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Post by Stellar on May 7, 2022 10:31:44 GMT 10
Okay ... although I only think of "people of colour" as being black.
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Post by freddies ghost on May 7, 2022 11:25:14 GMT 10
The only candidate that's talking about the elephant in the room this election
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Post by freddies ghost on May 7, 2022 11:37:35 GMT 10
A good primer on how to ensure that your vote counts Exactly as you want it.
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Post by nataliesalat on May 7, 2022 12:26:57 GMT 10
Or people of coconuts as Lidia and Dorinda keep proving...
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Post by caskur on May 7, 2022 19:06:51 GMT 10
Another point. Is it just me, it seems to be that looking at the actual candidates, ON and UAP seem to have a far more diverse list then any from the uniparty? Far more diverse than the pure than the driven snow, "Greens", or the all rich white chicks "Teal Greens". And yet, KTJ, Ponto, Pim at al keep telling us that it's actually the minors and real independents that are the intolerant, racist parties. those 3 wouldn't know their arse from their albo.
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Post by freddies ghost on May 9, 2022 9:20:17 GMT 10
For anyone thinking about the "teal greens" ?
Have a think about who is behind these "independents
Simon Holmes a Court, blionare son of Robert Holmes a Court has significant coin invested in "renewables", so stands to make a motza should a green left ALP coalition get elected. As the LibDems candidate pointed out, the unprecedented transfer of wealth that we've seen over the past 2 years will be accelerated under the Teal Greens, with, as usual, those at the bottom (we the people), bearing the brunt of that transfer.
Then again, what would a bunch of rich white chicks on a vanity project know about the cost of living pressures that the majority of us a facing ?
We're just the great unwashed plebs to them.
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Post by freddies ghost on May 9, 2022 9:56:31 GMT 10
fun fact for the election:
we all know that vast majority of the political class have never had a real job outside of the activist/Political machine sphere.
Just look at our own Stairman Dan Andrews.
Apart from taking 7 years to do a 3 year Arts Degree,and then sstepping straight onto the ALPs own gravy train, the only job he has had was working in a hotdog van outside the Tunnel Niteclub đ
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Post by Stellar on May 9, 2022 10:24:34 GMT 10
For anyone thinking about the "teal greens" ? Have a think about who is behind these "independents Simon Holmes a Court, blionare son of Robert Holmes a Court has significant coin invested in "renewables", so stands to make a motza should a green left ALP coalition get elected. As the LibDems candidate pointed out, the unprecedented transfer of wealth that we've seen over the past 2 years will be accelerated under the Teal Greens, with, as usual, those at the bottom (we the people), bearing the brunt of that transfer. Then again, what would a bunch of rich white chicks on a vanity project know about the cost of living pressures that the majority of us a facing ? We're just the great unwashed plebs to them. According to The Age - The teals share the same three top priorities as matters of urgency: action on climate change; the creation of a federal anti-corruption agency; justice and respect for women. Those imperatives align more closely with Labor than the Coalition. Yet your "rich white chicks" wouldn't have a clue about homelessness due to high priced rentals that are so few and far between that people are living in their cars. People need housing security but most are at the mercy of greedy landlords who are jacking up the cost of rentals where tenants cannot afford to buy food or pay bills. Surely these are priorities?? And then we have a Labor leader who has a very impressive property investment portfolio. No wonder we have a housing crisis where people cannot afford to buy properties - even if there were any properties to buy. Shadow Housing Minister Jason Clare says itâs not an âoverstatementâ to say Australia has a housing crisis. âIt's harder to buy than ever before, it's harder to rent than ever before, and there are more homeless Aussies than ever before." And yet his leader Albanese - who refuses to answer any questions about his rental investment portfolio - is a big part of the problem. Not something we'd expect of a Labor leader who we'd hope has the ordinary citizen's welfare at heart. I vote in Warringah. Three years ago Zali Steggall had a huge "teal army" of volunteers. They were in your face everywhere in the electorate as I've mentioned before - but especially down here in Manly because Zali lives only two suburbs away. One of the things that infuriated me was their aggressiveness. They'd bail you up on street corners and were so over the top in their "spiel" you'd have to actually push them away! In fact at the last election, one of Zali Steggallâs campaign workers stabbed a Liberal volunteer with a corkscrew and was charged and convicted with two counts of assault! And a campaign worker for Dr Sophie Scamps (teal independent in next door Mackellar) turned up to a Katherine Deves campaign event and has also been charged by the police with assault. Is this what integrity will mean in the future? Zali Steggall chose teal for her volunteers because it is a mix of blue for conservative values (wink wink) and green for the environment. Her supporters urged her to intervene when all these other independent candidates started to colour their campaigns in teal but she disagreed with their sentiments. So the teal army has expanded - almost a new party in itself. The Independent Party?? Meanwhile I'll continue voting for the Sustainable Australia Party - the only party that is concerned with the immigration ponzi scheme which operates at present and is the reason ordinary working Aussies are priced right out of the housing market.
