@knedoycap @markgardn fully agree…. also add that we should be refining products here rather than exporting the raw goods.
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This is so bloody true. Yes, this is an excellent country and we are lucky to be born and live here, but for fuck sake it could be even better very very easily. This country needs to be run like the resource powerhouse we truly are.
Tax on resource and gas exports could pay for Medicare, income tax cuts and kindy for all kids easily.
The immigrant policy is downright stupidity. Sure, bring in the doctors and nurses, skilled builders and white collar… but instead we allow the machete wielding degenerates.
We need to turn this around fast before we destroy what we have.
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Australia is a poster child of political shambles...
48.5c in the dollar, pay for your own healthcare, your own retirement, your own education, 10% GST, 30% fuel tax.....
Houses are the most expensive in the world, we are a net exporter of coal, uranium, LNG and have expensive electricity
Remind me what we get for our 47-48c in the dollar?
@AlboMP
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@markgardn @wheresistherain @EarlHoldings this is a stupid response…. i mean it aint free anywhere in the world…. it'd socialised healthcare vs bankruptcy if you get ill.
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@wheresistherain @EarlHoldings You paid for it... somewhere along the line
And TBH that comment is exactly the sort of Bullsh&t, anecdoltal cherry picking the politicians lean on to distract the public from the shitshow
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@AuthorHFerry @avifnyc dont play dumb… what did you mean by 'dont play dumb…. what did you mean by ‘one bomb they control nothing’ exactly?
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@avifnyc Who talked about nukes? 😆 You're a new kind of moron. Bubyeeeeeee.
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If you don't think the Islamic Regime has already fallen, riddle me this: If Trump leaves the Middle East today, how is this regime is supposed to run a country with:
no government buildings,
no leadership structure,
80 million people who are not just against the regime, but thirsty for its loyalists' blood,
a population that won't go back to work,
a collapsed economy,
collapsing infrastructure (since even before the war),
no water, no agriculture,
no allies in the region except Pakistan,
no legitimacy outside of the region, except by Emmanuel Macron,
no proxies except NY mayor's office,
no navy, no air force, no radars, no air defense.
Just a few bullets left in their guns to try and stand in front of a very angry nation.
This regime is dead. It just doesn't know it yet.
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@Kinnovate123 @ColeFusionHQ not forgetting all the David Davies’ known as Dai Twice
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In the valleys back home we had a ton of people with the Cymric contraction of David/Dafydd down to Dai. Because there were so many they ended up with names like Dai Quietly (always moaning he was ill), Dai Central Eating (only had one tooth in the middle). Loads you never knew the origin of but the names stuck and you knew who they meant.
Also some cruel ones like John Up and Down (one leg shorter than the other).
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British nicknames are an unregulated industry. a 5'6 tradesman called Anthony is professionally known as Shetland Tony. a man who lost an eye is called Keth. a quiet man wore a yellow jumper once and became
Mumblebee.
what's the best nickname you've ever heard
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The United States is the most evil country on Earth by a huge amount
Mohamad Safa@mhdksafa
Doctors are manually operating ventilators in order to keep babies alive in Cuba. The U.S. is laying siege cruelly cut off all fuel, power is out, leaving hospitals without electricity. Dialysis patients, babies in NICU, and others will die. This’s a crime against humanity.
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@TheRegional_au @ANZ_AU @JEChalmers @mattjcan @RennickGBR @DarrenChesterMP there are a number of banks with no physical branches…. what exactly can’t you do online, or using the post office?
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The @ANZ_AU branch in Robinvale was closed in 2023, leaving customers to drive 200km to do their banking. This week Robinvale ran out of fuel. No one should have to leave their town to access an essential service like banking. @JEChalmers @mattjcan @RennickGBR @DarrenChesterMP
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@cosmicjester they couldnt afford the to pay them cause the 'broadcast them Aussie-wide’ plan backfired
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With the Kyle and Jackie O drama and their insane contract I’m reminded that Triple M axed Get This even though it was the highest rating program on their network at the time. I think radio executives are just really dumb.
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@LindseyGrahamSC @POTUS Dissolve NATO and withdraw from UN. The best thing the President can do for America and the World. Form a new international body of democracic nations strictly for mutually beneficial trade. Nothing else. This will bring peace to the World.
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Just spoke to @POTUS about our European allies’ unwillingness to provide assets to keep the Strait of Hormuz functioning, which benefits Europe far more than America. I have never heard him so angry in my life. I share that anger given what’s at stake.
The arrogance of our allies to suggest that Iran with a nuclear weapon is of little concern and that military action to stop the ayatollah from acquiring a nuclear bomb is our problem not theirs is beyond offensive. The European approach to containing the ayatollah’s nuclear ambitions have proven to be a miserable failure.
The repercussions of providing little assistance to keep the Strait of Hormuz functioning are going to be wide and deep for Europe and America.
I consider myself very forward-leaning on supporting alliances, however at a time of real testing like this, it makes me second guess the value of these alliances. I am certain I am not the only senator who feels this way.
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@intocryptoverse @Z06Z07 @BritishHodl @JoeCarlasare yeah right…unless it’s opposite day….. only dumb maxis scream bulliish when price goes lower.
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@Z06Z07 @BritishHodl @JoeCarlasare Any reason you don't include any lower prices?
Could people not turn bullish at lower prices, why only higher prices?
