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factotum started the topic in Thursday, 27 Aug 2020 at 11:12am

Septic Tanks are going to Septic Tank

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sypkan Wednesday, 24 Apr 2024 at 11:42pm

well, from what i've seen of ballbag, he doesn't care if his stocks are down 40%, he just does what he does...

and, the other numbers aren't his anyway... but they are up 500%!

over 500% ... in a 10 year period!

that's significant, and very telling actually...

but make it about musk if you must...

fwiw, I've always thought he's a wanker, but it blows me away how much effect he has on people, where they instantly react irrationally because of who he is

reminds me of that other guy...

no matter how good a point they make some will just shut down internally

triiiiiiigggeeered!!

there's another lame term for ya's...

but that's what it is

tribalism is ugly

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basesix Wednesday, 24 Apr 2024 at 11:44pm

tribalism is ugly as. not sure what numbers you mean. I just think Elon Musk is an arrogant ball bag.
He's probably someone I would feel sorry for if he wasn't such an arrogant ball bag.
he's not something that matters to me, and I don't know much about the guy. he was OK on big bang theory.

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GuySmiley Thursday, 25 Apr 2024 at 7:39am

I think sippy is referring to Tesla’s share price hitting a record high notwithstanding sales are down significantly … trying to make sense of the market sentiment is folly but there you go.

The thing about musk for me is the more he opens his mouth the more inclined to look elsewhere when I come to buying my first EV

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soggydog Thursday, 25 Apr 2024 at 8:10am

I think that the new un-elected Seppo e commissioner is the person requiring scrutiny. Really Elon can do what he likes with X. My opinion is he’s a weirdo. An extremely wealthy weirdo.
But who’s this Seppo chick making the rules?

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soggydog Thursday, 25 Apr 2024 at 8:23am

A former Washington lobbyist, and Microsoft safety and privacy development officer. Smelly!

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sypkan Thursday, 25 Apr 2024 at 11:38am
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A former Washington lobbyist, and Microsoft safety and privacy development officer. Smelly!

stinks...

i read a former twitter thought policer too... no bias and bad blood there!

a perfect attack dog for albo's little mission...

and, her heads all over WEF stuff as well

...need I point out the WEF, davos class, covid censorship (and celebration) debacle?

naomi klien if anyone is interested...

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frog Thursday, 25 Apr 2024 at 11:45am

Elon and X is an important, but somewhat chaotic, counterbalance to pro censorship Washington and a plague of activists beavering away in countless minor and major positions of power to push society towards a more and more narrative controlling agenda that does not like criticism or debate, including a certain billionaire now with a high degree of control over 235 US radio stations.

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/billionaire-george-soros-takes-control-18...

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sypkan Thursday, 25 Apr 2024 at 12:17pm

seems my numbers got lost in the elon musk (triiiiiiiggeeeered!) hate wars...

I'll explain, the graph shows use of the words racist, racists, racism since the 1970's

the un-ignorable spike, shows an increase in the use of these terms at over 700% for some legacy media since 2010

I presented a modest averaged 500% in a ten year period

yep, there's a 'culture war'

...but it hasn't come from the right!

anyone who's an 'objective' observer would say racism is most certainly not as bad as it was in the 1970's

anyone... at all...

now, what else has happened in that period?

neoliberalism for one...

and a growing gross inequality

as 'the left' took their eye off the ball embracing their bullshit 'third way' economics...

it all worked for a little while... but that last 10 years shows what can only be described as an obsession... an unhealthy obsession...

as people pushed back, ...the media - aided and abetted, ...and owned! - by the billions pay no tax NGO megacomplex, went full hysterical...

as 'class' became a taboo word

some have described this as 'peak identity politics' - as we battle over the death throes of 'peak neoliberalism'

people from the left I might add...

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soggydog Thursday, 25 Apr 2024 at 12:30pm

I was thinking she’d be more likely on the CIA payroll Sypkan then double dipping on the Australian tax payer.
I’d say she’d be setting the agenda and Albo will be asking “How high?”

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sypkan Thursday, 25 Apr 2024 at 12:41pm

it's all the same CIA FBI WEF WHO UN NGO mega-complex super structure

as matt taibi and shellenger have convincingly shown...

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Slackjawedyokel Friday, 26 Apr 2024 at 10:40am

It takes some doing to not understand that there’s a connection between the Astro turfed BLM civil disruptance leasing up to the last Presidential election, and the current protesting of Free Palestine in another election year.

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truebluebasher Friday, 26 Apr 2024 at 12:21pm

Harvey : "Sorry to my sexy MeToo Harem! ...We Rich Fat Ugly Bastards make the Rules...You Don't!"
The day the Whole World collectively heaved up in unison & took a turn for the worse...OMFG!
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-04-26/harvey-weinstein-rape-conviction-...

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flollo Thursday, 2 May 2024 at 8:04pm

Seriously, what is Biden trying to achieve?

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flollo Thursday, 2 May 2024 at 8:12pm
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Optimist Friday, 3 May 2024 at 12:43pm

Amazing how Iran is winning the propaganda war around the world. A country that treats women like property and starts wars at will to wipe out a democratic country.
Just watched the fiasco on the ABC at the unis in USA and Australia.
Young people who would be imprisoned there chanting Irans catch phrase “from the river to the sea”.
Hard to believe they are calling for the annihilation of a free country where you can be who you want.
Little do they realise their chant is calling for the battle of Armageddon and that wont do anyone any good….
Other Arab countries can see a solution but Iran won’t have a bar of it and so it’ll go on and on especially with our gullible young generation involved.
USA and Australia need to take the lead in this and school kids on what they are actually calling for.
Let the decent Arabs sort it out themselves.

