Open Thread – Weekend 25 March 2023
2,134 responses to “Open Thread – Weekend 25 March 2023”
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Wait for Liberals to comeback in 2025 and make the choices that have to be made i.e. cancel all renewables subsidies, allow all gas/coal exploration & export to pay the bills for all debts due, sack 50% of public servants and get rid of spending on NDIS and Native useless bureaucracies.
The only parties that will do anything like that are the LDP and PHON.
The LNP needs a dose of the green dream.
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Wait for Liberals to comeback in 2025 and make the choices that have to be made i.e. cancel all renewables subsidies, allow all gas/coal exploration & export to pay the bills for all debts due, sack 50% of public servants and get rid of spending on NDIS and Native useless bureaucracies.
You crack me up.
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Turns out I voted for the four most popular minor parties.
https://abc.net.au/news/elections/nsw/2023/guide/lc-results
I frankly had no idea that Kelly was running. I almost voted for Bosi as a protest vote but couldn’t force my hand to mark a 5 above the line. I’m
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And yet De Santis is wildly popular by saying things the media would have us believe are unpopular. This is because De Santis delivers the the economic agenda that allows his voters to ignore the money tree appeal of socialist politicians.
Most of the population won’t die in a ditch over trans rights or climate change
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Yesterday’s election showed us something, rich or upper middle class people can afford to vote green and woke. For proof see the Libs who retained their seats in Sydney’s northern suburbs.
Poorer electorates in western Sydney could no longer afford Liberals’ green policies so they voted Labor. Sadly they will find out that they can afford Labor’s green policies even less.
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Wait for Liberals to comeback in 2025 and make the choices that have to be made i.e. cancel all renewables subsidies, allow all gas/coal exploration & export to pay the bills for all debts due, sack 50% of public servants and get rid of spending on NDIS and Native useless bureaucracies.
Why would this actually happen?
Morrison and Partothead closed down offshore drillling to suck to the Teals.
NSW is in about 125 bn AUD of debt as of now. Most of which was accumulated by the Liberals.
They won in a landslide in 2011 and did nothing.
They were toppled by bottles of wine and ukelekes.
If the debt grew to ~125 bn AUD, why should we trust them gem to sack public servants?
The NDIS is Federal and it was supported by Abbott. They have never cut spending on indigenous matters over a whole term of government. It’s always something symbolic and then shovelling cash like any other populist.
I will wait for Liberals to sign over their personal wealth to me before they come down like Valkyries to save us from a mess that is at least half their own doing.
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Stuart Ayres lost his seat in Penrith because he scared the living daylights out of them by letting the government propose a 10 (or was it 15) minute city on the outskirts of his electorate. Glenmore Park residents are aspirational who want like their spacious houses in a leafy suburb not 10-story tower blocks over a railway line.
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Ed Casesays:
March 25, 2023 at 9:53 pm
Matt Kean comes across on the ABC as a sharp guy who keeps it real.I’d say he’ll do well in Federal Politics.
Ed Casesays:
March 25, 2023 at 9:57 pm
Good grief, Parrothead is praising Minns to the skies.
Bottom line, tho:
He just didn’t have the goods.
They shoulda gone for broke after Gladys prolapsed and put The Keanster up.As usual, Richard Cranium is shilling for the fascist green left.
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Tanya Davies’ electorate is next to Stuart Ayres and she is safe. Moral of the story, represent your constituents.
Just a note, One Nation had about the same vote percentage in both electorates, almost double that of the Greens. The Greens preferences practically automatically go to Labor. Ayres could have won with One Nation preferences or their outright vote if he actually represented them. But it was more important to save the moderates’ seats in North Sydney. Enjoy, guys and girls.
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JCsays:
March 25, 2023 at 10:02 pm
Cassie of Sydney says:
March 25, 2023 at 9:56 pmWall to wall Labor, a complete f*cking nightmare.
