Did I say something inappropriate?
I’m sorry, I just say what’s on my mind and assume the people I’m talking to ARE FUCKING ADULTS … my bad.
On THINKING
It’s interesting when I meet random people over coffee at a cafe, strike up a conversation about a mutual point of agreement, but then the conversation strays into territory where it’s obvious they’re out of their depth, and yet still hold fervent beliefs despite their clear lack of ever having really contemplated the issues with any great depth beyond that which they were raised to believe — and which seems sensible to them, because it is a narrative told, usually when they were young, by those they trust ( parents, friends, relatives etc. ). Continue reading “On THINKING”
Australia rolls out the welcome mat, fascist style
Australia rolls out the welcome mat — bigoted fascist style — and terrifies potential tourists and immigrants.
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Your beliefs are your brainwashing
If you actually knew something, if you actually understood it, if you could actually prove it, quantify it, explain it … then you wouldn’t need to believe it, because belief would be redundant.
Would you vote for the following …
I have been seeing a lot of electoral campaigning issues given that Australia has a federal election coming up, and to be honest with you, I’m utterly fed up with how disingenuous and gutless all our politicians — or at least the vast majority of them — seem to be … so I decided to write an article explaining a hypothetical policy platform, to see how many people would read, share, and like it on social media; given also that I know what my blog has received in readership in the past, so it should be reasonably easy to tell if this does stunningly or unusually well compared to other past posts.
If it doesn’t strike a chord with people, then I may revert to my other plan of retiring to the countryside, or trying to find a way off this planet.
The Incongruence of Government Departments
I was just watching a bit of a show on the ABC ( Australia ), in which they were talking about the recent fish kill in the Murray-Darling river system, and in which they were interviewing a guy from the environmental office of The Department of Primary Industries NSW ( www.dpi.nsw.gov.au ).
Now, think about that for a minute: here’s a guy whose role is supposed to be ecological concerns, but he works in a department which has an economically based prime directive. If that doesn’t scream incongruence to you, then you understand neither economics nor ecology.
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On the quality of Australian parliamentarians
It has always bothered me that senators and others get titles like “the honourable” when they are no such fucking thing, and quite frankly they’re the opposite. What bothers me even more is the proportion of them whom are utter imbeciles, completely corrupt, cowardly, incompetent, disingenuous, and even bat shit crazy. Not to mention all the others in the bureaucracy, judiciary, police, ‘intelligence services’, and defence forces, whom are at least complicit if not corrupt themselves.
My question is:
How the fuck do any of these twats qualify to even run for public office in the first place, much less actually get themselves elected and then maintain their position, instead of getting themselves arrested?
— and I think Australia really needs to ask itself why it is so willing to have the very worst and least our society produces, as its so-called “leaders” … when arguably these people are making nothing but bad decisions, and I challenge you to prove me wrong ( ie: name and argue why any significant set of policies by any government in the last 4 decades has been brilliant and visionary ).
Many of these people are without question corrupt as fuck, as they openly take bribes, which is the very definition of corruption, and the mere act of rebranding these bribes as ‘donations’ and ‘lobbying’ is all it takes to ignore the fact that it is bribery, and therefore corruption. Our parliament is full of criminals.
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The criminal “jobactive” programme enquiry – Parliament of Australia
The appropriateness and effectiveness of the objectives, design, implementation and evaluation of jobactive
— Read on www.aph.gov.au/Parliamentary_Business/Committees/Senate/Education_and_Employment/JobActive2018
My comments: Continue reading “The criminal “jobactive” programme enquiry – Parliament of Australia”
Capitalism: the normalisation of slavery
Let’s say you’re a slave master in what most people understand as the historical stereotype of slavery, what does that entail?
- You own people as property;
- They have no rights;
- You can do anything you want to them;
- The expenses of keeping them alive and fit to work are your expenses;
— so how is this any different from capitalism, if the only difference is that you give them that money so they can pay those expenses themselves? Ok, there’s a few more differences than that, but it’s still slavery.
In a socialist democracy under capitalist economics, sure you can vote, and if your job pays well enough you can go on holidays and buy other treats for yourself, but I never said that EVERYONE was a slave under capitalism, I only said that capitalism is the normalisation of slavery.
Why is a vegan diet healthier?
Just a quick article to share what is ( to me at least ) a statement of the bleeding obvious that for some reason people just don’t seem to get.