Ben

Writer, editor, teacher. He/him. Views are my own.

[Ben @SolomonFaust]

(I cried at the result last night, just thought this was funny)

[Ben @SolomonFaust]

@floodmediaAU @DaltySog @joanna_horton @MChandlerMather Can we at least get a new ep now?

[Ben @SolomonFaust]

@marrowing I mean they had their left-most platform ever and will win their highest vote ever. I think it’s a death blow for the party, but Max was the only avowed Marxist in the in the house of reps in the last 40 years. Have some mercy.

[Ben @SolomonFaust]

@KosSamaras @Accent_Research This is so misleading Kos. You can’t conflate the way people “identify” with their actual positions and interests. You know that if you poll people on putting dental into Medicare, taxing multinationals, housing reform etc the median voter is far to the “left” of Labor.

[Ben @SolomonFaust]

@HardcoreHistory It just occurred to me that your richest guest almost certainly listened to Death Throes of the Republic and viewed it as a blueprint. What’s that like? I can’t even imagine how I’d process it.

[Ben @SolomonFaust]

💕🌟🌸🙈 The motor of profit and its attendant systems don’t have sufficient negative feedback mechanisms to arrest their consumption of finite resources, and capitalism will most likely only end with the biosphere it depends on, like a cancer dying with its host. 💕🌟🌸🙈

[Ben @SolomonFaust]

Sorry to anyone with exciting New Years plans or whatever but you have to admit that a lame duck Biden nuclear war would be the objectively funniest possible apocalypse.

[Ben @SolomonFaust]

@_jellyve This deserves many accolades.

[Ben @SolomonFaust]

@MildCuthbert Rundle himself is usually more overtly sexist and transphobic, way better on Palestine, and has an esoteric Lacanian bent that doesn’t quite gel with the socdem program and commitment to “normalness” of the kind of guy you’re talking about, but I think there’s a connection.

[Ben @SolomonFaust]

@MildCuthbert I think the secret ingredient is Guy Rundle’s columns. His theory that the knowledge class is the real ruling class has influenced this tiny, local tendency with similarities to the “anti-progressive left” Red Scare stuff that emerged in the US five years ago.

[Ghassan Hage @anthroprofhage]

It really disturbs me professionally as a researcher of colonialism that I so fell for the idea that the worst of genocidal colonialisms is well behind us that my analytical imagination was and still is is unable to encompass the perpetration and legitimisation of so much evil.

[Owen Jones @owenjonesjourno]

This would constitute a killing rate comparable to Cambodia under the Khmer Rouge.

[Ben @SolomonFaust]

One of RFK jr’s sins is his excessive interest in bears. I guess you could say he’s guilty of ursury.

[Ben @SolomonFaust]

@fritz29700 Which ones? Nations don’t have freedom, people have freedom. None is more important than freedom from a violent death. Civilians of every country on earth have more in common than the politicians who rule them at the barrel of a gun.

[Ben @SolomonFaust]

Albanese and Allen’s comments about Land Forces are bloodcurdling. I can’t really think of any greater evil than killing and maiming little kids for money. Manufacturers of “defence equipment” and complicit politicians are the enemies of humanity and scourge of the earth.

[Ben @SolomonFaust]

Scuppering climate action, widening the gap, suppressing unions, dismantling progressive taxation, slashing disability services, backing an imperial genocide, and overseeing the managed decline of Medicare and public education.

The Albanese government is speedrunning Howardism.

[Hannah @zanpansky]

this part of the special rapporteur UN report on Palestine from earlier this year was really precise and clear, i often see it restated less clearly. if only the UN was real

[Ben @SolomonFaust]

@Br0k3nAU That’s amazing!

[Ben @SolomonFaust]

Thousands of people at the CFMEU rally.

The Labor government is responsible for the most aggressive union-busting legislation in over a generation.

Why we all need to fight back: https://t.co/73iz9rDGlw

#HandsofftheCFMEU

[Ben @SolomonFaust]

@c_donners It definitely feels like a union rally! A peaceful, democratic gathering fighting for worker’s rights. These laws will hurt everyone.