Making no distinction between good and evil, nature is blind to principles. Survival is all. Peter Dutton now operates in a state of nature, where life, as Hobbes reminds us, is short, nasty and brutish. For Dutton, survival is both calculating motive and unthinking compulsion. It is why in opposing the Voice he finds himself straddling unbridgeable gaps in logic and attempting to reconcile the irreconcilable.
Great JB. You have quite the stomach to get through another piece on that piece of shit. The reminder of how we lose our shit over Anzac day brings perspective. Peter the pedo hunter needs to visit his local church. Or school. Or sports club. Ouch, flashbacks to that bushy eyebrow turd king and his intervention. "Eyebrowed" looks funny. There's a bird, the eyebrowed thrush (Turdus obscurus). I hope you're right, it will work out, we'll be a more a decent country, and he'll be Turdus obscurus.
Good ole Mr potato head, always angry, always negative always exceedingly stupid..poor bugger is the only one who doesn’t realise he is a drowning man waving..not long for this political world is spud..once a dumb QLD walloper always a dumb QLD walloper
I've made the mistake of writing them off before. Next thing they're PM ! If we get a hard recession then watch how quickly the libs come back. Australians always vote according to their hip pocket nerve
I've been amazed by the number of commentators and pollies who wail that there's so much that needs to be done "on the ground". Well, duh. We can do lots of things at once. Doesn't look as though we've been doing especially well in that regard, historically. Perhaps a bit of pointed guidance will help. Can't hurt, right?
Of all the bullshit disingenuous arguments that I am infuriated by, none infuriates me more than the argument of "this will change nothing on the ground for First Nations people."
I countered this argument on Facebook (I know, I know but I moderate a Facebook page) by pointing out that a) it's what First Nations people have asked for. Maybe we should listen to them? and b) we've spent DECADES trying to fix stuff "on the ground" and the Closing the Gap report tells us over and over again that it's not working. Maybe we should try something new?
If the naysayers are correct, and it "doesn't change things on the ground" then it can't be any worse than all of the other paternalistic dehumanising solutions we've tried so far that have failed miserably.
I should add c) at no point has the Voice or any proponent of the Voice suggested that this is a miracle cure all for the generational systemic disadvantage that First Nations people are trying to overcome but it's a START.
Just a decade ago, the then WA government fixed stuff "on the ground" by bulldozing the village of Oombulgurri because it was deemed "dysfunctional". Literally put dozers through it. Some people who'd refused to followed the eviction notices lost all their furnishings.
The people who were living there were descendants/relatives of the survivors of the Forrest River massacre of 1926.
Intergenerational trauma? Any attempts to treat it? Ha. Yeah. Smash their homes.
Oh dear god can he just not go the hell away now, out of our faces, out of our hearing, off the radar altogether? I thought it impossible to have a more visceral, sick-making response than to seeing or hearing Morrison’s dribbling poison. But FMD, Dutton has matched him. Onward and upward as the demographic changes and drowns this ghastly mob.
O. U. T. with all these nasty bigoted old white men (and “women” like Poor-Lean) who have no actual ideas or plans (except to enrich themselves and their mates). They just get in the way of progress. I’m old and white but hell and snakes, I will #VoteYes ❤️💛🖤
"And that the morning after the vote, Peter Dutton will resign his post in shame." Yeah...Don't hold your breath on that one JB. Dutts has no shame. And seriously, who the heck would they replace him with anyway? The dead-eyed Ley of the multiple Ss?
Dutton couldn't give a rat's arse one way or another about the Voice or sexual offences against children in the NT (or elsewhere). The "right" in Australia is going the same way as the right in the USA - a bunch of Murdoch inspired reactionary culture warriors who see everything (including the Voice) through the prism of "pwning the left". (And lest those on the left feel smug about this, there's a reactionary left that though not nearly as powerful as the reactionary right is every bit as zealous, dogmatic and doctrinaire.)
