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Republicans. I know she has a funny accent but Melons is actually saying "Be best" not "Be beasts".

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There’s also Ben Shapiro, who doesn’t want us to read the shooter’s manifesto, probably because he’s afraid that he was an inspiration.

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Or he's totally jealous that someone's getting the attention he's been CRAVING for, like, ever.

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Prayers. Up ass.

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"You know what, when she says that -- when I saw that, it just doubled down my determination to tell people to do that."

To do nothing twice as hard. Keep fighting the good fight.

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Or that he wasn't.

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Has anyone asked what exactly it is "thoughts and prayers" actually does?

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There is nothing in this world so totally fucked up that assholes can't make worse.

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Hmm you can smugly disparage Australia but we don't a sexual assaulter for Prez and this dick had to go to NZ for this massacre, as we have gun laws, unlike America.

Plus this guy is a Trump supporter, thanks America.

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Eh, we produced a (now convicted) child molester who went all the way to No. 3 in the Vatican. Another Aussie export is the proprietor of multi-national "news" organisations which produce constant racist propaganda in the US, the UK as well as here. Our politicians and breakfast talk show hosts fawn over international far right grifters "controversial provocateurs" who deign to visit our shores. We've had a succession of PMs who deliberately weaponised blatant as well as covert racism for votes. Our current PM - yes the bloke tweeting his "thoughts and prayers" and expressing horror - in 2011 urged his party to exploit community "concern" about Muslims for electoral gain. He is also a fundamentalist religious bigot in the same mould as Mike Pence. Oh, and the loathsome One Nation recruit spruiking DNA testing for Aboriginal people - because he can't get his head around the idea that Aboriginal people who "look white" might want to identify with and maintain connection to their ancestors' country and community, because in his mind, why wouldn't you want to pass for white? So there must be some nefarious welfare-rort reason behind it! - was a former Labor Party leader who came very close to the PMship in 2004.

And unlike the US, we still don't have treaties with our First Nations peoples. True, we've got gun control and public healthcare - thank Christ - but unfortunately we really don't have much of a moral high ground on this issue.

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The Australian Senator referred to above was launching his wingnut vanity party in Melbourne today. Then this happened.https://mobile.twitter.com/...

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I wasn't the one who cast the first aspersion :)The existence of the sexual assaulter and grifter in chief gives other country's the moral high ground.We have created a poster boy for the Nazis, a product of our genocidal past and our failure to compensate.

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Well not all of our politician's fawn over the Murdoch maggots, ie Greens.

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'Sit down money' is compensation.

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He's the creation of Fox News-- that is Fox News provided the million admirers for him, and made them all so anxious to vote. Why aren't all those Fox people in jail? That I'll never understand.

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I would say they are not incarcerated because they are in power.

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