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lucky-al said: Likewise, freeride76. Will call in next time I'm down your way.
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Oh shit yeah, I’ve been there a couple of times. Once on school camp and once as a adult 25 years younger than now.
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Opti said “Anyone who reads your past comments will easily see why you’re not worth engaging in conversation.”
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Where I live now is perfect…..but I’ve had better in the past.
Where in AUS would you live in you could take your pick?
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You're always going to run the risk of a big flatty busting you or biting you off on light gear and bait hooks.
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This guy has broken his back in 2 places plus other injuries but this horrific fall didn’t break his spirit, such a amaz
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Yep.
And , yes, I hear you Adam.
Just think of all that money and trillions more that should rightfully be going to Musk and his billionaire oligarch buddies, who bought the election and the country for Trump and Putin,
and now are looking for their payback.
Seriously who needs an education department or a medical insurance like every other developed country in the world has or a social security system or money for natural disasters,?
Surely this is all waste and should be money going to the oligarchs , who rightfully deserve it’
Oh dear.
Palestine is Israel so that answer didn’t make sense…..a Gaza solution is what the question is about.
I probably might have suggested USA 1.0 or the UN help once, @Opti, but the appropriate course of action would be to ask some of the real stakeholders and those who's hope for the future has been set back 50 years. This Optimistic promo now serves as an elegy:
obviously have to coordinate off-campus.
Gotta laugh at the lefttard hiccup. Wrong about Covid, wrong about the voice, wrong about trump and now posting fake twitter posts. Poor bloke.
Base 6 your still in a Palestinian settled section of Israel.
The question is about Gaza….who should run Gaza. They need outside leadership.
Fitzroy and Burlin are obviously looking forward to an illegal takeover and hacking of our Treasury Department and everything else,
Oh well you have got to cheer for one side or another
Yay for the billionaires, who wouldn’t piss on naive maggats if they were on fire.
They've had outside leadership. Thousands of bombs and bullets raining on them from The Israeli government who confine them within a prison. Like shooting fish in a barrel opti!
I think Burlins wrong about not moving to North Korea, when he had the opportunity,
He would have felt so much better with a real strong man to admire,
Instead of this tired old wannabe.
Much prefer Japanese attempts at spreading cultural influence through children's shows
Agree, saw some absolutely incredible waste in building refits in the big skyscrapers.
Reckon the good ol USA should front some/ most of the bill. Israel could not have done shit without the full backing and support of the USA.
Fark without the USA's support for Zionism we probably would have had a Palestine State living peacefully with the State of Israel. They would have been forced to make peace.
AIPAC have a lot to answer for.
Inspiring words there B6, but completely wrong.
It is wrong because it was not the boomers or GenX white males that delivered Trump to the White House.
It was the young men, and ethnic young men, and a reasonable proportion of women, who did so.
It was the young men who were locked out of developing their lives during the early adult stages by policies that marginalised them. I pointed this out repeatedly after the US election when you were all losing your minds, I pointed it out with full links! It's back there in the thread.
I've also been pointing out the alienation and withdrawal from society of young men in the 'Interesting Stuff' thread for a couple of years - again the links are there. No particular race - it's the Otaku in Japan, or the young white guys on computers, or the up and coming tech bros, or the new young conservative school leavers of all colours.
How come you guys just don't see it? It was widely reported upon as a distinct and new trend. You are looking for scapegoats you've been programmed to see as the cause for all that is bad, not those who enabled this shift in political power in the US. Are you that ideologically blind that you can't see reality?
Anyway, they spoke their mind, Trump is in, and now all this happens.
oh, I was only referring to those who Trump's tenure will not serve well in any way, shape or form, but voted aye @VJ. There's even more who voted yes because it will serve them very well. I read all your alienation stuff with interest.
(ps. got any cool insights into that near miss asteroid we're passing in a few years?)
That’s the sad thing andy-mac. The US could have sorted this shit so long ago. Stop the funds and make Israel heal. The two state solution could have been realised.
Another data point: now woke is gone and patriotism back, US Army is having no trouble recruiting - wonder if this will change when they realise they get to be Team America Gaza Police?
https://www.msn.com/en-au/news/australia/us-army-hits-record-15-year-re…
No Adam Jewish diaspora is not debatable it happened it's well recorded history also supported by archeology and DNA studies, even Rome acknowledges it happened.
