Forgive my ignorance but does this really need spelling out? Don’t all states do this? Like that specific scenario is a bit a silly but in times of crisis or when interests conflict governments always without crap from rivals. Isn’t there specifically a block trying to stop BRICS getting their hands on magical machine god apotheosising chips?
Seems like the nats want to bend them over the barrel and force them to embrace bribes for the regions + insane culture war stuff and the libs are like “we’re 19 votes behind in our most secure seat in histo wtf are you doing?”
But since neither party can hold power without the other, and the nats play so well with morons voting against their own interests, I think there will be enormous pressure for ‘moderate’ libs remaining to stfu and fall in line.
It would be extremely funny if the party splintered and the right wing vote got split between the fundies and the bougies.
I just want proportional representation so my fantasy daydreams about having an actual democracy one day can seem even slightly plausible.
Extremely funny news from Australia. In the wake of a historical loss the coalition that makes up the current conservative opposition has (temporarily) dissolved[1]. This has happened in the wake of the right wing liberal party being unwilling to commit to policies that fucked them, which play well with reactionary elements in the regions.
They will likely rejoin together once it is politically advantageous, having largely been together for the better part of a century, but currently this means the center right welfare state labor party has basically no resistance except the leftish greens party to passing its bills. Severely diminishing the electoral power of the far right for the forseeable future.
Whether the liberals will embrace the trumpism that cost them the election, hemorrhaging the rest of their moderates, or try and tac towards the bourgeois policies of the so called “teal” (blue + green, environmental policies) independents that have been eating their lunch in the wealthy liberal heartland remains to be seen. My money is on the former because the moderate faction lost most of their seats and they’ve but a numerology[2] donothing clown in charge as a seat warmer while the factions rally.[3]
Yeah man idk if we should be copying the behaviours of Japanese student cults that lead to them progressively murdering themselves off.
A lot of hexbear skews young, if there’s a time in your life you’ll enjoy making grand declarations and sweeping generalisations it’s when young.
I propose a hexbear tradition of the great eye. Every day one user is randomly selected by the gaze, each other user sees one of their posts at the top page and has to rate it ideological pure or unserious liberalism.
If the user is not rated at least 2/3 pure their name is revealed and they are banned, if the user is rated 90% pure they get the crown of the 1 true leftist until someone else replaces them.
I was though D: since the Kremlin fired me I have pivoted from state operator to lib wrecker.
The journalist cum (heh) podcaster Michael Hobbs did a bunch of reporting and investigation into moral panics. He reckons one of the key aspects to identify is what you don’t need evidence to believe.
E.g. lots of people “just know” phones are bad in the same way people a few hundred years ago “just knew” women reading books was bad. I think a lot of concern about pornography and masturbation is still tainted by religious moralism as actual evidence of harm is extremely sparse.
People look at trends in society they don’t like and attribute them to social values they don’t like. Actual investigation is often jawdroppingly difficult, and we should avoid sweeping generalisation or confusing cause and effect.
Like if it’s true that idk kids do use phone too much and it’s bad, is it phone that means kids use phone too much? Or would kids be doing some other thing that is maybe even worse (again if it is true that phone is bad) because of structural changes in society and culture.
Guilty, guilty, I’m strawmanning.
But they called me a psychopath for saying that sex as a hobby should be no more controversial than carpentry. Apparently all sex is about objectification, involves blood and urine, carries a risk of children which then subjects them to the cycle of blood and piss ( so much wrong there), and isn’t productive.
It was very unusual, I think they were just having A Day
Me (to my wife): I love you so much, if this moment stretched out forever it still wouldn’t be enough time in your arms.
Random internet commentator: W̸̵͉̻͖͋̽̀Ḧ̴̴̟͎̘́̀͐E̵̵̡̟̘͌̐͝R̸̵̢͓͍͛͆͘E̴̴̙̫͓͑͑̚ P̴̵͔̪̫̿͆͘Ì̴̸͙͙̞͘͝S̸̴͕͓̫̽̚͝S̵̵̡̪͚͐͛̈́?̵̵̠̙͕̓̕̚?̴̴̦̟̻̀͠͝?̵̵̺̙̿͋͋,̵̴͖̘̼̈́̒͠ 
Was that the now deleted comment chain about how all sex involves treating people like objects while you smear blood and urine on them?
That was an interesting message to see in the inbox.
I think for around half the population a wank is plenty productive.
There are 2 hexbears:
state operators
lib wreckers
Kill the redditer inside you
Yo that’s a tad neurotic. Just chill.
Casuals ruining shit for everyone smh my head.
Medical people are the best play partners. All the anatomical knowledge to be safeish and insane with the unphased affect of someone who has rearranged some organs.
My impression is that it is a bit Puritan. I think a lot of young people are tbh, it’s the usaian influence which is simultaneously an extremely Puritan culture that also massively commodifies sex.
if someone called them out I would join the :
side of the discussion.
You can’t have dirtbikes at 3am sorry. Unless you’re using them for vegan direct action, then it’s ok.
Shit happens, nobody cares enough about work to remember this except as just another “haha technology amirite” story in a few months.
Learn a lesson about having a backup plan for presentations and move on. She’ll be right.