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Kwelaman

@kwelaman.bsky.social

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Writing essays (wish I could be like Clive James), read (mostly fiction, but also essays), football (the real type) and rugby, Coursera and all the courses available, music of all types, especially when the lyrics are good

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Kwelaman @kwelaman.bsky.social · 5h

I'm with you @chrisbowenmp.bsky.social , we need TAFEs and the people they train. Yes, they change lives. But don't get too damn cocky about Labor's record on education: Universities change nations; research removes the misery of disease; humanities make us all human. Labor is wrecking all of that.

Kwelaman @kwelaman.bsky.social · 5h

What a shame you aren't a little more like your namesake, Francesca, @albomp.bsky.social

Kwelaman @kwelaman.bsky.social · 11h

I'm looking forward to the day you aren't PM any more, @albomp.bsky.social .Birds of a feather flock together says the old cliche. You go crawl after the corrupt rapist, don't take Australia with you. The US is not our friend. Are you blind or is that horror of orange offering you something special?

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Kwelaman @kwelaman.bsky.social · 1d

OFFS. Imagine awarding a peace price to someone who changed the name of the Department of Defence to the Department of War.
Sheesh, Penny and Albo are a sycophantic disappointment

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Kwelaman @kwelaman.bsky.social · 5d

Trump's hand? Or is AI exaggerating something?
How do we know anymore?

Kwelaman @kwelaman.bsky.social · 7d

We all need to remember something about people to understand the world today

The Stanford Prison Experiment
exhibits.stanford.edu/spe/browse/v...

Milgram's shock box
youtu.be/Kzd6Ew3TraA

California's Third Wave.
www.historicmysteries.com/history/thir...

exhibits.stanford.edu

Kwelaman @kwelaman.bsky.social · 11d

Football ("soccer" to some) fans who plan to visit the US for the World Cup next year better start preparing themselves mentally and physically for American hospitality. Sports fans wanting to attend the Olympics in LA in 2028 too.

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Kwelaman @kwelaman.bsky.social · 11d

PLEASE @albomp.bsky.social don't associate Australia with this corrupt country. They are not our ally, we are their market for military machines that they never intend supplying.
PLEASE.

Kwelaman @kwelaman.bsky.social · 12d

OFFS

Kwelaman @kwelaman.bsky.social · 13d

More gaslighting ? He certainly seems to have no intention of representing the people of Australia, with his fawning selfies, FOI crackdowns, association with a corrupt US regime and a crumbling and out of touch UK govt, through AUKUS

Kwelaman @kwelaman.bsky.social · 14d

So we need a different PM then. This one's so weak. But anyway, our real masters are in the USA currently, so....

Kwelaman @kwelaman.bsky.social · 14d

Yah, okay, tax the rich. But more to the point TAX THE CORPORATIONS. They only pay 25% of the tax collected by the government. WE individuals pay 75%

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Kwelaman @kwelaman.bsky.social · 14d

Not just a target. It makes us an accomplice in America's corruption. It diminishes every Australian, reduces our own morality so we can't question the moral behaviour of others. It tells every Australian it's okay to be complicit with horribleness.
What was Albo thinking with this stupid selfie?

Kwelaman @kwelaman.bsky.social · 17d

So are we going to continue being typically apathetic, or are we going to flood the streets when the meatheads run one of their white men rallies? The rest of us, especially women, have a lot to lose if these idiots end up in power in Australia, you only have to see Trump;s UN speech to see that

Kwelaman @kwelaman.bsky.social · 19d

IS this the rapture?

Kwelaman @kwelaman.bsky.social · 19d

So under the coalition, Australia would become a vassal state of the USA. Maybe they'll change our name: how does Puerto Australia sound?

Kwelaman @kwelaman.bsky.social · 19d

Actually, I think he's more like Mussolini.

Kwelaman @kwelaman.bsky.social · 19d

FFS @albomp.bsky.social
When will you realise that Trump is not interested in you? When will you face up to the fact that America is not Australia's friend any more (if it ever was).
Just stop crawling after this corrupt ass, it's diminishing all Australians.
And dump AUKUS.

Kwelaman @kwelaman.bsky.social · 26d

Off you go then. Don’t slam the door on the way out

Kwelaman @kwelaman.bsky.social · 27d

DON’T DO THIS, Albo.
He's not your friend, he's not your ally, he's not Australia's friend or ally.

That's OUR money you're using for this, and it will only enrich him and his family.

Just dump this corrupt "treaty".

Kwelaman @kwelaman.bsky.social · 28d

Like Kris Kirstofferson said.

Kwelaman @kwelaman.bsky.social · 28d

Billions sunk into a bad treaty agreed by a ratbag Aussie PM, that will enrich a corrupt POTUS and his family.
The only way, it seems, that we Aussies can stop it, is if we can somehow unite and just sit at home playing board games until it stops. Don't work, buy only essentials.
One can dream

Kwelaman @kwelaman.bsky.social · 28d

@albomp.bsky.social DON'T DO THIS, Albo.
He's not your friend, he's not your ally, he's not Australia's friend or ally.

That's OUR money you're using for this, and it will only enrich him and his family.

Just dump this corrupt "treaty".

Kwelaman @kwelaman.bsky.social · Sep 11

OFFS. Corporations truly have not conscience, neither do CEOs

Kwelaman @kwelaman.bsky.social · Sep 11

OMG. Is there any place on Earth where people glorify violence and hatred more than in the USA?