Ben Damiano
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Ben Damiano
@bmdamiano
You won't get anywhere being sensible on X
Canberra, Australian Capital T Katılım Ekim 2011
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@bb03cb @aaronsmith That's a good sound bite but doesn't work in reality. The state will have abortion laws. Those laws will either reflect your conscience, or someone else's conscience.
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@bmdamiano @aaronsmith If it's a conscience issue, that's personal choice.
I don't have a problem with her believing that for herself, it's when her conscience is imposed on others that it's a problem.
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The people in my replies insisting Moira Deeming isn’t anti-abortion are being let down badly by the existence of video showing her at an anti-abortion rally for a group she helped run.
Aaron Smith@aaronsmith
Moira's Liberal Party profile doesn't mention Moira was Secretary for anti-abortion group, 'March for the Babies'. Listen to 19 seconds of Moira at their anti-abortion rally. Note who Moira thanks. Deeming will vote to stop women accessing abortion. 2/11
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@GraemeJayIsWoke @aaronsmith We're on X so we're not normal. You're on Bluesky so you're even weirder. That's an easy one.
Pro-life is a minority, but mainstream, position. It's not fringe.
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@bmdamiano @aaronsmith WTF do you regard as "normal people", "too upset" & "a relatively mainstream position", Ben?
What metrics do you use to come to your statistical view?
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@aaronsmith 100%.
And I can guarantee you that denying girls (and boys) life is immoral.
But hopefully there's a (small) place in politics where policy isn't just viewed through a prison of vote winning. Conscience can count.
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@bmdamiano I can guarantee you that denying women bodily autonomy is not a vote winner Ben.
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@bmdamiano @aaronsmith Ridiculous comment.
People like you are the problem.
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@Matt_Camenzuli This actually isn't too bad. People would also be short filling though because they're panic buying. Which is bad. That is what is causing the shortage.
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Watching the dollars tick over like you just won the feature as the litres barely move is a truly confronting experience.
But that is the reality for Australians today.
I have never seen people so worried.
We really need better politicians. We really do.
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@F1GuyDan I thought this when Max crashed in Q1 in Aus. No lock-up, no puncture or other visible mechanical issue, didn't touch the grass or curb, wasn't wet. The car just went spinning off because of a software glitch which is hard to see and understand.
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Another issue with these regs is they’re too complicated for fans to digest.
You may think your favourite driver made a great move only to find out that deployment, software, etc left the other driver helpless.
You get robbed of feeling like your driver made the difference.
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A lot of things are being put under the "deployment issue" umbrella, and it's unsurprising that not everyone understands how complicated the power demand rules are. This isn't an "issue" in the usual sense of the word, but rather oddities in the regulations being exposed by the near 50/50 power split. Sometimes, the way the driver uses the throttle pedal induces "deployment issues." We already saw what happened when a moment that usually proves inconsequential ruined Leclerc's SQ3 lap in China. In this case, Hadjar, who is lifting through 130R to manage tyres, is affected by the quirks of the power demand rules. The MGU-K must give at least 200 kW of electrical power for 1 second when he goes from lifting to beyond 98% throttle. Throttle position >98% is defined as the power-limited pending period. What accentuates the issues for Isack here, is that from 130R to Casio Triangle - where cars typically harvest when not attacking - instead of recovering energy, it spends an extra couple seconds deploying it. He is left completely exposed on the subsequent straight because it used energy when it was supposed to recover it. It's easy to fix in this case. Don't lift on the next laps. Where it becomes tricky is when the driver uses the throttle in a way that doesn't necessarily help the "issue" due to their driving habits, or trying to push a little harder at some points. It's precisely this thats frustrating so many drivers. Because they don't really know they're doing something "wrong." The reason its become such a prominent aspect is because of the need to have 100% optimal deployment all the time, the product of a 50/50 power split.
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Apparently I'm defending the LNP *and* shilling for Communist policies again.
Somebody stop me!
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Three more interest rate rises expected this year.
To curb inflation caused by government spending an a lack of preparedness.
Climate action, the NDIS and other Labor initiatives are killing Australia.
We can't take much more of this.
