rainynight65 @ rainynight65 @feddit.de

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The entities mentioned in this article are TMR and QPS, and neither of them are privately operated.

Knuth said his constituents are “ropeable” about two issues: juvenile crime and speeding fines.

I get that the Katters have youth crime as one of the biggest topics they run on (I also suspect they don't have any sustainable plans to address it). But how much youth crime can there possibly be in a podunk town of 811 people? Don't conflate two distinct topics to score political points.

That’s essentially what I said in my initial comment, nothing else.

No, that's what you wish you'd said. Your interpretation of your own words is as crooked as that of this meme.

Now go waste someone else's time, I'm done with you.

But then you felt the need to go right back to calling it baseless and unintelligent

That was a factual statement, not an insult. But hey, if the shoe fits...

You already admitted that what I said was true

That is provably false. I have done no such thing. Take your gaslighting elsewhere.

If you aren’t upset, why spend all this time and effort trying to make me regret what I said instead of simply proving me wrong?

I have explained where you're wrong, to the point that you thanked me for it in your previous post. But you still insist on being right. I can't help you with that, and am not going to either.

Other people have at least managed to point out that they found it inappropriate

And yet you've replied to them in the same vein as you have to me: whining that you're right but being insulted.

Yet here you are still heaping abuse over my head and trying to convince me you’re not upset.

If you'd care to point out which part of my response was 'heaping abuse over your head', then maybe we'd get somewhere. Then again, ask me how much I care. On second thought, don't. You'd just whine about the reply.

Sorry, but I’m not buying it.

Wasn't selling anything. Go in peace, but go.

You're not digging yourself out of that hole out of your own making.

And no, I'm not upset about anything you said. Truth has nothing to do with it. What you said was nonsensical, baseless, and not very intelligent. B most people's standards, you're trolling. I've long gotten over being upset by trolls.

Raising interest rates has not proved effective in curbing inflation so far. Why keep using a clearly ineffective, blunt tool that appears to be causing more harm than good?

Was going to say, the PC Gamer bit is bad enough, but how do you write a rebuttal without mentioning two of the arguably most accomplished influential women in gaming, namely Roberta Williams and Jane Jensen?

Cattle, and the things you describe, are the result of human intervention...

Women fought for equal rights - for being allowed to do the same things men were, without restriction. Have careers, live their own lives, be equal before the law, not be relegated to the role of housewife/childbearer by default and without being given a choice.

This meme is not about that. It's not even about women. It just happens to have a woman in the photo. This meme is about big businesses routinely and with impunity exploiting their workers. Nobody ever fought for the right to be exploited. Of course, I don't expect someone with a user name like PepeLivesMatter to understand that kind of nuance.

Are you telling me they were able to measure those things, but not the boiling and freezing point of water?

Sure, let me just whip up that ammonium chloride mixture and travel somewhere where I can get it close to freezing so I can know the zero reference of that scale. What, did the just carry that NH₄Cl around for convenience?

Fahrenheit was proposed in 1724, Celsius dates back to 1742, so there wasn't that much time between the two.

If it's a pissing contest you want, find someone else to indulge you.

Could you point out where in this thread I even mentioned communism, never mind stated that I believed it was viable?

Well, yes, here in Australia it's the Liberals and Nationals, but also people like Pauline Hanson and Clive Palmer. Especially Palmer, who has been using massive amounts of money on ad campaigns to distort debates and deceive the public.

But it's not just in Australia, and this is going back decades now. You could say it started with Reagan and Thatcher. Reagan was very open about his distrust in government, and used his presidency to hollow it out and turn the country towards neoliberalism. Thatcher's brutal austerity can be said to have set the country on the path that eventually culminated in the Brexit shitshow. Here in Australia the downward spiral arguably started with John Howard. In Germany, some of the decisions made through the reunification process caused an inequality between East and West that is still present today.

But it's not just politicians. Everywhere in the world there are wealthy businessmen who use their wealth to influence politics. I'd have to spend the next hour typing if I wanted to give you a reasonably exhaustive list. Then the fall of the Eastern Bloc and the 2001 attacks accelerated the process. There are businesspeople who are very apt at profiting from crises, and some of them made an absolute killing from 9/11. Every major crisis in at least the last 50 years, from 9/11 through to Covid, has been an exercise in upwards wealth redistribution.

If only you could just as easily demonstrate where exactly the person you responded to seems to think communism is the 'light on the hill'...

That wasn't the claim OP made.

I'm not sure anybody should be surprised at this. Certain political forces have spent the last fifty years systematically dividing society, instrumentalising fear, going all in on disinformation, and weaponising division, all for the purpose of acquiring power and wealth. They control a large portion of the media, big business, and an extraordinarily large amount of wealth. They've undermined government, hollowed out public services, and driven wedges into any societal issue they didn't like. Thanks to them, we have rising inequality. Thanks to them, we came out of Covid with no improvements whatsoever to the health system and our ability to handle a pandemic. Thanks to them, we have a housing affordability crisis. Thanks to them, issues like the same-sex marriage debate and the voice debate turned into the hateful, divisive shitshows they were.

And they will keep doing all those things, again and again, while pointing the finger and blaming others for the shit they cause.

I'm having a hard time figuring out whether this guy is a fucking moron or a fucking idiot.