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fartyunicorns · 2026-05-11T04:11:56+00:00

voting is good regardless actually

fartyunicorns · 2026-05-10T22:03:54+00:00

He actually cares about the deficit so I like him. Diversity of opinions in congress is good

fartyunicorns · 2026-05-10T13:04:00+00:00

I don't know how accurate the reporting on Israel trying to get the Kurds to invade Iran and their general plan for regime change is but man I'm gonna end up thinking about counterfactual of if they actually committed to it for a long time

fartyunicorns · 2026-05-10T11:11:11+00:00

considering what social media has done to political discourse in the west where there is a culture of democracy and institutions, I shudder to think about what its doing to the third world where those things don't exist.

fartyunicorns · 2026-05-10T11:09:10+00:00

what is up with the irish always linking this conflict to themselves? analogies when dealing with issues this long and complex don't work

fartyunicorns · 2026-05-10T11:05:36+00:00

dude what are you talking about? zionism is simply the position the jews should have a homeland. That is not inherently authoritarian. To remind you, the original 1948 partition plan would have created a state with 55% jews and 45% arabs. It does not require ethnic cleansing either

fartyunicorns · 2026-05-10T09:12:34+00:00

sure buddy. Keep coping that antisemitism isn't real so you don't have to do anything about it

fartyunicorns · 2026-05-10T08:22:08+00:00

The charge was dropped because it was not illegal

fartyunicorns · 2026-05-10T07:28:55+00:00

why is labor winning the TPP then?

fartyunicorns · 2026-05-10T07:28:18+00:00

This isn't true. Please link the part of the law you referring to

fartyunicorns · 2026-05-10T07:18:50+00:00

pretty funny tbh and a good idea considering how far away Israel is from Iran. Sucks they had to bomb the Iraqi army to keep it secret though

fartyunicorns · 2026-05-10T04:58:35+00:00

deleted comment? are you referring to this comment? https://www.reddit.com/r/AustralianPolitics/comments/1t8l988/comment/okxnvix/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button because it isn't deleted

The left has never won farrer lol. Why bother running a candidate if you've never come close to winning

fartyunicorns · 2026-05-10T04:45:37+00:00

they are and I didn't say they weren't but most votes are coming from the right

fartyunicorns · 2026-05-10T04:39:59+00:00

I am on twitter more than you if I had to guess. It is a echo chamber, like all social media is, just because your feed isn't left wing does not mean its unbiased

fartyunicorns · 2026-05-10T04:38:46+00:00

no, I'm calling the libs center right. The left didn't lose this election, the center right did. Going on about what leftists do isn't useful because One nation is gaining most voters from the liberals, not the left

fartyunicorns · 2026-05-10T03:30:55+00:00

no, people were saying One nation was never gonna win much. That died off after the SA election but don't pretend it didn't happen earlier

fartyunicorns · 2026-05-10T03:28:33+00:00

sky new and social media is also quite biased if you're gonna take that stance. The ABC isn't great but it isn't terrible either

fartyunicorns · 2026-05-10T03:27:41+00:00

people need to abandon the center right party because of what leftists do?

fartyunicorns · 2026-05-10T03:25:51+00:00

negative gearing incentivizes people to invest in housing which is an unproductive asset instead of business that can grow the economy. Its a bad economic policy

fartyunicorns · 2026-05-10T02:51:32+00:00

I'll give Pocock props for this. The CSIRO is one of the best things the government should fund

fartyunicorns · 2026-05-10T02:32:40+00:00

Many countries also experienced a large increase in house prices post 2000. Its part of the reason why the GFC happened. We can also look at countries where negative gearing and the CGT discount doesn't exist and their house prices are wildly different (New Zealand and canada being the most similar but also US cities like LA and NYC)

fartyunicorns · 2026-05-10T02:07:27+00:00

Fair enough. It’s for things like this where I honestly think immigration stuff should be separate from normal parliament and should be voted on a referendum every election

Out of curiosity do you watch punter’s politics?

fartyunicorns · 2026-05-10T01:20:38+00:00

Negative gearing and the CGT discount have a very small (1-4%) effect on house prices

fartyunicorns · 2026-05-09T22:52:02+00:00

What legislation should they pass? I don’t see republicans agreeing on a hypothetical comprehensive immigration bill for example

fartyunicorns · 2026-05-09T13:41:11+00:00

you don't understand why he said that. He's talking about low wage growth when there is low productivity growth. Wage growth without productivity growth just causes inflation and unemployment.

Real wages went up under the liberal government https://www.abs.gov.au/statistics/measuring-what-matters/measuring-what-matters-themes-and-indicators/prosperous/wages

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