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Post by freddies ghost on May 9, 2022 10:50:14 GMT 10
I agree about housing security being more important than the shyte where hearing from the uniparty and especially the snake oil BS from the Holmes-a-court "independents
But as a former lefty (think that Musk meme) now confirmed libertarian, im voting for the freedom parties, LibDems-ON-UAP
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Post by freddies ghost on May 9, 2022 10:58:47 GMT 10
just on one thing you mentioned, Stellar, regarding "respect for women..." being one of the uniparty and TGs priorities, I find it ironic when they claim that saying that women's spaces should be protected is "trabsphibic".
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Post by Gort on May 9, 2022 15:36:05 GMT 10
Allegra Spender (She may have killed off her chances today by mentioning on Insiders that she is in favour of a review of the tax system and not opposed to raising the amount of the GST.) âŤHey big spender ...âŤ
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Post by Gort on May 9, 2022 15:46:15 GMT 10
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Post by Stellar on May 9, 2022 15:52:33 GMT 10
just on one thing you mentioned, Stellar, regarding "respect for women..." being one of the uniparty and TGs priorities, I find it ironic when they claim that saying that women's spaces should be protected is "trabsphibic". Yes, well they can't have it both ways. You're either supportive of women playing sport against women only and not male "cross dressers" as some of the Americans see it. That is what it amounts to because these males can't be too keen on being women if they refuse to part with their tackle. Or on the other hand if you're supportive of these males who are determined to keep their sex but expect to be able to play against females just because they say so, you're not respecting women and girls at all. Because just saying you're a woman and expecting everyone else to be absolutely acquiescent with that is pushing the boundaries beyond commonsense and fair play. Anyone who supports these transgenders aka cross dressers whilst still insisting they are supportive of women and girls and fair play are nothing but hypocrites! It's all become too political. And down in Manly the campaign volunteers were out in force today. I expect it is only going to get worse from here on.
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Post by freddies ghost on May 9, 2022 16:36:50 GMT 10
I'm happy for Some one to stand outside of the sheds, with a machete, ready for when they run out on the footy field and see just how committed to womanhood some of these blokes really are đ
on a serious note, I suspect this issue will see Catherine Deves win in your seat by a landslide.
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Post by freddies ghost on May 9, 2022 16:40:48 GMT 10
if saying that a woman = Mother makes me a "transphobe", then I'm proudly a "Transphobe".
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Post by caskur on May 9, 2022 17:56:29 GMT 10
If you are born with ovaries you are female. If you don't have ovaries at birth you are not female.
End of discussion.
*disclaimer... no offence to genuine hermaphrodites (sp?)
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Post by Stellar on May 10, 2022 8:43:19 GMT 10
I'm happy for Some one to stand outside of the sheds, with a machete, ready for when they run out on the footy field and see just how committed to womanhood some of these blokes really are đ on a serious note, I suspect this issue will see Catherine Deves win in your seat by a landslide. I am not so sure. The demographics have changed on the northern beaches over the past two decades. Most of the influx has been from the eastern suburbs who want the lifestyle we have over here but have found that the increasing concrete jungle in the east due to a population explosion causing mass highrise has destroyed theirs. They want the bigger houses and bigger blocks of land. The old demographic was decidedly Liberal. The new demographic is very much attuned to the teal independents. You have to remember that the northern beaches overwhelmingly voted for SSM. That was surprising because all my life over here we have been very conservative. The result will probably be much the same as the last election. However one thing I will say in her favour, Zali is very accessible. She constantly asks people to contact her if they have any problems and she promises to do everything in her power to help her constituents. Surprisingly though, housing insecurity which is affecting so much of the population these days doesn't seem to be on her agenda as a priority.
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Post by Stellar on May 10, 2022 10:02:03 GMT 10
If you are born with ovaries you are female. If you don't have ovaries at birth you are not female. End of discussion. *disclaimer... no offence to genuine hermaphrodites (sp?) True enough! That's a totally rational way of looking at it ... but in this day and age of "woke lunacy gone mad," our "decaying society has created the age of unreason." * George Bernard Shaw observed that the reasonable man adapts himself to the world while the unreasonable man persists in trying to adapt the world to himself.
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Post by freddies ghost on May 10, 2022 11:29:57 GMT 10
In latest election news they're reporting that Albo, standing along side the Spring Street Quasimoto, has announced what is the ALPs largest plegde of the campaign, so far.
