Bitch I'm Christian
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2 hours ago, sotos8 said:
I just hope they didn't realize .Even if it was out of vanity that ending is just very sad
Apparently their deaths would have been as instantaneous as flicking a switch if it was due to a pressurised implosion.
To those wondering why there's been immense interest in this story, I think people are just bewildered by the stupidity of it all, and it's a particular kind of stupidity unique to only the extremely wealthy (see also Everest summit climbers). As massive inequality grows around the world, it's inconceivable to so many how these rich and privileged million/billionaires would gamble with their lives (and the life of their child in one instance) on something so foolish. Think of how $250,000 would change your life... and here are these people paying that amount to go 4km down in a cramped tin can with no regulatory safety oversights, controlled by an offbrand xbox controller.
It's also a sign of the times we are living in as far as capitalism and tech bros are concerned. We are giving these people WAY too much power, and it is dangerous. The CEO of this submarine company has so many interviews where he bemoans safety regulations, saying that it is just government red tape that "hampers innovation." He only wanted to work with young engineers to "inspire them", meanwhile, experienced authorities in that field (including a former employee who was booted for raising concerns) were warning of the dangers of this particular submarine all along. We are capitulating to the wealthy way too much and it's not good for society and where this is all taking us, even for the wealthy people themselves.
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@Jazzy Jan My favourite part is how Peta Credlin and the Sky News bullshit artists all learn the same "lesson" from these defeats: that the conservatives, after being rejected for parties to the left of them on the political spectrum, need to go further to the right
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These "unprecedented times" provide the perfect cover for companies to absolutely gouge the pockets of everyday people.
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That's why I'm so glad voting is compulsory in Australia. It means elections are won here by appealing to the middle rather than extremes. In the most recent election, politicians pitching to conspiracy theorist alt-right loonies actually ended up worse off than before.
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Thanks for sharing, @Jazzy Jan every single one of these women standing in solidarity with that poor girl who was killed is a hero in my eyes
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The inequality of our society is starting to become so blatant that the average, politics-averse type person is even noticing it. In Australia last month, a large grocery retailer posted a yearly profit of $1.5 billion dollars, which combined with some business restructuring to give them $7 billion in total. But the same company has increased basic grocery prices so high in the past year too... it just feels like the rich are engorged parasites on the poor and people have had enough.
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I'm most surprised by the fact she "has rent to pay". She looks 14.
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I wish some kind of leader would unite teachers across America to go on strike until either gun laws are passed or every teacher in the country gets an extra 100K of hazard pay per year.
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9 hours ago, Paul said:
The even better news is that they are going with Dutton as leader. That will mean they stay in opposition for many many more years. Even losing the election they don't seem to have learnt any lesson.
Yeah but watch the media start to rehabilitate his image so that he's a kind hearted family man who loves puppies and the footy. The Guardian of all newspapers (!) has already started this morning with an article mentioning his "his more compassionate side" where his colleagues paint him as a friend of the poor.
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2022/may/22/peter-dutton-firms-as-next-liberal-leader-amid-fight-over-future-of-the-party
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Friends, Morrison is GONE!
And surprised by South-east QUEENSLAND of all places turning Green - guess I'm not the only one who was very spooked by the floods we had this year.
Combined with teal climate independents making it in (fucking BYE Josh Frydenburg), Australia has FINALLY realised the urgency needed to tackle climate change.
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On 5/18/2022 at 3:09 PM, swimtoshore said:
The media in this country is shocking. I cannot believe none of the mainstream media, including the ABC, in any way holds the current government to account for ANYTHING. Yet the opposition is dragged through the mud for any made up bullshit spun out of the prime ministers office and is required to cost every election commitment in excruciating detail, and if they can't answer every single question, are absolutely caned for it. The differential in how the media talks about the two major parties is staggering, and forget coverage of independents and smaller parties....
I completely agree, and if Labor win, expect them to be a one term government, hounded out of office by a rabid media that treat every minor thing as an earth-shaking scandal.
Labor needs to go for the jugular with the rabid right wing in Australia, starting with a royal commission into the robodebt suicides and a federal corruption investigation committee.
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America was smart enough to dump Trump after one term. We've given THREE elections in a row to awful conservative governments! There'd better not be a fourth time lucky for them...
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Surely the fact that this is happening in multiple towns by different groups of soldiers means they've been ordered to do this.
