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@Nev_or_never @RoadknightThe It shouldn't matter for anything except for satisfying curiosity whether one is Aboriginal or not.

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@RoadknightThe Looking back, would you say it was a good use of your years?

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@christopherrufo It solves (with a degree of certainty) a tactical problem, but it kicks the strategic can down the road (the current regime being a menace to their nation and to the world)

[Konstantin Kisin @KonstantinKisin]

Thank you for summing up why people hate successful people: you think you're a loser because someone else made you a loser. The reason you believe this is that it's a lot more comforting than the truth: you're a loser despite the fact that amazing business leaders like Elon created hundreds of thousands of jobs and paid billions upon billions in taxes. In other words, the reason you're a loser is you, your shitty, envious attitude and the fact that you don't understand that the way to achieve what you want is to provide something other people want so they're willing to pay you for it.

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@CognitiveD3 @stats_feed What makes you say that?

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@zoecabina What is an effective way of effectively pushing back to all that?

[Konstantin Kisin @KonstantinKisin]

I will take absolutely no lectures about "divisiveness" from the people who gave us two-tier policing, racial hiring quotas and endless race-baiting.

Unlike you, we do not kneel.

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@pepija @bizenajs_V2 Ar to, ka cilvēks. Savējie ir vērtīgāki par citiem. Lācim vērtīgāks ir lācis.

[TheRoadknight @RoadknightThe]

Today is National Sorry Day.

I'm sorry that a non-verbal five-year-old, who'd been the subject of child welfare reports, was not removed from abuse, neglect and, ultimately, the danger that saw her sexually molested and murdered.

I'm sorry that there are thousands more like her.

But most of all I'm sorry that Aboriginal people, including those elders, past, present and emerging, fail to take responsibility for their, and their communities', failings but, instead, simply call for more billions of dollars to 'fix' that problem that, instead, sees it going backwards.

It's now past time for non-Aboriginal Australians to cease saying sorry for rescuing in-danger children from abuse and neglect.

#RescuedNotStolen and always was, always will be.

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@dewalke @ChuckyCheeze69 @AustralianLabor @AlanKohler @abcnews What other news sources do you use?

[Konstantin Kisin @KonstantinKisin]

Multiculturalism has failed.

Even the politicians who pursued it now admit it. That's because diversity is not a strength, unity is.

The solution to the failure of multiculturalism is monoculturalism, where all citizens subscribe to a shared national identity which is more important than their individual differences.

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@spectatorindex @Kalshi 56% chance of them not bothering with nominating a candidate?

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@oliverjanik @equalasdust @AvidCommentator How so? 😀

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@AvidCommentator Well, access to tax-free super is age-based. With that in mind, exempting pensioners would be more in line with previous policies than not exempting.

[Mario Nawfal @MarioNawfal]

🇩🇰 Copenhagen's Green-led council is limiting elderly care residents to 80 grams of beef per week for climate reasons.

That works out to 11.4 grams a day, which is less meat than most people put in a single taco.

A Green party rep explained the logic: the elderly "have been the biggest climate sinners throughout their lives."

So the plan is apparently to make them atone for it in their final years, one thimble of mince at a time.

Critics, including opposition parties and elderly advocates, say the policy risks undernutrition in a population already vulnerable to it.

The council says it's flexible, but the elderly eating climate penance for dinner might disagree.

Source: BT, Ekstra Bladet

[Chasing Ennui @rwlesq]

Who should it be returned to?

The British Royal Family has had it since 1850, when it was given to Queen Victoria by the British East India Company.

The British East India Company got it the year before, when it was surrendered by the then 10-year-old Maharaja Sir Duleep Singh of the Sikh Empire to the British at the end of the Second Anglo-Sikh War.

He had it because he had been installed as Maharaja of the Sikh Empire in 1843 after a coup in 1839 and several years of instability.

The Sikh Empire had it since 1813, when its founder, Ranjit Singh, took it from Shuja Shah Durrani after Shuja Shah Durrani was deposed and exiled from the Durrani Empire in Afghanistan. Shuja Shah Durrani claims that Ranjit Singh had his son tortured until he gave him the diamond.

Shuja Shah Durrani had it because the founder of the Durrani Empire, Ahmad Shah, was given it c. 1750 by either the grandson of Nader Shah or the head of Nader Shah's harem, following Nader Shah's assassination.

Nader Shah was the founder of the Afsharid dynasty of Iran. He got it when he looted the Mughal Empire in India in 1739 and took it from the Peacock Throne of the Mughal emperors.

Before that, it gets a little hazy. However, it appears to have bounced around the Mughal empire since 1526, occasionally being gifted or stolen (or stolen while being gifted). The Mughal Empire got it as ransom after Humayun, the son of Babur, the founder of the Mughal Empire, got it in ransom for a family captured during the Battle of Panipat, in which the Mughal Empire was founded with the conquest of the Delhi Sultanate in northern India.

The Delhi Sultanate had it since 1310, after it subjugated the Kakatiya dynasty of southern India. I wasn't able to easily determine where they got it from.

So yeah, the British may have it as a result of colonialism and empire, but that colonialism and empire dates back to before the United Kingdom existed. Maybe the British Royals shouldn't keep it, but chances are that whoever they return it to is just the second-to-last (or third-to-last or fourth-to-last) conqueror of the diamond.

[Martin Ågerup @martinagerup1]

Så meget er 80 gram oksekød. Det er den mængde oksekød plejehjemsbeboere i København må få. Ikke om dagen, men om ugen. For klimaets skyld. Det har Københavns Kommune bestemt.

Når man kommer på plejehjem, har man typisk et år tilbage at leve i. Men Københavns Kommune mener, at dette er det helt rigtige tidspunkt at påtvinge borgerne nye spisevaner. Danskerne spiser typisk 300 gram oksekød om ugen – altså næsten 4 gange mere end den ration, plejehjemsbeboerne bliver tilkendt.

Dette formynderi bør stoppe.

Plejehjemsbeboere har typisk betalt skat hele deres liv ud fra den forventning, at velfærdsstaten tager sig dem, når de får brug for de. De fortjener pleje og omsorg, ikke formynderi.

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@william1987lee @MagnaCartaPost @JacintaAllanMP Or an argument

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@RoadknightThe We have never needed it, but they need it as just another front of their ideological fight.

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@william1987lee @MagnaCartaPost @JacintaAllanMP Spicy language is not a substitute for a coherent argument