A massive 2.2 B to help fund Melbourne's proposed outer rail link.
This has got me thinking, one of the prevailing wisdoms of this and previous elections is that Victoria is the ALPs safest state. Yet here it is the recipient of the Alps largest pork barrel. It's almost as if the ALP consider it very much more a marginal prospect this election.
Mind you, Dan is about as popular as a fart in an elevator, so to speak, and Victorians do seem to be sharpening their baseballbats for November.
However....
All I can say is vote Albo, get Dandruff.
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Post by freddies ghost on May 10, 2022 13:56:46 GMT 10
I'm happy for Some one to stand outside of the sheds, with a machete, ready for when they run out on the footy field and see just how committed to womanhood some of these blokes really are đ on a serious note, I suspect this issue will see Catherine Deves win in your seat by a landslide. I am not so sure. The demographics have changed on the northern beaches over the past two decades. Most of the influx has been from the eastern suburbs who want the lifestyle we have over here but have found that the increasing concrete jungle in the east due to a population explosion causing mass highrise has destroyed theirs. They want the bigger houses and bigger blocks of land.  The old demographic was decidedly Liberal. The new demographic is very much attuned to the teal independents. You have to remember that the northern beaches overwhelmingly voted for SSM. That was surprising because all my life over here we have been very conservative.  The result will probably be much the same as the last election. However one thing I will say in her favour, Zali is very accessible. She constantly asks people to contact her if they have any problems and she promises to do everything in her power to help her constituents.  Surprisingly though, housing insecurity which is affecting so much of the population these days doesn't seem to be on her agenda as a priority.  Some members of the press pack were quite feral towards Scomo today in regards to recent comments made by Deves. Scomo claimed that this issue needs to be handled with sensitivity and expressed support transgender adolescents, as well as for their families. Seems, that Deves great sin was to quote a peer reviewed study that claimed gender realignment was a process that is both surgical mutilation, as well as sterization. Despite the noise from the press pack, and the fireworks it provide 7 fake news tonite, it will be that point about GA Surgery that will resonate and sink in to most parents though, I suspect.
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Post by Occam's Spork on May 11, 2022 4:43:39 GMT 10
If you are born with ovaries you are female. If you don't have ovaries at birth you are not female. End of discussion. *disclaimer... no offence to genuine hermaphrodites (sp?) All of the surgery and/or hormone therapy in the world won't turn a Y chromosome into an X. Or vice-versa The woke will need to come to terms with that. Call me old fashioned, but I prefer my women without penises. #personal preferences
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Post by Occam's Spork on May 11, 2022 5:02:53 GMT 10
Are we seriously now electing people who don't know what a woman is?
Call me callous, but I think humanity is due for a culling of the herd.
Here's my solution:
Why don't we section off a small bit of the world. Nice and secluded so they can be as weird as they want, and not impose their worldviews on us; they will be safe and not need to worry about we narrow-minded heteros... In a few generations, due to their inability to reproduce they will all die off...And let nature take its course.
Tada!
Everyone gets what they want.
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Post by Stellar on May 12, 2022 16:50:21 GMT 10
Well I voted this morning. I didn't intend to vote but the pre-polling booth was open and the volunteers were out in force. As usual Zali's team were really upfront in trying to get to you first. Some of them positioned themselves right at the lights on the Corso so when you crossed they shoved how to vote cards in your face and asking "are you voting today?" Whilst all the other volunteers were positioned around the entrance to St Matts on the Corso. When I came out from voting Katherine Deves was there so I had a little chat for about 5 minutes. Mainly about my main gripe which is that we are so over-governed. And why do we have to have 12 senators from Tasmania! Why do we have 76 senators for a population of 26 million when the US has only 100 senators for a population of 337,550,940!
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Post by Gort on May 15, 2022 14:02:28 GMT 10
Interesting policy from the Libs today re: buying a home.
Able to dip into super to the tune of $50,000 (or 40%) whichever is up to $50,000.
Not a bad idea.
To get off renting and save all that money into building your own asset rather than paying for someone else's asset is going to save a hell of a lot of money in the long run.
There will be the argument about robbing the "nest egg" ... but building an actual nest in the form of a home and reducing the waste of rent - lowering the amount of interest payments that would need to paid without that $50,000 injection into a deposit is going to be quite attractive I reckon.
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Post by caskur on May 15, 2022 15:34:26 GMT 10
A good primer on how to ensure that your vote counts Exactly as you want it.
Morrison had this taken off youtube I heard. I don't know if this is any good though... Clive Palmer's party is a minor party and who wants that idiot in parliament?
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