MHLoppy

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[–] MHLoppy@fedia.io 5 points 6 hours ago

Unfortunately it's also the monkeys holding the money here ):

 

In what may be their first apology issued for the behavior of a Cabinet member, White House officials reportedly apologized to a foreign dignitary Tuesday after the man was bitten by a rabid Robert F. Kennedy Jr. “Sorry, sorry, that’s just our health secretary—I don’t know what’s gotten into him!” senior aide Tasha Sturbridge said as Kennedy snarled and sank his teeth deep into the leg of Japanese envoy Haruto Tanaka, with eyewitnesses reporting a mixture of blood and frothed saliva ringing the secretary’s mouth as his eyes rolled back in his head. [...]

 

Australia has done what it does best today, which is to throw its weight behind a flawed but familiar larrikin simply because he’s being sued by a bigger and worse cunt from overseas.

News broke this morning that US President Donald Trump has launched a $15 billion lawsuit against Rupert Murdoch over a Wall Street Journal article reporting on his alleged involvement in a bizarre birthday tribute to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

While Murdoch has long been accused of corrupting global democracies, manufacturing moral panics and platforming people who would’ve been fed to bears for entertainment in the Middle Ages, the fact that Trump is now suing him has flipped the public’s view of “our Rupert.” [...]

[–] MHLoppy@fedia.io 3 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

Her voting record (again with the disclaimer that we're relying on this one source for that information) is thankfully on the short side. If excluding anything that's only "believe in climate change and that queer people exist" (and not the much larger "social and environmental issues" scope), the majority still looks overall progressive to me.

Very non-exhaustive examples:

  • [for] Increasing access to subsidised childcare
  • [for] Increasing housing affordability
  • [for] Ending immigration detention on Nauru
  • [for] Reducing tax on lowest income bracket
  • [for] The territories being able to legalise euthanasia
  • [against] Reducing tax concessions for high socio-economic status

She then does have the stuff that Frog alluded to:

  • [against] Criminalising wage theft
  • [against] Improving pay and conditions for gig workers
  • [mixed] Increasing workplace protections
  • [mixed] Increasing workplace protections for women

But even mixed-tending-against can be a sliver more progressive than status quo in a policy area, since status quo typically means voting against all changes.

[–] MHLoppy@fedia.io 2 points 9 hours ago

I've come back to this because of how cute the art is *_*

[–] MHLoppy@fedia.io 5 points 17 hours ago (3 children)

If the majority of her voting positions* don't align with "big L liberals" then it seems an inaccurate way to classify her, even if she's not voting progressively on some key things like workers rights etc. Social and environmental issues (which is a significantly expanded scope compared to the previously stated subsets of just [climate change + queer people existing]!) covers a lot of important policy areas.

Given that her voting record seems to be unambiguously and substantially more progressive than any of the LNP members I glanced at, it would be more accurate to describe her record as broadly-progressive-except-in-X.

* relying on this source - I don't know whether this generalizes accurately to her actual voting or not, but I'm assuming it's at least decently accurate

[–] MHLoppy@fedia.io 4 points 1 day ago (5 children)

Daily reminder for what this independent stands for. She is a big L Liberal who just happens to believe in climate change and that queer people exist.

I'm not sure I can agree - using your own source, here are the people which her votes most closely aligned with, in descending order:

Agreement Name Party / Electorate
97% Zoe Daniel Independent Representative for Goldstein
94% Kylea Tink Independent Representative for North Sydney
94% Sophie Scamps Independent Representative for Mackellar
92% Zali Steggall Independent Representative for Warringah
92% Allegra Spender Independent Representative for Wentworth
92% Kate Chaney Independent Representative for Curtin
91% Helen Haines Independent Representative for Indi
81% Andrew Wilkie Independent Representative for Clark
79% Max Chandler-Mather Australian Greens Representative for Griffith
77% Dai Le Independent Representative for Fowler
77% Elizabeth Watson-Brown Australian Greens Representative for Ryan
76% Stephen Bates Australian Greens Representative for Brisbane
75% Adam Bandt Australian Greens Representative for Melbourne

Slightly below that are 95% of current/former ALP members ranging from 62% to 42% in one almost-contiguous block, with 95% of current/former LNP members below that at 40% to 18% in another almost-contiguous block. If her voting record was just LNP + [climate change / queer people existing] then these numbers don't make sense.

There look to be (based on this source) several other policy areas that aren't in the bucket of [climate change / queer people existing] where she's voted progressively. I don't think judging based on a single policy is the right way to accurately classify political leanings here.

edit: softened language slightly because I was just broody about something unrelated to this thread when I first replied

[–] MHLoppy@fedia.io 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Thanks for letting us know that your conviction is just performative shoe-pissing.

[–] MHLoppy@fedia.io 2 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Okay, in do-or-die wartime I can accept some suppression of the truth.

If you genuinely believe the situation in the US is so bad and analogous to wartime that it's worth spreading and supporting lies for the sake of "winning" then you need to stop wasting your time commenting on nottheonion posts and go figure out how to win. At the very least don't waste time talking to people like me who spend time on truth, set up an automated posting farm and flood the entire internet with anti-Trump propaganda with no attention wasted on what's true or otherwise ethical or moral.

If it's not that bad and you can afford to piss away time here then you can still afford the truth.

Pick a consistent position and take actions that align with whatever you pick, but don't try to have your cake and eat it too, it just comes across as hypocrisy to the rest of us. I hope to either see you around or not see you for a few years -- and nothing in-between.

