Australia - Human Rights

[Doc]

How embarrassing for Australia....

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our minister for culture is all over it.

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[crashtech66]

They know their audience. I have no doubt this will be taken seriously by millions of useful idiots who are conveniently impervious to irony.

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its actually fourth on the list after Google and Facebook cancelling us.

https://techcrunch.com/2021/01/22/googl ... news-code/
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2021/ ... goes-ahead

China boycotting all our products and China wanting to go to war with us.

https://www.aljazeera.com/economy/2020/ ... us-dispute
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/articl ... cracy.html

[crashtech66]

Sorry, now that we have a China-friendly President, I think you are on your own. I was wrong about my earlier assertions of the US coming to your aid. At that time it seemed plausible that Trump would be re-elected. I'm sure Antony Blinken will talk tough, but our interventionism will be confined to adversaries that can't hurt us.

[Simple Minded]

Strayans claiming they're human is cultural appropriation.

Somebody should do something.....

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https://www.news.com.au/technology/scie ... 1e23a164ee

A global animal rights organisation has bizarrely pleaded with farmers not to kill the mice plaguing regional Australia, arguing the rodents should not be denied their “right” to food because of the “dangerous notion of human supremacy”.

PETA is urging rural residents to consider the welfare of the mice and avoid killing them with poison, instead suggesting the mice be gently caught and released unharmed.

“These bright, curious animals are just looking for food to survive,” PETA spokeswoman Aleesha Naxakis told NCA NewsWire.

“They shouldn’t be robbed of that right because of the dangerous notion of human supremacy.”

She said the government should take responsibility for the increase in mice and invest in humane methods of controlling the population.

[Simple Minded]

https://www.news.com.au/technology/scie ... 1e23a164ee

A global animal rights organisation has bizarrely pleaded with farmers not to kill the mice plaguing regional Australia, arguing the rodents should not be denied their “right” to food because of the “dangerous notion of human supremacy”.

PETA is urging rural residents to consider the welfare of the mice and avoid killing them with poison, instead suggesting the mice be gently caught and released unharmed.

“These bright, curious animals are just looking for food to survive,” PETA spokeswoman Aleesha Naxakis told NCA NewsWire.

“They shouldn’t be robbed of that right because of the dangerous notion of human supremacy.”

She said the government should take responsibility for the increase in mice and invest in humane methods of controlling the population.

How did I miss this one?

Humans eating the mice rather than killing them with poison would solve the problem and reduce green house gas creation!

Where are the counter protesters who should be sticking up for the homeless, the hungry, the environment, and carnivores?

Better yet, eat the people who are protesting the abuse of animal rights! Shirley, the above mentioned groups will jump on board with support!

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but wait, there is more.

https://news.sky.com/story/australia-re ... n-12356319

Officials in Australia are describing shark attacks as "interactions" or "negative encounters" as part of a new strategy for helping the animals to be more understood.

The change in language is part of an effort to overhaul public perception of the threatened species, with authorities and scientists keen to change their long-standing image as deadly, man-eating animals.

Multiple scientists have argued that terms like "attack" and "bite" have created a culture of fear surrounding the animals, which is harming efforts to help protect them.

[Simple Minded]

but wait, there is more.

https://news.sky.com/story/australia-re ... n-12356319

Officials in Australia are describing shark attacks as "interactions" or "negative encounters" as part of a new strategy for helping the animals to be more understood.

The change in language is part of an effort to overhaul public perception of the threatened species, with authorities and scientists keen to change their long-standing image as deadly, man-eating animals.

Multiple scientists have argued that terms like "attack" and "bite" have created a culture of fear surrounding the animals, which is harming efforts to help protect them.

You beat me to it. Just saw this on the news yesterday.

Next step should be reparations where humans who trespass in the ocean have to cut off an appendage and offer it to the sharks as a ocean use fee.

You guys raise a lot of beef don't you? How bout just dumping the entrails and unused cattle parts into the ocean to feed the sharks? Humanitarian and Sharkitarian results from a single effort!!!!

Both Strine and Merkin politicians go to great lengths to avoid dealing with the obvious problems staring them in the face every day and to imagine dragons they can slay for the "common good."

If I was a Chinese Wuhan lab scientist I'd be working on cloning flying dragons!

[Doc]

but wait, there is more.

https://news.sky.com/story/australia-re ... n-12356319

Officials in Australia are describing shark attacks as "interactions" or "negative encounters" as part of a new strategy for helping the animals to be more understood.

The change in language is part of an effort to overhaul public perception of the threatened species, with authorities and scientists keen to change their long-standing image as deadly, man-eating animals.

Multiple scientists have argued that terms like "attack" and "bite" have created a culture of fear surrounding the animals, which is harming efforts to help protect them.

My preferred fluid pronouns are now "Shark" and "Jaws" So please check your CIS-human privilege and refer to me by these pronouns until I change my mind.

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human is free range and renewable and as an added bonus for everyone you eat the carbon pollution goes down.

its all just wins really.

[NapLajoieonSteroids]

How about Canine Rights?

What is really perplexing is why, if the council was so gun-ho about killing these innocent dogs, they weren't euthanized by standard procedure.

They executed them by firing squad (from the looks of it to this outsider) out of spite. That's particularly cruel.

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thousands of shelter animals are put down every week, the methods vary as do the reasons.

my brothers mother in law had her dog shot for digging in the garden.,

the only reason this news article trended was hysterical right wing americans on the #australiahasfallen twitters.

