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Ben Debney @landcucumber.bsky.social · 7h

Imagine a research screed in intellectual history with political economy, world-ecology, the sociology of deviance production and social control, and authoritarian psychology a la shit like moral disengagement, collective narcissism and conspiracist make-believe. Research choppers go mmm

Ben Debney @landcucumber.bsky.social · 8h

If you don't own property you don't have any rights, peasants. Quit ya incessant whining about all the harms we inflict on yas and ya endless fucken questions. Eat a bag of concrete and harden the fuck up ya pissweak 2-dimensional deviants.

Not woke but, on either count.

Ben Debney @landcucumber.bsky.social · 8h

Would that be counter-intuitive to the Hotline to God mentality of the born-to-rule types who also know for sure that individual freedoms and property rights are also the same thing

Ben Debney @landcucumber.bsky.social · 8h

Imagine if the hegemonic belief system of the west knew for sure you could have endless growth on a finite planet, and maintained a ghoulishly elaborate system of thought and attention management to make sure that it did until it couldn't. Would that be weird

Ben Debney @landcucumber.bsky.social · 8h

Would that be counter-intuitive to the Hotline to God mentality of the born-to-rule types who also know for sure that individual freedoms and property rights are also the same thing

Ben Debney @landcucumber.bsky.social · 8h

Imagine if the hegemonic belief system of the west knew for sure you could have endless growth on a finite planet, and maintained a ghoulishly elaborate system of thought and attention management to make sure that it did until it couldn't. Would that be weird

Ben Debney @landcucumber.bsky.social · 8h

Imagine if the hegemonic belief system of the west knew for sure you could have endless growth on a finite planet, and maintained a ghoulishly elaborate system of thought and attention management to make sure that it did until it couldn't. Would that be weird

Ben Debney @landcucumber.bsky.social · 9h

Here's an idea, let's ritualise breaking someone's heart along with ritual degradation, ritual humiliation, ritual debasement and ritual abandonment

Ben Debney @landcucumber.bsky.social · 14h

In March 2025 Battin explained his week-long absence from Parliament when Jacina Allen introduced crime reform legislation as "visiting his parents" impacted by Cyclone Alfred, before it was revealed he had actually spent 4 days on the luxury cruise liner Quantum of the Seas.

#auspol
#australia

Brad Battin - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

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Ben Debney @landcucumber.bsky.social · 15h

The ALP™ is a wholly-owned corporate property. The only thing they can ever do to surprise anyone is not stay bought

#australia
#auspol
#politics

michaelwest.com.au/wealthy-supe...

The One Percent has a super win as Chalmers caves. What's the scam? - Michael West

Treasurer Jim Chalmers has announced Labor is backing down on the proposed tightening of the super tax for the very wealthy. What’s the scam? The scam is how the Labor Government is letting hyperbole ...

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Ben Debney @landcucumber.bsky.social · 15h

It's only a crisis for peasants, that's why it doesn't get fixed

#australia
#auspol
#politics
#housing

michaelwest.com.au/the-solution...

The solutions they wont use to fix the housing crisis | The West Report - Michael West

Australia’s housing market isn’t a ladder, it’s a Ponzi scheme. And the government’s latest “first home buyer” plan? Just another injection straight into the property lobby’s veins. Michael breaks dow...

michaelwest.com.au

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Ben Debney @landcucumber.bsky.social · 1d

I sure as shit miss having a father who showed up. I chose that you know

Ben Debney @landcucumber.bsky.social · 1d

My old boy has been dead almost 20 years. 15 October 2005 was the day if memory serves. I don't miss him at all.

Ben Debney @landcucumber.bsky.social · 1d

My old boy has been dead almost 20 years. 15 October 2005 was the day if memory serves. I don't miss him at all.

Ben Debney @landcucumber.bsky.social · 1d

HEEERE NERDY NERDY NERD
NO ONES GUNNA HURT YA

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Ben Debney @landcucumber.bsky.social · 1d

'Recognise bad-faith actors before they have you hanging by your balls, check. The aggression is defensive because there's something about you that has a lot of free rent in their heads, check. I'm guessing it's not my advanced social development. Ow my balls.'

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Ben Debney @landcucumber.bsky.social · 1d

'What point is there in trying to engage in good faith with cult slaves alleging a tyranny of woke that isn't the mentality that saying bad things about crimes against humanity means you hate Jews?'

