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Joyce vague on details, Albanese wins tennis match amid golf grant saga
By Courtney Gould

This week One Nation's Treasury spokesperson was vague on policy details, Andrew Hastie took on Pauline Hanson and the prime minister defended his membership to a golf club.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-09-10/barnaby-joyce-superannuation-pauline-hanson-andrew-hastie-golf/107128384

#FederalParliament #GovernmentandPolitics #FederalGovernment #AustralianFederalElections #PoliticalParties #Liberals #Parliament #Sport #CourtneyGould

Hypothesis: #Liberals gaining #Conservative voters but also losing some of their own to the #NDP due to things like #ClimateChange etc. Overall so far a small net gain for LPC, big gain for NDP, big loss for CPC

Otherwise where does that NDP +7% come from?
#cdnpoli #MarkCarney #AviLewis #Poilievre

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:jeuzjfwsgn62xfoe7qo4jul5/post/3muxvudasq22t

Hypothesis: #Liberals gaining #Conservative voters but also losing some of their own to the #NDP due to things like #ClimateChange etc. Overall so far a small net gain for LPC, big gain for NDP, big loss for CPC

Otherwise where does that NDP +7% come from?
#cdnpoli #MarkCarney #AviLewis #Poilievre

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:jeuzjfwsgn62xfoe7qo4jul5/post/3muxvudasq22t

Hypothesis: #Liberals gaining #Conservative voters but also losing some of their own to the #NDP due to things like #ClimateChange etc. Overall so far a small net gain for LPC, big gain for NDP, big loss for CPC

Otherwise where does that NDP +7% come from?
#cdnpoli #MarkCarney #AviLewis #Poilievre

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:jeuzjfwsgn62xfoe7qo4jul5/post/3muxvudasq22t

Hypothesis: #Liberals gaining #Conservative voters but also losing some of their own to the #NDP due to things like #ClimateChange etc. Overall so far a small net gain for LPC, big gain for NDP, big loss for CPC

Otherwise where does that NDP +7% come from?
#cdnpoli #MarkCarney #AviLewis #Poilievre

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:jeuzjfwsgn62xfoe7qo4jul5/post/3muxvudasq22t

Hypothesis: #Liberals gaining #Conservative voters but also losing some of their own to the #NDP due to things like #ClimateChange etc. Overall so far a small net gain for LPC, big gain for NDP, big loss for CPC

Otherwise where does that NDP +7% come from?
#cdnpoli #MarkCarney #AviLewis #Poilievre

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:jeuzjfwsgn62xfoe7qo4jul5/post/3muxvudasq22t

But that +7 comes from somewhere & you're right it's unlikely they come directly from the Cons.

Hypothesis: #Liberals gaining #Conservative voters but also losing some of their own to the #NDP due to things like #ClimateChange etc. Overall a small net gain for Ls, big gain for Ns, big loss for Cs

But that +7 comes from somewhere & you're right it's unlikely they come directly from the Cons.

Hypothesis: #Liberals gaining #Conservative voters but also losing some of their own to the #NDP due to things like #ClimateChange etc. Overall a small net gain for Ls, big gain for Ns, big loss for Cs

Sometimes I have trouble believing performative nonsense like this exists out in the real world. Like, what is going on in her head. Who is she posting this for lol?

I dunno, but she's posting LOUDLY!

#libs #liberals #performative #threads

Democrats Pass Anti-Flock Camera Bill Mandating All Flock Devices Wear Body Cameras

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://thehardtimes.net/culture/democrats-pass-anti-flock-camera-bill-mandating-all-flock-devices-wear-body-cameras/

One Nation, Coalition bank on cheap cigarettes being uncool
By Clare Armstrong

The Coalition and One Nation will have to prove they believe a generation that has grown up thinking cigarettes are both uncool and expensive will continue to resist when the last of those barriers disappears.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-09-06/smoking-tobacco-excise-coalition-one-nation-black-market/107097648

#GovernmentandPolitics #Health #Smoking #FederalGovernment #HealthPolicy #Nicotine #StateandTerritoryGovernment #Liberals #CommunityandSociety #TobaccoGrowing #ClareArmstrong

