The Current Situation (Sorry Americans)

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• DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Hey, look, it’s an island strategically placed against China that has oil and mineral resources

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• TheCriticalMember@aussie.zone ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Honestly, I wish more Aussies would learn about what’s happening in America, then maybe one nation wouldn’t be surging in the polls right now.

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  • mortemtyrannis@lemmy.ml ⁨36⁩ ⁨seconds⁩ ago

    I’d be happy if Australians learnt about Australian politics.

    This country is filled to the brim with politically ignorant luddites who think they are informed because they solely consume Murdoch media.

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• pulsewidth@lemmy.world ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Can relate.

  I feel like one of these panels should say, “I find out how much the US impacts Aussie lives & politics”.

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  • tomiant@piefed.social ⁨20⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

    Remember that time when your government was overthrown by the CIA? I’m not even Australian and even I know about that one.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alleged_CIA_involvement_in_the_Whitlam_dismissa](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alleged_CIA_involvement_in_the_Whitlam_dismissal)l

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  • joelfromaus@aussie.zone ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    This is the crux of the issue in my opinion. I wouldn’t give a damn about US politics if they weren’t constantly messing with everyone else.

    It wasn’t that long ago they were directly requesting to change within Australia to combat “woke”. Fuck off mate, at least some of your citizens voted to mess up your country but leave ours alone.

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    • TheHolm@aussie.zone ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      To what “direct request” are you referring too?

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• BlameTheAntifa@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Violent, dangerous empires will always teach you their politics against your will. It doesn’t matter who or where you are.

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• sharkfucker420@lemmy.ml ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Hopefully it doesn’t end up as an example of how not to handle a fascist takeover but I have my doubts.

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• kehet@sopuli.xyz ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I just hope there would be snooze until elections -button

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• phoenixz@lemmy.ca ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  You’re basically learning from an example.on how NOT to do it, but I don’t see Australia doing that much better, does it?

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  • tomiant@piefed.social ⁨15⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

    Australia is doing WAYYY better than USA, what are you on about? Want metrics?

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• Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  All politics is learned against our will. Nobody likes this shit but we have to do it because there’s too damn many of us.

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• DavidDoesLemmy@aussie.zone ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Stupid Americans post so damn much about themselves and their country. I bet they don’t know anything about Australian politics.

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  • D@piefed.social ⁨23⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

    Less than 5% of Americans could even name the capital of Australia.

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  • HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    We know about Harold Holt and Ned Kelly just not anything about current Oz politics sorry.

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• pdxfed@lemmy.world ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  There are a lot of Americans who are learning American politics against their will at the moment too; hopefully enough of them to not support the insanity in the future.

  • “But Trump said he would help union jobs”

  “But they were just supposed to go after the bad minorities, not my group”

  “But tarrifs don’t raise prices for Americans, they promised”

  “But why can we pay $50k sign on bonuses for ICE but not fund education or healthcare?”

  “But that’s against the law, I thought they supported the 2nd amendment?”

  “But they’re being violent toward white people too, I thought my group was safe”

  “But they said they hated paedophiles and wanted to punish them and that they would release the Epstein files”

  “But Trump said he would end the Ukraine war in 24 hours”

  “Why can’t I get vaccinated and get my kid vaccinated in some states?”

  “But they refunded my X when they said they were only going to refund Y”

  “But that hurts my business, I bought their line that…”*

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  • tomiant@piefed.social ⁨16⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

    “You can’t trust politicians, they all lie!”

    “I trust Trump with my life.”

    These are the same person.

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• mrslt@lemmy.world ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  No need to be sorry; lots of Americans are doing the same thing, these days.

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• lurch@sh.itjust.works ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  We gotta learn what we can now, so we can prevent the 5th Reich later.

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