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@ibottsla

SW nerd, Finance, Tesla fan man

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Mandoboyband
Mandoboyband@ibottsla·
@ragefighthouse No.1 Have you started a gang graping young girls? No.2 Have you run around with machetes wanting to hurt others for not supporting Palestine? No.3 Have you called for the death of non believers of your religion? So STFU and stop calling everything racist.
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Rae@ragefighthouse·
I’m an immigrant who’s lived and worked in the UK for 16 years. I have a North American accent and I’m white. I’ve never once been told to ‘go back’ to my ‘shithole country’ or to ‘stop stealing jobs from British people’. You’re not concerned about immigration. You’re racist.
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The Hollywood Handle
The Hollywood Handle@HollywoodHandle·
‘MORTAL KOMBAT 2’ crossed $100M globally. Budget was $80M.
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Tomma@mimuluslarch·
Hey @grok please explain it to me like I’m 10 years old.
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Morbid Knowledge
Morbid Knowledge@MorbidKnowledge·
For 300 years, a single tree stood alone in the heart of the Sahara. The most isolated tree on earth. The only tree for 250 miles in any direction. In 1973, a truck driver hit it. The Tree of Ténéré was so significant that it was one of the only trees ever marked on a map drawn at a scale of 1:4,000,000. In a desert the size of a continent, cartographers felt it was too important to leave off. Caravans navigated by it. Tuareg nomads considered it sacred. The Tuareg people who passed it on their journeys never used it for firewood or allowed their camels to graze on it. In a desert where survival demanded using everything available, this single tree was left completely untouched out of reverence. During a dig near the tree in 1938, researchers found that its roots had reached the water table 33 to 36 metres below the surface. In 1973, a Libyan truck driver, reportedly drunk, followed the old caravan route and drove directly into the trunk. His name was never released. The impact shattered the acacia beyond recovery. The remains were taken to the National Museum of Niger in Niamey, where they are still kept today.
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Mandoboyband
Mandoboyband@ibottsla·
@kay_z67 Remembered it quite well. Was in Japan and there was coverage on computers to see the millennium bug. Biggest scam then.
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kayz3d@kay_z67·
I wonder how people felt at 11:59 p.m. of dec. 1999 before crossing over to the year 2000.
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Tiffany Fong@TiffanyFong·
how do i heal my sprained ankle ???
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Mandoboyband@ibottsla·
@MsMelChen I think America controls the pressure valve now and this summit was to reassure that the pressure will be maintained the easy way or the hard way.
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Melissa Chen@MsMelChen·
Notice the flip flop here. In 2015, Xi said that "there's no such thing as the so-called Thucydides Trap in the World" and now? Xi just sat across from Donald Trump in the Great Hall of the People and asks whether the two powers can “overcome the Thucydides Trap” and “forge a new paradigm” for great-power relations. Funny! Because a decade ago, he used the phrase "so-called" to describe it and outright denied that it was an applicable concept. So why the change of tone you ask? This is what you'd call a tell, an involuntary admission that Beijing’s position has deteriorated sharply since 2015. Back then, China was at the height of the post-financial crisis boom. Beijing was surging with double digit growth (on paper), the Belt and Road Initiative was rolling out to great fanfare, island building in the South China Sea was barely met with any Western response (thanks Obama), and the American president was still preaching “strategic patience.” Today, in 2026, the material reality has flipped. China’s much-hyped “century of rejuvenation” has slammed into structural headwinds that no amount of state media spin can hide - a demographic death spiral, a property sector collapse that wiped out trillions in household wealth, local government debt bombs lurking on the books, and a tech ecosystem increasingly isolated by US export controls and friend-shoring. The GDP overtake narrative that once enthralled the elites at Davos has quietly died; projections now show America pulling further ahead in nominal terms. Xi’s “China Dream” is at best delayed and at worst, never materializing. Trump 2.0 brought tariffs back on the table, hardened alliances with Japan and the Philippines, accelerated arms sales to Taiwan, and an American public finally awake to the CCP’s game. Knowing that China requires continued access to Western markets, capital, and technology to avoid stagnation at home, Xi now does a U-Turn and reaches for the historical analogy he once dismissed. Basically when you’re strong, you deny any threat exists hoping to lull the bigger power into complacency. When your power and strength wanes, warn that resistance will produce the very conflict you claim to fear. Xi is essentially saying to America, "don't contain us, don’t push back too hard, or you’ll be the paranoid Sparta that started the war against Athens.” It's actually a veiled threat to keep the one-way transfer of power and wealth open, OR ELSE. This 180 deg shift proves that the balance is tilting back toward American strength. The correct US response is to reject the premise entirely, and continue to maintain unrelenting pressure on every front and force Xi to choose between genuine reform at home or managed decline on Beijing’s terms. Xi’s sudden invocation of the Thucydides Trap - something he used to dismiss - simply confirms that the pressure worked. Americans should take this as a sign that their country is not in decline, despite the insane amount of propaganda now also being touted by American influencers and podcasters.
The Spectator Index@spectatorindex