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I dont mean to be as rude as I am, but its bullshit, murdoch bullshit, and its smothering in the media right now.

[NapLajoieonSteroids]

thousands of shelter animals are put down every week, the methods vary as do the reasons.

my brothers mother in law had her dog shot for digging in the garden.,

the only reason this news article trended was hysterical right wing americans on the #australiahasfallen twitters.

Oh, there is no doubt about that-- and by the way, we are just waiting for aussies to place their flag in distress--

but Yahoo isn't some right wing source...this casual dog shootings is really gettin' Americans gossiping.

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Shootin' dogs and promoting kangaroos who touch themselves in public

does deserve the hashtag: #australiahasfallen

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this casual dog shootings is really gettin' Americans gossiping.

625,000 pets were euthanized in 2019.


i call bullshit.

Yahoo isn't some right wing source.

it originated on the twitters, yahoo just copies and pastes the most click bait articles

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somewhat seriously.

all the states in australia and new zealand did zero covid tolerance lockdowns, demanded (largely) by the public, and we had settled into a mostly covid free life, no economic downturns.

the biggest state, NSW did not follow that, and did the stay open, ignore the covid as per sweden and some of the other places, as approved by murdoch press.

then they had run away delta, overloaded hospitals and had to do a police state lockdown on an escalating problem.

we now have constant demonisation of the states without covid, and all sorts of propoganda being pushed from the USA on to us.

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Sydney and Melbourne are the 2 with the lockdown problems - 7 million and 5 million people each, huge ghettos of barely working underclasses, non integrated immigrants.

all the usual stories behind populations with zero respect for government, and government with zero respect for the population.

same story played out in the USA with all the riots during covid.

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Shootin' dogs and promoting kangaroos who touch themselves in public

does deserve the hashtag: #australiahasfallen

the ironic bit is that by american right wing standards, we have always been a socialist shithole, some of them have such odd views on what Australia is

we are 2 mega cities full of sheltered whingy urbanites and desperate underclasses - nobody notices the rest, hopefully.

[NapLajoieonSteroids]

somewhat seriously.

all the states in australia and new zealand did zero covid tolerance lockdowns, demanded (largely) by the public, and we had settled into a mostly covid free life, no economic downturns.

the biggest state, NSW did not follow that, and did the stay open, ignore the covid as per sweden and some of the other places, as approved by murdoch press.

then they had run away delta, overloaded hospitals and had to do a police state lockdown on a run away problem.

we now have constant demonisation of the states without covid, and all sorts of propoganda being pushed from the USA on to us.

If we are to be serious,

I don't care what Australia does

but the idea of New Zealand sinking itself into the sea over 1 case does amuse me greatly

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right, this is the double dose of hysteria im at a loss to rationalise.

the debate is either,
* paranoid fears of a new world order and zero acceptance of any restrictions for public good.
* paranoid fears of 0.3% death rate and zero acceptance of any preventable death

the real arguments around overloads on hospitals are not happening, they are being crushed under a weight of stupidity,

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the real problem, as I understand it, is that neither Aus nor NZ had vax production capability and we had low covid problems in the first place.

this put us at the back of the queue for getting vaxxed, and is why we are still at risk long after many countries have hit the 70-80 % mark and gone back to normal.

my state is only 30% vaxxed I believe.

so much hysterical whinging and fear projection on mundane issues.

[NapLajoieonSteroids]

right, this is the double dose of hysteria im at a loss to rationalise.

the debate is either,
* paranoid fears of a new world order and zero acceptance of any restrictions for public good.
* paranoid fears of 0.3% death rate and zero acceptance of any preventable death

the real arguments around overloads on hospitals are not happening, they are being crushed under a weight of stupidity,

Man, I'm not even worried about that debate anymore

We're at the "the disease is divine retribution and only dirty, unclean people get it" from a liberal atheist crowd stage of the panic.

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https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-08-24/ ... /100401858

Police said she reversed her caravan at speed into a police car, tried to run over an officer who was approaching her car on foot and threw a large jar full of petrol at an officer before trying to light it on fire.

In an exchange with the magistrate, Ms Bleazard requested an interpreter while speaking perfect English.

"I need an interpreter … I don't understand what you're talking about," she said.

"My problem is that I want to leave Australia, but no-one here is able to arrange it."

Magistrate Andrew Matthews explained she was facing eight charges, including two counts of reckless driving to escape pursuit by police.

She replied by asking: "Can I charge the police?"

"I don't believe in the judicial system … I need to leave Australia," she said.

[NapLajoieonSteroids]

Shootin' dogs and promoting kangaroos who touch themselves in public

does deserve the hashtag: #australiahasfallen

the ironic bit is that by american right wing standards, we have always been a socialist shithole, some of them have such odd views on what Australia is

we are 2 mega cities full of sheltered whingy urbanites and desperate underclasses - nobody notices the rest, hopefully.

Correction: you live in a dystopian hellhole. A shithole is much more disorganized.

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What's the America-Australia pipeline of exchange outside of military and entertainment? Australians as political actors with a government just doesn't come up all that much among Americans. I'd place my money on it being much less than Canada and the United Kingdom.

Australians are Chris Hemsworth and Paul Hogan and Steve Irwin and maybe some sort of weird doppelganger of the old California-like beach dude stereotype...and when they are not those guys, they are our military peers.