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Where in the world can i go today? Will we survive? what makes people hate and what makes some people compassionate and empathetic? ❤️🐕🦝🐈🐈‍⬛🇦🇺🇺🇦🏳️‍🌈

[Politic@l Spinner. @lesstenny]

Has everyone seen this 👀😩👇
please retweet, share, obviously
Lots of people don't know how Pauline Hanson votes.. Frightening stuff if you are struggling, it will only get much worse voting for Gina's girl 😔

[alli pat 🐈🐈‍⬛🐈‍⬛🐈‍⬛🐈‍⬛🐈‍⬛🐈‍⬛ @allipats]

@WajahatAli @PeteHegseth Im a non catholic atheist pagan. And I think he is wonderful, and he has just gathered 1000’s of more admirers. I’m not there to convert, but I am a supporter.

[alli pat 🐈🐈‍⬛🐈‍⬛🐈‍⬛🐈‍⬛🐈‍⬛🐈‍⬛ @allipats]

@cmdibley @CoralSaunders1 Neither do I!
I like to think it is be nice to each other and don’t destroy the land for the next persons use, and protect the children and animals.

[alli pat 🐈🐈‍⬛🐈‍⬛🐈‍⬛🐈‍⬛🐈‍⬛🐈‍⬛ @allipats]

@SophiaCai99 Yeah nah, not sad about that at all. Ok I laughed.

[alli pat 🐈🐈‍⬛🐈‍⬛🐈‍⬛🐈‍⬛🐈‍⬛🐈‍⬛ @allipats]

@SistaRuthDOPD Well we knew that 🤣🤣🤣🤣

[alli pat 🐈🐈‍⬛🐈‍⬛🐈‍⬛🐈‍⬛🐈‍⬛🐈‍⬛ @allipats]

@ArtCandee Those suits look so cheap and nasty 🤮

[alli pat 🐈🐈‍⬛🐈‍⬛🐈‍⬛🐈‍⬛🐈‍⬛🐈‍⬛ @allipats]

@TheRealThelmaJ1 It hurt yesterday when a filled up, it’s up 70c a litre sitting at $2.25 but I’m in Perth and that is our low day in the cycle

[alli pat 🐈🐈‍⬛🐈‍⬛🐈‍⬛🐈‍⬛🐈‍⬛🐈‍⬛ @allipats]

@AnalyticaCamil1 @JaneCaro I’m so proud today that Australia said no.

[alli pat 🐈🐈‍⬛🐈‍⬛🐈‍⬛🐈‍⬛🐈‍⬛🐈‍⬛ @allipats]

@TheBrianShapiro Yeah nah, Australia just joined the list of everyone who isn’t sending ships to the straight of Hormuz. Everyone is not backing you, all you have is lies.

[alli pat 🐈🐈‍⬛🐈‍⬛🐈‍⬛🐈‍⬛🐈‍⬛🐈‍⬛ @allipats]

@FPWellman Oh I agree, no president should be out there in a baseball cap. It should be a rule.

[alli pat 🐈🐈‍⬛🐈‍⬛🐈‍⬛🐈‍⬛🐈‍⬛🐈‍⬛ @allipats]

@DataRepublican @ChrisMurphyCT White people just do not share an overarching culture. We are not of any particular ethnicity. We are just white. Irish, English, Scottish, European. Just a big old mixed bag of white. We aren’t any better than anyone else. You just don’t like not being exotic.

[alli pat 🐈🐈‍⬛🐈‍⬛🐈‍⬛🐈‍⬛🐈‍⬛🐈‍⬛ @allipats]

@MelanatedTalk @ChrisMurphyCT I’m white, and I’m sorry but I have no idea what this white culture he is talking about. I don’t want anything to do with it either. Especially not his white food, it’s probably crumbed, from the freezer and heated up in the microwave.

[alli pat 🐈🐈‍⬛🐈‍⬛🐈‍⬛🐈‍⬛🐈‍⬛🐈‍⬛ @allipats]

@MAGALieTracker Did they show Stephen something else or is he just on really good drugs? Because that’s not what I saw.

