Samizdat
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Just as Hiroshima and Nagasaki were grotesquely out of proportion to the evil of the Pearl Harbor attack, what was done to Gaza is grotesquely out of proportion to the evil of the October 7 attack. What begins as a just cause is often corrupted by war’s self-righteous bloodlust.
Hasan alrabay@HasanEssam29636
One of the most terrifying images in history: a transformation from life to death. Gaza in 2023 and 2026!
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@purplepingers A chunk of Australia's super rests heavily on this bank.
The share price fall is coming out of the retirement savings of Aussies. It doesn't particularly harm the rich.
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Man is genuinely hitting us with the: “won’t somebody think of the commbank share price” 💀
Matt Barrie@matt_barrie
CBA market cap down more in 1 day than the entirely this government reckons they'll claw back from the CGT, trust and negative gearing changes in a year economically ruinous budget do they not realise the CGT tax revenue is proportional to actual gains
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@gbrumfiel @latimes @nabihbulos Wow, that is an extremely noble assassination. (And nobly received too)
Did Iran act this nobly when they tried to assassinate the US president, before this war?
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An absolutely astonishing account of Israel's AI-assisted targeting in the @latimes
They called 62-year-old Ahmad Turmus and asked: “Ahmad, you want to die with those around you or alone?” His response, below, is chilling.
Story by @nabihbulos
latimes.com/world-nation/s…
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@Noahpinion It is possible that the US can think for itself
It is possible that someone finally decided to do something about the worst state sponsor of international terrorism in the world today
It is possible that the hawks can think for themselves without being mind-controlled by Jews
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Israel is technologically very capable, and militarily incredibly effective.
The reason they're a bad ally is that they dragged us into the disastrous Iran War. We can't have that.
Geoff Brumfiel@gbrumfiel
An absolutely astonishing account of Israel's AI-assisted targeting in the @latimes They called 62-year-old Ahmad Turmus and asked: “Ahmad, you want to die with those around you or alone?” His response, below, is chilling. Story by @nabihbulos latimes.com/world-nation/s…
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Americans always hate when I say this but it's true: Compared to Australia, somebody living in Houston can earn a median $92k AUD salary, buy a home for $450k AUD and buy petrol for $1.40 AUD per litre
Plus you get lower income tax. Americans are really well off
Demon Realms@Demon_Realms
Honestly don't understand how there are so many americans talking about being broke. You guys have absurdly high wages and low cost of living compared to the rest of the world. You're playing on easy mode and still losing
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@TMFScottP It comes from the (progressive) view that anyone struggling is not an investor, and any investor is not struggling.
They imagine selling shares when you have no income is appropriate downsizing or a luxury choice, not to be confused with just having a low income.
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For a progressive govt, the new 30% *minimum* tax on Capital Gains - regardless of income level - is purely regressive.
30% tax from the first dollar of income.
Imagine the outcry if they (or their opponents) did that on wages!
Did they even ask an expert?
#Budget2026
Scott Phillips@TMFScottP
I've said there's no justification for taxing capital gains more generously than earned income. But there's also no justification for taxing capital gains *less generously* than earned income. The 30% minimum CGT tax rate does just that. Madness. #Budget2026
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@belinduhpyne So why did we spend into the red after he cleared the debt?
GFC is one reason, but then we didn't pay it down again :)
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THEY FUCKING SOLD EVERYTHING!
And now all those public assets that they sold off now rake in billions for the private owners.
The housing crisis exists because of Howard.
G.jr@goldengreekjr
@AshPolitik Howard government had no debt and made Australia great
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@bnthompson I'll be moving mine elsewhere - putting 10 years into my various endeavors and the govt taking half on top of the 50% of wages is just too much.
Not to mention payday super - Cashflow just became impossible for small service based business.
Brain drain here we go!
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Why found a startup in Australia when Singapore and NZ have zero % CGT?
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Argentina can borrow in dollars until October 2027 at about 5.02% annual yield.
To borrow just one year longer, until October 2028, investors demanded 8.5%.
Why the difference?
Argentina has a presidential election in 2027. .
In plain English: investors are much more confident Argentina will pay while Milei is in office than they are after a possible Peronist/Kirchnerist return.
Tip: Don’t elect people the bond market thinks are less likely to pay their debts. They're not going to do good things for your country.
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Cutting gas taxes when oil supply is constrained is like subsidizing housing buyers when zoning blocks new supply: the price must rise. The benefit flows to sellers, not buyers.
#Econ101.
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@dannolan One generates revenue and (marginally) disincentives garbage food
The other costs a TONNE of revenue (going to US pharma) and doesn't address garbage food
GLP-1 without expert guidance (dietitian, exercise) has some long-term complications that will cost a public health system
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@ABC When are they going to start charging people for Israeli espionage?
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NEW: Eileen Wang, the mayor of Arcadia, California, has been charged with acting as an illegal foreign agent for China, the Justice Department announced on Monday.
Wang agreed to plead guilty, the Justice Department said. abcnews.link/IntbpBy
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@CatholicAce @wil_da_beast630 Over a million?
Where are the accounts stored?
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@wil_da_beast630 The Marian apparition in Cairo in 1968, there are several photos and eye witnesses in the hundreds of thousands with some estimates as over 1,000,000 direct, first hand eye witness accounts.
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Has there ever been a religious miracle captured on camera?
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@robinhanson But also, everything we currently do is steeped in white supremacist history and must be dismantled.
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Crime is so sensitive a topic that pretty much anything we could do about it is said to "have ethical issues". Which in practice means that we can only keep doing what we have been doing, nothing new is allowed.
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@WabbitCwaz19912 @elonmusk Ok so why don't any companies just have the workers own the shares, and then outcompete him?
Why has no company with this model *ever* succeeded, with the possible exception of agribusiness?
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Elon Musk's workers do 99% of the work, but Musk takes 99% of the profit. The value of his stock should be divided up among all his workers at his companies, since the only thing we see Musk do all day is shitpost on X and snort ketamine.
What Eloser does isn't capitalism. It's THEFT!
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He'll be lucky to get away with not blowing up the economy in the next 12 months as housing prices collapse.
Negative equity, mortgage stress, wealth effects ...
Financial Review@FinancialReview
Is Jim Chalmers' budget the type of reform that will improve the economy over the next 30 years or just the next three? ebx.sh/RcAnqZ
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A recent study found that 94% of Canada’s trans-identifying inmates didn’t come out as transgender until after they were arrested. The same study also found that trans-identifying male inmates are 5x more likely to be sex offenders than other male inmates. Locking these men in women’s prisons is a violation of international law and every legitimate human rights organization should say so.
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@peter_tulip If it costs 31k per house, why can't the developers do it?
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Complaints that $31k per house doesn't build much ignore how dysfunctional the housing market is.
The private sector is busting to build.
The government just needs to remove unnecessary obstacles.
Housing-friendly infrastructure has a huge multiplier.
ouzo@ouzo_zip
@jonobri @peter_tulip it’s 31k per house mate it barely touches the sides
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I don’t think Trump was a backlash to Obama at all, Obama was very popular in 2016 as the labor market finally got good.
Clinton ran to Obama’s left on several issues and was hobbled by saturation-level television news coverage of the fake email scandal.
Jill Filipovic@JillFilipovic
I think Trump was a backlash to Obama but it was because Obama is black.
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