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On any reckoning, a failure as a human being. The anti-Piaf.

Perth, Western Australia
Joined September 2008
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@GarthGodsman
Garth Godsman
3 years
@MSNBC Hi @Twitter @TwitterSupport - I believe you said you would be cracking down on disinformation relating to Covid-19? ☝️
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@GarthGodsman
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@TheDailyShow There's a reason why Rogan's audience is several times larger than yours 🙄
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@GarthGodsman
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@bbcthesocial The performative narcissism on display here is really quite something.
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@NATO_ACT When did NATO become such a ridiculous joke?
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@GarthGodsman
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@jimalbarano @GrageDustin Um, so Jim, this isn't burning?
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“The city didn’t burn.” Also the city:
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@GarthGodsman
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@theserfstv You didn't bother to watch any more? 'I have degrees in unrelated subjects, so listen to me' is not an argument. And Shapiro is correct - if he has two degrees and is still incapable of arguing logically, he is owed a refund.
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TheBlaze
3 years
Boom. ROASTED. - @benshapiro , basically
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7 years
Brendan O'Neill nails it again: "the more racism disappears from public life, the more the political classes see it everywhere" #auspol
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@RitaPanahi @rickjnewman @SohrabAhmari @YahooFinance In the history of self-owns, that is going to become a legend.
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3 years
You can be both appalled at the behaviour of at least some of the protestors in Melbourne yesterday and deeply disturbed by the actions of the Victoria Police (which has a long history of doing things to be disturbed about).
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@GarthGodsman
Garth Godsman
3 years
The big trick in 2016 was the general effort to create a Russia collusion scandal with the help of Justice Department insiders and an eager, enabling media.
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@GarthGodsman
Garth Godsman
2 years
Really, even as a gay man, I find this fetishising of a "community" whose parts have little or nothing in common, and whose interests actually conflict in some cases, increasingly peculiar. What other section of the wider community gets this kind of attention and focus? Why?
@MattAkersten
Matt Akersten 
2 years
Street signs updated with Progress Pride Flag design for @sydworldpride . A nice surprise from @cityofsydney ! 🌈🎉❤️ #ProgressPrideFlag #SydneyWorldPride
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@GarthGodsman
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@AmbRice46 @HHS_ASH @USATODAY There you go ladies - men are even better at being ladies than you are.
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4 years
If the retiring of the name Coon Cheese, named after Edward William Coon, is some kind major victory against racism, then it just shows how little real racism there is in this country. #auspol #auspol2020
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@GarthGodsman
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@KrisGoldsmith85 Ngo has asked you to provide evidence to support those claims, but you have refused to do so
@MrAndyNgo
Andy Ngo 🏳️‍🌈
3 years
“Disinfo” researcher spreads disinformation to incite violence against me. Goldsmith claims, without evidence, that I “provided material assistance” to violent extremists in and outside of the US. Ask him for evidence and he blocks.
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6 years
Pointing out the uncomfortable truth about the catastrophic level of physical and sexual abuse against children in some Aboriginal communities is racism? I would have thought that tolerating abuse that would never be permitted if the children were white is racism. #auspol
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3 years
Even if you thought gain-of-function research on coronaviruses was worth the risk, why in hell's name would you outsource it effectively to the Chinese Communist Party? #auspol #auspol2021 #coronavirus
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@GarthGodsman
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2 years
As expected, 'pregnant 10-yr-old rape victim denied an abortion in Ohio' story has collapsed. The doctor behind claim refuses to talk now, & state attorney general has confirmed no such case exists. Also, Ohio law allows for abortion in these circumstances. #auspol #AusPol2022
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George Floyd's brother utterly shames the liberals, journalists and celebrities, in so many cases white, who have cheered on the mayhem and destruction and made excuses for the perpetrators #auspol #auspol2020 #GeorgeFloyd
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NBC News
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WATCH: Full speech by George Floyd's brother, Terrence Floyd, at site of George Floyd's death.
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Emma Thompson has flown from LA to London to join the Extinction Rebellion as they try to close down Heathrow Airport because air travel is bad for the planet? 🤔
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@MarkGerretsen The scientific illiteracy of this tweet 👆is only matched by its naivety. Whoever produced that image is clearly unfamiliar with the philosophy and history of science - a method of enquiry - and how the reality so often doesn't accord with the ideal.