[Gregory Andrews @LyrebirdDream]

@AlboMP Let’s be clear: criticism of Israel is not antisemitism.

Naming genocide in Gaza isn’t hate speech.

Human rights are universal, or they’re nothing.

[Politic@l Spinner. @lesstenny]

What a nasty bitter miserable corrupt woman.. If you agree please repost. 😩 @PaulineHansonOz #auspol

[alli pat 🐈🐈‍⬛🐈‍⬛🐈‍⬛🐈‍⬛🐈‍⬛🐈‍⬛ @allipats]

@swampyoscar66 @Peter_Fitz You’ve got to send those tunnel ball ones, they’ve got to be worth millions tell him.

[Yanis Varoufakis @yanisvaroufakis]

My withdrawal from Adelaide Writers' Festival (in protest to the ban on Randa Abdel-Fattah following pressure from the Zionist lobby) drew out immense support but (naturally) also criticism. As the criticism is always more interesting than the praise, here is an extract from an email by a Australian-Greek who was "appalled" by my withdrawal. [My reply to him follows below]

LETTER BEGINS

I'm writing as a second-generation Greek-Australian. My grandparents immigrated to Australia, and my grandmother raised six children alone in Adelaide. All went on to build successful families here - a story that represents the best of multiculturalism, made possible by embracing Australian values of equality, respect, and opportunity.

Your withdrawal from the Adelaide Writers Festival in solidarity with Randa Abdel-Fattah is appalling. The festival organizers made the right decision in removing her. Rhetoric that calls for the elimination of any people - regardless of the political context - has no place on Australian platforms. This isn't about silencing legitimate criticism; it's about recognizing a line that should never be crossed in a democratic society.

By withdrawing in protest of that decision, you're defending the indefensible. As a Greek who should understand what happens when democratic societies fail to stand firm against eliminationist rhetoric, your position is particularly shameful.

Australia's success as a multicultural nation depends on rejecting those who promote hatred toward any group. I expected someone who speaks of equality and democracy to understand this fundamental principle.

A deeply disappointed compatriot.

AND HERE IS MY REPLY

Thank you for writing. At the very least, we are still blessed with the capacity to disagree agreeably.

In your letter you write that “[r]hetoric that calls for the elimination of any people - regardless of the political context - has no place on Australian platforms”. Agreed. Fully. Except that Randa Abdel-Fattah never called for the elimination of a people. Had she done so, I too would have refused to share a platform with her at the Adelaide Writers Week or anywhere else for that matter.

Like successive Australian governments were calling for years for the elimination of the South African Apartheid state, Randa wished for an end of the “Zionist colony” in Palestine – the equivalent of the Boer colonial white supremacist state in south Africa. What Randa was wishing for, in the terms of your letter, was that the same Australian values you cherish prevail (instead of an Apartheid state’s laws and mores) in the land of her ancestors: equality before the law independently of one’s religion, ethnicity or creed. It is for this call that Randa was banned from this year’s Adelaide Writers Week.

So, if you do care about Australian values and institutions, you should be appalled.

You should be appalled by the ban of Randa Abdel-Fattah, independently of whether you agree with her on specifics.

You should be appalled by the silencing and sidelining of the AWW’s wonderful director, Louise Adler – a Jewish intellectual who has contributed so much to Australian letters and culture and who invited Randa knowing full well the facts of the case.

You should be appalled by a Zionist lobby determined to use the accusation of antisemitism in order to legitimise any war crime the Israeli Apartheid state chooses to commit – all in the name of Australian and Western values.

Finally, and on a personal note, I am glad to have withdrawn from this year’s AWW in a bid to help save it.

Respectfully

Yanis Varoufakis

[Mike Carlton @MikeCarlton01]

Re-posting this because…well, why not ?

[alli pat 🐈🐈‍⬛🐈‍⬛🐈‍⬛🐈‍⬛🐈‍⬛🐈‍⬛ @allipats]

@mjfree Not sure what anyone is shocked about anything right now.