wscholermann
@wscholermann@aussie.zone
- Comment on Let's chat about these SEVEN nuclear power plants the LNP want to build ... 4 months ago:
Lol ba boom! ching!
- Comment on Let's chat about these SEVEN nuclear power plants the LNP want to build ... 4 months ago:
If nuclear was so brilliant the private sector would have done it already. They haven’t because the cost far outweighs the benefit.
And as far taxpayer intervention goes to prop it up I just don’t see any compelling evidence to suggest investment in nuclear will give you better bang for your buck than renewables.
In some countries without much wind, sun and waves nuclear might make sense provided they could cheaply get uranium and dispose it cheaply. That’s not Australia and we have options.
- Comment on Why Super for Housing is a Bad Idea - Purplepingers 5 months ago:
Super is not the short term relief you are looking for though… More people floating around with more money would just push up the prices even more.
Now if we started talking about increasing supply perhaps, that would be a different story.
- Comment on Why Super for Housing is a Bad Idea - Purplepingers 5 months ago:
I think the point is if you are trying to fix housing early withdrawal of super is not the answer for all the reasons given.
There are other solutions and it would take multiple policies working in tandom.
- Comment on There's a baby drought in Australia. Maybe we should fund IVF? 6 months ago:
Silence peasant! We need more slaves!
- Comment on Australians lose nearly $1 billion a year to card surcharges as RBA warns banks to stop 8 months ago:
In any case, the RBA tut tutting will change precisely nothing.
- Comment on It’s true, Kelly Wilkinson was cop shopping. She was looking for a Queensland cop who cared | Lucy Clark 8 months ago:
Well going back to your question, you asked whether people are born evil. The question was framed incorrectly. Which is why I responded with some people really are born with certain disposition.
You believe this can be overridden in all circumstances. I do not. You can try but it’s very dangerous to believe without a doubt this is true.
- Comment on It’s true, Kelly Wilkinson was cop shopping. She was looking for a Queensland cop who cared | Lucy Clark 8 months ago:
I don’t mean to sound disrespectful, I just think it’s naive to think that early intervention is the magic bullet in all cases.
It’s like saying all paedophiles can be reformed.
If you can point to concrete empirical evidence that proves this, I would like to see it. I’ve not seen or heard of any myself.
- Comment on It’s true, Kelly Wilkinson was cop shopping. She was looking for a Queensland cop who cared | Lucy Clark 8 months ago:
Evil is a subjective term, but I believe traits of a psychopath are heritable and studies do support this.
- Comment on It’s true, Kelly Wilkinson was cop shopping. She was looking for a Queensland cop who cared | Lucy Clark 8 months ago:
I haven’t made one. My point still stands. This level of premeditated violence that was not done under duress (i.e. literal or metaphorical gun point) was an act of complete free will and are the actions of a psychopath.
Short of a lobotomy or extremely strong psychiatric drugs some people are beyond reform.
It’s amusing that you come across as directing your hostility to me on the Internet, which I’m sure you will deny. I’m not the one burning people here while their kids watch.
- Comment on It’s true, Kelly Wilkinson was cop shopping. She was looking for a Queensland cop who cared | Lucy Clark 8 months ago:
I know what they meant. I just disagree. Some people are just inherently fucked and intervention won’t always work. There are bad seeds out there unfortunately and ignoring this fact with wishful thinking won’t make it to away.
- Comment on It’s true, Kelly Wilkinson was cop shopping. She was looking for a Queensland cop who cared | Lucy Clark 8 months ago:
Uh huh. You know absolutely nothing about my life and what I’ve been through so if I were you I’d be very careful about making assumptions.
- Comment on It’s true, Kelly Wilkinson was cop shopping. She was looking for a Queensland cop who cared | Lucy Clark 8 months ago:
I’m sorry but the level of violence in this article goes beyond just someone losing their temper because of life circumstances . These were actions, and suggests to me a psychopath beyond reform.
- Comment on An Australian sentenced to death in China 9 months ago:
Penny Wong dressed down the ambassador. Lol like China gives a fuck.
- Comment on Police call Pride protesters 'an ugly rabble' 9 months ago:
What do you think makes up an institution ? It’s a grouping of people…a collection of individuals. So it seems you’re not getting it.
So yes, it’s still punishing individuals for what other individuals within an institution does.
You seem to be supportive of these paint attacks. That’s worrying because one day it’s paint, what else is next? Physical violence?
- Comment on Police call Pride protesters 'an ugly rabble' 9 months ago:
I’ve already addressed your point. It’s immoral to punish one group of people for someone else’s actions.
It’s not official policy of police to target lgbt, police management aren’t condoning dodgy behavior and yes it’s not easy to stamp out problem police. It’s an ongoing process and always will be. Ergo it’s silly to ban police from the march and sickening to see attacks on innocent police for something someone else did. Black and white thinking and not seeing someone’s humanity is problematic.
Our justice system is based on punishment against individuals and not collectives. If you like the idea of collective punishment there are many other countries you can move to where that kind of thing is acceptable.
This is unfortunately another form of tribalism and us versus them mentality where’s really no need for it. The entire police force are not out to get LGBT in this country.