🔥 Liberal MP Lori Idlout just landed on the ethics commissioner's naughty list. Latest Liberal to break federal ethics rules, now standing with a growing roster that mostly collected a stern look and a participation trophy. Little or no punishment. Again. 🙄

And the lemmings? Still lining up to defend the club. 🐑

One rule for them. Another for you. Accountability is not optional. ⚖️

#loriidlout #ethics #EthicsMatter #AccountabilityMatters #cdnpoli #canada #Liberals #MarkCarney #WakeUpCanada

@ulveon So now that that is out of the way :blobcatgooglyheadache:​

Welp... how do we define what is not about human rights then? It seems like genAI (and in particular, chatbots and other agentic AI) conflicts with our ability not to depend on them and their providers, might irreversibly hinder our cognitive capabilities almost immediately after first use, is a tool that overwhelmingly has more potential for job and value destruction than actual, sustainable construction, are produced and run with huge energy bills to the point that some people are already getting denied electricity at their homes, so on, so forth.

I guess the only reason why we should be debating it is because impact is unclear. But if you think that we already went past that threshold, it makes sense to classify it as "not up for debate".

And that's just one of the reasons why debate is so difficult. We do, in fact, have self-determination — fascists might not like it but then turn the other way around and insist on the concepts of "free will" and "freedom" because they know they want theirs to be the #objective #truth. Anyway. This means that each one is constantly, subjectively drawing their own lines. Why so? Because that self-determination, that inner will and interpretation of the world, is inherent to consciousness and self-preservation. We need to draw lines to understand and interact with the world, to feel safe and seek what we want and need. And that includes defining what we talk about and to which extent, and usually it's a huge mental toll for seemingly little to no benefit... I think you can agree about this one :baa:​

And yeah, many factors include:

• Tying your identity to friends, ideals, ideologies, etc., which in turns means that conceding on a point is risking your very sense of self, questioning what you have done with your life, your social relationships, how you cared for your children, etc.
• This is furthermore entrenched with trust in one's cognition and trust in the outside world. Think of terms like "common sense", "reality" being "obvious", etc. What that depicts is vulnerability, someone relying on superficiality and authority to build everything else upon. That gets ROUGH.
• Being vulnerable to abuse, with trauma hindering your ability to neutrally analyze a situation. You see a pattern and immediately run away from it. One, of course, needs to learn to grow from PTSD and get better at it, but it's still a hard process to get there. And there's no real echo chambers, but there is mutual reinforcement, which if unchecked, is an easy way to detach from reality and end up with something resembling psychosis (oh hey where have I heard of that one)
• Just being a shit person. Wanting to dunk on others, #rekting the #soyboy #snowflake #woke #liberals with #facts #and #logic, treating bullying as a moral crusade, etcetc. This is where "the cruelty is the point" comes from.
• And finally: not really caring and just following the trend. So basically, some just follow wherever social norms around them go (usually handed over top-down from hard power) and can change in a blink of an eye.

Those are a lot of reasons, and most remarkably, they either involve the network effect, or extremely fundamental parts about people. It's understandable to want to give up. And in that regard, all I can say is that we're moving faster than ever, and while Planck's principle might be largely true, we're still seeing a huge generational uplift, with much more rational folks who have their empathy towards others and their priorities in life in a much better position.

So change is very much still feasible.

Just, more slowly than I wish it was.

Here are the live by-election results: https://enr.elections.ca/ElectoralDistricts.aspx?ed=2318&lang=e

(I know it's not very meaningful to make predictions after the results have started to come in, but I expected the #Liberals to capture Chicoutimi—Le Fjord and to hold onto the other two ridings.)

