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@DailyLibber How much money are you willing to be Platner knows more about the regulations surrounding the fishing of lobsters than Kamala Harris? Because I reckon I’m going to take you to the cleaners if you put any money down.

@PositivFuturist How old are you and how have you not learned about contract law at this stage of your life?

"The economy was designed" That is leftist thinking perfectly distilled.

@j4ppleby You're mum is racist.

Owen Jones, a white man, sneeringly asking an exiled Iranian - a man many Iranians see as at least an interim leader of Iran - ‘who the fuck are you?’ is more bigoted and racist than anything I’ve heard from the people he routinely smears as bigots and racists.

@GreenTyler27 It goes to UN and NGO organisations which provide relief to people in crisis in Afghanistan...what's wrong with that?

You’re all okay with $310M of Australian tax payer money going directly to the taliban? That $50M pictured here is part of a larger $310M commitment since 2021* foreignminister.gov.au/minister/penny…

@trouble_man90 More liberal than San Francisco?!

It’s 100% true. He barely got 50% in the most liberal city in the world

@st_louis_stan Well, Ingmar Bergman took several movies to start hitting his stride.

I really don't like this MeToo holdover of mediocre female directors getting endless work despite their films not being very good or making any money

@DrewPavlou Fake news -- at least one member of a couple must be either a citizen or permanent resident.

WAIT, the Australian government gives subsidies to non-citizens to buy housing??? The First Homeowner Grant is available to non-citizens??? What the actual fuck??

@aodanhill This is high school-level thinking.

Clement Attlee is easily the most overrated Prime Minister in this country's history, and it's probably entirely due to his government being taught in secondary schools entirely as a list of domestic policies without any discussion of the consequences.

@shannonrwatts Opposing the Republican Party's agenda is, indeed, fomenting political discord.

Hasan Piker says he'll vote for a third party candidate if the Democratic nominee is Gavin Newsom. Reminder that Piker is not a Democrat, but a millionaire who makes money by fomenting political discord. newsweek.com/hasan-piker-de…

@NoJusticeMTG Imagine having the balls to imply you're smarter than John Maynard Keynes and expect everyone to just go along with it?

The fact these freaks STILL earnestly believe this shit makes me want to blow my brains out

@oomfitos Some people just don't know when to quit.

Had Corbyn retired in 2017, his achievements would have been immortal. Had he retired in 2024, he would still have been a great man but flawed. But he's still going in 2026. Alas, what can one say?

@Matt_Camenzuli What I love is po-faced people like you who can't take joke. More of that, please.

Very typical of the Australian media establishment. Smug. Out of touch. Arrogant. And just plain stupid. I can't believe people take crap like this seriously. Imagine making fun of struggling farmers at a time like this. Idiot.

@AndyMac1923 @kevinbonham Why? If there is a thing as 'too much democracy', increasing the amount of representatives in Parliament hardly comes close. Let democracy flourish.

@kevinbonham Expanding parliament during a cost of living crisis would be too dumb, even for Albo

Albanese has really dunked on expanding the Reps now. Said he had "never been engaged for one minute about an expansion of the size of the House of Representatives".

@theoztrucker Because houses don't come through the Strait of Hormuz?

I want the government to explain why the lack of housing is a supply issue but the lack of fuel is a demand issue?

@jboyded @lesstenny The 1972 oil crisis?

@lesstenny Having been around since Menzies - unpopular opinion I think Albo is (mainly) doing a bloody good job as we've never had global geopolitical circumstances like this in my lifetime.

Who do you think was the best PM for Australia for the past 60 years? #auspol

@mattyglesias Yes, but what does "Israel is bad" mean in practice? What policies would such a position entail?

@KosSamaras Who can forget Peter Wish-Wilson attacking the concept of the weekend as "just a white Anglo-Saxon cultural thing that we’ve inherited.”