The only people that dont are those that have certain religious/social/political agendas , or just fringes nutters in the West like you.
In regard to your nonsense in your last post that Israel could exist in peace, dude this is the most naive bullshit ever, you only have to look at other places in the middle east to see how true ethnic cleansing of Jews and Christians has happened by Muslims and how Sunni & Shia fight each other, fuck look at Syria about 20 different groups all in for a fight, these Islamist groups fuck up and destroy country after country in the middle eaat, it's why Egypt and Jordan wont allow any refugees from Gaza they fear bringing in radicalization in their countries.
Even before 1948 Arabs were attacking Jews and trying to prevent the Jews getting any land/state/country they even created the Arab league in 1945 and attacked Israel on the day it was re born.
And of course once lost they ALWAYS play victim, it's a never ending cycle, start a war, lose, play victim, start a war, lose play victim.
The reality is all religions suck but Islam is the worst of the main ones, and this is all about Islam, this land became under Islamic control when the Turkish Ottoman empire took over the land, so in Islamist eyes it must be returned to Islamic control.
Its why Iran 1,000km away and Houthis want to destroy Israel and why Iran fund these terrorist groups.
It's why Gaza or the West bank weren't real issues or didn't provide Palestinian stares when Jordan and Egypt controlled them, or why Jordan created out of 77% of Palestine with over 60% of the population being Palestinian is never talked about, when it's the obvious Palestinian state.(ruled by a minority group)
But this isn't about a Palestinian state its about destroying a Jewish one, Hamas and other group's make no secret about this, even after this so called ceasefire they have said how they will try to do 7th October again and again.
The problem is you don't actually know the history of the area, or actually follow the news or understand wars, you want everyone to think your a some elite academic that knows everything no matter the topic and you always know better than those that are way way smarter and more successful than you be it Trump, Elon, Joe Rogan etc (Yes Joe Rogan is far smarter than you)
It's very obvious you are extremely uneducated on this topic, to the point you dont even understand simple terms like Sephardic Jew or just denying basic facts like jewish diaspora.
In regard to why i support our Israel, Israeli's and the Jewish people who are constantly under attack from Jihadist groups and why i became more interested after 7th October that should be obvious, its the same reason the majority support Israel.
But yes i was honestly shocked by the reaction's of people here and the tripe they quickly spread, which i wont put a label on.
BTW. Your X link is from a fringe Jewish sect of less than 1,000 worldwide called Neturei Karta, they believe Jews can not return to the land until the messiah returns or some garbage.
No surprise you didn't stick to staying away from these forums.
oh nice, popcorn Thursday : )
@indo wrote 'Islam is the worst religion of all'.
Compared to other religions and era's?
I reckon they're all pretty crook and have shameful pasts and presents.
Sounds like opinion rather than learned wisdom to me.
only of 'the main ones' @sr.
I'm sure he'd concur some fucked up things go on at them appalachian snake-handling churches.
Islam is not the worst of all religions. The hard right extremist nutters of Islam are the worst.
Changing the subject back to reality again,
I heard that Musk called off the
Lexus Pipeline Pro , mid heat
Because one of his teenybopper pill poppers,
thought there might be some money wastage , which could be going to the oligarchs.
Or is this more right wing propaganda ?
Right now in history is the only thing that's relevant.
Yeah sure there is violence or problems between or within Christians, Jews, Buddhist, Hindus.
But it isn't comparable to Islam, when i jump on a flight and they wont let me take liquids over 100mls it's not because of Hindus or Buddhist, it's because of 9/11 and other islamic/jihadist group bombings.
If you google top terrorist group's you will see a very clear pattern, you will be lucky to find a non Islamic group.
While it happens refugees fleeing persecution are fairly rare from other religious groups, but a shit load of refugees flee from Islamic countries because they turned their back on Islam or are of another religion or gay etc
Do you live under a rock Dill?
Just about every MSM in USA.
Regular media releases by white house press secretary karoline leavitt.
Jeffy, can you honestly not see the forest through the trees with all the slush funding money laundering of these small figures of one department? This is just a tiny miniscule of what will be uncovered.
All that tax payers money going to mythical organisations, whilst their own people, the tax payers, get FA. What did the Californians get from their recent fires? The last two or more hurricanes that devastated areas in the GoM. Need I go on? How are those communities faring with all the Gov relief from their tax paying dollars? You can't see the stupidity and ridiculousness of those tax dollars going to the "organisations" and "countries" I pointed out above, compared to the little relief from disasters to their own people??
