Marty_d

... from misery to happiness today... (The Proclaimers)

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Good thing I don't believe in heaven. Must be terrible for christians, knowing it'll be full of Trump supporters.

Poison ivy

Well, for a start he probably didn't do it at all. The story is from a work of fiction. If he did, he didn't do it from 200m, and he couldn't have killed multiple people in a short time with no one knowing where the stones were coming from. Australia's last mass shooting - Port Arthur, 1996. That's almost 30 years ago. Wonder what changed? Wasn't the intent of crazy people.

I before E, except after C. (The rule with more exceptions than not)

The only thing that would make the US healthy is an overwhelming Democrat majority with the balls to take on the NRA and the vision to fix their health care system.

No.

I'd never heard of Kirk before he got shot, and as far as I'm concerned he's just one out of 5000 odd per year that gets killed by gun in the US. I mourn every innocent child killed in Sandy Hook much more than some idiot who apparently thought it was fair for people to be killed by guns in order for whack jobs to get to keep their AR-15's. The bad thing about this is how it's an absolute gift for Dicktator Donny. Based on this killing, it's obvious that everyone on the "loony left" (ie normal people) is a dangerous criminal and he is justified in making restrictive laws and "executive orders" to keep them from doing or saying anything that may offend the delicate feelings of "patriotic americans" (ie raving right wing nut jobs and anyone who licks his arse). I saw reporting somewhere that he is even insisting on America's allies setting up specific "left wing extremist" task forces. Despite all evidence that the vast majority of extremist violence comes from conservatives. The hypocrisy is astounding. For years frothing right-wingers have called for violence against anyone they don't agree with. Many people working for family planning clinics have been murdered. Trump himself has denigrated and abused anyone who doesn't agree with him. Yet anyone who dares to point out the truth about this Kirk character, or refuse to treat him like some kind of saint, is facing real world consequences over there. Losing their jobs, being cancelled, receiving death threats. All the stuff that conservatives have been complaining about the "woke" crowd, they are doing a hundred fold. The US needs to stop using "free" in any description of itself. There is no free speech, no freedom to think for yourself, no freedom to poke fun at the disgraceful actions of its executive branch. It's fast becoming a repressive, authoritarian theocracy. As an independent country we should be extricating ourselves from close ties with the US, including the disastrous AUKUS pact, until such time that they reverse everything Trump has done, put the rabid Republicans into minority and prove to the world that freedom has returned.

It's disgusting. Every company is running scared of him. In WW2 the US stood up to fascists, who were attempting to kill all the Jews. Now the US is becoming fascist and Israel is committing genocide. Total reversal.

Meanwhile, the evil empire scores another scalp. Trump and his sycophants hate late night comics like Colbert and Kimmel because they speak truth and don't kowtow to him. Now another spineless media company has crumpled and given in to him. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09-18/jimmy-kimmel-live-cancelled-indefinitely/105787192?utm_source=abc_news_web&utm_medium=content_shared&utm_campaign=abc_news_web

Mate, I don't think you understand. Everyone is on the spectrum.

It's a spectrum. You can't ban left wingers and right wingers because there's no one remaining. The spectrum probably needs updating, more conservative vs progressive these days, but where 'centre' is depends on your perspective. In terms of the US, my view is that the Democrats are slightly right of centre, Republicans are so far down the right wing fascist path that their whole democracy is stuffed, and the only true left wingers left are individuals like Bernie Sanders.

You wouldn't have made that rookie mistake Peter.

Yeah, he has tunnel vision on his legacy. The parliament will override the planning commission, as they always do when they get expert advice that they don't agree with (or find politically unpalatable).

Already sent in the appeal. Twats.

Okay, my gripe for the day. Some brainless, mentally deficient parking inspector slapped a ticket on my car, purportedly for parking in excess of the time allowed. Only trouble is, I was parked in an area which has NO time restrictions between 9:30am and 4:30pm. Talk about unable to do your job, when you can't even read the parking signs...

Not to be that guy, but you could get yourself in trouble photographing women without their permission.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/science/2024-07-16/chinas-renewable-energy-boom-breaks-records/104086640

If private investors won't touch it then it's not profitable. If it's not profitable it means that it won't give a reasonable rate of return on current power prices, which means either prices would be higher, or the government will use taxpayer money to subsidize it.

The alternative is worse. If for example you surprise a skinny harmless person who thought the house was empty and was either stealing or looking for somewhere to sleep... I don't think someone who kills a person like that should be exempt from prosecution.

If a gang with machetes or guns invades your property now, and you are in fear of your life or your family's lives, and in your proportionate response to the threat you kill one (or all) of the invaders, I'm pretty sure you are already protected under the law, from criminal prosecution anyway.

On ABC now too. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09-16/actor-and-activist-robert-redford-dies-aged-89/105781564

Nah, those pricks would collapse half of the CBD, poison Port Phillip and then charge the taxpayer to clean up their mess.

The opposite. Our economy depends on transitioning. We have the most sun and coastline of pretty much any country on earth. The only people who gain from not doing anything are people like Gina and Clive. And they'll be dead before the worst impacts of inaction hit.