rory shortball
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rory shortball
@RShortball
Trucking up short balls from the peanut gallery
Katılım Ekim 2013
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So shocking the Australian government supports bombing girls schools and hospitals.
What have you become @AustralianLabor?
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@BMcSport As a tahs fan, don’t think its sour grapes for brumbies fans to ask how something so
Obvious was missed
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Right. After a midnight finish at the stadium, I decided to sleep on this...
What a game, first and foremost.
Reds better than last week, get a reminder of why you need to play out games.
Brumbies will be stinging for not closing an 11pt lead, and with a tough fortnight ahead.
And yes, there was a clear knock-on at the end. And yes, mistakes happen. But the question of how it was missed remains valid...
#SuperRugbyPacific
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@senatorpennyqld Ha ha ha. International law only applies in one direction?
Iran has wilfully disregarded international law for decades, his g behind proxies and allies
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The attacks on Iran by Israel and the United States are illegal, unprovoked and unjustifiable.
Peace and diplomacy was possible. Instead, Israel and the United States chose war.
This is the behaviour of rogue states — and they have jeopardised the safety of humankind around the world with this catastrophic act of aggression.
Our government must condemn this flagrant breach of international law, and urgently pursue a foreign policy based on justice, sovereignty and peace.
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@DavidShoebridge Iran has been bombing for decades. Did you ever stand up to them?
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Who believed that "if they only released the hostages"? Who believed in the ceasefire?
After killing 500+ people in about 3 months, Israel- armed and supported by the US - continues its genocide in Gaza undisturbed.
Don't let it become the new normal. Stand up against genocide!
Gaza Notifications@gazanotice
🚨BREAKING: The Gaza Strip is currently witnessing heavy and intermittent Israeli airstrikes across multiple areas.
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The idea that being “indigenous” automatically grants moral ownership of land collapses the moment you look at actual human history and apply a consistent moral standard to it.
Long before Europeans arrived, Native American tribes fought, displaced, absorbed, and sometimes wiped out other tribes. The Iroquois Confederacy expanded by crushing rivals. The Aztec Empire grew through conquest, coercion, and tribute. Entire peoples vanished not because of outsiders, but because stronger neighbors took their land. This was not an exception. It was the rule.
Morality cannot selectively ignore facts. If land was already changing hands through violence and domination, then “who was there first” cannot logically create an eternal moral claim. A past act of conquest does not become morally sacred simply because enough time has passed.
This is not a uniquely American story. It is the story of Homo sapiens everywhere. Humans migrate, compete, conquer, assimilate, and redraw borders. Always have. Always will. No population on earth holds land because history peacefully granted it moral title. Land is held because, at some point, power determined the outcome.
Modern moral legitimacy therefore cannot come from ancestry alone. It comes from present responsibility. From how societies govern today, how rights are protected today, and how power is exercised now. Morality applies to living systems, not frozen historical snapshots chosen for political convenience.
“Indigenous” is not a scientific or ethical category. It is a political one. It freezes history at a convenient moment and declares that everything before that moment does not count. Who decides that moment? Whoever benefits from it.
If you rewind history far enough, every group was once indigenous.
If you stop history early enough, every conqueror can reinvent themselves as a victim.
Moral arguments about land that ignore this reality are not about justice. They are about power, timing, and narrative control.
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I neither speak nor understand Arabic. I suspect @ChrisMinnsMP is in the same boat. When the rallies began, I wanted to understand precisely what intifada meant because it was being chanted. Was it an incitement? And an incitement to what exactly? Most of us became familiar with the word at the onset of the first Intefada which involved widespread civil disobedience. The 2nd Intefada was more violent - it involved suicide bombings.
It was fascinating to discover its actual meaning, in particular because of the widespread use of the metaphor across many languages and cultures as an inspiration for liberation: a shaking off of a yoke, a rising up against oppression. That resilience in the indomitable human quest for freedom from oppression.
The phenomenon is lionised in poetry, song and prose commemorating liberation across cultures that have had to shed oppression, and I hope a linguist out there is writing a paper on equivalent expressions in our indigenous languages that will capture for the sake of history and future generations of indigenous Australians, their ancestors’ struggle against the invasion of their world.
