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Remember kids: cheaper products are shittier products. When conservatives say they'll reduce government spending what they mean is they'll turn vital government services and infrastructure that impact your quality of life into the equivalent of easily broken K-mart crap and it'll just cost more to fix it later.

It's cheaper - and better for you - in the long term to just spend enough money for something better.

Case in point: the NBN. Both Labor and the Coalition promised to upgrade the nation's internet. Labor's plan was $43 billion for world class internet but the Coalition won in 2013 on the promise of spending $29.5 billion for internet that was 20 times SLOWER than Labor's idea because of the inferior technology.

Who could've predicted that cost-cutting measures on Australia's largest ever infrastructure project would make it shitty?

The Coalition won in 2013, promised to finish the NBN in 2016, and then proceeded to blow out to $56 billion and by 2020 be only 90% complete, outdated, and already the Coalition was investing billions more to upgrade it because it was too slow for modern internet needs before it was even finished. The government wanted to sell it off in the future to recoup the cost, but now it wouldn't even break even if it was sold off.

The Coalition tried to cut spending and found that the piss poor service it was delivering was so bad it needed to nearly DOUBLE its original price and THEN admit that Labor's plan was better.

So when people say "oh the Coalition is better economic manager because they spend less" you can point out that no, they initially spend less, give you a worse product, then we need to spend MORE to fix it later. That's not good economic management. That's just bad planning.

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How do I get the word out about Dutton being a fascist when everyone I know wouldn't piss on him if he was on fire?

Engage with algorithms.

Follow people who point out the problems with Dutton (like, comment, share, etc) to boost their algorithmic engagement so platforms show their content to other people.

A really useful thing on Youtube is the dislike button. If you watch like 15 seconds of a video then dislike it, that discourages the algorithm from showing it to others. When videos get a bunch of dislikes their views suddenly plateau. Angry racist boomers were mass disliking videos during the Voice and it buried so much useful information. So we all might as well watch a few seconds of pro-Dutton content on the official Liberal party Youtube channel and then give it a dislike so less people see it.

DON'T comment though. That's positive engagement, regardless of what you say. Just dislike, watch 15 seconds of another, dislike, and encourage others to do the same. I know we want to avoid Dutton - but we need to seek him out online to show the algorithm we dislike his content so it won't get promoted.

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I cannot stress enough to you that all American government agencies are falling apart at the seams right now and they will not be put back together for the foreseeable future. EPA DHS ED VA FDA NIH IRS CDC HHS NPS etc... Elon Musk is dismantling everything. Anyone who resigns or is laid off now, the word we (I am an agency employee) are receiving internally is that their position will be abolished, not backfilled.

Do you like eating clean, safe food?

Do you like having clean, safe air and water?

Do you want experts monitoring developing infectious diseases?

Do you like getting tax returns?

Do you want your children to have free, quality, public education?

If so, you need to write to your senators and representatives RIGHT NOW. Trump is not obeying the rule of law. He is illegally firing all the inspectors general of these agencies (they are literally being escorted by security out of their offices) so that there is no one left to stop him from doing quite literally anything he wants. He has bypassed the internal structure of all of the agencies by plugging in external email servers to push typo-filled emails and memos written by employees of the heritage foundation directly into the inbox of every federal agency employee in the country, threatening to terminate them.

The rule of law is dead. The only mechanism left to stop any of this is mass public outcry via convincing your state's congressmen & women to do something, because right now they are staying absolutely silent and none of us in these agencies can figure out why. A massacre is happening right now and every single American will feel the material, concrete consequences of this in their daily lives very soon if nothing is done.

Please help me boost this information.

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George Costanza ass tweet

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Came across this in a report at work

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i think we've done a great job expanding the view of what a child's favorite animal can be. kids these days can say they love axolotls or pangolins or coelecanths and their decision is respected. maybe their parents can even find them a stuffed animal of it if they know where to look. and i think that's beautiful

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Antibacterial soap??? For your body???

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"neurotypicals have this special way of saying 'okay' that makes you feel like shit after infodumping your special interest" anyone can do that actually

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The void said hello 🐱🐈‍⬛

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No nuance

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Illustration of the Works of Mercy, from Sarah Fuller, LA Catholic Worker. 

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Recently discovered that Dr Dre's "Keep Their Heads Ringin" matches up uncannily well with the Cardcaptor Sakura OP