AngryPen

A wordmonkey who hates idiocy. There's more to it, but that's all that's relevant. And yes, the opinions on here are mine alone, endorsed by no-one...

[Aaron Smith @aaronsmith]

Dave, you’ve become an advocate for a particularly corrosive idea: that ignorance isn’t something to overcome - it’s something to defend.

Instead of evidence-informed argument, you reach for "you people": shadowy tribes, convenient villains and simplistic stories that require almost no curiosity to sustain.

It's loud and lazy. And because it’s loud, some sadly mistake it for substance.

That matters, because it gives social licence to wilfully stupid. It tells people they don’t need to read, check or understand. They just need to be angry, certain and sufficiently indignant when challenged.

That’s not holding power to account. It’s degrading public debate and it’s infantile.

And now you’re telling Sue that "you people don’t ever critique" Labor, as though everyone who calls out your relentless bullshit belongs to some homogeneous political tribe.

They don’t.

You’d know that if you’d spent any time reading Sue’s work. She’s not reflexively pro-Labor, nor does she treat politics as a team sport. Her writing is thoughtful, evidence-based and often critical, but the criticism is grounded in good-faith engagement with difficult issues rather than partisan reflex.

That’s the difference. Sue does the work. She considers the evidence, wrestles with complexity and tries to advance the argument. Her writing is linked is in her profile.

And finally, while I'm still going, let me add that I’m also so just fucking sick of your style of politics.

Tired of people like you who add nothing, illuminate nothing and solve nothing, yet still feel endlessly entitled to dominate the conversation. Tired of the laziness. Tired of the certainty without effort. You confuse having a platform with having something worth saying.

Your large audience does not transform intellectual laziness into insight; it just gives the laziness a bigger distribution network.

And that's really the tragedy here.

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@Andrew_Dick60 @SHORTYPlE Not sure why more people aren’t mentioning Skyrim. In terms of engaging story (both main and side quests), it’s pretty much unparalleled. Arkham series, Assassin’s Creed and RDR2 are also great options.

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@TheTrueVanguard Hadouken!!!

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@haddad_nikolai Not sure what bubble @sydneylwatson grew up on, but there've been 'gangs' of one form or another across Australia since the bushranging days. In school yards. On the streets. In business. Kids bashing kids. Crooks shooting crooks.#whatanidioticstatement

[John Macgowan @john_macgowan]

A key takeaway from this campaign is corflutes really do matter, and the election result can be influenced by simply putting up enough of them while simultaneously removing your opponents ability to put them up.

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@heidimur @BrianJArbuckle Cleaver pretty much says it the best... https://t.co/B04Cbxy7aA

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@heidimur At an event looking to the future (and presumably innovation) his big idea idea to expand the use of a dying ‘old world’ media?

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@GlennontheGC @purplepingers That would potentially be every church in Victoria…

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@awalmartparking Amputate a limb…

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@tonytardio But not your media company, @tonytardio… what value do you add apart from rebraying other organisations’ news?

[internet hall of fame @InternetH0F]

Instagram comments are actually insane 😭

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@tonytardio Also worth noting it was not your media company. Guess it takes more effort than a glib, self-aggrandizing tweet, huh?

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@WednesdayPull One of Busiek’s best! Stories that really reach out and grab you. (Well, me anyway) ;)

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@motrsprtfann @KosSamaras More aware than you’d think, and not particularly arrogant, just a bit over these student politics gotcha conversations that try to pass apples off as oranges…

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@motrsprtfann @KosSamaras No, I prefer not to use our defense forces for petty bullshit twitter conversations. But carry on…

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@motrsprtfann @KosSamaras Doesn’t sound like it. I would think you’d applaud genuine efforts to help veterans, not push for a cookie cutter ‘one size fits all payment’ that you’ve been harping on about.

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@motrsprtfann @KosSamaras No, you don't. You're not interested in the complexity of addressing issues facing veterans and their families on an obscene scale thanks to the last govt. You're grandstanding (to a very small audience) with a tenuous premise, that's poorly articulated.

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@motrsprtfann @KosSamaras Sounding like a broken record now. You seem to be refusing to acknowledge that the problem's being fixed. Amazing what can be done when you're not bogged down with staffer and MP sex scandals (yes, I'm referring to the former govt) ...

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@motrsprtfann @KosSamaras Guess it was the sheer volume left over from the last government. Maybe you should take your #armchairexpertise and go troll Peter Dutton and his pals for a while...

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@motrsprtfann @KosSamaras Looking at the article alone, the 60,000 unallocated cases in 2022 has dropped to around 2500 this year. Sounds like a good start. And given the 'processing time' has 'dropped by 62 days', it sounds like there's been plenty of resolutions. #trollon