Cassie, there’s an old adage in trading commodities that I think also applies to politics. Lower prices begat higher prices and higher prices begat lower prices. Wall to wall labor or liberal will eventually return the opposite.
IIRC, soon after KRuddy was installed, the senior elected Liberal in Australia was Campbell Newman as Lord Mayor of Brisbane, and the leftard shills like Dick Ed were gloating that the Liars would be in power for decades. Yet, not many years later, the situation had reversed.
The one sure thing with the fascist leftards is that they will overreach, and fall flat on their faces, sooner rather than later.
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Knuckle Draggersays:
March 25, 2023 at 11:28 pm
Just watched a bit of that NZ trannie footage.It’s weird that an actual woman, campaigning that actual women should have their voices heard is physically smacked up and vocally drowned out by hairy blokes in dresses pretending to be women.
Attention all feminists: You own this.
AS do the leftards who went from screeching “Missssoygineeeee” to wailing “Trans women are women, women can have a penis”.
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Franksays:
March 26, 2023 at 12:11 am
They need a long stretch in the wilderness to figure out a new way of presenting as a viable and logical party of government, because they are in a deep, deep hole at the moment.Seems like those noises were made once before, when Rudd got voted in.
And in under a decade, the Liars were well on the back foot.
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If the strategy is simply to wait until Labor gets tired, the Libs might be waiting a while.
12 years maybe? The election result can be explained almost entirely by the “it’s time” factor and the Opposition not being seen as an implausible option. Obeid and Macdonald are in gaol, their colleagues long gone. Job done.
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Kerry Chikarovski on Sky is blaming Mark Latham for the Loberals’ loss, you see he is a wrecker.
Her other excuse is that the retiring members left it too late to announce which left too little time for the replacement candidates to make themselves known. That could be true but not enough to make a difference if their overall message wasn’t on the nose with the voters.
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If Minns was clever and had a sense of humour before the next election he could announce to build a wind turbine next to every mobile phone tower in North Sydney. The outraged shrieks will be heard in Sydney’s west and then Minns could accuse the Liberal moderates of not caring about achieving nett zero carbon emissions.
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One Nation did reasonably well here. The Liberal candidate was three weeks in the job. Well done twits.
ON received around 3.2k to the Lib’s 4.6k, but Lab romped home with over 12k.
I wonder what voters will do when Tomago and other industries close their doors? At least they’ll have plans for a new high school at Medowie. Perhaps it can be a School for Excellence in survival skills, including form filling.
As for the failed Chicka, she’s on the same level as the Princess of Scotland Island. A grating noise in the dark, mumbling over lost glory.
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THEY LIED PEOPLE DIED!
TRUTH BE TOLD march in LONDON today.
We seek TRUTH, we seek JUSTICE, we won’t stop until we have both!
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One commentator on Sky hit the nail on the head… For the last year the Liberals in NSW have been an absolute shitshow and gave as an example the Barrilaro job.
That they couldn’t find candidates is another sign. There were plenty of potentially winnable ALP seats, they needed to preselect a candidate at least a year out, and get them known to the electorate.
Obviously pissing off the rank and file also has an effect. Mrs Ds crones still on the Central Coast part of the Swansea electorate (Gorokan, Toukley, Budgewoi and points north) reported absolutely nobody handing out Lib htvs.
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If Kean now becomes SFL leader — virtually inevitable with Perrotet quitting — the SFLs will have to spend at least another decade on the opposition benches until Kean gone before they can get back in government.
Kean is the biggest single reason the SFLs lost government yesterday. He’s not part of any solution.
As CL said here yesterday in fewer words, the religious frenzy about the need for unreliable electricity is a fantasy for athiests built on junk science. Carbon dioxide is a trace gas and does not drive global temperature.
But it was never about the weather or the power supply. The whole idea of the green dream is to bring down the capitalist free market by government edict.
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The Libs weren’t a “good government that lost its way”.
They were a lousy government intentionally heading towards a cliff.
