#YouAintNoMuslimBruv
“You ain’t no Muslim, bruv,” are the words shouted out by a witness to the Leytonstone tube station attack in the UK. They became the rallying cry for people across Britain and the world, with everyone from Prime Minister David Cameron saying the phrase to millions on Twitter who made it the number one trending topic worldwide. The quickest way to counteract bigots and fundamentalists? Shut them down with a powerful sentiment before they can even find footing.
Stay in your (Anthony) Lane
He has been The New Yorker’s barbiest tongued film critic for over 20-years – and for good reason. Few people can deliver a burn as eloquently as Mr Anthony Lane. Case and point: his review of one of the highest-grossing flicks of the year, Fifty Shades Of Grey. “On the other hand, the film, by dint of its simple competence … has to be better than the novel. It could hardly be worse. No new reader, however charitable, could open Fifty Shades of Grey, browse a few paragraphs, and reasonably conclude that the author was writing in her first language, or even her fourth.” Not content with one sweeping cut, he continues: “Fifty Shades of Grey is being released in time for Valentine’s Day. That’s a bold move, since the film is not just unromantic but specifically anti-romantic; take your valentine along, by all means, but, be warned, it’ll be like watching Rosemary’s Baby at Christmas."
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Your fairy bad bitch godmother Amber Rose
Feminist, philanthropist, entrepreneur , single mother and “bad bitch” Amber Rose was kicking ass and taking names 24/7/365 this year. She managed to release a book, launch a clothing and jewelry line, raise a kid, make a political statement at the MTV Video Music Awards and organise a SlutWalk in downtown Los Angles which aimed to “outrage toward issues of sexual violence, gender inequality, derogatory labeling and victim blaming”. Rose, who previously dated Kanye West, had a pointed response to a comment he once made about her in a radio interview where he said: “It’s very hard for a woman to want to be with someone that was with Amber Rose, I had to take 30 showers before I got with Kim.” There, among the crowd of thousands of feminist protesters at the SlutWalk (including Nick Cannon and Matt McGorry) was Rose’s mum Dorothy holding up a placard that read: “F**K YO 30 showers”.
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Twitter takes aim, fires at pro-gun senator David Leyonhjelm
Liberal Democrat senator David Leyonhjelm took the “la la la I’m not listening” approach to national debate when he was taken to church by one particularly savvy Twitter user. In the wake of the San Bernardino shooting, the conservative politician went to social media to point to Switzerland and New Zealand as a gun-owning utopia while Australia’s laws were leaving its citizens “defenseless victims”. As one Swiss citizen was quick to point out, however, this isn’t necessarily true… 
Calling all Jan Fran fans
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Bros tried to make male PMS a thing. Jan Fran came to our rescue.
Turkeys are assholes and Obama knows it
Turkeys, also known as Satan’s preferred chicken. Turkeys have had it coming to them for a long time and US President Barack Obama was the one to deliver the ‘you can’t even fly bro’ jabs. Turkeys, you just got served.
Devine intervention
Just gonna leave this here...
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Marcy Marc and the Fennell bunch
It’s a truth universally acknowledged that one does not want to piss off Marc Fennell with a dodgy movie. Alas, somebody didn’t listen. A bunch of times, in fact. In ‘classic Fennell’ fashion, it was burn-after-burn as we look back at his year in movie reviews.
Unfriended: “In five years’ time we’re going to look back on the film Unfriended and think ‘man, how dated does that movie look?’”
Entourage: “What’s the plural of douchebag?” Entourage.”
“Put your thing down flip it and reverse it.” - Voltaire
The physical embodiment of political schadenfreude Cory Bernardi was a lamb to the slaughter after he mistakenly attributed quotes from a convicted neo-Nazi pedophile to French philosopher Voltaire on Twitter. While that led to him deleting all of his tweets a few days later, it was too late to stop the Australian public sweeping in like the sarcastic eagle of hope we all want, need, deserve as they created their own ‘Voltaire’ quotes. Great job team, great job.
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Here comes the Bridie
“Keep your legs closed, it’s not that hard.” Those were the words that came from Triple J caller ‘Barry’ as he phoned in to give his opinions on a woman’s right to control her own body on a Hack segment about abortion. On the other end of the line was presenter Tom Tilley and a shocked journalist from the Guardian, Bridie Jabour. There were a few loaded seconds of silence before Jabour took ‘Barry’ to school in a passionate and inflamed speech.
“Aw man, I nearly swore then. You’ve got no idea how these women ended up in these situations in the first place. Second of all, a woman has a right to her sexuality and do you keep your legs closed? …. I’m so sick of hearing men’s opinions about abortion, I really am. I don’t care…. I get so angry when I hear it because you will never be in that position: you are talking about some thing that is so abstract to you. You will never be in that position and you will never have to go through something like that or make that decision.”
Check. Yo. Self.
Stone the flamin’ crows, mate
Academy Award-nominated filmmaker Cameron Crowe came under fire back in May for what critics called “white washing” after he cast Caucasian actress Emma Stone as Captain Ng: a woman who is supposed to be one quarter Chinese and one quarter Hawaiian. While the Jerry Maguire director took to his blog to ‘apologise’ – “Aloha has felt like a very misunderstood movie” – the sickest burn came from actor Patton Oswalt, who in a two word reply to filmmaker Ava DuVernay managed to inflict major damage. 
Hilary Clinton? More like Killary Clinton
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Noted disliker of immigrants, poor people, women’s choices and unicorns Donald Trump has an entire presidential campaign that – quite frankly – needs to be thrown in the bin and set on fire quicker than a nest of Hunstmans. Thankfully your girl Hilary is always ready to provide some much needed wisdom/feminist rhetoric.
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Bless Australia and bless its dry, laconic sense of humour. When Tony Abbott (finally) got rolled from not only the Liberal leadership but the Prime Ministership, the internet was a proverbial wonderland as people recounted Abbott’s most memorable gaffes. The best part though? The #PutOutYourOnions hashtag which saw thousands of Aussies placing commemorative onions out the front of their homes as a middle-fingered farewell to the country’s least popular PM. Perhaps John Oliver said it best: “I don’t know what the point of Tony Abbott was, but it was fun while it lasted… it was like taking heroin. It was incredibly exhilarating and it was right that you stopped.”
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Lee Lin Chin: All day, every day
*liberally apply ointment on the burn every two to three hours*
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Lexi Alexander: Patron saint of taking bigots to school
As an “Arab/German filmmaker” and outspoken feminist, Lexi Alexander puts up with a lot of shit on Twitter. From racists to misogynists, the Green Street Hooligans director deflects nutters like Neo dodges bullets in The Matrix. In a year filled with anti-refugee sentiment coming from the dark, dark corners of the internet she was able to shut down the arguments in one sweepingly honest tweet.
Burn, baby burn. Social justice inferno.
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More like Psychic Saint West
Not only a sick burn, but a preemptive psychic sick burn? Twitter user @KillRudy was already ripping on Kim Kardashian and Kanye’s West baby name back on June, 23 – some six months before Saint West was even born.
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The feminist killjoy of our hearts
While her actions spawned a hundred think pieces from male columnists telling us “this is what feminismz really iz ladies”, Australian warrior princess Clementine Ford was out there doing the Lord’s work: replying to sexist trolls countless times a day with facts, commentary and yes, the frequent sick burn. The endless streams of abuse she copped and the regular death threats shed light on exactly how bad it can be to simply exist as a woman online.
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