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Robert McDougall @sylvanheathcote.bsky.social · 21h

This is how the right wing media started on the greens in Australia when they started winning seats “OMG, drugs!”. Then they started saying “it’s bad that they don’t like Israel!”, but they stopped using that second one for some reason we’ll never know…

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Robert McDougall @sylvanheathcote.bsky.social · 21h

But you know they still felt soooo clever when they found that picture…

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Robert McDougall @sylvanheathcote.bsky.social · 1d

This sounds like the actions of someone who deserves a Nobel Peace Prize..,

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Robert McDougall @sylvanheathcote.bsky.social · 3d

This feels inspired by the UK Greens rocketing membership numbers?

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Robert McDougall @sylvanheathcote.bsky.social · 5d

Wait, this isn’t a parody?

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Robert McDougall @sylvanheathcote.bsky.social · 7d

Yet the Fed’s paid thugs are still abducting people off the streets. How is it fair that they get to keep their jobs while so many people who do important work suffer?

Robert McDougall @sylvanheathcote.bsky.social · 13d

The (extra) scary bit is the question of what might move us out of the second hole…

Robert McDougall @sylvanheathcote.bsky.social · 15d

I feel I should chime in to say I finished it too a few weeks ago (after starting in 2019 and taking a big break for reasons unrelated to the book’s quality). I enjoyed it so much it’s made me seek out other actual books for the first time in years. Brandon Sanderson can thank you for some sales!

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Robert McDougall @sylvanheathcote.bsky.social · 15d

No, flood the market with fossil fuels and you’ll keep them cheap. You also give up the ability to convince other, mostly poorer, nations to do the same. Leader of a devolving country has much less incentive to shut down their FF production if rich assholes in Aus are still going.

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Robert McDougall @sylvanheathcote.bsky.social · 15d

And if the externalities of fossil fuel use - even not counting climate change change, just particulate pollution and such - were included in the price they world never be anywhere near close to competitive.

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Robert McDougall @sylvanheathcote.bsky.social · 15d

Consumers use fossil fuels because it’s near impossible to live a modern life without doing so. The alternatives exist and are now economically competitive, but governments subsidise FFs to keep prices artificially low - thus there’s buyers for the glut of supply Aus and others produce.

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Robert McDougall @sylvanheathcote.bsky.social · 16d

Basic economics - reduce supply, prices will increase, demand will decrease. Renewables win even more than they would be now if it weren’t for the massive subsidies governments worlds wide give fossil fuels.

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Robert McDougall @sylvanheathcote.bsky.social · 16d

It’s important to can this stuff out then go approve every fossil fuel project the lobbyists ask for anyway.

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Robert McDougall @sylvanheathcote.bsky.social · 16d

It’s not in the slightest bit settled. We were told it would be wonderful, but it’s impoverished the country and robbed us of our freedom. Starmer knows this. Why you’d spend your life trying to become PM, only to do nothing when you achieve that is beyond me.

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Robert McDougall @sylvanheathcote.bsky.social · 17d

Bold choice to go with beardless S1 Riker…

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Robert McDougall @sylvanheathcote.bsky.social · 17d

Libertarianism is just the dumbest philosophy all round. Conservatives suck but make sense - they’re selfish and want money. Libertarians just think that they’re totally self made while being totally dependent on society for everything and somehow not understanding.

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Robert McDougall @sylvanheathcote.bsky.social · 18d

So we aren’t allowed wind turbines because these idiots think they harm whales (they don’t) yet we have to have shark nets that actually kill whales. Cool.

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Robert McDougall @sylvanheathcote.bsky.social · 20d

There is no level of harm that this government won’t inflict on everyone in order to prove to the racist assholes that they’re inflicting hard on the people those racist assholes don’t like. See also, their crazy devotion to maintaining the Tory’s ridiculous Brexit project.

Robert McDougall @sylvanheathcote.bsky.social · 22d

And the fossil fuel lobbyists who’ve spent so much money stopping renewables will surely just roll over and accept fusion power…

Robert McDougall @sylvanheathcote.bsky.social · 23d

No, but they don’t bother reading anything. They consider their job to be to turn up and let people in to do inspections (having on information on the place being inspected and thus no capacity to answer questions) and picking one of three proforma responses to emails. Job done.

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Robert McDougall @sylvanheathcote.bsky.social · 23d

Real estate agents don’t do any actual work. All they do is rely with one of three standard non-answers, anything else is beyond their job description

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Robert McDougall @sylvanheathcote.bsky.social · 23d

This is exactly what the party of “fiscal responsibility” and “ending government intervention in people’s lives” should be doing.

Robert McDougall @sylvanheathcote.bsky.social · 25d

When will a single journalist all a single one of these idiots this: if not 0, what annual increase in CO2 PPM are you happy with? That single question would severely hamper this stupidity.

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Robert McDougall @sylvanheathcote.bsky.social · 29d

Let’s hope. I would be 0% surprised if there’s a cowardly walk back of that support from someone in the government.

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Robert McDougall @sylvanheathcote.bsky.social · 29d

Sadly, what’s the bet the ABC finds some feeble excuse to fire him now…

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