Jake
badger.au
Jake
@badger.au
Ngunnawal/Ngambri Country
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In our actual cyberpunk dystopia, there will remain in the dark nooks and crannies of the world machines which are cognitohazards people must avoid.

Young people told "if you see one, don't fucking talk to it. Don't ask it any questions. It will drive you mad and get you to kill yourself."
December 24, 2025 at 6:05 AM
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Bridget McKenzie: "To hate Israel is to hate Jews. It is that simple."

tbf to McKenzie, she is an expert on being a simpleton.
December 22, 2025 at 2:50 AM
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If you’re booing someone at funeral, you should probably take a look at yourself
December 21, 2025 at 11:08 AM
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Yeah, making it illegal to protest a genocide is going to help 🙄
NSW to effectively ban protests for up to three months as premier links Gaza rallies to Bondi terror attack
Chris Minns says state ‘can’t risk another mass demonstration on that scale in NSW [because] the implications can be seen, in my view, on Sunday’
www.theguardian.com
December 19, 2025 at 7:36 AM
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you have to work hard, every day, to be this fucking stupid
December 19, 2025 at 11:27 AM
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Incredibly craven stuff by the AFR in their editorial.

Happy to crackdown on all speech except don’t take away our right to be anti-immigration.
December 19, 2025 at 3:31 AM
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Ignore dopey spin like this.

Spending is not historically high once you take into account the NDIS, and we are an extremely low-taxing nation, so suggesting that "only higher taxes are keeping the deficit to merely bad" is quite silly
Ignore Labor’s spin — our fiscal situation is bad, and driven by a government that can’t stop increasing spending, writes Bernard Keane.
Labor is on a spending splurge. Only higher taxes are keeping the deficit to merely bad
www.crikey.com.au
December 18, 2025 at 4:39 AM
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A man who has abjectedly failed the test of leadership at the first hurdle.

In the past, trying to revive your political career off the back of a massacre might be viewed as tasteless...
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Frydenberg claims Albanese should accept ‘personal responsibility’ for Bondi attacks in escalation of rhetoric
PM condemns ‘perversion of Islam’ that police allege may be behind the attack
www.theguardian.com
December 17, 2025 at 11:06 AM
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Josh Frydenburg climbing over a pile of bodies to launch his political comeback is genuinely one of the most repulsive things I've witnessed in Australian politics. Have some shame.
December 17, 2025 at 9:44 AM
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As I understand today's discussion, we can stop an ISIS cell by policing the speaker list at writer's festivals and the BA syllabus at Unis. And by "stopping demonstrations." This is madness.
December 17, 2025 at 7:48 AM
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John Howard made Australia a target for terrorism by illegally invading Iraq & contributing to the rise of ISIS who went on to radicalise the Bondi attackers. He should apologise to Jewish Australians, and all Australians. #auspol
December 17, 2025 at 2:08 AM
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The idea that changing a definition to include criticism of Israel as being anti-Semitic and cracking down even further on anti-genocide protests would have in any way made anyone safer is madness. That the Coalition have so comprehensively jumped to blame here is insanity. Who is this speaking to?
December 17, 2025 at 8:14 AM
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Who the fuck would listen to Howard push back against gun reform in the wake of the biggest tragedy in decades (and no one is saying it’s just gun reform which is needed, ofc hate in all forms, including anti-Semitism is horrendous) and come to the conclusion that THIS is the take?!
December 16, 2025 at 8:50 AM
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Hanson at the Bondi memorial calling for students to be "rounded up" and cuts to immigration. The crowd muttering in agreement, and giving her a huge round of applause once she finishes.

Everything is about to get so much worse in Australia
December 16, 2025 at 10:49 AM
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Incredible the entire press gallery is actually buying the line (promulgated by Netanyahu!) that Albanese is personally to blame for the Bondi attack.

No one is actually explaining how firing academics for opposing Israel’s genocide would stop two people who never went to uni from this shooting.
December 15, 2025 at 6:54 AM
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Pack it up folks, we’re done, the worst take has been found
December 15, 2025 at 8:11 AM
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December 15, 2025 at 5:44 AM
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If only the government had acted earlier to let an unqualified, politically appointed anti-semitism Czar police the thoughts of university campuses, the government could have .. <checks notes> .. persuaded a father/son IS terrorist cell from terroristing.

<blink blink>

Are we really going there?
December 15, 2025 at 5:56 AM
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I’m just going to tell the story. Back in 2000 I was volunteering for the Gore campaign when he came along with Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Alfre Woodard and Dule Hill to a GOTV event here in MN. He ended up sitting down across from me stuffing his envelopes.
December 15, 2025 at 2:43 AM
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The run that Rob Reiner went on between 1984 and 1992 is one of the most amazing hot streaks any director has ever had. Legendary stuff
December 15, 2025 at 3:31 AM
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Sussan Ley, touting the Antisemitism Envoy’s report, demanding that it be immediately implemented.

The plan has been emphatically rejected by the Australian Human Rights Institute,
Amnesty Internatjonal and a coalition of 9 Jewish groups.
December 15, 2025 at 12:29 AM
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There would be less than ten thousand people Australia wide that have a legitimate business reason to keep a firearm in their home. The vast majority of people who need firearms for work would access them through a managed armoury.

Why do we have 4 million registered firearms in Australia?
December 15, 2025 at 12:44 AM
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We are horrified and shaken in the wake of the mass shooting at a Chanukah event in Bondi this evening, which has left at least ten people dead and injured many more.

This is the first night of Chanukah when we gather with loved ones and friends to light the Chanukiah. 1/4
December 14, 2025 at 11:25 AM
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Besides the fact that wealth, opportunity, safety, rights and justice are so unequally distributed, it is utterly bizarre to criticise people for working for a better world.
I find it fascinating watching Aussies sitting in a prosperous, functional, well-governed country with an unglamorous but adequate government, and somehow managing to direct their hatred against these things, rather than focusing on shitheads like Dutton/Joyce/Hanson who are trying to destroy it
December 12, 2025 at 6:37 AM