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military threat?
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December 15, 2025 at 8:39 PM
military threat?
Either way, bloke wont go thirsty. 👍
December 15, 2025 at 6:30 PM
Either way, bloke wont go thirsty. 👍
Will never have to buy himself another beer when walking into any Australian pub, for the rest of his life.
Nice one, mate.
Nice one, mate.
December 15, 2025 at 6:13 PM
Will never have to buy himself another beer when walking into any Australian pub, for the rest of his life.
Nice one, mate.
Nice one, mate.
Wasn't me who said "No mass shootings in 29 years" numbnuts.
It's the guns, stupid. Always has been, always will be.
It's the guns, stupid. Always has been, always will be.
December 15, 2025 at 5:53 PM
Wasn't me who said "No mass shootings in 29 years" numbnuts.
It's the guns, stupid. Always has been, always will be.
It's the guns, stupid. Always has been, always will be.
They don’t propose solutions because they don’t believe there’s a problem to solve. 2A and near-total access to firearms are treated as inviolable, and the human cost is written off as collateral damage.
December 15, 2025 at 2:54 PM
They don’t propose solutions because they don’t believe there’s a problem to solve. 2A and near-total access to firearms are treated as inviolable, and the human cost is written off as collateral damage.
Yes, but most of those are years apart, not days as in the US.
Also, the per capita number speak for themselves:
US ~1.0–1.2 mass shootings per million people.
Australia (long-term historical average since 1996): ~0.008 mass shootings per million people per year
(i.e. hundreds of times lower).
Also, the per capita number speak for themselves:
US ~1.0–1.2 mass shootings per million people.
Australia (long-term historical average since 1996): ~0.008 mass shootings per million people per year
(i.e. hundreds of times lower).
December 15, 2025 at 2:43 PM
Yes, but most of those are years apart, not days as in the US.
Also, the per capita number speak for themselves:
US ~1.0–1.2 mass shootings per million people.
Australia (long-term historical average since 1996): ~0.008 mass shootings per million people per year
(i.e. hundreds of times lower).
Also, the per capita number speak for themselves:
US ~1.0–1.2 mass shootings per million people.
Australia (long-term historical average since 1996): ~0.008 mass shootings per million people per year
(i.e. hundreds of times lower).
Enshrined gun ownership; legal impediments; cultural significance; conservative mindest vs secular ... all barriers to tighter guns laws in the US, relative to Australia.
400M-500M weapons held by 100M people in the US ... Australia had the fortitude to not be held hostage.
400M-500M weapons held by 100M people in the US ... Australia had the fortitude to not be held hostage.
December 15, 2025 at 6:16 AM
Enshrined gun ownership; legal impediments; cultural significance; conservative mindest vs secular ... all barriers to tighter guns laws in the US, relative to Australia.
400M-500M weapons held by 100M people in the US ... Australia had the fortitude to not be held hostage.
400M-500M weapons held by 100M people in the US ... Australia had the fortitude to not be held hostage.
Almost an impossible ask/task. There are more weapons in the hands of the population than there are people (over 100 million people out of 330M own weapons).
Nullify a constitutional amendments is no easy feat either - 2/3 Congress vote plus 3/4 ratification by states ... highly unlikley.
Nullify a constitutional amendments is no easy feat either - 2/3 Congress vote plus 3/4 ratification by states ... highly unlikley.
December 15, 2025 at 6:07 AM
Almost an impossible ask/task. There are more weapons in the hands of the population than there are people (over 100 million people out of 330M own weapons).
Nullify a constitutional amendments is no easy feat either - 2/3 Congress vote plus 3/4 ratification by states ... highly unlikley.
Nullify a constitutional amendments is no easy feat either - 2/3 Congress vote plus 3/4 ratification by states ... highly unlikley.
Jesus fuckin' Christ. This world ...
December 15, 2025 at 4:27 AM
Jesus fuckin' Christ. This world ...
Death toll has risen to 15.
Fuckers.
Fuckers.
December 14, 2025 at 11:37 PM
Death toll has risen to 15.
Fuckers.
Fuckers.
What is Trump's cut?
December 14, 2025 at 11:18 PM
What is Trump's cut?
There likley will be a Royal Commission into the massacre and cause along with solutions will be preseneted.
It's not like there are no firearms in Australia - they are just very heavily regulated. No open or concealed carry. No semi-autos. Locked safes; weapons seperate from ammo; inspections.
It's not like there are no firearms in Australia - they are just very heavily regulated. No open or concealed carry. No semi-autos. Locked safes; weapons seperate from ammo; inspections.
December 14, 2025 at 10:10 PM
There likley will be a Royal Commission into the massacre and cause along with solutions will be preseneted.
It's not like there are no firearms in Australia - they are just very heavily regulated. No open or concealed carry. No semi-autos. Locked safes; weapons seperate from ammo; inspections.
It's not like there are no firearms in Australia - they are just very heavily regulated. No open or concealed carry. No semi-autos. Locked safes; weapons seperate from ammo; inspections.
Lol. No they didnt.
December 14, 2025 at 10:05 PM
Lol. No they didnt.
Yeah Netanyahu can fuck right off. War fuckin' criminal.
December 14, 2025 at 10:02 PM
Yeah Netanyahu can fuck right off. War fuckin' criminal.
Oh, you need the tally per capita to justify the US's insane gun laws?
US (2025, ≥4 shot definition): ~1.0–1.2 mass shootings per million people.
Australia (long-term historical average since 1996): ~0.008 mass shootings per million people per year
(i.e. hundreds of times lower).
US (2025, ≥4 shot definition): ~1.0–1.2 mass shootings per million people.
