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This story from Australia has to be one of the ALL TIME funniest/stupidest woke DEI hires
> Be violent Afghan meth dealer named Mahmood Fazal
> Head Melbourne enforcer for one of the most brutal Australian outlaw motorcycle gangs
> Close friend of jihadist terrorists who died fighting for ISIS in Syria and Iraq
> Suddenly decides one day that he wants to leave crime behind and become a journalist
> lol
> Hosts TED Talk where he says toxic masculinity and post 9/11 Islamophobia made him become a violent meth dealer/gangland enforcer
> Woke Australian journalists rush to hire him to prove how open minded they are
> He takes the crime beat, immediately goes back to his former criminal associates as ''sources''
> Wins Le ''Media Diversity Australia Award''
> Australian national public broadcaster hires him to be major investigative journalist for the nation's top investigative journalism program Four Corners
> He continues to hang out with druglords and runs all his stories through them
> He tries to host podcast with a former gangster while being paid in cash from an offshore online crypto casino
> He's caught passing on underworld death threats to prominent Australian YouTuber FriendlyJordies and saying he wants to kill him
> ABC puts out a statement doubling down defending him
> ''The entire Four Corners staff - reporters, producers, researchers, camera operators, editors, graphic artists, digital producers, the program’s supervising producer, and its executive producer - stand behind Mahmood Fazal.''
> Eventually they're forced to sack him for inventing sources
> All of this shit was paid for with Australian taxpayer dollars
Tfw violent meth dealer turns out to in fact be an untrustworthy thuggish criminal
What were they expecting exactly?
Under Pedro Sanchez:
- Sex with animals was decriminalized
- Assisted suicide was legalized
- Supervised drug consumption rooms were established
- Sex changes for kids as young as 12 were legalized
- Abortion for 16-year-olds without parental consent was legalized
- A government registry for those caught protesting abortion was created
- The government launched a system to track and crack down on “online hate speech”
- Mass amnesty was granted to 1.5 million African Muslim migrants
This was the trajectory we were on before Trump was elected in 2024. It is how a country is destroyed from the inside.
Everyone is piling on to @garyseconomics - his wealth tax documentary has bombed. Even the Guardian has given it a 2-star review and watched in horror as experts and onlookers alike call his ideas a car wreck.
It’s disappointing that he stuck to the same scripted lines that he said to me over a year ago. I raised the core issues with him back then and he did nothing to evolve his thinking.
Now with all of that said, I want to urge that we don’t throw the baby out with the bathwater. Wealth Taxes won’t work but that doesn’t mean we can’t look for ways to improve things for people who are struggling.
Gary’s popularity stems from a real issue. Millions of people see no way of keeping up with the costs of living. For millions of people in the UK their living standards are getting worse year on year and it needs to be addressed.
Here’s my thinking:
THE CAUSE:
- technology is devaluing jobs by making them easy to automate, outsource or simplify.
- we’ve had an un-targeted immigration policy that has flooded the UK labour market with millions of additional low skilled workers who compete with local entry-level workers.
- we have a UK government that has exploded debt and spending. Government spending that doesn’t result in productivity gains creates inflation.
- We have massive global businesses who do business in the UK but don’t contribute anything in tax revenue. They put local retailers, code shops and publishers out of business and move their profits to low tax zones.
SOLUTIONS TO EXPLORE:
- Special economic zones that offer lower taxes for small businesses that set up in parts of the country that need economic activity.
- Broadcast licenses for social media giants.
- IP licensing taxes for companies that take the piss with profit shifting.
- Lower taxes for startups. Reinstate the Entrepreneurs Relief. Expand SEIS/EIS.
- Allow home based businesses to claim childcare, cleaners, company car etc so they can run a better business.
- Allow tax deductions for home renovations (other countries have seen massive stimulus from this).
- Set up a British Sovereign wealth fund using oil and gas reserves.
- Reduce regulations and get builders building homes.
- Full support for the British farmers who create jobs and provide domestic food security.
- Entrepreneurial apprenticeships.
- Financial literacy and business skills taught in schools.
What would you add to the list?
"Your great-grandmother was not trying to manifest a beach vacation. She was not curating an aesthetic. She was not optimizing...anything. She had a list, and the list was short, and the list was sacred.
A full pantry. Healthy children. A roof that did not leak. A husband who came home. A garden that produced. A few good dresses. A reliable stove. Sunday dinner with people she loved. Enough flour for the week and enough kindness for the neighbors.
That was the whole dream. That was the whole life. And by the standards of most of human history, achieving that list was a roaring success.
Then the twentieth century happened, and somebody figured out that a woman who is content is terrible for business. A woman with a full pantry is not running to the store. A woman who is satisfied with her kitchen is not redoing it every four years. A woman who knows what enough looks like cannot be sold the next thing.
So they got to work. They made the small house embarrassing. They made the old car embarrassing. They made the home-cooked meal embarrassing, and then when nobody knew how to cook anymore they sold it back as a meal kit with a celebrity chef on the box. They raised the cost of living until both parents had to work, and then they sold daycare and convenience food and weekend therapy to fix the exhaustion that working both jobs created in the first place.
They took your great-grandmother's list and called it poverty. They took her life and called it limited. They took her contentment and called it a lack of ambition.
And then they sold you ambition. They sold you a bigger house you cannot clean, a car you cannot pay off, a wardrobe you do not wear, a calendar you cannot survive, and a vague constant feeling that you are still falling behind.
You are not falling behind. You are running a race that was designed to have no finish line. The race itself is the product.
-copied and pasted author unknown
@ColinJEly1@ronInBendigo You would need at least $700,000 if you want something bespoke, $450,000 will get you the most basic of 2/3bedroom small houses.
Instead of watching an hour of Netflix, watch this 2 hour hour Stanford lecture will teach you more about how LLMs like ChatGPT and Claude are built than most people working at top AI companies learn in their entire careers.
🚨DO NOT LOOK AWAY🚨
RUPERT LOWE CONFRONTS PARLIAMENT
He reads out testimony after testimony of rape gang victims
"Things would escalate around Eid"
"WHERE IS YOUR GOD NOW. HAS YOUR GOD FORSAKEN YOU?"
The most disgusting crimes in our history, done against the most vulnerable little girls
SHAME ON EVERY SINGLE MP WHO TURNED AWAY
SHAME ON EVERY SINGLE MP WHO HAVE DONE NOTHING
Thank you to Rupert Lowe for pushing for this
The world needs to hear of these crimes
@Symply_rhoda1 So much relief...until you have your first bowel movement that is...total anxiety...and then granted you had a good birth its all just normal issues .. sleep deprivation, hunger, uterus pains as it shrinks, dealing with brain changes and hormones etc etc etc