Trump: "The greatest ballroom ever built -- it's also a tremendous military complex with a drone port on top. Be careful. Don't fall over the edge. And only a Hispanic could survive that fall."
@itookthebath@TomFulp the sad thing is he's probably taking the best course of action in terms of his own self-interest right now. there's a good chance he can continue ignoring this shit indefinitely, as long as he still has a crew to record LPs with
@rahuprincess They talk about the ethics of the machine to avoid their own ethics, which are terrible and guarantee everything they make will be evil and be used for evil
@bumbadum14 I’ve been saying this for years. Israel hate is third world coded. If Hitler was alive today, he’d still dislike Jews, but he would hate Africans and Muslims more given the state of Europe. He would likely admire Israel for being a right wing militant state.
1 in 16 Australian men were Freemasons - the "managerial class" of old. Freemasons looking out for each other in business and employment very likely gave rise to the "jobs for mates" culture
"welcoming the stranger among you" is not the same as "the government systematically moving people across the globe to your neighborhood and paying for them to stay there"
so many of my deceased older relatives were Freemasons. weird anti-catholic sentiment that lingers (outside of what was imported from US evangelicals). Catholic ties to the Labor party, Prot ties to the Liberals. Boomers don't understand the world which was handed to them
I suspect mason/catholic conflict played a large role in Australia's social and political history, but it's hard to find sources that actually go into this stuff; most of what you find is surface level/pop history.