Actually don't answer that, we already know your answer. Nothing to see here......
It's not because of 9/11 you can't take liquids onboard @indo, it's because of the US and Western reaction to it.
But all good, point taken.
Was probably pushing the semantics too much on what you wrote.
Not the anti Semitics though!!
@ Indo insisted that Trump’s one liner about wanting to be a dictator on day one, was just a joke, and anyone who took it seriously, were actually causing trouble for Trump and his assainations , and were basically dumb ass .
Now that Trump has tried twice to freeze the government funding of everything, illegaly
Tried to take birth rights citizenship out of the constitution illegally ,
Let Musk takeover the Treasury and hack into everyones private data , illegally
Made enemies of Americas allies in less than 3 weeks
WTF ??
Geez @indo must hate going to Indo, ya know the country with the largest Muslim population on earth.
Jesus wept....
When did Islam really start to become radical....?
Mainly when Arab nationals were sidelined for years and had there deals betrayed by west.
Spent time in East Timor, a lot of the Fretlin resistance were Catholic and were classed as extremists.
Spanish inquisition were good ol Christains. ..
Cause and effect mate.
Our Jewish and Christian Zionist mates are a responsible for a lot more killings of Muslims than the other way around.
Anyway carry on with ya deep diving research.....
Why don’t all the jewish people living in Israel relocate ? Who would want to be surrounded by neighbours that want you dead ? If it’s good enough for the people of Gaza to be relocated , why not relocate all the jews ? Then the likelihood of this happening further down the track would be zero . Give them lovely houses with bigly views , rainbows and unicorns with fairies in the garden . I can’t understand why Trump hasn’t come up with this plan , kills 2 birds with 1 stone .
people dismissing this usaid thing are totally missing the point
I can't put it any better than my little young democrat friend, so I'll post it again...
not only is she spot on with this issue. but also the frustration many feel with the democrat party more widely...
Impeachment to be launched, related to Gaza claims:
https://wltreport.com/2025/02/05/dastardly-deeds-done-house-democrat-sa…
The State of Israel was a pretty dumb idea. In the middle of the modern Arab world. Wonder what could go wrong. Especially with endless funding. Death death death death death.
even politico thinks it's a loser fight to take on...
that's politico - who in the last 24 hours have basically been exposed as being on the dems machine government teat - one of the staunchest anti- trump propaganda outlets out there...
"...Billionaire Elon Musk’s campaign to dismantle the federal bureaucracy piece by piece at Trump’s behest, starting with the U.S. Agency for International Development, lit a fire under many Democratic lawmakers — several of whom rallied Monday outside USAID headquarters.
But relaunching the resistance to defend one of the least popular corners of the federal budget could be a monster miscalculation — and some prominent Democrats told me they have serious strategic reservations about how their party is fighting back.
When I asked veteran strategist David Axelrod whether Democrats were “walking into a trap” on defending foreign aid, he literally finished my sentence.
“My heart is with the people out on the street outside USAID, but my head tells me: ‘Man, Trump will be well satisfied to have this fight,’” he said. “When you talk about cuts, the first thing people say is: Cut foreign aid.”
Rahm Emanuel — the former House leader, Chicago mayor and diplomat — told me much the same: “You don’t fight every fight. You don’t swing at every pitch. And my view is — while I care about the USAID as a former ambassador — that’s not the hill I’m going to die on,” he said.
Trump’s orbit, meanwhile, couldn’t be happier seeing Democratic lawmakers lined up on a downtown Washington sidewalk Monday — in their view, wasting political capital defending an agency that they believe the public doesn’t give a rip about. Musk himself spent the following 24 hours posting videos of Democrats protesting the move.
“The federal bureaucracy is very unpopular. … It’s a pretty widely held, majority position — if you poll it, people think the government is wasting money. And, very simply, that’s the battle that we’re fighting,” one senior Trump administration official told me Tuesday. “The Democrats are now taking the opposite position: ‘Everything’s perfect.’ ‘Nothing to look at here.’ ‘No money is wasted.’ ‘All your tax dollars are being spent well.’”
“Not a very politically tenable position,” the person added...
