Danny Wardle
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Philosophy PhD Candidate • Mostly posts about public policy and politics • Member @vic_socialists @NTEUnion • Writes at
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My latest for Plurality of Words on an insidious trick played by the pseudoscientific 'complementary' medicine industry
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guy who thinks revolutionaries are deluded utopians: "yeah we can achieve socialism if we just win every election by a landslide for a century"
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It's hard to take ALP critiques of the Greens seriously when most of them amount to "How dare this political party do politics, you're not supposed to do politics in politics"
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Greens abstain on social housing vote. This is the biggest social housing spend since I was the minister more than a decade ago and the Greens are abstaining. Once again they play the role of wreckers - and make the perfect the enemy of the good.
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imagine being asked about BLM in 2020 and saying "well, as a centrist, i care about respecting institutions"
deeply weird behaviour
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we have reached full circle where we now have people who fit the original definition of the word 'tankie' (someone who supported the ussr sending tanks into hungary in 1956) complaining about being labelled as such
Ironic that the anti-imperialist politics of DSA is slandered as a being "tankie." Besides the fact that generally it's just commonplace positions amongst the left in the global south, it's also a derogatory term describing people who opposed a fascist uprising in Hungary.
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An important reminder to anyone who thinks the $300 energy bill rebate needs to be means-tested to make it progressive
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"Why can't we just have everyone cycle everywhere and drive EVs like some pleasant Scandinavian white ethnostate, you ask? Whither the planet?"
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ALP careerism in a nutshell: Begin your career as a student protester and founder of Parliamentary Friends of Palestine. Then, the minute you become Prime Minister, become a fiscal conservative and US alliance shill.
You can't change the ALP from within. The ALP changes you.
Students must feel safe at university classes.
Families must feel safe in their own neighbourhoods.
People must feel safe to practice their faith in peace.
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Look if anything passes the pub test, surely selling alcohol does
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Doesn't Lebanon have a right to defend itself?
4/ Australia has consistently called for the protection of civilian lives and warned of the risks of conflict spreading.
We call on Hizballah to cease its attacks on Israel.
We will continue to work with countries who have influence in the region to prevent further escalation.
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Australia has free healthcare in the sense that you'll never pay any fees if you never need to see a doctor, a specialist, or get any radiology done
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common centre-left L
Sanna Marin says it's possible she can serve the voters of Finland "even better" now as an adviser for the Tony Blair Institute
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Mark McGowan should serve as an example of everything that Labor can achieve with absolute power
- Decline in public housing stock defended on the basis that it creates 'ghettos' and 'drugs and other things'
- Real wage decreases for public sector workers
- Rising emissions
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@focusfronting
arguably the strangest rise to terminally online political fame
no niche, no qualifications, no generalist credibility or anything
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being interested in policy is coded as a centrist/lib thing in left spaces but not knowing anything about policy is how you get leftists voting against social housing or solar projects
it's also how you get ex-radicals that delude themselves into liking centre-left policy
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Freezing the price of hams? Sounds like economic illiteracy to me!
What you really need to do is create a Ham Australia Future Fund (HAFF) and use it to invest $10b in equity markets, then spend some of the resulting profits on increasing supply.
Hands off our hams! 🍖
I’m calling on the big supermarket chains to put a price freeze on Christmas hams so families can budget this Christmas.
The Albanese Government is helping Aussies with cost of living pressures and we need the supermarkets to do the right thing too.
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You can offer unconditional moral support to both Ukrainians and Palestinians against their occupiers or unconditional support to neither
But it is self-evidently inconsistent to only offer unconditional moral support to one and not the other
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If your employer wants you to install something on your phone then they should be forced to give you a work phone
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this dog looks like he underpays his au pairs and led his party to some underwhelming federal election results
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Every Labor/Greens fight during the Albanese Government:
>labor proposes new bill to tackle an important issue
>the bill doesn't really do much of anything
>greens insist that they will block the bill
>labor accuse the greens of letting the perfect be the enemy of the good
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This car park got heritage listed recently
Planning Panels Victoria described it as "striking, robust and bold" and the Heritage Alliance claimed that it was "probably one of the most architecturally interesting examples of its type in Victoria"
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Interesting to see that Dee Madigan's marketing agency has been campaigning on behalf of Airbnb
Seems like something that
@ABCmediawatch
should've mentioned!