#freegaza
#freepalestine

Ben Debney @landcucumber.bsky.social · 1d

All Hail the Patron Saint of Tall-Poppy Syndrome

'When I was hanging by my balls from the fence, I realised being smart was going to be dismissed as a dose of the smugs by people whose idea of brain labours is sponging TV and doubling down on conjecture into wolfpack paranoia'

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Ben Debney @landcucumber.bsky.social · 1d

Don't be incapacitated and hope to live to survive the experience in #Ballarat

Ben Debney @landcucumber.bsky.social · 1d

All Hail the Patron Saint of Tall-Poppy Syndrome

'When I was hanging by my balls from the fence, I realised being smart was going to be dismissed as a dose of the smugs by people whose idea of brain labours is sponging TV and doubling down on conjecture into wolfpack paranoia'

Ben Debney @landcucumber.bsky.social · 1d

Ballarat is stuck with me again and is having a massive collective dummy spit over unintended consequences of its own historical neglect and indifference. Must be awks having unintended consequences wandering about the village.

Ben Debney @landcucumber.bsky.social · 1d

One funny thing about existing only as a 2-dimensional target in #Ballarat is that, well, living in the shadow of a mark has been home base since about year 8. #Ballarat never prepared me for life, so it's stuck with me again, but it did prepare me for what #Ballarat does best

Ben Debney @landcucumber.bsky.social · 1d

One funny thing about existing only as a 2-dimensional target in #Ballarat is that, well, living in the shadow of a mark has been home base since about year 8. #Ballarat never prepared me for life, so it's stuck with me again, but it did prepare me for what #Ballarat does best

Ben Debney @landcucumber.bsky.social · 1d

There's no place anywhere for me in the world. At least there's one inside my own skin at long overdue last innit

#cptsd
#ptsd
#blackdog
#depression
#mentalhealth

Ben Debney @landcucumber.bsky.social · 1d

After a few steps one of them said plaintively enough for me to feel it, yeah you're a nice dude.

Well, you were right, my young brother. I approach everyone I meet in #Ballarat like everyone I've already met in #Ballarat. Either completely rational or completely unfair, I'm really struggling LOL

Ben Debney @landcucumber.bsky.social · 1d

I was down the street today. I had to get milk. I was walking over the road to go see if I could score cheap coffee from the reject shop when I crossed paths with three teen dudes. They were mostly in black like goths. I walked through the middle of them and burped randomly as I went.

Ben Debney @landcucumber.bsky.social · 1d

I was down the street today. I had to get milk. I was walking over the road to go see if I could score cheap coffee from the reject shop when I crossed paths with three teen dudes. They were mostly in black like goths. I walked through the middle of them and burped randomly as I went.

Ben Debney @landcucumber.bsky.social · 2d

'Lurched into conspricist convulsions of collective paranoia and moral panic with increasing regularity, signal moments in history to the extent they were fundamentally defensive, reactionary, and indicative of autocratic maladaptivity in the face of the unintended consequences of autocratic hubris'

Ben Debney @landcucumber.bsky.social · 2d

I mean, are #history books 100 years from now, if anyone survives that long, going to be like 'in the final leg of the downward spiral, the west lurched into collective insanity, doubling down on the belief systems at the core of generalised global crisis into paranoid make-believe'

Ben Debney @landcucumber.bsky.social · 2d

Dear intertubes, is the cult of the normal well and truly disappearing up its own rectum completely as it aborts its ethical core, making a virtue of necessity and adopting it as a badge of honour, immediately prior to Wall St shitting the bed? Thank you

Ben Debney @landcucumber.bsky.social · 2d

I mean, are #history books 100 years from now, if anyone survives that long, going to be like 'in the final leg of the downward spiral, the west lurched into collective insanity, doubling down on the belief systems at the core of generalised global crisis into paranoid make-believe'

Ben Debney @landcucumber.bsky.social · 2d

Dear intertubes, is the cult of the normal well and truly disappearing up its own rectum completely as it aborts its ethical core, making a virtue of necessity and adopting it as a badge of honour, immediately prior to Wall St shitting the bed? Thank you

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Ben Debney @landcucumber.bsky.social · 2d

Dear intertubes, is the cult of the normal well and truly disappearing up its own rectum completely as it aborts its ethical core, making a virtue of necessity and adopting it as a badge of honour, immediately prior to Wall St shitting the bed? Thank you

Ben Debney @landcucumber.bsky.social · 2d

Just fixed something electronic for the first time in my life ha. Winning

Ben Debney @landcucumber.bsky.social · 3d

The Western Empire is well along the downward spiral of decay and eventual, and completely foreseeable collapse. The cultish levels of social and intellectual repression are testament to the rigidity of the maladaptive.

How many times have we been here since 1492? More than once.

#history