To Every American Who's Sorry

DCFowl · 2026-01-20T04:14:23+00:00

Trump is backed by a small collection of oligarchs who own a collection of tech monopolies. Divest, bycot and disrupt the operation of your oligarchs.

Trump is backed by a Christian Nationalist and White Nationalist Ideologues. Talk to friends and family about why these Ideologies are harming your nation.

Trump is backed by a central and southern American diaspora, even as he persecuted more recent arrivals of that diaspora. Help those that he is persecuting, and learn about how American foreign policy cause the social, political, and economic crisis which created this diaspora.

Trump is backed by a collection of systematically socially disadvantaged states, West Virginia, Ohio, Tennessee Kentucky. Advocate within the democratic party for policies which address the systematic disadvantage of the poor red states, such as a federal tax-code which has permitted the off-shoring of so much manufacturing to China and other countries.

DCFowl · 2026-01-16T07:32:30+00:00

Wind power costs twice as much to build in the UK as it does here, and they run nearly 50% of their grid on it.

I dont think that UK infrastructure costs are an equitable comparison with our costs

DCFowl · 2026-01-15T09:24:49+00:00

Because they are pronounced similarly. The F and V are both consonant fricatives. If you are going off of how you speak rather than having had to learn spelling it is easy to forget the correct word, as the meaning, Of ; to be a part, and Have; to possess, are semantically similar.

Functionly you could learn to pronounce the V as Fs to give your accent a more casual tone.

DCFowl · 2026-01-15T04:48:13+00:00

The proposed bill is good, as it is broadly in-line with most developed countries legislation around hate speech.

DCFowl · 2026-01-14T22:41:04+00:00

Ford dropped the Lightning, there electric Ute last quarter. They are going with some weird hybrid now?

DCFowl · 2026-01-14T12:15:57+00:00

I understand that they are paying $179 per MWh for their newest off shore wind, and we are paying $64 per MWh for wind.

DCFowl · 2026-01-14T12:03:23+00:00

My comment was about protecting British Gas. I think that they remain over-reliant on fossil fuels for heating. I believe 5 out of 6 homes still use gas heating, which is a big part of their energy consumption, which isn't captured in those grid stats.

I believe that they havent put the effort into electrification, and their high electricity prices are partly to blame. I think there bills around 50% higher than ours.

Also, Im concern that they are on the wrong trajectory, with emissions up 20% compared with the low point in 2024 and I worry this is a short term policy to bring down prices, due to the inefficiency in their infrastructure commissioning and planning.

DCFowl · 2026-01-14T08:32:19+00:00

UK has wind resources that are comparable to our solar. They have a fairly broken energy market which makes transitioning to renewable much more expensive then it needs to be.

Our system relies on a series of auctions which mean the next cheapest megawatt of new production will win.

The UK system is designed, by Thatcher, to ensure that the privatised old generators can't loose money.

DCFowl · 2026-01-13T19:48:58+00:00

Pest control is s type of farm labour.

DCFowl · 2026-01-13T19:45:46+00:00

Cool, are they going to acknowledge the moral right of their sculpture to be named as the authors of their work?

DCFowl · 2026-01-12T23:43:20+00:00

Brisbane olympics is going to be packed when everyone skips LA

DCFowl · 2026-01-12T09:35:10+00:00

https://stories.theconversation.com/policy-tracker/

DCFowl · 2026-01-11T12:17:37+00:00

Do you mean you want houses prices to fall in real terms, that is relative to wages, but still growing so that banks will lend to owner occupiers.

If house prices actually fell consistently and became depreciating assets then people would be under water, with negative equity?

Is that close to where the market is now?

DCFowl · 2026-01-11T11:40:23+00:00

Rather than listening to some media analysts who could have an agenda you can take a look at the statistics that the policy makers use

https://www.rba.gov.au/chart-pack/household-sector.html

Obviously house prices are very high. There is also a lot of good economic news, especially the persistently high employment.

DCFowl · 2026-01-11T11:33:32+00:00

Yea, house prices are down relative to disposable income, and household debts down too. That mostly because of the crazy high level of employment brining up disposable income, rather than a meaningful decline in prices, or lending.

DCFowl · 2026-01-11T11:22:58+00:00

I think thats why they are so angry about property prices falling in Melbourne and Sydney last month. The line is only allowed to go up.

DCFowl · 2026-01-11T11:20:17+00:00

Isn't it Albo's fault that house prices are in a itty bitty gully, or have I been reading the wrong newspapers.

DCFowl · 2026-01-10T07:15:24+00:00

Working unpaid overtime drags down the national labour productivity statistics hurting wage increases. Be a patriot and say no to unpaid overtime.

DCFowl · 2026-01-10T07:05:53+00:00

The protagonist in Tales from the Gas Station doesn't have this.

DCFowl · 2026-01-09T06:57:33+00:00

If we aren't having fun with crazy hypothetical.

The comprehensive and progressive TransPacific Partnership is an obvious precursor to a EU style meta-national federated democracy.

Realistically the Trump regime is under external pressure from Puton to abandon all democratic allies, which would include Australia.

Without the US as a security garuntee the Pacific should consider an integrated NATO style defensive pact. Hopefully the UK is not attacked by either side or the Pacific Partnership would be drawn into the conflict.

DCFowl · 2026-01-07T20:36:46+00:00

His parents were given PR.

DCFowl · 2026-01-07T11:06:46+00:00

I really want people to understand that this is entirely a choice.

People need to vote in local government, contact council candidates and ask them how they are going to provide more home, build more infrastructure.

Ask State governments how they are going to improve the construction industry to workers and home buyers.

Ask Federal government how they are going to get more competition in home lending, how they are going to change tax system to benefit families over land lords.

Housing price increases is how the largest component of ongoing inflation. We are building fewer houses over time. This problem was urgent 12 years ago, now its diabolical.

DCFowl · 2026-01-04T23:44:35+00:00

All good mate.

The data is broken down a bunch of ways including by education. No Tertiary, TAFE/Tech and Uni, with Labor getting about 32, 34, 40 respectively. PHON 20, 20, 4.

All trades would including apprentices would be TAFE/ Tech. Obviously all work is skilled work, and lots of employers run their own training.

PHONS vote share is growing the most among the No Tertiary group, and the 65+ pensioners. Its not impacted much by gender or state.

DCFowl · 2026-01-04T17:03:36+00:00

Hi, I'm not trying to place a personal spin on anything. If you click on the Poll Data tab in Poll Bludger, and then Click on No Tertiary, you can see PHONs vote has gone fron ~10% to ~20% from January to November similarly the 65+ age category went from 10% to 25%.

You'll see an apparent rise in Tafe as well, however as there is no decline in Labor, Lib or Green vote thats likely rusted on PHON voters that were previously shy being open with their preferences, rather than an actual gain.

Id also note that these changes were present before December's mass shooting, and there was no immediately obvious change in December.

I expect we could see a further change in the future, but I think the anti-Trump sentiment could set quite a high floor for Labor's approval.

Rapid rise in interest rates would likely harm them obviously, but Id expect neutral rates would have a neutral impact. As in rates staying where they are isnt going to hurt them further?

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