#CanPol #cdnpoli

Hanson says she can smash Labor and message could be resonating
By Patricia Karvelas

Pauline Hanson says she can smash Labor and, given the anger in the community, perhaps that messaging is resonating.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-08-31/one-nation-wa-byelection-win-danger-for-labor/107095314

#OneNation #ByElections #FederalParliament #Liberals #ALP #PatriciaKarvelas

Schumer and Jeffries Hold Emergency Meeting With Trump to Brainstorm Insulting Nicknames for DSA Candidates

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://thehardtimes.net/news/schumer-and-jeffries-hold-emergency-meeting-with-trump-to-brainstorm-insulting-nicknames-for-dsa-candidates/

SA Liberal president Leah Blyth in preselection battle as Antic supporters claim 'betrayal'
By Thomas Kelsall

Some supporters of rebel South Australian Senator Alex Antic want to demote SA Liberal President Leah Blyth to an unwinnable senate spot, claiming a "betrayal" on conservative causes.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-08-25/liberal-senator-facing-preselection-battle/107055842

#Liberals #GovernmentandPolitics #ThomasKelsall

@guardian

The Guardian is becoming as bad as the NYT, thanks to fucking sellouts such as Gene Marks. I should probably cancel my subscription.

#AI #liberals #datacenters

"Insisting that partisans be polite, moderate, reasonable and friendly would actually serve to exclude marginalised political voices. It could do so in two ways:
• First, there was the problem of gatekeeping. […]
• [Second] problem: voices at the margins of politics had special cause to be righteous and zealous. On important issues – such as the equality of the sexes – it would not do to remain polite or seek a moderate compromise."

Geertje Bol: https://aeon.co/essays/polite-debate-has-privilege-the-marginalised-need-zealotry

#liberals #civility #respectabilityPolitics #respectability #politeness #partisanship #parties #history #England #feminism #privilege #politicalTheory

'They thought this toerag would disappear': Why Joyce ditched the party that made him
By Leisa Scott and Robyn Powell

Barnaby Joyce has survived bruising battles, personal crises and public ridicule. Is his latest move to One Nation masterful, or a fatal miscalculation?

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-08-23/barnaby-joyce-one-nation-nationals-wife-vikki-campion/106898670

#FederalGovernment #HumanInterest #FederalParliament #OneNation #Nationals #Liberals #PostTraumaticStressDisorder #Depression #LeisaScott #RobynPowell

Israel has been massacring civilians, and lying about it, since its inception.

@raph writes: https://www.vashtimedia.com/the-qibya-blueprint/ @palestine

#liberals #jewishState #jewishSupremacy #israel #israelPalestine #gaza #ongoingNakba #ethnicCleansing #history #colonialism #qibya #hasbara #Zionism

Per @theargumentmag The internet’s toxicity isn’t good for anyone, but it’s especially bad for #liberals . Liberalism is a social technology that allows people with profoundly different value systems to live together...Social media rewards moral clarity rather than ambiguity.

How the silence of Western feminists exposes their hypocrisy and fraud.

“Miscarriages in Gaza tripled in the first half of this year to nearly 4,000, a shocking statistic. If this were any other place on Earth, women would be marching worldwide.”

#us #usa #uspol #eu #eupol #uk #ukpol #israel #Palestine #Gaza #feminism #liberals #genocide

Can the Liberals topple Victoria's government at the state election?
By Rachel Eddie

The Victorian state election is less than 100 days away. With One Nation's popularity riding high, how might the Coalition wrest power from Labor?

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-08-22/coalition-path-to-victory-victoria-state-election-2026/107063196

#Elections #StateandTerritoryElections #StateandTerritoryParliament #Liberals #ALP #OneNation #RachelEddie

Labor has made the most of its cooperation with the Coalition
By David Speers

Fights over immigration, superannuation, housing, tobacco excise and data centre rules will continue and intensify. But this was a week for cooperation.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-08-20/labor-coalition-deals-ndis-gambling-cooperation-albanese-taylor/107049472

#GovernmentandPolitics #FederalGovernment #AustralianFederalElections #FederalParliament #PoliticalParties #Liberals #CommunityandSociety #Parliament #Elections #DavidSpeers

🚨BREAKING: Trump pauses 50% tariffs against Canada.

And hints at Keystone XL being a part of the deal…

Weird how Mark Carney hasn't mentioned anything about Keystone in the deal... Is it because he's worried that his voters will turn on him?

#TRUMP #tariffs #deal #TradeDeal #cdnpoli #canada #MarkCarneyCantBeTrusted #Liberals #MarkCarney #WakeUpCanada

If China is arming Russia to fight Ukraine ... and Canada is arming Ukraine to fight Russia ... why did Carney make us strategic partners with China?

