Lettuce Rejoice

[Lettuce Rejoice @strayansaw]

@jesseisahack Canberra is not a city.

Canberra is a government policy.

As a result of being an artificial city that would revert to its natural form as a sheep paddock if the APS just moved to the various state capitals - the Federation has a right to intervene.

After all, It funds it.

[Lettuce Rejoice @strayansaw]

@PatsKarvelas Right now Senator Price is getting reamed by the left for talking about her experience of racism in Australia.

You invited Noel Pearson on RN to outright abuse Mick Gooda for suggesting a compromise on the Voice.

Denialism of Langton's public statements is absurd, Constable.

[Lettuce Rejoice @strayansaw]

@JosephK_OK @rachelrwithers Would you apply the same logic to other Indigenous women with white fathers? (ie: Senator Thorpe?).

Her mother is Bess Price for god sakes.

[Lettuce Rejoice @strayansaw]

@JustinWolfers The OpSec stuff is certainly not compelling enough to demonstrate a justification defence to any libel action brought by the man in the UK.

[Lettuce Rejoice @strayansaw]

@rachelrwithers There are fanatics on the far-right.

They don't represent the mainstream oppo to the Voice anymore than the far-left Anti-Zionist cranks colour the Yes campaign.

I like Mark Leibler more than David Adler. But smart, decent people can be wrong.

https://t.co/orKdXGvKUl

[Lettuce Rejoice @strayansaw]

@Peter_Fitz I mean - personally I think the day we refused to increase the pre-WW2 intake of Jewish refugees at the Evian conference was a bit of a doozy.

Or the day the White Australia legislation came into force. Or any of the large massacres in the Frontier wars.

[Lettuce Rejoice @strayansaw]

@quiet_101 @Leo_Puglisi6 @BarbHossen @lvan61 Look - if we're playing the good public transport game (which is not a great proxy for quality of life)... I'll take airport rail over light rail.

I'll also take freeways over tollroads and bountiful mineral wealth over gambling addiction.

[Lettuce Rejoice @strayansaw]

@campbelIbain @Leo_Puglisi6 @BarbHossen @lvan61 If international stars want to do a one stopper in Australia - they usually play Sydney, not Melbourne.

Melbourne is no more a cultural oasis than Perth is a cultural desert. It's just got tickets on itself because it's been in relative decline since the Gold Rush.

[Lettuce Rejoice @strayansaw]

@_ClaireConnelly Truth/justification is an absolute defence to defamation.

This threat will evaporate into legal nothingness.

[Lettuce Rejoice @strayansaw]

@JaneCaro Well - it slowly died in Western European countries because they lacked concentrated state power.

It stayed very much alive in Russia and Asia for centuries.

[Lettuce Rejoice @strayansaw]

@gronk_gronk @Leo_Puglisi6 Paris is worth a mass

[Lettuce Rejoice @strayansaw]

@Leo_Puglisi6 @BarbHossen @lvan61 WA/Perth is great for normal/happy people who like sunshine, high wages, the best beaches in Australia, general wealth, good block sizes and not getting murdered while waiting at a tram spot.

Melbourne is good for people who think depression is a personality/ artistic trait.

[Lettuce Rejoice @strayansaw]

@EllieMellor27 @DodgyDave452 @CameraLeon @theJeremyVine @MikeyCycling "In a traffic queue".

Cycling Mikey has form with this, I suspect it's because it's easier to get good footage when the car is stationary.

People should follow the law.
But we live in a society.

[Lettuce Rejoice @strayansaw]

@DodgyDave452 @CameraLeon @theJeremyVine @MikeyCycling Simple traffic offences are crimes in the same way that parking offences or planning slip breaches are crimes - in that they're essentially civil penalties with a thin gloss of state enforcement.

[Lettuce Rejoice @strayansaw]

@CameraLeon @theJeremyVine @MikeyCycling So is going around doing citizen's arrests on people you have seen shoplifting.

It's not Batman, but it isn't behaviour that should be celebrated by a healthy society.

[Lettuce Rejoice @strayansaw]

@purplepingers This is fair.

The point of tenancy regulation isn't to subsidise the rental costs of tenants, gum up the rental property market, or force landlords to live in their shit sharehouse for a day before doing a renovation to improve the property.

[Lettuce Rejoice @strayansaw]

@DoctorKarl Fanatics exist.

But if Twitter mattered to actual voting outcomes, Belinda Jones would have been elected to Parliament in Fadden.

Instead she received 1% of the vote.

[Lettuce Rejoice @strayansaw]

@Tassiedevil5 @QBCCIntegrity @couriermail Probably (although there's a lack of good data).

But rape/physical violence against women is rare.

[Lettuce Rejoice @strayansaw]

@hughriminton The ironic thing about all of this is he's quite clearly overleveraged to the hilt and wants unemployment to rise/ migration to be infinite to avoid further rate hikes that will decimate whatever is left of his balance sheet.