Cypher
@Cypher@aussie.zone
- Comment on Australian pharmacy 60-day prescription scenario brings positive result 5 days ago:
I made note of the pharmacies that ran that propaganda with signs with scare tactics on them and refuse to use any of them.
- Comment on Private health insurance is a dud. That’s why a majority of Australians don’t have it | Grogonomics 5 days ago:
You can basically get the cheapest plan around and try to use whatever benefits it does provide.
If you’re not going to be over the income threshold for the levy then I don’t think it ever really matters for you but I would need to check that.
- Comment on Calling Indigenous lore science marks Ed Husic’s ignorance 3 weeks ago:
The article, while not great, is clearly the refutation of claims made by Ed Husic. The onus of proof would then be on Ed.
From your first link
One only has to look at the origins of the word ‘Science’. It comes from the Latin word ‘Scientia’, which simply means ‘to know’.
To suggest that there are any groups of human beings who didn’t have science is, ironically, quite unscientific.
This completely dismisses that science is a formalised practice of the scientific method and is akin to claiming that any knowledge is science which I reject.
I have yet to read the other sources provided, which I will get to when I have the time.
- Comment on Calling Indigenous lore science marks Ed Husic’s ignorance 3 weeks ago:
Then show us a single hypothesis formed by Indigenous peoples pre-colonisation.
- Comment on NDIS participants can no longer access sex worker services through funding. Advocates say it's a 'deep betrayal' 4 weeks ago:
Seems federated comments are several days behind.
Anyway that’s a swing and a miss, that stupid bitch died alone and taking social security payments.
I support Unions and workers.
- Comment on NDIS participants can no longer access sex worker services through funding. Advocates say it's a 'deep betrayal' 4 weeks ago:
The Albanese government has delivered a tax cut to all Australians, and stopped spending money on sex workers through the NDIS.
You seem very uninformed.
- Comment on NDIS participants can no longer access sex worker services through funding. Advocates say it's a 'deep betrayal' 4 weeks ago:
Aged care has economic benefits as fewer working age people are not required to care for the elderly.
This is very basic stuff.
Blowjobs don’t contribute anything to the economy.
- Comment on NDIS participants can no longer access sex worker services through funding. Advocates say it's a 'deep betrayal' 4 weeks ago:
No the point was less fucking. Though I have got mine.
- Comment on NDIS participants can no longer access sex worker services through funding. Advocates say it's a 'deep betrayal' 4 weeks ago:
You’re amusing enough but I wouldn’t call you a clown.
- Comment on NDIS participants can no longer access sex worker services through funding. Advocates say it's a 'deep betrayal' 4 weeks ago:
Aged care, military and school funding al benefit society as a whole.
Paying for hookers does not benefit society as a whole and therefore it is not comparable, meaning you have made an argument of false equivalence.
- Comment on NDIS participants can no longer access sex worker services through funding. Advocates say it's a 'deep betrayal' 4 weeks ago:
Taxes can be lowered if the government isn’t wasting money.
- Comment on NDIS participants can no longer access sex worker services through funding. Advocates say it's a 'deep betrayal' 4 weeks ago:
You haven’t refuted my argument in the slightest.
Every cent I pay in taxes that are spent on something I don’t benefit from is literally money I no longer have to improve my own quality of life.
- Comment on NDIS participants can no longer access sex worker services through funding. Advocates say it's a 'deep betrayal' 4 weeks ago:
I’m sorry that you have to pay 100% of your income
Hmmm looks like that’s an argument I never made, let’s check the definition of a straw man argument.
A straw man is a form of argument and an informal fallacy based on giving the impression of refuting an opponent’s argument, while actually refuting an argument that was not presented by that opponent
Nothing about the straw man fallacy excludes hyperbole.
Under examples we can see
Exaggerating (sometimes grossly) an opponent’s argument, then attacking this exaggerated version.
Oh you thought I was talking about the very real possibility of someone wanting to commit suicide due to disability…. Tsk tsk.
As I said right from the outset, if there is no science to say that paying for hookers is a more effective use of money than other support methods then it shouldn’t be paid for by public funds.
No evidence, no funds, Im a happy man.
Do try to keep up.
- Comment on NDIS participants can no longer access sex worker services through funding. Advocates say it's a 'deep betrayal' 4 weeks ago:
It’s alright, the government agrees with me.