...What’s more, Democrats aren’t reading the room: Trump’s team believes his “America First” stance has resonated beyond his own base, and they’re also acutely aware that there’s a large, online conspiratorial contingency surrounding the agency. In short, they’re not sorry about targeting foreign aid, and they’re reveling in the outrage.
“My message to my Democratic friends and to the tofu-eating wokerati at USAID is, ‘I hear your question, but you need to call somebody who cares,’” Sen. John Kennedy (R-La.) told reporters this week...
...Democrats’ messaging problem goes beyond USAID, however. They’ve raised alarms about Trump and Musk firing inspectors general, purging FBI officials who probed Trump and offering to buy out thousands more federal workers. Only a fraction of Americans have a personal connection to any of it.
The situation, Axelrod said, reflects the Democratic Party’s broader existential crisis. How, he has been asking himself lately, “did the party of working people become a party of elite institutions?”
“Part of the problem for the Democratic Party is that it has become a stalwart defender of institutions at a time when people are enraged at institutions,” Axelrod said. “And they become — in the minds of a lot of voters — an elite party, and to a lot of folks who are trying to scuffle out there and get along, this will seem like an elite passion.”..."
https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2025/02/04/democrats-foreign-aid…
politico
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/politico-ny-times-propped-millions-…
White house press secretary Leavitt to Politico:
DOGE is at Medicare/Medicaid
https://www.westernjournal.com/elon-musks-doge-moves-wasteful-spending-…
Democrats introduce anti-DOGE act:
https://noqreport.com/democrats-will-introduce-stop-the-steal-act-to-ta…
There was one bloke who suggested Madagascar...
Good luck, live in peace
Exactly. Clarified my initial comment!
Cheers @andymac.
And great post following by @supa.
Ausseis 5/127. Starky just took Desilvas wicket..
Agreed @exoticjeff. Trump is either trying to appear as a dictator, or is actually actiing like one. I'm still not sure which yet and i think the line is getting pretty blurred day by day.
What is politico? And why is it funded by USAID? What is USAID? Sounds self explanatory but please explain. Is Trump try quieten dissenting media? Genuine questions.
Haha he may have been onto something.
yeh, it's them special rocks, blessed seas, providential dirt and olive groves of destiny @seeds.. everyone wants 'em.
Ha. Olive groves of destiny. My mind went straight to the gutter reading that.
it's like the team at politico are just saying...
(to their faithfuls)
don't do it!
don't look over there!
no!
no!!
NOO!!!
the biden donations bit isn't surprising
at all...
but seriously!?!!
USaid to politico?
WTF is that about?
the 80's 90's old school famine charities stalwarts be turning in their graves...
Yes this is big one. I saw it somewhere else earlier. Throws massive shade on what appears to be a good quality publication.
About the 7th century, when Islamic empires took over the middle east and other areas by conquest.
Your second claim is complete bullshit, muslims have killed far more muslims than Jews or Christian Zionist ever will, many countries in the middle east use to even be majority Christian but were ethically cleansed. (convert flee or die)
Just in the Sudan war that has a decent religious/islamic aspect the death toll is 2.5 million, and Just from April 2023 to June 2014 the death toll is over 61,000 but rarely gets any attention in media unlike Israel/Gaza
You are clearly very anti Christian and anti Jewish, yet live in a society heavily shaped by Judeo-Christianity, our whole year basically revolves around Christmas and Easter these are events about a Jew in Judea, the lucky thing for you you dont have religious aspects forced on you these days.
Try living as a Christian in Indonesia, my wife tells me all kinds of stories of growing up as a Catholic in Indonesia, and my Christian Indo friends and wife are much more anti muslim than me.
Luckily some of the best waves in Indo are in Christian or Hindu areas Bali, Rote, Sumba, Mentawais, Telos, Nias
Imagine how cool Indo would be though if it still had the vibrant Hindu and Buddhist culture instead of Islam, its sad really, Islam like Christianity has destroyed so many cultures just look at Egypt as another great example.
USaid is the equivalent to our ausAID
ie. government funded aid to overseas developing countries and people in need, generally
or at least, that's what they once did...
now the US version funds drag queen story times, peruvian transgender comic books ,DEI musicals, and various other fruity pursuits
all whilst people are starving, literally...
politico is one of the foremost US politics media outlets, in their eyes anyway
one would think not really a destination for 'aid'
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Another important step on the road to authoritarianism,
Intimidation and elimination of the media.
That’s why independent, pro democracy media should be supported around the world.!!