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[Mactaverum @mactaverum]

@Sargon_of_Akkad To be fair there are voting systems that at least partially neuter this. First past the post is the worst voting system precisely because it empowers the homogenous group even if they don't hold a majority.

Doesn't save you though if the homogenous group is the majority.

[Mactaverum @mactaverum]

@chuthuluthebald @Nerdrotics @YouTube "Could've been..."

So was it good or not? Could YOU admit if he was right?

[Drew Pavlou 🇦🇺🇺🇸🇫🇷🇺🇦🇹🇼 @DrewPavlou]

Albanese is the first Australian Prime Minister in half a century to preside over GDP per capita stagnation

[China Uncensored @ChinaUncensored]

Elon Musk once called himself “kind of pro-China.” He also invested billions of dollars setting up Tesla manufacturing in Shanghai, which transferred technology to China and is largely responsible for China’s EV boom.

How did the Chinese Communist Party repay Elon’s affection? By drawing up a detailed plan to blow his satellites out of the sky.

[Count Dankula @CountDankulaTV]

When I got arrested for Nazi Pug, I got held in jail until my court date due to the "serious nature" of my "offence".

But the guy who threw a toddler into a crocodile enclosure to try and have him ripped limb from limb has already been bailed the very next day.

Clown country.

[Drew Pavlou 🇦🇺🇺🇸🇫🇷🇺🇦🇹🇼 @DrewPavlou]

I think the portrait that lost was better.

[Pasha Rayan @Pashpops]

@DrewPavlou Especially when there was a perfectly amazing painting that deserved the win

[Drew Pavlou 🇦🇺🇺🇸🇫🇷🇺🇦🇹🇼 @DrewPavlou]

The Archibald Prize is Australia’s most prestigious art prize.

This is the winning entry 100 years ago vs the winning entry this year.

[Drew Pavlou 🇦🇺🇺🇸🇫🇷🇺🇦🇹🇼 @DrewPavlou]

WHAT THE FUCK. Criminal law textbook in Australia lists the time I held up a ''FUCK XI JINPING'' sign in Australia as racist hate speech.

I won in court because the police translator admitted that the term ''Cao Ni Ma'' is the most common insult in China.

Yet this is apparently racist hate speech.

Australian legal profession is so punishingly, suffocatingly woke.

Textbook is ''Criminal Laws, 8th Edition: Materials and Commentary on Criminal Law and Process of New South Wales.''

[Grummz @Grummz]

Suckerpunch Senior Dev celebrates Charlie Kirk's death.

Ghost of Yotei is dead to me now.

@SuckerPunchProd

[Charlie Kirk @charliekirk11]

Assassination culture is spreading on the left. Forty-eight percent of liberals say it would be at least somewhat justified to murder Elon Musk. Fifty-five percent said the same about Donald Trump.

In California, activists are naming ballot measures after Luigi Mangione.

The left is being whipped into a violent frenzy. Any setback, whether losing an election or losing a court case, justifies a maximally violent response.

This is the natural outgrowth of left-wing protest culture tolerating violence and mayhem for years on end. The cowardice of local prosecutors and school officials have turned the left into a ticking time bomb.

https://t.co/NrrnmBwAR1

[Drew Pavlou 🇦🇺🇺🇸🇫🇷🇺🇦🇹🇼 @DrewPavlou]

Charlie Kirk was a moderate center-right conservative. People on the extreme right hated him and called him a Jew lover. I know this because I followed their posts.

The fact that even he will be targeted for assassination and murder will massively radicalise millions of people and push them further to the right.

[The ArchCast @TArchcast]

Just started it, so i may be wrong here, but. I already see a problem. The piss color filter, the evil portrayal of Mussolini, the harping on about how fascism only targets the weak etc etc.

It makes the doctrine and philosophy of fascism, JUST evil. But it was not JUST evil, otherwise it would not have gained million and millions of followers. Unless we think that huge portions of the population back then also, where JUST evil.

By failing to lay out, investigate and understand what drove people like Mussolini, we leave ourselves with no defense against fascism. Other then to simply define it as "bad" and so anything that is bad, is fascist.

This results, inevitably, in what we see right now. With extreme activists in America torching property because they think Tesla, as just one example, is "bad" and so it must be fascist. Trump is bad thus fascist, DOGE is bad thus fascist. And since it's all fascist, and fascist of course is just evil. Then any and all actions taken against evil are naturally justified. Until, as political violence escalates and escalates, the activists end up as Mussolini states. "You'll become fascist too"

[Mactaverum @mactaverum]

@whatifalthist I say this with real and honest concern: go speak to a psychiatrist (or stop using whatever drug you were on around the time of writing this).

What and more importantly how you've written here reminds me of what I've seen on psych wards (caveat: not a psychiatrist)

[KevinFlash @YellowFlashGuy]

Tim Pool bent him over the table lol

[Mactaverum @mactaverum]

@RisingTideAus "People power" = the ability of a tiny minority of people to be a pain in the ass to the majority until they they bite back.

True people power should be wielded by the ballot box not by the mob.

I hope the police throw the book at all those involved.

[Quillette @Quillette]

Claire Lehmann comments on Victoria's new anti-vilification laws.

[Quillette @Quillette]

Quillette founder Claire Lehmann speaks on Australian national TV about the Misinformation Bill.

[Drew Pavlou 🇦🇺🇺🇸🇫🇷🇺🇦🇹🇼 @DrewPavlou]

Blood and soil race nationalism but make it lefty coded

[Mactaverum @mactaverum]

@peterboghossian What is the point of a good policy if there is no chance you'll implement it? And if you attempt you'll botch it beyond recognition.

A well executed bad plan is often better than no plan at all (there is a limit but separation of powers prevents those horrifying extremes)