The only pity I feel is for those members who fought the zeitgeist and still went over. I have no mercy for the ones who pushed from behind and still retained their seats. They are an abomination.
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Italians Refuse to ‘Eat Ze Bugs’
Our WEF overlords may want us to ‘eat ze bugs’ and be happy, but Italians are having none of it, as their Government has banned the use of insect flour in pizza and pasta.
They are actively trying to pollute the food supply.
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Dr. @ScottAtlas_IT: “Lockdowns were known for 15 years to not work and be extremely harmful.”
“The agencies colluded … with social media to take down truth — including, most recently, about the vaccine side effects.”
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As for the failed Chicka, she’s on the same level as the Princess of Scotland Island. A grating noise in the dark, mumbling over lost glory.
Kerry is also a political princess, her father is Greg Bartels who apart from being a one time North Sydney mayor also worked at the UN in NY for five years where the then primary school age Kerry met Robert Kennedy which inspired her to go into politics, as per Wikipedia.
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I see that the Eeyores are out and about here, as usual.
Typically ahistorical, they apparently know nothing about the founding of the Liberal Party, which came out of splits and electoral failure.
No, no – the World Is Coming To An End!
Parrothead and Co. were hopeless at looking after the regions – in one seat there was a 35% swing against the sitting member. People whose lives had been ravaged by bushfires and floods were rightly furious at slow and sometimes non-existent responses from Macquarie Street. On the contrary, the regulatory requirements just made life harder for them. They couldn’t knock up a cheap temporary dwelling on their land while they were waiting for permission to rebuild their homes, for example. Better that they should live in their cars.
Still, for once it is Labor that is left with a lot of debt not of their making. See how they like it.
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If we take the OCEAN psych assessments seriously, progressives are more open to experience, more open to exploring new ideas, while conservatives are are followers.
Not so. In Marxist world, the one we live in today, ‘progressives’ are wide open to media-induced panic over things that aren’t happening and won’t happen – such as a Covid ‘pandemic’ requiring lockdowns or a frying planet requiring unproven so-called ‘renewables’.
The definitions of ‘progressive’ and ‘conservative’ seem very suss in this psych series when applied to mass-media ‘scientism’, i.e. manipulation of what should be scientific rationality. Political conservatives tend to be rationalists, realists and scientific empiricists. Political ‘progressives’ are scientifically credulous and very swayed by emotional appeals and utopian or catastrophic thinking.
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Real Deal says:
March 26, 2023 at 9:05 am
Minns, like Perrottet seems a decent person. But like Perrottet he will not be allowed to think and act according to any private convictions. He will be captive to the factions and activists, just like his predecessor.And if he doesn’t get a workable majority he will be beholden to Alex Greenwich. At that point his cleanskin image and family friendliness will become irrelevant. He will be expected to dance the Gladys jig with the degenerate Greenwich.
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No One Ever Complied Their Way Out of Tyranny: The Three Basic Truths About Government
1. Government never relinquishes power voluntarily.
2. Government will abuse any new power to the maximum extent possible.
3. Compliance emboldens the government to do something even worse.
@RobertKennedyJr: “So if you think that by obeying these rules that somehow things are gonna get better, or it is going to satiate the need to control you. It’s not. It’s just going to embolden them to do something worse than next time.”
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Elon Musk tells employees to get back in office with 2:30 am memo
Twitter’s CEO Elon Musk sends memo to staff reminding them that ‘office is not optional’ as more companies move away from remote work
According to Platformer managing editor Zoë Schiffer, Musk emailed employees at 2:30 in the morning, writing that “office is not optional.” In the email, he complained that half of the San Francisco headquarters was empty the day before.
Musk is not a fan of remote work. Back in November, he ended Twitter’s work-from-home accommodations, telling employees within driving distance of the office that they needed to show up in person or consider their “resignation accepted.”
Last summer, he sent a similar note to his employees at Tesla, telling employees they were required to spend a minimum of 40 hours in the office per week. “Remote work is no longer acceptable,” was the subject line of that email.
