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Pauline offers to let Barnaby pick out the next batch of female interns (chaser.com.au)
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As former Deputy PM Barnaby Joyce announces his plan to leave the Nationals Party at the next election, One Nation leader Pauline Hanson has decided to rev up her push to pick him up from the Canberra footpath he drunkly lays on.

Pauline went into her torn shopping bag of tricks to try and finalise a deal, by offering Barnaby what he wants more than anything: the power to pick the next batch of party interns. [...]

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[–] [S] 1 point 1 year ago

P.s. After reading this counterpoint piece and thinking about it for a few days, I'm gonna try not doing the self-imposed satire labeling on this instance and see how it goes ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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    [–] 1 point 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

    It's not a particularly clever satire and even if it weren't from a well-known satire site it would be immediately clear that this isn't serious.

    But still, I think it's bad practice for posts in a serious Community to not be serious posts, or otherwise, to be labelled as such.

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  • [–] [S] 2 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    it would be immediately clear that this isn’t serious

    I thought this about https://aussie.zone/post/18141052 but nonetheless there's a comment checking if it's satire (even with the tag in the title, no less lol)

    But still, I think it’s bad practice for posts in a serious Community to be serious posts, or if they’re not, to be labelled as such.

    Did you make a typo?

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