Salvo
@Salvo@aussie.zone
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🪷 Sunday 11 May 2025 2 days ago:
I think you might be right, especially with school holidays, but oil barrel prices are influenced by politics.
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🪷 Sunday 11 May 2025 3 days ago:
Anyone else notice the price of fuel since the Election?
It was about $1.70/l before the Coalition announced their 12 month excise discount of 25c. Then overnight fuel went up to $2/l.
Now that the Coalition has well-and-truely lost, fuel is back down to $1.60/l.
- Comment on Rinehart blames ‘left media’ for Coalition wipeout, claims Australian voters ‘very short on understanding’ 3 days ago:
Hobbyist arsehole vs Professional arsehole.
- Comment on MP berates informal voters after dud ballot spike in NSW seat 5 days ago:
There are two reasons why people place Informal Votes;
- Ignorance (they don’t know how our great Australian Preferential Ballot works)
- No confidence (they do not feel that any candidate can represent their interests.
Given the fact that voters had 13 different candidates to choose from, and still voted informally, I think that it may be the first reason. I think that Old Mate now has a mandate to invest in education for his constituents so they now how our Australian Preferential Ballot works for next time.
- Comment on Is Australia's Overton Window Shifting? 5 days ago:
I assume Climate Corp would be like Park Rangers or Environmental cleanup.
When we were younger National Parks used to recruit students during school holidays to perform works around the parks. We used to get food and accommodation and would maintain the public facilities, clear overgrown bushland and perform basic maintenance on infrastructure.
Nowadays, due to Economic Rationalism, they pay top-dollar for professional contractors to perform the work, or in most cases, just don’t perform the work.
- Comment on Is Australia's Overton Window Shifting? 5 days ago:
Degrowth & Transport Carbon Offsets may be difficult to balance until there is a huge shift away from consumerism.
It will take a lot of convincing the electorate that they can’t have their latest consumerist bauble unless they make it themselves, or find someone local to make it.
Even if they find someone to make it, decentralised manufacturing is usually more expensive (from an environmental impact view) than mass-produced goods.
A million individual people making a jacket each produces more waste than 10 people working together to build a million jackets.
- Comment on Is Australia's Overton Window Shifting? 5 days ago:
The more the Liberal Party and Gina’s and Rupert’s Right Wing media waffle on about the Mythical Culture war, the more people think that it is actually a thing.
Zuck’s and Elon’s Right Wing “new” media need to Fuck Off too.
- Comment on Jacinta Nampijinpa Price joins Liberal Party as leadership race heats up 5 days ago:
This will make it so much more likely for a ALP/The Greens 2TP election in the future.
- Comment on Gina Rinehart urges Liberal party to stick with Trump-like policies in the wake of election loss 5 days ago:
The Greens and Labour also hope the Right-Wing Parties also continue following Gina’s instructions. It will make it so much easier to acquire more seats in the next election.
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🧙♂️ Tuesday 6 May 2025 1 week ago:
It is almost as if they won’t let people in the Liberal Party unless they have run some sort of Scam, and gotten off.
Zahid Safi still managed to get double the votes of Rhonda Garad in Bruce, despite the exposé in The Age.
- Comment on Young woman's strip search at festival akin to 'sexual assault', court told 1 week ago:
It used to be a huge problem in QLD in the 1980s.
Wait, that was when Dutton was a cop, wasn’t it!?
- Comment on All the political mail I got this election 1 week ago:
The bigger threat is the misguided Major Party ineffectual misguided Greenwashing policies.
You don’t need to visit The High Country to see that Feral Deer have filled the Niche that Managed Cattle previously occupied, and have spilt over into the habitats of native grazers.
If you visit the aftermath of bushfires, you will also find hundreds of closed Fire Access Trails that are not only closed to 4WDers, dirt-bikers, hunters, firewood harvesters and loggers but also inaccessible to Management and CFA vehicles, Hikers, Mountain Bikers and Horseriders due to being terminally overgrown.
In NSW and QLD, 4WDers aren’t even permitted to carry chainsaws, in case some idiot decided to cut down green or habitat wood for their fire instead of just clearing the logs that are barring the track.
- Comment on All the political mail I got this election 1 week ago:
It is amazing that The Greens (and a few of the Minor Parties and Independents) are pushing this platform when it should quite clearly be an issue for a Political party that claims to specialise in helping Workers.
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🗳️ Saturday 3 May 2025 1 week ago:
My feelings are not hurt, my tolerance for hypocrisy is what being tested.
Don’t get me wrong, the Greens are currently the only way out of the Fossil-Fuel-Funded Two Party system we are currently in, but do they really need to do the exact opposite of what they are campaigning for?
Things that are 100% recyclable are not always (actually hardly ever) recycled at all, let alone to 100%. They should be using biodegradable, renewable materials, or even better, don’t publish them in the first place. The absence Greens Junk Mail would be a better message to send their constituents than continuing to status quo.
