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Now is the time to be disruptive - to be silent is to be complicit! ✊ Engage with me on issues in climate change, politics, technology and global affairs Melbourne/Narrm, Australia

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    That’s deflating to hear

    But remember, your degree is about you and what you choose to make of it

    Your edge is your maturity to learn critical thinking and perspectives and proactively decide how you will apply this learning in your future

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  2. Excellent - well said Mary!

    All of those things are under grave threat - one of the lessons of Amerika we need to heed because we can also see that process of dumbing down is at play here as well - with all the social costs that infers, as you have pointed out

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  3. A proportionally higher cost to continue but personal development is vital

    A degree course is about the development of critical thinking and the ability to argue rationally - the very thing the duopoly wants to extinguish.

    The very things we need in society - integrity and personal development

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  4. What always fascinates me are the people who stand behind or beside tRump as he rants on

    What are they thinking?

    They are collaborators who Americans need to remember and bring to account in the future. They're the monsters enabling a dictator who crushed the American Republic in mere months

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  5. They are the people who look you in the eye and say "I don't know who to vote for, depends on my mood" knowing they know exactly who they are going to vote for

    Have you not walked down Church Street, Brighton?

    I know the type well and Melbournians do too after Karen from COVID

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  6. It is the result of decades and decades and decades of accepting - and voting for - a body politic and a duopoly riddled with self-interested ideology, not a body politic interested in its voters

    While voters continue flip flopping inside the duopoly, don't expect change

    Expect more betrayal

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