In which the pond fails the petulant Peta test, and only has a Killer letter from America and a somnambulist Sexton as replacements ...

 

On the matter of AI, some might have heard the old joke that if you ask Bing whether Australia exists, it immediately cites three sources saying it doesn't. 

One source actually says it's a conspiracy theory and another leads you to the immortal Shelley Floryd in full flight and sounding pretty convincing on Facebook way back when: 

"Australia is not real. It’s a hoax, made for us to believe that Britain moved over their criminals to someplace. In reality, all these criminals were loaded off the ships into the waters, drowning before they could see land ever again. It’s a coverup for one of the greatest mass murders in history, made by one of the most prominent empires.
Australia does not exist. All things you call 'proof' are actually well fabricated lies and documents made by the leading governments of the world. Your Australian friends? They’re all actors and computer generated personas, part of the plot to trick the world.
If you think you’ve ever been to Australia, you’re terribly wrong. The plane pilots are all in on this, and have in all actuality only flown you to islands close nearby – or in some cases, parts of South America, where they have cleared space and hired actors to act out as real Australians."

These days she'd find a home on Twitter, sharing Pizzagate theories with Uncle Elon ... or perhaps going full in with Mike Lee ..

The pond only starts this way as a distraction, before reluctantly admitting to an F in herpetology studies. 

There was the challenge, posed as usual on the top barking mad far right pole position on the digital Oz ...

For a nano second, the pond thought of going the full ten yards with petulant Peta ... then reality kicked in ... with the hysterical headline West slides into abyss of intellectual decay a fair enough warning, this being the woman who once ran with the onion muncher, or should that be, once ran the onion muncher into all forms of political stupidity imaginable, such that even his own mob couldn't stand him ...

End result? The pond simply couldn't do it. 

The pond preferred to accept an F in herpetology studies. The pond did a little prep and scanned it, but flinched. There was the usual all-in stuff for Benji's program of collective punishment, and displacement. Along the way there was a snap of Niall Ferguson, Greg Sheridan. Rebecca Heinrichs, and Andre Hastie at ARC and a revival of the Crusades:

In part, it’s the persistence of the world’s oldest prejudice, even in societies such as ours that have had two millennia to assimilate the words of St Paul in Galatians that “there is neither Jew nor gentile, slave nor free, male nor female for you are all one in Christ Jesus”. 

There were sundry and abundant breaches of Godwin's Law, with many references to Adolf, as in:

And then there’s the sheer ignorance and muddle-headedness of millions who can’t remember Hitler (and increasingly aren’t taught about the Holocaust) and who have been brainwashed to see everything through the prism of oppressed and oppressors where, in this case, it happens to be Israel that’s the relevant “colonial” exploiter and it’s Jewish people who happen to be the current representatives of “white privilege”.
At a deeper level, it’s a profound moral failure to appreciate the difference between a liberal society under existential threat and a terrorist statelet that wants to conquer and oppress its neighbour based on a creed that’s still in the Dark Ages. 

Never mind the settlers in the West Bank, never mind the displacement, the collective punishment and so on and so gulag forth ...

Along the way, there was a huge snap of Bari Weiss and a ravaging of Aboriginal people for daring to want a voice in their affairs, and a parade of lies, including inter alia Israel is not trying to drive the Palestinian people into the sea or to exterminate Gaza, a program which has in fact been espoused by members of Beni's government.

There was also a huge snap of Bill Leak, and a ravaging of TG folk, dismissed as confused teenagers, though some might wonder how TG folk got into the conversation about anti-Semitism. And Alexander Solzhenitsyn was dragged into the final rabble-rousing par, and never mind that Solzhenitsyn had written the at best ambivalent Two Hundred Years Together ...

In all, it was as good an assembly of hate speech as you might find in the lizard Oz, and singularly without any empathy for Palestinians caught between Hamas and Benji's thugs, locked in a gulag for decades, and now destined to never find a home ... because if you think there's a two state solution to hand, the pond has a nice little opera house on the market for a song ...

And so the pond failed, but luckily there was an immortal Rowe to hand to cleanse the palate ...

Having comprehensively failed the test, the pond was left to wonder what to do and so headed below the fold ...

The pond failed another test. If it had been Lloydie of the Amazon having a go at renewables, the pond would have been in like that memorable Flynn, but just a chambering by Geoff?

Nah, better a bout of isolationism, served up in Killer's Letter from America, with a handy confusing and conflating of Israel and Ukraine ...

The interesting thing about Killer when he's in these moods is the way that he talks up the mango Mussolini and fellow conspiracy theorist RFK Jr.

There's no thoughts of doing a Bulwark, Jill Lawrence style and scribbling an outraged Trump Rallies are Tutorials in Hate, Vulgarity, and Disrespect ... Children are absorbing terrifying lessons that will haunt us for generations...

Nah, it's more that they both seem like a good bet, a way to ruin democracy and ban mask wearing ...and by the way, bugger off Ukraine ...

At this point the reptiles slipped in a huge snap of LBJ, though the pond reckons it would win a bet with any vulgar youff asked to say which PM belonging to which party opined that we should be all the way with LBJ ...

