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Post by **stui magpie** » Mon Sep 12, 2022 9:49 pm

Stop reading the Guardian.

Skids · Post by **Skids** » Tue Sep 13, 2022 9:01 am

I haven't given too many share tips on here, but you'd have to consider GSR as a buy

Post by **David** » Mon Sep 19, 2022 11:26 am

Post by **stui magpie** » Mon Sep 19, 2022 11:57 am

I agree.

If you're going to write a news article about what someone did, put the fkn detail in there.

While I can understand that what she posted would likely have been upsetting to a number of people it's not illegal in Australia to diss a Monarch (I'd suggest not trying it in Thailand though).

I think the reaction is a lot over the top personally.

Yeah, pull her into line, get her to delete it but suspended for a match and given a (suspended) fine of 25% is too much.

Post by **David** » Tue Sep 27, 2022 4:18 pm

Post by **stui magpie** » Tue Sep 27, 2022 4:57 pm

I read that this morning.

She is a walking own goal, I personally don't have a high opinion of her.

Post by **Jezza** » Tue Sep 27, 2022 5:06 pm

She's a vile person.

The sooner the Greens get rid of her, the better off the party will be.

Post by **David** » Wed Oct 05, 2022 7:59 am

Here we go again!

https://www.bbc.com/news/business-63137114.amp

Post by **stui magpie** » Wed Oct 05, 2022 4:57 pm

Must be nice to have a metric shitpile of money.

pietillidie · Post by **pietillidie** » Wed Oct 05, 2022 10:58 pm

^Anything to save face. Like literally anything at that level of inflated worth.

Here's a serious and seriously perplexing question that I reckon we have to solve: How do we escape the near iron-clad law that malignant narcissists, psychopaths, and the deranged apparently by definition control everything?

Those born into elite status are the cultural version thereof, i.e., the detached culture in which the elite are embedded does the work of those mental maladies by effectively distorting people's brains through a brainwashing process.

So, whether the power or wealth is inherited or seized through other means, the control gained assumes other-destructive characteristics are dominant.

Leadership and power at any scale is just too hard and too costly in terms of a person's humanity for anyone decent to access and then take it on. And yet, we need leaders, movers and shakers. It's a genuine social dilemma we seem trapped in.

Post by **David** » Thu Oct 20, 2022 2:00 pm

A bizarre way for her to be brought down (and I'm not even sure I quite understand the problem here), but Thorpe has such consistently bad judgement that it always seemed inevitable that she was going to dig herself into one hole or another:

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-10-20/ ... /101557298

This is how I imagine Adam Bandt's response when his chief of staff told him he'd been keeping Thorpe's relationship with Martin secret from him (from 0:45):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ORdSJx1VXQ

Post by **stui magpie** » Thu Oct 20, 2022 3:52 pm

It was a massive conflict of interest that she didn't disclose.

If she had of diclosed it at the time, the only likely repercussion would be to replace her on that Justice committee or whatever that she was on at the time, so this is not about her relationship as such but her non disclosure of it.

Post by **David** » Thu Oct 20, 2022 4:03 pm

yeah, I read another piece on the ABC site that made that issue clearer. Still a bit murky as the guy wasn't actually a criminal (to our knowledge), but the fact that some of the materials she was receiving related directly to bikie gangs is hitting a bit close to home.

Post by **stui magpie** » Fri Oct 21, 2022 5:32 pm

https://www.theshovel.com.au/2022/10/21 ... dog-bandt/

Post by **Jezza** » Fri Oct 21, 2022 10:30 pm

The photoshop gets me every time

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