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This whole country is frothing at the mouth to make sure as many kids are born as possible so they can proceed to neglect them and throw them in jail when they understandably lose it.

I fucking hate this shithole. I know it's not the peoples fault they are bombarded by fear and propaganda, but at the same time I find it hard to relate to a society that hates their own children. I feel surrounded by monsters. aus-delenda-est

Oh, also voting is mandatory here. So all those libs thinking anti-electoralism is your biggest hurdle to winning? Yeah, no. Your biggest hurdle is your own parties total refusal to stand up to the far-right and deliver on any promises. Failure to oppose imperialism. Your support of capitalism. Your funding of far-right proxy wars. Failure to present any real counter argument. Your support of private companies and insipid courting of right-wing voters that will never respect you. And most of all your hatred of the left and refusal to work with them and your insistence on compromising with capitalism.

You are pathetic and the only one to blame for people like Trump is yourself, not "Tankies"

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[–] gnuplusmatt@reddthat.com 24 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (3 children)

I'm a Queenslander and the number of people I heard saying "We've had the Labor party for a decade now, I'm voting the LNP to give them a turn" - fucking idiots who can't take 5 minutes out of their day to check what a parties policies are is crazy, we live in a world where the sum of information is in your pocket. It makes a great case for abolishing our compulsory voting laws, when people can't engage.

Not only lament the erosion of rights under the conservatives, but the loss of all the green energy projects the previous government had in the the pipeline, as well as these new fuckwits cutting the tax on resources and mining that their overlords wanted. With the resource tax gone they'll be in debt inside a year (which they'll blame on the outgoing gov) and we'll be back to job cuts and austerity just like the last time these people of reduced governing capability were in power here.

[–] ThermonuclearEgg@hexbear.net 8 points 8 months ago

"Unless you have investigated a problem, you will be deprived of the right to speak on it. Isn't that too harsh? Not in the least. When you have not probed into a problem, into the present facts and its past history, and know nothing of its essentials, whatever you say about it will undoubtedly be nonsense. Talking nonsense solves no problems, as everyone knows, so why is it unjust to deprive you of the right to speak? Quite a few comrades always keep their eyes shut and talk nonsense, and for a Communist that is disgraceful. How can a Communist keep his eyes shut and talk nonsense?" — Oppose Book Worship by Mao Zedong, 1930

[–] NaevaTheRat@vegantheoryclub.org 7 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

Democracy is when you average policies of two groups of weird elites. The more average the more democracy.

btw slur in post is a bit unpleasant, mayhaps edit it?

[–] barrbaric@hexbear.net 5 points 8 months ago (1 children)

"We should do the average of what everybody in power wants!"

  • Guy at my work in 2022, word for word
[–] NaevaTheRat@vegantheoryclub.org 5 points 8 months ago

Imagine being an enlightened centrist image macro.

[–] EllenKelly@hexbear.net 15 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Mandatory voting in this case means, turn up and get your name ticked off, or get a $200 fine

#democracy

[–] ComradeMonotreme@hexbear.net 9 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

Australia sucks everywhere but simultaneously as a Victorian I must protest as QLD being used as the example.

[–] ShareThatBread@hexbear.net 2 points 8 months ago

Shared sentiments from another Vic

[–] Aradina@lemmy.ml 9 points 8 months ago

Yeah.

Labor did surprisingly not as bad as everyone thought they would though. Shame they fucked the greens over.

[–] Lemmygradwontallowme@hexbear.net 8 points 8 months ago

Anti-Settler State Action

[–] vovchik_ilich@hexbear.net 7 points 8 months ago

But I was told that Australia is a cool, high salaries, surfer nation, not a settler colony :(

[–] tombruzzo@hexbear.net 6 points 8 months ago

State elections here can be used to take the temperature of the federal government in the same way the mid terms are used in the States. Things are not looking good for federal Labour

[–] SuperNovaCouchGuy2@hexbear.net 5 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Australia is a shithole mini-US.

Very accurate. The average australian voted to remain cucks to the english crown when they had a referendum for independence or whatever in the 90s. Recently, the rabid shaved apes in the northern territory's state government voted to lower the age of "criminal responsibility" to 10 years old so they have an excuse to throw more indigenous children in jail and continue this vicious cycle of physical and cultural genocide by the western legal apparatus. The fucking prime minister and all his loyal cabinet are hopeless zionist shills who need to be tried in the ICC for complicity in warcrimes. This is a hopelessly corrupt settler colony in desperate need of denazification.

[–] FailedAtAdulting@hexbear.net 2 points 8 months ago

Queensland

Why am I not surprised? Not that the rest of the country is any better. Looking at you, NT...

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