hanrahan
@hanrahan@slrpnk.net
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- Comment on The Australia interest rate rise is the wrong medicine and an even worse alibi 1 day ago:
housing isn’t unaffordable because of rate hikes, its unaffordable because of cheap money and constrained supply, it’s what “we” voted for.
this is a 50 year slow moving shit storm, tweaking rates 50bpd here or there matters nought when you have nothing to begin with but inflation matters a lot.
How would that improve the situation?
these many many have fucked around and now they’re finding out, they’re adults, with agency… this can only get worse for them because nearly everything we do in terms of neo liberal economic policy takes us this way, and they vote for it they’re accompolocies not victims… we literally eat the future and how they vote will make it even worse for themselves, we see the same shit in the US.
As to the many many… new car sales are at a record, 75% of them are ICE ffs, over seas travel is at a record, inflation adjusted spending keeps increasing. I go out anywhere and observe cafes and restaurants over flowing (I don’t eat out because i cant afford it) i live near a tourist town that drowns in tourists that require vast amounts of energy to get there, fuck any Hormuz crisis it seems. We’ve just seen record numbers of people pay ridiculous amounts of money to watch strangers run around in shorts chasing a ball (bread 'n circuses)
- Comment on Raise your hand for a second if this is new to you, too. 1 day ago:
don’t leave us hanging dude, where’s the link?
- Comment on 103°F in Los Angeles all week 2 days ago:
somebody voted GOP to have Trump in charge and paying companies to NOT block wind farms, somebody keeps buying giant trucks and voting to rip up bike lanes etc
- Comment on Anon loves GOG 2 days ago:
they should just chip in some $ to help Heroic
- Comment on The Greens’ defence red lines: No weapons for Ukraine, curtail the US alliance 4 days ago:
as a green voter this sucks balls, Ukraine support 100%,
Israel support zero
and treat the US as we’d treat Vietnam. etc
- Comment on Anon's mom has questions 5 days ago:
- Comment on Hard Out There For A Woman 6 days ago:
how is that possible ?
- Comment on If I became the next president how would I go about getting the illegally detained people under Trump freedom? Would I need congress? 1 week ago:
just shut it down, ICE work for you and the Supreme Court has given you complete immunity.
- Comment on It's Tough Out Here 1 week ago:
why would anyone even have a bottle of that stuff on them ?
- Comment on We live in a society... 1 week ago:
some of us charge our BYD electric cars from solar panels on our roof and ride our ebikes charged similarly.
- Comment on Terrorist arrested over video of dinghy slashing 1 week ago:
or protest climate change inaction
- Comment on el tigre 1 week ago:
weeelllllll, you can do the slightly drugged Tigers in places like Thailand, ketamine and fed I assume before you’re allowed to pet them?
As to the ethics of that, welllll, we destroy their habitat and have nearly made them go extinct and that seems perfectly acceptable, soooo. Just to be clear I have not done this personally.
- Comment on Simple. Elegant. Fashionable, even. Become the envy of the airport. 1 week ago:
wont be allowed to be checked in most countries, as it has a battery, carry on only.
- Comment on Simple. Elegant. Fashionable, even. Become the envy of the airport. 1 week ago:
heaps of young kids doing that in various Asian airports
- Comment on Simple. Elegant. Fashionable, even. Become the envy of the airport. 1 week ago:
and in Australia
- Comment on Former shoplifter ran 'steal-to-order' Whatsapp group 2 weeks ago:
and I agree as. long as. you’re not beating up, abusing or bashing staff, which happens often in Australia.
- Comment on Paul Keating says Aukus locking Australia into a US war against China, which it would ‘certainly lose’ 2 weeks ago:
the US. Everything they do, they hurt us.
The US has threatened to invade Canada, Greenland, Mexico and Cuba, recently and currently have a pedo, rapist, felon as President (speaking volumes of it’s voting ciitizens). We align with them in some horrific shit like the appaling genocide in PalestineChina has some argy bargy with The Philippines over some shoals in the south china sea, fucked over Tibet and has some border argy bargy with India and will take Taiwan at some stage.
The question of their invasion is ridiculous, they could invade Thailand, Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos and and Myanmar, Pakistan, India, Mongolia, Malaysia, Singapore and Bangladesh tomorrow if they wanted, they are literally next door. New Zealand, Fiji etc would offer zero resistance.
They have zero chance of invading and successfully holding Australia, Russia can’t even walk into Ukraine and they are next fucking door.
The US cant be relied upon as an ally at all, it told Ukraine it would defend it if it gave up it’s nukes, they said tough shit buddy when they were needed.
Should we be best buddies with China ?, of course not but they should be in the same category as say Vietnam
The only reason we’d even be a target is because of stupid shit like ANKUS and the endless US bases on our soil (in many ways, we’re a colony if the US already)
China has zero reason to invade, we already sell them everything they want for way cheaper then an invasion would cost.
- Comment on Anon listens to music 2 weeks ago:
mehh, I’m not that interested in moral filtering with that much granularity tbh.
- Comment on Prisoners to ‘double up’ in one-person prefab cells, leaked documents show 2 weeks ago:
maybe release the climate change protestors ffs?
- Comment on Busting the myths: five lies you’ve been told about net zero 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on It's The VIDEO GAMES! 2 weeks ago:
suicidal you say ?
theguardian.com/…/air-pollution-linked-to-higher-…
Air pollution linked to higher suicide risk, international research suggests
Analysis of 29 studies highlights potentially heightened danger from small particulate matter and nitrogen dioxide
- Comment on Just a matter of time before it's reality 3 weeks ago:
you need an app for that to assist you
- Comment on If I only have space/money for one exercise machine, what should I get? 3 weeks ago:
power rack
- Comment on Female asylum seekers report being sexually assaulted by British men 3 weeks ago:
are the reform nutters rioting over this or were they doing the assaulting to “teach em a lesson” ?
- Comment on Is "American posing as a Canadian" a real thing? 3 weeks ago:
I’m embarrassed to be an Australian and always say I am from New Zealand when travelling.
- Comment on Reproductive strategy 3 weeks ago:
well, either that or they kill the kids and move in eg lions
- Comment on Just to get this straight. If I stand outside a voting center and give each person 500 bucks to vote for me. That is illegal? But if I am a Dipshit In Chief and offer 5k that is 100 percent legal? 3 weeks ago:
do you have supreme court immunity?
- Comment on We ain't happy anymore... 3 weeks ago:
Happiness is a room without a roof
yeah no, homeless-ness ain’t no bag of laughs, it’s a bag of dicks
- Comment on Americans Increasingly Support Stronger Unions. Approval Rate Tops 70 Percent. 4 weeks ago:
No they don’t, they might say they do but their actions belie their words. Many of them voted for this.
www.theguardian.com/…/trump-workers-labor-union
The most anti-union president’: how Trump turned his back on US workers
- Comment on Climate Science Has A Forbidden Answer 4 weeks ago:
viable alternatives ? yes, serverly reducing emissions, something we have yet to do.
The minute you stop injecting say sulphur aerosol, the temp roars back and the scale of sulphur injection is enormous and about as expensive as running the oil and gas industry. We’re geo engineering the planet now with CO2e
Climate Change is the solution to all this, it will collapse civilisation.
