The day has come where every historical US hustler/gangster film with a criminal element and foreign interference, featuring a used car yard, is brought to you in real life by the White House. In techniwhite.
Beware the mediocrity telling you what a meritocracy is.
Cutting regulatory bodies that keep people safe in fast paced environments...is exactly what mediocrity does. Then the mediocre claim hero status when things go horribly wrong - only to put back the same regulatory bodies.
If anyone follows the musky circus - I'm going out in sympathy as that tub of ice cream in my fridge just had a "rapid unscheduled deconstruction".
#BillionaireNonsense#FixPovertyNotProfits
A new year.
And the same old Dodgy Dutton lying his way through another press conference with 8 falsehoods.
Let’s break down Peter Dutton’s latest press performance in Melbourne on 13 January.
An #auspol thread 🧵👇
@DrAllyLouks We should all do a solid for @DrAllyLouks ... Let's get her citation count up!
For the next year, try to figure out a way to cite her dissertation in anything you publish.
What doesn’t kill doesn’t make you stronger, it just almost killed you.
What made you stronger was whatever effort you made to put yourself together, your community and any combination of professional services, luck and any number of variables.
I'm so utterly over this. My first uniformed experience of violence against me for being bisexual was at work in the 1980s. The 2000s violence against me was defended by police who said "It's because they love you". "Crimes of passion" is an archaic bullshit code for murder.
Here is a conversation I had once with a child protection supervisor:
Social worker supervisor: The mother keeps lying to us about the domestic violence.
Me: It sounds like you are pretty angry at her for not telling you the truth about what's happening.
Social work supervisor: Yes I am because the child is in danger.
Me: Are you more angry at her for lying than you at the perpetrator for creating the danger in the first place?
Social work supervisor: *awkward silence*
We have trained an entire cohort of professionals to be angrier at domestic violence survivors than at the perpetrators of domestic violence. "Failure to protect" culture is real. It's a set of unwritten rules, practices and beliefs that direct practitioners to blame mothers who are survivors and ignore fathers who are perpetrating violence. This is unfair, inefficient, ineffective and unsafe. And we can do it better. #StopBlamingMothers #StopIgnoringFathers
So a stalker cop has allegedly murdered two men in the prime of their lives.
A fellow cop has helped him dispose of the bodies.
And now senior cops from the NSW police commissioner down are covering things up with the help of a stupid corporate media.
Cheers. Welcome to Sydney
Over the weekend, #KateBox used her AACTA acceptance speech for Best Acting in a Comedy (for Deadloch) to call for a ceasefire. Her words were beautiful, devastating and urgent. I am so proud. Every moment this slaughter continues, we lose more of our humanity #CEASEFIRE_NOW
If anything, what the world is showing us right now, is that while some arrogantly think humanity has no "natural predators" anymore...we do...it's ourselves.