No more blowjobs on NDIS dollars.
Guess your strawman will be offing itself soon.
- Comment on Lone Soldiers. New Australian IDF recruits due to arrive in Israel in January 5 weeks ago:
They should be refused re-entry to Australia.
- Comment on NDIS participants can no longer access sex worker services through funding. Advocates say it's a 'deep betrayal' 5 weeks ago:
More of my tax is going to the NDIS than to Medicare.
I would rather funds be spent on Medicare than hookers but you do you.
- Comment on NDIS participants can no longer access sex worker services through funding. Advocates say it's a 'deep betrayal' 5 weeks ago:
Well that’s a lot of false equivalence going on, good luck with that.
- Comment on NDIS participants can no longer access sex worker services through funding. Advocates say it's a 'deep betrayal' 5 weeks ago:
And I have a need for some rest and relaxation from the daily grind. I would rather spend my money on myself than on hookers for someone else.
Weird I know.
- Comment on NDIS participants can no longer access sex worker services through funding. Advocates say it's a 'deep betrayal' 5 weeks ago:
No I’m against it because I don’t believe in paying for sex, that sex workers are predatory and undeserving of public funds.
I was pointing out the political reality of the situation because regardless of my personal opinion the outcome will be decided by the electorate.
Again, welcome to reality, sometimes life sucks and then you die.
- Comment on NDIS participants can no longer access sex worker services through funding. Advocates say it's a 'deep betrayal' 5 weeks ago:
Every government that has tried to tax billionaires more has been voted out.
No government is going to win an election when smear campaigns can truthfully say the government is paying for hookers.
Welcome to reality.
- Comment on One in five Australian renters are living without essential items and in poverty, peak body study finds 5 weeks ago:
When you break it down by region it makes a bit more sense but plenty of people are still doing it tough.
- Comment on NDIS participants can no longer access sex worker services through funding. Advocates say it's a 'deep betrayal' 5 weeks ago:
Everyone else who pays taxes towards a program like the NDIS is giving up a little of their own quality of life.
Hookers shouldn’t be getting NDIS funds paid to them when there are still people going without and this is part of balancing the budget to ensure the NDIS is sustainable.
- Comment on U16 Social Media Ban - Senate 1hr debate before the vote, some time tonight on the livestream 5 weeks ago:
I have warned about this. Access to online services will soon be locked behind your mygov id.
These plans have been in motion for a long time.
- Comment on NDIS participants can no longer access sex worker services through funding. Advocates say it's a 'deep betrayal' 5 weeks ago:
I see no evidence backed by actual science that allowing NDIS funded access to sex services improves outcomes for the community.
And I don’t just mean the disabled community but broader society, which is paying for the NDIS.
If this is about funding making a subset of people feel good and not about actual outcomes then I might as well ask for taxpayers to fund my holidays.
- Comment on Who was our best Prime Minister and why? 1 month ago:
Menzies oversaw the nation building that occurred after WW2 and everything that has come since has been heavily influenced by his work.
Though I do rate Whitlam and Hawke highly as well so Im pretty happy with responses in this thread!
- Comment on 'Nothing short of horrifying': Rental affordability in Australia the worst it's ever been, report says 8 months ago:
Rent got high enough it matched the interest on a loan for me… so now I’m a home owner.
Understandably not everyone is in that position but I hope we can boost home ownership rates or we’re in for a very bad time.
- Comment on Pluralistic: "If buying isn't owning, piracy isn't stealing" 1 year ago:
The performers time is not infinitely reproducible so your argument is apples and oranges.
- Comment on Survive the zombie apocalypse 1 year ago:
There are diesel Kawasaki KLR motorcycles that will run on literally anything, not that they’re very fast but they would at least preserve your stamina for when you need it.
They’re also extremely robust and simple to repair.
- Comment on Survive the zombie apocalypse 1 year ago:
Well at least the AK is reliable because you’ll need it when the Jeep breaks down.
- Comment on Elite Dangerous studio Frontier Developments announce layoffs and "organisational review" 1 year ago:
I was looking forward to playing Elite with PS VR2 but they don’t bother supporting it, and I couldn’t even get the account sync to work.
It’s the one game I have refunded on PS5.