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Alter-ego of @infinite8horizon.com (the nice one, with pictures). This account for politics & biting social commentary (rants).
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It’s interesting* isn’t it, that while silence favours the oppressor, the far worse thing is to both-sides a grossly inequitable situation.
Turns out even silence would be preferable to deliberately drowning out honest voices.
#ThisIsNotJournalism
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"I was in skool 12 yeerz in Kentucky. Wich one do I tik?"
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A: They shoot horses, don't they?
The laws—they wrote—might allow pollies to forget the past & lie their faces off, but it's the Fourth Estate that lets them get away with it.
We expect politicians to lie.
We expect the 4th Estate to use the privileges we give them to call them on it.
Not in Oz.
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monster, the golden goose.
YOU don't want to stand still and heap ridicule, scorn, derision or even outrage on one of these appalling, fascist, supremacist outbursts, you just milk it for what it's worth and stay on the bandwagon waiting for the next payday.
YOU are complicit.
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The not very well-kept secret is that #45/#47 is GREAT for headlines, click-bait, social-media outrage, he keeps the turnstiles clicking over. Not only is he furthering the political ends of the billionaires who own the media outlets (Murdoch, Bezos, Slim) and click-machines, he's a headline-making🧵
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that might suit some and no doubt is some people's preferred abode, but it's probably worth dropping a pie-chart slice over this and checking what fraction of a fraction of a fraction of the population we're talking about.
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It's interesting that all of the replies start from the premise that this is a positive choice—the way the article frames it—rather than "the economic curse of lower wages and super are forcing older women into unusual attempts to stay off the streets" framing... Not to say it's a lifestyle 🧵
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Yeah, first it's before, eventually it's without.
"Genocide? Well, yes, it's against the platform, true, but... We know the LNP is in favour of slaughtering children, and, look, what good can we do if we're not in power? It's pragmatism..."
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Yeah, for all the repartée and wit, he was a long way right (at the time, post Whitlam) for the ALP, but we've all fallen out the Overton window since then. Howard remains the lowest common denominator, the LNP's anti-Whitlam.
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coincidentally why I have had no respect for Plibersek ever since (subsequently reinforced by all the environmental failures).
I was so angry at the time, *thirteen years ago* I now realise, I wrote this satire.
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Absolutely agreed. Not to bang on about it, but it's a running sore on our body politic, and diagnostic of what a fundamentally racist culture still exists that it survives election after election. Plibersek's "bi-partisan" Nauru visit with Bishop was a perfect example of the duopoly, and /
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Not to detract from Howard's starring role (CHILDREN OVERBOARD) in starting offshore detention, but Keating introduced indefinite detention, Gillard restarted offshore & extended the ridiculous "Australia isn't Australia" migration zone, & as you say, NONE of them up to Albo has stopped it. Shame.
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"Unfortunately, we seem to have lost about half a billion dollar's worth of receipts that went through the wash in our pants"
Who was the minister again? Oh, yeah.
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just less flagrant in their foot-dragging, mine-approving, gas-subsidising support for the same villains.
They're both betting our farm on the tired old proposition that at election time people think no further than their back pocket, and we can only fervently hope that enough of us see through that
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So the current generation are even less principled and more power-hungry than their predecessors, no argument, but people haven't changed, it's just 50 years of Murdoch and friends relentlessly moving the Overton window. There would have been a Dutton back then, if the public could stomach him.
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while their Editors keep their X accounts, & everyone buys through Amazon & shares their concerns on Facebook.
This isn't the start of the slippery slope - people who've been mocked for years have been pointing at the early signs of fascism. This isn't the start, the slope is just getting steeper.
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They were cowed and craven nearly ten years ago, and acting surprised now is a bit disingenuous.
It's also interesting that while the majority of the country either actually voted for #47, or didn't vote at all, now journalists are being asked to lie down on the tracks 🧵
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The secret is to put your tail over your eyes
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I agree
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The article based “analysis” on published facts. My response contained arguments based on that. Your post contained assertions without evidence. You’re entitled to make them, but nobody has to agree just because you say so.
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No, they support Israel. Yes, the fourth estate is broken, or working as intended, depending on your point of view.
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For years I reposted the Destroy The Joint count, and helped with Mad Fucking Witches campaigns. I agree this is a silent cancer in our own society. It's possible to fight for more than one cause at a time... More thoughts here
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Well, your pinned post also pins your heart to your sleeve, so this comment has to be interpreted as electioneering, for better or for worse.
Obviously national face recognition has little to do with a local member's presence or popularity in their own electorate.
I'm happy with my Greens MP! YMMV.
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It's the canary in the coal-mine. #ThisIsNotJournalism
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"professional" so-called "journalists" is in serious doubt.
I can only ask them:
"Who do you think will write *your* obituary, or mourn if you were murdered"?
Clearly it wouldn't be an Australian journalist working for the mainstream media, our so-called "free press".
#auspol #ThisIsNotJournalism
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whether they're personally threatened, or scared, intimidated, or simply censored, it's the canary in the coal-mine that signals that absolutely NONE of the mainstream media's coverage of Gaza can be trusted.
Sadly, it also means that the professional integrity of most of our so-called 🧵
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"coverage" of the Israeli genocide of Palestinians.
When journalists do not, or can not, or will not speak of the wholesale, continuing slaughter of their colleagues and fellow professionals, of the *deliberate* silencing of the free press, it tells you all you need to know.
It doesn't matter 🧵
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It literally beggars the imagination. There would rioting in the streets. EVERY news organisation, bar none, would be screaming for answers, for a stop.
Yet hundreds of Australian journalists are deadly silent instead.
Which tells you everything you need to know about the mainstream media's🧵
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Yet our own mainstream media has miserably failed to point at this MURDER; not of one, not dozens, alas not even scores, but OVER ONE HUNDRED journalists in Gaza.
It's unimaginable, but try to imagine if over ONE HUNDRED Australian journalists had been murdered in less than two years. 🧵
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"Don't make yourself the story"
Fundamental rule for journalists, with this horrid, glaring exception.
The death, or more accurately, the MURDER of a journalist is a story all other journalists should cover, because without a free press our democracies are silently ended.🧵
#Gaza #FreePress
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I had moments of sadness this week. I spoke at a press freedom conference about the corporate capture of the Observer. This is one of my last pieces. I'll miss my brilliant colleagues. But I'm rebuilding from the ground up, truly independent media. Please join me 🙏
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