Since his $44 billion acquisition of the social media platform, Musk has shown no qualms about showing the door to Twitter employees who aren’t down with his vision. He’s ordered several rounds of layoffs, both as a cost-cutting measure and as a means of excising those who don’t agree with the direction he’s taking the company.
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Forget Exploding Chemical Plants – Video captures moment historic chocolate factory exploded, killing several
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m0nty says:
March 26, 2023 at 9:07 am
Man, I remember when big election losses on the Cat used to induce some level of humility. Not any more I guess, the bubble is too deep. Conservatism can never fail around here, it can only be failed.You don’t even know what to criticise anymore. You’re like Buffy Summers in a world with no Big Bad.
However, that is correct and noting the absurdity does not make it untrue.
The Liberal Party betrayed its base. You’re about eight years at least off the pace, but it goes back to Fraser.
A lack of humility doesn’t mean we’re wrong.
I never joined the Liberal Party. I could see it was a walking corpse already.
Elected representatives work for us. When they have a mandate they don’t use and cave in on every issue, the condemnation will always be swift and to the balls.
Here’s the thing. I will give Minns a chance: deliver on his promises and make NSW fiscally responsible and give us back our civil liberties. If he doesn’t, he will get fairly criticised as well and champagne will pop when he is unceremoniously kicked to a political death via “spending more time with fam”.
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Obviously pissing off the rank and file also has an effect. Mrs Ds crones still on the Central Coast part of the Swansea electorate (Gorokan, Toukley, Budgewoi and points north) reported absolutely nobody handing out Lib htvs.
At my polling station there were only Labor and Lib people handing out HTV leaflets, two very young guys who chatted amiably in between voters. No minor parties had anyone there or their signs on fences or corflutes. And even without any spruiking One Nation still got about 8.5% of the vote compared to the Greens’ 5%. Greens are irrelevant in Sydney’s west, on the other hand why would they go to any trouble when the two major parties are doing what the Greens want.
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“The events of this week have underlined the fact that Cranky is completely out of touch with modern reality. A frightbat of the highest order, Mrs Mangel on pingas. No one of any note listens to her shrill opinion on anything. No wonder she is cranky.”
Oh dear, it seems the Jew hating misogynist pervert apologist gets up early to run to the keyboard to further gloat here on this blog. How utterly sad, it’s a Sunday morning and he should be spending time with his children. The thing is racist, IT’S YOU who’s completely out of touch with modern reality. By the way, as I wrote above, I think it’s high time you were given your marching orders from here. You gloat over women being physically attacked, that’s a low mark for any troll, and for any blog. Oh and does your wife know you’re a pervert apologist? Does your wife know you have no problems with biological males with penises in women and children’s safe spaces? Here’s my bet, probably not. Again I’ll state, you should be kept away from women and children, for their own safety. But let’s begin with you being kept away from this blog, because you’re a shit stain on it.
I’ll say this about “Numbers”, rain or sunshine he was at Sinc’s old site, plodding away. He didn’t just come when times were “good” for his side. No, but you? You’re so morally and intellectually bankrupt along with being such a grotesque and obscene grub, that you’re only “brave ” enough to come here and gloat when you deem things to be going well for your “side”. Well racist (and you are a racist), there’s an old adage that “the tide turns”, it’s basic science, much like females don’t have penises.
the Jew hating misogynist pervert apologist is gloating. He must have gotten up early to rush here to dribble his crap here.
No, many here listen to my opinions. In fact I have friends, something you clearly don’t have. I go to parties, to
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The Voice
A Question That Trades on Ignorance
Peter Smith
On the verge of a confected blubber, tellingly befitting tragedy rather than triumph, Anthony Albanese explained that all Australians had to do was vote ‘yes’ to the referendum question:
A proposed law to alter the Constitution to recognise the first peoples of Australia by establishing an Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Voice. “Do you approve this proposed alteration?”
