Australian Politics -- hold my slabs

[FuriousGeorge]

You said more in 193 words than the entire current LNP policy.

[Heffsgirl]

So I heard wind farms don’t work at night

[Henry_s_Angry_Pills]

The French peasants of approx 1789 had the right idea of what to do when a greedy aristocracy runs a whole society into the ground.

Murdoch, Gautam Adani, Bezos, a couple of Waltons, Putin, and anyone other bastard worth over $1B.

Line them up.

[Henry_s_Angry_Pills]

Solar panels don’t work when it’s not windy.

[Benny40]

I’m not advocating violence, but the wealth disparity is becoming comedically absurd. Something will break.

I think Trumpism was an outlet for that frustration. A misdirected outlet, a con job that made the problem worse, but a sign all the same that people want to tear it all down.

[Henry_s_Angry_Pills]

It’ll end up in violence and tears, whether we like it or not.

At some point the average punter will realise that catastrophic global warming is not a good thing.
And the interests behind the worst of these atrocities will move all the money to the seychelles, but the frustration isn’t going to go. The opportunists will then strike to feed on that frustration - lots of political capital in that frustration.

The next Trump will be much more organised.

[handypoint]

@bigallan

For Sydney, the Crown issue was the grant of a licence
For Melbourne, Crown is one of the largest employers, a revenue source. It is on two years notice, with the Administrator having veto powers, other conditions . I haven’t read through the report, but understand 9 of the recommendations will be almost immediately implemented.
One of the best things that could happen would be to ban helicopter transfers of high rollers and bring back some peace to the Yarra.
Now, the current sole Sydney Casino licence holder, Star , is under the pump…
Let’s see what emerges with Star and from the WA RC into Crown…

I don’t doubt that they want the casinos still running. $$$$

But the crime that’s brought them under the spotlight is criminals cleaning cash money.

Would seem a no brainer to me, ban cash.(of course that’s not straight forward, a casino chip becomes just like that when purchased, but technology can be put in place to make it workable)

Of course casinos want anonymous money. Because they aren’t clean.

Without criminal activity they might struggle, although plenty of money in a casino isn’t dirty. I’d say they could still turn a profit.

[Albert_Thurgood]

@Benny40

I’m not advocating violence, but the wealth disparity is becoming comedically absurd. Something will break.

I read an interesting take on this recently. Tyrannies historically have been preceded by the collapse of the middle class. The US middle class has been hammered since Reagan and is scarily close to a Trumpish tyranny; all the Republicans need is to continue their policy of replacing responsible officials by the grifters and ratbags that they have in abundance and will do whatever they are told to do by Trump or Bannon or whoever else they come up with. The Jan 6 effort didn’t work because it had the zealots trying to take over the system from the outside. They will now be working to having the zealots take over the system from the inside.

[Henry_s_Angry_Pills]

Give the republicans one thing, they’ve been admirably persistent working on jerry rigging their “system” for a good 30 years. Their electoral and legal system is so Byzantine,with all sorts of modes of recourse and challenge it’ll never get undone.

[simmo41]

@Benny40

I’m not advocating violence, but the wealth disparity is becoming comedically absurd. Something will break.

i’ll advocate it

[Alan_Noonan_10]

I’ll start making the list.

[simmo41]

@Henry_s_Angry_Pills

The French peasants of approx 1789 had the right idea of what to do when a greedy aristocracy runs a whole society into the ground.

and it’s why their government almost immediately caves whenever massive protests break out if they so much as think about encroaching on workers rights: “we’ll fkn do it again”

boring old electoral vOtE tHeM oUt crap just sees the current skeletons in suits replaced soon after with more skeletons in suits. the skeletons in suits need to be… discouraged from doing what they do.

[Drapersmullet]

@handypoint

Without criminal activity they might struggle, although plenty of money in a casino isn’t dirty. I’d say they could still turn a profit.

Lol are you seriously suggesting casinos are unprofitable without criminals laundering money through them? What do you think came first?

Pokies return something like 88% entirely by themselves. Ridiculous comment

[handypoint]

It’s rhetorical champion.

[Drapersmullet]

That’s not what rhetorical means, champion.

[Aceman]

What’s your cutoff criteria or is it just anyone better off than yourself?

[percebushby]

@Albert_Thurgood

@Benny40

I’m not advocating violence, but the wealth disparity is becoming comedically absurd. Something will break.

I read an interesting take on this recently. Tyrannies historically have been preceded by the collapse of the middle class. The US middle class has been hammered since Reagan and is scarily close to a Trumpish tyranny; all the Republicans need is to continue their policy of replacing responsible officials by the grifters and ratbags that they have in abundance and will do whatever they are told to do by Trump or Bannon or whoever else they come up with. The Jan 6 effort didn’t work because it had the zealots trying to take over the system from the outside. They will now be working to having the zealots take over the system from the inside.

And in Australia ?

[Benny40]

Australia has a far stronger middle class and a much higher average wage than the USA.

People resort to violence when they can’t feed and house their families. Australia doesn’t have that issue and is unlikely to erode things in the foreseeable future.

The USA has form in neglecting its people. All it will take is a disputed election followed by job losses, food insecurity and loss of housing. They are a wealthy nation, but there’s massive disadvantaged areas that won’t take much to set them off.

[Sniggles]

@Benny40

The USA has form in neglecting its people. All it will take is a disputed election followed by job losses, food insecurity and loss of housing.

Ehrm…

[Sniggles]

I’ve mentioned this before, but it’s always worth noting. Historically, fascist dictatorships have formed through a middle-class overreaction to “threats” from the left. Fascism doesn’t take root in the poor, it takes root in the middle-class and petty bourgeoisie who are afraid of losing what they have to a leftist movement.