Rabid Centrist

[Rabid Centrist @Muzzaeyux]

@christpher44 @BarnHockey @kyledubas Better to hold fire than to overpay in an overheated market.

[Rabid Centrist @Muzzaeyux]

@DrewPavlou He explains it in his profile. It's about dry July for fund raising. (Fosters)

[Rabid Centrist @Muzzaeyux]

@OnCritter One has a group they want to vilify as the source of all societal woes and has, short sighted, problematic and simplistic plans for them
The other has a group they want to vilify as the source of all societal woes and has, short sighted, problematic and simplistic plans for them

[Rabid Centrist @Muzzaeyux]

That's the point, though; they don't.
Hypothetical wealth on paper is illiquid, it looks nice (or obscene) on paper but it's not accessible without additional financial instruments. If you were to argue for taxation aimed at those access instuments you may have a point

[theCritterOnTwitt3r @OnCritter]

@Muzzaeyux @CraigHill01 You're right,

I have a grievance. That 12 billionaires now have access to the same wealth as 4 billion humans - many of whom lack access to even the basics.

That's a legitimate grievance. Shared by billions.

And we're coming to tear that house down.

[Rabid Centrist @Muzzaeyux]

@OnCritter And thus we circle back to the grievance politics and the similarities to One Nation. They blame foreigners for societies ills, the Greens blame billionaires. 🤷‍♂️

[Rabid Centrist @Muzzaeyux]

@OnCritter @CraigHill01 Kinda proving my point. Grievance driven populism with no regard for the downstream consequences of enacting slogans as policy.

[Rabid Centrist @Muzzaeyux]

@OnCritter @CraigHill01 A 10% tax on net wealth is ridiculous. Most of most billionaire's wealth is illiquid hypothetical value. To compel them to liquidate 10% of their net worth annually would be cataclysmic to markets and to corporate governance.

[Rabid Centrist @Muzzaeyux]

@OnCritter @CraigHill01 An obvious one is "Tax billionaires" rhetoric without actually outlining how they plan to do so in a manner that is fair, practical and effective.
Another example, blocking the HAFF to create fertile campaigning ground.
Grievance grifters, not a serious party of government.

[Rabid Centrist @Muzzaeyux]

@OnCritter @CraigHill01 They're both a set of grievance grifters. It's just which version of populist slop you prefer.

[Rabid Centrist @Muzzaeyux]

@JoPlanetEarth @blowingtom2 @BethCharleston There's still money to be made in the model I guess.

[Rabid Centrist @Muzzaeyux]

@Melbourne_says We're at the point where simply preventing the party from imploding is the leadership pass mark.

[Rabid Centrist @Muzzaeyux]

@railmaps Because the Libs are in too much disarray to organise another bullshit Skyrail astroturfing campaign and areas where that was successful are having serious buyers remorse.

[Rabid Centrist @Muzzaeyux]

@antoinette_news He's a muppet but he's spot on in this case.

[Rabid Centrist @Muzzaeyux]

@queemslander @BernardKeane He's an insufferable Greens twat. Labor stands in the way of the glorious revolution.

[Rabid Centrist @Muzzaeyux]

@SkullSpeedDeal @blowingtom2 I am arguing they are not the opposition at all. They are bomb throwing populists yelling slogans; basically the Greens of the right. The big difference is Labor let the loonies leave, the Libs were half pregnant for too long and lost credibility with centre and outer right both

[Rabid Centrist @Muzzaeyux]

@SkullSpeedDeal @blowingtom2 Yes.
"Essentially is an adverb that means "at its core" or "fundamentally"
One Nation is not at its core or fundamentally the opposition. A couple of gobshite MPs does not a functional alternative party of government make.

[Rabid Centrist @Muzzaeyux]

@DavidShoebridge Your point, David?

[Rabid Centrist @Muzzaeyux]

@SkullSpeedDeal @blowingtom2 His Majesty's Opposition in Australia is the largest party or coalition of parties in the House that is not in government.
Unless One Nation is in formal coalition with the LNP they are not the opposition. Winning one TPP poll doesn't make a party essentially the government

[Rabid Centrist @Muzzaeyux]

@GovPressOffice @CAL_FIRE Victoria in Australia has nearly 4x as many fire fighting aircraft per capita

[Rabid Centrist @Muzzaeyux]

@__Injaneb96 Unequivocally the world's most inbred country