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LKY took Singapore “from Third World to First.” This account explores how growth, order and civic culture can help Australia avoid decline.

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ADVANCE
ADVANCE@FairAusADV·
They said the quiet part loud again...
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You aren't imagining things, the media pile-on of Pauline Hanson this week, particularly from Nine Newspapers has been extraordinary. In the SMH and Age alone there were 23 stories with Hanson as the primary subject. For context, in a week where Albanese made a huge AI policy announcement, he was only the primary subject of 14.
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John Macgowan
John Macgowan@john_macgowan·
It won't work. The reason the NSW Crime Commission was so effective in the 00s and 10s was the operative word in organized crime was - "organized". The largest crime syndicates had no interest in fire bombings or drive by shootings, they were actual criminal enterprises, importing billions of dollars in precursors, running sophisticated logistics and supply chains and answerable to "shareholders" and board members overseas. The Crime Commission was never about stopping it, it was about regulating it. The scale of criminality could be restrained through asset forfeiture, and effectively capping how big an operation could grow before being, for all intents and purposes, taxed by the State Government. "If you want less of something, tax it." - go look at late 2010s police auctions if you want to see the extent to which crime was taxed. Best place in the country to buy a lambo, a jet ski, or a modest speed boat. Two social and cultural factors meant this worked exceedingly well. First, organized criminals had no interest in engaging with the civilian world. Crime was still an underworld. This meant it could be investigated and regulated below the level many would ever notice it. Secondly, everyone involved had a vested interest in something resembling "peace". The Crime Commission's compulsive evidence powers and ability to force witnesses to provide evidence meant they could circumvent the ordinary rules of silence organized criminals abided by. One could simply refuse to co-operate, many did, all would get charged with failing to provide evidence to the commission and simply go to prison for 5 years. But many many more did co operate - and the system incentivised ratting out individuals and groups who were upsetting Sydney crime's status quo. The logic being, if you were going to be forced to give someone up - give up a prick who no one likes. That kind of organized crime really no longer exists. To avoid asset forfeiture, Australia's most powerful organised crime figures moved overseas, where new technology allows their to carry out their business remotely. Many more simply took their money and went legitimate - residential housing development is more lucrative than drug importation. Since Australia doesn't actually produce any of the tradeable illicit goods domestically, foreign based syndicates can now clip the ticket on smuggled drugs closer to their source, sharply reducing the capital in Australia's criminal economy as a whole. In their absence, organized crime has gone small scale - and is a lot less organized. On top of that, tobacco excise's impact on illicit nicotine products means ordinary people are now part of the criminal economy. It's impossible to hide - which means it's impossible to hide the passive regulation of it. It's going to be very difficult for a government to use a crime commission model to its full potential when it won't result in any tobacco shops closing down - just changing to more moderate hands. No one is going to tolerate that. This kind of "disorganized" crime only has one solution. Which NSW also did, complimentary to the work of the Crime Commission last decade, targeting outlaw motorcycle gangs. You take a flying squad of the biggest, most physically capable police officers, supported by a well funded intelligence regime, and send them out to kick in doors and violently apprehend suspects. I heard one Police Minister joke that Task Force Raptor was kind of like "Policing Bodyline", after the cricket strategy. Since organized criminals have good lawyers, since the Australian judiciary trends towards progressive and permissive sentencing, the most effective way to get criminals off the street for longer, is make sure they can't physically walk. The challenge for Victoria is simply numbers prohibiting this from happening. There was no shortage of big angry lads in the NSW Police Force to strap on a helmet and plate carrier and hand out thrashings. Victorian numbers are abysmal, and recruiting strategy have created a shortage of such people. Ironically - a new Victorian Crime Commission will be very good at one thing: breaking up union corruption. The hilarious part is that isn't what they're planning to do with it. Classic Naarm behaviour.
Herald Sun@theheraldsun

Premier Jacinta Allan is planning a new agency to tackle firebombings, extortion and other serious crime across the state, in a move Labor critics say is being rushed in a bid to avoid a Big Build royal commission — and to save her own political skin. > bit.ly/44yVPSH

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Lee Kuan Yimby
Lee Kuan Yimby@LeeKuanYimby·
Lee Kuan Yew on the Communist threat to Singapore. Sit your ass down and listen to this.
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Lee Kuan Yimby@LeeKuanYimby·
The Party warning us about Fascism, just had one of their leaders go on live TV and say their goal is to overthrow our democracy and implement total control, starting by abolishing The US Senate...
Breaking911@Breaking911

The Democratic Socialists of America has unveiled a new campaign calling for the abolition of the U.S. Senate, with co-chair Gustavo Gordillo describing it as an “undemocratic institution.”

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Lee Kuan Yimby@LeeKuanYimby·
I'm back from my suspension, nice try DSA. It's all gas no breaks on you Communists now. See you tomorrow.
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LeeKuanYewRespecter@LeeRespecter·
It’s all a LARP until it isn’t. But don’t mistake communists’ stupidity for harmlessness. They have always been stupid. They liquidated the kulaks and caused a famine. They had peasants melt down their pots and pans to industrialise. They purged educated elites as class enemies, then, when everything inevitably started failing, blamed class enemies and launched further purges in a self-perpetuating purge spiral. Their stupidity and cruelty know no bounds. But don’t ever think their stupidity will limit their cruelty. It is integral to it. You think capitalism has failed? Just wait until you see communism succeed.
Shannon Watts@shannonrwatts

Dressed like Mao and talking about how much he hates the majority of Democrats as an invited guest of @CollegeDems. Our party having a normal one.

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Drew Pavlou 🇦🇺🇺🇸🇺🇦🇹🇼
The context behind that quote is that Karp said Palantir's software stopped dozens of Islamic terrorist attacks which would have helped the extreme right. I am right wing but why would you want preventable Islamic terrorist attacks to take place solely so that your side can win.
Chris Brunet@chrisbrunet

Palantir’s CEO has claimed that Palantir’s software “single-handedly stopped the far right in Europe” and has repeatedly vowed to fight “the rise of the right”

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BREAKING 🚨: The morning session on day 3 of a conference, the morning after the gala dinner where the speaker had already given an address, was poorly attended. Is this it for the right? Is it over?
Aaron Smith@aaronsmith

CPAC is dead. Day 3 of the grand intellectual pageant features Bridget 'Spreadsheets' McKenzie, Pauline Hanson freshly disembarked from her Italy sojourn with Gina, and introductions from a former UK PM who lost a battle of endurance to a lettuce.

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Kirk
Kirk@kirkkinsey·
This is unironically some of the most poignant social commentary in recent memory…
Kyle Gordon@kylegordon101

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