Posts by peterrelph2@kolektiva.social
(DIR) Post #ASEcwm1QJyM9mwgXaq by peterrelph2@kolektiva.social
2023-02-01T00:05:47Z
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#RobodebtRCFascists take their power personally.The titular head of a government department with the full power of the state behind them feels justified in publicly taking on one of the most vulnerable individuals in the nation, over whom they have power, in a dispute over government policy & its implementation.However, if said minister wants to take personal responsibility for the inhumane debacle, over which he presided, then maybe he should be accommodated in his desire.'Shut this story down': Government released robodebt victims' details to stop them speaking to media https://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/shut-this-story-down-government-released-robodebt-victims-details-to-stop-them-speaking-to-media/6esr2l6ds#auspol
(DIR) Post #ASLs6hw4E0FoRTwzIG by peterrelph2@kolektiva.social
2023-02-04T23:56:47Z
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@Penelope The current inflation is supply driven, not demand.Central Banks & their interest rates have no influence on the Covid & War-caused supply shortages.Government spending may or may not influence it, but Interest Rates will not.
(DIR) Post #ASQ9sVKGsz7l5TULLM by peterrelph2@kolektiva.social
2023-02-07T01:34:42Z
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@vriska The whole world's mad cept me & thee, & even thee's a little odd.
(DIR) Post #AT3M50KmKeFBTXmTYW by peterrelph2@kolektiva.social
2023-02-25T23:18:18Z
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Thinking of the Fediverse & Mastodon. It may end up as a mass of city state echo chambers,each with their own potential autocrat, a process of balkanisation.I see no benefit to that, but I think it is inevitable.
(DIR) Post #AT3NMQuUsMZOmEMWqu by peterrelph2@kolektiva.social
2023-02-25T23:39:34Z
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@BarrenPlanet The 'potential autocrat' risk is significant I think. Unchecked power or authority does not end well.
(DIR) Post #AUhDf5eTHUXtcTuuR6 by peterrelph2@kolektiva.social
2023-04-16T01:54:24Z
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Leaked documents have revealed a mega church has allegedly engaged in money laundering and tax evasion. This petition is calling for the government to hold churches accountable by stripping them of their tax-exempt status. Will you add your name?https://chng.it/tDqzytMbM4
(DIR) Post #AUriChyQQHp2GzW64W by peterrelph2@kolektiva.social
2023-04-20T10:00:33Z
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There is nothing more ephemeral, non-existent than neoliberal economics.It was based on nothing but the wishes of delusional fascists in Austria in the 20s & 30s.Why then are we still driven globally by delusions at all official levels of state & academia?Governments, treasuries, central banks who must all know better pretend that the oligarch's delusions are real.They all stand naked, exposed, every neoliberal precept & concept is nonsense.Everything any neoliberal politician or economist says or has ever said is utter nonsense.The world in which we live has been based on nonsense since at least the 70s & 80sIf you listened to politicians, economists, mass media, then everything you thought you knew was wrong.They hate you & despise you & want to destroy you for their oligarch masters.#auspol #ukpol #uspol
(DIR) Post #AUriCjSEuvGUrkTQBM by peterrelph2@kolektiva.social
2023-04-20T11:08:29Z
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@canfaniac Not calculated to discredit a later interpretation of liberalism, but an actual form of the original liberalism.
(DIR) Post #AUriCkcuYjOaV8TSSG by peterrelph2@kolektiva.social
2023-04-21T01:01:02Z
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@lori @canfaniac I visualise what currently passes as neoliberalism turning full circle back to feudalism.
(DIR) Post #AVGuwwI3aB4yOjVaEq by peterrelph2@kolektiva.social
2023-05-03T08:10:42Z
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@aljazeera "UNICEF estimates that some 640 million girls and women today were married when they were below 18.Child marriage rate falling too slowly, UN says in new report"Then maybe we need to disassociate the idea of sex from marriage.
(DIR) Post #AVZBQlzc0rtZpIhGTI by peterrelph2@kolektiva.social
2023-05-12T03:40:47Z
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@grammargirl Could also possibly be seen as blanket punishment, punishing everyone for the sins of an individual.
(DIR) Post #AVhtDNEUi1ImWAl4W8 by peterrelph2@kolektiva.social
2023-05-16T08:28:59Z
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@stopgopfox Speaking as a devout coward I'd imagine that it takes a bit of courage to shoot oneself.Just saying.
(DIR) Post #AcGXFlFY4pUDCQXjjE by peterrelph2@kolektiva.social
2023-11-28T10:14:30Z
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I think I need to point out that the people who were in indefinite detention were not there because they were criminals, obviously some of any cohort of people may well be criminals, but those in this cohort of indefinite detainees are there because they sought asylum in Australia & they came by boat. Those are the arbitrary conditions by which they are defined. Not any coincidental criminality or goodness.Don't let the fascists fool you into thinking that they are there because they are criminal.#auspol
(DIR) Post #AcN4DMESaEHcSvFsdU by peterrelph2@kolektiva.social
2023-12-01T00:51:29Z
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May I point out that the problem is not Trump, the problem is the United States of America.Happens it's Trump, but it could have been any other nutter, if the system is vulnerable then it _will_ be corrupted.The problem is the system.#politics
(DIR) Post #AdUXRrGsZdlwYUaQbY by peterrelph2@kolektiva.social
2024-01-04T04:50:49Z
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@Penelope An increase in data is not necessarily an increase in information.
(DIR) Post #AdY85vnXLIB20C9JY0 by peterrelph2@kolektiva.social
2024-01-05T06:01:14Z
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Our leaders, liberals, progressives, whether they be good people, bad people, mediocre people or total non-entities are one & all puppets of bad people.That's it children.#auspol #ukpol #uspol #politics etcetera etcetera.
(DIR) Post #AdY85wibv5pYrCqtVY by peterrelph2@kolektiva.social
2024-01-05T06:17:02Z
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#2You may love the part that your preferred politician has been given to portray (Hurray for our side!!), & hate those other nasty evil people (Boo, Hiss, get off the stage!!) , but both sides are scripted, choreographed & voiced by the same actual evil people who really do want to destroy you.One side is allowed to do overtly evil things when they are in power, the other has to pretend to be good, without undoing any of the previous evil acts of the other side (which they actually supported to pass).This charade, pantomime, is supported by the press, who are also owned by the actually evil people behind the performance, to give you the impression of ongoing democracy, when in fact, it matters nought who you vote for, or don't vote for, the evil oligarchy will rule you in whatever way they choose as long as they exist.#auspol #ukpol #uspol #politics
(DIR) Post #AdY85yCmOPYbT3yVAe by peterrelph2@kolektiva.social
2024-01-05T06:53:08Z
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Looks like I stepped on a couple of toes. I have been saying this for years without getting any kick-back.Something in the environment seems to have changed.I am being currently challenged by an anarchist for having the audacity to post from an anarchist social club without being a true believer & accused of being an anarchist for saying "look around folks".Interesting times. People read a lot into the medium in which you post, seems McLuhan was correct.
(DIR) Post #AdY85ymEGbuhF0YoQS by peterrelph2@kolektiva.social
2024-01-05T06:42:41Z
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@MakBerberovic There are no sides to the so-called pantomime, that is rather the point of it..As far as privileged goes, do you think I'm a Martian?
(DIR) Post #AdY860N8Kt1mBkpnaS by peterrelph2@kolektiva.social
2024-01-05T07:59:59Z
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@MakBerberovic One of my resultant points was that there is no democracy to participate in.