freediver wrote on Oct 31^st, 2025 at 7:47am:


Pumped Hydro is even more expensive than hydro & solar & wind.

The blowouts with Snowy11 is a glaring example.

So you want to pilfer Tasmanias hydro output to bolster the mainland?

You get crazier & crazier when you're on your renewable soapbox.

There has been much handwringing in the press lately over the progressive rewriting of Roald Dahl’s books, as though this were a bad thing. If I had my way, every copy of every book by every straight white male would be incinerated. Burning books that we don’t approve of is the only way to stop fascism.

Dahl’s books are compendiums of violence masquerading as “fiction”. For instance, he describes the character of Augustus Gloop as “fat”, which is extremely offensive to People of Girth.

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Dahl has a history of offensive behaviour. In the first edition of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (1964), the Oompa-Loompas are black pygmies from “the very deepest and darkest part of the African jungle where no white man has been before”. Nearly a decade after the book’s publication, Dahl himself changed the novel so that the Oompa-Loompas were no longer black. He literally erased all the black characters — and we’re meant to believe that he wasn’t a racist?

Dahl has also been accused of antisemitism, which I absolutely can’t abide. I adore Jews. They’re so smart and cunning.

Ultimately, the problem isn’t Dahl — it’s the English language. I genuinely believe that writing or speaking English is an act of colonial terrorism.

So instead of simply tinkering with children’s literature, why not just stop teaching children how to speak in the first place? Dangerous language normalises hate and wrong opinions. To live in a truly free society, there must be limits on individual forms of verbal expression. So, if we never talk to children, or provide them with books, they will simply grow up without the capacity to express hateful ideas.

I can’t believe no one else has thought of this.
Titania McGrath