Liam Hogan
@liamhogan.id.au
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Heritage yobbo. Intern at Dark Heart of Gradual Reform Pty. Ltd. All punked up on jupiter oil, rolling fifty deep. Mostly at http://aus.social/@liamvhogan
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Immigration (and exmigration) is good, has increased human welfare and human liberty, has broadened societies, and is a demonstration everywhere of a society’s dignity
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Does a mere measurable public health success mitigate the loss of human achievement, creativity, and simple joy that is teenagers drinking and doing drugs? I look to @benhr.bsky.social for the utilitarian judgement
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Unironically, the whole production of that show is low-key impressive. They pump out over 200 episodes a year. No time for endless takes etc. writing around logistics because they are filming in multiple locations at once.
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A pair of Korean backpackers at the campsite I was at had the most extraordinary setup. A campervan with a kitchen full enough to do a hotpot dinner. And a projector, and a big screen, and they watched Jerry McGuire. They asked me to take a picture of it all with them in it. Sure, I said. Sure.
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For everyone now following me with an interest in 80s and 90s Australian soaps
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Consider the alphabetic topic list of ‘storylines’ covered by the soap Home & Away, for a 7pm time slot and PG rating, and tell me its writers don’t have Godlike powers

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Home_an...
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Look the guy up, he did plenty, but also he did a lot of time
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One of the conspirators who helped Gavrilo Princip shoot Archduke Franz Ferdinand survived to see the breakup of Yugoslavia. He could conceivably have watched the Neighbours episode where Scott and Charlene got married
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you ever think about those real weird overlaps. like tennessee williams might have listened to the ramones
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Only bad if you owed money, that’s a skill issue
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John Macarthur would have been an utterly incredible poster and it’s only the 175 years that separates his death from the advent of the social media era that has prevented him from becoming the most hated Australian ever
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If I wanted to take advantage of Sydney property, I would simply be a member of the colonial elite, an officer, or a middle-class trader with access to capital, in the period in which large ‘grants’ were issued on the basis of preferment in the 1800s and 1810s
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Everyone wants to have bought a house in the 1980s. Real heads imagine the value uplift from having bought a house in the 1880s
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The Age View: "....... but you didn't did you, you dumb ****?"
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Yes. The Blue Mountains Panther is real
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The FBI has ordered all its agents to cease work and investigate sightings of large cats between Mt Victoria and Springwood in the Blue Mountains National Park
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Every free:man is a sovereign JP with full powers under the Magna Carta Act 1867
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The kind you buy in a second hand store
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Can you hear it? That’s the sound of #spill #itson
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Controversial opinion, this look is good and Ley gets away with it.

I would trust her to pilot a Cessna 172 across the border
Sussan Ley, in a cream hat, cream jacket, and pale blue shirt
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In the unlikely event anyone should want to honour me by giving me a symbolic gift of an obsolete weapon or bit of militaria, I’ll take one of those abandoned underground silos in a corn field dotting the American Great Plains, thank you
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Who would win: Francis de Groot on a borrowed horse with a sabre OR Anne Twomey in the commander’s cupola of an M1A2 Abrams tank
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It’s true, Australian political culture really lacks big swords as a symbol or gift item as part of State myth, I guess that’s what happens when the colonisation event happened in the era of file infantry.

But we can go one better, and on this Liam Hogan Thought insists: give Anne Twomey a tank
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Tired: Trump giving King Charles a sword owned by Dwight Eisenhower

Wired: Arnold Schwarzenegger making a speech about democracy, while waving the sword from his Conan movies

Inspired: Jeb Bush giving Marco Rubio a sword to unleash Chang, mystical conservative warrior
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Also geography complicates the simple strata/identity you’re describing: the experience of moving from renting to owning is very different in Toowoomba or regional Vic to the same shift in Sydney, and regional identity (in Australia meaning ’not-city’) is salient and powerful
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amazing watching tradcath converts discover they are protestants.