Tom Mende

Carbon based life form : husband : parent : grandparent

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@AmeliaBee7 Maybe talk to @MFWitches
Their modus operandi seems to be to reclaim the word & neutralise its more pejorative aspects in the service of their aims to counter the ilk of Sandilands et al.

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@clairlemon @GrayConnolly You’re proposing the blind should lead the blind.

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As usual Greg is mostly right but craven by both name & nature. Non-originalists ought be defenestrated on the grounds of being certifiably insane.

Judge attacks tiny law society — but the real target appears to be democracy https://t.co/y9n6HBQOQm

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Well the ALPs economy isn’t working for most people outside of the parasite class. The issue is the ALP wants to blame externalities rather than their own profligacy.

We’re not in Canberra any more: it’s the end of politics as usual https://t.co/PB7VunRhgH

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@katinadoc Libertarianism is based around the individual & his rights while conservatism is entrenched around the family, tradition, duties & obligations. Both may share a small government ethos but for mostly entirely different reasons.

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@blowingtom2 They don’t care, it’s a vote to get rid of the una party, it’s not a vote for anything else.

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@blowingtom2 She not, she’s just not them. That’s all that matters not her voting record.

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@parnellpalme I think you wildly underestimate the social fracture & lack of social cohesion. There is no possibility of consensus.

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@MyFirstCousin No one normal goes into politics. The only people who succeed are narcissistic psychopaths. People who seek power over other people are the last people who should ever be given it. None of them are there to better others lives.

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@GreenTyler27 We’ve got almost endless amounts of coal that can be gasified then liquified into low sulphur diesel & kerosene. If there was a war on, this is exactly what we’d do.

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@SandyHorne61 I’m pretty sure circa 50% of the voting public don’t give a rats arse. They are under no illusions….voting for ON is simply a method of removing Albanese & co. Beyond that they don’t care.

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Hanson is not the PM & unlike him didn’t have the opportunity over the last four years to address those clearly foreseeable issues (that many of us were pilloried by the left for raising, cast as cookers & deniers) before they became problems but failed to do so. To be fair to him the LNP did nothing when they were in office either….& that is why ON is on a tear. It’s not rocket science, Albo & the ALP, LNP, Greens, Teals etc are ALL abject failures who did fuck all for the last 20 years but grift.

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@sharrond62 Unironically the concept of non-binary from comes to us from the same people who see the entire world through the prism of the binary paradigm of oppressors & oppressed.

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@GrayConnolly @JoshKraushaar @jewishinsider @marcrod97 Depends, does a warlord bacha bazi enthusiast qualify as Waffen Same Sex?

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Rubbish, all poltical parties, especially the left, engage in negative advertising, lies, dehumanising opponents, general character assassination & whipping up hysteria & anger. It’s politics 101. Waiting for Mediscare v 5.0 or so from Labor. I guess there’s no “Liar from the Shire” or a “Voldemort” running this time so new material will be required. “Fire the Liar” cuts through, just like “He cuts, You pay” does, in exactly the same way, playing on the exact same emotions & sensibilities.

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On efficiency, we run public hospital systems that struggle to perform three joint replacements in a single day whereas in the private system we do five or six on a list. It’s so bad the public hospital nurses unscrub & take breaks according to the clock in the middle of cases delaying cases & exposing patients to added infection risk. For example since the takeover of the Calvary Bruce hospital in Canberra by the ACT government, the number of public joint replacements performed at the remaining Calvary private hospital, on contract to ACT health, has remained constant & at it’s spare capacity level while the public waiting list for joint replacements in the ACT continues to expand & an increased rate due to Calvary Bruce now functioning at the public sector level of efficiency. ACT has removed capacity from the system via its takeover of the private hospital.

Then there is the quality of the imports, it’s very low especially the nurses who in my experience are often functionally innumerate, which is very problematic when calculating doses based on mass. I’ve seen them attempt 10x doses of IV tranexamic acid (haemostat) on more than a few occaisions.

On workforce training the average female doctor will work circa a quarter to a fifth less hours over her lifetime than the average male doctor due to both child raising & womens health issues causing higher rates of absenteeism. So yes the training places increased but the functional hours increased less due the change in sex ratios trained. This mix change took over a decade to correct for due to the length of training & a failure to recognise it early enough. Further GP training became a specialty, when it was not previously. You used to just have to pass exams which pretty much anyone with a medical degree could pass.

The median age of the overseas born is now 43 whereas that of the natal population is 35, so immigration is also aging the population faster than otherwise thus requiring more medical workforce than otherwise on a per capita basis.

Record high migration has coincided with record level decline to living standards since the 1950s & the biggest across the OECD. Only the functionally innumerate think this is working.

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Cuts are no problem. APS wages should be slashed so no one is paid more than average private sector earnings, super cut to 12% like everyone else. That way they have one single collective incentive raise private sector incomes. But first we must put the mandarins in the tumbril with Simon & the parasite class. Conscription is what any self sufficient country with no real alliances does. Given progressives want to ditch our allies, they’ll have shape up & commit their 1.4 offspring to the military.

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In a democracy if a democratically elected political party “changes its position” during a three year term, it had no real policies nor any solutions. Nothing in the word really changed that governments or prospective governments shouldn’t have had preparations in place ready for.

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@MarkoMatvikov @JacintaAllanMP It’s all a bit too reminiscent of the Coles “down down” campaign. Bring back Status Quo I say. Maybe “Whatever you want” or more “Roll over lay down”.