I am drafting a "rules of association". It is partly an exercise, and partly an guess at of something that may become real.

Starting with the standard rules for an "unincorporated association": (https://www.acnc.gov.au/sites/default/files/documents/2021-07/download_template_rules_for_unincorporated_associations_with_notes_pdf_639kb_.pdf)

But I am tired of organisations infiltrated by arseholes, and I wonder if it is possible to put standards of behaviour front and centre.
I am inspired by Mastodon's "No Nazis", but I am not sure it is either specific, nor general enough.

Please help. Does your group have something-like this? What have I missed, and, in the interests of sanity, what has been double-defined?

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17. Membership hurdles.
17.1 The association insists on the following psychological characteristics and standards of behaviour from all members.
17.2 No member will be accepted, and existing members will be expelled if they fail any of these hurdles.
17.3 The psychological characteristics. Members must not be:
i. psychopaths,
ii. sociopaths,
iii. narcissists,
iv. liars,
v. egomaniacs.
17.4 The standards of behaviour. Members must never indulge in :
i. crime,
ii. racism,
iii. misogyny,
iv. criticism of person,
v. aggression, threats, shaming,
vi. coercive control,
vii.prejudice, bigotry.
17.5 The association explicitly rejects the notion that a person’s ability can replace or diminish their need to clear these hurdles. The most able and talented member will be expelled if they fail.

#rules #DarkTriad #constitution #legalese #IANAL #arseholes #governance

I dunno who Matt Forney is, but either he's an idiot, or knows full well that the "Reichstag Fire playbook" is when a crisis is used as a pretext to ban parties, mass-arrest opponents, censor the press, and centralise power.

#USA #Politics #CharlieKirk #Nazis #CivilWar #Arseholes #4thReich #MAGA #GOP #Twitter #Bad #History

I'm not sure they have a lot to choose from, given that Reform politicians typically seem to have all the intellectual capacity of a six-year-old.

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/jul/05/nigel-farage-reform-uk-teenage-councillors-vital-public-services

#ReformUK #Arseholes

I love it when they fight

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-05-05/angus-taylor-criticised-not-liberal-leader-blame-loss/105252158

#Auspol #News #LNP #Arseholes

Agree with the old adage:

"opinions are like arseholes - everybody has one, and they all stink."

#Opinions #ArseHoles #Stink #Adage
#HaveAGreatWeekend

Thank you to Queensland’s last LNP Premier, Campbell Newman The Supremely Fucking Ignorant, for cutting the funding to the eradication programme just before it succeeded in ridding Australia of these pests at their point of entry.

The “CanDo” man, who has now gone on to work in agricultural robotics and campaign for fascists - sorry “libertarians” - deemed that 80% eradicated was enough…

What an utter twat.

#AusPol #LNP #Queensland #Arseholes #Environment

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/mar/28/australia-fire-ants-queensland-cost-eradication-pesticides

Wow who would have thunk it would be NIMBY boomers stopping low cost housing

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-02-05/wakerley-residents-oppose-church-affordable-housing-project/104894050

🙄

#News #Australia #Housing #HousingCrisis #boomers #NIMBY #Arseholes