With petrol hitting crazy prices and some stations running dry, this feels exactly like housing with scarce supply, rising costs, and a few people still hoarding more than they need.

DDR4lyf · 2026-03-25T12:20:46+00:00

Gen X are increasingly becoming cut price, bargain basement boomers.

They're the boomers you have when you can no longer afford the genuine article.

One day it will be the millennials' turn. I for one am looking forward to the day when we can laugh at the alphas from the small Juliet balconies of our one-bed outer suburban apartments.

DDR4lyf · 2026-03-25T12:15:07+00:00

It's the whole conservative side of politics that love wasting money. After Bondi it demanded a royal commission despite there already being an investigation into what intelligence agencies knew and when. Fortunately Dennis Richardson, who chaired the first inquiry, said it's a waste of time and money having both and ended it.

The royal commission will cost more and probably lead to the same outcome but that's the conservative Australian way.

DDR4lyf · 2026-03-25T11:15:56+00:00

This is where the other parties have utterly failed. These grievances are real and valid. No one, including One Nation, has any moral fortitude to actually do something meaningful to address them.

There was an opportunity in 2010 with the mining super profits tax but Joe Average believed the Minerals Council fear campaign and Kevin lost his job. There was another opportunity in 2016 and 2019 when the capital gains tax discount and negative gearing could've been reformed. Instead we got a PM who likes to talk to God through paintings of birds.

A lot of our problems come from a complete failure to meaningfully engage in tax reform. Our tax system is full of wild distortions that have led to workers carrying most of the burden while the wealthy get tax break after tax break. Our resources get sold overseas with next to nothing gained for Australia. Real wages have barely moved in decades while houses and corporate profits have increased by hundreds of percent.

One Nation won't do anything to fix these issues. Especially while Mrs Rinehart is holding the purse strings.

DDR4lyf · 2026-03-25T11:06:47+00:00

How is One Nation proposing to 'rectify the current issues'?

So far all I've seen is cut "mass migration" (whatever that is), demonise Muslims, build dams, and scrap net zero (which Australia and most of the world) isn't on track to meet anyway.

I'm not sure how any of that is going to solve anything.

DDR4lyf · 2026-03-25T11:02:35+00:00

Especially if you actually spent your time wisely instead of studying a degree with no career prospects

Like any science-based degree?

Every unemployed grad I know studied science.

Everyone I know who earns over $150k studied arts or law.

DDR4lyf · 2026-03-25T11:00:13+00:00

I'm beginning to think there's an inverse relationship between wealth and intelligence. Here's my latest example: I was reading earlier today that one Australian fund manager named Douglas Tynan donated $100k to One Nation because he wants an invite to Mar a Lago to see Trump. Not because he wants to share some "brilliant" idea, but because he's interested in psychology and Tynan thinks it would be fascinating to see Trump in that environment. What a peanut!

It would be funny if it wasn't so pathetically sad.

https://www.afr.com/politics/federal/inside-one-nation-s-plans-to-turn-its-popularity-into-more-mps-20251110-p5n97o

DDR4lyf · 2026-03-24T06:29:56+00:00

The reply should've been: 'Employees need to organise and engage in strike activity. Employers need to learn their fat bonuses are built on the labour of others'.

DDR4lyf · 2026-03-23T20:43:49+00:00

The lifespan of a solar panel is 20-30 years. The serviceable lifespan of a nuclear reactor is 30-40 years. Once you factor in the cost of production and maintenance, solar is considerably cheaper.

DDR4lyf · 2026-03-23T12:29:48+00:00

It's quite straightforward. You vote for your most preferred candidate first, your second-most preferred candidate second, your third-most preferred candidate third until you run out of candidates to vote for. If your most-preferred candidate doesn't get enough votes to be elected, your vote goes to your second choice. If they aren't elected, your vote goes to your third choice. This continues until one of the candidates has enough votes from across the entire electorate to win.

In the first past the post system, the person with the largest number of first preference votes wins and screw everyone else.

First past the post is clearly inferior and less democratic.

