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factotum started the topic in Thursday, 27 Aug 2020 at 11:12am

Septic Tanks are going to Septic Tank

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basesix Saturday, 19 Apr 2025 at 2:09pm

hey, don't hate on me, I'm just a humble biscuit-design apprentice. Third year, admittedly, so soon to be among the elite.. I think all sides are fine, and as people fade from the centre and disappear up their own horizons, they become odder and are usually suffering from traumas unknown, so my bleeding-heart goes out to them.

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etarip Saturday, 19 Apr 2025 at 2:48pm

Hahaha @gsco

Hmmmm, Let’s see who’s had the unhinged rants in the last few pages. ;-)

Fuse is short as bro.

All good mate. You just keep on keeping on. Glad you’ve got Western civilisation’s back tho. You and Donald. Freedom fighters Inc.

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basesix Saturday, 19 Apr 2025 at 2:51pm

don't these guys live in asia?

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blackers Saturday, 19 Apr 2025 at 4:10pm

The after dark crew are usually not active in daylight. Make of that what you will.

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andy-mac Saturday, 19 Apr 2025 at 4:52pm
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"Which ones?"

all of them!

it's the gross inequality that is half of the problem...

all of it?

3/4 of it...

the gross wealth shift we've all witnessed, and the outsourcing of government responsibility...

the neoliberalism

that the so called 'progressives' will defend vehemently...

(even as the last vestige of truth slips away...)

Couple points with my 2 cents, about to head back out.

Yes agree gross inequality is the major issue causing the majority of problems both domestically and internationally...

Is Trump going to address this? nup, fark he just wants to give further tax breaks to billionaire class. And it seems bring down world economy with it, but hey he may hurt those nasty Chinese.

So it's neoliberalism causing this , yep agree again. But that has not been caused by transgender Marxist Lefty university students marching for the Palestinian cause.
It's been caused by the billionaire class, the very ones supporting Trump wanting further tax breaks. Will not go into military industrial complex here.

As for any report coming out of whitehouse, yeah ... Na...

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andy-mac Saturday, 19 Apr 2025 at 4:54pm
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The billionaires are not even the ones who are the problem.

Davos/WEF is just a bunch of progressives sitting around plotting how to do away with the two pillars of freedom and prosperity - namely democracy and capitalism - and replace them with their new world order of global tyranny in the form “stakeholder capitalism”.

This is just rule by unelected progressive elites who think they’re superior to the everyday citizen serf peasant pleb like you and me. So they think they should be in charge and calling the shots on planet earth. We are all uneducated racist redneck bogans. Just ask basesix.

But don’t worry, the progressives’ global tyranny will be different to all the others - they’ll be benevolent and make decisions in the interests of everyone, not just themselves. It will all be a lovey dovey fuckfest of eco cult communist utopia like never seen before.

It certainly won’t end in concentration camps, mass slaughter and human suffering like every previous dictatorship has. It’ll be free love like the 70s again!

And double don’t worry, their progressive dictatorship won’t be anything like Europe under the EC…they’ll actually get their globalist tyrannical utopia right this time.

And triple don’t worry, they’ll exterminate all conservative far right fascists, who are the true terrorist treats of humanity, not those peaceful benevolent fun loving Islamists of Gaza - they’re freedom fighters I tell you! Those pesky conservatives will not thwart their plans this time, the far right will be eliminated once and for all, the progressives will be sure of that!

Anyone read what Tulsi just released?

All the labour, green and social democratic governments across the West are licking their lips. All their dreams of eco dictatorship are about to come true!

Oh and etarip you still have such a short fuse

Really, I really cannot believe you are just not taking the piss...

Good job sir.

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benskii Saturday, 19 Apr 2025 at 5:13pm

Just been out doing the mowing before an arvo beach walk. Listened to this interview with Canadian PM, Mark Carney. Felt a little bit proud of my analysis after "liberation day" as he says that since trump has effectively started removing the US as a reliable trading partner, that all other countries will just start to bypass it on trade. This isn't some two bit chump with a microphone, it's the guy who will likely win the Canadian election, ironically thanks in part to trump.

But he does come across as a serious person. A joy to listen to in this day and age.

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Confusion Saturday, 19 Apr 2025 at 5:20pm

@gs co and @spyscam , must be on the same
synthetic hallucinogenic,
Wow that is a trippy vision right there.

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basesix Saturday, 19 Apr 2025 at 5:39pm

wow, you think there's a correlation between the two @jef?

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andy-mac Saturday, 19 Apr 2025 at 5:43pm

Geez Chinese guy kind of nails it at 23min mark...

https://m.

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Confusion Saturday, 19 Apr 2025 at 5:51pm

The right wing stacked US Supreme Court
Just issued a 1am emergency ruling ,
to block the Trump regime from sending another group of Venezuelan migrants to the ElSalvador extermination camps .

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Confusion Saturday, 19 Apr 2025 at 5:57pm
basesix wrote:

wow, you think there's a correlation between the two @jef?

Didn’t you know, gos co and spy plane are flat mates
Sharing the same landlord and News sources.
And outside acquaintances !

