How cool is this election going to be, Australia? Excited.
Of course we could all end up eating poop, but fuck it. We live in interesting times. Screw the majors and their masters and their minions. Make it your parliament.
Let's fuckin' go.
[#]auspol
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Just when we thought Labor could out-coward themselves ...
Gambling, Climate, Mining, Old Media
... they kneel down, swallow some mouth wash, and rim US ring.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-02-03/labor-postpones-big-stick-for-big-tech/104891616
[#]auspol #uspol #socialmedia
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Terrified of Trump's big tech oligarch henchman, Labor dumps online duty of care.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-02-03/labor-postpones-big-stick-for-big-tech/104891616
[#]auspol #uspol #socialmedia
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Free speech paragon Meta's been shadow banning Australia's Legalise Cannabis Party. Pages. Ads. Whatever.
Because of course they have.
Reportedly give the same treatment to abortion pages in the 'States.
https://fionapatten.com.au/issues/legalise-cannabis-party-calls-out-metas-hypocrisy-on-free-speech/
[#]auspol #uspol #socialmedia
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On noes. Media watch is going after PEP!
Fucking love that show. Highly recommend it. All publicity and that ...
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCdKvxzwmfniBr3IxDqjxAhg [youtube warning]
[#]auspol #uspol
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If there were an argument that Climate 200 cash is being used and abused for personal gain, I'd make it for Wannon.
Tehan sucks. And so does the challenger. Zoe Daniel they are not.
[#]auspol #4corners
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From Wannon with family that knows Tehan quite well, Liberal royalty who was parachuted into the seat without ever having set foot in it.
And can't stand the leading indy Alex Dyson, a vapid social media shithead riding the (justified) anti-incumbency wave, but can't explain basic concepts like GDP or foreign policy, and just seems to want a parliamentary salary.
It's lose/lose 😐
[#]auspol #4corners
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Bi- and multinational trade agreements, the bedrock of international trade, mean as much to the new US Reich as a piss in the wind.
Whole world order's been upended - or to put it more succinctly - a fading empire has just unilaterally excluded itself.
US hegemony is over. Goodwill and soft-power are gone. And it's about damn fucking time.
[#]auspol #uspol
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Just speculating, but the US 'brain drain' must be off the charts. All that human capital - the basis of all capital - fleeing for its literal liberty and life.
Australia should seriously consider adding the United States to its refugee convention. Cynically, the generational economic gains could be stupendous.
[#]auspol #uspol
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"You would not believe half of what is happening in King's Landing, sweetling.
"Cersei stumbles from one idiocy to the next, helped along by her council of the deaf, the dim, and the blind. I always anticipated that she would beggar the realm and destroy herself, but I never expected she would do it quite so fast. It is quite vexing,"
A Feast for Crows, George RR Martin
[#]uspol
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No expert, but from the relative safety of a fire and climate ravaged island, looks like the US economy is now based on burglary and bullshit.
And with the burglars and bullshitters seizing control ... who's left to rob and con? Themselves?
[#]uspol
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China smashing this new cold war.
Mastered international relations theory 3D Chess while the US is playing smell my finger.
[#]uspol #china
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Liberal Party parachutes anti-Trans campaigner Leah Blyth into senate to replace 'moderate' Simon Birmingham.
Blyth will remain in the Senate unelected for three years.
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/jan/31/rightwing-liberals-strengthen-as-leah-blyth-takes-simon-birminghams-senate-seat
[#]auspol
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Unpopular opinion. Don't like Firstdog. Not really a cartoonist. They don't condense wit into a sublime illustration that punches up and devastatingly skewers the target in the manner of a David Pope or Cathy Wilcox.
More an opinionated rant accompanied by pictures. Often a boring and preachy rant. Kinda like this one. But with no pictures. 🙁
https://aus.social/@firstdogonthemoon/113921498011027225
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Always knew open source, decentralised platforms would be important (kinda always were - piracy keeping content libraries alive and available for example).
But they've become critical. A rare still functioning means of open communication, free from some US oligarch crushing your speech while amplifying their own to eleven.
It's crazy. Living in a fucking Phillip K Dick novel. Hope we collectively learn from it. Before it, you know, fucks us. More.
[#]fediverse
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China deploying open source dirty socialist tech to crash the US' proprietary based economy has been on the bingo card for some time and it's kinda glorious to watch unfold.
[#]china #uspol
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Who exactly are the US Reich's allies?
All the old enemies still hate them. And the so-called former allies are now false friends at best, hidden enemies at worst. All with justifiable reasons.
Coalition of the Nobody.
[#]uspol
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US corporations are financial outposts of the US Reich, with no foreign friends, just foreign interests to be sucked dry.
This was always true, just now fucking obvious
https://www.dw.com/en/us-renames-gulf-of-mexico-google-maps/a-71430435
[#]uspol #boycottamerica
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Exciting times. Fraught with outrage, change and opportunity.
Stupidity, selfishness and banality are not just calamitous, they're lessons. Potential darkness before the dawn of doing and being better.
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US tech bro oligarchs sitting on a very fragile empire.
What's the difference between using the shit corporate platforms of one despotic nation over another?
US has torched all its goodwill and most users would probably feel safer with Chinese products.
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2025/jan/27/tech-shares-asia-europe-fall-china-ai-deepseek
[#]uspol #china
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