A week previously he was extolling the virtues of the Ubertuber's scheme at the NPC. And now Dutton has Leeser's full support, the sure sign of an impending bloodbath.
Oh, dear - I'd thought he may be a rare creature, a Lib with a heart, and not another coolly exploiting the possibilities in order to grasp the top job.
"Reduced to essences, this motherfucker will burn everything down just to hold onto a job he doesn’t need and has already failed." This sounds familiar.
All I can think of is his "People in Melbourne are too afraid to go out for dinner rubbish". Tator being an old school type QLD cop, I dread what he'll produce to stop the yes on the Voice.
Enjoyed this article. In terms of comments, pretty much everything has been said already.
Bottom line is, normal people find the behaviour exhibited and the drivel that most politicians spout on a daily basis stultifying. I do wonder if that's their intention.
Oh no ! The last time a politician mentioned child abuse in the territory we got smashed by the federal cops. We were promised doctors, nurses, social workers and dentists and all we got was hundreds of cops.
Next week I am attending the Anzac Day ceremony at Villers-Bretonneux. In keeping with Dutton's teachings, I will be standing up mid-ceremony to yell that this is all symbolic stuff that does nothing on the ground to help traumatised veterans (or, in the case of the SAS, their civilian victims)... and everyone should pack off home.
I'm sick of our political institutions being punching bags for people claiming to be conservatives - the very same people who truly benefit most from the institutions and conventions and doctrines - but who cry Foul! if anyone else tries to institute change.
Dutton seems to rejoice in being a "little man". His shortish stint as a cop police over thirty years ago, his pride in a "residential property investment portfolio", blah blah blah. Wallowing on his '"laurels" when he's not just being an ordinary Aussie Joe Blow , trying to do his best for kids and country against the insidious forces of discontent, envy, un-Australianism, blah blah bah. Just a regular Adolf Eichmann kinda guy.
Great JB. You have quite the stomach to get through another piece on that piece of shit. The reminder of how we lose our shit over Anzac day brings perspective. Peter the pedo hunter needs to visit his local church. Or school. Or sports club. Ouch, flashbacks to that bushy eyebrow turd king and his intervention. "Eyebrowed" looks funny. There's a bird, the eyebrowed thrush (Turdus obscurus). I hope you're right, it will work out, we'll be a more a decent country, and he'll be Turdus obscurus.
Good ole Mr potato head, always angry, always negative always exceedingly stupid..poor bugger is the only one who doesn’t realise he is a drowning man waving..not long for this political world is spud..once a dumb QLD walloper always a dumb QLD walloper
I've made the mistake of writing them off before. Next thing they're PM ! If we get a hard recession then watch how quickly the libs come back. Australians always vote according to their hip pocket nerve
Nice work. Live in hope. A beginning indeed.
I've been amazed by the number of commentators and pollies who wail that there's so much that needs to be done "on the ground". Well, duh. We can do lots of things at once. Doesn't look as though we've been doing especially well in that regard, historically. Perhaps a bit of pointed guidance will help. Can't hurt, right?
Of all the bullshit disingenuous arguments that I am infuriated by, none infuriates me more than the argument of "this will change nothing on the ground for First Nations people."
I countered this argument on Facebook (I know, I know but I moderate a Facebook page) by pointing out that a) it's what First Nations people have asked for. Maybe we should listen to them? and b) we've spent DECADES trying to fix stuff "on the ground" and the Closing the Gap report tells us over and over again that it's not working. Maybe we should try something new?
If the naysayers are correct, and it "doesn't change things on the ground" then it can't be any worse than all of the other paternalistic dehumanising solutions we've tried so far that have failed miserably.
I should add c) at no point has the Voice or any proponent of the Voice suggested that this is a miracle cure all for the generational systemic disadvantage that First Nations people are trying to overcome but it's a START.
Just a decade ago, the then WA government fixed stuff "on the ground" by bulldozing the village of Oombulgurri because it was deemed "dysfunctional". Literally put dozers through it. Some people who'd refused to followed the eviction notices lost all their furnishings.
