Lmao. You can be an idiot or a neo-Nazi (perhaps both) and they'll invoke their principled commitment to 'not gatekeeping', but be a popular immigration restrictionist politician who makes the slopulist online right mad and you're a goner. They do have standards after all.

Fat, middle-aged male politicians should avoid being made to bowl cricket balls at all costs, particularly in business shirts. It’s extremely unbecoming, and KRudd should have known since Howard’s foible with a cricket ball.

They looked at the intractable ethnic and cultural divisions of Afghanistan or Lebanon and thought, you know what… fuck it, we could pull that off in the UK and Australia.

If you’re looking for something to watch, there’s this Dutch female vlogger who’s riding her motorbike through Afghanistan. Parts of Afghanistan are breathtakingly beautiful (in a barren kind of way), and it’s interesting seeing the Taliban in the wild. https://t.co/nl5zhz9c6U

Perhaps living through more than a decade of Vic Labor also made people a bit loopy too.

If an Australian account seems particularly personality and politically disordered on Twitter, 80% chance they’re from Victoria. Covid broke people.

That type typically blames others for their failure to thrive. “I’m just a rough girl, I say what I fink and if you don’t like it well den fuck off innit. Fuck with me I’ll cut you ladz” That’s the problem. Just learn some manners and maybe a little discretion: you’ll go far.

The other thing is that a lot of cantankerous, impulsive, impolite people could get much further in life if they just had a bit more common decency and self-discipline. People behave like total street rats then wonder why they can’t seem to come by much success in life.

Imagine if One Nation became a party of government. God help us.

“I heard you playing ‘You Belong to Me’ without caveating and disavowing Taylor’s MAGA RACISM, let alone making me feel unsafe by playing lyrics implying humans can be owned like chattel. Fetch me my phone, we need urgent politicised coaching sessions with Dr Fabello.”

Would expect nothing less from a charlatan who offers “politicized relationship coaching” to help people in relationships align their “social justice values”. Thoughts and prayers for the people forced by their highly neurotic partners to go to such a thing.

A closeish Indonesian acquaintance I met on Java looked very Aboriginal Australian, and soon realised she was originally from Sulawesi (denied knowledge of Australian family ancestry). I posit them Makassarian traders were prolific Chad fuck bois and wife-takers when in Australia

Living on Sulawesi I occasionally came across native Indonesians who had the dead-ringing physiognomy of Australian Aboriginals (who are otherwise very different to the indigenous Sulawesi physiognomies). Australia is only across the border, but otherwise feels a world away.

Meanwhile India had live births (23 mil) approximating the whole pop of 🇦🇺 (27 mil) in 2024. Although it’s slowed over the decades it still grows apace. China had less than half India’s number (9 mil). Indian and Chinese demographic futures—once similar—are now highly divergent.

They do be vulnerable over-diagnosed lambs looking for guidance. The children are the future. ❤️

Boomer W. Talk to whatever current teenagers’ generation is and there’s a scarily frequent “hi, I’m Xavier and I have auDHD, MDD, and OCD” accompanied by the paradoxical “I’m not defined by my diagnoses (but everything in my life is refracted through them)” thing. It’s so bizarre

All this combined with the nightmare of “my truth” subjectivity makes for very deleterious conditions in maintaining a just system of law. We really ought to protect extremely hard won and beautiful system of law. It’s worth protecting and we’ll certainly miss it when it’s gone.

That morality and legality should be increasingly conflated and overlapped. Complainants are ultimately just witnesses in their trials. They don’t run the show: nor should they. Lawyers have duties first and foremost to the court and to justice, rather than to satisfying victims.

There are growing demands for therapeutic justice: that the criminal justice system ought to be adapted to validate the emotional needs of complainants and that failure to secure a conviction is some kind of emotional slight. That pain and distress necessarily entails criminality

Women—with many exceptions and nuances—are masters at three things: knowing social trends, suppression, and guilt. They were basically built to be orthodoxy purveyors and consummate consumers, and otherwise be a highly dominant force in a HRified world.