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Trudeau is having meetings with the devil on how to be more evil.





I don't know how much Trudeau is charging him though.

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know Autralia had waves of Italian and Greek immigrants, but not many European Francophones.

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Ted Baillieu's as well, as Dinky Di will no doubt attest.

I didn't think many Australians had French family names.

French place names too. Australia was very nearly a French colony, not British. French explorer Saint Alouarn mapped the west coast and buried coins at Dirk Hartog Island only two years after Captain James Cook mapped the east. Saint Alouarn died en route to the King of France however and therefore never communicated the claim he had staked.



Then in 1788, literally within days of Captain Arthur Phillip's arrival at Botany Bay, Admiral Jean-François de La Pérouse showed up with a couple of ships. The area next to Port Botany bears his name to this day and things might have looked a great deal different (some would argue better) had the frogs beaten the poms to the punch.

But, Australia never received many European Francophone immgrants did they?



UoT, I'm going to sleep, but before I do, I'm putting guest posting on mod approval..



It'll be back on full access again in the morning as soon as Cronus or myself gets here.

Yep, I know - it's not an issue from where I sit, I can easily wait out the clock until one of you is back on deck. Way better than seeing the site trashed in your absence I reckon.



As to your question, I knew a few out that way, though it was maybe more common to see French speaking polynesians on Australia's shores than actual immigrants from France. Let's face it, tropical paradises are more fun a pile of red dirt littered with numbats and comatose woobla drinkers, possibly with Jimmy Barnes or Peter Garret screeching screeching in the background, I dunno.



I kid. Australia isn't without its charm, but if there's a dearth of Francophones there, I can understand why. Plenty of more agreeable climates to be had if you're going to spend the time to get halfway around the world, better cultures too I reckon. And Australia used to be a kinder, more welcoming place back in the day. Like Ottawa was ten years ago. Maybe they all moved out.

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Ya, I have heard that too. In fascism and communism a select few are fabulously rich and powerful. The rest are trampled under foot by horses for challenging the dictoarship. Oh wait, that is Justine's regime.

Ted Baillieu's as well, as Dinky Di will no doubt attest.

I didn't think many Australians had French family names.

French place names too. Australia was very nearly a French colony, not British. French explorer Saint Alouarn mapped the west coast and buried coins at Dirk Hartog Island only two years after Captain James Cook mapped the east. Saint Alouarn died en route to the King of France however and therefore never communicated the claim he had staked.



Then in 1788, literally within days of Captain Arthur Phillip's arrival at Botany Bay, Admiral Jean-François de La Pérouse showed up with a couple of ships. The area next to Port Botany bears his name to this day and things might have looked a great deal different (some would argue better) had the frogs beaten the poms to the punch.

But, Australia never received many European Francophone immgrants did they?



UoT, I'm going to sleep, but before I do, I'm putting guest posting on mod approval..



It'll be back on full access again in the morning as soon as Cronus or myself gets here.

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Ahhh, real communism's never been tried.



Or so I'm told.



Don't really give a shit if it has or hasn't to be honest, even if all previous attempts at it were illegitimate, they all sucked as roundly as the current attempt appears to be doing. There's no incentive to do well under a system like that, not unless you can convince every last person the party is God and the only way to salvation is via Opus Dei levels of self mortification. And I don't think there's enough masochists in Canada for that.

Ya, I have heard that too. In fascism and communism a select few are fabulously rich and powerful. The rest are trampled under foot by horses for challenging the dictoarship. Oh wait, that is Justine's regime.

Ted Baillieu's as well, as Dinky Di will no doubt attest.

I didn't think many Australians had French family names.

French place names too. Australia was very nearly a French colony, not British. French explorer Saint Alouarn mapped the west coast and buried coins at Dirk Hartog Island only two years after Captain James Cook mapped the east. Saint Alouarn died en route to the King of France however and therefore never communicated the claim he had staked.



Then in 1788, literally within days of Captain Arthur Phillip's arrival at Botany Bay, Admiral Jean-François de La Pérouse showed up with a couple of ships. The area next to Port Botany bears his name to this day and things might have looked a great deal different (some would argue better) had the frogs beaten the poms to the punch.

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Fascism and communism are two sides of the same frickin coin.

Ahhh, real communism's never been tried.



Or so I'm told.



