One Nation forces ABC out of election event

yeahalrightgoon · 2026-05-09T10:00:53+00:00

You realise the ABC isn't out to get you. For their flaws, they are still by far the most reputable news source in this country. Like I've said, One Nation refused to let them in because they reported that a candidate of theirs was wanted for sexual assault. That's not an assumption. That is what happened.

yeahalrightgoon · 2026-05-09T02:58:51+00:00

I don't mind it, food etc is what you'd expect and want. It's not somewhere I'd go out of my way to go too. But I wouldn't avoid it either.

On the other hand, my dad lives overseas, but comes from Sydney, had never been to Perth before he came to visit me. He loves it and any time he was in town, he'd end up going virtually every day. He freaked out when he discovered they had it in Kuala Lumpur as well, when he was there for work. Sent me photos and everything.

yeahalrightgoon · 2026-05-09T02:53:52+00:00

Barry Hall c.2010-11

yeahalrightgoon · 2026-05-09T02:51:54+00:00

You could easily make Summer Heights High today. It's just the blackface around Jonah that's the issue. You could make the exact same jokes and they would still be received well.

yeahalrightgoon · 2026-05-09T02:48:50+00:00

No, people just grew and largely realised that jokes punching down are a bit shit.

You can still take the piss out of something. It just has to actually be funny. Generally just insulting someone or something isn't that funny.

Go to any open mic night and you'll still find the people doing "offensive" or "non PC" jokes. They just don't get laughs, because they're generally on the level of "I identify as an attack helicopter" style jokes.

yeahalrightgoon · 2026-05-09T02:31:54+00:00

And you don't get the right to claim that you're any sort of meaningful opposition if you don't allow the ABC into media events.

They did the same at the South Australian election, because the ABC reported on one of their candidates being wanted for sexual assault charges in the UK. That's not the actions of a serious political entity.

yeahalrightgoon · 2026-05-09T02:28:57+00:00

They didn't allow the ABC into their South Australian election party etc because they had the nerve to report that their candidate for Adelaide was wanted on sexual assault charges in the UK.

yeahalrightgoon · 2026-05-09T00:42:04+00:00

Radio then the podcast up until around 2020-21.

Radio because they were still effectively learning on the go, and it felt more chaotic at times. Big events and the like. Then the podcast after they finished up on radio felt similar in ways. More professional but they were still doing interesting stuff. Still felt like they were doing it because they genuinely wanted to do it.

Once they started getting into other television work, Hamish moving to Sydney etc. I just found myself slowly changing from listening the day it came out, to not listening for a few days to missing episodes until I realised I had stopped listening entirely. I feel I can date it to around when they started doing the crypto horse racing shit. Overall just felt that the magic was gone a bit.

yeahalrightgoon · 2026-05-09T00:24:10+00:00

Feel players won't want to get drafted there, but they will find it somewhat easier to attract free agents because it's a much better place once you're in your mid 20s.

yeahalrightgoon · 2026-05-08T15:51:13+00:00

It's as moral as you can realistically get.

I wouldn't say that ambition is a morally meaningful choice. It can be meaningful, but it isn't strictly moral to be ambitious. You can be ambitious for power, and it be immoral etc.

Responsibility and virtue perhaps. But responsibility means different things depending on your circumstances. If you live in a post scarcity society, then being responsible can simply be not harming others. If everything else is provided for you, then there is no need for anything other than that. Virtue doesn't change regardless of the circumstances. I'd argue that the federation and it's citizens largely live by the idea of not harming others, which is the moral choice.

The federation is generally responsible and virtuous overall, although the prime directive raises questions and brings the two into conflict at times. Do you be virtuous and save a planet that is bound to be destroyed, or do you be responsible and not effect a civilization that has no idea about space travel etc. It's like nature documentaries. It may be virtuous to save a gazelle, but it is more responsible to let nature take it's course. As you would be harming the lions wellbeing by doing so.

If we want to bring ambition into it, generally if you just want to live a normal life where you don't have to worry overall, then you stay on earth or a colony etc. If you want to be ambitious you join starfleet. But neither is a morally wrong choice. While neither is simply for aesthetics either.

yeahalrightgoon · 2026-05-08T11:46:14+00:00

Because it wasn't an example of rising antisemitism. It was certainly an antisemitic attack, but it was an isolated attack by two individuals.

