Whirlybird
@Whirlybird@aussie.zone
- Comment on New York police used stun gun on migrant holding toddler, video shows 8 months ago:
One of the employees punched him in the face
Just for context - this is what his side of the story is, it’s not “fact” yet.
- Comment on NBNCo reveals plans to uograde speed tiers 8 months ago:
at no extra wholesale cost to retailers.
And at no extra cost to customers, right? Right?
- Comment on Peter Dutton calls for boycott of Woolworths after Australia Day merchandise dropped 8 months ago:
Woolworths CEO reportedly “stepping down” after another trainwreck interview a month or so after his trainwreck Australia Day interviews 😂
I believe this is the “find out” part of FAFO.
- Comment on Peter Dutton calls for boycott of Woolworths after Australia Day merchandise dropped 9 months ago:
Bud Light tanked. It was the number 1 beer in its category up until that decision - a title it had held for 20 years. It isn’t now.
Their vice president responsible for it was removed.
They lost marketshare across the board.
Their american sales have not recovered.
Bill Gates threw $100 million at their stock in an effort to get it to go back up.
Remember - Bud Light is not their whole company. Bud Light has likely been irrevocably harmed.
- Comment on Peter Dutton calls for boycott of Woolworths after Australia Day merchandise dropped 9 months ago:
but buying bullshit with a flag on it to use for a single day to celebrate how good we are is my definition of wasteful and narcissistic
You don’t have to only use the stuff for a single day you know?
- Comment on Peter Dutton calls for boycott of Woolworths after Australia Day merchandise dropped 9 months ago:
It means an easy excuse that they can throw out there to make people like you believe it’s not just for the stupid “inclusivity” reason, and it clearly works on the gullible.
- Comment on Peter Dutton calls for boycott of Woolworths after Australia Day merchandise dropped 9 months ago:
Just like Bud Light and Target did in the US. Look how that worked out for them.
- Comment on Peter Dutton calls for boycott of Woolworths after Australia Day merchandise dropped 9 months ago:
They’re absolutely pandering, which is why they put this in their statement:
At the same time there’s been broader discussion about 26 January and what it means to different parts of the community
- Comment on Peter Dutton calls for boycott of Woolworths after Australia Day merchandise dropped 9 months ago:
Yes, they do because companies are judged and scored on ridiculous stuff like that, and companies are more and more trying to pander to these ideologies. Example: Bud Light, Target (US), and now Kmart here specifically saying that they are removing Australia day merchandise to be more “inclusive”, not due to declining sales.
- Comment on Peter Dutton calls for boycott of Woolworths after Australia Day merchandise dropped 9 months ago:
Woolies would keep the crap if people bought it. I’m unconvinced they would drop the range if it were making them buckets of money.
Nah, it’s just more DEI-led stuff where they’re trying to pander to the vocal minority to score points, like Bud Light and Target did in America, where it backfired massively. Make no mistake, they’re dropping it for “inclusivity” like Kmart did, not because it doesn’t make money. They even mentioned this in their statement:
There has been a gradual decline in demand for Australia Day merchandise from our stores over recent years. At the same time there’s been broader discussion about 26 January and what it means to different parts of the community,"
- Comment on Peter Dutton calls for boycott of Woolworths after Australia Day merchandise dropped 9 months ago:
This isn’t the market deciding, this is pandering. Kmart literally said they’re stopping it due to “inclusivity”, and Woolworths even said that too:
…yahoo.com/woolworths-follows-kmart-with-major-au…
“There has been a gradual decline in demand for Australia Day merchandise from our stores over recent years. At the same time there’s been broader discussion about 26 January and what it means to different parts of the community,”
Making up the former to enforce the latter.
- Comment on Peter Dutton calls for boycott of Woolworths after Australia Day merchandise dropped 9 months ago:
which the retailer says is due to lack of customer demand
They let it slip when Kmart said it was due to “inclusiveness” though. We all know it’s not from lack of demand, it’s from the usual woke pandering.
- Comment on After all those dole diaries and ‘mutual obligations’, it turns out Australia’s privatised employment services don’t work | Van Badham 11 months ago:
Shut it all down and do a UBI. Problem solved.