@deemadigan
Btw, I see that AirBnB is one of your clients, and you're actively lobbying for them on policy. That seems like a pretty serious thing not to disclose, when weighing in on rental issues.
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Does anyone actually buy the excuse that putting dental on Medicare would involve 'magic pudding' when we know that Labor introduced Medicare?
Did Whitlam and Hawke need 'magic pudding' to establish Medibank/Medicare for everything except dental and mental health?
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@JoePostingg
This doesn't even work
In strict economic terms retirees always rely on current production – whether they use a prefunded scheme (private pension) to finance their consumption or an age pension
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guy who thinks reformists are deluded utopians: "yeah we can achieve socialism if my tiny group just becomes really big and leads an unprecedented insurrection in a developed country"
guy who thinks revolutionaries are deluded utopians: "yeah we can achieve socialism if we just win every election by a landslide for a century"
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broke: taxing alcohol to reduce consumption
woke: taxing alcohol so the government has an incentive to promote drinking
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as a socialist this hardline anti-work stuff is embarassing
sorry but even under socialism you will have to do things besides wiping your own ass, as much as an achievement as that may be
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Today I learned that this monstrosity exists (in Greater Western Sydney, no less)
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Seeing UK Labour go through the same thing as the Australian Labor Party is interesting
You see the same cope in the replies that we saw before Albanese won – "Oh, but when they win the election they'll backflip on everything and be a left-wing government"
Ain't gonna happen
🚨 NEW: Labour will cut taxes for the rich, reveals Shadow Chancellor Rachel Reeves in a new interview.
Speaking to the Telegraph, Reeves said: "My instinct is to have lower taxes". When asked if this included tax cuts for those on £100k+, she said: "Yes".
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You don't actually win anything for guessing the motive/religion/ethnicity of a violent criminal
You just come across as a very strange person
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Talking to a non-Australian: "Yeah the government loves these privatised tax-advantaged pensions and they want them to invest in the military."
"Oh, I thought you guys have a centre-left party in charge. What happened?"
"Yeah, yeah this is their idea."
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Neoliberals are now in their "Real neoliberalism has never been tried" era
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@OlufemiOTaiwo
as much as liberals tend to mock leftists for saying things like "real socialism has never been tried", they often end up asserting some version of "real liberalism has never been tried"
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@RogueNotary
I've seen plenty of them even do it regarding climate science and evolution ("it's evil indoctrination to teach kids that climate change/evolution is real, it should be left up to parents" etc.)
So much for the enlightened new atheist 'pro-science' crowd
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"Tax the rich but don't tax their EVs, actually you should refund their EV tax" is certainly one of the progressive policy ideas of all time
BREAKING: The High Court of Australia has ruled Labor's tax on electric vehicles unconstitutional.
The Greens have fought against this tax since it was introduced.
Now we're calling on the Vic Gov't to pay back all EV users who had to pay this tax.
#SpringSt
@KatCopseyGreens
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@gronk_gronk
In fairness this is coming from someone who has described herself at various points as a 'libertarian communist', 'anarcho-syndicalist' and 'anarcho-communist' while having the most milquetoast Hillary Clinton-supporting liberal worldview
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liberals and libertarians: we should all copy singaporean policy
me: so you're saying the state should own roughly 90% of land and have a public housing agency that builds the vast majority of people's homes?
liberals and libertarians: …
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In light of recent drama I would suggest left-wing Greens voters in the City of Melbourne consider giving Victorian Socialists a chance at the next councillor election
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Paying parents and caregivers (usually women) for the currently unpaid domestic labour that they do is much more progressive and anti-sexist than leaving it unpaid
Why should this domestic labour, usually done by women, be devalued in the name of forcing them into 'real' work?
No, it's not feminist policy -- or good for women -- to pay "parents" (mothers) to stay home.
