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Discussion in 'Miscellaneous' started by teacake, Jun 27, 2014.

  1. Australis

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    Did... did it just get hot in here?
     
  2. Gingerbread Demon

    Gingerbread Demon I love Star Trek Discovery Premium Member

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    Oh fuck border control again? And on the news last night we bought a Predator drone to fly over Australia and look out for our borders..... I thought this was an LNP thing but Labor are loving it too and boomers.
     
  3. Australis

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  4. Gingerbread Demon

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    I know the video is a gag video but on the news the Feds trotted out a new drone named Skippy or something to use as it can fly for up to 24 hours as a coastal surveillance unit
     
  5. Australis

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    Amusing myself with the thought of WA becoming it's own country
     
  7. Miss Chicken

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    Kellie-Jay Keen also known as Posie Parker, came to Tassie to speak at a TERF rally. I think she ended up with about 20 supporters whereas the anti-Tref crowd was about 500. the crowd was shouting
    ‘Posie Parker, Go on home’
    ‘Tassie doesn’t want you’
    ‘you have Nazis on your side’
    ‘Shame on you’

    the crowd was so noisy that she could not give her anti-transwoman speech. At one stage she shouted that this was the worst place she has ever been and that we are worse than Chicago and worse than Scotland.

    Unfortunately I ended up not going because I am sick. Luckily I when I tested for covid it was negative but I still felt it would be irresponsible to go.
     
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  8. Gingerbread Demon

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    She tried that shit on in Adelaide on the steps of Parliament House.. Small crowd gathered but the opposing crowed outnumbered them.
     
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  9. teacake

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    I went to the Melbourne protest. A lot of shit went down. At each city she's had very few supporters. Her saying Hobart was thee worst place she's ever been was hilarious!

    She's in Canberra today, protest info here:

    https://www.facebook.com/events/932910537870986/?ref=newsfeed
     
  10. Gingerbread Demon

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    Honestly what's the point she should just pack up and go home.... No one cares about her opinions
     
  11. teacake

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    The UK infatuation with TERFS is something we need to pay attention to in Aus. I wish it was truly a case of no one caring about her opinions.
     
  12. Gingerbread Demon

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    She may have an audience in the UK but over here no one but loonies, the LNP or One Nation supporters gives a crap about what she says.
     
  13. PlainSimpleJoel

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    II saw something on twitter earlier about that silly woman Lidia Thorpe protesting. Didn't see anything on the news, as I watching Mastermind instead.
     
  14. Gingerbread Demon

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    Yeah she went to see her speak in Tassie and the policed pulled her to the ground, so I guess we won't hear the end of that one. Then when they let her go she went and joined the counter protestors
     
  15. Miss Chicken

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    Lidia Thorpe was at the rally in Canberra, not the one in Tasmania.
     
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  16. Gingerbread Demon

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    OK my bad but the news has run with the footage of the cops pulling her to the ground.... Over and over
     
  17. Australis

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    I have no time for Thorpe, but much less for this TERF person. And with Robert and Hanson there, the toxic level went through the roof.
     
  18. Gingerbread Demon

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    Of course Hanson was there hateful bitch
     
  19. Miss Chicken

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    It looks like Hobart honour of being labelled as the ‘worst place in the world’ has been lost to Auckland. The New Zealanders have outdone us with their protest.
     
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  20. Gingerbread Demon

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    Well done Kiwis