This is entirely deceptive. Political shenanigans. Most people have not been following the ins and outs of the debate. I know, I’ve tested people whom I know.
The question explains nothing. Albanese is banking on snowing people; playing on their naivety; on their goodwill; on their emotions.
The referendum question should contain elements of the insertion to be made into the Constitution; and more, as I will explain, if voters are to be halfway informed. Below is the latest form of the proposed insertion. I have shown changes from the form originally proposed by the prime minister. Added words and changes to the order of words are shown in brackets, consequent deletions are shown as strike outs/(Bold).
There shall be a body, to be called the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Voice.
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Voice may make representations to the parliament and the executive government [of the Commonwealth] on matters relating to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples.
The parliament shall, subject to this constitution, have power to make laws with respect to [matters relating to the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Voice, including its] the composition, functions, powers and procedures of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Voice.
The only change of substance is that the Parliament is no longer restricted to making laws on the composition, functions, powers and procedures of the Voice but can also make laws on other matters to do with the Voice. But, importantly, making representations to executive government remains a power of the Voice despite objections by the Attorney-General, and by a number of legal commentators who have retained their nous and common sense.
My point is not to do with basic objections to the Voice. Nonetheless, it bears repeating that it will give rights to one group denied to others purely on the basis of racial origin. Why this is acceptable in an enlightened democracy is beyond reason. Why it is supported by certain senior members of the legal fraternity is explicable only in a society gone badly wrong.
There are numbers of ways modern-day society has gone wrong. In this particular case, it comes down, I believe, to extoling victimhood. Lots of Aboriginal people have been convinced by contemptible leaders that they are victims without agency. It’s a hateful thing to have done; it brings people down; makes them mendicants. Robs them of their self-regard. As to legal eagles, don’t be fooled, not all of them are very bright (e.g., condemning Cardinal George Pell because in their view it wasn’t impossible for him to have done it?). Some are ambulance chasers seeing opportunities in victimhood. Many are thoroughgoing leftists intent on piling mischief and misery on civil society.
To my point and the stripped-down simplistic Voice referendum question. This was the question in the republic referendum of 1999.
A Proposed Law: To alter the Constitution to establish the Commonwealth of Australia as a republic with the Queen and Governor-General being replaced by a President appointed by a two-thirds majority of the members of the Commonwealth Parliament. “Do you approve this proposed alteration?”
This was the question in the 1967 referendum on the status of Aboriginal people.
Question. DO YOU APPROVE the proposed law for the alteration of the Constitution entitled— “An Act to alter the Constitution so as to omit certain words relating to the People of the Aboriginal Race in any State and so that Aboriginals are to be counted in reckoning the Population”?
Of course, the constitutional amendments themselves were more detailed but still the essential detail is in the questions. People who hadn’t closely followed the debate would have understood the substance of what they were voting for or against. Not so with the Voice.
The proposed question has no detail at all. It simply asks whether you approve of the Voice.
This wouldn’t be nearly solved by adding to the question part of the words proposed to be inserted into the Constitution (specifically the second paragraph). It would still leave the question short of essential detail, like how representatives constituting the Voice will be elected or selected and by whom. Here is a more informative question. Bear in mind that you might do better. I’m no expert at drafting referendum questions.
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What’s clear is that yesterday the Liberals poured money into seats like Hornby and Vaucluse to fend off Teals and other green left independents and by doing so gave electorates like Riverstone, an electorate filled with first home owners and tradies, an electorate that should represent the future of the Liberal Party, to Labor.
Credlin was right last night when dealing with that vacuous blond on the Sky panel
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m0ntysays:
March 26, 2023 at 9:07 am
Man, I remember when big election losses on the Cat used to induce some level of humility. Not any more I guess, the bubble is too deep.Hmmmm, which is worse, accepting the need for change, or rampant hubris over a victory that will, as in all politics, be only temporary?
Remember m0nty=fa, after Hubris comes Nemesis. See also Whitlam, Keating, R-G-R, Carr, someone forgettable, another forgettable, Bambi.
