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I think associating mass government firings to ideology is being too charitable. LNP are in government 2/3 of the time. They have created the small government they wanted. This latest idea is just to be cruel, nothing more. They are not good people.

I diverge from common thoughts here. I don't want my productivity going to prop up business lobby groups. Colesworth is the result of an economic system that cannot resolve the need for more efficiencies via economies of scale monopolies and the need for much competition to get an accurate price signal. No Australian party wants to tamper with the current economic system, so it was obvious this ACCC report was leading to nothing.

The News Bargaining Incentive was a shake down itself. It should be scraped. Most Australian media companies are the same trash as social media and should shutdown if they cannot survive. At least tech provides useful services other than propaganda channels for connected politicians.

Labor had control of Federal, WA,QLD,NSW,VIC,ACT governments and achieved basically nothing from your list. They had the opportunity do it and those chose to do nothing. Yes they are better then LNP but if they where to form a coalition LLNP the population would notice the difference.

Labor supporters complain about the media for why the party cannot implement their vision but while in power instead of taking them on the media's corporate propaganda broadcasted largely over public electromagnetic frequencies at heavily discounted rates; Labor decided to give it to Google instead.

That Albo can't even convincingly beat Dutton in proof he is the worst Prime Minister in the past 25 years. The whole centrist approach just means Federal Labor stands for nothing, completely spineless so no surprise they are hemorrhaging support.

Are there any Australian public Lithium mining companies that are growing? I have looked a couple of times, nothning extensive and they all are in decline.

That's the thing, people don't want to. Critical thinking for one it takes more physical energy, which is a impediment. People want to belong as it can be very difficult to thrive being excluded, so there can be an advantage to just go along with the dominate narrative. Hence why we are getting a onslaught of propaganda like this twitter post.

Teaching critical thinking skills it not a solution. People are not getting fooled, they want to believe it, it fills an emotional need.

Neo-liberal solutions to societal issues focusing on individuals has been a complete disaster. It is basically victim blaming and doesn't actually scale in many circumstances.

Eg. High house prices; Victims fault for not working harder and saving more. Neo-liberal solution: Work longer, spend way less. Outcome at scale: Economy crashes due to low spending.

The "manipulation" is normal bookmaking. Adjust the odds to entice gamblers to wager their money so the losers of a wager payout the winners of a wager and the bookmakers make money on the spread. So if there is a few big bets for Trump, Polymarket will readjust the odds to balance the equation.