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

@LongTimeHistory To be fair if the teacher had followed the district rules she wouldn't be in this mess. How hard is it to follow the rules laid out by your employer?

Florida teacher fired—just for calling student by their preferred name. State law requires written parental permission before teacher can use their preferred name—even a nickname. She was first teacher fired for violating the state’s "don’t say gay" law. Ron DeSantis also tried to back out of a settlement deal—allowing her to at least retain her minimum teaching credentials that she could use in another jurisdiction. The school superintendent has now officially ruled that she will not be rehired by the school district. Melissa Calhoun had worked 11 years for Brevard Public Schools. #DemsUnited

@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

Until today it was a bipartisan policy that any solution required the return of Israeli hostages and the end of Hamas’ control over Gaza. Today’s decision will embolden those that deliberately target civilians. My thoughts are with those that will live with the consequences.

Our government made a choice today: It will not lead to peace, nor the release of hostages. The Albanese government has backed a Palestinian state without requiring a recognition of Israel’s right to exist, nor its safety & security, nor the release of hostages.

@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.

@HonTonyAbbott Its very sad. It's taking sides and it's not right. We are Australia.

Recognition of Palestine should be a reward for good behaviour not bad. Recognising Palestine with Hamas still armed, still holding hostages, still largely running Gaza and withholding aid, and still pledged to the destruction of Israel is unconscionable. By all means suggest alternatives to the Israeli government’s approach, but handing a propaganda victory to terrorism is just wrong

@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.

@DavidShoebridge lol the f-35 fleet being grounded if australia stops supplying parts. no another company in the supply chain will make them. you are a fuckwit

Watching Defence Minister Richard Marles refuse to answer basic questions about Australia’s export of weapons parts to Israel is excruciating.

@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).

Unfortunately, this video I made over a year ago is as relevant now as it was then. The Albanese Government must end the two-way arms trade with Israel.

@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.

@caitoz This isn’t just bad optics--it’s the kind of trainwreck that makes people wonder what’s really going on behind closed doors.

Oh my god this is bad. He keeps shifting from nervous stammering to lying that "we are not supplying weapons to Israel" to this bizarre "we are an F-35 country" slogan that only swamp monsters in Canberra understand. One of the worst TV interviews I've seen any official give.

@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.

@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.

Marles conveniently avoids the fact that under international law, Australia is not permitted to provide support for the Israeli regime. He refuses to answer directly any question about what we do supply - notably without denying the supplies he was asked about - and tries to escape responsibility by the old trope that what we do doesn't make any difference. That is not an excuse for not complying with our international obligations. We have to do what we can and to hear the drivel about "non-lethal" F-35 parts and armoured plating having unknown uses just defies belief. See also @DeclassifiedAus investigative pieces declassifiedaus.org/2025/07/18/mor… declassifiedaus.org/2025/07/11/rev… declassifiedaus.org/2025/04/20/exc… declassifiedaus.org/2025/03/26/tra… #auspol #sanctions #insiders #ICJrulings #globalsupplychain #warcrimes #complicity #partsandcomponents #internationallaw #dutytoprevent #genocide #Gaza

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

@DavidShoebridge @Lana_Tatour Why can’t he just be honest?

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

Australia won’t stop sending weapons parts to Israel and facilitating the genocide because Labor are genuinely scared to stand up to Donald Trump and the US. It would require courage and mean walking away from AUKUS and taking a far more independent defence and foreign policy.

Australia’s supply to Israel of F35 weapons parts is the “direct facilitation of war crimes” says Josh Paul, former Director of Congressional and Public Affairs, Bureau of Political-Military Affairs, in the US State Dept. So why won’t Labor stop doing it? abc.net.au/listen/program…

@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.

We are in a period of mass sovereign transfer from our political elite to a foreign power. Our leaders do this against the wishes of the population of Australia. This is a pre revolutionary time.

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

@BevJohnst They should have just called it a traditional aboriginal welcome instead of a welcome to country. When you call it a welcome to country it implies its not your country, which is where a lot of people find the problem.

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

@antihierarch @annakatherines_ it’s different, consciously masking is more like translation than hiding. It’s abt effectively communicating your the thoughts and feelings to those around you- if they’re NT you need to translate for them bc they don’t know our language.

People need to realize that unless u are severely (like non verbal) autistic, being “socially awkward” is something you can fix with practice. Social skills are like any skills: some people are born w natural ability, most people have to learn thru practice

@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.

I don’t need Bill Clinton’s name to show up on Epstein’s list to form an opinion of him — because I believe survivors. Dozens of women have accused Bill Clinton of sexual assault, sexual harassment & other sexual misconduct. I believe them. Clinton should be held accountable for what he did. & I understand that the reason he hasn’t been is because men with influence and power almost never are. I understand that establishment democrats probably protected him and that’s disgusting. Just as many women have accused Trump of misconduct, assault, harassment — but y’all just either don’t believe them or you do — and don’t care. His name could be all over that list and MAGA would still support him. Establishment Republicans would still protect him.

@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.

@HotCoals__ @DiscussingFilm By reducing the characters screen time to showing him saving dogs and squirrels? Yes. That's for lesser superheroes, not DC's, arguably, godlike-strongest hero.

James Gunn says he almost cut the scene of Superman saving a squirrel from the film because test screening audiences didn’t like it: “We showed it to test audiences and some people did not like the squirrel. They’re like, ‘Why the fuck is he saving a squirrel? Why is he taking time out, saving a squirrel?’ There was a cut where I cut it out and I’m like, ‘I really miss the squirrel. He’s gotta save the squirrel.’” (Source: rollingstone.com/tv-movies/tv-m…)

@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)

@chooseliberty @Kaizerrev You don’t understand the term ad hominem. You don’t debate fascist because fascist ideology is the narcissism of ideology. It does not actually want to engage in a good faith debate. It wants to demean and dominate you by getting on your platform and overtaking you.

Mehdi Hasan attempts to label Pinesap a Fascist during a debate on Jubilee. Pinesap tells him he doesn't care about being called a Nazi Mehdi then says "I don't debate Fascists"

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

I just want to make sure I’m summarizing your points correctly since you had just so many unique and different examples. So if I’m understanding correctly the litany of “left wing” ideals they were “pushing onto kids” were as follows: 1.) racism is bad 2.) trans kids like sports

@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.

@esjesjesj @grok Wow, so we're destroying our own economy for less than .014 degrees C in 100 years? That seems like madness.