TheCriticalMember

@TheCriticalMember@aussie.zone

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Trapped in 'deep poverty': The people who say they were left behind by the budget⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  If you’re not a property owner, you’ve always been left behind by Australian federal budgets.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨i’m scared of my boyfriend because he’s dry and doesn’t want to initiate a relationship, should i break up because of the latter part?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  In what way is he your boyfriend? He doesn’t sound like he is. Poly is really hard, and it’s full of shitty people who use it as a justification for being shitty. Sounds like you need to do a whole bunch of work on yourself right now, and it doesn’t really sound like either of your “partners” are good for you.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do people hold tobacco cigarettes and cannabis joints differently when smoking them?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Couple of reasons in my experience. Cigarettes have a generous butt, and are pretty structurally sound, which makes them pretty easy to handle that way, and you can ash with a simple flick of your thumb. Joints often have no butt, or just some folded up but of paper or some other dodgy bullshit, so there’s far less to grab onto. They’re also often pretty flimsy, and fall apart easily. So holding them that way gives you better control and is more gentle on the joint.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Just watched someone walk their cart all the way to the corral at the back of the lot rather than back to the store that was much closer.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  At least they didn’t just leave it in the closest empty parking space, like literally everyone around here does. 😡

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why don't people going to college get HUD, Food Stamps, and free Medicare/Medicaid while enrolled? Instead of the parents footing the bill or the student working 3 jobs and school?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Because in capitalist America, you only get financial help if you don’t need it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Sounds like a 13 year old edge lord with a lot to learn about the world. Pretty normal and hopefully he will grow out of it in the next 5 years or so.

  Don’t mean to sound insulting, but sounds like you have a lot to learn to if you’re hung up on someone like this.

  We all think stupid things at that age. Getting out into the real world cures a lot of people. Some are sufficiently privileged that they never get out into the real world - those ones become CEOs and senators, some are incurable - they become some version of maga.

  Just try to remember that everyone has their own history, hangups, and demons. We’ve all got our own battles to fight, and most people just want to live their lives and be left alone.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A middle power with ‘great and powerful friends’: Australia’s changing role in the region⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Anything that starts with “backed by the US” isn’t anything you want to put your money on right now. We’re a long way from either Europe or the US, and with the US a failed state and Europe dealing with Russia’s bullshit I wouldn’t rely on massive amounts of help from either of we needed it. I’m sure Australia’s war gamers are taking that into account.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I never understood it, and I grew up on 80s action movies. Love Arnie, Bruce, Sylvester (before maga), even Chuck. But never got into James Bond at all.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[TW] Convicted r**ist runs One Nation election campaign⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  How many trump wannabe parties do we need in this country???

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sooo, where did the blatant Nazism suddenly come from?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  There have always been Nazis in America, even during WW2. Listen to Rachel Maddow’s podcast “ultra” to hear about how close they came to a takeover of the US way back then. They never went away, they just went low profile for a while.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You didn’t wake up, this is hell.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨So, is the USA screwed?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I believe the US is a failed state. trump just decided that himself and his AG are the only people who can decide which laws apply to the executive, and ordered the termination of all remaining Biden era US Attorneys. I know we’ve been saying this a lot lately, but it feels like a mask off moment.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Albanese in trouble as polling shows Dutton most likely to be next PM⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s pretty horrifying, makes me worry that the average Australian is exactly the kind of person I suspected.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Albanese in trouble as polling shows Dutton most likely to be next PM⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Jesus fucking Christ, are we all learning nothing from what’s happening in the US right now???

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do they make a TV device or dongle to connect quickly via a number of types of inputs?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  What types of inputs do you need? So far all I can find in Australia is 1 to many all HDMI. Worst case scenario you might need a bunch of speciality whatever to HDMI adaptors and feed them all into a HDMI switch.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Outcast WA politician changes name to 'Aussie' Trump ahead of state election⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Yep. We’re deep into the game of monopoly now. Someone’s put hotels on those expensive properties and now it’s just a matter of time until they have all the money or we just decide we don’t want to play anymore. They’re the only possible outcomes.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Outcast WA politician changes name to 'Aussie' Trump ahead of state election⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Well I’ve got my everything crossed that Aussies turn out to be a bit smarter than Americans, as a whole. I’m not super optimistic, but we have a lot more to lose than Americans did. Our government still kinda works for the majority in some aspects.