And if we're doing business with China to make them money too ... are we not, in part, also financing Russia's war against Ukraine?

#China #Russia #ukraine #cdnpoli #canada #MarkCarneyCantBeTrusted #Liberals #markcarneyisafailure #WakeUpCanada

A think tank that uses an oxymoron for its name should think again, or it will tank (I am looking at you, Das Progressive Zentrum).

#liberals #progressive #centrism #idiocracy #politics #trump

Given the choice, Centrists always side with fascists or the right. #LifeLesson You can't trust centrists. Example:
"the leader of the ailing Liberals, Simona Mohamsson, shocked her party last month by abruptly switching positions on SD, announcing that her party would accept being in government with a far-right force she had previously denounced as racist. She also held a press conference alongside Åkesson in which they hugged."
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/apr/01/swedish-pm-offers-deal-that-could-see-far-right-allowed-into-government
#liberals #Centrists #Centrism #liberalism

@booker_squared, Black Royalty, shared the text and image below.

*White progressives trying to convince Black [People] that they know what's good for us*

#blackwomen #92percent #liberals #whitepeople #movie #blackmovie #greatmovie #greathorror #blackmastodon

"Many liberals, after the double shock of Trump and Brexit in 2016, confessed their supposed mistakes and performed contrition, along the lines of: we failed to pay attention to the “left-behind”; we must book political safaris in Appalachia; we must closely study Hillbilly Elegy to demonstrate compassion for the heartland. Of course, self-criticism and checking one’s priors is a good thing. But behind the ostentatious displays of “we failed to listen” was also a profound narcissism: if only we acted (or at least talked) differently, all would be well. Only liberals, or so the assumption goes again, have agency; performing contrition reinforced that flattering image.

Even worse, this narcissism keeps shoring up the right’s claim that there is a “real America” and that only they speak for it. As any viewer of Sunday-morning shows has noticed, Republicans can malign city dwellers without anyone batting an eyelid; Obama saying something about guns and religion in rural areas triggers a multiyear scandal. It would not even occur to anyone to demand an apology from GOP members for insulting all urban dwellers. The asymmetry is taken for granted; liberals just accept it. This is what victory in a culture war looks like: Democrats accept the cultural framings enforced by the other side, even though polls would suggest that the liberals’ positions are often more popular (or, dare one say, reflect more about “real America” than the far-right fantasies pushed by Fox and its far-right friends)."

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/feb/03/anti-woke-liberals-helped-trump-win

#Liberalism #Liberals #Centrism #ReactionaryCentrism #Fascism #Woke #AntiWoke

Marginalized communities turn to gun ownership in fear of Trump’s authoritarianism

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.advocate.com/news/liberals-lgbtq-embrace-gun-ownership

[…] authoritarian liberals who, once in power, consider resorting to force because they know full well that their policies are unpopular; those same authoritarian liberals who want to form an alliance with the far right, who back down because it wants too much, and finally take a gamble on entrusting it with power…"

Johan Chapoutot wrote about Germany in 1932

#3Blocs #circleOfReason #liberals #liberalism #downgrading #order #presidentialism #constitution #government #farCentre #farCenter #Macron #Papen #vonPapen #Hindenburg #Hitler #Nazism #rise #ascension #fascism #elites #elite #history #centrism #Germany #book #Chapoutot #Mussolini #quote #quotes #centre #center #beliefs #squash #CDU #Weimar #AfD #normalisation #Thuringia #media #authoritarianLiberalism #budget #CarlSchmitt #Schmitt #stateOfEmergency

Hisham Matar: "Acrobatics […] so as not to name the crimes for what they are, but name some of them, so as to have named something"

Kate Greenberg: https://vashtimedia.com/translation-of-solidarity-amsterdam/ 🧶

#discrimination #moralBeauty #liberals #policing #respectability #Zionism #JewishState #israelism #Maccabi #TelAviv #MaccabiTelAviv #NL #Netherlands #Amsterdam #UK #silencing #PalestinianLivesMatter #fragility #warOnGaza #GazaWar #IsraelHamas #genocide #ethnicCleansing #October7 #JewishSupremacy #supremacy #VashtiMedia #Vashti #hasbara #hasbarah #grievability #racism #islamophobia #community #solidarity #conflation #confusion #antisemitism #antiZionism #politics #recycling #manipulation #coOpting #coloniality #proZionism #StandWithIsrael #lineOfColor #raceMaking

from #TheGuardian
#KamalaHarris needs to mobilise voters around class – not race
by #DustinGuastella and #BhaskarSunkara