Xi Jinping asked Trump if the United States and China can avoid the 'Thucydides Trap', a theory that suggests high likelihood of war between rising and established powers, during their summit.

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MAGA Voice@MAGAVoice·
Im bawling my eyes out. Elon Musk just posted this video showing the difference between himself and others in China LMFAO Please, NEVER change Elon 🤣
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Mandoboyband
Mandoboyband@ibottsla·
@chrisricho26 @NoelWhittaker It’s called a market incentive. If there’s no incentive to start a business, your point is to work for the government or large corporations that will squeeze every ounce of energy from you.
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Chris Richards@chrisricho26·
@NoelWhittaker There’s a difference between tax minimisation and tax evasion, and family trusts have always fallen into the latter. This one change is decades overdue.
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Noel Whittaker@NoelWhittaker·
I'm running numbers on family trusts. If the trust owned by mum, dad, and 19-year-old daughter earns $180,000 a year and they distribute $60,000 to each the tax will be three times $9,000 = $27000. At 30% flat, it's $54,000. That's double - The only way out is to change distributions to wages, but they must be able to justify the wage. It's a shameful attack on business
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Mandoboyband@ibottsla·
@rigerby @NoelWhittaker @BibasKfir Such an ignorant and socialist reply. Small businesses represent almost 97% of actively trading businesses in Oz. They contribute 1/3 of national GDP. If most of them close, there’ll be less jobs, less taxes to pay your dole.
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Bert@rigerby·
@NoelWhittaker @BibasKfir Boo hoo grandpa. The rest of us out here in the real world have had to pay tax at this rate and at times well above. You’re bit getting any sympathy here, you’re actually reinforcing the boomer stereotypes that we are rallying against.
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Drew Pavlou 🇦🇺🇺🇸🇺🇦🇹🇼
Yesterday in court Craig Hill found time to complain that he once won the lottery but the win wasn’t big enough for him: ‘‘It was not too much to the benefit of me, because I lost $300 a week in disability pension.’’ According to Channel Nine’s report, he lost $246 of his taxpayer funded pension a week, whilst pocketing $1,250 a week tax free from his lottery win. He was $1,000 a week better off, and less of a burden on the taxpayer. But he still complained.
Drew Pavlou 🇦🇺🇺🇸🇺🇦🇹🇼@DrewPavlou