It is entirely possible to recognize the small pockets of problem police whilst at the same time celebrating and supporting those police doing good work. They aren’t mutually exclusive.
- Comment on Police call Pride protesters 'an ugly rabble' 9 months ago:
I think you are missing the point. If the institution has a policy of being anti lgbt and it was systemic then I might have some sympathy for your argument, but it’s not at that level. And let’s face it if it was really that bad cops wouldn’t want march anyway.
Vicpol has over 20,000 employees and it is absolutely ridiculous to stop police marching outright because of the actions of a few.
And I stand by my point that it doesn’t justify attacking innocent individuals, not now, not ever, in uniform or otherwise. If you think that’s ok I can’t help you.
And as for history lots of bad things happened in history. The answer is not to bring it into the present with more toxic and hostile behavior from other side.
- Comment on Police call Pride protesters 'an ugly rabble' 9 months ago:
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Some police are. That doesn’t justify what was done. Are you going to throw paint on Palestinians for what Hamas did? It’s the same kind of thinking - collective guilt. One of your colleagues did something bad so fuck you, you’re going to cop it. Sorry that’s not justice, that’s just hate.
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If your colleagues are being attacked would you really stand back and do nothing? That’s not reasonable. The police still have to restore order.
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Some people as you put it do not get to decide who can or can’t march in pride. Pride is for everyone , even for police in uniform if they come in the right spirit. It’s not the decision to make of a handful who can or cannot attend. They had a childish dummy spit because they didn’t get their way.
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What exactly are they aiming for? Perfect behavior from every police officer forever more? That’s not realistic. Every profession will always have dodgy cunts and always will. Police can try and have policies and procedures in place but demanding perfection before deciding they want police to march really is silly.
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And again uniform or not, throwing paint on someone is a form of assault and it’s not legal. What did they was going to happen in the media? A pat on the back and hugs and kisses?
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- Comment on Police call Pride protesters 'an ugly rabble' 9 months ago:
“But protesters said police shouldn’t be allowed to participate in the event given why people began protesting in the 1970s.”
Ok so cops today get paint thrown at them for events that happened 40 or 50 years ago? That doesn’t seem reasonable to me. Some police today weren’t even born when this stuff happened, but they nonetheless get punished away?
I really do think this sins of the father stuff has to stop. This is exactly how centuries long feuds between groups people keep going.
And punishing police who support lgbt is not helpful and will do nothing to stamp out those pockets of police that are still problematic.
And above all else, uniform aside these are individuals and should be treated with respect. Just seeing the uniform and nothing else really is dehumanising.
- Comment on Secret WhatsApp messages show co-ordinated campaign to oust Antoinette Lattouf from ABC 9 months ago:
I’m inclined to agree. This is not front page news and arguably not even news.
Some Jewish people unhappy about ABC reporter taking what appears to be an anti Israel position writes a letter of complaint. The fact they are lawyers is neither here nor there.
If the situation was reversed and they were pro Palestinian complaining about what appears to be an anti Palestine point of view nobody would say boo.
- Comment on Aussie Crispmas 11 months ago:
Does this movie come out Christmas Eve?
- Comment on Optus CEO resigns in wake of nationwide outage 11 months ago:
She might be resigning but I’m quite certain the issues that led to this are still there.
- Comment on Number of Australians enrolled in bachelor degrees falls by 12% in less than a decade 11 months ago:
Hopefully it’s less people sucked into doing bullshit degrees and having nothing to show for it at the end except debt. I would argue a lot of jobs don’t actually need a degree and people could simply be trained on the job.
- Comment on Social cohesion lowest on record as Australia reels from cost of living, inequality concerns and voice debate 11 months ago:
You answer my question first then I’ll answer yours.
- Comment on Social cohesion lowest on record as Australia reels from cost of living, inequality concerns and voice debate 11 months ago:
I appreciate the fact you weren’t rude to me in your response, and just this alone is breathtakingly refreshing.
- Comment on Social cohesion lowest on record as Australia reels from cost of living, inequality concerns and voice debate 11 months ago:
You actually know nothing about me, my social status and so on and nor did I make the claim that capitalism solves all problems.
Honestly slinging insults and being rude reflects on you very poorly.
- Comment on Social cohesion lowest on record as Australia reels from cost of living, inequality concerns and voice debate 11 months ago:
Do honestly believe labor governments both at state and federal levels have clean hands? They claim to be a friend of the people then meanwhile enact and support the same kinds policies and tactics.
It is an unfortunate fact in politics that all parties regardless of what they “say” they claim to represent often do the exact opposite. One could argue it’s a matter of degree but nonetheless, all parties must be examined with a critical eye.
- Comment on Social cohesion lowest on record as Australia reels from cost of living, inequality concerns and voice debate 11 months ago:
Because it just creates another form of dystopia.
What works best I think out of all the systems we have currently is something like “cuddly capitalism” i.e. Scandinavia. That’s not perfect either but even so.
- Comment on Social cohesion lowest on record as Australia reels from cost of living, inequality concerns and voice debate 11 months ago:
The comment was directed at you. Do you believe communism is a viable alternative system? If not great we agree.
- Comment on Social cohesion lowest on record as Australia reels from cost of living, inequality concerns and voice debate 11 months ago:
It’s certainly implied with a later comment in this thread.