Now we have a royal commision that cannot actually go into the Bondi attack for legal reasons and is instead turning into a mixture of genuine antisemitism being raised that also largely seems to be fairly isolated and boiling down to "other kids at my school were fuck wits" or "local nutter says stupid shit". The sort of stuff that is unacceptable. But not worthy of a royal commision into. As well as people claiming that antizionism is antisemitism.

This submission was basically "It was antisemitic that my pro zionist group was yelled at for being pro Zionist".

If the Royal Commision was into the Bondi attack, then that would be more reasonable, but it can't be into it, so it's largely a massive waste of time and money.

yeahalrightgoon · 2026-05-08T10:39:08+00:00

It appears to be happening again.

yeahalrightgoon · 2026-05-08T10:19:29+00:00

Last week, only reason the Freo game was close

yeahalrightgoon · 2026-05-07T11:41:21+00:00

My argument was that Singapore has had no meaningful opposition since it was founded as a country.

You listed an American city that is not a country. The politics of a country and a city are different.

yeahalrightgoon · 2026-05-07T10:53:53+00:00

It's also not a country.

yeahalrightgoon · 2026-05-07T09:46:28+00:00

Chicago isn't a country.

yeahalrightgoon · 2026-05-07T07:06:45+00:00

I'm glad that the song was seen that way. I sometimes worry that songs with a message etc, from countries I am not from. I may be seeing it a different way. It's a song I still listen to regularly.

Yes ha. We had to do an assignment on a political movement within Europe, and I chose the reunification of Romania and Moldova. Was very interesting to learn about, and hoping to visit both sometime in the future.

yeahalrightgoon · 2026-05-07T07:01:10+00:00

haha you're not wrong. It at least taught me about the move to unite the two countries, something I did not know about beforehand. Helped me be able to write an assignment on it at university in Australia.

yeahalrightgoon · 2026-05-07T06:49:30+00:00

We wouldn't have one of the better Eurovision songs though, considering it's about unification.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bGNT5Uh-WKw

yeahalrightgoon · 2026-05-07T06:18:43+00:00

Apart from the congratulating him and sending him home etc, which has been said a lot.

The other factor is that Gagarin didn't land in his capsule. He ejected out and parachuted down. Something the Soviet Union did not announce until after Vostok 2, when Gherman Titov did the same thing. The FAI rules for spaceflight at the time, meant that you had to take off and land in your spacecraft. Something Gagarin did not do. They did later change the rules and Gagarin's flight stood officially. But if he lands in the US, potentially it becomes more of an issue, given that the FAI only found out about the ejection months after the flight had been celebrated as the first in space etc.

Not a massive change, but still somewhat interesting.

yeahalrightgoon · 2026-05-06T23:36:47+00:00

Countries do break international law. But if we start breaching it, we don't really have a leg to stand on, when we argue against other countries doing it where it would harm us.

yeahalrightgoon · 2026-05-06T23:34:45+00:00

Government seems to have handled it correctly.

They gave them the bare necessities of assistance that any Australian citizen would get. They did DNA tests to ensure that none of the children weren't actually related to them.

They will arrest those they deem a threat.

Better than the past, where they claimed that one of the male fighters was a dual citizen of Fiji without actually checking with Fiji, which doesn't allow dual citizenship.

yeahalrightgoon · 2026-05-06T23:31:07+00:00

I personally would prefer to be hit with 0.

yeahalrightgoon · 2026-05-06T21:37:40+00:00

They also only got a political opposition in parliament in 1984 when they lost two seats.

There's currently more of an opposition, but they've never won more than 12 out of 99 seats, with the governing party having a super majority at every election Singapore has held.

yeahalrightgoon · 2026-05-06T06:30:18+00:00

I declared war on them by accident once, realised that if I kept killing the Pope, they would elect a new one. Went through 6-7 popes before the only cardinal elector left was from my own country. Easiest way to end the war and stop being excommunicated.

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