- Comment on In the end it all became the same 1 year ago:
Can you not re-download things you’ve already bought? Closing the store down doesn’t usually prevent that.
- Comment on In the end it all became the same 1 year ago:
Yeh but none of that would work now in the internet age. There is literally nothing short of requiring the disk in the console/PC as DRM that would work.
- Comment on In the end it all became the same 1 year ago:
This would just pave the way to rampant game sharing/loss of sales though. 1 person buys a physical copy of a game and then just loans the install disks to 20 friends who all install it too for free.
- Comment on In the end it all became the same 1 year ago:
What software aren’t you able to access anymore that you’ve paid for? On PlayStation and Xbox at least even if stuff gets de-listed you can still redownload if you bought it. Same with physical disks
- Comment on [WIRED] This Vaccine Protects Against Cancer—but Not Enough Boys Are Getting It 1 year ago:
Geez I thought it was only for cervical cancer, that’s how it was sold here in Australia. How isn’t this given to every kid like the MMR one?
- Comment on Scratch the surface of the Voice results, and a more complicated picture emerges — ABC News 1 year ago:
Anecdotes is all we have. You never saw yes advertising, I never saw no advertising.
- Comment on Scratch the surface of the Voice results, and a more complicated picture emerges — ABC News 1 year ago:
There’s that arrogant stupidity I mentioned :)
- Comment on Scratch the surface of the Voice results, and a more complicated picture emerges — ABC News 1 year ago:
I didn’t see a single No ad on television. Yes ads were everywhere though, all over tv (murdoch channels included) and even youtube.
- Comment on Scratch the surface of the Voice results, and a more complicated picture emerges — ABC News 1 year ago:
Typical far left way of thinking. Call the people that you want to vote for your ideologies and ideas more hateful words, I’m sure it’ll definitely work for you this time.
- Comment on Referendum Results, Congratulations, Comiserations 1 year ago:
You yes voters just can’t help but keep trying to make everyone think that you’re so much smarter than us no voters can you? 😂
I know how it works, which is why I think attempting to make a Constitutionally protected advisory group is stupid.
Labor didn’t even put out a “if this success this is what we will do and this is what the voice will look like”. Something as simple as that would have made a world of difference.
I’m happy you won’t respond anymore, I’ve had enough smug virtue signalling.
- Comment on Referendum Results, Congratulations, Comiserations 1 year ago:
This isn’t one of the things that should be out in the constitution and “have the finer details decided on afterwards”. An advisory board with no power doesn’t belong in the constitution.
There is no “official literature” with what it would look like if it won. There are lots of ideas, but nothing concrete. It can’t be both “we’ll work out the details later” and “here are the details”.
- Comment on Referendum Results, Congratulations, Comiserations 1 year ago:
The same exact thing would essentially harrow with a constitutionally palaces voice though, that’s the thing. Under the LNP they’d just strip it right back till the point where it may as well have been legislated out of existence. The referendum protected a name only basically.
Upvote for father Ted ❤️
- Comment on Referendum Results, Congratulations, Comiserations 1 year ago:
Said no to enshrining an advisory group in the constitution, nothing more.
- Comment on Referendum Results, Congratulations, Comiserations 1 year ago:
They also didn’t tell us how the people would be selected btw. They weren’t necessarily elected, which is yet another problem people had with it. It would no doubt have just been more “jobs for the boys”.
- Comment on Referendum Results, Congratulations, Comiserations 1 year ago:
Literally none of it is.
What was this Albanese governments makeup of the voice going to look like? How were they going to be selected? What were the term limits?
- Comment on Referendum Results, Congratulations, Comiserations 1 year ago:
Who will this person be, claiming to represent the interest of 200 distinct language groups? What laws will be made?
The person you’re talking to thinks those details are irrelevant and we should have voted yes in order to find out. For crying out loud, it’s not even in the constitutional amendment that there needs to be an indigenous person on the Voice lol.
- Comment on Referendum Results, Congratulations, Comiserations 1 year ago:
Yet they wouldn’t legislate any real power for it, nor even the size or makeup of the advisory board. Note the proposal didn’t even say that the advisory board had to be made up of or even include an indigenous person.
No one is asking for the “perfect” solution, just not a shitty virtue signalling one that will change nothing.