Dirk Van Rooy

Researcher / Behavioural insights specialist at the Policy Experiments Lab, ANU / ThinkPlace.

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@DudespostingWs When we lived in Canberra, my wife was chased by a masssive 6+foot roo. Had to hide in someones house.

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There’s a certain poetic justice in it: a presidency fueled by a wave of raw, selfish grievances is inadvertently breaking the back of fossil-fueled, unregulated capitalism. By doubling down on a dying era, they’ve hit the accelerator on its obsolescence. #DrillBabyDrill

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@AlixG_2 They clearly have nothing on her. All political posturing to distract from Trump.

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@atensnut The attempt by MAGA to make this about the Clintons (their forever obsession it seems) is beyond sad and pathetic. And painfully transparent…..

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@eveforamerica And yet somehow, still several steps ahead of those clowns on the Epstein hearings......

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@RepNancyMace She already exposed you as partisan clowns.

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@BBMagaMom Running the Benghazi playbook again: by staying calm under fire and pointing out the committee’s refusal to subpoena Donald Trump, HC is effectively exposing this Epstein "investigation" as another partisan show trial. 🏛️⚖️ #EpsteinInvestigation #HillaryClinton

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@krassenstein Running the Benghazi playbook again: by staying calm under fire and pointing out the committee’s refusal to subpoena Donald Trump, HC is effectively exposing this Epstein "investigation" as another partisan show trial. 🏛️⚖️ #EpsteinInvestigation #HillaryClinton

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@NancyMace Running the Benghazi playbook again: by staying calm under fire and pointing out the committee’s refusal to subpoena Donald Trump, HC is effectively exposing this Epstein "investigation" as another partisan show trial. 🏛️⚖️ #EpsteinInvestigation #HillaryClinton

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@RepNancyMace Running the Benghazi playbook again: by staying calm under fire and pointing out the committee’s refusal to subpoena Donald Trump, HC is effectively exposing this Epstein "investigation" as another partisan show trial. 🏛️⚖️ #EpsteinInvestigation #HillaryClinton

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@RalstonReports The gap between the reality republicans are trying to create and maintain, and what people are actually experiencing, is really escalating. It was a sad, sad display.

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@Rainmaker1973 These mofo’s are big. One chased me all the way home the other day!

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@HealthRanger And if he fires her, she’ll spill the beans - which is also the end of Trump. Catch 22?

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@NickAdamsinUSA Wait, this isn’t parody?

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@jeremymstamper @GabrieleGuzzi Indeed - but the algorithms on this platform prefer to push baseless nonsense 🤷

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@ScoMo30 The fact that this bottomless fool shows up in my stream says enough about X’s algorithms 🤦

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@Rob_Roos Typical Musk BS. Immigration isn’t annexation. Migrants don’t vote to dissolve states or ‘join’ another country. Comparing Europe to a hypothetical Greenland takeover is a false analogy ~ catchy rhetoric, bad analysis.

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@StevenEKuhn Watching the speech is one thing. Reading the reactions is another. Nothing tangible changed after Davos ~ no wins, no breakthroughs. The graphic dominance rhetoric circulating on the right is narrative therapy, not a record of events.

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@grey4626 For anyone looking at this without myth or projection: the Davos speech wasn’t “surgical” or “predatory.” It was rambling, repetitive, grievance-driven and detached from (basic policy) reality. Tweets like this are less about facts and more about shoring up an in-group narrative.

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@kajakallas Of course. China can just sit back and watch Trump break down the world order that the US relies on for its economic (and by extension military) position. It’s shocking to see an empire destroy itself like this.