Australia (long-term historical average since 1996): ~0.008 mass shootings per million people per year
(i.e. hundreds of times lower).
December 14, 2025 at 9:53 PM
Oh, you need the tally per capita to justify the US's insane gun laws?
US (2025, ≥4 shot definition): ~1.0–1.2 mass shootings per million people.
Australia (long-term historical average since 1996): ~0.008 mass shootings per million people per year
(i.e. hundreds of times lower).
US (2025, ≥4 shot definition): ~1.0–1.2 mass shootings per million people.
Australia (long-term historical average since 1996): ~0.008 mass shootings per million people per year
(i.e. hundreds of times lower).
It always does.
Been playing wack-a-mole all day long with the "well, if there were Australian good guys with guns, none of this would have happend" BS.
Been playing wack-a-mole all day long with the "well, if there were Australian good guys with guns, none of this would have happend" BS.
December 14, 2025 at 9:48 PM
It always does.
Been playing wack-a-mole all day long with the "well, if there were Australian good guys with guns, none of this would have happend" BS.
Been playing wack-a-mole all day long with the "well, if there were Australian good guys with guns, none of this would have happend" BS.
Im going to have to listen to your podcast.
Reading the story immediately triggered my recollection of transmitters/receivers on mountaintops, prior to widespread adoption of sattelite communications.
Interesting historical narratives on how the world has changed.
Reading the story immediately triggered my recollection of transmitters/receivers on mountaintops, prior to widespread adoption of sattelite communications.
Interesting historical narratives on how the world has changed.
December 14, 2025 at 3:54 PM
Im going to have to listen to your podcast.
Reading the story immediately triggered my recollection of transmitters/receivers on mountaintops, prior to widespread adoption of sattelite communications.
Interesting historical narratives on how the world has changed.
Reading the story immediately triggered my recollection of transmitters/receivers on mountaintops, prior to widespread adoption of sattelite communications.
Interesting historical narratives on how the world has changed.
You’ll never persuade conservatives that the system itself is broken. Within their moral framework, mass violence is acceptable collateral damage in defense of 2A.
Liberals, look at the outcomes: a system that repeatedly produces mass violence is not functioning as intended and demands repair.
Liberals, look at the outcomes: a system that repeatedly produces mass violence is not functioning as intended and demands repair.
December 14, 2025 at 3:49 PM
You’ll never persuade conservatives that the system itself is broken. Within their moral framework, mass violence is acceptable collateral damage in defense of 2A.
Liberals, look at the outcomes: a system that repeatedly produces mass violence is not functioning as intended and demands repair.
Liberals, look at the outcomes: a system that repeatedly produces mass violence is not functioning as intended and demands repair.
Theirs is a rules-first moral system. Lived experience is not treated as corrective data, it’s treated as noise, unless it becomes impossible to ignore (unviable pregnancy).
Thus when their worldview encounters evidence it was never built to process, they respond not by learning, but by flinching.
Thus when their worldview encounters evidence it was never built to process, they respond not by learning, but by flinching.
December 14, 2025 at 1:01 PM
Theirs is a rules-first moral system. Lived experience is not treated as corrective data, it’s treated as noise, unless it becomes impossible to ignore (unviable pregnancy).
Thus when their worldview encounters evidence it was never built to process, they respond not by learning, but by flinching.
Thus when their worldview encounters evidence it was never built to process, they respond not by learning, but by flinching.
Here's the problem with these types of people: empathy scales poorly in belief systems that prioritize rules over outcomes.
And once outcomes matter, blood pressure, sepsis risk, mortality, etc, the ideology collides with physics, biology, and emergency medicine. And physics always wins.
And once outcomes matter, blood pressure, sepsis risk, mortality, etc, the ideology collides with physics, biology, and emergency medicine. And physics always wins.
December 14, 2025 at 5:04 AM
Here's the problem with these types of people: empathy scales poorly in belief systems that prioritize rules over outcomes.
And once outcomes matter, blood pressure, sepsis risk, mortality, etc, the ideology collides with physics, biology, and emergency medicine. And physics always wins.
And once outcomes matter, blood pressure, sepsis risk, mortality, etc, the ideology collides with physics, biology, and emergency medicine. And physics always wins.
They don’t want to control you because they hate you. They want to control you because they believe chaos follows choice, and that choice must be constrained to preserve moral order.
In that worldview, rules matter more than outcomes. Suffering is acceptable as long as the system remains “pure.”
In that worldview, rules matter more than outcomes. Suffering is acceptable as long as the system remains “pure.”
December 14, 2025 at 5:00 AM
They don’t want to control you because they hate you. They want to control you because they believe chaos follows choice, and that choice must be constrained to preserve moral order.
In that worldview, rules matter more than outcomes. Suffering is acceptable as long as the system remains “pure.”
In that worldview, rules matter more than outcomes. Suffering is acceptable as long as the system remains “pure.”
And yet here we are.
What does that tell you about its design?
What does that tell you about its design?
December 14, 2025 at 4:33 AM
And yet here we are.
What does that tell you about its design?
What does that tell you about its design?
The non-spy version of the same theme is familiar: mid-80s mountainous Papua New Guinea: no TV, no satellite, radio links were the backbone. Father's job was driving/flying to mountaintops to repair relays powered by diesel gensets. Less cinematic, but the same physics: power, weather, logistics.
December 13, 2025 at 8:22 PM
The non-spy version of the same theme is familiar: mid-80s mountainous Papua New Guinea: no TV, no satellite, radio links were the backbone. Father's job was driving/flying to mountaintops to repair relays powered by diesel gensets. Less cinematic, but the same physics: power, weather, logistics.