- Comment on All the political mail I got this election 1 week ago:
“The ‘handwritten personal letter’ really pissed me off. So obviously fake.”
It is almost as if they are emulating the sleazy real-estate agents who have so much contempt for us that they think we won’t notice.
- Comment on All the political mail I got this election 1 week ago:
The Greens should know better than spamming out mailboxes with unsolicited mail.
Also using plastic single-use cable-ties to plaster plastic single-use corflutes to fences and road signs. It doesn’t seam very Environmentally conscious to me.
I still hope they get more votes than the coalition though.
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🗳️ Saturday 3 May 2025 1 week ago:
I wandered in to my poling place wearing a TShirt by a Band that is favoured by the Progressive Political People.
The drone handing out A3-sized Greens How-To-Vote broadsheets offered me one and I said “no thankyou”. He aggressively replied “Typical!” to his contracted colleagues.
One of them then thrust the so-big-it-was-impossible to read Labor HTV card at me, “what about one of these ones”.
I decided to jump on my anti-HTV soapbox and let them all have it with both barrels, including describing them as a “Corruption of Our democracy”.
The next 5 voters who queued also declined HTV cards.
When the Environmentalist party is littering the suburbs with non-recyclable single-use plastic corflutes, fastened to signs with single-use plastic cable-ties and then wasting paper like this, you really have to wonder about their commitment to the Environment.
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🗳️ Saturday 3 May 2025 1 week ago:
I got partway through Vote Compass, until it started asking Data Harvesting questions. Why does it need my Income, gender and gender identity to tell me how to vote? Religion should also be irrelevant!
The answers were pretty generic too. How many asylum seekers should we let in? “At least as many as required by UN obligations.” None of this “Much More”, “More”, “Same”, “Less”, “Much Less” rubbish!
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🗳️ Saturday 3 May 2025 1 week ago:
I hesitate to say he is full of shit because shit has more substance than the lies he has been spouting via SMS.
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🗳️ Saturday 3 May 2025 1 week ago:
I think he is being as contrarian as possible to lift up his pet I dependants. His party should receive no votes, but he wants to divert those angry votes to the Independents that still take his money.
If you vote independent, (which I believe everyone should), make sure it is for someone who is honest about where their funding is coming from.
However, I’m sure that if anyone campaigned on changes to the SPAM ACT to remove political exemption, they would win by a landslide.
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🗳️ Saturday 3 May 2025 1 week ago:
- Comment on Tariffs on 'incredibly important' ally Australia branded 'insulting' in fiery US Senate hearing 3 weeks ago:
There was a political parody comedy radio series in the 80s called “How Green was my Cactus”.
I remember a negotiation between “King Bonza” (Bob Hawke) and a simulacrum of Reagan discussing letting Australia win the Americas Cup yacht race.
KB “Let us win or we’ll force you to tell us what’s at Pine Gap”. R “you will need to force us to tell you where it is first” KB “Then we will send Don Lane home” R “no! Anything but that! OK, you win”
- Comment on what a good boie 3 weeks ago:
Fun fact; osteo-archeologist and palaeontologist students used to be given thylacine skulls to identify as a hazing ritual. They would usually be misidentified as Canine (fox or domestic dog).
They do have different teeth to Foxes and they are smaller than Wolves but the similarity with Domestic Dogs and Dingos are uncanny!
Convergent evolution at its finest!
- Comment on Revealed: nearly 2m hectares of koala habitat bulldozed since 2011 – despite political promises to protect species 4 weeks ago:
That is because there is money to be made by fossil fuel companies by blocking wind turbines, but there isn’t money to be made maintaining Natural Habitat.
That is why fossil fuel companies are pumping so much money into astroturf campaigns against renewables and infrastructure.
- Comment on ‘Fabricated terror plot’: Police make bombshell update into Dural caravan investigation 2 months ago:
They don’t need explosives to destroy a Caravan in Australia, All they need is a couple of Baby Boomers and a dodgy Auto Electrician. Grey Nomads destroy more caravans than Faux-Terrorists ever could.
- Comment on Insurance industry calls for $30b flood defence fund as fees cripple households 2 months ago:
“Insurance Industry demands Taxpayers subsidise their record profits”
- Comment on Daily Discussion Thread: Sunday, 23 February 2025 2 months ago:
Attempting to clean the bathroom, giving up a binging movies from the 1990s
- Comment on Daily Discussion Thread: Sunday, 23 February 2025 2 months ago:
Same thing we do every weekend.
- Comment on ASIO boss reveals multiple nations plotted to murder critics in Australia 2 months ago:
I think that Kingsmen did it best with The Sun headlines plastered all over Galahads office. He kept every front page from every time he saved the world.
- Comment on Daily Discussion Thread: Sunday, 2 February 2025 3 months ago:
My front sprinklers are on the fritz. I had to water half of my front yard by hand! Oh well. I had to do the naturestrip anyway.
