Australian news and politics.

[theFOOTBALLlover]

I thought it was tik tok thing?

Cars go zoom zoom. If your car is tik toking, check for other devices.

 

[SocceroosFan84]

You are trying to cancel me. Does that mean you are a leftie?

Nope, nobody is trying to cancel you.

If anything you and your green-haired buddies are trying to cancel me by having a good old fashioned sook about "right wing" media.

 

[Monoethnic Social Club]

Quit with the racebaiting ffs.

I would If I know wtf you are talking about.

You really like telling people what to do don't ya sport? Hows about you take your own advice and fuck off for a while? Or at least change your user name again.

 

[Monoethnic Social Club]

Cars go zoom zoom. If your car is tik toking, check for other devices.

tried but my mechanic doesnt speak English and I couldnt explain it to him...

 

[theFOOTBALLlover]

Nope, nobody is trying to cancel you.

If anything you and your green-haired buddies are trying to cancel me by having a good old fashioned sook about "right wing" media.

I don't have any friends with green hair. Do you have something against people with green hair? Are you green hairphobic?

 

[SocceroosFan84]

No I'm not, I'm an Australian (as I am constantly reminded here) who lived the first 29 years of my life in western Sydney and then moved to London for work.

We aren't talking about the UK, so whether or not this place is a "basket-case" is completely irrelevant.

I've spent my whole life watching the ABC (including since I've moved to London), and there's nothing intrinsically left wing about it on the basis of what I've seen. I accept it's a commonwealth instrumentality, and so its ongoing existence is predicated on ongoing government funding. I accept that puts the ABC in a position of conflict to some degree on public spending decisions, but I can't really recall that informing its reporting on that specific issue.

With that in mind, I'd be really interested to understand why precisely you consider that that the ABC is "literal left wing trash", as you put it.

Spent your whole life watching the ABC, that's half the problem.

If you actually watched anything other than the ABC you'd realise it's left-wing rubbish.

Unless you plan on coming back, butt out of this country's politics your input is not welcome.

 

[Toebash]

Nope, nobody is trying to cancel you.

If anything you and your green-haired buddies are trying to cancel me by having a good old fashioned sook about "right wing" media.

There's a very big difference between trying to cancel someone, and asking them to provide a basis for their seemingly flimsily held beliefs.

Scrutiny isn't oppression champ, it's the basis of the functioning democracy.

 

[Toebash]

Spent your whole life watching the ABC, that's half the problem.

If you actually watched anything other than the ABC you'd realise it's left-wing rubbish.

Unless you plan on coming back, butt out of this country's politics your input is not welcome.

I do plan on coming back, and as I said in other posts I engage in multiple other media sources.

You seem to have an inbuilt tendency to try and silence people. It's disturbing and, to be frank, pretty sad.

 

[Beretta]

I don't have any friends

explains a lot.

 

[SocceroosFan84]

I do plan on coming back, and as I said in other posts I engage in multiple other media sources.

You seem to have an inbuilt tendency to try and silence people. It's disturbing and, to be frank, pretty sad.

Says the bloke asking for "balanced" sources then proceeds to put up left-wing trash like the ABC & The Guardian as examples of "balanced" media.

The ABC is just the Oz version of the BBC which is left-wing propaganda too.

 

[theFOOTBALLlover]

explains a lot.

Here we go. No left turn.

 

[Toebash]

Says the bloke asking for "balanced" sources then proceeds to put up left-wing trash like the ABC & The Guardian as examples of "balanced" media.

The ABC is just the Oz version of the BBC which is left-wing propaganda too.

I'm not trying to silence you champ, I'm repeatedly asking you to explain your position. I'm genuinely interested in trying to understand why you feel the way that you do, including about the ABC's purported left-wing biases. That's literally the opposite of silencing you.

 

[Alex M]

Yeah I do actually.

But the ABC & Guardian are literal left-wing trash.

Wouldn't wipe my arse with the latter.

As neither of those are print media it would probably be a bit messy trying to wipe your arse with a screen

 

[SocceroosFan84]

I'm not trying to silence you champ, I'm repeatedly asking you to explain your position. I'm genuinely interested in trying to understand why you feel the way that you do, including about the ABC's purported left-wing biases. That's literally the opposite of silencing you.

For someone who claims the ABC to be "balanced" you sure know nothing about it.

Did you ever watch Q&A before it got the arse?

The panel & audience was vast majority left-wing with a few token conservatives to create the illusion of "balance".

 

[SocceroosFan84]

As neither of those are print media it would probably be a bit messy trying to wipe your arse with a screen

I have read the SMH & the Age hundreds of times and it is left-wing trash.

 

[theFOOTBALLlover]

For someone who claims the ABC to be "balanced" you sure know nothing about it.

Did you ever watch Q&A before it got the arse?

The panel & audience was vast majority left-wing with a few token conservatives to create the illusion of "balance".

Another rightwing slogan for you.. if you don't like it, you can leave.

 

[Muz]

If I ever need a cheer up I just remember that there's blokes out there like Sharkman that have barely functioning brains and I feel a lot better about myself.

Still as thick and impervious to facts as ever.

The forum village idiot.

 

[Toebash]

For someone who claims the ABC to be "balanced" you sure know nothing about it.

Did you ever watch Q&A before it got the arse?

The panel & audience was vast majority left-wing with a few token conservatives to create the illusion of "balance".

Yeah that's a fair criticism. I used to watch the Q&A program and my impression was that it attracted people with left-wing views more so than conservatives. I found that frustrating and near-sighted at times (but not always). In particular, guests seemed to focus on niche social issues in favour of macro-economic issues that affected a larger share of the Australian population.

However, those weren't the views of the ABC as a media institution (moreso the views of its guests), and in this discussion we were clearly referring to the news released by the ABC, in particular on its news website). None of that has a clearly left-wing bias in my experience.

 

[SocceroosFan84]

Another rightwing slogan for you.. if you don't like it, you can leave.

Bit hard when I was born here, live here and have my family roots here in Australia.

If you want communism so much you can piss off to Cuba.

 

[SocceroosFan84]

Yeah that's a fair criticism. I used to watch the Q&A program and my impression was that it attracted people with left-wing views more so than conservatives. I found that frustrating and near-sighted at times (but not always). In particular, guests seemed to focus on niche social issues in favour of macro-economic issues that affected a larger share of the Australian population.

However, those weren't the views of the ABC as a media institution (moreso the views of its guests), and in this discussion we were clearly referring to the news released by the ABC, in particular on its news website). None of that has a clearly left-wing bias in my experience.

ABC news? Ever watched it with Sarah Ferguson or when Laura Tingle was on it?

They absolutely mauled Liberal leaders whenever the party is in office yet treat Labor figures like Albanese with kid gloves.