Bridget

Do they even want power, or just to be elected? The parties seem to hate power, they like the donations and the AEC money and just keeping anyone who isn't the duopoly out of parliament.

White murican jebus, or the literal mythological one in the books though?

Can we fuck this shit off now, get it out of public life.

What happens once they have a MAGA supermajority after midterms? They can just smash through constitutional amendments yeah?

Now I just want them to do all the unhinged shit that people have been warning about for what a decade now.

Humans are ridiculous collectively, especially ones from the USA, it seems that they need to learn the hard way, because, they refuse to learn from history or listen to the educated.

atheists: *spend the last decade warning people about the dangers of giving too much power to religious institutions and accepting wild claims without evidence*

everyone else: "ugh, atheists are so annoying"

2025: here, have some christofacism. oh, and I'm taking your vaccines.

Pathetic. Do more, the PM said he wouldn't leave people behind. Your unwillingness to reduce inequality properly will result in more political extremism out of desperation.

Is trans-trauma-tism a thing? I kind of think it's a thing.

Qantas customers left without access to thousands of dollars of their own money for days as calls go unanswered Qantas customers express anger and confusion on social media, saying they have been charged multiple times for flights, but the airline says an issue with releasing pre-authorised funds is to blame.

@qantas-official.bsky.social

So this has happened to us a bunch of times now the past few years. Including today.

You're obviously doing this on purpose, does it make you that much money in interest holding people's money unlawfully for a week or two?

www.abc.net.au/news/2022-04...

I've struggled so much to read fiction as an adult, weird growing up as a book worm

In a bit of a Star Trek hole now that season 3 of Strange New Worlds has ended. It's making me miss The Orville too. They've both had some hard hitting episodes and arcs, and this is a bloody weird time to be alive and a nerd.

#StarTrek

It seems that there's three camps now.

1 Fascists are cool, trans people should be eradicated from society.

2 Grifters should be able to profit from blatant lies and inciting hate.

3 We shouldn't sanitize or mourn dead grifters.

Which are you?

I know it is 2025 and all, but somehow, people still have missed this, it became very apparent after that whole pew pew thing today, from a guy who claimed that it was worth it

"I think it's worth to have a cost of, unfortunately, some gun deaths every single year so that we can have the Second Amendment to protect our other God-given rights."

Irony impaired, evidence resistant shooting victim.

Maybe in this case it was worth it? We can't ask him though.

So assuming civilisation makes it to 2033, who's planning the commemoration/memorial? of the nazi book burning of the German research in to same sex attraction and #transgender people?

We've gone so far backwards since 2009 when I was diagnosed, maybe in 2033 we can go forwards again?

The Russians need to get the hell back on their side of the border and stay there first.

Nonsense, hence this golden age of grifting we're in

Question though: where the hell have you been the last 50 years whilst the anti intellectual grift has been metastasising?

I do ask this of professional science and medicine orgs in Australia, it seems they're only occasionally speaking out now, it's too little too late.

So these rise up straya people seem to have a lot of issues with the results of 50 years of neoliberalism (despite voting for it), and blame it on migrants.

It's the Nazi, then MAGA playbook, but they've self radicalised through networked idiocy and illiteracy rather than been lead by a grifter.

This is just another failure of government to regulate, then they just ban.

They should have been collecting tax from platforms for revenue generated from our population's attention, they should have regulated algorithms aimed at youth, and forced identification of doctored body image content etc.

Might want to look closer at the USA too. Kids raised with more than enough kilojoules, but not enough nutrients due to the over processed food have the same lack of brain development.

It's a safe bet that this band could replace the entire cabinet and come up with better progressive policy than the current Labor and definitely Libs/Nats could.

How can so many people still not see through Labor's status quo addiction?

Any sane people would have boycotted travelling to the USA, no need to be Florida specific

I mean, you can't be surprised though

I'm legitimately impressed at Sussan Ley's ability to have experienced so much, yet learned so little.

That takes mad skillz.

#Auspol #NPCAU

California needs to secede

Have any parliaments in Australia tried, I dunno, representing the wishes and needs of the population rather than imposing their will?

I know it's a radical idea in this era and all, but whoever tries it first, will get a pleasant surprise.

Just a thought.

Slight escalation of force for use of a double negative

This is not the 2025 I was picturing when I ended our archaic ADF anti trans policy in 2010.

The trajectory was up then, but it went down in 2016.

We were never, ever, going to get subs out of this