Interesting stuff

Stu....just a remark on the size ....5’7 * 17 3/4 * 2 1/4

That’s way smaller than Slater’s 90’s boards. I appreciate that it’s epoxy but even still. It’s freaking tiny.

Plus I just love to use that line. From the old movie “ Ford Fairlane : Rock ‘n Roll detective. A vehicle for comedian Andrew Dice Clay. There was an all girl pop group and they got flashed by “ Sleazebag Sam “. Ford Fairlane asked the girls if they could identify Sleazebag’s junk and they said it “ looked like a penis....only smaller.”

Does sound interesting. Is it yours to ride ?

Oh oh .....some people are going to be displeased.

Nigel Farage has just come out as a racist . Well , he’s perpetuating the belief that national borders mean something and are legally enforceable....code words as racist for some.

https://twitter.com/Nigel_Farage

Come on , JQ . You’re not really falling for that “ folks be dumb “ routine are you ?

Here’s the thing : every bit of the billionaires / corps raping the world are true. But it’s by the transferral of profits of production from the hands of the workers into the Capitalists which is the main game.

This is done two ways :
1/ Offshore as much production as possible to low wage nations .

2/ Reduce wage component as much as possible in any production remaining in developed nations. This is done by the twin pillars of flooding the labour market with cheap , compliant labour and destroying unions.

So when the average Aussie sees a foreign worker filling a role which should be employing an Australian it is the foreign person who is the problem. Not the individual per se as they are only a weapon being used against Australian workers.

This is what Vic Local refuses to understand. No one is down on the individual foreign workers, but they are against the unnecessary and deleterious presence of the foreign worker for what they represent.

Example: I used to work building LNG plants . Had done so for a good few years on different jobs. It was basically the same crew moving from project to project. Everyone was experienced and knew their roles.

Just as one project was coming to a close another was starting. This was not an accident. Projects were staggered so a complete workforce could be utilised from job to job.

There was stories of labour shortages getting about around Australia and so everyone knew that they would be immediately taken onto the next project. The entire work crew applied and waited.....nothing.

Turns out that it was cheaper to hire a workforce numbering 150 people from a country half way around the world. Not just cheaper but more compliant. The carrot of permanent residency was dangled and the foreign workers knew to shut their mouths when safety or work conditions were compromised if they didn’t want to be heading home .

The foreign labour force was also a section of a labour hire company started by one of the project’s foreign executives.

This happened so often that soon the face of FIFO work was more International than it was Australian. Meanwhile Australia’s house prices and living expenses were going through the roof . Many , many thousands of Australians tried to get onto the mining boom with all the “ labour shortages “ only to never see a site whilst thousands of foreign workers got jobs.

So , JQ, you can parrot the line that Vic Local and his fellow travelers love that foreign workers don’t take Australian jobs , that the very idea is a furphy created by racists and xenophobes

Or

You can realise that YES foreign workers do take Australian jobs.

The foreign workers are not evil. No one thinks less of them because of their race . But these foreign workers were weaponised against Australians in their own country by the Billionaires and corporations. Now it’s most businesses use the foreign workers to undermine Australian wages and working conditions and ultimately living standards.

Australians don’t hate the players , we hate the game. It’s Vic Local who makes it personal.

If I say I want foreign workers out of Australia, it’s not an attack on the individuals, it’s a rejection of the system which allows Australian workers to be undermined in their own country.

I can’t stand to see Australian surf guides / teachers in Bali for the same reason....it’s putting a Balinese out of a job. No one is calling me racist or xenophobic for that opinion even though it’s exactly the same circumstance.

Now we are getting closer to the truth.

When presented with evidence that foreigners were directly taking local jobs , which contradicts the entire gaslighting program that they did not , now that argument gets forgotten and instead victim blames Australian workers.

According to Vic Local , local workers are either incompetent, lazy , drunk or thieves. All of the above if the allegations are to be believed.

After all, the alternative is to admit that foreign workers do take Australian jobs , that it’s a problem and that we should be able to discuss it without puerile accusations of racism .

