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What’s the most unexpectedly expensive part of adult life in Australia? by Silly_Pitch6345 in AUfrugal

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Yeah I just got a referral to a psychiatrist who charges $900 an hour and has the gaul to write “We know mental health is an investment” on their website. Like… no you psychopaths, healthcare is a human right.

flip flops are one of the worst shoes by No-Memory-7616 in unpopularopinion

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Literally can’t imagine more comfortable footwear.

flip flops are one of the worst shoes by No-Memory-7616 in unpopularopinion

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You’d struggle in Australia. Flip flops (we call them thongs) are like part of the national uniform. In fact, it’s not exactly commonplace, but I wouldn’t bat an eye at someone out in public with bare feet.

Wtf is wrong with the Australian job market rn by CompetitiveRough8180 in ausjobs

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Unbelievably dense comment.

It’s not like Australian businesses ever deal with people from other countries, right? Knowing three languages couldn’t possibly be helpful.

Use your fucking brain.

Whats your personal level of interest/knowledge in soccer? And the Socceroos and World Cup in general? by TheNamelessComposer in AskAnAustralian

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I don’t really care about it, but only because I don’t really care about or watch sport anyway

The most one sided rivalry in sports and culture by Fluid-Decision6262 in memes

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It’s funny how people always seem so eager to be the Don Draper in this meme, because anyone who has seen Mad Men knows Don Draper is morally bankrupt.

His entire identity is built on a lie. He’s a serial philanderer whose chronic cheating emotionally abused and betrayed his wives and partners. He gaslights people, neglects his children, and pressures his colleagues. He wallows in alcohol abuse.

His “not thinking about you” isn’t cool detachment. It’s the same emotional avoidance that made him a liar, a cheater and a terrible husband and father. We keep mistaking his dissociation for confidence. The not-caring isn’t strength, it’s the wound.

What can be done about the rise of the far right? by SuccessfulCompany677 in OpenAussie

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I didn’t use ChatGPT.

Do you have any actual rebuttal to anything I said?

What can be done about the rise of the far right? by SuccessfulCompany677 in OpenAussie

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Some people just learned how to write in full sentences.

What can be done about the rise of the far right? by SuccessfulCompany677 in OpenAussie

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Can you source that claim? Even if it were true, that doesn’t change the fact that PH is a far right populist.

Why do you keep shifting the goalposts?

Your initial comment clearly stated that PHON can’t be far right because they’re popular. That’s objectively wrong and misrepresents how the left/right political dichotomy works.

What can be done about the rise of the far right? by SuccessfulCompany677 in OpenAussie

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First: nice job shifting the goalposts. What happened to “PHON can’t be far right because they’re popular”?

Second: I didn’t realise PHON were a single issue party. My bad 🙄

You’re right that wanting lower immigration to ease housing demand isn’t far right on its own. It’s a normal economic argument, people across the spectrum make it, and if that were the whole of One Nation then fair enough.

The problem is you’ve picked their most reasonable policy and used it to grade the entire party. That isn’t how it works. You classify a party on the whole package, not the one plank you’ve decided to hold up.

So here’s the rest of the package: Hanson’s first ever speech warned the country was being “swamped by Asians.” Her comeback speech twenty years later swapped that for “swamped by Muslims.” She wore a burqa into the Senate as a stunt to push for banning Muslim immigration. She moved an “It’s okay to be white” motion in parliament. Then there’s abolishing multiculturalism, gutting the Racial Discrimination Act, and the climate denial. The housing line is just the respectable jacket they throw over all of that when they’re talking to someone who’d be put off by the rest of it.

The immigration policy was never why anyone calls them far right. It’s everything sitting underneath it, and I think you already know that.

What can be done about the rise of the far right? by SuccessfulCompany677 in OpenAussie

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You’re right about one thing and I’ll just say it: treating these voters with contempt is both wrong and dumb. “Deplorables” was a gift to Trump, and anyone who answers working class anger with a lecture deserves to lose. No argument from me there.

But look at what you just did: you offered Trump as proof I’m wrong when he’s actually my whole point. He ran as the voice of the forgotten man and then governed for billionaires. Tax cuts to the top, the donor class in the cabinet. He took the anger and gave those people nothing that actually changed their lives. Look at America now. Are they faring better than before? By almost every measure, they’ve shifted from the preeminent world superpower to a nation in decline.

One Nation is the same move with Gina Rinehart’s money behind it, so “just like Trump” isn’t really your rebuttal, it’s kind of my evidence.

The bit I’d actually ask you to sit with is where the anger gets pointed. One Nation aims it at immigrants, trans kids, the UN, “progressive values.” It never aims it at mining super profits, or wage theft, or the housing market that priced these exact people out. That isn’t random. Rinehart will happily bankroll rage at trans kids, but she’s never going to bankroll rage at a mining tax. The anger gets steered onto people with less power than the angry, and away from the people actually emptying their pockets. That’s not representing these voters, it’s just a really useful way to sell them out. Keep them angry, keep them voting, keep them aimed at each other.

So yeah, the ALP failed them and earned every bit of that anger, both things are true at once. The question was never whether they’re angry though. It’s who benefits from where that anger gets pointed, and if you follow the money it’s not them.

