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Tom 🇦🇺 retweeted
but who will clean our aged care facilities when we get old
You can now book our humanoid cleaners on a recurring subscription, for up to 3 hours per cleaning at tau-robotics.com.
Video is first take, uncut, shown at 4× speed. See the reply for detailed footage at 1× speed.
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One more amazing thing about Brazil and Lula's campaign:
The NYT today has a gushing profile of a Congressman named @AndreJanonesMG, who became the face of Lula's campaign, its chief communication strategist. and -- as a result of admittedly innovative though extremely creepy digital strategies -- the greatest hero of the Brazilian left. But listen to what the article doesn't mention:
Just 2 years ago -- not 20 years ago or 10 years ago, but 2 years ago -- Janones got caught committing one of the most despicable crimes imaginable: he forced his Congressional staff employees to transfer a portion of their (quite low) monthly public salary to him as a condition for keeping their jobs. The money he stole from his workers didn't go to his campaign: it just went to enrich himself, into his pocket,.
He got caught when the employees secretly taped him angrily telling them they should stop complaining. When all this emerged, the left-wing members of Congress loyal to Lula -- who, remember, claims to lead a movement of workers! The name of Lula's party is the Workers Party -- protected him from all consequences from stealing the salary of his workers.
The pro-Lula judiciary let Janones confess guilt and simply pay back the money that he stole. And yet this doesn't bother anyone on the Brazilian left. Janones has become a beloved figure overnight among left-wing celebrities and is now one of Lula's closest allies. The NYT profile doesn't even mention this in their gushing profile.
In the scheme of Brazil's authoritarianism, it's not the biggest issue, but to me it's one of the most revealing about what frauds these people are:
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Many Lula supporters say they want Brazil to adopt China's economic model. To achieve that, Brazil would need to cut social spending and pensions by 50% and cut government spending by 30%. It would need someone much more right-wing than Bolsonaro on economics.
Many working class Trump supporters are fine with the US being poorer in return for 'America First'. In 2025, it was tariffs induced CPI and stock market crash. In 2026, Iran war induced fuel price surge.
Many Lula supporters share the same ethos. They value geopolitical sovereignty and don't want to be an 'American colony'. They are fine with being nominally 'poorer'. In this sense, both blue collar Trump supporter and Lula value national dignity more than 'GDP per capita'.
What the MAGA interviewer does here is similar to what zionist media in the US do to blue collar MAGA voters - select the most bad optics character to discredit the movement. But notice the Lula supporter at 15:35 - he was trying to explain to the interviewer that he rejects liberalism and wants to try Chinese style state capitalism, not soviet style Communism. The interviewer was only interested in getting the 'so you support Communism?' soundbite. Besides, I don't think he understands what state capitalism is anyway.
My personal opinion if I was Brazilian? I would support Bolsonaro on most issues but Lula geopolitically.
Tom 🇦🇺 retweeted
The outback has done this five times in the last eighteen months.
Hyper Australia is inevitable.
Tom 🇦🇺 retweeted
Why vote Republican this election season? Conservative policies have proven far better for families.
Over the time, the birth rate has been holding steady in red states while crashing in blue states because of better housing, lower taxes, a stronger job market and more. 🧵!
Tom 🇦🇺 retweeted
Helen Haines' words as people rushed to help her after the vile attack on her perhaps beautifully sums up our country. Most Australians (of all politics) are decent and caring, even on the very worst days.
"Thank you, you lovely people,” she said, “I appreciate your help.” 🇦🇺
Tom 🇦🇺 retweeted
60% of the French say their country is undergoing replacement by non-European populations.
66% of the French view this negatively, and a refreshingly small 9% view it as favorable.
Ifop, 2026
lejdd.fr/Societe/immigration…
Tom 🇦🇺 retweeted
The fact that France already has social healthcare, paid family leave, 35 hour work weeks, and spends more than 50% of GDP on welfare puts these riots in such a hilarious context
WTF do they even want
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Assassination attempt on independent Australian MP Helen Haines
Pray for her recovery, I completely condemn violence against Australian democratic elected representatives
Disgraceful the state of our country
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The sister of Breaking Bad star RJ Mitte gives a heartbreaking tribute to her older brother, says he acted like a father to her.
"RJ Mitte was my older brother, but I not only just lost a brother, I lost my father."
"My mom was a single mother, and when I was 2 weeks old, she was in an accident that paralyzed her from the waist down for the first few years of my life. And my brother immediately took on the father role."
"I don't have many words that I can put together. But all I can say is that every part of me is RJ."
Incredibly sad. Pray for her.
Tom 🇦🇺 retweeted
In Australia you are 23 times more likely to be a millionaire than be homeless
everyone thinks for some reason that they are closer to becoming a millionaire than becoming homeless.
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
Recent polling shows a majority of US voters believe they are more likely to become homeless than a millionaire. US data show roughly 23.6 million millionaires versus ~746,000 experiencing homelessness on a given night.
dataforprogress.org/blog/2026/8/13…
investopedia.com/new-report-rev…
hud.gov/news/hud-no-26…
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The reduction in homicide experienced by El Salvador is the most extreme fall ever recorded.
My latest article is about El Salvador.
The country has become safe--I've rigorously documented that and shown that every objection falls flat--but will that lead to growth?
Will El Salvador become rich?
Link: cremieux.xyz/p/will-el-salva…
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Floyd's death was legitimately tragic in a classic American sense. He was in many ways a victim of corrupt policies that intersected to end his life.
he had gotten clean, was working out again and working, when Covid lockdowns put him out of a job. This photo is from his job as a nightclub doorman. he was well liked and said to be a good worker.
he loses his job, gets back on Fent, which is only in the country due to open borders anyway, somehow gets a fake $20, and the full force of the cops come out over something the Fed does as PUBLIC POLICY.
the Federal Reserve debases and manipulates currency as policy. George was just trying to buy a snack with a fake $20, which is only a crime because the Fed needs to send a message to anybody else moving in on printing money. Nobody arrested Yellen for doing worse by a few trillion.
guy was old stock. family has probably been here for 400 years. and he's dead because of open border policies that allowed a virus to freely come into the USA, drugs to freely flow into the country, and policies that led to him losing his job and ultimately his life.
RIP George. See you at the corner store on the other side.
Post Script - the pregnant woman he robbed... was an illegal from South America lmao