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Don’t let women speak, especially not Moira Deeming
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“Kerry Chikarovski on Sky is blaming Mark Latham for the Loberals’ loss, you see he is a wrecker.
Her other excuse is that the retiring members left it too late to announce which left too little time for the replacement candidates to make themselves known. That could be true but not enough to make a difference if their overall message wasn’t on the nose with the voters.
Kezza Chiko roll. LOL. An utter failure.
She might have a point about “retiring members” but again, the problem with the NSW Liberal hierarchy is that with many of the seats, they only nominated candidates weeks ago whereas Labor had men and women on the ground months ago.
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Once again munty fails comprehension 101. Wage freeze for pubic serpents is fine by the actual people that pay their wages, the private sector. Pubic serpents get wage and conditions far above anyone in the ptivate sector and almost can’t be sacked. A wage rise in the pubic sector is a crisis for the private sector, idjit. The private sector has to pay more tax for it.
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m0nty says:
March 26, 2023 at 9:07 am
Man, I remember when big election losses on the Cat used to induce some level of humility. Not any more I guess, the bubble is too deep. Conservatism can never fail around here, it can only be failed.m0nty – the problem is you think ‘conservatism’ is preserving everything as it is. That is also the trap that the slightly-dry dullards in the liberal party fall into. To whit, Morrison’s recent comments.
People like Tony Abbott, John Anderson, and more recently Mark Latham are the leaders we pine for – those who take conservative values and interpret them for the modern world.
I personally see value in this NSW loss. Hopefully Kean will be installed as leader, and either wither at the vine before the next election, or if he’s still there, be so soundly defeated that he retires with his tail between his legs.
As has been said here many times, the SFL’s need to wise up or be replaced by a true conservative party.
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Ukrainian forces still trying to hold Bakhmut despite heavy casualties
Soldiers and analysts suggest defending city has become more of a political than practical issue, as Russian push continues
Ukrainian soldiers are being pummelled on three sides by Russian forces who are trying to capture Bakhmut, a city in the eastern Donetsk region that has become the focus of the longest and one of the bloodiest battles since the war began.
Ukraine’s authorities insist they will continue to try to hold the city despite them suffering an estimated 100-200 casualties a day – with some saying the reason is more political and symbolic than practical. Retreating from the city now, after so many soldiers died fighting to keep it, would be a hard reality to face.
The Russian push for Bakhmut started in July and intensified in the autumn after Moscow mobilised thousands of men, many of whom were Russian prisoners who signed up with the promise of freedom after six months of service.
Ukraine’s president, Volodymyr Zelenskiy, told CNN in an interview that retreating from Bakhmut would “open the road” for Russian forces to attack the neighbouring Ukrainian-controlled towns of Kostiantynivka and Kramatorsk.
“I hope we don’t have to leave, but we will if [the frontline] comes to us,” said Dmytro Yakovensko, a doctor working in the children’s hospital in Kramatorsk. Kramatorsk has been relatively quiet in recent weeks, as Russian forces have concentrated their firepower on Bakhmut.
But soldiers on the ground and western analysts feel differently, with Ukraine’s heavy death toll being suggested as one of the reasons Ukraine’s leadership has been unwilling to give up – and also the reason it should.
“In my opinion, it’s political,” said Andriy, a deputy commander in Donetsk region whose battalion is fighting in the Bakhmut area. Andriy, in his US-made camouflage coat, was standing next to a set of Soviet-era armoured vehicles that were being fixed. “The positions are ready [for them] to retreat to. The reason they are still there is more of a political thing.”
In the second week of February, pictures of blown-up bridges out of Bakhmut, in Ukrainian-controlled territory, started to appear online, indicating that Kyiv was preparing its retreat from the city.
Military analysts have said the logical place for the new line would still be some way from the neighbouring towns of Kostiantynivka and Kramatorsk and would mean that Ukrainian soldiers would stop facing attacks from three sides at once. And the US-based Institute for the Study of War believes that even if the city falls, Russian forces lack the “capability to exploit the tactical capture of Bakhmut”.