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Many non-Americans living in the developed world believe that the US is an extremely irrationally racist country where black people are killed for kicks
But their own countries are different and 'not racist' because 'that ethnic group really is criminal/dumb/hostile/subhuman'
i feel like the romani hatred thing gets laughed off like oh hehe silly europe but like
it's kind of fucked, right? have you seen a reply section full of europeans talking about it?
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You know Israel is losing the PR battle when the most unpopular political leaders from 10 years ago are getting wheeled out to talk about how the student protesters are bad
First it was Hillary Clinton, now it's Julia Gillard
Julia Gillard has warned many young Australians have ill-informed and unbalanced views about the Israel-Hamas conflict because social media has exploited their lack of knowledge about the history of Israel.
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I want whatever drugs Jim Chalmers took when he was coming up with this idea
7NEWS can exclusively reveal the biggest change to the dole in years, with older jobseekers to receive higher welfare payments than their younger counterparts.
#7NEWS
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Australia's healthcare system is so universal that if you have a chronic health condition or need to see a specialist for anyone reason you need private health insurance to cover the costs
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@AnaKasparian
It's better because it's more accurate and precise in a medical context
Some women, including cisgender women, don't have a uterus!
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Every so often the Greens do something that reminds me of why people call them 'tree tories'
Siding with the Pharmacy Guild against 60-day scripts (which will cut the cost of people's medication in half) is completely unbecoming of any party that claims to be left-wing
Unbelievable. I cannot begin to fathom how
@AdamBandt
& the Greens have fallen for the Pharmacy Guild’s scare tactics.
The Greens need a history lesson in the Guild’s long history of running a protection racket for their members.
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another w for centrist marxism
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As I've pointed out before, the Australian political obsession with means-testing has had a horrible impact on our welfare system.
The administrative hurdles it creates actually hurt the poor. It erodes the solidaristic idea that welfare is for everyone.
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labor left members in 2015: things would be so much better if albo was in charge, he's a socialist y'know
albo:
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@ChadNotChud
lenin famously thought war communism worked and wasn't a massive failure to be replaced with the NEP
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It still irritates me how the media narrative about the 2019 federal election was 'Labor was too ambitious' and not 'No one likes Bill Shorten'
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It is 2025 and Albanese has been reelected.
You are facing the newly-established House Committee on Un-Drip Activities. The Chair, Dee Madigan, turns to you and asks "Are you now, or have you ever been, a member of the Greens Political Party?"
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I'm thinking it's time for a referendum to overturn the civil conscription sub-clause in section 51(xxiiiA)
Medicare had a good run but now we need to nationalise the GPs
Health minister tells Australians to ‘ring around’ to find GPs who bulk bill
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i find it impossible to believe people spouting this nonsense today sincerely believe it or are remotely well-intentioned
they share a similar kind of reactionary and conspiratorial politics to neo nazis
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westerners who spouted pro-soviet propaganda in the 50s were honestly a bit pitiable – many dedicated their lives to a series of increasingly outlandish lies and couldn't bring themselves to admit they were wrong (though many did)
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@lefttwick
the best part was how some of them started off by using syria and yemen before realising they don't fit the narrative
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If the federal Greens have any spine they need to expel people like Zyngier from the party
@AltMediaWatch
@WhiteRoseSocAU
@Vittidinia
Why should Israel provide water and electricity to an organisation that has declared war against it? Hamas is still firing rockets into Israel. Hamas holds 200 Israeli and foreign hostages Should Ukraine send wheat to Russia?
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I kinda love how youth politics in Australia can be explained via footwear:
New RMs: Liberal or Labor Right
Defected RMs from an outlet: Labor Right or Labor Left
Used RMs: Labor Left or Anarchist
Docs: Marxist or Anarchist
Cuban Heels: Marxist or Nationals (if they're RM ones)
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“We'll leave it to the Greens to make perfect the enemy of the good and argue against redevelopments because they want public, rather than social housing. Quite frankly, I don’t think people care. They want a roof over their head,” Tim Pallas tells
@PropCouncil_VIC
#springst
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- Supporting new gas projects against the wishes of local Aboriginal elders
- Defending the human rights abuses (overwhelmingly against Indigenous youth) going on at Banksia Hill and labelling rioters as 'terrorists'
- Going to war with nurses who want a fair wage rise
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The theory of change that says we'll achieve social democracy and social justice once Labor becomes electorally dominant has been thoroughly debunked by the McGowan Government
This is why I am not a member of the Australian Labor Party
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when you idpol so hard you start saying that only straight men are averse to psuedoscience
Dating app bios are full of "don't swipe right if you believe in star signs," or "astrology tattoos are a major ick," but what do cis men have against astrology?
