Peter Relph

Retired in the bush in Far North Queensland, Oz

Grumpy old bugger whose politics are still where the left was 50 years ago before they either fell apart or dashed off to the right.

Cornish, Welsh, English, possibly a tiny bit Traveller. Born in Bristol @310ppm.

Currently also @peterrelph@Twitter

Persona non grata on Aus.Social & TheBlower.Au, which says far more about their admins than it does about me.

L'Etranger, observing, wondering, despairing

#auspol #mmt #fascism

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2024-02-26 20:53:17

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Israel: The Prodigal Son who returns after 2000 years to throw everyone out of the family home & pick fights with all the neighbours. That's the last time they'll kill the fatted calf for you son.
https://relph.org/2431-2/

2024-02-23 22:52:32

Thus far they have only come for minorities
Now they are targeting a majority
Women

2024-02-23 04:00:44

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@npub1mmf…eknq @npub1lwg…4e5f @npub1nu9…l6r5
Most certainly did, other than the fascism of course, he had his own single user instance & he was telling people that they had to hide their obscene #auspol behind CWs. So me, as an inveterate #auspol poster challenged his right to tell me & others what to do & he immediately reported me to the instance I had just joined in the stated off-chance of getting me booted. He was successful.
As a sequel, I later joined a sister instance of the one that had banned me, & mentioned to them in the interests of transparency, the previous episode, so they banned me too.
Interestingly the admin of the first banning site still follows me.

2024-02-23 03:12:35

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@npub1mmf…eknq @npub1lwg…4e5f @npub1nu9…l6r5
That too. It was a single entity, moderated by professionals. I speak historically of course.
The fascist I met in the Fediverse on my first day was running & hiding from Twitter & politics.

2024-02-23 03:08:37

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@npub1mmf…eknq @npub1lwg…4e5f @npub1nu9…l6r5
I suspect it was their haven, especially from that nasty Twitter.
I loved Twitter, back when.

2024-02-23 03:00:33

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@npub1mmf…eknq @npub1lwg…4e5f @npub1nu9…l6r5
Possibly an analogy to the Pilgrim Fathers, escaping oppression & persecution in one country in order to impose their own bigotry in another.

2024-02-23 02:49:00

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@npub1mmf…eknq @npub1lwg…4e5f @npub1nu9…l6r5
Like all waves of immigrants, they react to the next & subsequent waves to "their" territory.
They think they are being helpful when all they are being is patronising.

2024-02-20 23:31:15

Yanis Varoufakis
Capitalism is dead and so are we
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w6H6tvVuGgo&list=TLPQMjAwMjIwMjS0hJoOZ5zfRQ

2024-02-19 08:40:56

I am obviously totally deranged.
For most part of the past decade all I can see in Australian politics are two fascist Neoliberal parties pretending to be fighting (as in democracy) against each other.
In true Neoliberal fascist form, neither party supports the people, both despise the people & will do all they can under their current permitted persona
They are not fighting, there is just a choreographed orchestrated pretence a la World Championship Wrestling.
There cannot possibly be a democracy under the conditions that have existed in Australia since 1983 when Hawke & Keating sold out.
Democratic government in the Westminster system requires an actual opposition to the governing party.
This has not existed in the lifetimes of a great many people.
They, both of them, hate you & despise you & they are opposed by a Green Party that accepts Neoliberal fascism as a given.
Now ask me why I am depressed?
#auspol

2024-02-17 00:34:38

Looking at my Australian ABC news feed
Taylor Swift: 2
Palestinian genocide: 0

2024-02-12 10:16:42

‘I’m so scared, please come’: the death of Hind Rajab
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/picture/2024/feb/12/im-so-scared-please-come-the-death-of-hind-rajab
First Dog on the Moon

2024-02-11 22:44:17

ABC reinforcing the Neoliberal myth that taxes pay for government spending.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-02-12/tax-reform-unavoidable-income-tax-workers-ageing-population/103445138
The same myth that allows governments to refuse to spend on the people because they "can't afford it" or they "can't find the money", it's all nonsense folks.
All these all-powerful economists agreeing with each other about how lovely emperor's new clothes are, & fervently discussing how many angels can dance on the head of a pin.

2024-02-10 04:44:24

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@npub1mmf…eknq
I'll ask the silly question, what is a Chad?

2024-02-07 09:01:51

What can you possibly say as a minion in an insane world that will make any difference in the long term?
Who could you influence who would make any change?
The rulers are insane.
Their owners are insane.
Damn near all the other minions are insane.
You can but splutter away in the vain pretence of having any effect.

2024-02-02 21:05:05

Climate activist Greta Thunberg aquitted as judge rules police had no power to arrest her at London protest
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-02-03/climate-activist-greta-thunberg-aquitted-after-protest-trial/103423000

2024-01-13 10:02:28

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@npub16yk…gh74
Just so, the question is:"why do we allow these ignorant greedy pissantes to run our world?"
Because it is our world, we are the 99%.
They (the 1%) only rule with our (99%) permission.
As long as we do, they will.

2024-01-12 23:15:58

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@npub16yk…gh74
Britain & US join Saudis in their war against the Houthis.
The same Saudis who bombed New York.
Supporting all the while the religious Zionist jihadis to enact genocide on the Palestinians.
It makes no sense from a religious or political angle, so that only leaves money & power.