Furthermore, although western officials have estimated that Russia has had 20,000-30,000 casualties, Ukraine’s losses in Bakhmut could have a significant effect on its future chances.
“What! So just give up? I came back with five men out of 20 two days ago, including myself,” he said. “If we do that, then we might as well just give the whole country away.”
During Zelenskiy’s surprise visit to Bakhmut in early February, he declared it “Fortress Bakhmut”.
However, Ukraine’s considerable losses in Bakhmut have even led some to describe it as a strategic mistake that may harm Ukraine’s hope of launching a successful counterattack in the spring.
A commander leading the troops around Bakhmut, speaking to the Wall Street Journal, said that Ukraine was using “too much of the offensive potential” that it would need once the ground dries and firms up in spring, when both sides will be able to use their heavy equipment.
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This was the question in the 1967 referendum on the status of Aboriginal people.
Question. DO YOU APPROVE the proposed law for the alteration of the Constitution entitled— “An Act to alter the Constitution so as to omit certain words relating to the People of the Aboriginal Race in any State and so that Aboriginals are to be counted in reckoning the Population”?
That question was deceptive too.
At the time The Constitution was written, there were still nomadic Aboriginal people in Qld and W.A.
The concern was that those particular States would fudge the numbers to get more electorates.
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Dickless being thoughtful:
The Liberals have backed themselves into a corner.
Heads up arse is a corner I guess.
They currently represent the fossil fuel lobby, various other public funds arbitrageurs, evangelical Christians and… nobody else
Utter bullshit dickless. Matt kean, turdball, photios, parrothead are all evangelical alarmists and ruinables whores. Christians were expelled en masse from SA’s liberals; the real public fund sluts are the remaining unions through industry super which runs the biggest ponzi scheme this country has seen with $13 billion in annual subsidies to ruinables going to the unions and overseas grifters.
The libs have lost because they have given up any pretence of supporting conservative values: sex freaks run amuck, they support the screech and salivate at the alter of alarmism and ruinables. They’re a sickly version of the liars and filth.
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SITREP 3/24/23: Offensive Paranoia!
Offensives, offensives everywhere. Or not.Simplicius The Thinker
Mar 25Last time we left off, there was talk of the large AFU counter-offensive to unblock Bakhmut which was set to kick off wednesday or thursday of this week. Clearly it hasn’t come. There is now word that General Syrsky, the commander of AFU ground forces, has stated that the weather conditions are inclement. Rains are turning everything to mud and slush, and there are now whispers, including from Prigozhin himself, that the big counter-offensive has in fact been delayed to at least mid-April.
With that said, there’s still a lot to cover on that topic:
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Teachers in NSW after 10 years earn 113k and if they are judged proficient, with no management responsibilities, can earn 120k.
Queensland 1964 – 60 years ago.
Primary School teachers were on 1,100 Pounds/year.
High School teachers 1,200 Pounds/year.Now you’re saying they make that in a week in New South Wales?
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Elizabeth (Lizzie) Bearesays:
March 26, 2023 at 9:06 am
If we take the OCEAN psych assessments seriously, progressives are more open to experience, more open to exploring new ideas, while conservatives are are followers.Not so. In Marxist world, the one we live in today, ‘progressives’ are wide open to media-induced panic over things that aren’t happening and won’t happen – such as a Covid ‘pandemic’ requiring lockdowns or a frying planet requiring unproven so-called ‘renewables’.
The definitions of ‘progressive’ and ‘conservative’ seem very suss in this psych series when applied to mass-media ‘scientism’, i.e. manipulation of what should be scientific rationality. Political conservatives tend to be rationalists, realists and scientific empiricists. Political ‘progressives’ are scientifically credulous and very swayed by emotional appeals and utopian or catastrophic thinking.
