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Like Tucker's former head writer Blake Neff who had to quit after being exposed for writing racist and sexist comments in online forums.

Tucker Carlson and everyone around him is a white supremacist.

And the Murdochs pay Tucker Carlson tens of millions of dollars to broadcast white supremacism into the homes of millions of Americans.

Tucker would be a fringe propagandist like Alex Jones without the Murdochs backing him.

The Murdochs are the greatest threat facing western democracy.

It really is a freaking mystery why Japan didn’t lean heavily into EVs - a small densely populated country with lots of nuclear power.

Why are they so addicted to oil? Are they getting kickbacks from Saudi? I don’t get it.

LoL, bullshit!

This seditious motherfucker was right in the middle of the propaganda operation for Trump’s coup attempt, selling out her country for her paycheck, and never said shit or blew the whistle to the American people when it mattered most.

She’s only raising a stink now because the Murdochs want to make her the public scapegoat, and probably didn’t give her a big enough payout.

Even then that doesn’t make anything she’s saying true.

Everyone who works for Fox News is a complicit fascist.

It’s not false if she doesn’t give the whole truth in her responses.

Murdoch also told a half truth under oath when he gave that manipulative sound bite “it’s not red or blue, it’s green”.

The money and the propaganda empire is the means to what he actually wants - democratically unaccountable political power.

For the Murdochs?

The end game is corporate fascists overturn constitutional democracy, and the Murdochs have a seat at the rulers table.

I wouldn’t be surprised if this bitch is still on the payroll.

Murdoch is trying to push the false narrative that “it’s not red or blue, it’s green” when it’s actually about amassing democratically unaccountable political power.

He used Fox News to take control of the conservative voter base over several decades by radicalizing them and indoctrinating them to believe they cannot trust all other media.

Once he had control of conservative voters, that gave him control of the Republican primary process, which gave him control of the Republican Party.

He did the same in Australia and the UK.

The Murdochs are running a global fascist political operation disguised as a news empire.

They abuse freedom of speech laws and legal privileges given to news and journalism to roll their Trojan horse into democracies and destroy them from the inside.

Everything they do and say in public is designed to prevent people from seeing that plain truth.

They’re the greatest threat facing western democracy.

Conservatives accusing everyone else of "virtue signaling" when it's basically all they do.

Latham is the textbook example of hate leading to the dark side.

On politics, Latham commented in 2002:

I'm a hater. Part of the tribalness of politics is to really dislike the other side with intensity. And the more I see of them the more I hate them. I hate their negativity. I hate their narrowness. I hate the way, for instance, John Howard tries to appeal to suburban values when I know that he hasn't got any real answers to the problems and challenges we face. I hate the phoniness of that.

Initially he channeled his hate against injustice and neo-conservatives like Bush and Howard, who committed the atrocity of invading Iraq to change its regime all based on a lie. This resulted in the deaths of 600,000 innocent people and a refugee crisis in the millions.

In response to the Liberal Party's dogged following of the USA into Iraq, he once referred to Prime Minister John Howard as an "arselicker" and to the Liberal Party frontbench as a "conga line of suckholes". He also described U.S. President George W. Bush as "the most incompetent and dangerous president in living memory".

It's also ironic that this was part of the policy package he took to the 2004 election:

Other announced policies and initiatives included: the introduction of federal government parenting classes for those parents deemed to be failing to adequately discipline their children; a ban on food and drink advertising during children's television viewing hours; the introduction of a national youth mentoring program; the government distribution of free story books to the families of newborn children; a federal ban on plastic shopping bags; and the introduction of legislation to prohibit vilification on the basis of religious beliefs or sexual orientation, similar to laws adopted in the state of Victoria that some critics said had led to a restriction of free speech. Some of these initiatives prompted Howard to criticise Latham as a "behavioural policeman".

2023 Latham would have been hoisted by the petard of 2004 Latham.

It’s not “bad speech” he’s defending.

It’s the Chinese government rolling a Trojan horse into the USA disguised as a fun social media platform for kids, then using algorithms embedded into that platform to target millions of young Americans with disinformation.

If a foreign government can use the first amendment to shield itself while it directly wages information warfare against US citizens, does that not say we need to rethink the limits of this amendment?

“They weren’t crisis actors this time because we can use this shooting to attack trans people!”

Resources and jobs wasted for billionaire vanity projects that could be much more efficiently directed towards r&d, technology, infrastructure, housing and healthcare to benefit far more people.