Instead , Australian workers get described as whiners who should harden up and do something about it.

Then lastly we get told that Australian workers can get fucked because if they prioritised for jobs in their own country then there might be “ blowback “ from the country sending the replacement workers . Vic Local knows this is such bullshit that he doesn’t bother with fake evidence.. There’s not even an attempt to portray this as anything but a desperate lie. Ireland is going to “blowback “ at Australia if Irish workers aren’t flown 12000 kms around the world to take the job off a local ?

Note the complete lack of empathy or concern for those who lost jobs ? They are so much refuse strewn across the neoliberal highway. The fact that they have families to support is of no bearing. No where to be seen is the handwringing so prevalent when a foreigner suffers an injustice, now it’s just a case of “ Get over it you drunk , lazy , useless whinging thieves .”.

This is the face of the globalists. They will lie and claim there is no problem, you’re just imagining it cause you’re racist. When this fails they attack Australians because.....they don’t like Australians.

This is the bottom line. They don’t accept the legitimacy of Australia. All the rest is justification for their ideology. An ideology which they think stupid Aussies should just shut up and accept while it’s imposed on them undemocratically.

Imagine for a second that I’d claimed that Chinese workers were lazy , useless , thieving drunks . Do you think Vic Local would have claimed it was hard evidence that I was a neo Nazi ? Yes , of course.

That’s the thing. The globalists are not better , nicer , more humane people, they just have an agenda which is best progressed by delegitimising the opinions of those who dissent by attacking their character. It’s just Ad Hominem from go to whoa.

Everyone knows that foreign workers are taking Australian jobs. This is blindingly obvious. And it’s not a situation that we should endure just because of a false narrative of racism and xenophobia. That argument has no basis in reality and should be dismissed with the contempt it deserves.

Really Vic Local, if that last post is your genuine opinion then you’ve got zero credibility. When the truth is put forth contradicting your oft stated opinions, you can do nothing more than throw mud at a wall hoping that some of it sticks.

If you were half the person you think you are , you’d take pause to consider the truth of the matter and realise that the public around you is not benefiting when you perpetuate the gaslighting narrative those billionaires/ corporations have disseminated through the media in order to disempower the working class.

Your opinion is right there in your own words.

“If Irish staff are being hired, the big question is, what's wrong with the local labour? “ = Australians are useless. If they were good at their jobs they wouldn’t be replaced.

“I worked on a building site with a bloke who banged on endlessly about foreigners taking Aussie jobs. The fucker was awful to work with. He averaged three days a week, was usually hungover as fuck, and stole stuff that wasn't nailed down.” = This is Vic Local’s experience and its put here as context that Australians are lazy , drunk , useless thieves. Why else is it in the post ? The point is to extrapolate this to mean that Australians deserve their jobs stolen. It’s Vic Local answering his first question “ What is wrong with Australian labour .”

“......but this could simply be a case of no local staff capable of filling the positions.“ = The very point made by all was that there was an excess of adequately skilled Australians who were ignored so that foreign workers could be given jobs. Perfect example of someone wilfully overlooking what is in front of them because it contradicts their opinion. Rather than accepting this it is back to lies and obfuscation.

“And if "Some labour hire places advertised for Irish only crews in the Pilbara" that is illegal. Speak to the union to sort it out. Whinging on Swellnet doesn't solve that problem.“ = More victim shaming. Workers are powerless when their union representatives are in on the scam. As is the media and the politicians. Any attempt to voice concerns is shouted down by the useful idiots such as Vic Local who start bleating about racism.

“ If Australia bans international labour on our sites, the blowback might not be that good for the country.“= Straight to the strawman. No one is talking about banning international labour. Just ban international labour when their is an Australian who can perform the role. Forget the blowback to the country.....the country is made up of the workers who are unemployed because a foreign worker took their job under the pretext of a non existent skills shortage. Vic Local appeals to concern for the economy, but the economy is just another term for employment....employment that Australians don’t have.