LEGAL VICTORY: I just won a complete and total victory after being dragged through the Australian legal system for 5 months in relation to one of my X posts condemning the Bondi ISIS massacre. The Magistrate dismissed Craig Hill's case and evidence as ''nothing short of OUTRAGEOUS, DISGRACEFUL and INSULTING, and - I am satisfied - TOTALLY WITHOUT BASIS ... it is disappointing in the extreme that this material was even filed." That was the Magistrate's quote, verbatim. I sat at the back of the courtroom typing notes and this exact quote by the Magistrate can be confirmed by anybody who was there. Tony Morris KC told me that he's almost never seen a judge issue such a forceful rebuke in his entire 43 year career as a barrister (34 as King's Counsel). Just an absolutely total demolition. So how did this farce even take place? Basically this all started when a demented old far-left psycho named Craig Hill made light of the Bondi terrorist massacre on X by describing the ISIS-inspired massacre of fifteen Australian Jews as ''anti-Zionist'' in nature rather than anti-Semitic. I thought it was pretty anti-Semitic to shoot 10 year old Australian Jews in the head in the name of ISIS, so I called Craig Hill a disgusting ''FERAL PIG,'' a statement I continue to stand by to the absolute core of my soul and being. Craig then called up the Queensland Police, who in turn called me up late at night demanding I delete the post. I asked them what legal authority they had to demand I delete a social media post, to which they replied: none. So I steadfastly refused. Craig then initiated 5 months of vexatious legal proceedings against me, seeking a restraining order on the grounds that my comment calling him a ''feral pig'' apparently amounted to a threat to violently assault or kill him. The specific restraining order he applied for - a ''Peace and Good Behaviour Order'' - is typically granted only in cases of domestic violence, so the entire process was a Kafkaesque farce from the beginning. The process itself was the punishment. So I truly thank God that my superb legal counsel Anthony Morris KC - one of the best lawyers in Australia, indeed one of the best court room advocates in the entire English speaking world - finally comprehensively and totally destroyed Craig Hill's application in court yesterday. In his first court appearance, Craig told the court that he was an expert linguist and published author of 14 books (the books being self-published TV guides to Star Trek and Dr Who episodes). In our last and final hearing yesterday, Craig decided he was in fact no longer an expert linguist and magisterial published author, instead informing the court that he was in fact ''intellectually disabled,'' suffering from ''PTSD, anxiety and schizophrenia.'' It is quite alarming that Mr Hill somehow managed to go from being an ''expert linguist'' to ''intellectually disabled'' between the short span of March 2026 and May 2026. Perhaps he decided to repeatedly run head first into a brick wall? I don't know how it happened, but I suspect Craig simply lied. I suspect he knew he was going to lose and hoped he could slither off the hook for potentially thousands of dollars in court costs if he pretended to be incapacitated. So he put on a good act, attempting to recast himself for the court as Bambi in the headlights. When the Magistrate started asking him basic questions about his application, he began screaming at the top of his lungs that he was having a panic attack. I cringed from second-hand embarrassment. Indeed he almost started crying at one point. Tony was going through emails Craig himself had sent him, only for Craig to shout across the court room that he had never seen them. Exasperated, Tony raised his voice to bellow ''YOU SENT IT!'' at which point Craig's bottom lip began to wobble. It was an absolute disgrace. As in his first court appearance in March, he constantly alternated between extreme arrogance and a Bambi-in-the-headlights style cower that left him quivering on the edge of tears. There was something genuinely repellent and repulsive about watching an old man voluntarily reduce himself to a childlike state out of pure self-serving cynicism - and the Magistrate completely rejected it, ultimately finding that Hill was "well able to represent himself'' (whether he represented himself well is another matter entirely). And from this cowering stance, Hill hurled a number of wild, disgraceful allegations. He claimed for instance that I had attacked him online because his wife was Muslim. I didn't even know he had a wife. Just a disgraceful, blatant lie - the Magistrate said there was "no evidence of any of this." He also attacked my legal counsel Tony Morris KC with lies that would have ended a less established career. He accused Morris of profiting personally from money I had raised via crowdfunding - an allegation of financial impropriety against a King's Counsel, made in a sworn affidavit, with no evidence whatsoever. He then alleged Morris had breached the Solicitors' Conduct Rules, despite Morris being a barrister, not a solicitor. When that didn't work, he switched to alleging breach of Barristers' Rules 102 and 103 - rules that have nothing to do with conflict of interest. (Rule 102 covers brief returns.) Hill then admitted in open court that the rule numbers came from AI: "The rule numbers may be wrong - I used AI because I am not a lawyer - but the gist of it is pretty much right." The gist of it mate. This is why the Magistrate ultimately denounced his conduct as "outrageous, disgraceful and insulting." Tony Morris KC described Hill as "a danger" and the Magistrate did not qualify it. The Magistrate added it was "disappointing in the extreme" that Hill's material was even filed with the court. It seriously should never have gone to court. Hill made vexatious complaints against me and Tony Morris KC to the Queensland Human Rights Commission, then attempted to have Morris disqualified for ''conflict of interest'' based on his own complaint. The Magistrate then asked Hill the most basic question about his own application to strike out my barrister: "What power do you say this Court has to direct that Mr Morris must be removed?" Hill literally replied "I do not know — I am not a lawyer." So he filed a sworn application asking a court to do something, and when asked what authority the court was being asked to exercise, he had no answer. Absolutely despicable. Perhaps most insane of all, we effectively learned yesterday in court that Craig Hill was the one who got me deported from the US over the Billie Eilish incident. He accidentally sent Tony Morris KC a copy of his own emails to the US Embassy, which Tony then referenced in court. Craig effectively told a junior staffer at the US Embassy that I was a terrorist who wanted to kill Billie Eilish and Chinese people. He claimed that I had been expelled from the University of Queensland three seperate times for assaulting Chinese students and lecturers - a completely fabricated fantasy. Shockingly, the junior staffer apparently replied to Mr Hill with a positive note thanking him for his helpful email, assuring him that she would file it in their system. So that is probably why I got flagged at the border going into the US in February. I thought it was Billie Eilish's lawyers, but instead it was this utterly demented freak, this delusional schizophrenic stalker - Craig Hill. Just an absolute and total disgrace on every level. What an absolute freak. I can't believe this is my life. To top it all off, despite the court basically declaring Craig Hill to be a threat - ''outrageous, disgraceful and insulting'' in the Magistrate's words - Craig decided to spend all day yesterday gloating online that he had supposedly won. He wrote: ''After his humiliating loss in court yesterday, Greek immigrant Drew Pavlou hasn't been on social media all day. Let's hope this is a fucking permanent arrangement.'' I was born in Australia and both my parents were born in Australia. What right does this self-admitted schizophrenic mental case have to call me an ''immigrant''? He then made a post saying ''Perhaps its time you hang up the boots, Mr Morris. You don't appear to be very good at this.'' This is despite the fact that Tony Morris KC comprehensively demolished him to the point that he started basically crying in court, screaming like a lunatic that he was having a panic attack and couldn't understand anything because he was intellectually disabled. The Magistrate even ended the case by telling Craig that he should never have self-represented. Just a complete psychopath, an insanely entitled and arrogant loser whose entire life revolves around sucking the energy out of others like a parasitic leach. The court ultimately decided against awarding us costs, simply because Craig Hill begged that he was self-represented while intellectually incapacitated. But he was apparently fine enough to file multiple vexatious applications against me and Tony Morris KC while mentally torturing me for five months. Such an absolute disgrace. Seriously, what an absolute and total disgrace on every level. Utterly despicable in the extreme. One of the worst pieces of scum in Australia. I am glad that I was ultimately vindicated but it's hard to believe that guys like Craig Hill can just wage psychological terrorism against anyone they like through the Australian legal system with zero consequences whatsoever.

