Typically Saturday is the busiest day for any irc channel, the day when everybody can put aside their other commitments to join the gang for some furious discussion. But what happened in #politics today? It seems that Wayne's insane and despotic rule is having the same effect as that of other madmen, like Robert Mugabe, and #politics is now Austnet's Zimbabwe.

Wayne's incompetent and autocratic style of management has now exceeded even the notorious lock, and so now this episode is commonly being referred to as "Operation Refresh 2.0"

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[09:14] <%Literature> good morning all
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The final word:

<+PrometheanStardust> I suppose #politics is great if you like watching a bunch of people join and part without saying a word