The people who were living there were descendants/relatives of the survivors of the Forrest River massacre of 1926.
Intergenerational trauma? Any attempts to treat it? Ha. Yeah. Smash their homes.
Fucking hell 😱
Oh dear god can he just not go the hell away now, out of our faces, out of our hearing, off the radar altogether? I thought it impossible to have a more visceral, sick-making response than to seeing or hearing Morrison’s dribbling poison. But FMD, Dutton has matched him. Onward and upward as the demographic changes and drowns this ghastly mob.
O. U. T. with all these nasty bigoted old white men (and “women” like Poor-Lean) who have no actual ideas or plans (except to enrich themselves and their mates). They just get in the way of progress. I’m old and white but hell and snakes, I will #VoteYes ❤️💛🖤
"And that the morning after the vote, Peter Dutton will resign his post in shame." Yeah...Don't hold your breath on that one JB. Dutts has no shame. And seriously, who the heck would they replace him with anyway? The dead-eyed Ley of the multiple Ss?
For Dutton to resign in shame, he would first need a sense of self-awareness.
Or, even better, Anus Taylor.
You just KNOW his breath stinks.
Dutton couldn't give a rat's arse one way or another about the Voice or sexual offences against children in the NT (or elsewhere). The "right" in Australia is going the same way as the right in the USA - a bunch of Murdoch inspired reactionary culture warriors who see everything (including the Voice) through the prism of "pwning the left". (And lest those on the left feel smug about this, there's a reactionary left that though not nearly as powerful as the reactionary right is every bit as zealous, dogmatic and doctrinaire.)
Dutton's on a hiding to nothing all right. Would there be any possibility of the Libs ditching him shortly for a leader who believes in the Voice?
I know, I know. Who??
That might be Julian Leeser’s longer term aim, after the referendum is won, and Dutton is flushed away - what do you think?
Mmmaybe
A week previously he was extolling the virtues of the Ubertuber's scheme at the NPC. And now Dutton has Leeser's full support, the sure sign of an impending bloodbath.
Oh, dear - I'd thought he may be a rare creature, a Lib with a heart, and not another coolly exploiting the possibilities in order to grasp the top job.
"Reduced to essences, this motherfucker will burn everything down just to hold onto a job he doesn’t need and has already failed." This sounds familiar.
Dutton won't resign in shame, because he has none.
All I can think of is his "People in Melbourne are too afraid to go out for dinner rubbish". Tator being an old school type QLD cop, I dread what he'll produce to stop the yes on the Voice.
Enjoyed this article. In terms of comments, pretty much everything has been said already.
Bottom line is, normal people find the behaviour exhibited and the drivel that most politicians spout on a daily basis stultifying. I do wonder if that's their intention.
They’ll scarp and whine themselves into being the Christian democrats. No apologies or resignations
Oh no ! The last time a politician mentioned child abuse in the territory we got smashed by the federal cops. We were promised doctors, nurses, social workers and dentists and all we got was hundreds of cops.
Next week I am attending the Anzac Day ceremony at Villers-Bretonneux. In keeping with Dutton's teachings, I will be standing up mid-ceremony to yell that this is all symbolic stuff that does nothing on the ground to help traumatised veterans (or, in the case of the SAS, their civilian victims)... and everyone should pack off home.
I'm sick of our political institutions being punching bags for people claiming to be conservatives - the very same people who truly benefit most from the institutions and conventions and doctrines - but who cry Foul! if anyone else tries to institute change.
Dutton seems to rejoice in being a "little man". His shortish stint as a cop police over thirty years ago, his pride in a "residential property investment portfolio", blah blah blah. Wallowing on his '"laurels" when he's not just being an ordinary Aussie Joe Blow , trying to do his best for kids and country against the insidious forces of discontent, envy, un-Australianism, blah blah bah. Just a regular Adolf Eichmann kinda guy.