Rakeau

Jaded realist. Truth is fair game. Salt mine supervisor. You block = you lose.

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@WriteWithDave @abcnews Peak Dunning Kruger opinion

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@DrewHutton45645 @FranMooMoo How do you define “progressive”?

In your view, how was the QLD Greens co-opted and corrupted? How / why did this happen?

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@Flumark @nick_coatsworth Cheap, unregulated smokes are the reaction, not the cause.

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@nick_coatsworth Moral of the story: Whenever the Gov tries to fix something, especially by forcing people this way or that way, they inevitably make things worse.

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@GreenTyler27 This is what these woke ideologues do - they target institutions who have influence and power, infiltrate them, gut them from the inside out, and use them to oppress their opponents.

Government. Education. Large corporations. Media. Entertainment. NGO’s. All corrupted.

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@TopherField Was there 10 years ago. People outside the US love to bash on Americans for being loud and obnoxious but I generally found them very friendly. Texans were the friendliest in my travels though!

That said, they do perk up when they hear an Aussie accent, so is that why? 🤣

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@pugnamstulti @GreenTyler27 It’s like the Jewish who string that wire around NYC or when they’re not allowed to touch lamps on certain days so they just .. leave them on lol. Same technicality loophole nonsense. It’s all just so dumb.

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@toiletpaperaus1 The culture war is brought here by the people who want to forecfully change culture, not those who want to preserve it.

As for things nobody asked for? Socialism. Higher tax. Energy scarcity. Climate activism. Mass immigration. “Diversity”. LGBTQ. “First nations”. List goes on.

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@AvidCommentator I’ll coin it here:

Sub-prime immigration.

[NOBUNAGA🇯🇵🏯_夏樹蒼依 @japan_nobunaga]

The world spent 30 years calling Japan 'behind.'

Still uses cash.
Still uses fax.
Still has tiny shops run by one old couple.

Then the world got 'ahead' —
and ended up lonely, rushed,
and scrolling at 2 AM.

Now the same people are flying to Japan
just to feel something they can't name.

A meal made by hand.
A street that's quiet.
A stranger who's kind for no reason.

Turns out Japan wasn't behind.

It just refused to trade away
the things that actually make a life.

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@GreeneLouiseAus When you can dish it, but you can’t take it.

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@Godzillin88 As said, go read the original post. That is the implication. If it wasn’t, people wouldn’t bother saying it.

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@Godzillin88 @d_n_keane The attitude is always “car dependancy = bad”. That suburban, regional, rural or remote life is immoral. It’s always a matter of talking down and berating anything other than cities.

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@CraigSarg73 We were all of those things and more decades ago.

Maybe ask people who have been here for their whole lives and not whoever passed through arrivals at the airport.

Also, while we are getting worse, so are our peers. To rank Xth is relative, not absolute.

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@ElaineM11584892 6 months, up from, what, 5?

4.75% wage rise, which will probably result in 4.75% of low wage earners being cut.
Meanwhile other workers get fuck all, of course, if anything, a pay cut in real terms.

Labor, taking all the credit while everyone else foots the bill.

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@Godzillin88 @d_n_keane That’s great and all but again, go look at the original post, and others like them. They oppose car ownership. If they had their way, cars wouldn’t exist and we’d all be squashed into dense urban cities against our will.

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@Godzillin88 @d_n_keane “100% of the area within my city”

Your city is just that. Your city. It is not everywhere beyond your city. Your wants and needs are not everyone else’s.

Anti-car people want others to live like them. Pro-car people don’t care what others do.

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@cboyack I’d suggest there’s two types of rights: material and immaterial.

Immaterial is freedom of speech, of association, etc.

Material is food, clothing, shelter, etc.

It’s not a right to have, get or take these things. Rather, it’s having the ability and access to procure them.

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@Dollaruse @MickamiousG I haven’t followed so closely about the current situation so as to be across what they’ve actually done versus them just saying things. But in any case, to compare and contrast against the prior situation is, well, it’s something.

Shame we’re under communist threat yet again tho

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@Godzillin88 @d_n_keane I didn’t say “regular transport”, I said “regular travel”.

Now YOU might only need to travel within the 0.1% of area covered, within the % of time those services operate, without carrying cargo, being able bodied, etc.

But you don’t get to decide that for anyone else.