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Matt

@mazzaboz

Here for knowledge and dopamine, mainly dopamine. Armchair expert, keyboard commando and occasional meme connoisseur.

 Perth WA
Joined September 2011
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Basically Australia has chosen a bad government over a bad opposition.
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Is it possible short individual ministers? Surely Jim Chalmers is done now.
AusPoll (@AusPoll6) profile pictureAusPoll
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🚨 NEW: Federal voting intention 🟧 ONP: 28% (-1) 🟥 ALP: 26% (-2) 🟦 L/NP: 25% (+4) 🟩 GRN: 13% (+2) ⬛️ OTH: 8% (-3) Two-party-preferred 🟦 L/NP: 53% (-1) 🟥 ALP: 47% (+1) ALP vs ONP 🟥 ALP: 54% (+2) 🟧 ONP: 46% (-2) RedBridge/Accent | 2-6 Nov | n=1005 | +/- 28 Sep-2 Oct
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Please do share about the election process: how did Chinese citizens choose Xi Jinping as their leader? Or how do they participate in selecting their provincial governments? I am also curious about how people can form or join opposition parties. And while at it, why is it so important to camouflage the one-party dictatorship as any form of democracy? I thought you were proud of your ‘superior’ system compared to ‘failing’ democracies.
Michelle (@D162Michele) profile pictureMichelle
@D162MicheleNov 7
Wait, I thought China didn’t have elections? How strange that not a single Western media outlet seems to have noticed this. Almost as if it doesn’t fit the narrative.
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The Goths were from Gotland?!
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James Savage (@SavLocal) profile pictureJames Savage
@SavLocalNov 7
The Goths really were descended from people from what is now Sweden, DNA evidence shows. science.org/content/article/…
A barbarian tribe’s mythic origin story is true, ancient DNA reveals

A barbarian tribe’s mythic origin story is true, ancient DNA reveals

Skeletons across Europe confirm the Goths surged out of Scandinavia before sacking Rome

science.org
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"1914 set the British Empire on the path to its destruction." That course was already set by 1871.
The Bazaar of War (@bazaarofwar) profile pictureThe Bazaar of War
@bazaarofwarNov 7
Naive counterfactuals never consider higher-order effects. It is true that the Anglo-German naval crisis had been defused by 1914 and relations were largely cordial; but that owed much to Germany's existing constraints - a German-dominated Europe would be a very difficult rival.
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Do I need to go on Wikipedia and become an expert on NZ politics just so I can know if the kiwis are going to buy bloody frigates?
henry cooke (@henrycooke) profile picturehenry cooke@henrycookeNov 7
With 100% of the non-special vote counted Labour is ahead of National by about 4k party votes but six behind on seats. If we were in a purely PR system (no threshold) the coalition parties would be ahead of the others by 17k votes or about 0.7 points.
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Ngl this is a good point
Andrew Follett (@AndrewCFollett) profile pictureAndrew Follett
@AndrewCFollettNov 6
This is entitely correct. Iran has been 5 months away from nukes for 20 years BECAUSE WE KEEP SABOTAGING AND DESTROYING THEIR NUCLEAR PROGRAM. Nuclear programs are profoundly complex, expensive, and large...and thus easy to wreck...but it takes constant effort.
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OTOH theres been Stuxnet and like 50 assassinations.
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This is an "enthusiastic endorsement?"
Bernard Keane (@BernardKeane) profile pictureBernard Keane@BernardKeaneNov 6
Never forget @AlboMP quickly and enthusiastically endorsed Trump and Netanyahu's bombing of Iran and has refused to ever admit it was illegal
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@mhar4@mhar4Nov 6
"In a shock outcome, results showed a drubbing for the incumbent Chinese Communist Party from voters frustrated with a sluggish domestic economy, and dismayed by turmoil within the party that has seen thousands of officials accused of corruption."
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I have read three books that feature UK intelligence shenanigans and I wouldn't be surprised if Kneecap was in fact, a British plant.
Aodh Mac Gabhann (@AodhMacGab) profile pictureAodh Mac Gabhann@AodhMacGabNov 6
Kneecap has done more damage to the Irish Republican movement than any mi5 psyop
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I'm halfway through reading this. I will have to research every british shenanigans in this book because it reads like Ian Flemings fever dream.
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Apparently a leadership crisis was part of the reason that Malayas communist party launched a "People's war" in 1948. Specifically the previous leader disappeared with a lot of the parties money. Apparently he was a British agent who was pulled out as they feared discovery...
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No crying in the Imperial casino.
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What did Machiavelli say about political enemies? Something like "destroy them completely or make peace otherwise they'll come back and fuck you up"
Swann Marcus (@SwannMarcus89) profile pictureSwann Marcus
@SwannMarcus89Nov 6
holy shit this is literally just a nonstop revenge election huh
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This is totally normal and fine
Yohanes Sulaiman (@YohanesSulaiman) profile pictureYohanes Sulaiman@YohanesSulaimanNov 6
New article in Asialink on recent drama in Jakarta asialink.unimelb.edu.au/dipl…
When Indonesia’s police bugged the President

When Indonesia’s police bugged the President

Revelations of a widespread Indonesian wiretapping scheme in which the President was bugged by his own national police highlights a behind-the-scenes power struggle and raises questions about...

asialink.unimelb.edu.au
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"Light frigate"...with 64 VLS cells!
J.Victor Fauli (@Victor35571262) profile pictureJ.Victor Fauli@Victor35571262Nov 6
🚨🇪🇸🚢Navantia presenta en Euronaval la fragata F-110 Flight II: una evolución centrada en la defensa antiaérea y antimisil que cuadruplica su capacidad de lanzamiento vertical hasta las 64 celdas. ​Las claves técnicas del buque para la Armada 🧵👇 infodefensa.com/texto-diario…
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I can fix her
A (@jaimeraamos) profile pictureA
@jaimeraamosNov 5
The daughter of Peña, ex president of Paraguay lmfaooo:
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