at my PhD grad ceremony the university gave a doctorate to an aging white male property developer whose folksy ol’ speech was egotistical and anti-intellectual nonsense based on his paperboy mythology.
incredibly, hold on to your bonnets, I also did menial low paid tasks as a child then grew up and did not destroy entire countries nor accrue millions of dollar from stolen lands but did complete the intellectual work required to obtain a doctorate.
everyone there who knew me - including my dignified and respectful tall wealthy white male dad - was looking around nervously during the speech and going oh fuck how is this gonna go down with Ingrid😂
no I did not disrupt proceedings. I have respect for the young people who were graduating that day. But what strikes me about this kind of thing is how rich white males think their hardship narrative remotely resembles the hardships of growing up outside their demographic.
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good morning from unceded Darug lands☀️today on #Insiders are ABC Indigenous affairs editor Bridget Brennan, 9fax politics chief David Rowe and murdoch associate editor Cameron Stewart. The interview is with shadow foreign affairs minister Penny Wong.
opening spiel: tough talk and targeted sanctions but Ukraine left to fight on its own. Russia mounts a brutal assault. #Insiders
the way political journalists relish war really turns my stomach. Bombs, tanks etc described enthusiastically. Anyway, what’s the Morrison perspective, skip? He is keeping his options open. #Insiders
good morning from unceded Darug lands☀️today on #Insiders are 9fax columnist Jennifer Hewett, 9fax columnist and former Liberal Party staffer to 9fax chair Niki Savva, and murdoch editor James Campbell. The interview is with Liberal Party backbencher James Paterson.
this thread is not factchecked. It is not reporting. This is comment, representing nothing and nobody else. I block snitch taggers. Regular reminder that whatever Speers frames as “bad news” for the pro-emissions pro-corruption pro-sex offender party is good news for the polity.
opening spiel: “the prime minister has set his comeback course”: cue Speers repeating Liberal Party campaign messaging, for free.
the Guardian could have chosen a picture of Liberal Party politicians for the thumbnail on a story about Liberal Party attack ads. But they chose to publish the attack ads - for free - instead. This is how it works.
for the 2019 election, the corporate press advertised Liberal Party death tax lies every single day. We are still three months out from the 2022 election and already they are obediently enabling and facilitating the Liberal Party campaign.
the federal energy minister is reciting electricity price talking points - speculative claims, no evidence, market theory gibberish - on RN as Liberal Party politicians have been doing in every election campaign since 2010.
it is not that they are committed to being honest with the electorate on how Jurassic their policy is and how clueless their ministers. It is a fundamental incapacity to adapt to contemporary reality. They are unfit in every sense.
ABC journalists repeating the racist attack on Labor, again and again. Four times in 5 minutes from Karvelas. Echoed, twice, by Speers. Laundering Liberal Party lies. Gifting airtime to Liberal Party politicians for pushing natsec propaganda.
press gallery journalists obediently ensuring that a slur - so unparliamentary his mic was turned off - is crystallised in the minds of low engagement voters, by repeating it constantly. Same MO as his tax lies. Morrison will be pleased.
they are incapable of attaching the lies Liberals tell to the Liberals; or a rebuke of the prime minister to the prime minister; or economic and public health and national security vandalism to its factual source.
under cover of the pandemic they pretended that audiences and readers - expressing disgust as we came to comprehend exactly how press conferences work - just do not understand how press conferences work. Morrison grade gaslighting.
oh no David what if a rich bloke empowers political candidates who are committed to action on climate instead of fossil fuel corporations giving money to the parties of government so they keep increasing emissions #NPC
last week it was press gallery journalists aggressively imposing partisan frameworks on *stopping rape*. This week it is on literal independent candidates. These people are not capable of understanding politics.
they can certainly embody the politics of envy tho.