Fodder

You can be Aaron, stay home protect family and farm. But Scar et al will overwhelm you eventually. Or you can do it to them before they do it to you.

[Handre @Handre]

In 1968, while teenage Red Guards beat their professors to death with clubs in Beijing courtyards, Jean-Paul Sartre sat in Paris calling Mao's Cultural Revolution a model of revolutionary democracy. The most celebrated intellectual in France looked at a country burning its own libraries and saw liberation. He sold the Maoist newspaper La Cause du Peuple on French street corners himself, holding it aloft like a sacrament.

Consider what he was endorsing. Between 1966 and 1976, the Cultural Revolution killed somewhere between 500,000 and two million people. Schools shut down across the entire country. Students dragged teachers onto stages, hung placards around their necks, forced them to kneel on broken glass, then murdered them. The historian Bian Zhongyun, vice-principal of a girls' school in Beijing, died on August 5, 1966, beaten by her own students with nail-studded clubs. Sartre called this the people governing themselves.

You should understand why a man this intelligent got it this wrong. Sartre believed knowledge served power, that truth was whatever the revolution required, that the individual existed to be dissolved into the collective will. So when Mao abolished the distinction between teacher and student, between expert and mob, Sartre cheered. He had spent decades arguing that bourgeois reason was a class weapon. Here was a regime taking him at his word and clubbing the reasoners to death.

This is what economic illiteracy buys you. A university, a price, a contract, and a peasant's grain stockpile all carry knowledge that no central planner can seize or replicate. Mises explained the calculation problem in 1920. Hayek explained dispersed knowledge in 1945. Sartre had access to both and chose the dunce cap of the collective instead, then handed out its propaganda on the Rue de Rennes.

He died in 1980, mourned by 50,000 followers, never having retracted a word about Mao. The professors of Beijing got no such funeral. They got a ditch, and a philosopher in Paris explaining that their murder was freedom.

[Zac Goldsmith @ZacGoldsmith]

Hello Natasha!
I’m not Israeli. I don’t own land in Israel, directly or indirectly. I’m not looking for land or property in Israel. And I’m certainly not stealing any!
I’m just someone who believes Jewish people need somewhere of their own where they can avoid being killed by antisemites like you. Just one tiny little country, not 50 large ones like those occupied by Muslims.
Ps I bet you’re really lovely x

[Graham Linehan @Glinner]

Ban commercial surrogacy now.

[Lisa @Lisa9Sophia]

Australia is now the country with the highest proportion of foreign born residents on Earth

We didn’t vote for this

The UK has 16% and is bordering on civil war. Australia by contrast is at 32%

ONE NATION is going to win every State and Federal election on that fact alone

[Drew Pavlou 🇦🇺🇺🇸🇺🇦🇹🇼 @DrewPavlou]

News article about Karl Stefanovic hiring me notes ''people at Nine are pissed''

[Gareth Roberts @OldRoberts953]

Key point!

[Gareth Roberts @OldRoberts953]

Brilliant from Michael Deacon -

https://t.co/FqLQkifTT5

Still, whatever the truth, my own family won’t be needing any assistance of this kind. Because, just in case I’m ever randomly murdered in the street by a failed asylum seeker, I’ve already prepared a statement for them. It reads as follows.

“We, the family of Michael Deacon, are naturally disappointed to learn of his untimely beheading. But one thing distresses us even more. And that’s the thought that this unfortunate incident might in some way be used to criticise our nation’s beloved Prime Minister.

The fact is that Michael’s death is definitely not the fault of the Government’s suicidally lax approach to border control, or its fanatical commitment to prioritising the interests of people from any country on Earth except our own. Michael himself was always the first to remind everyone that diversity is our strength, that Britain was built by immigrants, and that Our NHS cannot survive unless our superiors allow an endless deluge of mysterious men from extremely dangerous countries to be accommodated at tax-payer expense next to your local primary school.

We therefore ask Nigel Farage not to politicise this completely unavoidable tragedy by making irresponsible and divisive calls for something to be done to prevent it from happening again. Instead, he and indeed everyone else in Britain should respect our wishes by carrying on as if nothing has happened, thus ensuring that this politically inconvenient event is helpfully forgotten, at least until the next one.

Vote Labour.”

[Drew Pavlou 🇦🇺🇺🇸🇺🇦🇹🇼 @DrewPavlou]

Third world mentality vs first world mentality

[Josh Howie @joshxhowie]

Know who they are.

Every MP on this thread has betrayed women’s rights. I invite one and all to sue me if they think I’m wrong.

[Gareth Roberts @OldRoberts953]

If I had a time machine, I’d use it to show the voters of 1945 what electing Labour would eventually lead to. I suspect Mr Attlee might not achieve such a landslide.

[Fodder @Fodder37027091]

@JohnAndersonAC You people just talk to each other and are catching up to where the rest of us figured it out without your ted talk help

[Andrew Neil @afneil]

So if Reeves’s claim that Brexit cost us 8% of GDP is correct it would mean we’d have grown four times more than Japan/Germany and almost twice France/Italy. Up there with Canada/US. If you believe that I have a bridge to sell you.
In reality, even with Brexit, we were fastest growing European economy in G7. Just a tad more than France (with no Frexit).

[Andrew Neil @afneil]

Your SNP campaigned to stop further exploration/exploitation of the North Sea and opposed new nuclear power stations in Scotland. So what exactly are you on about?

[Rob Smith @Ausbobsmit]

Jim Chalmers had ambitions of becoming PM.

Problem is, he's set to lose his seat at the next election.

Fact.

[Malcolm Roberts 🇦🇺 @MRobertsQLD]

Net Immigration 2025 was higher than 2024

Another increase thanks to PM Albanese

Fire the liar

[Drew Pavlou 🇦🇺🇺🇸🇺🇦🇹🇼 @DrewPavlou]

HONOURED TO ANNOUNCE that I am @karlstefanovic's first media hire for the Karl Stefanovic Show ... I will be contributing weekly investigations as CHIEF CHAOS CORRESPONDENT

This has been a dream of mine since I watched the Today Show as a child … the mainstream media would not take a chance on me but Karl did … he is a hero and he is changing Australian journalism forever

[Christopher Snowdon @cjsnowdon]

David Hockney’s lifelong battle with the dreary, joyless nanny state - me for Spiked. https://t.co/2TNNQ3yZzt

[Graham Linehan @Glinner]

Coleman Hughes is the exact opposite to the hacks I just mentioned. Bravely addressing the world as it is, not as he imagines or wants it to be.

[One Nation Australia @OneNationAus]

Really?! This is what woke officials in the Department of Defence are forcing soldiers to partake in. We live in an increasingly uncertain world, and one would be forgiven for thinking there are greater priorities than crafting Indigenous spears. When woke ideology starts seeping into our armed forces, that is when you know we have serious problems. Utter madness. Under One Nation, such practices and ideologies would be expunged from our national life.

[Timjbo 🇦🇺 @TimjboAU]

Going to be fun watching all the lefties go into a tailspin over this.

Gina Rinehart secures one billion dollar stake in Elon Musk’s SpaceX.

Mrs Rinehart said in a statement: “We see SpaceX as a rare business: led by a truly exceptional person, technically exceptional and operating in sectors that are crucial, and with long-term potential. Hancock favours investing in industries led by sensible, hard working, patriotic and exceptional people.
@elonmusk excels in every regard.”

https://t.co/gUkFdqw2Av