• kingofras@lemmy.world
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    17 days ago

    Look it’s 10 years since 2016, Australia is overdue to follow the same footsteps. Pauline doesn’t even have to change the acronym.

    Eventually 2 party stupidity always leads to this. And Australia is a wealthy country with a high living standard, so leaches like her and her ilk can extract a lot of wealth before any will even notice.

    I just wonder if Palmer will be picked as minister of education or something. Like what’s Pauline’s RFK Jr pick?

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      17 days ago

      The broad concern for me is how much damage Rineharts influence and funding is doing.

      This is a problem to be honest. The entire mainstream media is owned and in lockstep. There’s a continual attack on the left and anything social and it’s all one way as Tracy Westerman commented today. The main social media sites are being botted and paid trolled to the shithouse, they’re fucking everywhere. It’s all Rinehart and her money plus Murdoch and Stokes as well.

      Labor is too pissweak to anything about it. They have an absolute majority and they won’t pass anything that stops or arrests this, like legislation which breaks up media ownership or ensures some integrity. They’re giving away money to developers for infrastructure, ignoring the public on a gas tax, cutting NDIS and the campaign Rinehart been paying for since the Voice is just fucking everything because everyone’s terrified of the left when they are the only ones fighting for us.

      Labor’s the problem; if they did the two or three things needed, like public housing access fixes, instituted that gas tax and didn’t cut the NDIS they wouldn’t have half the issues they’re having now.

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        17 days ago

        It’s much deeper than that. Labor isn’t anymore the problem than the Democrats are. It’s just mega easy for an oligarch to puppeteer whatever the plebs vote into power. Albo was always a spineless weasel, as was Dutton going to be. Dutton was going to get the country down the drain faster, but we’ll get there with 1 or 2 more labor terms too.

        The problem is human nature. We have it só good, we are so immensely Comfortably Numb™, and historically it takes a fair bit of hunger, war and disease before that numbness wear off and for good people to get off their ass and stop doing nothing.

        Considering how poor the leadership of Australia has been for nearly 2 decades, it’s remarkable how it’s still has relatively few social problems, compared to other similar countries.