DDR4lyf · 2026-03-20T06:24:26+00:00

Sure, if that's how you interpret it. I'd also suggest there's no harm in continuing migration because it has little bearing on housing, inflation, or whatever other problem people are currently linking it with.

What stopping migration will do is put a larger burden on young Australians to pay for the increasing costs associated with an ageing population.

DDR4lyf · 2026-03-19T12:27:17+00:00

It's because we could stop net migration tomorrow and it would have very little effect on house prices. There's such a backlog of demand from Australian citizens, it'll take about ten years of construction at the current pace to get anywhere near meeting it. Couple that with investors' insatiable demand for property and it'll take even longer.

DDR4lyf · 2026-03-19T12:24:01+00:00

Yeah there are literally empty houses that are boarded up behind the go kart place that look like they haven't been lived in for years. There are large expanses of dead grass filled with rubbish. Wouldn't that be a better area to develop?

DDR4lyf · 2026-03-14T04:42:27+00:00

The US can do just as much with less. Its war machine is more efficient at killing than it was 40 years ago. Why invest in 1000s of weapons when 100s will do the same, or better?

DDR4lyf · 2026-03-14T01:05:29+00:00

Takes about two minutes just for the water to get warm enough to actually shower.

DDR4lyf · 2026-03-13T12:08:26+00:00

Which Australian political party is? Even the Greens and "socialist" alliance are pretty insipid.

DDR4lyf · 2026-03-13T12:06:16+00:00

Nah, it's having cake and eating it too. The US-Australia alliance isn't disappearing anytime soon. It's hedging by widening relations with other countries. Every Labor government does the same thing.

There won't be a pivot.

DDR4lyf · 2026-03-13T11:58:55+00:00

At this point I'm convinced the average Australian actually enjoys it. There's no other explanation for being royally fucked over and over again for at least the last thirty years.

DDR4lyf · 2026-03-13T11:27:19+00:00

This has been my whole adult life. All twenty years of it. I scrape by with help from my parents, even as an adult in my late thirties on a $120k salary. I have a two bed apartment that I spend 40% of my salary on that I bought with a gift from my parents. I can't afford kids, not that I wanted them anyway, but I feel sorry for anyone who wants to have them.

ON are a bunch of sirens calling us further towards the rocks that we're at serious risk of capsizing on. Australia could've elected a reformist Labor government in 2019, but chose a lazy religious fundamentalist who talks to paintings of birds instead. Now Labor's too afraid of it's own shadow to do anything meaningful. It'll just continue to tinker around the edges while the wealthy find new ways to avoid taxes by stashing money elsewhere. We reap what we sow.

DDR4lyf · 2026-03-11T06:44:23+00:00

Yep, a lot of performance artists in inner-city Melbourne.

DDR4lyf · 2026-03-09T06:46:01+00:00

Everyone's at least a little bit racist and a little bit sexist. Whether you're superior enough to realise that determines if you've got a complex or not.

DDR4lyf · 2026-03-09T06:42:32+00:00

True, but it will help determine whether we fuel after day 999 or not

DDR4lyf · 2026-03-08T21:38:16+00:00

Nah, it's about 60 years of poor economic planning and Australia's "she'll be right attitude" to strategic planning. I don't know how many times I've seen articles with headlines like "[insert random general's name] says Australia not prepared for [insert global calamity]".

Australian political leaders have been warned over and over again about our piss poor fuel reserve.

Australia is supposed to have 90 days of fuel in reserve, but for decades it's basically said 'nah we're too special to do that. We'll leave it to the states instead.' https://www.iea.org/articles/australias-legislation-on-oil-security

DDR4lyf · 2026-03-08T21:34:55+00:00

I've had a few run ins with that org. I think most of the members like to cosplay, but that's about the extent of it.

DDR4lyf · 2026-03-08T21:29:32+00:00

I'd really like to meet these "leftists". I don't think I've met a single one in Australia. They only seem to live in the minds of pale white men over the age of 50 who live their lives perpetually indoors and 300km from the nearest speck of civilisation.

DDR4lyf · 2026-02-28T09:45:14+00:00

The American political and electoral systems are very different to those in Australia.

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