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23 hours ago, Gaudet said:
This war could have been avoided.
Completely agree. The world needed to take a stand against evil Putin much earlier. Now it is the brave Ukranians that have to do it, sacrificing so much on the way. At least the scales have fallen off the eyes of so many now, and outside of Russia, only the crazy, gullible conspiracy theorists still support Putin. Everyone else can see the truth, finally!
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2 hours ago, Gaudet said:
Meanwhile more innocent people are displaced, exploited (human trafficking, prostitution), injured, killed, completely fucked over. For the sake of what?
All for the sake of Putin's ego. You are so right, it's all so very sad. I still can't believe Russia is inflicting such misery on so many people
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19 hours ago, Jazzy Jan said:
Anyone else who have friends/colleagues etc who are rabid conspiracy theorists - for examples they believe the earth is flat, covid is a hoax and all Democrats are child abusers etc - noticed something. They are all posting on their social media anti Ukraine and pro Putin posts. So tragic and yet so predictable. All blaming Ukraine and the West.
If you ask me, this is just more proof that it is the Russian government that is the powerhouse behind the weaponisation of social media and conspiracy theories around the world. They've been destabilising us and softening us up for years, probably in preparation of a move like this.
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On 10/31/2021 at 11:50 PM, Kim said:
THIS is amazing! Who is this foul-mouthed queen?!
It's fantastic, right? She and another great woman front the videos for Juice Media, a group that cuts through our government's bullshit with funny but factual videos like this.
We have a booming satire culture emerging on social media in Australia that often has a more clear-eyed take on current events than our news. Our "official" news has been captured by Murdoch, and right wing tentacles are even crippling our once-beloved ABC, so I am glad there is some resistance.
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21 hours ago, San said:
I heard a discussion on the radio today regarding the about face the right wing press have now made on climate change action, when they are almost solely responsible for inaction and scepticism in the first place. It's truly despicable.
Our Prime Minister is being wedged internationally by other leaders into having to take action on climate change, whether his party likes it or not. I think Murdoch's papers changing their tune on climate change is them trying to turn around the viewpoint of the Australian conservative voter base, lest they abandon the LNP in droves over the commitments Morrisson will be forced to make.
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I'm in Queensland and am staggered at the media's treatment of our premier vs the NSW ex-premier.
You'd think it was Annastacia who was under investigation for corruption and who has led the whole state into months and months of lockdown! Meanwhile, Gladys gets lauded and sympathized, as though it were somehow unfair for her to get dragged before an enquiry into her possibly illegal activity.
I think a lot of Queenslanders are waking up to how slanted the media is in Australia, because we keep hearing how bad things are here and how Annastacia's covid response is somehow letting us down, but our eyes, ears and lived reality say otherwise. No lockdowns, business booming, people taking holidays etc. Even the boomers, older voters and people from conservative regional areas know something's not right with the media coverage and are talking about it.
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Delta: The Deluxe Edition.
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On 7/24/2021 at 10:41 PM, cardiganstarlet said:
I’m in Sydney so have been back in lockdown for a little while now. There were people out protesting today in the city against lockdowns citing ‘government control’ and I couldn’t eye roll any harder. Public health restrictions is not government overreach - government control is the systematic defunding of services like health and education, tax breaks for the wealthy while people on benefits starve, and denying any rise in superannuation (pension funds in Australia) while politicians take home an obscene amount of money. The Murdoch rot is well and truly here.
I have no children, live alone, and am able to work from home so I really can’t complain. I do have to say that I’m missing physical hugs though. And thanks to these pseudo intellectuals today out in mass, the lockdown will only be further extended if our cases spike.
I was so disgusted by what I saw of the protests on the news. And I couldn't agree with you more about government control.
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I saw that Alan Cumming interview @Jazzy Jan and thought it was a much needed dose of reality for Australians to hear what he said. And even then, Steve Price tried to counter and deflect from what he was saying about New York getting back to normal now. Alan was having none of it, bless him!
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Scott Morrison has bungled up our vaccine and quarantine program as badly as Donald Trump bungled American public safety last year... but if you look at how Morrison is polling, Australians aren't smart enough to boot him the way Americans did to Trump ☹
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Titanic sub goes missing
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Sorry everyone, what I meant to say is thoughts and prayers for the victims
especially the misunderstood scientific genius who is in no way responsible for any deaths #bekind