Conservatives also engage in catastrophism. Rolling blackouts that still haven’t happened but wait, they will! The Left wants to destroy capitalism. If they wanted to do that the GFC was the perfect opportunity and they did the exact opposite. The lockdowns will cause a wave of suicides. Trans will destroy women’s sport, SSM will destroy the institution of marriage, the loss of religion will lead to anarchy, the vaccines will lead to widespread pathologies, the restrictions of the pandemic will become permanent. The deep state is manipulating everything. How many times should Australia, Japan, and the USA have gone broke now? Anyone keeping count on those predictions?
Politics is humorous because so many are declaring that their opponents will destroy us yet year on year out life continues.
That is politics after all ….
The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.
H. L. Mencken.
OCEAN doesn’t define political categories. The metrics are used to demonstrate qualities of the person. Openness, Conscientious, Extraversion, Agreeableness, Neuroticism. Then when matched against their voting preferences the pattern emerges. Will anyone object to conservatives being more conscientious and less neurotic? If I had mentioned that no-one would be complaining. To a certain degree it correlates with MBTI profiles. These tests are silly in a way because they only reveal what the person should already know.
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m0nty – the problem is you think ‘conservatism’ is preserving everything as it is. That is also the trap that the slightly-dry dullards in the liberal party fall into. To whit, Morrison’s recent comments.
People like Tony Abbott, John Anderson, and more recently Mark Latham are the leaders we pine for – those who take conservative values and interpret them for the modern world.
I appreciate the effort to engage with my point but that doesn’t make much sense, duncan. If Mark Latham is the answer, you’re asking the wrong question.
I acknowledge that conservatism is not – or should not be- just about inertia. How do conservative values get reinterpreted in a modern world and still resonate with the electorate as it stands now? They have lost the leafy suburbs set to the Greens and Teals. Labor still has a stranglehold on the working class vote, that won’t change any time soon. The Libs have also ticked off the middle classes with their austerity mantra. Every culture war battle is lost by the Tories in our diverse, multicultural, secular modern population. The conservative message has run out of currency.
Trump-style populism is a crock. Trump governed as an Establishment Republican, with tax cuts for the rich and an attempt to dismantle health entitlements. I don’t think there are many in the Liberals with an appetite for a return to Howard-era welfare, and they wouldn’t have the surplus to burn on it anyway.
A purge of the god-botherers and coal lobbyists would leave the Party with no constituency at all, but I think that’s the first step that needs to happen before figuring out what to do next.
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Poll Bludger update on NSW upper house:
19% of enrolled has been counted in the upper house, and it looks as if Labor will win eight of 21 up at this election, the Coalition six, the Greens two, and one each for One Nation, Legalise Cannabis, the Liberal Democrats, the Shooters and Animal Justice. This would give the left-wing parties the 12-9 win they need to take control of the upper house, but the current count is probably skewed to the left.
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Ed Casesays:
March 26, 2023 at 10:09 am
Teachers in NSW after 10 years earn 113k and if they are judged proficient, with no management responsibilities, can earn 120k.Queensland 1964 – 60 years ago.
Primary School teachers were on 1,100 Pounds/year.
High School teachers 1,200 Pounds/year.Now you’re saying they make that in a week in New South Wales?
did your Dr slap you too hard on your way into the world?
https://education.nsw.gov.au/teach-nsw/explore-teaching/salary-of-a-teacher.. and monster – you fail to consider perks like regional incentives, rent subsidy, salary packing, 17.5% leave loading, etc etc.
I just looked at White Cliffs PS: Benefits (on top of salary) of up to $75k
Rural teacher incentive(less value of rental subsidy, where applicable) $25,000/ann
Rental subsidy (deducted from rural teacher incentive, where applicable) 90%
Retention benefit (up to 10 years) $5,000/ann
Experienced teacher benefit (up to 5 years) $10,000/ann
Recruitment bonus (if applicable) $20,000
Stamp duty relief (if applicable) $10,000
Relocation benefit up to $5,000etc etc
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