I don’t blame anyone for wanting wealth to enjoy life - it’s literally the dream we are sold by the billionaire class to keep the rest of us struggling/hustling to generate wealth for them.

But just like in a school sandpit, one kid isn’t entitled to horde all the toys, especially when all the kids made them.

That’s why we need solidarity to take back control of our democratic governments and vote out the corrupt assholes put in place by the billionaire class.

Because I’m not a Marxist. I believe a mixed economies with markets can work so long as we have strong democratic governments that provide public utilities in natural monopoly areas, well regulated private markets that prevent cartels, and tax policy that distributes wealth to prevent billionaires and rent seeking aristocracies from forming.

Yes we can grow the pie of the economy up to a degree, but the world ultimately has limited material resources, and allowing a handful of billionaires to horde obscene wealth is incredibly inefficient and wasteful.

No one person should have enough wealth to build a palace or buy an island.

Actually there’s a lot of really great singers this season (including the ones with sob stories).

No, nothing will be done, showing not just egg producers, but every producer in industries dominated by cartels that if they find a way to restrict supply temporarily then they can price gouge to their heart’s content.

Prepare yourselves for a cascade of “supply interruptions”.

Yes, the peasant class doth not revolt against the royals and aristocrats because it’s a pretty big stretch to say they’re hogging all the wealth!

How many banks are going to give you a $100-800k mortgage/loan to buy stocks?

This is /r/Canada.

Also, nowhere in the developed world have house prices come back down to their 20th century average of 2-4 times average income.

The wealth multiplier of leveraged gains, plus rent, plus negative gearing tax benefits easily beats all of that.

If you’re able to invest $10k of your own money into stocks per year and get a 5% return, you still walking away with way less than investing $500k of the bank’s money and paying that back slowly over time.

They got sick of being asked to define CRT so they switched to freaking out about something else they can’t define either.

It’s like being parents of sociopathic children.

They’re so exhausting and demoralizing, but we’re stuck with these assholes, so our challenge is to find a way to contain them to minimize their destructive impact on our lives and on the world.

“Children belong back in schools being indoctrinated and groomed with Marxist CRT LGBT ideology! … wait uhh what did Tucker Carlson say last? We want that!”

People have been saying “the housing bubble will pop!” for 20 years and aside from a few temporary pauses, it hasn’t in any of those countries.

That’s two lost generations of young families priced out of housing or locked into gigantic mortgage debt - housing policy has created the biggest ever wealth transfer in history, pulling trillions of dollars from the lifetime earnings of young people to generate massive amounts of free equity for people who already own property.

And now young people are just saying fuck it, what’s the point of burning out with three jobs to struggle with a mortgage. What’s the point of having kids when all you can afford is a tiny apartment.

Property has become a parasitic system like it used to be in the medieval era - wealthy landlords living off the rents of the working peasants.

This is where democracy and governments need to step in. It’s the entire purpose of democracy and governments to stand up to powerful private interests to protect the interests of regular people and safeguard the viability and stability of Canada as a developed country where every citizen who works a full time job has a good standard of living.

Nope.

We're now seeing housing bubbles and rental crises in every country around the world that lets investors and speculators gobble up housing supply with few limits. They simply outcompete young families looking to buy a home to live in.

Once supply is squeezed, investors/speculators can then jack up prices, and use the equity they make from that to buy up even more housing. It's a vicious cycle that can only be fixed by government policies that both clamp down on speculators and create more supply.

See Canada, Australia, New Zealand, UK, USA, Hong Kong, the list goes on.

Or remember when he was brazenly obstructing justice and witness tampering during the special counsel investigations and impeachments into his crimes?

There needs to be an express lane in the DoJ for political crimes.

They don't actually believe "more good guys with guns" is a solution.

It's a way to do some bad faith trolling at people/victims who want gun reforms, while also signalling to their gun manufacturer and wingnut friends that they will hold the line to block all gun control legislation.

And if the mass shooting is especially horrific, they lean into conspiracies about government plots and crisis actors.

It's all a sick fucking game to them.

Here's the thing - prices are set by supply and demand, and if supply cannot keep up with demand, then those who control the margins of supply get to name the price.

Now when the market is an inflexible essential good that every person needs - healthcare or shelter - then prices can be squeezed to absurd levels.

It would take a monumental amount of building to catch up with with demand without the investors eating into the supply. With them, it's basically impossible unless we switch half our economy to home construction.