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Barry Tucker @btucker.bsky.social

Refugees go home! Immigrants go home! Tourists go home! Rallies everywhere, some countries railing against all three. Xenophobia rules, okay? What's wrong with people?

aug 31, 2025, 4:22 am • 36 2

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ticosfrancisco.bsky.social @ticosfrancisco.bsky.social

“ Jeez guys, why are our tourism revenues in the toilet?” 🙄🤣🤬

aug 31, 2025, 4:45 am • 1 0 • view
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Barry Tucker @btucker.bsky.social

Tourism, governments & business promote it, everyone wants it, until you can't get a seat on the bus, book a taxi, or find a place to rent. And the Japanese want you to stop staring at their sacred Mount Fuji & taking your sacred snaps of it. Just cut it out!

aug 31, 2025, 4:57 am • 0 0 • view
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@gfelljones.bsky.social @20244202.bsky.social

Perhaps they don't feel they have a voice. . . which indeed they don't. The Lobbyists have taken our voice. So, someone has to pay. Pecking order says, "attack those on the ladder rung beneath you".

aug 31, 2025, 4:26 am • 0 0 • view
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Flip @flipcreations.bsky.social

They have the same amount of voice as others. It's just some are not worth listening to.

aug 31, 2025, 4:37 am • 1 0 • view
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@gfelljones.bsky.social @20244202.bsky.social

Whaaat. . .I don't have the funds to request a private interview with a politician of my choice in the Capital! We, of the 'hoi polloi' do not have the "same amount of voice.

aug 31, 2025, 5:28 am • 0 0 • view
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Flip @flipcreations.bsky.social

No, but you can protest. You can voice to others. The media can (and is) expressing that voice. Nothing has changed since society was created. Besides having a vote. You make it sound ok for racists and the ill-informed to march because "they don't have a voice". Yet the march and have a voice.

aug 31, 2025, 6:25 am • 0 0 • view
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@gfelljones.bsky.social @20244202.bsky.social

I'm simply complaining about the Mining council and Advance and Harvey Norman etc having a voice above and beyond their voting voice. I'm anti-lobbyist. That's not really connected to activist rights.

aug 31, 2025, 6:35 am • 0 0 • view
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Phil 'Occasionally' Lucky @scrawnyrooster.bsky.social

"What's wrong with people?" People are the biggest danger to the future of our species.

aug 31, 2025, 4:32 am • 1 0 • view
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Barry Tucker @btucker.bsky.social

Totally agree Phil. In addition to all the wilful killing that goes on, the majority doesn't seem to be too interested in saving their collective arses, other critters or the planet itself.

aug 31, 2025, 4:35 am • 2 0 • view
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Phil 'Occasionally' Lucky @scrawnyrooster.bsky.social

The carefree attitude towards the future environment is shocking to me. How can people - especially with offspring -disregard the long term impact of today's actions? Don't they care about the environment that we hand on to our children? And there is the ignorance of things being done to others.

aug 31, 2025, 5:09 am • 2 0 • view
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Barry Tucker @btucker.bsky.social

So far Phil, the ones suffering the most (drought, famine, rising coastline) are the ones causing the least amount of Global Warming leading to Climate Change. Wealthy least affected, so far. Ten years ago, someone sd when Wall Street says it's time to act we will see some action.

aug 31, 2025, 5:21 am • 2 0 • view
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Phil 'Occasionally' Lucky @scrawnyrooster.bsky.social

Just about everyone is going to be priced out of insurance within a fairly short period of time. Maybe they will raise an eyebrow then.

aug 31, 2025, 5:24 am • 0 0 • view
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Barry Tucker @btucker.bsky.social

In some part of England people hv bn told to abandon their coastal homes. The local council has given up on coastal defences against rising sea levels.

aug 31, 2025, 5:35 am • 0 0 • view
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Barry Tucker @btucker.bsky.social

I can't be sympathetic with people who rebuild or refurbish homes destroyed by (almost) annual floods. Especially when the floods are becoming more severe.

aug 31, 2025, 5:34 am • 0 0 • view
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Barry Tucker @btucker.bsky.social

Also electricity, rent & some foodstuff. Indonesians rioting over living allowance paid to MPs, more than most citizens earn. Many citizens being gamed by systems they can't control or influence.

aug 31, 2025, 5:31 am • 1 0 • view
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Phil 'Occasionally' Lucky @scrawnyrooster.bsky.social

And of course many citizens actually vote against there own best interests - often because they are racist or xenophobic or just terrified of any sort of change.

aug 31, 2025, 5:42 am • 1 0 • view
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Barry Tucker @btucker.bsky.social

Yes, but I've bn encouraged by the savaging the Liberal part of the LNP hs bn getting in recent federal elections. It seems many voters hv finally seen the light. I don't believe the Liberals can find a new direction. They're more likely to split.

aug 31, 2025, 5:51 am • 1 0 • view
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liam0342.bsky.social @liam0342.bsky.social

aug 31, 2025, 8:56 pm • 0 0 • view
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Barry Tucker @btucker.bsky.social

Why are some of those bars out of date order?

sep 1, 2025, 12:01 am • 0 0 • view
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Dr. Olaf Bachmann @falo2.bsky.social

The cake is getting smaller, and nobody wants to share. Except with the super rich of course Nobody asks about their pigmentation or nationality.

aug 31, 2025, 10:26 pm • 1 0 • view
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raalington.bsky.social @raalington.bsky.social

Powerful people are spending a lot of money to stoke these grievances, its surprisingly easy to generate hate it would appear

aug 31, 2025, 12:59 pm • 0 0 • view
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Barry Tucker @btucker.bsky.social

We have some specialists in that field in Australia. They mainly belong to the "Liberal" party, Murdoch media & the stink tank The Institute of Public Affairs.

sep 1, 2025, 12:06 am • 0 0 • view
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Troy @troyleekelly.bsky.social

Piss poor potty training. It's generational.

aug 31, 2025, 6:35 am • 1 0 • view
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Barry Tucker @btucker.bsky.social

It's a real thing. I see it in the cafe daily. Some children well behaved others tearing around, throwing toys around, screaming when they're denied anything. The difference is due to parenting (or not parenting).

sep 1, 2025, 12:14 am • 0 0 • view