Taylor Martin MLC

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Taylor Martin MLC

Taylor Martin MLC

@TaylorMartinMLC

Independent Member of the NSW Upper House

Parliament House, Macquarie St Katılım Mayıs 2015
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Rational Aussie
Rational Aussie@rationalaussie·
Trump will Taco. The tell is that his rhetoric gets increasingly deranged the worse things are going for him - that's how he negotiates. He has to make everyone believe he has genuinely lost the plot. If the Iranians think he's mentally unwell they might actually believe he'll nuke them. Hence why his tweets the past few days sound like a madman about to destroy their civilisation. He's not gonna drop a nuke, this is just how he negotiates when he has no actual leverage. He's trying to create leverage that doesn't exist by artificially creating what is most scarce: fear of consequence. I fully expect to wake up 8 hours from now to a headline something along the lines of 'we were so close to giving the orders, I called them and I said - listen listen we can always take them back to the stone age next week if we need to but I'm hearing good things - tremendous things - from the much more reasonable Iranians we've been speaking with. Excellent things. Very positive developments. And so I've informed my team to hold off on dropping the BIG bombs just a little longer. Let's see! PRESIDENT DONALD J TRUMP' And just like that stonks will rip and we'll be waiting until the market closes end of week for more aggressive escalations.
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hidflect
hidflect@hidflect·
@AvidCommentator I made a calculation on one data center that OpenAI was possibly touting for Australia and found it would consume 16% of Sydney's desalinated water supply. So, no, no data centers.
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Evan@EvanWritesOnX·
Australia was not established as a nation-building project. It was established as an extraction platform. The British did not colonize Australia to build a civilization. They colonized it to extract l; first convict labor, then wool, then gold, then minerals, then gas. The political architecture was built around that extraction logic from day one, and it has never been restructured away from it. You assume the state exists to serve the population, and therefore bad outcomes must mean the state is being run poorly. Australia is not a sovereign state that happens to have a mining sector. It is a private sector extraction platform that happens to have citizens. Every Australian who “owns” a home is servicing a debt instrument that enriches the FIC. The minerals get dug up by foreign-owned multinationals. The profits get distributed to global shareholders. The taxation office is structured; by design, through decades of lobbying, to ensure the extraction proceeds leave the country with minimal sovereign capture. The politicians are doing exactly what the structure requires of them: absorbing public anger, rotating every few years to reset the pressure valve. Australia is not mismanaged. Australia is managed perfectly, just not for Australians.
Simon Ree@simon_ree

Australia was handed one of the greatest starting positions of any country in history Massive mineral wealth. Abundant energy. World-class beaches. Amazing climate. No fault lines... no earthquakes or tsunamis If you gave a 12-year-old this setup in a civilisation-building game, they'd build a paradise Instead, we got decades of useless politicians on both sides of the aisle who couldn't run a sausage sizzle at Bunnings without a $4 billion feasibility study and a royal commission Australia isn't unlucky. It's grossly mismanaged

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RM Williams sells crocodile leather Craftsman boots for $5,500 Absolute peak of hyper-Australian excellence One day I will know I’ve made it to the big leagues when I can get a pair of these
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Will Shackel@ShackelWill·
I’ve been arrested. I wanted to test Australia’s nuclear power ban in this energy crisis, but got caught. I’ll now face up to 7 years jail time.
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Fred Hastings
Fred Hastings@HastingsFred·
Plot Thickens Albo addressing the nation @7 British Pm addressing UK this morning their time And the POTUS addressing USA also What’s doin?
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Real Mark Latham
Real Mark Latham@RealMarkLatham·
I’ve just received a call from Pauline Hanson asking me to comeback as Leader of NSW One Nation. I said I would if she gets rid of James Ashby and his funny money deals. Pauline is now thinking about that, with a final decision due at 5pm today.
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Rational Aussie
Rational Aussie@rationalaussie·
There is a distinct liberation in knowing that the world is going to change so dramatically in the next few years that nothing you're doing right now really matters that much. May as well do whatever you want, since the future is so uncertain anyway.
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Taylor Martin MLC
Taylor Martin MLC@TaylorMartinMLC·
@DaveTaylorNews @DaveTaylorNews - looks like Shell Wahroonga - I drove past almost every day this past week and it was out of fuel more often than not. Thursday night they had Unleaded 95 only.
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Rational Aussie
Rational Aussie@rationalaussie·
The global economy, before the biggest energy crisis in modern history causes massive inflation and AI takes most people's jobs
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