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Garth Godsman
5 years
It's a sad reflection on the state of the modern university that a PhD student can write something this absurd: “Objectivity is itself an example of the reification of white male thought.”
@jayctigerfan
Jared C.
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The signatories of the letter denouncing the 1619 project kept screaming “...but it wasn’t objective!” and all i kept thinking was: “Objectivity is itself an example of the reification of white male thought.”
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6 years
Journalist commits career suicide: tells truth on bias
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@GarthGodsman
Garth Godsman
6 years
And just a reminder - it's out of our universities that this idiotic nonsense is coming #auspol
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@PhilipRucker @Gabriel_Pogrund Sigh. And you wonder why so many people have lost trust in the media? If you look at the full comments, what he was doing, in his usual strange way, was praising Grant. For Christ's sake, Ike had a picture of Lee in his office.
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4 years
So the warmongers responsible for every American foreign policy disaster from Iraq on, including the guy who thought ISIS was on their side in Syria and who wanted to arm them, are back in charge in Washington, thanks to Biden? And this is supposed to be good? #auspol #auspol2020
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9 years old. And sure, a nine-year-old thought up a drag name like Lactatia. This is nothing more or less than child abuse. #auspol #auspol2021
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@RVAwonk @skennison An utterly absurd claim, as detailed here Basically two incidents, one involving a tree falling and killing two journalists has been used to produce this nonsense.
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The @guardian from 2004: Britain will have a Siberian climate by ... *checks notes* ... next year! #auspol #climatechange
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These people are insane
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@carolecadwalla @NickCohen4 @BBC Yes, the first thing people think of when they hear 'crazy cat lady' is slut 🙄 Utterly deranged and unhinged nonsense. But that seems to be the lot of Continuity Remain these days. It's quite sad, really.
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@Scott_Gilmore The Poles remember and understand that alt-right and alt-left are two sides of the same totalitarian coin
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4 years
So the ABC and SBS have had people on saying that their 'grandfather'?!?! was shot by Cook's men (over 200 years ago 🙄), or that Cook left 'dynamite' (not invented for another hundred years) 'rigged to blow up'? #auspol #auspol2020
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4 years
Notice that there are no third or fourth-rate "former" female athletes breaking records in male sports? You can pretend that the silly ideas you got from gender studies at university trump biology, but reality trumps you.
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Victorian Government was warned 4 years ago fuel loads in forests would lead to catastrophe, but chose instead to walk away from even the minimum hazard reduction burns recommended by the Black Saturday Royal Commission. #auspol #auspol2020 #bushfires
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If Barack Obama had been able to broker peace between Israel and the UAE and now Bahrain (with talk even of Saudi Arabia to follow), let alone the Serbs and the Kosovars, the international media would be melting down in adoration. #auspol #auspol2020
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Perfect example of what partisan, ideologically driven hacks BuzzFeed are - the 'old' photo from Iran only taken a week ago #auspol
@BuzzFeedNews
BuzzFeed News
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People are using an old image of a woman without a headscarf to illustrate the Iran protests
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@enews It's a man cosplaying at being a woman.
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@StacyCaySlays The notion of 'trans kids' is a dangerously abusive fiction. The are children, some genuinely gender dysphoric, some not. No one is banning kids from sport, only that they compete according to their biological sex.
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@ZachStafford Um, do you have any evidence that supports those claims? Real, actual evidence that will survive examination?
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@9NewsMelb @AmeliaAdams9 This was substantially debunked many hours ago, and you still ran with it?
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Garth Godsman
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And it is interesting to see whose fund raisers @gofundme did allow - those of violent anarchists, looters and rioters
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Garth Godsman
5 years
Oh my! Tracey Ullman is devastating on Jeremy Corbyn and the anti-Semitism scandal engulfing the Labour Party in Britain
@joerichlaw
Joe Rich
5 years
How accurately @TraceyUllmanTV portrayed Labour Leader Jeremy Corbyn and his deliberately pathetic attempt at “zero tolerance” of #AntiSemitism in a Labour Party which deliberately selects racist candidates and fails to expel them when they’re exposed
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Christ. "I should have been committed not castrated." Some of these therapists and doctors, as well as those pushing the gender cult, should be going to prison for the harm they are causing. #auspol #auspol2022
@conservmillen
Allie Beth Stuckey
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Mental health disorders, trauma, normal teenage insecurity, and sexual fetishes are all being placed under the “transgender” umbrella by doctors, and we haven’t even started to see the extent of the suffering that will come from that.
