Oddbean new post about login | logout Leftists in Victoria were planning to disrupt an annual Christmas event to protest for Gaza. The Premier Jacinta Allan, known around here as Socialist Barbie (they share the same IQ), has a plan to bring together her base (the disrupters in this case) with the regular people of Melbourne who are sick of woke nonsense. Her solution? “a strong new set of social cohesion laws” Because nothing unites a place where they’ve poured in 2 million immigrants like socialist laws defining culture.. https://i.nostr.build/gHUJ31ptWqTxwXLG.jpg
Barbie as in hot?
No, as in an empty head
Leftists actually have a chance now to save brown lives with the whole gaza thing but now their overlords are telling them its hateful and divisive to protest that. Should have stayed on the anti-white and climate change train where it was safe fighting imaginary shit.
That’s the problem with todays leftists - the coalition of grievances that they’ve cobbled together are fundamentally at odds on many things so forming a coherent narrative for them is impossible. The only things they can unite around are the things they hate or that they’ve been indoctrinated to fear. That’s a losing strategy in the long run as it provides no vision for a better future.
ROFL you are too kind to that creature. Actually Jacinta is trying to use state violence to prevent a head-to-head confrontation between the people who fund her, and the people she expects to knock on doors and phonebank for her. This is what happens to people who failed upwards at every step of their careers...
Your last point is apparent across the Western world. I wrote about it in my rant about Albo - the quality of the people in power is getting worse and worse and worse. It must be the natural end state of Parkinson’s Law. The bureaucracy continues to expand forever and the 1UP always has someone less competent and less likeable than them as their 2IC. This shields them from internal hostile takeover allowing them to focus on their external “enemies” because nobody wants the next cretin, but then because the way the system works they inevitably end up in power anyway and then they bring an even worse 2IC. I don’t see how anyone could prefer this democracy over monarchy. Literally the shit floats to the surface rather than the cream.
Valid. But I suspect it also has something to do with the decline in relative power of elected leaders, as the bureaucracy has grown ever-more-powerful. I understand in the late-stage Soviet Union, anyone with half a brain and any initiative went into the KGB, CPSU or military; because they were the only institutions with real power. Only nitwits and nonentities managed industrial firms, conducted scientific research, or did anything else remotely productive. Now in Soviet Australia, bank borrows you, and public services servants.
