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Blah-Blah Bar / Re: Shawny’s concerns about Victorian and Australian Governments
Netanyahu is within rights to steam roll palestine and solve that problem once and for all,
Surely nobody, neither side in this dispute and nobody in any dispute, has the right to target facilities or take actions that cause the collateral death of children and infants, either directly or indirectly.

Target military, terrorists and gorillas all you like, but stay away from civilians and children.
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Robert Heatley Stand / Re: List Building - More than one way to skin a cat
Luckily it looks like we have finally thrown out "the formula", it's like our first step towards success.

The formulaic approach to recruitment and list management, tactics too, is just more of what everyone else does, and that just makes you achieve the average.
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The Sports Desk / Re: God help me - the Test Cricket thread
I see England's constant complaining has managed to influence the 3rd Umpire and sway the benefit of the doubt in their favour, Boland and Carey unlucky not to have Root's wicket in the 10th over, or ripped off from another perspective.

It's a bit like watching a Geelong or Hawthorn football game!
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The Sports Desk / Re: God help me - the Test Cricket thread
Does this test make it to the weekend?

Lyon off to a flyer, it's amazing what a bit of spot retention motivation does as opposed to welded in place selection!

England are dead set psychopaths, 3-43 on a batsmen's paradise, and they are playing reverse slog sweeps to get off the mark.
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The Sports Desk / Re: God help me - the Test Cricket thread
Cam Green is out of credits.  Won't bowl, can't bat.  He may be seen as "better" than Webster on potential but it's performance that counts.
Can't understand what Webster did wrong, dropped for no obvious reason, while some can't get dropped no matter how badly they are playing.

The difference between England's erratic and chaotic Bazball, and Carey playing attacking cricket full of confidence and in good form just highlights the stupidity of the England game plan. England basically go all in every hand and hope for luck!
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Blah-Blah Bar / Re: Shawny’s concerns about Victorian and Australian Governments
Quote from:  Quote from: Gointocarlton on Tue Dec 16 2025 16:14:58 GMT+1100 (Australian Eastern Daylight Time)
Governments doing "only so much" and SFA are two different things. They are reaping what they have sewn.
@Gointocarlton So what should they do?

The widespread calls for action are meaningless, bordering on dog whistling, when they are delivered without offers of a genuine solution.

Of course, when challenged the old "What can I do" response is specifically part of the problem!

It's clear to me, the loudest calls coming from the likes of Netanyahu and RedTrump is disingenuous, they profit from this violence, they do not want it to stop, they captain very highly profitable war machines.

I'll finish today with this, there is significant irony in the media commentators claiming the political dialogue has become too dangerous, too vindictive, many might not understand that irony, they are the medium, they are the editors and producers. They will profit heavily as well.
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Blah-Blah Bar / Re: Trumpled (Alternative Leading)
I see RedTrumps big backers, the NRA haven't hesitated in trying to gain political momentum, what a wonderful world.

How much did Murdoch make this week?
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Blah-Blah Bar / Re: Trumpled (Alternative Leading)
Some of you might not be surprised by this, others will refuse to believe it. But I've heard a whisper from a reliable source that RedTrump as opportunistic as ever has used the Bondi shooting to throw political doubt over the Aukus agreement. The rumour is the RedTrump inner circle will claim they have doubts about Australia's ability to secure it's own backyard, and they will use those seeds of doubt to secure a better deal for the USA.

This coming from the "Land of the free to kill anybody",

What a quality human being he is, how can it be that he hasn't yet got a Nobel?

Countries rich with uranium should raise the price 500%.
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Blah-Blah Bar / Re: Shawny’s concerns about Victorian and Australian Governments
It's people, not governments, that allow terrorists to strike.
Somebody knew about this, somebody always knows about an event like this before it happens.

Calling for greater vigilance, surveillance, laws is just spreading the embers across already tinder dry ground.

It's not a laughing matter, but you have to laugh at Netanyahu's calls for Australia to act. Does he mean act to the same level as Israel, the most surveilled society on the face of the planet, they spy on their neighbours, they spy on their citizens, they spy on friends and foe equally, yet they cannot stop and have no hope of stopping such events as Bondi, events which have become so routine in their own backyard that they are barely reported anymore.

This event gets the global attention because it's such a rare event to happen here, and let's hope it remains that way!
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Blah-Blah Bar / Re: Shawny’s concerns about Victorian and Australian Governments
The pain is palpable, but the conclusions are all wrong, I understand they want to blame someone, the person firing the gun is the best place to start.

Further laws, further words, won't stop what is happening, the solution lies beyond Australia's border. You cannot escape a religious war by crossing a border, it goes where you go, you have to solve the problem at it's genesis.
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Blah-Blah Bar / Re: Shawny’s concerns about Victorian and Australian Governments
The Bondi massacre appears to be Islamist terrorism ... and the hero who disarmed one of the terrorists is Muslim.

You have to wonder at the warped thinking that enables a father and son to commit such an atrocity.
This is the uncomfortable truth for many who wish to point fingers at various segments of the population.

Criminals commit crimes, good citizens obey laws, more law is not the answer.

The whole gun laws debate reminds me about the futility of domestic violence orders in the protection of women and children, for the lunatic and criminal a piece of paper is just another thing to wipe your ar5e with!

Language is important, not just the language after the event, because it is the language before the event that is the motivation. In this Bondi case both sides are guilty of a long history of linguistic rock throwing, and when people stand up for and defend the actions of a lunatic they contribute to the events that occur in reaction. A terrorist hiding in the basement is not a justification for bombing a hospital, a dispute at the border is not an excuse to fire on a music festival, never was and never will be. There will be reprisals in both directions, all of them grossly misplaced.

In the meantime, somebody profits selling weapons, should we make the war mongers responsible for the actions of their customers? It's not achievable, it's like making a car maker responsible for the actions of a drunk driver. Yet, when Netanyahu spoke he blamed Australia for the actions of a terrorist, it's deliberate and deceptive, he is laying the groundwork for the justification of further violence. In case you do not know, Israel is one of the world's biggest weapons traders, Netanyahu grows richer from war.
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Blah-Blah Bar / Re: Shawny’s concerns about Victorian and Australian Governments
Gun laws might need a tweak, but it is the enforcing that appears to be lacking. If laws get ignored or not followed because it is too hard, then things like this will happen.
People are not crooks until the commit a crime, and true criminals do not give a rats-ar5e about the law.

All that making more laws does is increase the burden on society.