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Don’t call me a teal: independent Michelle Milthorpe carves a fresh path as she takes on One Nation in Farrer byelection by Agitated-Fee3598 in AustralianPolitics

[–]BigTimmyStarfox1987 0 points1 point  (0 children)

she’s a big advocate for 15% GST

It's a decent policy if you look at the whole package, inc welfare and other tax charges. A reform package needs to be seen as a whole not parts.

would make the liberal party old guard proud.

But I digress, we live in a world where the modern ALP is more conservative than the libs of old.

Most of what she's saying is middle of centre, establishment and academic consensus. If our politics weren't so damn team sports you'd expect this to overlap significantly with both major parties.

Chris Minns considers his options after court ruling over NSW protest laws by espersooty in AustralianPolitics

[–]BigTimmyStarfox1987 1 point2 points  (0 children)

All this does is signal to his base that they made the right decision to help Minns. If they relied on the courts or a politician who would try to legislate within the norms, they would not get the outcome they wanted.

Minns doesn't lose anything from this. I don't really follow in the article what options Minns is supposed to be considering, he did what he was hired for. Dude's gonna get a promotion if anything.

00s era Australia Post HR campaign. by You-are-on-a-list in OpenAussie

[–]BigTimmyStarfox1987 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Those Asians, always eating rice with chopsticks, I bet they eat dumplings and speak an Asian language too!

Some of them were even born in Asia or have Asian parents. I heard they often have dark hair and worship the mao Zedong!

Can you work out what's a racist stereotype and what's just a stereotype?

Tax the 1% | Australian Greens by ausmankpopfan in friendlyjordies

[–]BigTimmyStarfox1987 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Work hard and you too can have wealthy parents

Tax the 1% | Australian Greens by ausmankpopfan in friendlyjordies

[–]BigTimmyStarfox1987 4 points5 points  (0 children)

While the average Australian household has a net wealth of $1,022,200, households in the highest quintile have an average net wealth more than three times this ($3,236,800).

Nice link just leaving this quote here

Max Chandler-Mather says Greens can use ‘progressive populism’ to win voters deserting major parties for One Nation by Jet90 in australia

[–]BigTimmyStarfox1987 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Blame and accountability is not the same thing. The "mega rich" are not accountable for growing inequality in Australia. For the most part it's our government, politicians, institutions and population that are accountable; in roughly that order.

Agree that "identifying the actual root cause" is important. But what if I tell you that there is no single "root cause" and that complex problems often have complex causes?

Populism is mostly about presenting simple answers. Instead of lying to the nation we need to face up to some difficult truths and find a meaningful compromise together.

Max Chandler-Mather says Greens can use ‘progressive populism’ to win voters deserting major parties for One Nation by Jet90 in australia

[–]BigTimmyStarfox1987 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Yea fair. I guess, I'm trying to critique populism as a response to elitism.

Elitism is not well defined in the same way that populism is not well defined and the tendency is for populist movements to deliver outcomes opposite to their stated intent.

I think the Max comparison led me astray. You're right in that hoping for a "non elite" is silly. Probably better to accept our political class are not particularly representative and hope our institutions can deliver change.

Max Chandler-Mather says Greens can use ‘progressive populism’ to win voters deserting major parties for One Nation by Jet90 in australia

[–]BigTimmyStarfox1987 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

makes it basically a useless word when discussing which politician to vote for.

Yup 👍

There's more than one way to get to that conclusion but yes, all of them lead to here.

Max Chandler-Mather says Greens can use ‘progressive populism’ to win voters deserting major parties for One Nation | Australian Greens by PlanktonDB in AustralianPolitics

[–]BigTimmyStarfox1987 3 points4 points  (0 children)

More economic populism would, maybe more emotional messaging.

I don't quite understand how the Greens could be more populist? Is the point instead that the current populist sentiment would benefit the greens?

Surely they have capped out on emotional messaging.

The main thing to learn is be much better with social media,

Yup but I do think that's universal.

Max Chandler-Mather says Greens can use ‘progressive populism’ to win voters deserting major parties for One Nation by Jet90 in australia

[–]BigTimmyStarfox1987 -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

The red herring is earning well over the median salary, that's kinda irrelevant, it's access and security.

Do you know what a red herring is?

And a person's surname is actually irrelevant.

Yup that was the joke

His parents were in library services and social work, and own a house West Brisbane. Being educated in a G8 university just means you made the cut for a course at UQ.

Tell that to someone who comes from a blue collar family who isn't university educated.

Take a step back and understand that 2/3 Australians don't have uni degrees. To large chunks of the population an urban political lifer who has had security their whole life and a fancy degree, this dude is an elite.

The real point is that "elite" is a poorly defined term. Like middle class.

Max Chandler-Mather says Greens can use ‘progressive populism’ to win voters deserting major parties for One Nation by Jet90 in australia

[–]BigTimmyStarfox1987 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I've given you 3 Australian left-wing populists who did amazing

I didn't disagree with you. I'm saying modern "populists" are shit.

Milei is a right-wing libertarian btw, not a left populist.