2024-01-03 09:19:30

It really doesn't matter whether wind power or solar power or tide power or wave power or river power or geothermal power have economic advantages or disadvantages over fossil fuel power ...
the only thing that finally, existentially, matters, is that fossil fuel power will drive us into extinction, no more us.

2024-01-03 04:59:32

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@npub19y8…wxgj
What is a tilde in this context?

2024-01-02 00:21:56

I seek a forum, such as that which Twitter appeared to be in it's early days, where people with different ideas & ideologies & biases could meet & interact.
This forum would be preferably grass roots, certainly not corporate.
It would not be an echo chamber for any one social set, that is a dead end as a forum. I have no interest in joining a medium that limits itself say to the interests of left handed head hunters of northern Wyoming or southern Footscray. Left handed head hunters of course might benefit from such a social club, but I do not seek any kind of social club, just a forum, somewhere to express ideas, to challenge & be challenged on the basis of those ideas alone.
[I trust that this particular medium does not have a policy on not referring to left handed head hunters. If it does, please note that I have not commented either way on the merits or ethics of left handed head hunting or the proponents thereof]

2023-12-26 09:11:45

If you, somewhere in the western world at least, wonder what on Earth has happened when things were improving a few decades ago to turn the entire world to absolute shit today ...
the answer is a single word, a name, that most people, if they have even heard it, had not a clue as to what it means ....
the word is
NEOLIBERALISM
Whatever it may sound like, it is in actuality, the richest few people in the world, the oligarchs, the billionaires, using the money & hence the power, that they have stolen from us, we who are the only people in the world who create wealth with our labour, to steal even more of the world by enslaving us in some form of feudalism.
How is it going?
If you think that you are going to benefit from their actions, think again, even the lesser billionaires are going to be eaten.
#auspol #ukpol #uspol #politics #fascism

2023-12-25 09:16:24

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@npub16yk…gh74
Therein lies the answer to our communication issues, it is 7:14pm Xmas Day my time.
Tomorrow is the one day in the year that I look forward to, Boxing Day, the end of Christmas in my mind :)

2023-12-24 23:41:37

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@npub16yk…gh74
I am not saying that Hamas are good or bad, I am not even discussing Hamas, merely the different responses of the world to two different grass-roots defences against fascist invasion & oppression.
I note, as I just said to someone else, that being victimised does not grant one morality.

2023-12-24 23:24:50

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@npub16yk…gh74
I wasn't specifically equating the two, Hamas & the French Resistance, but comparing the reactions of the rest of the world to their actions to free themselves from fascism.
I am reflecting on the world, you on Hamas, maybe.

2023-12-24 20:51:24

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@npub16yk…gh74
Sure, I just woke up.

2023-12-24 12:18:18

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@npub16yk…gh74
So, what sort of organisation would you support to represent & protect innocent people from fascists who have the support of the entire western world?

2023-12-24 08:43:20

Everything that the fascists claim as terrorism by Hamas would have been glorified as heroism & patriotism in the Resistance against Nazi occupation of France in WW2.
Or against the Nazi occupation anywhere.
The Nazis, of course, claimed that it was terrorism, but then, they would, wouldn't they?

2023-11-23 02:55:36

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@npub1k7q…3lrw
More wine ... ?

2023-10-13 09:08:42

I must admit that I have never seen a democracy sausage, maybe because there has never been democracy in Queensland.
I somehow doubt that tomorrow will be the start of democracy in Queensland.
#qldpol #auspol

2023-10-04 07:33:46

Dish Network fined by US communications regulator for improper disposal of space junk
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-10-04/dish-fined-by-fcc-for-space-junk/102933966

2023-09-28 10:08:53

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@npub1vkc…0wyj
I'm sure that they would both prefer to be stomping me, a 78 year old anti fascist cripple.

2023-07-28 03:06:59

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@npub18lj…80hq
Nineteen Eighty-Four, it was a warning then, now it is a handbook.

2023-07-10 01:10:26

When I was born in 1945, the first air I breathed contained about 310ppm CO₂, about 10% above what it had been through all of human & probably our prehuman primate ancestors' history, millions of years.
Now it has recently peaked for this year at 424.38, 2ppm higher than last year's peak & 36% higher than when I was born & about 51% above the baseline.
For anyone who might point out that these are very small numbers, Hydrogen Cyanide is lethal not much over 100ppm, & as far as % increases go, if oxygen had increased by the same 50% then it would be a very different world, we would all he living way up in the mountains where the reduced Oxygen level was less toxic watching the smoke from everything below us burning.
Just an old fart's perspective.

2023-05-21 23:12:38

As I was going to bed on Saturday night the sky lit up with a pulse of light. My neurotic mind thought it might have been a bomb, but it turns out to have been a meteorite near Croydon about 350km from where I am in Herberton, Far North Queensland, Oz.
The sound blast did not audibly reach me.
At least I now know that I'm not going mad, not about this anyway.
As reported in the Courier-Mail (Ignore the fact it's the C-M, occasionally they do report facts)
https://www.news.com.au/technology/science/space/rogue-meteor-lights-up-far-north-queenslands-sky-in-an-epic-spectacle/news-story/414e7b5e2673f51556c3f35c53f12d55