Covid-cautious, woke, lefty, liberal snowflake, atheist. 100 acres of remote rural loveliness with dogs, cats, alpacas and horses. Life is good.
Yackandandah, Victoria
Joined March 2009
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Aussie original settlers, forced to come here, comprised the dregs of English society. Later immigrants from all over the world were those brave, resourceful and determined enough to make the tough journey. Yet those descended English stock are deemed superior?
Pauline legitimises people’s racism. That’s it. That’s all she does and that’s all it takes to be popular.
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🚨HOLY SHIT: Trump just cut right in front of Queen Camilla and King Charles to shake the hands of his own cabinet.
Trump is the most embarrassing president in U.S. history. teapawt.net/MeidasTouch/status/204…
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The Welcome to Country is a hand of friendship. It’s a blessing from traditional custodians who, despite nearly 250 years of colonisation and genocide, resist and flourish to this very day.
And that undiminished resistance angers the far right.
Indigenous Aussies should be wanting to mow us down in bloody revenge and yet they are inviting us to participate in a lovely tradition of peace and welcome. And we boo in their face? Are you kidding me??
We have insisted that indigenous people adopt every single one of our traditions and practices. Can we not participate in just ONE of theirs with good grace?
There is a sign at the entrance to every small town in Australia that reads ‘Welcome to..’. They should all be burnt to the ground. My supermarket has a sign out the front that says ‘Welcome’. How dare they? My friends ‘welcomed’ me to their BBQ. I don’t talk to them any more.
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Susan Coyle and Ken Gillespie, both Lt Generals who became Army Chief.
He led the 3rd Combat Engineer Regiment, deployed in Afghanistan.
She led the 1st Combat Signal Regiment, deployed in the Solomons.
Both led combat regiments.
The difference? One's a woman.
Butthurt boys
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‘Why I Am Not a Christian’ by Bertrand Russell
“I say quite deliberately that the Christian religion, as organized in its churches, has been and still is the principal enemy of moral progress in the world. You may think that I am going too far when I say that that is still so. I do not think that I am. You find as you look around the world that every single bit of progress of humane feeling, every improvement in the criminal law, every step toward the diminution of war, every step toward better treatment of the colored races, or every mitigation of slavery, every moral progress that there has been in the world, has been consistently opposed by the organized churches of the world.”
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I greatly appreciate any retweets, quote tweets, bookmarks and comments on this thread - I think this is an important one.
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This Lyft driver refused to give this woman a ride after she made a wild comment. 👀🤔🚙