Why not a dinkum memory of those heady times?

The pond digresses, as it usually does, which is just as well, because at the end of the next gobbet Killer goes full Vlad the sociopath ...

Um actually, Russia had begun cunningly enhancing troop numbers in Crimea way back when, before annexing Crimea in 2014, and then, after backing separatist forces who helpfully shot down a Malaysian Airlines plane, invaded the joint ...

Why should the pond mention all this to Killer? Agreed, it's hard to imagine that he has the imagination or the memory stick lodged in the brain to make sense of it all ... better instead to blather about a NATO base ... (though he surely missed a trick by failing to evoke memories of the Cuban missile crisis). 

Oh heck, just run a huge snap of Vlad and Killer's mortal enemies taking an outrageous stroll together ...

Then it was on to more Killer business doing self-confessed superficial parallels ...

Naturally, with Killer in full isolationist flight at this point, there had to be a shot of the mango Mussolini ...

Indeed, indeed, and if the reptiles insist on doing huge snaps ...

... though perhaps you can dream the impossible dream ...

Meanwhile, with Killer a sure guide to what will happen to Ukraine if the mango Mussolini does return to  power,  there's a bonus Killer suggestion, with Killer happy to see Israel miss out if it means Vlad the sociopath can finally achieve his dream (though once that's done, perhaps he'd like a nibble on another country here or there?) ...

And there you have it. A little self-sacrifice on the part of Israel, happily turning Gaza into rubble on their own, and to save money, hand Ukraine over to Vlad the sociopath ...

As for the US standard of living, the pond recommends a viewing of John Oliver, who when not ruining New Zealand bird competitions, does splendid work observing what it's like to work in a Dollar store in the US ... there's a guide at the Graudian and at Huff Post ...

If you believe Killer that's all the fault of sending US dollars to Ukraine. Did the pond mention it had a tidy little opera house going cheap?

Oliver would be surprised to hear it's all the fault of sending US money abroad ...but then if he ever noticed, Oliver would be surprised that such a thing as Killer Creighton regularly wrote Letters from America, without apparently ever having watched Oliver on the current hostilities ...

And with that it was time for a bonus, and who better than the sanctimonious Sexton ...

Once again the pond made the mistake of clicking on the links. Faced with talk of remembering two key principles on the subject of freedom of speech, somehow the pond ended up even deeper in the hive mind ...

The pond doesn't know what it is with Sextons. 

Perhaps it was an early exposure to The Pickwick Papers at a tender age, and The Goblins Who Stole a Sexton, with those excellent illustrations by Phiz ...

If only there was a goblin to steal this Sexton ...

That's a short hand way of saying the pond is bored and will do anything for a distraction, but at some point must face the soporific Sexton ...

With the greatest respect to WOD, an idea on Facebook that Australia doesn't exist might attract 22,000 shares... and if you extend that syndrome, one day you might end up with a mango Mussolini in charge.

Even worse, that alleged link about an alleged brutal style of debate connected the pond to an almost invisible nonentity ...

Sensing the pond was losing interest, the reptiles flung in a huge snap of Lord Sumption, there being an incessant demand for attendant lords ...

Then it was on with more stale Sexton, serving up what has already been done to death by the lizard Oz ...

Close down Dame Groan blathering about the costs of migration? Never, though instead of a link to Dame Groan in full flight, railing at pesky, difficult, expensive, uppity furriners, that 'fallacy' link led to Jack the Insider ...

It didn't seem to have much to do with the argument at hand, unless the scolding Sexton was suggesting that the Graudian had been wrong to take down bin Laden's letter ...

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This page previously displayed a document containing, in translation, the full text of Osama bin Laden’s “letter to the American people”, which was reported on in the Observer on Sunday 24 November 2002. The document, which was published here on the same day, was removed on 15 November 2023.

The transcript published on our website had been widely shared on social media without the full context. Therefore we decided to take it down and direct readers instead to the news article that originally contextualised it.

Perhaps the stultifying Sexton should mount a campaign for a copy of Mein Kampf in every school, because truth to tell, properly contextualised, it makes for an interesting and informative read ... if you want to look deeply into the mind of a sociopath ...

Instead the reptiles offered a snap of a demonic figure designed to terrify the lizard Oz readership ...

... and with that the sleepy Sexton ran out of steam ...

His latest book? Connor Court published that back in June 2020. Time to get back to proper scribbling for a grand publisher instead of wasting everyone's time at the lizard Oz.

Everyone at the lizard Oz already knos that the right to do Nazi salutes and don Nazi uniforms are an important freedumb, and all the best do it... and think of the papers you can sell ...

... and yes, the pond did note there was a link in that last gobbet ... though the pond was astonished that the solemn Sexton was suggesting that somehow cackling Claire was an opponent of free speech, with this the link to the hive mind ...

All in all, it's been a learning experience for the pond, and henceforth, no matter the temptation, the pond will not click on a single reptile link. You only ever stay in the hive mind, and the results, to say the least, are peculiar and sometimes downright weird, and there's only so much of the hive mind anyone can take before going insane ...

Besides, if the pond wanted a discussion starter, it would always turn to the infallible Pope ...