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Gerry Harvey an Australian billionaire thinks Australia needs to be run by a dictator...


...to "get stuff done". Something like China would be just the thing he said.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11256663/Harvey-Normans-Gerry-Harvey-says-Chinas-dictatorship-way-Australia-things-done.html

Harvey has made his billions selling cheap Chinese crap at staggeringly inflated prices to dumb-as-fuck Australians.

Gerry also tried to evict the widow of one of his workers from a "grace and favour" style arrangement of free rent for life on one of his properties ( it was a part of his pay kind of arrangement ). Fortunately she was dying of cancer so he wasn't inconvenienced for too long.




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I sometimes think going back to Monarchy rule would be better. Consistency and longer term vision. Australia is becoming a guest worker state.

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I think our only hope Obi-Wan is handing the whole mess over to AI. That is if it develops enough to be up to the job in time to avert the coming disaster, which doesn't look likely.

The danger is not that a particular class is unfit to govern, [but that] every class is unfit to govern. - Lord Acton (1834-1902)



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It's a shame that some of the "Populist" parties have been rather disorganized. That is what we really need, a proper grass roots, regular people type of thing. At the moment our new PM Elbow as they call him is turning out to be more of the same despite his working class/underprivileged background rantings.

I don't know about AI. If I were in charge I would program it to say what I want it to say and have everyone bow down before me. But perhaps that is just me.

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Yes making the AI truly independent would be essential but that as you say would be unlikely to happen.

As far as Albo goes he's just like ScoMoFo in that he refuses to govern. They just sit there reupholstering the deck chairs on the Titanic and topping up their investment portfolios.


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Albo reminds me of Rudd. He likes playing to the world stage and has lots of big ideas. The problem is the average person is wanting answers in terms of inflation, the cost of living, hope in being able to buy a house, job security etc.

These things are boring to Albo and the Labor party. There isn't any glory in that for them.

I'm tipping one term for Albo. He is going the same way as Biden in the USA.

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The best thing about dictators is watching their epileptic hemophiliac on-the-spectrum psychotic heirs, or the biggest snake in the basket, being groomed to 'take over', while they simultaneouslly run their countries into the ground.

Its a petri-dish (or a 'peach tree dish', as one of our esteemed congresspeople in the US, would say) for psychopathic leader-breeding.

But anyway, what is this Australia of which youse speak ?

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Let me guess... and he would nominate himself for the position.

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And vote himself too!

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I’ll happily volunteer 👋 You have great beaches

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May as well. Entire country gave up its guns so they obviously want someone else to boss them around.

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This should be on the political board.

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You've got a nerve...

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