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🎥⁩ ⁨Superreiche?
Können wir uns nicht mehr leisten.
Daher haben wir OMAS GEGEN RECHTS St. Pauli uns entschieden, bei der Demo des Bündnisses für Umverteilung am 1. Mai mit dabei zu sein.
5 Menschen – Männer – besitzen in Deutschland so viel, wie die ärmere Hälfte der Bevölkerung, also 42 Millionen.
Und uns wird weiter das Märchen erzählt von den Fleißigen, und dass sich Arbeit weiter lohnen muss.
#omasgegenrechts #klarekantegegenrechts #demokratieschützen #herauszumerstenmai #changethesystem

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@ajsadauskas @jaystephens Ta, interesting. I vaguely recall some of that, but your helpful toot defo provided more info than i knew.

I think something like this is why i feel, & tbh remain, so archly cynical... If Straya, & frankly the rest of the world, was genuinely honestly doing all the serious shit needed NOW to decarbonise & ameliorate, then seeking engineering solutions in flood zones like this would be ok. Knowing though that we & most others are totes NOT seriously addressing the crisis, fuels [boom tish] my severe pessimism, coz eg, engineering designs need engineering assumptions [in this case including expected heights & frequency of floods]. Such assumptions necessarily must be predicated on a certain "steady state" belief [plus safety margins thrown in]. That's all fine, IF we had reason to trust such assumptions. I do NOT trust them, simply coz there IS no steady state; humans are continuing to add more & more CO2 & CH4 to Gaia's atmosphere, thus more & more raising the enthalpy, ergo the heating energy, ergo... yada yada.

IF only I had a dollar for ever time I hear that the "system" needs to be changed and that the "system" is at fault and the "system" keeps us in badly paid jobs....

Well, let's change the system. Yes, we can. One example of a country that did things differently in 2008, look at Iceland which imprisoned bankers after 2008 financial crisis.

vox.com/2015/6/9/8751267/icela

Vox · Iceland put bankers in jail rather than bailing them out — and it workedBy Matthew Yglesias

social.chinwag.org/@abc_bot/11 I'm so utterly disinterested in this. I shan't even bother trying to watch His Maj Antony Green's wizardry on Aunty tonight. Whilst tis obvs that Lab will win again, i feel no positive passion at all about that. WA is totes state-captured by the abominable gas industry, & WA Lab have zero ethical superiority over their Liebs-Nats opponents. They're all climate-criminal arseholes.

Chinwag SocialUnofficial ABC News Bot (@abc_bot@chinwag.org)When will we know the results of the West Australian election? Here's what you need to know https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-03-08/guide-for-today-wa-state-election/105019922 #StateandTerritoryGovernment #StateandTerritoryParliament #StateandTerritoryElections #GovernmentandPolitics #Elections

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