Sometimes I wonder how many people in the west celebrating Christmas think Bethlehem is some lost or mythical town and not a real place where real people live which is under military occupation going through military raids right now
Welfare isn't a handout, it's not a gift, it's not charity. It's the price the state has to pay for failing to create necessary jobs for people. It's compensation, and it's compensation that is currently far lower than what people deserve. It should be at wage level.
My wife walked up to the server at our local cafe. The person was possibly transgender. My wife bought a bagel. On our way home she told me she lost sight of her passions and our marriage had flatlined. She packed up her things and left the next morning. I miss her so much
All Corbyn wanted to do was help his country and the world, and his own party spent years tearing him down, smearing him, and undermining his every move. How fucking sad. I hope history remembers these traitors like the scum they are.
Still reeling from the Q&A moment when Nasser talked about his cousin in Gaza who's daughter is dead and still trapped in their house, and with not one acknowledgment of that trauma and heartbreak, they went straight onto the next question accusing his org of funding terror.
coward pigs waited til 10000s went home to kettle in 100s and arrest and spray them. cos they know they couldnt take on the mass of people. only other group ive seen wait til they can isolate a smaller group and attack them were fash. what a surprise
sydney streets are empty. everyone's quarantined in. then one person starts singing... "lube mobile will come to you". another starts singing "tell me more lube mobile." by the end, whole streets singing "that's FIRTEEN FIRTY FIRTYTWO".
we are not alone 🌏 💗🇦🇺
#coronavirusaus
It's so weird watching the news these days. Every state feels like a whole different world. Like "SA sends hitman after 1 new covid case", "NSW pubs give every 5th infected person a free schooner", "Victoria enters 19th day of civil war"
Some snitch tipped cops off about the CEO of Rashays — a halal diner chain — and two staff not wearing masks inside their office because they were eating, and they got EIGHT cops to drag him away. If no Sydney journos grill the head cop on this tomorrow I'm gonna lose my shit
twitter will be fine because it's been slowly losing its sanity for the last 7 years. but im worried about insta people. they're still posting squad pics from cocktail night. the capacity to cataclysmically blackpill is there.
it's fucking WILD this has been so non-controversial. the uni sector is one of the biggest sectors in the country. int education was one of the huge revenue streams in aus. and the govt is letting it implode now and for the future solely – lets be real – for political reasons
imagine if the earthquake happened 16hrs early when everyone was on the bridge. just would've been mayhem. absolute mayhem. cops, protestors, unionists, journalists falling over each other. maybe they'd embrace. kiss. understand each other. shine in each others light. love
i actually can't fucking handle the "we owe it to those who serve in our military" sentiment re: the war crimes report. it's not fucking progressive at all. we owe it to the victims of war to end these imperialist invasions and hold these murderers accountable.
I live near a spot where UberEats drivers wait for deliveries, and one guy was on the phone crying in Bangla about missing home and how hard it is being here, and I don't know his full story but I know this country doesn't make it easy for migrants despite what they go through.
if someone made an app that was solely used for inviting people to events (and could import all your facebook friends), it would kill facebook for everyone below 45 tomorrow
melbourne 2020: just got out of lockdown and we're fine 🙂
everyone else: damn hope so, you had a rough time 😟
melbourne: 🙂
melbourne: 🙂
melbourne: 🙂
melbourne 2021: Ustaše bodybuilders are singing 'Horses' after trying to punch on with the CFMEU to fight communist vaccines
you know what else, if it turns out paying people to stay at home and raising jobseeker doesn't have an effect on lowering cases, turns out you're still saving people from starvation and homelessness so there's not a single negative impact
Hey guys I know we're all having a laugh about Prince Philip haha but he won't see your mean jokes but other 99yo racist princes might so think about that before you tweet your jokes thanks
van badham, friendlyjordies types go more berserk to people on their left than the right, because the right are a loyal opposition but the left are seen as existential threats to whatever grift they're running
Working in a bar is gonna suck so much after they open up. Gotta do all the same dealing with drunk and aggressive customers, with the added concern of looking at check ins and probably vaccine passports, basically being a bouncer for minimum wage. AND the risk of getting covid
Just remembering when I used my PhD student privileges to request this book from WA to see if Pauline Hansons cookbook really was dedicated to this Muslim bloke before she switched her racism from Asians to Muslims lol
said this before but invasion day rallies used to be hundreds and now they're tens of thousands, one day this state will be forced into returning sovereignty
becoming clearer and clearer that the explosion of cases in NSW was because the government refused to regulate industry, not because of people breaching stay-at-home orders
~ anti lockdown movement ~
the left: it's about class and material realities
the right: it's about australian values and freedom
reality: if you go to the gym or do wellness shit more than 6x a week you'll inevitably create or join a conspiracy
The last time Afghanistan was in the news here was regarding the ADFs brutal war crimes there, and yet haven't seen it mentioned at all in articles puzzled over how the Taliban could've grown so much support
Pauline's going to lose her shit about PC gone too far, Sunrise will interview her about it, there'll be a personal essay in response in The Monthly, and the Coalition will legislate to ban deleting podcasts and buy 87 more nuclear subs
WASPs hate Kyrigos's behaviour because it's foreign (pun intended) to them, as frustration should only be politely expressed through passive aggressive emails, manipulating workplace hierarchies to destroy careers, and having affairs
"That's what Australia means to me."