Bloomberg@business
Australia’s central bank will likely raise its benchmark rate three more times this year, taking it to more than a 17-year high, according to Westpac bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
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If Albo really wants to help Australians, he would scrap the fuel excise completely and exclude fuel from the GST.
Right now.
People are struggling.
The residential building industry is on the verge of collapse.
We are in the middle of a housing crisis and builders on fixed price contracts are copping price increases driven by shipping costs - due to fuel increases - and they were already struggling.
If they collapse, Australia collapses.
And the housing shortage will explode.
It really is that simple.
#auspol #qt
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@Craigieburnt @MarkoMatvikov The system has been gamed. It has been gamed for decades. It's gamed if you're Lib, ALP, Green or One Nation.
None of that means Moira hasn't been a distracting, dysfunctional force.
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@bmdamiano @MarkoMatvikov Look at the absolute slime that won, and tell me the delegate system hasn't been completely gamed.
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A woman who stood up for women’s rights and defended herself against defamation vs a man with a failed unhygienic restaurant business because he can court the migrant vote.
The Liberals chose the latter - which is more proof they lack principles and intend on defaulting to the same surface level identity politics as Labor.
Drew Pavlou 🇦🇺🇺🇸🇺🇦🇹🇼@DrewPavlou
The center right Australian Liberal Party just purged conservative leader @MoiraDeemingMP in favour of a left leaning moderate named Dinesh Gourisetty who migrated to Australia in 2001. Mr Gourisetty was found to have operated an unsafe restaurant covered in rat droppings.
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@MarkoMatvikov @kennettstan All politicians (who represent a party), rightly face the preselectors each election. Being a member, and how they have performed, is a consideration in that process.
Anyway, it doesn't matter now. Moira blew it up. Again.
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She was elected - I don’t agree with every position anybody across parliament has.
But maybe focus on those who ran and weren’t elected.
Should be simple - but clearly the faceless power brokers lack humility, instead believing they know best despite an atrocious record delivering the opposite.
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@MySustain @MarkoMatvikov I know how preselections works. And I've seen a Indian stack before, which ended up horribly.
State pollies with national profiles should always win, even if they have to get saved by the leader.
She won a preselection in 2022, so clearly she knows how to win. And didn't. Rip.
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@MarkoMatvikov @bmdamiano Clear as day that these people have no idea how preselection works 😂
Guess they don’t know it’s not the people not even a political party members but only nominated appointed “delegates” who are entitled to vote at preselection
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@kennettstan @MarkoMatvikov Basically. Can't be surprised that you lose if you sue the leader.
And I understand how the delegate system works (as a party member). With that profile it should've been easy for her. But she didn't. Because she sucks.
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@MarkoMatvikov @bmdamiano You expect her to help the liberal party electorally when she’s pro-gay conversion therapy?
Haha ok. She spent 4 years trying to blow up the liberal party and keep Labor in power.
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@cosmicjester Vibes based is mostly fine tbh. Not many people look at Albo and go yep, that's a leader.
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I love this post. Doesn’t point to a single thing he disagrees with what albo did regarding the fuel shock, doesn’t suggest a single thing that should be done differently. Just completely vibes based political analysis.
Dr. Nick Coatsworth@nick_coatsworth
Albo just isn’t the leader for crisis. It’s painfully obvious. Unresponsive, reactive, diminished by every utterance. First Bondi and now a fuel crisis. Leadership like this leaves the country exposed and vulnerable.
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The latest Redbridge poll showing One Nation gaining on Labor.
Hanson, Taylor and Canavan tying for top net favourability on - 3, with Albanese on a diabolical - 17.
The people grow restless.
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@sspencer_63 Trump should not have been able to run again after Jan 6. How culty of me.
The cultists are those who are 'my side good, other side bad'. Not everything Trump does is bad, and sensible people know that.
Comms is changing though. Evolve or die. More direct, less guff.
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To all the people here supporting Trump, this is why he thinks of you.
I agree.
Ed Krassenstein@EdKrassen
Trump: "I'm going to take a few questions. You can ask me anything you want. You can talk sex." We are struggling. We are at war. And this is what he’s doing?
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