We’ve watched the #LNP shoot itself in the foot, twice in both feet and redoubling its effort to dig its own grave. Now we’re being presented with a #Labor party apparently intent on following suite. #Unions and #LaborHeartland must be seething in frustration approaching outright anger by now.

I’ve been there and I’m not looking back. For me #Labor has lost its way, completely, maybe beyond salvage. The following is just furhter proof of it.

“There’s a tell when a politician has been captured by an industry lobby. The language shifts. The carefully prepared lines about “existing contracts,” “investment certainty,” and “there’s already a tax, actually” start flowing out with the smoothness of a media brief, because that’s exactly what they are. The Prime Minister Anthony Albanese on all evidence appears to have been captured. So has Resources Minister Madeleine King.”

Read more:
https://thepoint.com.au/opinions/260520-blink-twice-if-you-need-help-prime-minister

#AusPol #Lobbyist #ExtractiveIndustries #FossilFuel #GasGrifters #TaxReform #TaxTheRich #Antifa #AntiOligarchy #JoinYourUnion

Gowwd… this so resonated with me. Like a cathedral bell inside my head, banging me into some awakened state. It’s slowly dawning on me that it’s time for another change in the way I live my life. Here I was thinking, I got this. I know what’s going on and I’m prepared for it. I have skills enough to recognise what it’s doing to me. Well, let me tell you. No matter how prepared and skilled you think you are, you can be fooled given enough time. As an unlikable army intelligence instructor I once had to endure was fond of saying: ‘The system, given enough time and resources, will always break you.’ And it’s hard these days to recognised, among all of those we’re subjected to, which system is brainwashing because there’s so much noise generated around it.

“Thinking and writing have become harder. It’s as if the neurons in my brain don’t connect with each other in quite the same way. I go to check a fact and get instantly diverted by a hundred other distractions on my phone. I find myself unable to devote time to thinking and writing like I used to.” (Source: https://www.theguardian.com/media/ng-interactive/2026/may/06/how-to-survive-the-information-crisis-we-once-talked-about-fake-news-now-reality-itself-feels-fake )

Oh, and that Intelligence Instructor… the British officer? I guess he’d be long gone by now. He seemed unhealthy to me at the time, both in body and mind.

#InformationOverload #Modernity #LifeNotLived #NoiseSmokeMirrors #Writing #WritingCommunity #DehumanisingRiot #FakeNews #BrianWashing #Oligarchy #Fascism #Zioinism #IslamicExtremism #Propaganda #GroupThink #NewsSpeak #Politics #WarAndPestilence #Antifa