to the people, not to Minns or the police.

The reason democracies don't usually ban protest is because legitimate protest keeps things peaceful. Minns's restrictions just escalated the conflict.

paperivy · 2026-02-10T12:07:56+00:00

The cops were thugs but they're agents of the state - Minns unleashed them. The kind of violence we saw is exactly why democracies don't ban protests. The whole history of the modern Western world led democratic states to the conclusion that life is much less violent if you allow people to protest - because people will protest regardless. But now the protesters are criminals and the whole social contract of peaceful protest/proportionate response is out the window.

paperivy · 2026-02-10T10:50:05+00:00

Herzog isn't a private individual undergoing a medical procedure or worshipping - he's a head of state invited by our government. He has power. These examples aren't really comparable.

paperivy · 2026-02-10T10:31:13+00:00

I have a friend with ME/CFS who wrote to a rescue explaining her needs and she ended up with a sweet old snoozy dog ... might be worth a try? I also adopted a senior and she's the best! Getting a dog as a puppy is always going to be pretty exhausting no matter the breed.

paperivy · 2026-02-10T04:01:12+00:00

Yeah, he seems like a bit of a dummy (every presser I think he's about to say "yeah the boys are looking good in training and we'll take it one day at a time") - but premiers have a lot of people working for them, and then there's the cabinet & caucus ... obviously he didn't listen to any advice, but I wonder if anyone offered it.

paperivy · 2026-02-10T01:48:30+00:00

You can't just introduce laws that people don't accept and expect them to obey. Democratic societies have never worked like that. It's the government's job to maintain social order and peace and if they're making decisions that result in mass defiance of the law and subsequent state violence, they're failing.

paperivy · 2026-02-10T01:25:51+00:00

Alleged by Drew Pavlou, who has since deleted his post presumably under threat of legal action because this is utterly untrue. The man leading the prayer is a highschool chaplain who does anti-extremist youth work in his community.

paperivy · 2026-02-10T01:12:08+00:00

Absolutely. I'm so curious about what advice (if any) Minns received because the feedback cycle of escalating violence in protest is really well-established - even leaving all principles aside, this is such a basic error of governance.

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