Dave Muir 🇦🇺🎸
Enthusiast.
I like guitars a lot. Maybe too much.
I also do music production and mix engineering.
Joined Jul 2022
They’re playing a show by The Quincy Jones Big Band tonight, and it’s wonderful, just like everything Quincy touched.
We’ve found a temporary solution in which we ask people to donate to a fund that will allocate money to independent candidates who’ve been chosen by their community to run.
There are benchmarks they nave to meet to qualify, and viability concerns to decide how to direct the money, but it’s gone pretty well so far.
https://www.climate200.com.au/
I’s still money that matters, and the goal needs to be to reduce spending. It’s just fighting the oligarchs with their own weapons.
We have shorter campaigns (6-8 weeks). And lots of good rules about ads and stuff.
The problem is that the people who make the rules also stand to benefit from removing restrictions, so they do.
I’d be an advocate for publicly funded elections with a fixed amount per electorate, but where I live that gives a ridiculously unfair advantage to the big parties who can pool money and run national ads, while local candidates struggle.
Work in progress.
Anthony Bourdain in Congo.
He was so good at getting to the crux of what was going on. RIP 🥺
Yup. He means the Australian Construction, Forestry and Maritime Employees Union, whose leadership has been dodgy for a long time, and seems objectively criminal:
Excellent!
Gestures of anger that don't hand power to authoritarians are both encouraged and 100% approved 👍
Just reading the paper and came across this.
There's probably some finely nuanced argument against some of it, but I'm about done with nuance right now, so it seems like a pretty good list to be going on with.
😂 The thought did cross my mind...
Lord Beefy with a lucky escape thanks to the people's champ Merv Hughes:
Welp. It's beer o'clock on a Friday, so that means it's time to crack open one of these excellent ones named after our former Prime Minister, the late Rt. Hon. Bob Hawke, who once sculled a yard of beer in a Guinness World Record time of 11 seconds while studying at Oxford in the 50s. A good man.
That was quite a week...
She's already the richest person in Australia and has bought the federal opposition. Now she wants them to turn their nonsense up to full so she can have free rein to get her greedy hands further into the till.
Oligarchs gonna oligarch 🤷♂️
Dave Muir 🇦🇺🎸
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That's not gone well:
Plane makes emergency landing at Sydney Airport after explosion
They really would.
Again, spot on. It's kind of the definition of conservatism to not mind the status quo unless it's happening to you, and I reckon a lot of people are less progressive than they like to think they are.
All the politicians on both sides who tearfully changed their minds on same-sex marriage because their son/daughter/niece, etc. came out as queer come to mind. It didn't matter until it was at home 🤷♂️
And then there's just rank bigotry. As Lyndon Johnson put it:
💯 spot on. That's exactly the kind of thing I'm thinking about today. I'd add climate and basically anything that happens in Africa, too.
The great Douglas Adams wrote that the simplest and best way to make a thing invisible is to erect a 'Somebody Else's Problem' field around it, and people will walk past it, around it, and even over it, blissfully unaware that it's there 🤷♂️
They would have read about the angry 30,000 dudes in black shirts who pressured the king to appoint Mussolini in 1922 🤷♂️
The thing that's got me thinking about it is the "we" part of "we're going to be okay".
Who, precisely, is the "we" in that statement? If it's wealthy cis white American folk, sure, they'll probably be mostly fine.
But that's how these things happen. People who think they'll be okay just let these things happen, and everybody else feels the consequences.
I wonder if people were going around Milan saying, "We're going to be okay," in November 1922 🤔
Dave Muir 🇦🇺🎸
Enthusiast.
I like guitars a lot. Maybe too much.
I also do music production and mix engineering.
Joined Jul 2022