Uneducated reactionaries wanted a big business owner as president, but big business is predicated on huge debt leveraged to create theoretical value in the share market. Billionairism is driven by accounting strategies, not value. They got what they wanted, though. Valueless grift.
It's odd, since American positive attitudes towards America have always seemed very emotional. Patriotism is an emotion. Manifest destiny is entirely emotional. Demanding purely dispassionate responses when it's going badly seems a bit...controlling?
I lost my first office job to it in the early 90s. It felt like sensible modernisation though. Not like this.
Jake, the three-legged tuxedo cat. He was my best boy.
Adam Bandt had started to cut through. 'Google it mate' was a moment of connection that they need more of. They have a transparency/hypocrisy problem, and Australia has an antiintellectualism problem, but the ALP and the media are actively, consistently the enemy of any environmental parties.
O no
In my country I'd get in trouble if I drew pubes on every currency note.
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Once upon a time, 'a computer can never be held accountable' was a warning. Successive Australian governments see it as an opportunity.
The 90s called; they said you can borrow Bill Roper
I am still yet to see a single one of these 'how many died/will die' posts, in the current context, that counts anyone except US service members as people.
Ive been reading dozens of job ads a week for 12 months and not even the Ethical Jobs ones mention any of those words. I am happy to learn that unemployability is a superpower though. That's tops.
When a faux small business owner with a history of online racism and Nazi tattoos and whose favourite pastime is Americana war movies is spoken of as a leftist candidate, the Overton window has surely been bricked up and moved to an entirely different building.
Imagine a music student doing away with banal practice as 'busy work'. What we do before we know something informs everything we end up knowing. If we try to circumvent that, the knowledge can only end up hollow and fragile.
Not crushing R&D capability in the times leading up to times like these might have been a useful policy.
Is there any politician in the leadership group of either major party who would tell us openly if it did compromise our sovereignty? Does sovereignty exist if it can't be known, seen, and voted on by the people anyway?
Why is capital gains suddenly a softer political target than negative gearing? (Genuine question. Investor profiles' relative lobbying power?)
Very mouse wheel feelings coming from Labor's earnest words about capability, self-reliance and resilience in the Australian economy today. Will there be a govt-led revival in research funding, manufacturing, and service industry training, wages and conditions? Like fuck there will.
Remember back in the 80s, when it was possible for billionaires to lose money when they made terrible decisions? Weird times.
It must be frustrating for economists when the poors are just not quite poor enough.
The obsession with calling them warfighters instead of service members strongly suggests how much support they're going to get when they can't fight the wars any more.
But 0.5% of profits returned from mall ninjas goes to lunar breast cancer charities!
The banks must be having a hell of a party. Below the top 10! Below the top 10!
Governments are too busy implementing right-wing productivity commission reports that promise 2% productivity gains if only AI is allowed to ruin everything.
That's some niche spoonerism
The moral of the story for Australia and Australians has always been 'be good at sport'. The only mark of character that matters.
Have these shoes all got lifts in them? The shape of everything, all the angles of the legs, it all looks weird. Does he think having a taller cabinet will make his administration more impressive?
Maybe keeping the working class in continual fear of poverty might turn out to have a down side. Who knew?
ISO a centre left party that ever did anything
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In an earlier version of this, Littleproud was quoted as saying he was looking forward to getting back to the reason he used to enjoy Parliament: 'lobbing a few bombs' and getting on the piss. This is what he thinks is worth >$200k a year. Why edit that out now?