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gs-co Saturday, 19 Apr 2025 at 7:07pm

Carney is the quintessential WEF globalist progressive liberal wealthy elite. He will finish Trudeau’s job of destroying Canada. Death via progressivism. He is definitely enemy number 1 of the US Republicans, and it’s only natural and expected that he also views them as his enemy number 1. Ideologically they are worlds apart, and basically at war with each other.

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seeds Saturday, 19 Apr 2025 at 7:14pm

Hhmmm my dream of becoming an academic is ruined by this thread lately.
Seems so stressful fighting woke when all I want is to be turd. Oops I mean heard. I might just relax and read a book on Mussolini.

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wally Saturday, 19 Apr 2025 at 7:15pm

I don’t why ‘progressive’ is a bad word. Making things better is bad? Anyway, I guess you are delighted to feel you are winning the war against tolerance.

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seeds Saturday, 19 Apr 2025 at 7:18pm

Back in my day young man Wally…….

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wally Saturday, 19 Apr 2025 at 7:24pm

We kept the ethnics, the blacks and the foreigners in their place? MAGA.

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seeds Saturday, 19 Apr 2025 at 7:28pm

Make America Great (white) Again.

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gs-co Saturday, 19 Apr 2025 at 8:29pm

Progressivism is Marxism packaged up in a new terminology. It’s got nothing to do with progress or making things better. It’s large steps backwards in the historical trajectory of western civilisation. They are engaged in the assisted suicide of the west.

There’s also nothing tolerant about it. The progressives have won the war against tolerance. They are the most intolerant of them all, particularly towards their fellow countrymen and the ordinary citizen.

They also spectacularly won the virtue signalling contest.

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seeds Saturday, 19 Apr 2025 at 8:08pm

Yes, but the real world, here in Australia, doesn’t exist anywhere near those intolerant outliers you’ve dived down to yourself.

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sypkan Saturday, 19 Apr 2025 at 8:27pm

'progressive' isn't a bad word...

but it is interesting that it has become a pejorative

much like 'socialist', and even 'left' generally...

much to do with what gs-co said

and, that things have developed to such a level of nonsensical stupidity, that even those on the left, will now refer to 'the progressive left' as 'the regressive left'

food for thought there

for those still capable of digestion...

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seeds Saturday, 19 Apr 2025 at 8:40pm

No, real people are not getting around saying anything like this.
Perjoratives is your shtick and you throw around all the lefty labels which exposes your slipstream to the ->->->
I’ll sit in the partly stupid centre.

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sypkan Saturday, 19 Apr 2025 at 8:54pm

this marxism / progressive label - and Its hyper-strong vehement denial - is an interesting conundrum...

the fact of the matter is, that all these critical theories that have developed over recent decades, do have some basis in marxism

critical race theory, critical feminism theories, gender theories, post structuralism, post modernism, post colonialism, etc etc. all came from somewhere...

this can be attributed to the embracing and development of progressive thought process and practice that benski described earlier

we now have had two generations through universities where these theories have been the very basis for things like the humanities and education, and especially sociology...

which even gets a smattering of a run through courses like economics...

you can argue til the cows come home if uni departments are stacked with 'marxists' or not...

but to argue that generations of education, decades of social studies, indigenous studies, criminal justice studies, law, gender studies - and by extension - government policy - hasn't experienced some form of contemporary marxist influence, is to deny 3 or 4 decades of academic 'progress'

you can't have it both ways...

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sypkan Saturday, 19 Apr 2025 at 8:46pm

I actually avoid using the term 'progressive' like the plague

due to its loaded nature...

go back over my posts, unless someone else is talking about it, I rarely raise it

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seeds Saturday, 19 Apr 2025 at 8:52pm

That’s right hey? Vast majority of Australians or any nationality have been to university have they? and are corrupted?
You are living in a bubble. Do you exist in the real world? I don’t think you understand that your world isn’t in touch.
Critical this critical that? Farkenhell!
You must by gsco.

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basesix Saturday, 19 Apr 2025 at 8:58pm

damn asians.

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Confusion Saturday, 19 Apr 2025 at 8:58pm

How about the
“ Don’t swipe me off the street and send me to an ElSalvadorian prison camp, without telling anyone “, critical theory/ idealogical ideology ?

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sypkan Saturday, 19 Apr 2025 at 9:05pm

read it again seeds

we have generations of people educated in these theories, that have made, and are influencing government policy

these theories aren't inherently bad, I use
the influences myself in my work, they are a tool...

the problem lies, when you throw the baby out with the bathwater, and overly embrace them as gospel, often throwing the scientific method out with the bath water...

it is subtle, but basically it comes down to hard date versus personal perspectives

quantitative analysis versus qualitative analysis

which has culminated in terms like 'her truth' and 'her lived experience' taking precedence over any counter arguments...

regardless of how good they may be

the qualitative studies and experience...(subjective, perspective, opinion) have become the trump card if you will...

it doesn't have to be an either / or

both have their place

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seeds Saturday, 19 Apr 2025 at 9:07pm

That’s not official yet Jeff. It hasn’t annoyed the old cunt uni lecturer bubble enough.

