Imagine if democracies had refused to trade with China whilst they continued with their brutal communist regime? China’s growth would have been pretty much non-existent. Evolve or flounder. Instead capitalism found a cheap well, drank a deep draught and funded a bolder communist regime!

Following the England/NZ test on the BBC Sport app, and I’m somewhat miffed by their use of the word “batters” instead of “batsmen”. It’s not incorrect but i always thought that batters was Australian and batsmen English…I can feel a strongly worded letter coming on!

It’s pretty awful listening to parliament “debate” a bill. Nothing more than the govt back slapping and feral opposition ballyhooed talking points. And shame on Goldstein for returning Tim Wilson to Canberra! What an embarrassment to progress he and his ilk are. The LNP refuse to learn.

Listening to Tony Abbott on the radio is an unpleasant reminder of exactly where this current vile era of politics was ushered in. He’s singularly disingenuous and woefully unchallenged on assertions. Why is this Labor govt so bad? What metrics are you referring to? What’s the LNP solution? Etc.

And now for an English player to lose the final by launching their penalty into orbit. #ucl

PSG: 7000 passes, ends in pisspoor attempt. Arsenal: 2, maybe 3, passes, long ball, no attempt. Basically. #ucl

Whenever the PSG keeper winds up his footy career he’ll be able to walk into a movie role as Slavic heist gang heavy. #ucl

To be fair to Arsenal they did come out of their shell after conceding, at least. They even managed to engineer, but completely fuck up, two gilt edged chances. #ucl

Surely the watching world are wondering how these Arsenal numpties managed to win the Premier League 🤣 #ucl

Of course sporting finals can often disappoint but Arsenal’s plan to not concede and defend their early goal isn’t resulting in an absorbing contest. I think it also means that if PSG do manage to nick one they’ll probably go on to win. #ucl

It’s quite astonishing how uncomfortable in possession Arsenal look. The newly crowned champions of England and Champions League finalists!

You know who ought to get Australian of the Year? The bowel cancer poo sample checker with the most samples checked in the year. What a legendary yet completely disregarded function. Poo sample checkers; I salute you 🫡

The only rational response to that #Origin game is Queensland secession.

[Premier League club] to bid [X millions] for [some foreign player]. Imagine if they ploughed that money into their own academies for local English players? Half or a quarter of their transfer budget…

I firmly believe that the sheer economic common sense of using & storing renewable energy will see the usage of fossil fuels decline to almost none. Whether or not that will occur quickly enough I’m much less optimistic about. Similarly the prospect of corrupt actors spoiling the renewable sector.

How on earth I’ve lived *cough* -ty years and not seen Howard Beale’s rant from the movie Network, escapes me. It’s amazing. And the fact that it’s applicable so many decades later is damning.

It’s interesting to me that the overwhelming majority of people in the world know exactly what good governance is but those who attain positions of power almost exclusively abuse them, either willingly or because of system design. Desire for power should exclude people from the very roles they seek!

Is it not blindingly obvious that the answer to youth crime isn’t to fret about ruining them in adult penal system, but to educate them intensively throughout their period of juvenile incarceration? Imagine the threat of school, from which you cannot escape, 7 days a week, 9-5?

President Trump, of the United States of America is: - A habitual liar. - A sexual offender. - A felon. - A conman. - A narcissist. - Racist. - Corrupt. - Covered in ugly makeup. - Weak & thin-skinned. - Obese. - Stupid. - Married to an immigrant. That’s probably about 10% of it. Wild. Wild times.

Ultimately Tuchel picks the squad he thinks can perform and everything else is hot air. I like the fact that he’s stuck by his guns even if I disagree with leaving out Palmer and Alexander-Arnold. I’m ok with Maguire having a whinge too. It must hurt like fuck and he’s clearly desperate to play.

You’re the victim of bullying at school. The bully is given detention. A new head teacher releases the bully from detention. The head teacher gives the bully a gold star for behaviour. This is the US under Trump and the actually bat-shit insanely corrupt Republican Party.

Nothing, and I mean nothing, conveys the complete absence of guilt & any illegal behaviour like preventing your country’s taxation service from inspecting your taxes.

Trump regime: does some despicable shit. A court (months later): That’s illegal. Stop it. Trump regime: moves onto doing different despicable shit. Rinse. Repeat.

