Civility

Peter Dutton, Leader of the Opposition from the Hard Right wing of the Australian Liberal Party lost the federal election (current count is 41 seats to 81) and his own seat in Parliament 57%-43%.

He is the first leader of the opposition to ever lose their own seat.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-05-03/peter-dutton-losing-dickson-coalition-leadership/105247916

@Melina@hexbear.net big news!!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=77bnsN6SCPo

link to the tweet

Every time we chat, I'm the one who turns the discussion turns towards capitalism. He’s the one who hesitates when I say we should kill them all. Now, he's not even okay with torture. And I'm not talking random chuds here. I'm naming names like Bezos, Musk, Ben Shapiro, and Andrew Tate.

I say we should force them into an abandoned mineshaft and wall it up. After a month we open it again and if any of the fucking parasites are still breathing we tie them down and let rats do to them what they did to their colleagues. Let them learn the error of their ways. (After the revolution of course. During it many of these fucks will die easy and I’ll be sad).

His current job is extremely cushy. He has good hours, he's friends with his coworkers, and he's making a living wage. So I get his hesitation. But it’s also scary. I don’t know if he'll have my back if I get in any trouble.

I don’t know if I should be gently turning him towards imagining a slow and painful torture of capitalists or not. Am I being too extreme or is he a lib?

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You may even wonder if you were rude in the debate, if the way you replied to a comrade may have hurt his feelings. I'm usually very careful about this. Whenever I have to criticize a comrade, the first thing I do is try to protect him to keep the criticism from being destructive, so it won't demoralize him and so, while serving as an example for others, it commits and stimulates him.

--Fidel Castro, Nothing Can Stop The Course of History, December 1986