Psittacus

34 | Engineer | He/Him | I like birds and charts

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@WaltherDawg2022 @LongTimeHistory If my employer mandated that I had to be cruel to children I wouldn't do it 🤷‍♂️

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@TimWilsonMP I dunno man I've been following what has been happening in the West Bank for the better part of a decade and people were already pretty bloody emboldened to target civilians

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@sammyChica @HonTonyAbbott As a relatively weak power stuck between two superpowers itching to go at it, taking the side of international law as much as is practical is actually very much in our interests.

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@JohnS6592571936 @DavidShoebridge Depending on the complexity of the parts it could take a few months to a few years to source and qualify new ones, and that's not a negligible impact. Of course it will pale in comparison to the 10-20 year impact of having to replace the majority of the RAAF's combat aircraft.

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@RyanWil62993886 @DavidShoebridge They both are.
- I assume that Marles is lying to cover his arse legally.
- Shoebridge is conveniently leaving out that if we interfere with the JSF program it could cripple our F-35s along with Israel's (and Japan's, South Korea's, Norway's, Belgium's, etc).

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@truthleaks_ @caitoz Successive past governments signed us up to things that make us increasingly reliant on doing things we also signed up to not do and this government has been left holding the bag.

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@psylenced @KellieTranter What people harping on about being beholden to foreign nations on defence don't seem to realise is that this is the culmination of 50+ years of policy that they couldn't care less about at the time when we were locking ourselves into it, and it would take decades more to reverse.

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@psylenced @KellieTranter Except the country that put the embargo in place, which will lose them completely and have to find a replacement platform, which can take decades.

That's the actual dilemma at play here that people avoid talking about. The risk-benefit is massively stacked against us.

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@pixeltoofar @DavidShoebridge @Lana_Tatour My read is that they've received legal advice telling them that it would be a bad idea.

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@DavidShoebridge I fail to see how taking the RAAF out the back of the shed enables us to pursue a more independent foreign policy.

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@boganintel What do you mean against the wishes of the population? The population wanted us to keep outsourcing our defence to foreign nations and underinvest in our own capabilities. This is the end result, and now people are complaining that we can't turn it around at the drop of a hat.

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@UnfilteredNewz @BevJohnst It's Country, not country. The problem is one of their own making.

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@__apologist @antihierarch @annakatherines_ We could always learn each other's language, instead of putting all the onus on the marginalised people

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@LeaveHeardAlone I used to be one of those "hurh he got impeached for lying about a blowjob" folks. Then I listened to season 2 of Slow Burn and realised *very* quickly how obvious it is that he abused his power in that relationship.

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@returnofthemc11 @HotCoals__ @DiscussingFilm The thing you clearly don't understand about Superman is that he would reject the idea that some heroes are "lesser" than him out of hand.

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@Krazcarr @chooseliberty @Kaizerrev (The guy you're responding to is well aware of this because he also believes in nothing except accruing power for his in-group)

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@MacAshling Don't forget "domestic violence is bad"

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@BillyBobofWV @esjesjesj @grok If we all stopped producing greenhouse gases tomorrow the temperature would still rise substantially because these effects are on *decades* of lag.