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Dr Kingfish retweeted
Warren Pickering exploring his sexuality isn't an issue, and nobody is arguing otherwise. Malcolm Roberts may, of course, require a separate briefing. Nor, on their own, are his drug use or three DUI convictions.
People fuck up. People change. People can deserve grace.
But grace is exactly what One Nation has spent decades refusing to extend to people it finds politically useful to demonise.
Immigrants are criminals. Single mothers are welfare cheats. Muslims can’t be trusted, becuase "there are no good muslims". Australia will be "swamped by Asians".
There’s something depressingly familiar about this strain of conservative politics.
Gay people are easy to condemn until a conservative discovers their own son is gay. Voluntary assisted dying is easy to oppose until a conservative watches someone they love endure a long, painful death.
Then, suddenly, complexity exists. Suddenly lived experience matters. Suddenly compassion becomes possible, and empathy activates when the suffering enters your own house.
Now their own leader has a complicated past and we're being invited to discover nuance, forgiveness and redemption,
Sure, but also, fuck that.
If your compassion only extends to people once their story becomes your story, it isn’t much of a moral principle.
When you’ve built a political movement denying grace to others, you don’t get to demand it the moment you need some for yourself.
One Nation built a political strategy out of hate and grievance, and tried to dress it up as patriotic principle. That's why the hypocrisy is so complete when the rules suddenly change for their own.
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Can Rob Fucking Derby never play for the @nthqldcowboys again? #nrlcowboysraiders
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Why is this on them? Consent Rob. Consent. There’s what happened in the room and then the fact that it happened at all. That’s on the Swans players. Blaming women is not the answer.
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You are not ready for tonight’s pregame entertainment at Parra Stadium #NRLEelsPanthers
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After a penalty shootout knockout loss at the World Cup, the biggest of stages, disappointment and a feeling that we should have done better is entirely natural. Yet as much as there are things that, from the comfort of my seat, I thought could have been done differently against Egypt, I think some analysis has overlooked Australia's present place within the footballing world compared to the rest of the world.
Market value is, I think, a valuable (though not perfect) proxy for the quality of a squad. Per Transfermarkt, Australia's average player is worth €2.98m, ranking 36th out of 48 World Cup teams.
Australia's four opponents all ranked higher: Turkey - €18.22m, USA - €14.83m, Paraguay - €5.91m and Egypt - €4.48m. There is a disappointment in the fact that Australia were knocked out by the lowest-valued team that the Socceroos faced at the World Cup, but overall, Australia punched above its weight at the World Cup. This is demonstrated in the second graph.
The analysis I performed also returned an R-squared value of 60%. That is to say, 60% of group stage points can be statistically attributed to the value of each team's players. That Australia got out of the group constitutes an over-performance.
In four years' time, I would expect Australia's average market value to be significantly higher than it is now, potentially even 3-4 times more than what it is now. Many players in the squad have the potential to play regularly for big clubs in big leagues: Herrington, Bos, Circati, Beach, Okon-Engstler. Post-game, Tony Popović referenced the fact that not a single Australian attacker in the squad had completed 20 games this year; in four years, one would expect the likes of Touré, Irankunda, Volpato and others (Bennie, Younis, Akon, Court) to be doing this.
Overall, I think the increase in player quality, which should be expected over the next cycle as our best young players (generally our best performers at the World Cup) develop, is the single biggest factor in improving the performance of the Socceroos, more than playing style, in-game decisions or any single other factor.
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Today, Pauline Hanson complained about people who have difficulty speaking English. Luckily, her speech provided the perfect example for anyone wanting to learn the language.
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"Like Carlton, Essendon's long suit is sacking coaches... it might be the only thing they're good at."
@HyundaiAus | #AFL
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The Iranian navy, which has been destroyed eight times, closed the Strait of Hormuz again, because the United States for the seventh time won the war that wasn’t a war, so the United States can open the Strait of Hormuz that was open before the not war.
The not war that started to get the uranium that was completely obliterated, so that the Iranians can’t build the nuclear bomb that they weren’t building for the not war that the United States started.
Then the United States which has nuclear weapons threatening to use nuclear weapons to prevent Iran from having nuclear weapons because having nuclear weapons is dangerous.
If the United States saw what the United States is doing in the United States, the United States would invade the United States to liberate the United States from the tyranny of the United States.
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"Trump, the Mar-a-Lago golfer, is the only bull in the world who walks around with his own china shop. When a clown takes over the Palace, he doesn't become King. It's the Palace that becomes a circus"
French senator Claude Malhuret once again nails it. You won't hear a better indictment of Trump and his Gulf war than this. Well worth 5 minutes of your time
My English s/t 👇
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Young men turn to MAGA because they can't get laid.
And they can't get laid because they turned to MAGA.
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This movie was so bad they had to release the Epstein Files to distract us from it
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The gunfire at Bondi had hardly died away when Ley and Littleproud disgraced themselves by launching into head-kicking politics. They are now paying the price, big time. The coalition is a train smash.