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Mandoboyband
Mandoboyband@ibottsla·
@MsMelChen @IsaiahLCarter In fact it’s Xi kissing his. The state of China is appalling either way youth unemployment so high it will take years of foreign investment to recover. Xi was so adamant that they could kick out foreign companies and now he’s short of begging them to return.
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Melissa Chen
Melissa Chen@MsMelChen·
Everyone who is up in arms about Trump "kissing Xi's ass" needs to understand that this is realpolitik and dealmaking. Trump is, by a mile, the most aggressive president America has had against the CCP in modern history. No one else imposed sweeping tariffs on Chinese goods, banned Huawei from domestic networks, put the entire CCP military-linked ecosystem on the entity list, restricted semiconductor exports, strengthened the Quad, and publicly called out China's currency manipulation, IP theft, forced tech transfers, and South China Sea aggression the way he did. Pre-presidency Trump was blunt. If you recall, as a candidate, he often complained about how "China was screwing us over." Literally in 2016 on the campaign trail, he said that "China is raping us." You need to understand that this posture completely shattered what was bipartisan elite consensus at the time - which was that more engagement with China on economic terms would liberalize and democratize China (ethnocentric projection once again), and that as China became more integrated into the global system, they would act more and more like responsible stakeholders. Every President since Nixon pushed closer economic integration while ignoring the OBVIOUS signs. This was especially supercharged under Bush, Clinton and Obama (but not Biden). And yet at the time, the mainstream media painted him as a xenophobe for this kind of rhetoric. It wasn't even a subtext - they directly alluded to how Trump was being racist against the Chinese for calling out their unfair trade practices. Once in office, Trump refined it into a strategy that actually moved the needle while dialing back his strong rhetoric. The personal flattery - calling Xi a "great leader," talking up respect for China, saying they'll have a "fantastic future together," is all Machiavellian Art of the Deal stuff. Flattery costs nothing and makes the other guy more willing to give ground without looking like he's folding domestically. The CCP's entire system is built on the leader's prestige. Publicly humiliating Xi or treating him like a subordinate would make him dig in, rally nationalists, and push him to retaliate harder just to save face. I don't actually think Trump knows about Chinese "honor culture" and the obsession with mianzi (face), but for whatever reason, Trump instinctively understands authoritarian psychology and how to work with it. The problem is that intellectual types, especially those steeped in liberal internationalist frameworks, tend to struggle with parsing the difference between rhetoric vs. revealed preferences. They're hard-wired to overweight the former. They treat diplomatic language as a window into the soul, as if it maps directly onto intent rather than as front-facing tool of statecraft. China weaponizes this brilliantly. It's a lesson everyone should've learned by now. With Trump, ignore the optics and ignore what he says. Just look at his actions, and look at his results.
Disclose.tv@disclosetv