If #liberals insist #workers should focus more on race than shared class interests, they give right wing ammo for their culture war

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/aug/01/kamala-harris-working-class-voters?CMP=share_btn_url

#IdentityPolitics #ClassPolitics
#Populism #DemocraticParty
#politics #USA #USPolitics #USElection
#media #news #press

Yo Ivan my phone has been so slow I think it's been hacked by #Voti

#Voti #Votiobjective #Votilution #Deception #RedecorateStanCover #NellySparkles #BlindManCries #AliceID #RedditDotComSlashRSlashVotiFighter #BottomSpeakerBox #Dhilly #JAJAJA #Majotori #IceOS #FireOS #Pabdani #Ivanguapo #modernscratch3 #screwYouModernScratch4 #EmmaEverittStory #ms3MoreLikeModernScratch666 #T_T #LockeGamer #BrianPhobic #Minutes #MinutesWhenHoursWalksIntoTheRoom #DaysWhenWeeksWalksIntoTheRoom #Trending #FYP #Egg #WelcomeOneAndAllToThePedophileShow #WelcomeOneAndAllToTheIntervalsShow #FeelingMischevious #Bottom #MaleDog #irs #yuabevibin #submeat #sammyWA #viberz #VanaEssentialOils #MerryChristmas #HormoneReplacementTherapy #TransgenderIssues #MtM #AdelaOS #Soundy #SoundyBot #IceOSDiscordDeletion #RSlashEggIRL #yuavibez #esperanto #DhillyGame #DhillyGame1 #DhillyGame2 #DhillyGame3 #DhillyGame4 #DhillyGame5 #DhillyGame6 #DhillyGame7 #Mikuddy #yuaIsCanned #getCanned #ATM #can #VotiHackedMe #MikuWristWorld #VotiobjectiveHacksMyAmongUsGame #Sussy #SussyDhilly #Shilly #Dhillers #DhillersSMP #SussyWussy #j #s #srs #hj #NintendoTalyn #DontCallMeMinutes #DontCallMeShilly #TheVotiFamily #libreivanDotCom #carolinaSmells #stableMoreLikeUnstable #RizzDog #GetRizzed #Solitare #SpaceHey #Twitter #ElonMusk #NoMoreRizzing #HowAboutNo #BonziBuddy #Votiterminal #NoHomo #IceOSDesktopComing2021 #HelpImStuck #PabdaniIsOverparty #Scratch #Itch #CubeOS #TriyPlus #WammySa #AddyVisuals #MinusyVisuals #mzdesigns #SubtractyVisualsBetterThanMinusyVisuals #dethroneMS3 #Tyrell #DiscordMod #LifeInTheCloset #PowerBottom #Outervals #MaleDuck #iCloudMailBookmarks #SkyLanders #Wokerab #Nizrab #Philosophy #TheBible #theRight #liberals #amen #libreivanism #PacificPunch #Original #IvanAndHisLiez #VibezClub #nuncadecepcionado #ivanzfault #noOldFriendzAllowed #SussyWa #MoneroMining #DhilltSMP #AppleGiftCards #TolunaInfluences #MinecraftBee

#Introduction #Welcome

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My dream social media platform. What do you think, what are the most interesting ideas, what other features would you like to see, how would be your perfect social media platform?

#80ForBrady is another example of peak #whiteFeminism.

Three long-time so-called #liberals working for #TomBrady (a #producer of the #movie), the #Trump supporter and #PPPLoan thief.

#LilyTomlin and #JaneFonda being in this doesn't surprise me at all, but this is the first I'm aware of #SallyField's hypocrisy. #RitaMoreno is just another light-skinned #Latin person who mistakenly thinks they're going to let her be #white.

Disgusting 🤮

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/80_for_Brady