hanrahan

@hanrahan@piefed.social

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨'Fit for purpose': How a Labor veteran helped create Fraser's vision of a new political party⁩ ⁨⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Its why he resigned hia lifelong Liberal membership in disgust and worked with Sarah Hanson-Young (Greens)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Introverts of our era spend their time on their computers, but what did introverts do before? Like when literacy rates were lower (pre-1950s)? Or before the printing press?⁩ ⁨⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  in the telephone, which you could always just not answer.

  Indeed what feesh hell is this

  I mostly don’t answer my phone, i have a ringtone for my parter and that’s the onky one i DO answer.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Landlords are parasites⁩ ⁨⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Adam Smith also pointed this out.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨do you remember a time when societies were so polarized and shifted so much to the right like today? How long did it last?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s all… perspective and relative ?

  The UK oversaw the slaughter of Kenyans in the Mau Mau rebellion.

  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indonesian_mass_killings_of_1965%E2%80%9366?wprov=sfla1

  The CIA helping Suharto slaughter Indonesians in a genocide

  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indonesian_mass_killings_of_1965%E2%80%9366?wprov=sfla1

  Israel’s existence is becase the US and UK taking native lands

  The Kurds were supposed to be free but too much Oil and that was stopped.

  Around 80 years ago, Eric Blair (aka George Orwell) wrote this:

  All left-wing parties in the highly industrialized countries are at bottom a sham, because they make it their business to fight against something which they do not really wish to destroy. They have internationalist aims, and at the same time they struggle to keep up a standard of life with which those aims are incompatible. We all live by robbing Asiatic coolies, and those of us who are ‘enlightened’ all maintain that those coolies ought to be set free; but our standard of living, and hence our ‘enlightenment,’ demands that the robbery shall continue.

  Somewhat more recently, Wendell Berry, in an essay entitled “Word and Flesh”, wrote this:

  This statement of Orwell’s is clearly applicable to our situation now; all we need to do is change a few nouns. The religion and the environmentalism of the highly industrialized countries are at bottom a sham, because they make it their business to fight against something they do not really wish to destroy. We all live by robbing nature, but our standard of living demands that the robbery shall continue. We must achieve the character and acquire the skills to live much poorer than we do. We must waste less. We must do more for ourselves and each other. It is either that or continue merely to think and talk about changes that we are inviting catastrophe to make. The great obstacle is simply this: the conviction that we cannot change because we are dependent on what is wrong. But that is the addict’s excuse, and we know that it will not do.

  The destruction of the natural world is not the result of global capitalism, industrialisation, ‘Western civilisation’ or any flaw in human institutions. It is a consequence of the evolutionary success of an exceptionally rapacious primate. Throughout all of history and prehistory, human advance has coincided with ecological devastation.” ― John Gray, Straw Dogs: Thoughts On Humans And Other Animals

  We pretend we’ve been anything other then fascist since …?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Time to bash Americans again⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Well, the Dutch are moving right. Gert Wilders is a literal fascist.

  AfD in Germany then we have Norway, Italy, Finland, UK, France and on and on. They probably feel at home