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@IndependentSage @SusanMichie Poisoned air? This is hysterical, pseudoscientific nonsense. Why would anyone pay any attention to a psychologist about Covid-19? Almost all children in the UK have almost certainly already had Covid-19, many of them without being aware of it.
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Anybody who thinks the problems besetting America's politics and society began with Trump and will end with him are unutterably naive. He was the symptomatic warning sign that something was wrong and if the establishment thinks things will just go back to the way they were ...
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Garth Godsman
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The misogyny that lies at the heart of gender ideology is summed up by the fact nobody is asking 'what is a man?' No male athletes are losing their places to transexuals, nobody is tying themselves in knots to avoid words like man, male, or father, unlike woman, female and mother
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Mars F.
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This is great (and I’ll definitely watch!) but why aren’t we ever asking “What is a man?”
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4 years
Sick of them being used for the Democrat's cynical political pantomime
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5 years
The captain of the Kurrajong Heights brigade, a man with over 50-years of firefighting experience makes it quite clear - the situation in NSW has been 20-years in the making, as catastrophic fuel loads have been allowed to build up #auspol #bushfires
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@JillFilipovic Disingenuous is the kindest thing that can be said about this tweet.
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A reminder - Australia has abundant energy resources. Any shortages are the result of deliberate policy decisions by successive governments, federal and state. #auspol #auspol2022 #RenewableEnergy
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Garth Godsman
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This person is a 'blue tick' "journalist" He has just admitted that he's accused a gay Asian man of being a sympathiser of white supremacy on the basis of some hearsay he read somewhere 🙄
@MattLaslo
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@Todd58572606 @Heritage Don’t know him. But read on the fly that he allowed white supremacists to have a say in editing his footage. Untrue?
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When your news comes from comedians ...
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I really cannot understand anyone saying I'm proud to be white (or black, or yellow or whatever). It's like saying you're proud of being left or right handed. An adaptation to more northern latitudes, nothing more and nothing less.
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@EricBoehlert Imagine being this disconnected from reality 👆
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Funny how women hating is never far from the surface of the gender cult
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Sohrab Ahmari argues that if the right in America is serious about being on the side of workers, now is a good time
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@ashtonpittman @MotyRavenChabin Firstly, if you don't know what the word fascist means, don't use it. That way you don't make a fool of yourself in public. And you're trying to defend sexually explicit performances in front of children? What's wrong with you?
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Garth Godsman
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Again, if you think the 'planet,' which has seen times when CO2 has been substantially higher than today and during which life thrived, needs 'saving,' then you are a scientific illiterate.
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Pissing on Churchill's statue. The state of the modern left. #auspol #auspol2020
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NYC school administrator calls for end to elite high school exam after Asians dominate test scores
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@neontaster @varadmehta @IanKennedyCK And as a gay man - people are growing tired of sport being used to promote moral campaigns. Most just want to go and watch the hockey or the football or whatever, without being preached to.
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@mjs_DC @GeorgetownLaw Some people, having told damaging lies, admit the truth and seek forgiveness. Whereas Mark here has decided to double down.
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@RepLoriTrahan @carlzimmer @Twitter @elonmusk Breaching doxxing rules seems to be the deal. But now the rule applies to them, too.
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And Antifa have been outside the spa over the weekend assaulting anyone daring to protest about it.
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@zaelefty @JohannaMellis It's staggering that simple reality has to be explained to some people.
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I'm starting to think that Thérèse Rein is as broken as her husband.
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A "progressive humanitarian" using an unfolding tragedy to score partisan political points. When did these people get this broken? #auspol
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As someone notes, if these clowns didn't have the backing of powerful parts of the cultural elite in the media, academia and big business, you'd just laugh at them. #auspol #auspol2020
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Garth Godsman
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Shot and chaser as I believe they say
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Garth Godsman
4 years
Seems that the @nytimes has been guilty of making 'stealth edits' to its 1619 Project, like removing the core claim that 1619 - the year African slaves were first brought to North America - was the "true founding" of the United States. #auspol #auspol2020
@rafalkonopka
Rafal Konopka
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@Heminator Here is how the article appeared in August, 2019 and how it appears today. Notice what changed?