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soggydog Friday, 3 May 2024 at 1:04pm
Optimist wrote:

Amazing how Iran is winning the propaganda war around the world. A country that treats women like property and starts wars at will to wipe out a democratic country.
Just watched the fiasco on the ABC at the unis in USA and Australia.
Young people who would be imprisoned there chanting Irans catch phrase “from the river to the sea”.
Hard to believe they are calling for the annihilation of a free country where you can be who you want.
Little do they realise their chant is calling for the battle of Armageddon and that wont do anyone any good….
Other Arab countries can see a solution but Iran won’t have a bar of it and so it’ll go on and on especially with our gullible young generation involved.
USA and Australia need to take the lead in this and school kids on what they are actually calling for.
Let the decent Arabs sort it out themselves.

Given that these young Australians and Americans will be paying for this genocide for decades to come, I’d say they’ve every rite to protest the misappropriation of their tax dollars to find genocidal fundamentalist’s.

Yes Opti you can be whatever you want in Israel unless you’re Palestinian and want some sort of security from foreign invaders.

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soggydog Friday, 3 May 2024 at 1:07pm
Optimist wrote:

Amazing how Iran is winning the propaganda war around the world. A country that treats women like property and starts wars at will to wipe out a democratic country.
Just watched the fiasco on the ABC at the unis in USA and Australia.
Young people who would be imprisoned there chanting Irans catch phrase “from the river to the sea”.
Hard to believe they are calling for the annihilation of a free country where you can be who you want.
Little do they realise their chant is calling for the battle of Armageddon and that wont do anyone any good….
Other Arab countries can see a solution but Iran won’t have a bar of it and so it’ll go on and on especially with our gullible young generation involved.
USA and Australia need to take the lead in this and school kids on what they are actually calling for.
Let the decent Arabs sort it out themselves.

Given that these young Australians and Americans will be paying for this genocide for decades to come, I’d say they’ve every rite to protest the misappropriation of their tax dollars to fund genocidal fundamentalist’s. (Bibi and the boys)

Yes Opti you can be whatever you want in Israel unless you’re Palestinian and want some sort of security from foreign invaders.

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indo-dreaming Friday, 3 May 2024 at 4:00pm
Optimist wrote:

Amazing how Iran is winning the propaganda war around the world. A country that treats women like property and starts wars at will to wipe out a democratic country.
Just watched the fiasco on the ABC at the unis in USA and Australia.
Young people who would be imprisoned there chanting Irans catch phrase “from the river to the sea”.
Hard to believe they are calling for the annihilation of a free country where you can be who you want.
Little do they realise their chant is calling for the battle of Armageddon and that wont do anyone any good….
Other Arab countries can see a solution but Iran won’t have a bar of it and so it’ll go on and on especially with our gullible young generation involved.
USA and Australia need to take the lead in this and school kids on what they are actually calling for.
Let the decent Arabs sort it out themselves.

Sadly and ironically its just very poorly educated people that think history started less than 100 years ago, they are basically educated by social media post.

There is some good news though, students rarely represent the majority of any society

"Vast majority of Americans back Israel over Hamas: Poll
BY JARED GANS - 04/29/24 2:29 PM ET

An overwhelming majority of Americans support Israel in its war against Hamas over the militant group running the Gaza Strip, according to a new poll.
The Harvard CAPS-Harris survey shared with The Hill showed 80 percent of registered voters said they support Israel more in the war, while 20 percent said they support Hamas more. That is about in line with the poll’s findings from last month, when 79 percent indicated they support Israel more."

https://thehill.com/policy/international/4629597-americans-israel-hamas-...

BTW In Israel proper (not dispute territory of Samaria and Judea AKA West Bank) Arabs have exactly the same rights as anyone else, the only two difference's is they cant work in secret service areas of government and also they dont have to do national service, i think we can agree thats a perk (BTW. about 1,000 Arabs a year still volunteer to serve in the IDF though)

And there is Arabs in all areas of Israel society from police including second highest position to high court judges, and they are over represented in all areas of medical field including doctors and surgeons, there is even pro Arab political parties, on the flip side Jews cant even live or visit many Arab countries even Gaza is off limits.

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bonza Friday, 3 May 2024 at 5:52pm
soggydog wrote:
Optimist wrote:

Amazing how Iran is winning the propaganda war around the world. A country that treats women like property and starts wars at will to wipe out a democratic country.
Just watched the fiasco on the ABC at the unis in USA and Australia.
Young people who would be imprisoned there chanting Irans catch phrase “from the river to the sea”.
Hard to believe they are calling for the annihilation of a free country where you can be who you want.
Little do they realise their chant is calling for the battle of Armageddon and that wont do anyone any good….
Other Arab countries can see a solution but Iran won’t have a bar of it and so it’ll go on and on especially with our gullible young generation involved.
USA and Australia need to take the lead in this and school kids on what they are actually calling for.
Let the decent Arabs sort it out themselves.

Given that these young Australians and Americans will be paying for this genocide for decades to come, I’d say they’ve every rite to protest the misappropriation of their tax dollars to find genocidal fundamentalist’s.

Yes Opti you can be whatever you want in Israel unless you’re Palestinian and want some sort of security from foreign invaders.

sigh.

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Jelly Flater Friday, 3 May 2024 at 6:30pm

- ummmm yes, of course flopti ;);)

"their chant is calling for the battle of Armageddon"

https://m.

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Jelly Flater Friday, 3 May 2024 at 6:40pm

& in preparation flopti ;)

Call forth thine hermeto!
- go forth with thine army of green rooms haha

Hear thine bubbling water squeal, hear thine trumpetting glass whistle
& together commence your battle chant ;);)

https://m.

- can u feel it ;)