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03-03-2018, 09:45 PM
I'll be interested to see the outcome of the tassie election, given the liberals muted loosening of the firearms laws. Media seemed to play it up in the usual "ZOMG! HOLOCAUST! END OF THE WORLD!" Don't know enough to say anything one way or the other, but at least on the mainland it seems to be all that's come out about it,bar the reported win.
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03-04-2018, 01:02 AM
Quote: (03-03-2018 09:45 PM)Bluey Wrote:
I'll be interested to see the outcome of the tassie election, given the liberals muted loosening of the firearms laws. Media seemed to play it up in the usual "ZOMG! HOLOCAUST! END OF THE WORLD!" Don't know enough to say anything one way or the other, but at least on the mainland it seems to be all that's come out about it,bar the reported win.
Calling Leonard D Neubache? Care to comment?
I don't watch local television or even read the shit they put in my mailbox. Once you get old enough you start to realise there's no point. The M.O. of the parties is baked in, regardless of what they say prior to elections.
I don't vote based on who I want to win. I vote based on who I want to lose. Start at 20 and work my way backwards.
The real work is in insulating yourself from the fuckery and the tyranny as best you can, no matter who's in power. Focus on that and all you really sit waiting for is for the tinderbox to finally take a spark. Not that Tasmanian politics matters at all in the grand scheme of things.
Do I give a shit about voting for the party that dangles looser gun laws in front of me like a carrot on the end of a stick? Nope. I'm already better armed than 99 percent of the population, and that's not even an exaggeration. I already live in an area where I don't have to worry about home invasions. What are they going to give gun owners? Faster permission slips for guns subsequent to the first? Meh.
It's all so irrelevant.
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03-04-2018, 03:50 AM
Leonard is correct - Voting in Oz is a futile exercise, only made entertaining by voting for whatever is the most outrageous party thats on the ticket.
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03-04-2018, 05:16 AM
Seems like everyone is following the same process for voting. Living in a safe seat I've pretty much been voting for the best sounding independent, then working my way from the worst up.
Few months ago Sudanese held up the nandos down the road from me with a gun. Found out through a woman at work who's relative was there. Clearly diversity is working well, as are the gun laws.
Talking with various blue collar types here, it feels like things are right on the edge just waiting for something. I can't really find the words to describe it, but Leonard is on the right track about it being a tinderbox. The Cronulla riots probably slowed thing down, but it didn't resolve anything, just delayed it while the pollies wanked on and ignored it.
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03-04-2018, 06:09 AM
I think our Wakandan problem is just to distract us from realising exactly how much of this country has already been sold to the Chinese Communist Party.
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03-05-2018, 10:26 AM
Some liberal Australian and British acquaintances of mine were just discussing gun control on Facebook and talking about how much more violent American culture is. I posted the link to that article on the Victorian home invasions and they went completely silent as if I had flipped a light switch.
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03-05-2018, 02:18 PM
Can't say I'm surprised, there was a study done a few years ago that concluded our gun laws were functionally useless. might have to see if I can dig it up.
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03-05-2018, 03:26 PM
Our gun laws don't seem to stop the Lebs shooting each other up (and a few bystanders) in Western Sydney on a regular basis.
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03-07-2018, 06:36 AM
WTF? A shocking decision is getting drunk or speeding at a highway a few times, not blowing up and mutilating random people for years!
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03-07-2018, 06:47 AM
Your home first Natale..., your home first...
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03-07-2018, 07:44 AM
To be fair, the real problem isn't the fuckwads who went to kill for ISIS and want to come back, the problem is the fuckwad Islamic population that's already here and breeding.
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03-09-2018, 06:04 PM
^^^^^
It's been the mainstay of our defence strategy since Singapore fell.
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