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What Bitcoin price does have to hit for Bitcoin Twitter (X) to be net Bullish. @BritishHodl @intocryptoverse @JoeCarlasare
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@nic_carter @SuitablePolitic bloody hell nic, for someone who had such a clear insight into bitcoin and its issues, you have gone a bit mad, unable to see beyond the blinkers, getting narrower by the day.
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@SuitablePolitic we will unilaterally reopen the strait (with Israel and the Arab gulf nations) and then Trump will either use it as justification to leave NATO or recoup his costs by charging Euros to use the strait forever
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The Strait is not closed. It never was. It never will be.
Trump was offering the Europeans the opportunity to go solve a fake problem. They look good. We get people to realize the Strait is not actually closed. We all go home feeling happy.
This WAS all worked out.
Now that the Europeans rejected the offer, as any planner worth their salt would acknowledge as overwhelmingly likely, we're going to use that as a leverage point to do what Trump has wanted for years...
Leave NATO.
Or wrangle them into total submission.
The Strait will "reopen" by some other fake means, befitting the fake problem of it being "closed" in the first place.
Bane of Libs@thetruthzd34
@sethjlevy Why wasn’t this all worked out prior to the operation? Tells me they weren’t adequately prepared for the strait to be closed
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@StanphylCap selfless lol. “some of you may die - it is a sacrifice i am willing to make"
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Trump is in many, many ways a narcissist scumbag, but preventing the Islamist Iran death cult from getting nuclear weapons DESPITE the short-term political fallout is one of the bravest, most selfless things a U.S. politician has done in a very long time.
I call 'em as I see 'em
JC Oviedo@JCOviedo6
Trump Knew the Risk of Iran Blocking the Strait of Hormuz. He Still Went to War. wsj.com/politics/natio…
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NATO is actually wiring live cockroaches with AI backpacks loaded with cameras, microphones, radios, and neural stimulators that literally fire electrical signals straight into the insect nervous system for precise steering.
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@MarioNawfal @grok Is this real or fake news generated by AI?
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@simonmaechling cause govts (and their institutions) were unable to remain trustworthy
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Future historians will struggle to explain this moment.
Science cured diseases, fed billions, and powered the modern world.
Yet millions abandoned it…
for conspiracies on the internet.
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@Bitcoinsbitty @PeterMcCormack @Heccles94 Then you would be wrong. Doesn't matter how YOU define it, it's not what the word means.
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Oh yes, the socialists can't do economics crowd...
Peter McCormack 🏴☠️🇬🇧🇮🇪@PeterMcCormack
@Heccles94 If socialists understood economics they wouldn’t be socialists.
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@RebelChick1111 @DavidD_Chapman why doesnt Trump ask his fellow members of the Board of Peace to assist?
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@DavidD_Chapman Trump will, rightfully, dissolve NATO by 2028. Perhaps even dissolve UN & instead have Peace Bord recently formed. x.com/i/status/20289…
David D. Chapman@DavidD_Chapman
Europe will send Troops to defend Greenland from the US but will not aid the US with Iran. Its time the US reconsiders their partnership with Europe including NATO.
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Europe will send Troops to defend Greenland from the US but will not aid the US with Iran.
Its time the US reconsiders their partnership with Europe including NATO.
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Is there any evidence that doctors, airline pilots, or others who have disrupted or non- circadian sleep have shorter lives than others?
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@Malinowski sounds like the Apple privacy stoush with the FBI…. say no ini public, somehow a ‘workaround’ is enabled…. I’d argue this is what Anthropic might do. Besides, does the US Govt really want people to know what powers they may or may not have?
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If this is being correctly reported, it should be the lead story in the country.
The Pentagon is legally prohibited from engaging in mass surveillance of Americans. It has a policy requiring human oversight of autonomous weapons.
Is Hegseth threatening to disregard any of that?
Jennifer Griffin@JenGriffinFNC
At high stakes Pentagon meeting today Sec Hegseth gave Anthropic head Dario Amodei ultimatum to allow the Pentagon to use Anthropic’s AI model for mass domestic surveillance and kinetic autonomous operations without human oversight or face censure and be labeled “supply chain threat.” According to a source familiar: The meeting was cordial, not a dressing down, not a screaming match, all business. Hegseth praised the Anthropic product but then said if by Friday Anthropic does not agree to the Pentagon’s use of the model without restrictions, then Hegseth would terminate the contract and use the Defense Production Act to force Anthropic to comply AND/OR designate Anthropic a supply chain threat and national security risk. (EDIT: Both are mutually exclusive. You can’t be a supply chain risk but also invoke the DPA to say that the country needs this product so much for national security that it will override any restrictions put in place by the company that limits govt access to the product. Both cannot be true.) At issue is Anthropic’s two stipulations that its advanced AI model currently used in the Pentagon’s classified systems is NOT used for autonomous kinetic operations (Anthropic currently requires human oversight of autonomous operations when used to kill things for safety reasons because they don’t know how the autonomous system will react and could even endanger soldiers using the model; soldiers and others could lose control of the model and automatically start killing large groups without humans in the “kill chain.”) Second Anthropic bars its models from being used for mass domestic surveillance. Hegseth wants these restrictions lifted. According to a source familiar with the talks, Anthropic has never objected to the use of its models for “legitimate military operations.” It also told the Hegseth it never complained to the Pentagon or Palantir about the use of its models in the Maduro raid.
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@CaffeSatoshi assuming they haven’t learnt to lie like the humans they learnt from
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