Vic Local shows zero empathy or concern for Australian workers. Just another globalist who wants you to believe that they’re driven by love of humanity but when presented with evidence that their ideology is ruinous to Australians then they do not give a fuck. As far as they are concerned, Australians can eat a dick and do so with a smile on their face .

Exactly what is it you were suggesting was wrong with the local labour then ?

Pretty obvious who’s got the agenda here. You refuse to acknowledge the fact that foreign workers replace Australians in Australian jobs and this throws Aussies under the bus of globalisation .

Globalists like Vic Local are the enemy of Australian workers. Not only do they want you unemployed, that want you to believe that you deserve it and that if you complain it’s because you are racist.

You still haven’t answered what you are suggesting is wrong with the local labour ?

Or why your position remains that Australians were being replaced for a justified reason at all. You immediately chose to believe that the Australians deserved replacing.

It’s cause you don’t recognise the entitlement of Australians to be prioritised for work in their own country. I don’t think you even understand how controversial this belief is . I think that you’ve swallowed so much globalist Kool Aid that you dont realise that it’s your opinion which has no mandate from Australian society.

Do you think it’s racist for Australians to be prioritised for any available work within Australia ? I think you do believe this.

“If Irish staff are being hired the big question is, what's wrong with the local labour? .......I worked on a building site with a bloke who banged on endlessly about foreigners taking Aussie jobs. The fucker was awful to work with. He averaged three days a week, was usually hungover as fuck, and stole stuff that wasn't nailed down.“

Careful Vic Local....your bias is showing.

Still haven’t mentioned the relevance of the second passage there.

So tell me , Vic Local , if I’m so far off the mark , do you have a problem with this statement ? :

If a worker on a temporary visa is found to be occupying a role which could be filled with an Australian , then the temporary worker should have their visa canceled.

"If a worker on a temporary visa is found to be occupying a role which could be filled with an Australian , then the temporary worker should have their visa canceled."

“It doesn't work that way and never has. “. Huh ? We have just had an entire discussion on exactly how it happens and now you’re claiming that I’d doesn’t happen and never has . WTF ? You are straight back to denying that foreign workers take Australian jobs as though our previous discussion never took place.

Why wouldn’t you take the case of the FIFO workers we were just discussing ?

Or any of the other 2.25 million other visa workers who aren’t fruit pickers ?

But anyway....around here many locals lost their seasonal income picking fruit after being replaced by foreign workers . So I think that the temp workers - unless they are part of our Pacific Islands work program- should indeed be sent home. Starting with the Koreans around here who have poached local’s employment.

BTW....are you really that bloody minded that you’d completely disregard my obvious dedication to workers rights ( true left wing ) in order to shoehorn me into your RWNJ pigeon hole ?

The fact is that you have the right wing position. You believe that workers are mere interchangeable economic units and that there is no such thing as a society. It’s the classic neoliberal ruse. Destroy the working class by framing it as a Kumbaya global humanity movement. Then the fake left mongs such as yourself can combine your twin passions of hollow virtue signalling and despising the working class.

Those billionaires you dislike ? You’re doing their dirty work. It’s called being a useful idiot.

Anyone noticed how the term “ racist “ has evolved to have no correlation whatsoever with its old premise ?

Like the word “ gay “ morphed from a reference to homosexuality into a general term meaning bad or weak . Things were referred to as gay when there was absolutely no association with its original meaning.

So it is with “ racism “. Racism no longer has any true correlation with hatred or different races. It’s a catch all phrase used to describe something which the speaker doesn’t like.

I’d rather appear on the front page of the paper wearing drag in a prison cell than on Instagram riding a log at Wategoes in a beavertail wetsuit vest.

Patrick .....10 people dead in Wilcannia in a couple of months out of 550 locals . That’s hectic.

I’d say that from my superficial visitations that Wilcannia would have to be the most dispiriting place I’ve ever been. This is only judging from the look of the joint and the fact that I’ve felt some bad vibes there including the ugliest human confrontation I’ve ever witnessed .....and I’ve seen some ugly things.

Did enjoy a few beers with some locals in that tiny little pub there though. That is the only reason I am using language a lot less colourful to describe the joint.