Telling the truth about issues just doesn't cut the mustard these days. Politics is better served with lies and power is what's truly important[sarc], just ask Nietzsche:
- Arthur Phillip did not employ cannons and landing craft to shell and storm the shore (hence there was NO 'invasion').
- So far, hold onto your britches, catastrophic climate change has greened the planet.
- Pacific islands are not sinking. The Pacific nation of Tuvalu, for example, “long seen as a prime candidate to disappear as climate change forces up sea levels—is actually growing in size” – Nature Communications, February 2018.
- Each year millions of people flee or try to flee to countries whose culture is — or was — based on Judeo-Christian values; there is no reverse fleeing.
- Immigrants who have knocked on the door and been let in are nowhere near the same as interlopers who sneakily break in.
- Unemployed white people living in the opioid-afflicted Rust Belt in the United States are not privileged.
- Capitalism has brought untold riches and lifted swathes of humanity out of poverty.
- Trump’s mannerisms when confronted by a report from Serge Kovaleski of the NYT – whose right arm is partially withered – were no different from the same convulsive mannerisms he has used on numbers of occasions to express befuddlement. This has been well documented by those who don’t hate Trump.
I choose not to mention the state of the Great Barrier Reef, except to say that relatively speaking its death throes put the length of Jimmy Cagney’s death scenes in the shade. It has been forever dying to my memory. Think about it. Would the budget have allocated half a billion dollars to protect a healthy, robust and resilient reef? Hardly likely
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