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Every few years the finance sector comes up with an obviously dystopian idea in the name of tackling inequality
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@NoamChompers
normal person: hi, how are you going?
richard dawkins: YOU ARE UTTERLY SOMETHING ENTIRELY MEANINGLESS
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>both parties accuse each other of refusing to negotiate
>labor makes some changes to the bill
>lots of pressure on the greens to finally vote for it
>the greens vote for it
>both parties take credit for the bill and continue accusing each other of being unwilling to negotiate
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Call me a NIMBY if you want but I don't think developers should replace a beloved 171 year old pub and music venue with 'student accommodation' targeted at short-term residents (international students)
Planning is about trade-offs and this is a bad one
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You, a fool: Analytic philosophy is a tool of the CIA to oppose the real threat posed by continental philosophy
Me, an intellectual: Continental philosophy is a tool of the IDF to oppose the real threat posed by analytic philosophy
The maneuvre was part of a set of tactics developed at
@IDF
’s Operational Theory Research Institute, influenced by left-wing radical philosophers like Deleuze & Guattari. This is a slide used in the Institute’s presentations.
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peter khalil gaming went down the same day as berlusconi
coincidence?
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@rosemarieho_
@lastpositivist
Yeah this is about the level of serious, thoughtful engagement I've come to expect from someone like Noah
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Some personal news: I have accepted an offer to complete my PhD at the Australian National University in Canberra, transferring from the Australian Catholic University
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It's pretty depressing when this is the approach that the government is taking when it comes to funding hospitals
About to speak to
@7NewsMelbourne
for the
@GoodFriAppeal
- you can donate by calling 1300 APPEAL.
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the australian anti-lockdown protesters were predominantly far-right cranks protesting against a temporary measure that had a clear end point (80% vax)
the chinese anti-lockdown protesters are protesting against never ending lockdowns and an authoritarian government
thankfully, Australian twitter leftists are largely staying quiet about anti lockdown protests in China after describing anyone doing the same here as nazis for the last two years
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going back in time to 2019 to tell everyone that AOC will advocate for the deregulation of sunscreen alongside a skincare company CEO
US sunscreens are far behind the rest of the world and our regulations aren’t necessarily making our sunscreens better or safer — but it doesn’t have to be this way!
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It's maddening how Labor spent years scaremongering about how the Liberals were minutes away from gutting the NDIS, only to turn around and lay out a series of plans to do exactly that
The Liberals wouldn't have been able to get away with it but they will
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People will hate me for saying it but this is exactly what the moderate Greens theory of change looks like: Labor puts forward a bill -> Greens force them to make some concessions -> Labor gives them something (not everything they wanted) -> Greens support the bill
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I wrote something for Jacobin about the humanities cuts at ACU, including the plan to disestablish the Dianoia Institute of Philosophy (where I'm doing my PhD)
Some lessons worth learning about the state of university governance and academic job security in Australia
Citing budget deficits, Australian Catholic University announced plans to shut down the Dianoia Institute of Philosophy. But the shortfall isn’t the result of research expenses — it’s the product of bloated spending on consultants and executive salaries.
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Means-testing promotes the idea that the welfare state only exists to serve the most deserving and destitute
It shrinks the constituency of recipients and makes it easier for economic conservatives to attack the welfare state with divide and conquer tactics
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Only on this website will people call you a capitalist shill for thinking that one guy probably shouldn't have a gigantic lawn smack bang in the middle of a suburb
Today I learned that this monstrosity exists (in Greater Western Sydney, no less)
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Full employment is about creating a tight labour market and making it harder for employers to find new employees – increasing the social power of workers and unemployed people relative to the bosses
Increasing the rate of JobSeeker would aid that goal, not hinder it
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