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sypkan Saturday, 19 Apr 2025 at 9:14pm
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damn asians.

excellent example!

google the harvard intake debacle...

and how asians have been denied entry for considerable time, simply for being over achievers...

it's a great example, of how political ideology has overridden, what appears to be any semblance of 'fairness'

it also opens the door to contemporary arguments about maths, science, and so called 'white supremacy'...

which seem to ignore 1000's of years of asian academic achievement in these areas

the irony is dripping!!

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basesix Saturday, 19 Apr 2025 at 9:13pm

dripping... mmm...

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seeds Saturday, 19 Apr 2025 at 9:14pm

Her truth or his doesn’t wash with real people. Real people aren’t interested in either end of the political spectrum fucktardisms. Woke doesn’t exist in the real persons world. People aren’t stupid. Or triggered. Or give a shit about the right media generated shite. Stupid people are and you can not help them. They are at either extreme.

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basesix Saturday, 19 Apr 2025 at 9:20pm
old 'hard date' sypkan wrote:

it is subtle, but basically it comes down to hard date versus personal perspectives...
which has culminated in terms like 'her truth' and 'her lived experience' taking precedence over any counter arguments...

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seeds Saturday, 19 Apr 2025 at 9:28pm

Hahahaha
Google the Harvard intake debacle. Hahah that’s right. That’s what’s keeping me back in life.
Whatever the fuck it is I won’t be knowing.
Your Honour I rest my case.
Syppy, you wouldn’t know a good time if it sat on your face and wiggled.

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sypkan Saturday, 19 Apr 2025 at 9:41pm

if you're not interested... then don't...

I don't care

but this is what others are talking about

denying it even exists...

government policy is based on this shit

it affects all us, directly and indirectly

if you two wanna talk sandwiches... go do it...

you don't need to get all snarky and triggered about it

just go...

ignore that which doesn't interest you

I really don't get why you guys get all bent out of shape about people talking about stuff

it is a forum...

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basesix Saturday, 19 Apr 2025 at 9:42pm

Ollie..

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seeds Saturday, 19 Apr 2025 at 9:43pm

Stan

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Confusion Saturday, 19 Apr 2025 at 9:46pm
gs-co wrote:

Carney is the quintessential WEF globalist progressive liberal wealthy elite. He will finish Trudeau’s job of destroying Canada. Death via progressivism. He is definitely enemy number 1 of the US Republicans, and it’s only natural and expected that he also views them as his enemy number 1. Ideologically they are worlds apart, and basically at war with each other.

When did Trump stop talking about annexation of Canada and Tariffs?
Was that after the US tourism industry crashed,and he realised he was ruining the election chances of Pierre Poilievre and
Maple MAGA. ?

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seeds Saturday, 19 Apr 2025 at 9:50pm

And now Rubio walking away from the war Trump would end in a day.

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seeds Saturday, 19 Apr 2025 at 9:55pm
sypkan wrote:

if you're not interested... then don't...

I don't care

but this is what others are talking about

denying it even exists...

government policy is based on this shit

it affects all us, directly and indirectly

if you two wanna talk sandwiches... go do it...

you don't need to get all snarky and triggered about it

just go...

ignore that which doesn't interest you

I really don't get why you guys get all bent out of shape about people talking about stuff

it is a forum...

No, it’s not being talked about much other than superficially. Most people don’t need a catheter to deal with it.

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Confusion Saturday, 19 Apr 2025 at 10:26pm

What Trump didn’t realise that China is already a dictatorship and the Chinese population are used to hardship and being told what to do, and can’t vote out
Xi Jinping
Unlike the spoilt materialistic Americans ,
who hopefully won’t stand for it.
Trump also didn’t realise that Canada
developed the modern sport of Ice Hockey with the first indoor game being played in Montreal on March 3 1875 .
Canada is the inventor of “Elbows Up “ and
Bench clearing fights with hockey sticks,
Ice hockey is their ideaology !
Especially against the US .

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seeds Saturday, 19 Apr 2025 at 10:42pm

Sttaaaaaannnnnn!

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andy-mac Saturday, 19 Apr 2025 at 11:06pm
sypkan wrote:

read it again seeds

we have generations of people educated in these theories, that have made, and are influencing government policy

these theories aren't inherently bad, I use
the influences myself in my work, they are a tool...

the problem lies, when you throw the baby out with the bathwater, and overly embrace them as gospel, often throwing the scientific method out with the bath water...

it is subtle, but basically it comes down to hard date versus personal perspectives

quantitative analysis versus qualitative analysis

which has culminated in terms like 'her truth' and 'her lived experience' taking precedence over any counter arguments...

regardless of how good they may be

the qualitative studies and experience...(subjective, perspective, opinion) have become the trump card if you will...

it doesn't have to be an either / or

both have their place

Transgender Marxism 101 for any medical or engineering degree these days...
Struth, they are everywhere!!!!

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Confusion Saturday, 19 Apr 2025 at 11:17pm

Tom Morello , one of the standouts at
Byron Bluesfest 2025 on the guitar.
He might be playing now ?

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