@steftsitsipas
admits he would love to win the
#AusOpen
and build a school in Victoria with the prize money. 👏
#AO2023
2032 Olympics is funny because 11yrs is impossible to comprehend. we'll be in Epsilon-Zeta Variant, net zero by 2030 will be by 2184, Kissinger will still be alive, Mars is a billionaires colony, and then Premier FriendlyJordies will be like [italian accent] itsa ze Oleempics!!
Let's not fucking kid ourselves about the free marketplace of ideas that Australian commentary apparently is. Everyone activist, unionist, NGO comms person knows how hard it is to get opeds published from even a centre left POV, but they'll publish far right garbage on the reg
huddling together with my family in the living room, watching the clock tick by, terrified of what will happen when crikey drops their monumental label of the PM
If you think lefties live in a bubble wait til you meet hospo bosses. It's not the hating workers, that's expected, it's that they think they look sympathetic when saying shit like "young ppl need to get serious and renounce love and friends so they can be effective at work."
if IKEA wants me to attach furniture to the wall and avoid killing babies, it should abolish landlords. until then my place will continue being a death trap
please for the love of god don't make cutting welfare into a weapon. i know it's tempting but ceding any of it turns it from a right into a gift that can be taken and given as pleased. it should be seen as non derogable as the right to a lawyer
@cameronwilson
gf: why do you follow so many hot girls on insta
bf: i swear they were all queensland tourism pages please ask cameron wilson for confirmation
if anyone tries to shut you down, if anyone tries to tell you not to follow your dreams, if anyone tries to say 'please, don't double down, please log off, please, please', remember the SMH is always there to lift you up xx
This is freaking immense. One of the best decisions I've ever seen re: industrial relations in this country in my life. Huge props to everyone involved in this
BIG NEWS: The Fair Work Commission has ruled that every farm worker on every farm are entitled to take home a minimum rate of pay.
This is a massive win for workers. Congratulations to the
@AWUnion
for their tireless advocacy on this.
"as a true blue leftie, i am against the sovereign citizen movement, and therefore must support australian police officers using rocket propelled grenades in the streets of northcote against anyone refusing to say their full name to cops. as a leftie" - 90% of tweets i see now
Both my parents work for Qantas. Everywhere my family lived in Australia was close to the airport — and Qantas. I literally live in Australia because of a Qantas foreign workers program. And let me tell you:
RENATIONALISE QANTAS.
A 4hr pause a day is one of the sickest jokes. Stomach churning there are people patting themselves on the back telling themsleves it's a diplomatic victory for making Gazans play red light green light where they get bombed if they're caught moving when 4hrs are up
So depressing when union lefties go nativist. I used to work for a right affiliated union that's official line was "whether you were born here or came yesterday, we'll defend you as a worker." it's not fucking hard
The material position of police as the guards of capital and enforcers of colonialism hasn't changed. But culturally they feel so under threat now (by antifa, BLM) they identify as some besieged international right wing paramilitary movement. This repositioning is terrifying.
How the fuck is that Tamil family from Biloela still in detention, what hellish level of cruelty do you need to descend into for the charred remains of your heart to close off so viciously, when a global crisis has made it more obvious than ever how necessary basic humanity is
Doubling the cost of Arts degrees is just full on blackpill shit to destroy the entire discipline by a bunch of sad fucks who couldn't get their circlejerk of western civ into any uni
At first I was like I guess how would the SMH know about Bridgets death this week. But people across twitter were mourning her, and SMH editors and writers follow a lot of the people mourning her, and they absolutely fucking knew what this week meant for people. Absolute ghouls.
If I was Federal Labor I'd make my first big policy announcement this year a good permanent increase to JobSeeker. Everyone would support it, the groundwork has been laid for it, and you'd actually pleasantly shock people into remembering you existed
aussies i follow: [endless debate on if we should have a national orgy or nuke the country after 5 cases]
brits i follow: sir.....lord boris promised us pudding and no covid...but he gave us covid and ate all the pudding sir
americans i follow: lol oh shit i have covid 😂😭😬🥴