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[Dan @DRRenwick]

@TrackUkraine Dead-eyed, soul-less people.

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@samlutd I must be one of the few optimistic Aussie socdems. I've been predicting the collapse of the LNP for years, so I think it's completely unsurprising that right-wing Coalition voters have jumped ship to ON. ON under Pauline is less of a threat to Labor than the LNP was. *shrugs*

[Dan @DRRenwick]

@doomscroll_x Where in this chart is Pavement?

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@thamoonman_ The election isn't going to be decided by Trumpy morons who just want to "own the libs." It will be decided, as usual, by ordinary, unideological voters who are definitely open to arguments about hypocrisy and fake populism backed by wannabe oligarchs.

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@YevKopiika Sounds like the sort of thing that Lord Haw-Haw would have said about Germany in late 1944. "Germans are sad. How did it come to this...?"

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@LordRubbishire @The_Davos_Man Greek cities are some of the ugliest I've ever seen in my life.

Athens: Sydney:

[Dan @DRRenwick]

@GlamRatchet Yes.

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@thamoonman_ There's also "Australian nationalism" from people like Tony Abbott, who think we should not have an independent foreign policy and should go to war whenever the US goes to war.

https://t.co/VZVDIZRrEt

[Dan @DRRenwick]

@curtin_rc @dyrenfurth @KosSamaras Living standards went backwards during the post-COVID inflation spike. Australians did absolutely nothing to deserve that. Labor should stop listening to mediocre economists pushing the wage-price spiral myth and raise wages to make up for people's lost living standards.

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@odden56 @samlutd It certainly hasn't in this case, as it's been driven by an oil shock.

[Dan @DRRenwick]

@metr0politics It's true, though. Just take philosophy. David Hume, Thomas Reid, Adam Smith, and Francis Hutcheson were hugely influential on the US Founding Fathers. What is the Southern equivalent? Angela Davis' Marxism? John Calhoun's defense of Southern slavery?

[Dan @DRRenwick]

@MattWalshBlog Reactionaries don't create culture. If they have any relationship to culture at all, it's only in revering culture from past decades or centuries.

They are, by definition, backward.

[Dan @DRRenwick]

@Noahpinion Not by itself, no. But England had the highest levels of income in the world before the Industrial Revolution, and those high incomes help explain why industrialisation happened in England first. Spain had money but too many other problems (war, rigid aristocracy, etc).

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@Chronotraction @MISERABLEN0W Yes and no. It wasn't innately political, and they tended to dislike "grown up" left wing hippies, but there was a left wing element. For example, Rock Against Racism:

https://t.co/AjZ3WK3KiJ

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@parrapower2022 It'll be interesting if prices start going down. I wonder if the 67% of Australians who are homeowners will watch their assets decline and suddenly decide that immigration isn't so bad. Anyway, no one should be buying with a rental yield of 3% or under. It's always dangerous.

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@EngliscVeteran It's time you gave England back to the Welsh.

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@heritage_why Councils are the things that should be banned.

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@sockpuppet691 @MattWalshBlog While this is a funny joke, there were no real prisons in Australia at the beginning of the convict era. There was nowhere to escape to. The colony was run by soldiers rather than "prison wardens." Hence, probably, Australia's reverence for the armed forces.