NOW - Trump to Xi: "We're going to have a fantastic future together. I have such respect for China. The job you've done. You're a great leader. I say it to everybody. You're a great leader."

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Mandoboyband@ibottsla·
@news_australian I rather she be domestic as much as possible because we've seen way too many PM's go on international trips where they are not needed.
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Australian News@news_australian·
Would it make you proud for Pauline Hanson to represent Australia on the world stage as our Prime Minister? What do you say? #auspol #PaulineHanson
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cinesthetic.@TheCinesthetic·
An actor who played a character so perfectly that nobody else could ever top it. GIFS ONLY.
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🇺🇸 Ronald Carter
🇺🇸 Ronald Carter@USronaldcarter·
🚨 this has happened before.. in 2016.. Obama landed in Hangzhou for the G20.. China didn't send stairs.. he climbed out of the belly hatch at the back of Air Force One.. the "ass" of the plane.. in front of the world.. Chinese officials said the US declined their offered stairs.. the US said that wasn't true.. nobody ever agreed on what happened.. but the photos exist.. that was 10 years ago.. today Trump landed in Beijing.. red carpet.. honor guard.. 300 students waving American and Chinese flags.. chanting a welcome.. the full ceremony.. and here's the part nobody's connecting.. China didn't change the airport.. China didn't change the stairs.. China changed its read of who was coming off the plane.. the last time a US president got this kind of arrival in Beijing was 1972.. Nixon.. the handshake that opened the world.. China pulled out every symbol it had because it needed something from that meeting.. and now they're doing it again.. the red carpet isn't respect.. it's a price signal.. China is telling Trump what it's willing to pay before the first meeting even starts.. the stairs were never about stairs. I'll share more updates shortly. Turn on notifications, this is very important.
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0HOUR1@0hour1·
He posted it and deleted it. Many people saw it. X will turn it over when they subpoena it.
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Mandoboyband@ibottsla·
@Sven_z0r @DTealy1 @craigkellyAFEE Doesn't solve the issue. This would put pressure on the pricing of new builds, the competition will now be for both looking for new PPOR and investors. So that sector has now gone up in price. So either the government keeps NG, or do away with it for all.
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Sven@Sven_z0r·
@ibottsla @DTealy1 @craigkellyAFEE They'll just have to build new if they want to NG. You shouldn't be getting tax breaks for buying a house that already exists when there are other people looking to buy a PPOR who don't get that same benefit.
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Craig Kelly:🇦🇺Foundation for Economic Education
If you are earning less than $45,000 your marginal tax rate is zero for $0 – $18,200 and 16% for $18,201 – $45,000. However if you’ve bought a few shares, or maybe invested in a few antiques - that have had a capital gain, sneaky Albanese now wants to tax that not at your marginal rate, but at 30%. Its a direct attack on low income earners and pensioner.
PoliticalPilot@PilotPoli

The 30% minimum tax on capital gains is the worst tax policy change in Australian political history. It's effectively saying to the average punter, don't save, don't invest, and don't try to make your money work for you. I've been a Labor member and voter since my first

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Magills@magills_·
In the 1997 Armand Assante version of The Odyssey the great Vanessa Williams (left) was cast as Calypso in the Greek epic and no one was outraged because she was unbelievably hot.
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J A Fuller
J A Fuller@hanginout55·
@DavidAsmanfox Yet we rely on Asia/China to actually build and assemble many of the ideas and products...shouldn't that be of some concern?
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David Asman@DavidAsmanfox·
U.S. corps are valued at 7x more than Chinese corps. In fact, U.S. corps are worth much more than the other top ten countries combined. We create so much wealth because of creative entrepreneurs who are free to build new companies that make new things. It ain't rocket science.
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