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Sad, as I count oratory skill as the apex need in politics - to be able to craft a perfect sentence for a plural audience and convey correctly different nuanced messages to each audience segment.

He probably meant “you can’t shoot values (as bullets)”, but I heard “you can’t shoot values (with bullets)”.

Interesting comment. “You can’t shoot values”. I think Hesgeth meant to demean values as a reference point, but if you think harder: values cannot be threatened by violence. The more violence enacted on a people, the tighter they hold to their values. Values are immutable and should be the measure.

Essay: Tender is the Fight Image: Robert E.

For Valentine's Day: Love is not the opposite of hate. It is the opposite of indifference. We who demand a better world act out of love.

“At the risk of seeming ridiculous, let me say that the true revolutionary is guided by a great feeling of love,” Che Guevara

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How appalling that the Australian Government has not shown support for the International Criminal Court after the US Government’s sanctions against it. This is a matter of principle. The ICC deals with war crimes, genocide and crimes against humanity.

Oh Ita, creating a list titled #LobotomisedShitheads is definitely not ‘impartial’ but Fauziah kept her job. #ABCNews #auspol

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I am sick and tired of the ways white people in the U.S., especially women, constantly point to Iran as Exhibit A Zealot Central instead of seeing their homegrown zealotry.

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The lip-service and hypocrisy behind Australia's housing crisis If predictions come true it will be another year of deteriorating housing affordability, prices will rise at twice the rate of disposable income — something that that has been going on for 25 years an...

In 1999 came the final death knell of housing as a "right", when it became an investment asset after the Howard Govt halved capital gains tax.

Housing became a product and an investment market, rather than the right.

Until that changes .. 🤔

#auspol

Draft content, “Foresee the scenario that a hostile takeover by adversarial nefarious authorities occurs. What is your prescribed response? Will you ash records? Will you enact an encryption auto-lock and if so how will you plausibly deny it exists? How will you protect your human participants?”

Global Roundup: "Grandma Protect Yourself," Iraq Top Court Suspends "Child Marriage" Bill, Black Queer Activism, Turkish Feminists vs "Year of the Family," Argentine Protests vs Milei's "Sick Wokeism" Beatrice Nyariara, 81, trains with Esther Njeri, 82, of the Granny Defence "Cucu Jikinge" program, Nairobi, Kenya, November 12, 2024.

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"Grandma Protect Yourself"
-Iraq Top Court Suspends "Child Marriage" Bill
-Black Queer Activism
-Turkish Feminists vs "Year of the Family"
-Argentine Protests vs Milei's "Sick Wokeism"

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I propose a hypothesis that Musk’s gesture was primarily an intentional trolling act.
That he anticipated all the various audiences would react in all their ways.
Watch the joy he’s getting out of it now. He’s delighted.

It’s an illegal gesture in Australia isn’t it?
Love to see how that might play out.

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Alarming. The language is hateful and unfactual. Very unlike a financial news journal.

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My mother's had breast cancer, hip replacement, sepsis, fractured back, stroke, shingles, and cataracts.

My father had idiopathic nocturnal seizures, tachycardia, heart incidents, and cataracts.

Hospital bill?

Absolutely nothing.

American politicans are lying to you about American healthcare.

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“Tiktok has created a fantasy version of Trump that was very instrumental in getting him elected and is setting up to help keep his family in power for a very long time.”

#bindingchaos

This account is a huge peddler of misinformation.

I blocked this one a while back on Twitter and I have blocked their account again on Bluesky.

They will drop into your posts with misinformation and post RW rhetoric incessantly on their feed.

I recommend the block.

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You can do that if you tax/nationalise the mining wealth and share the wealth among the people of the nation whose soil is being mined.

The natural consequences of a society embracing “the rules don’t apply to me”.
Best of luck, world, you’re going to need it.

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Very interesting question. I was contemplating that there are offensive (violent) and inoffensive (non-violent) endogroups. Still a group formed as a defensive mechanism, with an identified “opposite”. Eg: Rosenberg’s NVC that I subscribe to may be a non-violent endogroup?

If he was charged, he was charged with grooming, not alleged grooming. A charge implies the grooming is alleged, until convicted. But the charge relates to named crime. “Alleged murder” is not a crime. Murder is a crime. You are charged with the crime, not the alleged crime.
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You have to untangle the question of “employer” though. An employer is a benefactor willing to give value tokens (cash) to a person for providing attributes or actions. Others may benefit or suffer through those attributes or actions but they’re not included in the payment path. The employer rules.

You could use etherium or similar to construct it.
Idea was to manage transactions by reference to declarations of worth. I declare a person to be of some worth, then another person gives them goods or services based on reference to that declaration of worth. How that system “leaks” is unsolved.

I’ve pondered this question of trading on personal “value” rather than cash retention.
Small grains of trading seem feasible. Large grains seem harder. It still ends up looking like a needing a token to represent value, like a cash system.

World War

I usually ask for World Peace.

I previously commented that the nuclear policy is just a flag to follow. A banner to rally the faithful and sway the confused. Its goal is not to reduce prices, it’s to get Libs re-elected. It’s a focus point to gather the Right behind. A war cry. A slogan. “It’s time”. Nothing more.