Football Mercenary XI has won the English premier league for the 34th consecutive season! Big shout outs to greed and corruption, without whom none of this could have happened.

Trump has confirmed today that America’s dad is bigger than Iran’s dad and used to be heavyweight champion of the world. A lucky escape for Iran, we can all agree.

Overpopulation is responsible for the global unrest related to immigration. Not that there’s anything to be done about that. Nothing that any government would be brave enough to propose anyway…

Things I’m currently expected to have an expert opinion on: - New York budget - Tennessee’s voting map - Local elections in the UK - Negative gearing and capital gains tax in Australia - Hantavirus - Oceanic weather systems - Oil transportation and supply chain politics - All of the Middle East

Fucking legend!

So, Tuchel has submitted a provisional 55 man England squad for the World Cup which is as impressive as it is pointless. Where the hell has he found 55 English players in the Premier League?!

Pauline Hanson and One Nation’s current popularity is nothing more than a weather vane & reflects mostly the LNP’s political odour. At the moment. Labor are presumably treating this with the gravity it warrants, otherwise the weather will take a turn for the worse…

Sorry ABC - 8m are not on "income support". My fact check for @thepointau.bsky.social thepoint.com.au/factchecks/2...

Ok there's a lot of incorrect information going around on this, so I want to be clear that the problem with the Big 3 and EV's isn't that the Big 3 didn't want to make EV's. The problem, as with so many things, is Trump. I'm gonna do a little thread on this because people don't seem to be aware. 1/x

What puzzles me about Trump’s hand makeup is why wouldn’t they use the same shade that they use for his face? That way it would arouse less suspicion and could carry on indefinitely. Such rank amateurs.

Extra officers to protect jews?! Minister for victims?! WTF is going in the UK’s water?!

Following a terror attack against jews there’s an awful lot of noise from jewish groups. I don’t think the same occurs when eg. “local” British or Aussie people are the victims (of any colour or creed). The response is to mourn, reflect and seek justice. Because the law applies. To all.

I know fuck all about Australian gas contracts but it’s pretty clear they’re not in our best interest though. Clearer than that is that Albo can’t communicate anything effectively about Labor’s stance to the electorate. And so now we’re forming the impression that’s he’s a corporate shill.

From an outside observer’s perspective it’s just wild that the building of a ballroom is generating debate in US politics. I can only assume that’s it’s intended to be part of the overall chaos/distraction toolkit…

Labor supporters this week: “Are we…retarded?”

For Australia to benefit from its own resources we need to ditch the two big parties. It’s so disappointing that Labor have not shown the bravery to stand up to corporations. Imagine all of the things we could have for free or dirt cheap?! Like QLD’s 50c public transport but for all the things.

In shilling for the energy conglomerates Angus Taylor is a traitor to the interests of the Australian people.

Spain is crushing it ⚡🇪🇸 Solar is delivering the equivalent of 27 nuclear plants during the day. Pumped hydro stores ~3 nuclear plants worth. Batteries already stepping in. This isn’t a generation problem anymore. It’s storage scale. Energy scarcity → energy timing. #BESS #Solar

I don’t really follow the particulars of laws, like most, but if say “from the river to the sea” or wear a garment bearing these words, how on earth do arresting authorities know to which river and/or sea I’d be referring to? It’s fucking bonkers. All to appease a genocidal regime…?

This whole “it was a Dr” Trump/Jesus hoohar reminds me, fondly now, of when Mitt Romney claimed he was saying “naggers”!

Angus Taylor falling back to the tired dog whistle tactic of claiming migrants for the system Coalition governments put in place www.thenewdaily.com.au/news/politic...

In the same way that lost forests deprive us of potential knowledge/medicines/etc the same could be said of humans. Those deprived of the opportunity to realise their potential could’ve been the next Einstein or literary great or visionary unifying politician. And that’s probably the vast majority!

Hmm, yeah, ok, there’s a connection there. Similar message, different execution! 🤘

The delayed Channel 7 AFL broadcasts are pretty contemptible in the days of the internet.

Here's me. "What the fuck was that?!"

Them boys be cooling their soups

All efforts ought to be made to ensure that Brentford get into the Champions League ahead of Liverpool and Chelsea. Open collusion would be acceptable.