No, see, you don’t get it. God decided that I am worthy of living as a white male catholic in a country that hates women and minorities because I’m just a good person. Being poor or brown or female means you have some sort of moral failing. It’s truly justified that children die of starvation because God decided that they deserve it for being inherently evil. My white hands are tied.

Sure, but removing knowledge kind of goes against what creating a Wikipedia backup is about…

These articles really sound like they are written by people who want to suck on the toes of fascists.

They are already invading American cities and disappearing innocent people.

Could they use the protests as a reason to kick off more horror? Sure.

Are they going to kick off more horrors regardless of this protest? Absolutely.

Staying home and toeing the nazi line isn’t going to stop them from seizing more and more power, so why not get out there and let your fellow man know that you stand with them against tyranny?

The fun with contract work is that there are often laws in place to protect the employee, but there’s always some caveat that the employer can use to just not extend the contract anymore.

In Australia the law is that you can only extend a contract worker once, with what I assume is the intention that you would then hire them permanently if you liked their work enough to extend them. What actually ends up happening is that contract workers are now looking for jobs more often because companies LOVE contract workers, but hate the idea of offering anyone a permanent position. It’s cheaper for them to roll through inexperienced contractors.

Chil - dren - of - sin - gle - mo - thers. Seven. I can do it too. My point still stands.

It’s an extra syllable. Sorry if we’re wasting all your precious time with a single mouth sound.

Quite liked the season overall though episode 7 felt like it should have been the finale, what with it mostly wrapping up the nazi-dimension story. This episode felt more like an epilogue and setup for Checkmate.

I think there is something to be said for the resolution to the ARGUS conflict being about finding support in your local community when the government fails its people. Checkmate could have stormed ARGUS like they did last season with the butterflies, but I feel like the characters have grown in the time since the cow hunt. It does make for an ending with little catharsis though. Flag and Lex’s cronies all skip away scot free which feels bad, despite how accurate it would be to our own reality.

This is the same argument, just stretched out.

Why do one person’s past decisions (to not go to university / to take on and pay off debt) mean that people in the future should not benefit from a better system?

Education is great! Whether it is through college, or vocational training, or on the job learning. If removing student debt can allow people to earn one type of education with less stress, how is that not a benefit?

And how many of these comedians hold their tongue regarding religion and people of power when performing in their home country? Or when touring internationally on non-state-funded tours?

Don’t take my opinion of these comedians as anti-Saudi. I was plenty anti-Saudi before this. If these ‘comedians’ agreed to take money from the US president to not make mean jokes about him, I’d be just as disgusted at their lack of spine.

Not the same scenario. The equivalent would be these comedians doing a set that was paid for by the White House, with a list of restrictions on what could be said. Which would receive just as much backlash

We already know that isn’t going to happen though. The smug raisin was impeached twice, has raped children with Epstein, and is currently declaring LGBT+ and their allies as terrorists. If those things weren’t enough to have him locked away, what will be?

I honestly think the most justice we could hope to see would be his bloated, festering body finally giving out on him on national television. But I doubt his retinue will give us that joy.

I don’t think this is an image that you could view openly in a regular workplace, even if there is no dick and balls in the image. It’s a raunchy screenshot from a porno.

If my representative was using a robot to decide how to promote their ideas, I’d be pissed.

These people were elected to represent the people based (presumably) on their own words and opinions. If they can’t muster the energy to support their constituents themselves, without relying on a robot to spew up generic bile, then they should step down and let someone who cares do it.

Ah, these images have been a staple in tourist gift shops for decades! Fridge magnets. Tea Towels that are for looking at, not for using. Stubby holders. Keyrings.

THIS is Australian culture.

To be fair, I am almost certain that Pete here doesn’t actually know what happened at Wounded Knee. He knows there was a ‘battle’, and that there were ‘Injuns’ involved. Probably was that some patriotic Americans defended themselves against the savage natives, like in the cowboy movies! Those cowboys deserve their medals!

Of course, now that the US secretary of defence has tweeted his ignorance on a social media platform, there is no taking it back, or apologising for his misunderstanding. He can only double down and defend a massacre.

So because we can’t immediately fix our world, we should abandon all hopes and dreams of a better future?

If people want to envision a future for mankind that is a bit farfetched, what’s the harm? Let it inspire people to make the world a better place. Better than being a cynical prick who scoffs at any sort of positive ideology.

Eh, I feel like Alien Earth should exist without Predator. They are very different franchises, and AvP stuff becomes action-schlock over horror.

Now, a dedicated AvP show, that’s another thing…

And this comment is why women often do not go topless, even if the laws in a country allow it.

Well THAT’S a blast from the past. Pretty sure her name is Katy,

A whole lot of her images are posted by the account FortyMike on motherless.

“Well intending people”?

No one that went to those marches was ‘well intentioned’. The people who went to these marches didn’t go because of any reason based in fact. They went because things are shit for the middle and lower class, but it’s easier to blame foreigners than to hold corporations and the rich to account. The people who marched are doughy brained racists, who were stupid enough to go to a rally that fascists attended, and then cheer them on.

Immigration numbers have been on the decline for the last 18 months after the expected post-Covid jump. This is coming from the Australian Bureau of Staristics: https://www.abs.gov.au/statistics/people/population/national-state-and-territory-population/mar-2025 Immigration is a boost to our economy, and restrictions on the type of workers who are immigrating already exist to boost the workforces that white Australians are leaving fallow.

My aunt went to the local march. My aunt who is married to my uncle, the first generation immigrant. But he obviously doesn’t count because he was born in Ireland. The fascists may have put some things in her head that day, but she went to the march of her own volition.