Is it by definition a violent ‘armed’ uprising? The answer is no, and ‘Globalise the Intefada’ is used by Palestinian activists to inspire what has indeed already happened - the world’s people have understood the necessity and urgency to speak up about liberation of the Palestinian people, they have indeed ‘risen up’ to demand their governments take meaningful action to stop the genocide, the ethnic cleansing, the occupation, the land theft, the oppression, the starvation, the killing of journalists, doctors, first responders, the targeted shooting of children, to impose sanctions on Israel, to stop supplying weaponry to Israel, to stop funding the genocide by buying arms and technology battle-tested on the Palestinian population. They have continued to rally every Sunday for 2 years, to ask for these things. The Intefada is indeed globalised. And the purpose is to stop this global Intefada.
They can ban every word in the Arabic language, but until they comprehend and address the root cause of terrorism, we are not resolving what has put us all at risk, and, due to the genocide conducted by Israel while purporting to represent all Jews, Jewish people in particular. Whilst the root cause is not dealt with, we will live in fear.
In trying to crush a broad based movement’s will to ‘rise up’ and oppose oppression @ChrisMinns is prepared to trash Australians’ democratic right to political expression, all for the sake of not addressing the root cause of terrorism and appeasing the Zionist Lobby.
Does anyone, anyone at all, genuinely believe peaceful anti genocide rallies have caused the terrorist attack. I doubt it. On the other hand, is this oppression likely to increase both antisemitism and contempt of our political leadership. We’re heading into a new year and dangerous uncharted territory.
Shane Bazzi@shanebazzi
Excellent question from @FaridYFarid to @ChrisMinnsMP, asking him to explain the word intifada and why he is banning an Arabic word while at the same time saying that he doesn’t want to whip up fear and racism.
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@MaryKostakidis @ChrisMinnsMP intifada = words
Banning words = censorship
Words are not violence but punishment for speaking words is.
It's the upside down world.
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The hero of Bondi was a migrant
Many of the victims of Bondi were migrants, at least one a holocaust survivor
One of the two killers was an Australian citizen
Born, bred and educated here
Migrants aren’t the problem
They should be welcome and loved
Facts are facts
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@swiftjur123 @TheSaviour 🤡
Farmers and gun clubs and sports shooters also don’t exist in Australia
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🚨🇮🇱🇦🇺 Image shows the deceased Israeli rabbi, attacked in Australia, alongside IDF soldiers
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@RShortball @TheSaviour Ok, 1996, Port Arthur- since then
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@TheSaviour No one gets their hands on a gun in Australia unless it’s government sanctioned. End of story. You have to wait for a farm gun to shoot pests on your farm for years and jump through all these security checks 🤣 Since 1993 it’s IMPOSSIBLE TO OWN A FIREARM IN AUSTRALIA
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The All-Time Worst People in History
0. Benjamin Netanyahu 🇮🇱
1. Adolf Hitler 🇩🇪
2. Pol Pot 🇰🇭
3. Heinrich Himmler 🇩🇪
4. Kim Jong-il 🇰🇵
5. Mao Zedong 🇨🇳
6. Kim Il-sung 🇰🇵
7. Idi Amin 🇺🇬
8. Jim Jones 🇺🇸
9. Josef Mengele 🇩🇪
10. Ted Bundy 🇺🇸
11. Osama bin Laden 🇸🇦
12. Kim Jong-un 🇰🇵
13. Joseph Goebbels 🇩🇪
14. Benito Mussolini 🇮🇹
15. Jefferey Dahmer 🇺🇸
16. Saddam Hussein 🇮🇶
17. Joseph Stalin 🇷🇺
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@huddhaaa What does the Bondi incident have to do with Gaza?
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Drew is so desperate for these men to be Muslims, he has a hard-on or whatever passes for a Drew hard-on.
Drew Pavlou 🇦🇺🇺🇸🇺🇦🇹🇼@DrewPavlou
MASS SHOOTING AT BONDI BEACH MULTIPLE GUNMEN THIS IS HAPPENING LIVE
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A city over 5,775 years old was wiped out
live on air by a 77-year-old colonizer!
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@HuwTindall @OBBY001 Outside backs that can catch a high ball?
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@OBBY001 As long as RA ain't paying a cent then cool. Outside backs we don't need no matter how good.
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