The issue for any corrupt venal government like Australia's is that they have access to unlimited public money, but they can't spend it directly on themselves.
They have to arrange with corporations & businesses to pretend to fund projects, then the business donates some back
⬇ ⬆ I'd previously thought it was the other way around, businesses rent seeking by funding corrupt parties, but I now think, realising that governments can't access their unlimited funds, that the promise of the money to business at least must come first.
Remember Parakeelia too.

Suppose that you were a powerful rich person with powerful rich friends who want to take power over literally everything.
What would be the first step?
I suggest buying those who currently have power in each area you to wish to control, the governments & the press.
⬇ ⬆You need the press, the mass media, because they control everything that the people think they know. They have always pushed their own barrows, their owner's interests, they can easily rejig to your needs which are almost identical.

Next the government:
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I am concerned with what I see as the usurping, undermining, destruction of Democracy in Australia.
This has been caused by a convergence of partisan politics.
Let me explain in a long & boring monologue about the most critical element of Australian politics.
#auspol
⬇ ⬆Basically, in brief, Australian politics has yielded to the anti-democratic fascistic right that have taken over both major parties, the Liberals & Labor.
This story has its roots back in Second World War fascist Austria & features the Murdoch family at all stages.
#auspol
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@DoctorKarl Energy is neither created nor destroyed.

From Earth's point of view, any energy coming to us from the Sun stays in the Earth's system, land, sea, atmosphere as heat until it re-radiates into space.

The CO₂ in the atmosphere now trapping the heat will be here 1000 years. @DoctorKarl Perhaps people might reasonably think the Earth will cool off like a cup of tea.
Heat goes into the ocean, so maybe the Earth cools off.

No

The system, cup of tea/Earth can only cool when its heat leaves the system.
The CO₂ is a thermos keeping the Earth warm for 1000 years.

Here is a long & boring thread on my OCD paranoid fantasy about Fascism

#auspol #fascism Let's assume for the sake of argument that I am OCD & obsessing on imaginary fascism.

For the sake of my obsession I am defining neoliberalism, feeding the rich ruling elites & starving the poor, as fascism, also using Mussolini's definition of corporate state (& he defined it).

For those who find it hard to accept Modern Monetary Theory’s claims that currency sovereign nations with fiat currencies are unconstrained in the amount of their currency that they can create, & that they do not fund their spending from tax or bonds or anywhere

A thread: In my sovereign castle/home, say I set up a monetary system whereby I issue the kids with hand written notes of exchange for the chores they do, that they can exchange for treats or privileges from me.
They can trade these notes, let’s call them Relph$, amongst themselves.

One way to consider a fiat currency is like me issuing Relph$ to my kids for chores so they can trade between themselves for treats.
If I (as Relph$ sovereign) need to spend more Relph$, I just write on more pieces of paper, I don't need to get them back from the kids first.
#MMT >>#MMT ( above)
Likewise as a Relph$ sovereign, I can tax the kids so many Relph$ with penalties for default to ensure that they comply with the system.
Those Relph$ I get from tax just go in a secure bin, I don't need them to spend/create new ones. I can spend as many as I like.