BF2S Forums Australian politics thread.

Eh, Pyne is my MP, fuck you guys.

Hockey is my current MP :'(

Jaekus wrote:

Hockey is my current MP :'(

We share a birthday. I keep wishing him happy birthday, he's never said it back. What a dick.

Dilbert_X wrote:

Eh, Pyne is my MP, fuck you guys.

It's all right Dilbert, that doesn't reflect poorly on you. Unless you voted for him of course.

Cybargs wrote:

you should sell him expensive wine.

I'll send him a bottle of Grange, I hope he forgets...

This channel is amazing.

I want to meet him. I only found his channel two days ago.

Adams_BJ wrote:

backlash because abbott drank beer

but hawkie was praised.

both went to oxferd

The lesbians really have taken over if a bloke having a beer in a pub is un-Australian.

I shall be expressing my solidarity with Mr Abbott multiple times over the next few days. That reminds me, I have a $10 beer voucher to cash in.

Let's just back up for a moment.

He skolled a shandy. And even then it took him seven seconds.

Hawke did his in nine, but to be fair it was a proper beer, and he was 83 at the time.

Guess there's no more talk about firing Abbott. All that noise for nothing.

It wasn't a shandy, it was an actual beer. Well a Peroni anyway.

At least they could've had a little ANZAC day commemoration. maybe DFAT asked them to delay executions until after anzac day.

It's not so much that I feel for them, I just hate the spectacle of it all. The death penalty accomplishes nothing, it's no more enlightened than hanging the corpses of your enemies over the city walls. It's a way for Indonesian politicians to show how tough they are despite the fact that going along with the status quo is the antithesis of being tough.

A tough decision would be to recognise that killing mules is a fucking pointless exercise. They're killing the middle men, they're not going after the manufacturers, the actual drug bosses, and they're making no effort to curb demand by treating drug addiction as the health issue it is. Before you start killing internationals for being stupid and greedy and taking idiotic risks take some fucking responsibility for your own house.

And forget drug addiction, what about the scourge of tobacco which kills more Indonesians per year than all illicit drug use combined? You'd think if they really gave a shit about protecting their populace they'd put even the most basic anti-tobacco measure in place. This is a country where pre-teens are hooked on smoking, where schoolkids can buy single cigarettes from kiosks at their schools. And they're killing drug mules - who are often not even bringing narcotics into the country - and acting all "you must respect our laws and our right to protect ourselves".  And then there's the blatant corruption of it all. I'll respect Indonesian justice when it even slightly resembles it.

Basically Sukumaran and Chan and all the others are being killed because it'll give Joko Widodo a chubby. And I couldn't give a stuff what these people did or how much damage their attempted drug trafficking could have done, that's still fucking sick.