[ SECRET POST #2688 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2688 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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02.
[Frozen]


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[Criminal Minds, Elle Greenaway]


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04.
[Utopia]


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05.
[Prison Architect]


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06.
[One Piece]


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07.
[Orphan Black]


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08.
[Craig Ferguson]


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09.
[Sarah Rees Brennan]


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[Knights of Sidonia]


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[Star Trek: The Next Generation]










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Comments

Re: Political rants here!

[ryttu3k]

Uuuugh. I'm in Hockey's electorate, I'm seriously considering the merits of going to his office (it's a few suburbs away) and sticking giant posters with the word 'LIAR' written on them all over it.

The entire thing is just... fucking awful, and horrible, and sadistic, and cruel. Literally everyone who isn't mega-rich is going to be negatively affected, and the WORST-affected will be the most vulnerable people! How the fuck does that make sense?

The worst part, for me, is that it's so goddamn unnecessary. Our economy is - well, was - in really good shape. Australia was one of only ELEVEN countries in the world with a triple-A rating from all three ratings agencies. We were one of the few countries that weathered the GFC really well. But see, the problem from the Coalition's perspective is that... that was the ALP's doing. It was because of the ALP that we were in good shape. And the Coalition's entire schtick is that they're the ones who are financially responsible, and that the ALP are irresponsible spend-demons who send us towards spiralling debt or something.

So they have to manufacture this fucking 'debt crisis' fraud in order to make them look like the heroes of the economy and demonise the ALP.

It's just... fucking wrong.

Re: Political rants here!

[(Anonymous)]

DISCLAIMER: I am an American and do not know Australian politics. I apologize in advance for any

That said. Going by the American example, and assuming that the Australian right wing party is similarly guided by the interests of the ultra-wealthy, it might not just be about trying to demonise the ALP.

What I think we have seen, however, is that the ultra-wealthy do not care if the economy is good in broad terms. What they are oriented around is the return on the market and opportunities for capital investment, and that is a very different thing compared to the economy as a whole. So they have no interest as such in having a broad-based economy with decent wages, pensions, protection for workers, etc. They would rather make sure that they have a sizable population of people who are willing to take shitty wages and work long hours so they can cut business costs. They would rather governments cut taxes rather than fund social services. They would rather governments sell assets to them and privatize things at cut-rate prices so that they can move their capital there and make good rates of return. And so the economic policy is an opportunity to achieve those ends.

That might come off as sounding like some sort of conspiratorial thing, and I don't think it is. There are ideological justifications attached to all these positions and there are all kinds of ways in which position and interest shape political views. Where the way you see the workforce is shaped by seeing them as lazy while at the same time you're consciously trying to cut down on wages to them. Where the primacy of the private sector means that the best model for government is low-tax, low-expenditure, and a budget deficit is a major concern. But I do think the fundamental ideological drivers, in the American case and perhaps in the Australian case, on the economy is probably the economic interests, and not a desire to compete with the ALP.