The Old and Unimproved Dave 🦘

“To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.”

[Margot Cleveland @ProfMJCleveland]

Q. Why do Democrats root for the pond scum in the Reflecting Pool?

A. Professional courtesy.

[Marc J. Randazza 🇺🇸 🇮🇹 🇧🇷 @marcorandazza]

Imagine being in unemployably stupid rolling ball of diabetes ectoplasm and you ride the DEI wave into a do-nothing position as a political komissar at JP Morgan for nearly a half a million bucks a year…

… and you trade that all for a used garbage can.

[The Old and Unimproved Dave 🦘 @DaveToau]

@TheBabylonBee "Is that so?"

[The Old and Unimproved Dave 🦘 @DaveToau]

@ProfMJCleveland I'd say that Mamdani had better own the faster speedboat in NYC, and take to it on the day that the patience of New Yorkers at the coming economic disaster finally runs out.

[Michael Arbon @arbsmichael]

Remember when “Climate Action Now” signs lined the picket fences of Australia's wealthiest suburbs?

These signs have faded and largely disappeared.

Their impact sadly has not.

It was Australian researchers who created solar photovoltaic technology that converts sunlight directly into electricity. Yet around 99% of the solar panels in Australia are coming from China.

We subsidised and fast-tracked uptake of renewables.

We didn't change the weather, but we transferred significant wealth offshore.

[The Old and Unimproved Dave 🦘 @DaveToau]

@Rainmaker1973 The old digger’s saying was that no matter how thoroughly ground has been worked, there is always room for a new Ballarat.

[The Old and Unimproved Dave 🦘 @DaveToau]

@infantrydort ...in some cases in our history, notably Tobruk, it involved a cold, calculated descent into savagery that shocked even Rommel's Africa Korps.

[The Old and Unimproved Dave 🦘 @DaveToau]

@infantrydort The Australian experience is more one of Gallipoli, Tobruk, Kokoda. Arguably heroic last stands until the massive power of a stronger ally can (hopefully) be brought to bear. It's not a situation one would choose to be in, and...

[The Old and Unimproved Dave 🦘 @DaveToau]

@NotKennyRogers They're not protesting, they're cosplaying.

[The Old and Unimproved Dave 🦘 @DaveToau]

@infantrydort Donahue out here getting more sympathy than MacArthur, and he didn’t even threaten to nuke China.

[The Old and Unimproved Dave 🦘 @DaveToau]

@Rainmaker1973 Visited by John Cleese and Michael Palin in 1969 in search of material.

[The Old and Unimproved Dave 🦘 @DaveToau]

@pastarchive The potholes would've wasted 'Jailhouse Rock', Daddy-O.

[The Old and Unimproved Dave 🦘 @DaveToau]

@LePapillonBlu2 It's not how they're working, it's *who* they're working.

[The Old and Unimproved Dave 🦘 @DaveToau]

@ellymelly @ARC_Conference In which case the Greenies will actually have something Green as opposed to Marxist to get all heated under the collar about.

How retro that will be!

[The Old and Unimproved Dave 🦘 @DaveToau]

All those years that you thought you were an expert in choosing meaningful bunches of flowers, only to find out that your bouquet's message was:
"MY GRANDFATHER'S HORSE HAS LUMBAGO"

[The Old and Unimproved Dave 🦘 @DaveToau]

@KobieThatcher What can be done, can be undone.

[The Old and Unimproved Dave 🦘 @DaveToau]

@luisbaram Chances are they'll find some way to ... *annoy* ... the general prison population right from the get-go.

[The Old and Unimproved Dave 🦘 @DaveToau]

@realDailyWire Way to create the ‘DEI Trash’ trope.

[The Old and Unimproved Dave 🦘 @DaveToau]

These violent events are documented in histories, survivor accounts, and scholarly works on the Russian Revolution, Cultural Revolution, and Cambodian Genocide. Primary sources and regime records confirm the scale of repression.

[The Old and Unimproved Dave 🦘 @DaveToau]

Many died from violence, suicide, or hardship. Notable victims included scientists, writers, and academics like Jian Bozan and Yao Tongbin.

[The Old and Unimproved Dave 🦘 @DaveToau]

In summary, a recurring historical pattern in 20th-century communist revolutions was the marginalisation or destruction of independent intellectual life to remake society.