OT: Current Affairs and Politics

[Gronk]

You can see where we are heading and it isn't going to be good for 99% of us I'll give you the tip. Gronk and some others will be very dismissive of course,

That's cos I'm in the 1% group.

 

[strider]

someone sent me something today that said the USA FDA will ban meat (specifically beef I think, but thats probably the start) in 2024

i don't know if true

 

[hybrideel]

someone sent me something today that said the USA FDA will ban meat (specifically beef I think, but thats probably the start) in 2024

i don't know if true

Looks like it's time to start buying cows

 

[strider]

There is also this -

apparently smiley horse face is part of the klan too

(yes i used the letter k on purpose)

 

[TheRam]

someone sent me something today that said the USA FDA will ban meat (specifically beef I think, but thats probably the start) in 2024

i don't know if true

Not yet, but that will come too.

 

[TheRam]

 

[I'm a loser baby...]

someone sent me something today that said the USA FDA will ban meat (specifically beef I think, but thats probably the start) in 2024

i don't know if true

Our mate Billy Boy has bought up a massive amount of farmland and just this week was telling us that rich countries should be moving to fake meat. And doesn't he look the picture of health...

 

[the phantom menace]

There's been some pretty shit videos in this thread lately... lift your game everyone, Scummo's going to call the election and start officially campaigning soon!

 

[the phantom menace]

Debunking the great reset consiparacy theory - of a worldwide socialist government to aid capitailism?

What is the Great Reset - and how did it get hijacked by conspiracy theories?

A global Covid recovery plan by the World Economic Forum has inspired false rumours about the creation of a tyrannical world government.

www.bbc.com

 

[Twizzle]

today is a good day for conspiracy theories

 

[The Silverdale Phantom]

VW engineering in Australian conditions.


How it should look


What actually happens. Note the ant farm.

Heavens knows where that vent thing leads, maybe it’s to cool the door handle.

Free car for three weeks, I had hoped to return it in better shape than it was lent, I keep finding issues. Oh well. Let my inner mechanic destroy another car.

Eels v Dragons later, should be a good match. The bugs and I will be listening amongst the swearing.

 

[Gronk]

Cosplay Miner Matt has got world peace sorted.

 

[The Silverdale Phantom]

Cosplay Miner Matt has got world peace sorted.

The nature of capitalism at its extremes.

Death, destruction, suffering and hardship are treated as God-given opportunities by some for wadding up.

Transnational capital moving into arms etc. Tally Ho, the generals lie prostrate before the market.

I was talking to a Vietnam era guy today. He missed the draft, but like me he is amazed and saddened with the war. It’s bringing it all back.

If Putin is going to engage his massive conventional weapons, he simply can’t be dealt with and it might be time to make concessions where it counts to save lives.

The ukkies and us, we could use the excuse the Japanese emperor made to the Japanese people in WW2 to help them understand the surrender.

He was right as it was.

Many said here on LU that confrontation with Putin was a pretty bad idea and that’s how it’s played out.

I don’t believe the media that Russia is done or losing. They are probably just getting started. The Ruskies are tough and resilient. See ww2.

We’d be speaking German and/or Japanese without the Ruskies WW2 efforts. Long gone heroics, alas.

 

[The Silverdale Phantom]

Comrade Corner!!

The old left argue:

Instead of big companies telling us how green, feminist and lgbt friendly they are, low and behold, the corporate virtue signalling is now focused on how anti-Russian they are. They all rush in like flies to honey!

I think there is some truth in that observation.

 

[Gary Gutful]

Comrade Corner!!

The old left argue:

Instead of big companies telling us how green, feminist and lgbt friendly they are, low and behold, the corporate virtue signalling is now focused on how anti-Russian they are. They all rush in like flies to honey!

I think there is some truth in that observation.

Lost me when you used the term 'virtue signalling' but then disappointed me that you didn't follow up with 'cuckold', 'snowflake' and 'SJW'.

 

[The Silverdale Phantom]

Lost me when you used the term 'virtue signalling' but then disappointed me that you didn't follow up with 'cuckold', 'snowflake' and 'SJW'.

Yeah, I was trying to gather in some more examples from the slimy depths of my decrepit and diseased grey matter, but only managed to catch an old gumboot. I guess thats a win for me these days.

 

[The Silverdale Phantom]

Just in case anybody is curious as to how the Japanese Emperor helped the Japanese people to stomach the surrender, here is a sourced extract from a famous nuclear scientist:


Source: https://www.manhattanprojectvoices.org/oral-histories/freeman-dysons-interview

And so I might say to the ukkies, having put up a miraculous fight but embedded into their position, provided the Ruskie terms are survivable, maybe you can adopt this overall strategy.

And to the Ruskies, why don’t you consider it too?

Not the detail, but the broader point.

The objective being to stop the war and save lives. Especially of the mug punterage, people like us.

The scientist makes the point later, that despite surrender and defeat, Japan went on to much bigger and better things, economically at least.

 

[the phantom menace]

“You know another promise you made. You were going to have an integrity commission. You better f*****g do something. I’m sick of your bull****.”

https://www.news.com.au/national/politics/wild-moment-scott-morrison-is-confronted-by-locals-at-edgeworth-tavern/news-story/0c289dff65fe5a2a8ca597ebab0ddeae

 

[The Silverdale Phantom]

“You know another promise you made. You were going to have an integrity commission. You better f*****g do something. I’m sick of your bull****.”

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Sending him out to meet actual people was a bad idea.

You should only send your politician out in public to meet with loyal party members.

The “public” need to be properly vetted.

With the anti Lebanese and anti women allegations around him, I’d set up a pretty Lebanese lady to meet and hug him in the form of a “chance meeting” between “old family friends” shot in a quiet section of a mall, with minders deftly warning off us filth.

Scomo: Oh Lila, how nice to see you, how is Charbel?
Lila “ Ahh, Uncle Scott, Charbel is very good, business is great, how is Aunty Jenny?”
Etc.
Cameras rolling and so forth.

And people at home might see this and swear he is pro-Lebanese and pro-women, taking the sting off the rumours.

Politics 101 campaign management.

 

[Soren Lorenson]

https://www.news.com.au/technology/science/human-body/health-boss-brendan-murphy-unable-to-define-woman-in-senate-estimates/news-story/bad3124ed5e0d97cd666563d7f60ac7d

WTF is happening here? Asking people what is a woman is a thing?