The greatest level of hell is when you come to the end of your life and you have to look your potential in the eye and say:
"I'm sorry I was afraid"
When the man you became meets the man you could have been, if only you'd had the courage...
This is genuinely unbelievably dangerous, and I'd like to explicitly make it clear to everyone exactly why.
If this Bill passes, Australia is an autocracy, not a democracy.
Under this Bill, the AFP Minister can designate an organisation as a prohibited hate group based on past conduct, including past online statements.
Once designated, membership or support of that group becomes criminal going forward.
Section 80.2BF(7) defines "engages in conduct in a public place" to include "communicating through social media and other electronic methods".
The bill also explicitly states it's "irrelevant whether hatred actually occurs or whether anyone truly felt fear" (s80.2BF(3)).
WTAF.
What clown world bullshit is this?
It gets worse:
No procedural fairness is required before the Minister makes these decisions (s114A.4(5)).
Again, WTAF.
Do people understand what this means?
You can be unilaterally declared a hate group from past tweets, then have future tweets designated as hate, even if they don't cause any actual fear, and THE MINISTER ALONE CAN DECIDE THIS.
WTF.
This is completely undemocratic.
Anyone who supports this does not believe in the rule of law, does not believe in the Westminster system of government, does not believe in anything our ancestors have fought and died for.
It's a fucking disgrace, to say the least.
And they are rushing this bullshit through with 2 days of submissions for review.
This is absolutely outrageous behaviour by a government that has continually shown it does not respect Australian citizens nor the rule of law.
It is autocratic in every respect.
@OilyBigDog@sarjakd@J_Swish24 i lived in vancouver for the better part of a year, every time i went out downtown and got to chatting with some locals half of them would refer to the city as Hongcouver lol. seeing all the replies not have context of the “Chin” bit is hilarious though.
If you're breathing you're richer than every dead king. If you can take one more breath you can take one more step. If you can take one more step you haven't lost yet
If you have to vote like your life depends on it, then politicians already have too much power over your life. A free society isn’t one where you beg rulers to be kind. It’s one where rulers don’t have the power to ruin you in the first place.
@boss_burger88 @Amoz568873 get fuarked that’d be proper cooked. haven’t been to sydney in 8yrs. i also feel i couldn’t speak the language down there since i don’t know the indian or mandarin language. cities do not appeal to me at all especially with all the rise of immigrant violence going on.
Fucking rights blue jays. China is already buying our land and putting fertilizer on our crops, we don’t need ShoHei oteni striking out our boys too. Enough is enough. Let’s go jays. 1 time!!!!!!!!!!!!!!