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Gerry Harvey states the blindingly obvious - appointing people who have no idea about your business to your board, simply to satisfy the Cult of Diversity, is likely not to be good for your business #auspol
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Gays and lesbians are finally starting to wonder how it is we got tied to the collection of mental illnesses and personality disorders known as the TQ+ #auspol #Auspol2023 #LGBWithoutTheTQ
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@stonewalluk Nope, no unfair advantage at all 🙄
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To really be mad at Trump for asking foreign leaders to investigate Joe and Hunter Biden or Hillary Clinton, the voters need to believe that Clinton and the Bidens aren’t inherently corrupt
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The monument to Robert the Bruce, who died in 1329, has been vandalised by Black Lives Matter protesters. Um, why? It's not really about black lives at all, is it? #auspol #auspol2020 #BlackLivesMatter
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@GarthGodsman
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Does anyone actually think that it stops with 'changing the date,' rather than Australia Day itself then being said to be problematical? Activists will never be satisfied, because their life is their activism. The left is all culture war, all the time #auspol #AustraliaDay2019
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So @Facebook thinks it knows better than the Professor of Epidemiology at the Yale School of Public Health and is censoring the article he wrote for that well known fringe far-right publication ... er, checks notes ... @Newsweek 🙄 #auspol #auspol2021
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Completely barking mad
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@ACLUIndiana @ACLU Why are you helping to facilitate the harming of vulnerable young people, even as it becomes clear that the affirmative-care model is not evidence-based and as countries with better health systems start to back away from it?
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Has the push back against these appalling scammers finally begun? #auspol #auspol2021
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A story so absurd, that only those lining up to buy the Brooklyn Bridge would take it seriously. Trump is an awful oaf, but to say that the United States is now as dangerous for journalists as Afghanistan is hysterical nonsense.
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Caroline Orr Bueno, Ph.D
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For the first time ever, the United States has been added to Reporters Without Borders' list of the most dangerous countries for journalists. The US is listed as the 5th most dangerous country, coming in right behind Afghanistan, Syria, Yemen, & Mexico.
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The collected wisdom of Van Badham #auspol
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Just remind me, this is the rain BOM said wouldn't come until April, right? #auspol #auspol2020
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Those who advocated for long lockdowns, especially the shutting of schools, which Sweden has now shown to be bad policy, have a lot to answer for. #auspol #auspol2021 #coronavirus
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Garth Godsman
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And don't let lefty revisionist historians, cherry-picking the evidence, fool you. The Australian returned servicemen of the Great War, who not only paid for most memorials, but built them themselves, made their purpose clear: God, King and Empire. #AnzacDay2018
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@USArmy Happy for anyone to be able to join the military, which has a proud history of giving jobs and social advancement to minorities. But the bogus cult of diversity for diversity's sake is what can tear apart cohesive teams, and Col Holman should be found a useful job to do.
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Be careful not to spread fake news ... leave it to the professionals #auspol
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Wow - moves by Twitter & Facebook to censor & control what people can see is ratcheting up. Just tried to post an article abt muted plans to ration power in Germany. Twitter says it's been identified as "potentially" harmful, ie they disagree with it. #auspol @thegwpfcom
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Worth remembering that Labor today would oppose every economic reform of Hawke and Keating - privatising Qantas & the Commonwealth Bank, dropping top marginal and corporate tax rates, opening the economy to international competition etc #ausvotes #auspol
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"The majority of black Americans are far more religious on average than the public overall, and the majority of Americans oppose transgender activism. The majority of Americans oppose abortion after the first trimester and want fewer foreign wars." #auspol #auspol2020
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Maybe people are starting to realise what a self-entitled broken Tim Minchin actually is? #auspol #auspol2020
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Garth Godsman
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As far as this goes, Trump is certainly correct here. To save money and to respect their 'freedoms,' the mentally ill have effectively been abandoned by society - you see it on the streets in Perth.
@TPostMillennial
The Post Millennial
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Trump: "We need to drastically change our approach to mental health. There are always so many warning signs."
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Garth Godsman
2 years
@zachdespart It's a semi-automatic hunting rifle, no different to any other, apart from the fact it *looks* military. It was not made for military use. Military rifles are fully automatic. Did you do no research at all? You got played.
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