Many people don’t recognise fascism because they think fascism will arrive selling oppression and tyranny, but if you’re part of the privileged group, fascism is selling you safety, normalcy, and tradition.
Byron C. Clark
November 23, 2022
Hold him a bit longer
Rock him a little more
Tell him another story
You've only told him four
Let him sleep on your shoulder
Rejoice in his happy smile
He is only a little boy
For such a little while
Anonymous
September 22, 2022
The essence of capitalism is to turn nature into commodities and commodities into capital. The live green earth is transformed into dead gold bricks, with luxury items for the few and toxic slag heaps for the many. The glittering mansion overlooks a vast sprawl of shanty towns, wherein a desperate, demoralized humanity is kept in line with drugs, television, and armed force.
Michael Parenti
August 2, 2022
When plunder becomes a way of life for a group of men in a society, over the course of time they create for themselves a legal system that authorises it and a moral code that glorifies it.
Frédéric Bastiat
July 24, 2022
This personal responsibility horseshit in dealing with Covid-19 is ludicrous. We mandate car registration, drivers' licences, seat belts, driving on the left hand side of the road, using indicators when changing lanes and turning corners. Even then, over 1,000 Australians die on our roads every year. Imagine the carnage if all this was left to personal responsibility. Wear a bloody mask.
Blotreport
July 20, 2022
There will be a lot of talk in the coming days about [Boris] Johnson’s achievements - how he ‘delivered’ Brexit and ‘took the right decisions’ during the pandemic. Yet Brexit has only been delivered in the sense that a flat-pack piece of furniture is delivered. It hasn’t been assembled yet because it won’t fit through the front door, several of the pieces are missing and the instructions are in Russian. More ominously for Johnson, the public inquiry into the pandemic will soon be up and running and the bereaved will want to know why he presided over one of the highest Covid death rates in Europe.
Billy Bragg
July 11, 2022
The unbridled joy that comes with knowing we will never again have to deal with the entity formerly known as Prime Minister Scott Morrison is leavened by the fact that we had to put up with him in the first place. Not just put up with him but act as if the destruction he was wreaking was somehow invisible. That the studied neglect which was the hallmark of the way in which he pursued what can barely be called ‘governance’ was not obvious. Now they tell us about the problems with the energy markets. Now they tell us about funding holes in the NDIS. Now we hear that the National Gallery in Canberra is falling down, falling down because of underfunding. Now we hear they stopped funding recovery programs for endangered plants. Now we hear all the things. Sure, the media reported many of these instances over the last few years, but even as they did, their methodology resisted drawing conclusions. They showed us the dots, but they don’t join them.
[https://meanjin.com.au/blog/scott-free-but-still-in-chains/]
Tim Dunlop
July 8, 2022
[Greens leader, Adam] Bandt believes the election of more Greens and climate action independents means voters want the Parliament to act more in line with the climate science calling for more ambitious emissions reductions. He may be right, but at the same time, would these same voters prefer to see no legislated targets delivered by an unholy alliance of the Greens, the Coalition and Pauline Hanson?
https://thenewdaily.com.au/news/2022/06/21/paul-bongiorno-peter-dutton/
Paul Bongiorno
June 21, 2022
I went to an Extinction Rebellion meeting to discover what the movement was about. Lo and behold there were a lot of rich folk there…lots of family homes are built on the coast and river foreshores, and they love their children and future grandchildren too. After the floods and fires the penny is dropping that slowing climate change from human folly and greed is the priority.
Margaret Cowan
May 23, 2022
The intrigue about ‘who would run the country’ if [Anthony Albanese] travels to Japan for the Quad is hilarious in the extreme - because let’s face it - the only answer that really matters is - it wouldn’t be Barnaby Joyce.