 

During a speech Friday in which he sought to convince MAGA supporters that his administration did not withhold any important information from its partial release of “the Epstein files” in February, President Donald Trump reportedly invited Jeffrey Epstein on stage to explain that there was no conspiracy. “Hey, everybody, I’m Jeffrey—you probably know me from the pedophile stuff in the news,” the financier said to a group of right-wing influencers and members of the White House press pool, admitting that he and the president had a good laugh over the notion that there was something suspicious about the way he died. “To address any confusion or rumors that may have come up over the past five years, I just want everyone to know that I definitely did kill myself, and I am dead. [...]

[–] MHLoppy@fedia.io 2 points 1 day ago

The short paragraphs thing predates smartphones and the collapse of print newspapers (here's a paper from 1996 that does it), so fwiw I don't think it's that. I assume it's some sort of stylistic / presentation thing that's just normalized in news reporting. Maybe it's an outdated holdover from print media somehow (where presumably more spacing = more expensive, so it presumably wasn't a financial motivation) but I think orgs would've moved on by now if it was purely done for unnecessary legacy reasons.

[–] MHLoppy@fedia.io 2 points 1 day ago (5 children)

Accepting whatever makes "the other side" look bad instead of fighting for the truth is the reason we're in this thread talking about that dipshit [Trump]. I'm not sure I'll ever understand why the fuck people in this thread fighting against that so hard

[–] MHLoppy@fedia.io -1 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Trump is a convicted felon, promoted beans at the resolute desk, received millions of dollars in inauguration fundraising from big tech, has his own cryptocurrency which he promoted by promising presidential access, and is being called a madman by economists for the least stable US economic policy since Bretton Woods.

Trump is not like "other country leaders". Historically the above would be disqualifying for "other country leaders". You can't cover news about him like "other country leaders". I almost can't believe that you're saying that you can.

[–] MHLoppy@fedia.io 1 points 2 days ago

Fucking socialists man /s

 

If you’re on the lookout for the next way that the woke mind virus is going to infect our society and try to achieve its stated goal of “making the world a better place,” look no further than this terrifying development: This government agency is attempting to solve the problems it was created to solve in order to make life better for the taxpayers who fund it.

And there you have it, folks. The socialists have finally taken over. [...]

[–] MHLoppy@fedia.io -2 points 2 days ago (5 children)

Yes, but the implication of "given the medal to look at" and "pocketing FIFA medal" is that Trump "stole" it or wasn't supposed to keep it, which I haven't seen supported by a credible source yet.

Edit: regarding your own edit (adding the second image), I found no information at the linked source supporting the sentence as presented.

 

A VShojo executive is the latest individual to leave the Vtuber company, as the director of talent left after over 3 years.

 

(Yubari Rei)

Pixiv source (has same res, losslessly compressed image)

 

Like every parent, I want my kids to be safe. I know that for my young daughter and son to grow and thrive, they need to feel secure in their surroundings. But with the way people coddle their children these days, I fear we’re raising a generation that won’t be able to handle life’s basic challenges. So when my kids face tough situations, like getting shot at, I try not to shelter them too much. I realize if I take a bullet for them, they may never learn to take bullets themselves.

When my second-grader’s shoe comes untied, or my kindergartner’s coat needs zipping, I don’t immediately kneel down and do it for them. They’re old enough to manage these things on their own, and though they may get frustrated at times, it’s a necessary lesson in personal responsibility. Same deal when shots are fired. I could throw myself in front of them the moment someone starts shooting in their direction, but then I’m not exactly preparing them for life, am I?

Obviously, I wouldn’t be doing my kids any favors if I sent them out into the world not knowing how to sustain a gunshot wound to the chest. [...]

 

Summary of changes:

  • Interest can now be earned on balances up to $1 million (up from $250,000).
  • Interest rate is now flat up to $1 million (instead of progressively lower for higher balances).*
  • Bonus interest rate activated by growing account balances by $1 (instead of by depositing $500 per month regardless of withdrawal).**

* But the interest rate has been lowered, so if you're one of those peasants who doesn't keep a cool mil in your bank account, you'll probably have a lower effective interest rate now
** this change only applies from October onwards.

 

The miraculous survival of German backpacker Carolina Wilga in the West Australian outback was met with joy and relief across the country. But for families of missing Aboriginal men who are still searching for answers, it's prompted uncomfortable questions.


"It sounds cruel to say, but when an Aboriginal male goes missing, most of the public don't care," says private investigator Robyn Cottman, who is representing the families of the missing men.

Clinton Lockyer's aunty, Annalee Lockyer, says the perceived indifference adds to their grief.

"Of course we're all glad the backpacker is alive, but it did hurt to see all the coverage," she says.

"You think, does anyone care about our boys the same way? It's not nice to feel like their lives don't even matter — it really hurts."

 

In a stunning security breach that reportedly left many top-ranking administration officials vulnerable to attack, the White House was evacuated Tuesday after the building’s trans alarm went off.

Officials confirmed the transgender alert system was triggered during President Donald Trump’s morning briefing, when infrared estrogen sensors in the West Wing detected a large spike in gender fluidity dangerously close to the Oval Office. With an alarm blaring the words “Trans, trans, trans,” the Secret Service initiated a Code Rainbow, which prompted agents to rush the president to safety, place Cabinet members in a hormone-proof bunker, and secure the premises from radical gender ideology.

“At approximately 10:02 a.m., a transgender individual actively approached the perimeter of a highly restricted cisgender-only area,” said Secret Service chief Sean Curran, adding that the trans alarm operated as intended when it immediately cut the lights, initiated a siren, and lowered several trans-resistant blast doors. “Thanks to our brave, quick-thinking officers on the White House security detail, President Trump and the penis he was born with are safe from any harmful hormone therapies or gential [sic] mutilation.” [...]

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