@MikeBromley15@Potstirrer111 There is also the fact that in recent times while GDP has been going up... GDP per person has been going down. Basically people have been going backwards.
@ChavuraStephen Australia's culture and values - at least by the progressive political class has changed significantly in recent decades - I think my grandparents would be turning in their graves over what some of Australian Culture has become.
@MaximusChud@LtMangoes96948 I don't know that it works though.... maybe the best it can do is stop negative coverage - but people will see through that too.
@DominicGerardMc@realRick_AUS Or is this because of the choices people of various stripes have made in the past and the reaction to them? Is it a misnomer to call it Americanโstyle polarisation, personal attacks, political hatred and cultureโwar rhetoric... because our cultures have always been similar and /1
@SlithyToveGyre@eevblog@acccgovau I agree... but some of these things are also with complicity of the government. These companies wouldn't get access to this information without access to government databases. The government could easily stamp some of this behavior out by restricting access to these databases.
@Haydenfreedom@Dollarydoos_ Calling people Nazi's and facists is a way to control people. The trouble is... it gets to the point where the words have lost all meaning and just become useless noise. We are probably getting close to that point - if we haven't already passed it.
Yesterday there was a rush to blame the Haines event on Pauline Hanson.
Today it's switched to blaming men.
Yet not even the Police have a motive at this stage.
Ghoulish opportunism. That's what it is.
@NatZadar@DrDeeMichell It was more of because of what was on ABC radio this morning... People using "Never let a disaster go to waste".
https://t.co/X3C9lrPyNY