Day 20 cont ️
“A video shared thousands of times on a Chinese (#CCP) #SocialMedia platform claiming a re-elected #Albanese government would adopt “the far-left agenda” of the #Greens and potentially seize vacant homes was created by a member of a #WeChat group campaigning for the Liberal party in a marginal Melbourne seat.
The six-minute video, narrated by a woman who refers to herself as #AuntieGuoer, also claims any minority Albanese government that might rely on the Greens would “crackdown on the #MiddleClass” and lead to the #decline of “traditional #SocialStructures”.”
I see this is happening in the seat of #Aston and past Liberal seat of a political favourite of mine, #TudgyFudge Given the subject matter I’d lay a bet this is the work of ex AFP Officer, #SandraBourke and #MatthewSheahan who now has removed all biographic links. Why?
#AusPol / #Advance / #propaganda / #extremism / #ForeignInterference / #CounterDemocratic / #LNP / #Liberal / #Nationals <https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/apr/18/mandarin-wechat-video-labor-greens-election-claims-made-by-member-of-aston-liberal-party-campaign-group-melbourne-ntwnfb> / <https://www.advanceaustralia.org.au/time-to-put-the-greens-last>
#Republicans hope that #corporate #tax cuts will boost the US stock market towards the end of 2025.
The #middleclass economy will suffer as there is no plan to reduce #food price #inflation.
#premarket
#investing
#premarket
#election2026
#2026election
another #middleClass vanishing
"The stable middle ground of tech employment - the middle-class engineer - is disappearing. Builders who can code now ship entire products in days using AI. A single developer can now accomplish what once required an entire team. Companies are focusing on engineers who can demonstrate they can do the job of multiple engineers. The biggest losers in this shift may be the fresh graduates looking to enter the industry - recent graduates now have to be better than people already working."
https://analyticsindiamag.com/ai-features/the-entire-middle-class-of-tech-is-vanishing
We can't know the future & so many are struggling in this world
Those who help most struggle most
Those who help least struggle least
The #middleclass produces despots by giving of themselves more to support #capitalism & #fascism, than ever to help those in #poverty
There's this state of #apathy & #complacency, built on fear, that keeps lined the pockets of those at upper echelons of #society
Like keeping those in power appeased, that they too aren't left with nothing
What Americans believe vs reality. Reality IS they ARE NOT "Temporarily embarrassed millionaires", they're #WageSlaves.
"According to the survey, 63% of single respondents and 69% of divorced respondents reported household incomes under $50,000 annually." https://unusualwhales.com/news/70-of-single-people-struggle-to-afford-housing-payments-compared-to-52-of-married-people
Yet, "Fifty-four percent of Americans consider themselves part of the #middleclass, with 39% identifying as “middle class” and 15% as “upper-middle class," per Gallup:"
Citing https://masto.ai/@unusual_whales/114025953098433136
Trump’s #attack on the #federal #workforce is an attack on the Black #middleclass. Center for American Progress - “the federal government has hired Black Americans at higher rates than the private sector going back a century or more.” Federal workforce, though far from majority #Black, is disproportionately Black. Any policy aimed at firing federal workers en masse would still #disproportionately hurt Black people. This is not a bug in Trump’s program. It is a feature. https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/trump-dei-federal-workers-civil-rights-rcna188966
Thousands upon thousands of people work for these tech billionaires, churning out code, maintaining systems and running the business. Musk and Zuckerberg may not want to admit it, but they couldn't make a dime without those people. #uspol #uspolitics #workers #MiddleClass #labor #economy
https://www.salon.com/2025/01/17/the-tech-billionaire-on-woke-is-really-targeting-workers/
“Yet although an extreme and frequently internalized understanding of masculinity lay at the heart of Nazism, the spectrum of perpetrators ranged far beyond the power-crazed, the authoritarian and the brutal. Most Germans who belonged to the educated middle classes, the so-called Bildungsbürgertum, comprising people with university degrees and professional status, welcomed the coming of the Third Reich and collaborated with the Nazi regime to the end."
~ Ibid., p. 358