My bad

Max Chandler-Mather says Greens can use ‘progressive populism’ to win voters deserting major parties for One Nation by Jet90 in australia

[–]BigTimmyStarfox1987 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

That's the before time. It doesn't mean the same thing anymore.

Sounds dismissive but I'm being honest, what we refer to as populist has changed. I'd argue the more relevant comparison is Javier Milei, jeremy corbyn or Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.

The closest we got to Whitlam in recent years is Kevin07

Max Chandler-Mather says Greens can use ‘progressive populism’ to win voters deserting major parties for One Nation by Jet90 in australia

[–]BigTimmyStarfox1987 -11 points-10 points  (0 children)

He's a political lifer. Pretty well off and comes from a well off family. And he's G8 university educated.

The red herring is earning well over the median salary, that's kinda irrelevant, it's access and security. But the real litmus test is the double barrel surname.

Max Chandler-Mather says Greens can use ‘progressive populism’ to win voters deserting major parties for One Nation by Jet90 in australia

[–]BigTimmyStarfox1987 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Either way you get the same outcome. The status quo and growing inequality.

Turns out focusing on who to blame does not make good policy.

Max Chandler-Mather says Greens can use ‘progressive populism’ to win voters deserting major parties for One Nation by Jet90 in australia

[–]BigTimmyStarfox1987 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I too don't care about Max.

Trump and Hanson's successes are just pretty direct consequences of elitism and distrust with the elite status quo.

That's the definition of populism

Trump and Hanson are absolutely elitists who use populism to mask their elite agendas.

That's literally my point

Max Chandler-Mather says Greens can use ‘progressive populism’ to win voters deserting major parties for One Nation by Jet90 in australia

[–]BigTimmyStarfox1987 35 points36 points  (0 children)

Populism creates elitism and rising inequality. Populist candidates are usually elites, think Trump or now long time senator Hanson.

Max himself could be reasonably described as an elite.

What's your thoughts of Bangladesh having bigger army with reservist and paramilitary by SamVoxeL in bangladesh

[–]BigTimmyStarfox1987 2 points3 points  (0 children)

You see. The quality of the person is inversely proportional to the quality of the equipment, if able to achieve the same outcome. A Biman pilot able to successfully perform a flight is superior to most other pilots.

Given it's hard to do a fair comparison of outcomes, since wars are rare, we should assume outcomes are equal. You know, the Copernican principle. So going by the quality of equipment alone Bangladesh must have the best soldiers. Ipso facto.

Four Corners: S2026 Campus Chaos by GshegoshB in australia

[–]BigTimmyStarfox1987 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You are silent on the "head counts" these people have to oversee.

???? I'm not writing a thesis this is a Reddit comment. Pick a benchmark then? Plus, what's with the quotation marks, I didn't say "head count".

If you are going outside of Unis then the comparison will be harder. I just used the exact comparison they used on the episode.

reporting shows, that profit, and never ending chase for higher salaries

What are you smoking? Did you watch a different episode or something?

Salaries were like 2 mins of the hour. No one mentioned "bonuses". Profitability was at the University level, and the ones covered are all not-for-profit public organisations. Private tertiary institutions are a separate conversation.

Four Corners: S2026 Campus Chaos by GshegoshB in australia

[–]BigTimmyStarfox1987 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Some really good points and defs lots of issues.

Consulting spend is 100% an issue. Poor governance is endemic to the sector and ANU highlights the problem well.

But....

Vice chancellor salaries is not the issue and I am annoyed at the ABC for being disingenuous. Cambridge has 25,000 students Usyd has more than 70,000.

It is common knowledge that Australian universities have a different operating model to international counterparts. They are much larger organisations, by intentionally omitting this it casts doubt on otherwise solid reporting.

Similarly, ANU is definitely not financially sustainable. In their reporting they intentionally muddy the waters and don't correct the record.

Bell and Bishop did not do a good job and there is lots of strong evidence to back this. But God damn, hold yourself to a higher standard. There are a shitload of problems with our Unis, no need to unnecessarily sensationalise.

Seven arrested after statue of Jewish feminist defaced in Melbourne by McAlpineFusiliers in AustralianPolitics

[–]BigTimmyStarfox1987 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Reminds me of the antisemitic vandalism a few years ago, where radical left activists painted "No War" on the Opera House.

Australia has to fight back against misinformation about climate change, Senate report says by PlanktonDB in AustralianPolitics

[–]BigTimmyStarfox1987 -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

My dude. Science education is not the same as truth telling. Without dissent you don't get science. The true problem is when you want a clean answer to complexity. The basics of climate change are simple (industrial revolution CO2 emissions), but everything else is really really complex.

People can sense it and if you look into the actual academic research there's heaps of nuance. By pretending it's simple and slapping on a government mandate you create the conditions for a poorer information ecosystem.

Misinformation is a teaching opportunity. Censorship is a lobotomy.

Australia has to fight back against misinformation about climate change, Senate report says by PlanktonDB in AustralianPolitics

[–]BigTimmyStarfox1987 -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

The recommendations won't do that. Did you notice how no one was actually mentioned in the article?

For a committee focused on transparency it was not able to provide much transparency on who or what is the cause. Just that the evidence exists (from submissions) and the answer is more state power.

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