This is why the UK Greens are succeeding. And it’s a lesson the Australian Greens need to learn. Meet Mothin Ali. Deputy Leader of the Green Party of England and Wales. Son of a Bangladeshi immigrant who came to the UK in the 1960s and worked as a unionised steelworker in Sheffield. Mothin grew up in that world, the world of shift work, union solidarity and communities holding each other together. He’s now a Leeds councillor in Gipton and Harehills, one of England’s most deprived wards, where 40% of residents are Muslim and the cost of living is a daily crisis. He’s not the stereotype of a working-class northerner. But his family has been in those communities just as long as anyone. His father worked the same steel. Paid into the same union. Felt the same deindustrialisation tear through the same streets. Mothin Ali is working-class Britain, as it actually exists in 2026, not as a sepia photograph. We could say the same about the working class in Australia in 2026. That’s what the UK Greens under Zack Polanski have understood. Working-class communities are diverse. They always were. But they share the same material reality: rents going up, wages going nowhere, streets hollowed out, and a political class that stopped listening decades ago. The UK Greens are speaking to that shared experience, in English, Urdu and Bangla, and putting leaders who come from it at the front of the room. Now contrast that with the Australian Greens. The Australian Greens remain culturally anchored to the inner city. Fitzroy. Newtown. University-educated, professionally progressive, and genuinely well-meaning but culturally legible only to a narrow demographic slice. When they go to the outer suburbs, the places actually doing it hardest, they have historically struggled. The difference isn’t ideology. Both parties want economic justice. The difference is who is seen to speak for working people and where those people feel the party actually comes from. Mothin Ali spent decades in one of England’s toughest communities before he ever stood for office. That matters more than some appreciate. youtu.be/VPsR1hfTaAA?si…

@justajeddy @AntonyGreenElec If you don't think a make up artist should be in parliament then you don't actually support democracy.

@AntonyGreenElec Hysterical that a person with so little knowledge may represent YP. PH puppet and racist. She doesn’t acknowledge the rural or indigenous community or has any transferable skills to be a politician. Make up artist photographer. YP will be the loser. Just a pretty face.

Narungga continues to narrow. One Nation's Chantelle Thomas now only 43 votes ahead of Liberal Tania Stock.

@Louie1955 @AntonyGreenElec Thank you for sharing your weird thoughts with the rest of us.

@AntonyGreenElec Liberal or ON makes no difference to me. As long as it’s not any of the collectivist climate scammers.

@KosSamaras Is there a possibility of the same phenomenon occurring to Labor? As a Labor member, I don't feel the parliamentary wing of the party reflects traditional Labor values -- I can see a widespread wave of disillusionment occurring if Albo keeps refusing to chase big reforms.

The fuel crisis isn’t going to save the Coalition. It might actually finish them. Not because Albanese is popular. But because the voters the Coalition desperately needs, outer-suburban, culturally conservative, economically stressed, some are still there. Just. And every week of performative grievance politics, and empty noise brings them one step closer to a door marked One Nation. These aren’t natural protesters. They don’t leave easily. They value loyalty. They’ve been quietly filing away disappointments for years and giving the Coalition the benefit of the doubt. But there’s a threshold. And the Coalition keeps walking toward it. I’ve written about why crises don’t automatically punish governments and why the real danger here isn’t for Albanese. It’s for a conservative movement that still hasn’t learned the most basic lesson: even right-leaning voters want adults in the room. Link in the thread.

@zakfilm I know it's high but I'm still going complain that A Separation is too low.

My favourite 2010s films: 1. Phantom Thread 2. Portrait of a Lady on Fire 3. Parasite 4. Winter Sleep 5. Little Women 6. The Tree of Life 7. A Separation 8. Carol 9. It’s Such a Beautiful Day 10. Moonlight 11. Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse 12. The Tale of the Princess Kaguya 13. House of Tolerance 14. Whiplash 15. 12 Years a Slave 16. The Grand Budapest Hotel 17. Shoplifters 18. Mad Max: Fury Road 19. La La Land 20. The Irishman