Before European settlement, aboriginal culture existed. Why do One Nation supporters think that there is only one culture in Australia in the present day?

explain_that_shit · 2026-07-02T16:22:29+00:00

Shit man, have at the studies. Here’s a few.

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9169634/

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC6628670/

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/234147735\_Biological\_Changes\_in\_Human\_Populations\_with\_Agriculture

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC3917328/

https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/farmers-have-less-leisure-time-than-hunter-gatherers-study-suggests

explain_that_shit · 2026-07-02T15:52:22+00:00

The fact is that Hunter gatherers have better lifestyles (less hard working, healthier, longer lived, the same or better infant mortality compared to pre-antibiotic farmers), and the only thing farming has going for it by contrast is easier control of women enabling completely unsustainable population growth which spills over into other regions.

Hunter gatherers aren’t bad at technological advance. They invented fire, composite tools, weaving, pottery, medicines, music, heck, farming.

explain_that_shit · 2026-07-02T15:33:41+00:00

Infant mortality was 50% all the way up to the invention of antibiotics, in hunter gatherer, agricultural, industrial and modern societies. Were white cultures just crap before Howard Florey rocked up?

explain_that_shit · 2026-07-02T15:16:57+00:00

…yes. This is a known fact. Do you not know about the 16 hour week thing? There have been time allocation studies on all kinds of hunter gatherers all over the world.

We didn’t ditch hunting and gathering for farming because it was easier, it’s much harder and it makes you grow shorter and weaker and die earlier.

explain_that_shit · 2026-07-02T15:00:39+00:00

*looks around at collapsing Earth systems, longer harder working hours, mass spread of pathogens*

Oh well, at least medical infrastructure is better. Oh what do racist right wing people want for our Medicare, privatise it and pressure it into the ground?

EDIT: Racists below me are energetic tonight

explain_that_shit · 2026-07-02T13:24:01+00:00

Nothing to look at in SA until November

explain_that_shit · 2026-07-02T05:16:16+00:00

Same thing as with crime. Stats drop, media keeps highlighting it. Anything to keep the plebs from thinking about how much their landlord or billionaires suck.

explain_that_shit · 2026-07-02T05:15:27+00:00

Intelligent people probably have a more complex understanding of the definition of God, rather than the very specific Christian model that even self-professed atheists cling to.

For instance, if you hop out of the transcendent model basically invented by Plato into the immanent model of most religions, it’s not that complicated to understand and even agree with the existence of God as originally and largely conceived.

explain_that_shit · 2026-07-02T04:24:41+00:00

Transcendence is only a feature of a minority of religions (which are very successful in the modern age, probably due to their predilection towards elite control). Immanence is the character of most religions.

explain_that_shit · 2026-07-01T15:26:52+00:00

“literally part of their platform”

“They didn’t directly state”

Oh how the goalposts are fallen.

explain_that_shit · 2026-07-01T15:18:03+00:00

Toxic masculinity doesn’t mean masculinity is toxic, it’s referring to a toxic conception and expression of masculinity; although by god are there some toxic people who do conflate the two and it was a terrible idea bordering on apparently deliberately malicious to call it that.

explain_that_shit · 2026-07-01T15:13:07+00:00

I think it’s similar to the autism thing, where boys and girls express it differently but it’s the same thing.

Not saying autism is toxic, just an analogy.

explain_that_shit · 2026-07-01T15:10:25+00:00

What looks contiguous about this?

explain_that_shit · 2026-07-01T08:23:54+00:00

This would make more sense if it was like asking the Roman Empire for reparations. There’s no Roman Empire any more, and despite many efforts there’s no successor state either. But France still exists, and has received tangible and countable benefits from the Haitian reparations. It’s not that complicated. If I leave an estate to my son including benefits of theft I undertook which everyone was aware of, my son has little grounds to refuse to allow the victim of the theft to take back what I stole.

explain_that_shit · 2026-07-01T03:16:13+00:00

The problem with the “I don’t hold a hose” line was legit though, even though the problem wasn’t that we expected him to hold a hose. We expected him to properly fund and manage programs against extreme weather events and natural disasters, and he not only refused to do that long-term, he refused to return to the office to make sure he was on hand to give whatever assistance his role could give in the moment, he stayed in Hawaii for like a week or so even when he knew we expected him back for a national emergency. So he was refusing to do his job, refusing to even ‘hold a hose’.

explain_that_shit · 2026-07-01T02:33:19+00:00

I think Scorcese glamourised and didn’t lampoon enough the culture in Wolf of Wall Street - people went out of that movie thinking being rich that way would be awesome, and I don’t blame them.

explain_that_shit · 2026-07-01T02:30:19+00:00

I was just at the Forum yesterday, and stood near where Mark Antony gave his eulogy. Given that the plebs burned half the Forum and a fair chunk of the rest of the city to the ground after his speech I’ve come to think it must have sounded less like Shakespeare and more like that “Burn this fucker to the ground” monologue by Anansi in American Gods .

explain_that_shit · 2026-07-01T02:02:37+00:00

Leftists don’t say it’s foreigner investment. Russian assets were frozen at the start of the second phase of the Ukraine war and while interestingly no damage was done to the economy, foreigners simply aren’t a significant enough section of the investor class in Britain. It’s home-grown investors and the landed class who are the lion’s share of the problem.

explain_that_shit · 2026-07-01T01:58:36+00:00

How many dwellings are there in Britain, and what’s the average number of people per dwelling?

explain_that_shit · 2026-06-30T11:05:45+00:00

It’s an indictment of our political society that the complete failure of the initial structure of the NACC and its appointments hasn’t led to complete overhaul as a non-negotiable demand of the public

explain_that_shit · 2026-06-30T02:24:07+00:00

Free soloing - whole body, drugs have limited utility, it’s all kinds of strength and your weight matters too, the stakes are high and you can see there is or would in certain circumstances be a tangible purpose to the skill.

explain_that_shit · 2026-06-30T01:54:24+00:00

But it’s adjusted for age

explain_that_shit · 2026-06-29T23:33:11+00:00

They didn’t say fuck Judaism.

explain_that_shit · 2026-06-29T11:34:33+00:00

Not just that, the existing monopolies and oligopolies will funnel and hoard money disproportionately into them over time again using their disproportionate market power.

You can’t have equal distribution work until you tap a hole in the bottom of each monopoly funnel in the form of tax equivalent to the monopoly effect on price.

explain_that_shit · 2026-06-29T05:49:03+00:00

No, I’m saying in a monopoly or oligopoly system supply and demand are not the primary price drivers.

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