Don't really give a shit if it has or hasn't to be honest, even if all previous attempts at it were illegitimate, they all sucked as roundly as the current attempt appears to be doing. There's no incentive to do well under a system like that, not unless you can convince every last person the party is God and the only way to salvation is via Opus Dei levels of self mortification. And I don't think there's enough masochists in Canada for that.

Ya, I have heard that too. In fascism and communism a select few are fabulously rich and powerful. The rest are trampled under foot by horses for challenging the dictoarship. Oh wait, that is Justine's regime.

Ted Baillieu's as well, as Dinky Di will no doubt attest.

I didn't think many Australians had French family names.

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Low information activists will resort to violence when the power of the word eludes them. Most of them probably aren't aware Benito Mussolini created his brand of fascism off the back of a socialist template... or that the Nazi's unexpurgated name was tha National Socialist German Workers Party.



And don't get started in on Stalin's efforts, whatever you do. Or point out what a racist pig Karl Marx was by their standards... shit, they'd chase you up the nearest tree and set fire to it.





(But only if they didn't give you a head start before disappearing into the nearest Cry Closet for a good long "BAWWWWWW" first about what a nasty, horrid Trumplican Supreme Pizza you were first)

Fascism and communism are two sides of the same frickin coin.

Ahhh, real communism's never been tried.



Or so I'm told.



Don't really give a shit if it has or hasn't to be honest, even if all previous attempts at it were illegitimate, they all sucked as roundly as the current attempt appears to be doing. There's no incentive to do well under a system like that, not unless you can convince every last person the party is God and the only way to salvation is via Opus Dei levels of self mortification. And I don't think there's enough masochists in Canada for that.

Ya, I have heard that too. In fascism and communism a select few are fabulously rich and powerful. The rest are trampled under foot by horses for challenging the dictoarship. Oh wait, that is Justine's regime.

Ted Baillieu's as well, as Dinky Di will no doubt attest.

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Punch a nazi is a load of bull. Those antifa fascists would beat up Fashionista because they say she is a nazi.

Low information activists will resort to violence when the power of the word eludes them. Most of them probably aren't aware Benito Mussolini created his brand of fascism off the back of a socialist template... or that the Nazi's unexpurgated name was tha National Socialist German Workers Party.



And don't get started in on Stalin's efforts, whatever you do. Or point out what a racist pig Karl Marx was by their standards... shit, they'd chase you up the nearest tree and set fire to it.





(But only if they didn't give you a head start before disappearing into the nearest Cry Closet for a good long "BAWWWWWW" first about what a nasty, horrid Trumplican Supreme Pizza you were first)

Fascism and communism are two sides of the same frickin coin.

Ahhh, real communism's never been tried.



Or so I'm told.



Don't really give a shit if it has or hasn't to be honest, even if all previous attempts at it were illegitimate, they all sucked as roundly as the current attempt appears to be doing. There's no incentive to do well under a system like that, not unless you can convince every last person the party is God and the only way to salvation is via Opus Dei levels of self mortification. And I don't think there's enough masochists in Canada for that.

Ya, I have heard that too. In fascism and communism a select few are fabulously rich and powerful. The rest are trampled under foot by horses for challenging the dictoarship. Oh wait, that is Justine's regime.

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Punch a nazi is a load of bull. Those antifa fascists would beat up Fashionista because they say she is a nazi.

Low information activists will resort to violence when the power of the word eludes them. Most of them probably aren't aware Benito Mussolini created his brand of fascism off the back of a socialist template... or that the Nazi's unexpurgated name was tha National Socialist German Workers Party.



And don't get started in on Stalin's efforts, whatever you do. Or point out what a racist pig Karl Marx was by their standards... shit, they'd chase you up the nearest tree and set fire to it.





(But only if they didn't give you a head start before disappearing into the nearest Cry Closet for a good long "BAWWWWWW" first about what a nasty, horrid Trumplican Supreme Pizza you were first)

Fascism and communism are two sides of the same frickin coin.

Ahhh, real communism's never been tried.



Or so I'm told.



Don't really give a shit if it has or hasn't to be honest, even if all previous attempts at it were illegitimate, they all sucked as roundly as the current attempt appears to be doing. There's no incentive to do well under a system like that, not unless you can convince every last person the party is God and the only way to salvation is via Opus Dei levels of self mortification. And I don't think there's enough masochists in Canada for that.