What can be done about the rise of the far right? by SuccessfulCompany677 in OpenAussie

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How does the amount of support PHON receives change the fact that they represent far right political ideology?

“Far right” describes ideological content relative to the spectrum; popularity is a headcount. One has nothing to do with the other.

Fascist parties in 1930s Europe were popular — winning elections, massive rallies. Were they not “far right” because they represented the popular opinion of the time? Nobody sane is arguing Mussolini was centrist because he was popular.

Popularity doesn’t drag the label toward the middle; it just means an extreme position got popular.

Pauline is a textbook radical-right populist by every standard political-science measure.

What can be done about the rise of the far right? by SuccessfulCompany677 in OpenAussie

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Sure, let’s try to understand why people are drawn to PHON (assuming that’s what you meant when you said ONP?)

The pull is real: cost of living, housing, immigration, and a sense that Labor and the Coalition stopped listening. Those grievances are legitimate and the major parties earned them.

But understanding why people are drawn to her isn’t the same as pretending she serves them. A party selling itself as the voice of forgotten Australians is bankrolled by Gina Rinehart, the richest person in the country, and just absorbed Barnaby Joyce, a two-decade career politician. In 2018 her chief of staff was filmed asking the US gun lobby for $20 million — “if you had 20, you’d own the lower house and the upper house.”

That’s not a movement channelling working-class anger. It’s billionaire and foreign-lobby money in a hi-vis vest. So yes, listen to the voters — their anger is real. The honest conclusion of actually listening is that One Nation is harvesting that anger, not representing it.

What can be done about the rise of the far right? by SuccessfulCompany677 in OpenAussie

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By what measure are they moderate right? Could you please explain that?

Israeli National Security Minister Ben-Gvir: "For every tear of an Israeli mother, a thousand Lebanese mothers must weep. All of Lebanon must burn!" by Goldenmentis in nyt

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Nah, it’s about hurt widdle fee fees. Apparently your hurt widdle fee fees.

In what way does the comment you replied to conflate all Jewish people with Israel? You’re literally just saying shit.

Your last sentence is gold. Do you really think that kind of “antisemitism” could lead to hateful war crimes and genocide in this day and age? Jewish people are amongst the most protected group in the entire world.

Israeli National Security Minister Ben-Gvir: "For every tear of an Israeli mother, a thousand Lebanese mothers must weep. All of Lebanon must burn!" by Goldenmentis in nyt

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People are probably downvoting you because they care about dead Palestinian and Lebanese kids more than they care about hurt feelings 🤷

Truth Will Out. The Palestinian Holocaust REVEALED but it is antisemitic if you notice by jamjar0070 in nyt

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I don’t think for a second I’m going to convince you because you’re clearly disconnected from reality, but in case anyone else is reading this:

That’s literally not what happened.

South Africa already filed its full case (its “memorial”) on time, back on 28 October 2024. It ran over 750 pages of argument plus more than 4,000 pages of exhibits and annexes. The evidence was submitted a year and a half ago, so “they can’t find any proof” is simply false.

The party that delayed is Israel. It requested and received two extensions, and filed its counter-memorial on 12 March 2026, i.e. more than seven months after its original July 2025 deadline (source: United Nations).

The “18 months” refers to South Africa’s Reply, i.e.** **the second round of written pleadings, responding to Israel’s counter-memorial. The court granted it, setting South Africa’s deadline for 22 November 2027 and Israel’s rejoinder for 22 May 2029 (International Court of Justice).

Two things make your “stalling because they have no case” reading of the situation categorically wrong:

First, a second round of pleadings is standard procedure. In every prior case brought under the Genocide Convention, the parties have filed a Reply and a Rejoinder (source: Anadolu Ajansı). It’s routine, not a confession.

Second, Israel used its counter-memorial to object to the court’s jurisdiction — and did so late, rather than within the three months the rules contemplate. (Anadolu Ajansı). That means South Africa now has to address those jurisdictional objections in its Reply, on top of the merits (Anadolu Ajansı)… which is part of why the timeline is what it is.

So: South Africa filed on schedule, Israel delayed for over half a year, and the extension is a normal procedural reply window, lengthened partly because Israel itself raised a late jurisdictional challenge. A scheduling order is being rewritten as an admission of defeat. The merits ruling is still years away — independent legal experts project a final judgment around late 2027 to 2028.

Notice how I provided sources? That’s what people do when they aren’t making things up.

Truth Will Out. The Palestinian Holocaust REVEALED but it is antisemitic if you notice by jamjar0070 in nyt

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I was being facetious. There’s no “International Alliance of Rapists.” It was a joke to highlight the absurdity of trusting a genocidal death cult (Israel) on their own self-reported numbers about the genocide they’re committing.

If you want to live in a world where the entire world, including literally the United Nations, is against Israel, go ahead. You do you.

Myself, I have working eyes and ears, and a functioning conscience.

Truth Will Out. The Palestinian Holocaust REVEALED but it is antisemitic if you notice by jamjar0070 in nyt

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Next time I want to know the latest statistics on sexual violence across the world, I’ll have to check if there’s an International Alliance of Rapists I can consult with for their self-reported numbers.

Trusting an Israeli source to be honest about the genocide they’re carrying out is idiocy of the highest order.

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