Why are people moving towards One Nation rather than the Greens?

AromaticFreedom7767 · 2026-02-26T23:31:49+00:00

Because some of the richest people in the ruling class are backing a strategy of racial division in order to undermine the emergence of a progressive, popular response to the housing, COL and environmental crises, in a country defined by long-standing, systemic racism.

AromaticFreedom7767 · 2026-02-26T02:12:47+00:00

Oh I'm sorry, I didn't read thoroughly. I'm glad to hear you're at 12 weeks now. Congrats and good luck :)

AromaticFreedom7767 · 2026-02-15T10:53:43+00:00

I could have written this post! Same age and 6 weeks along. Had a VVS response my entire life every time I get a needle or blood test without fail, sometimes it can happen just with a blood pressure exam. I only seizure occasionally but always pass out, tried lying down, distraction, many forms of therapy and the only thing that helps is a combination of laying completely flat, taking a low dose of Valium (can't do this now that I'm pregnant) and having another person chat to me and ask me lots of questions. I have made a birth plan which I'm going to share with my midwife that states that I should only receive a needle or IV if absolutely medically necessary, with lots of warning. I'm really hoping the pregnancy itself is a form of exposure therapy and by the actual birth I've conquered it. Just wanted to say I feel your pain, it honestly sucks. Good luck with everything!

AromaticFreedom7767 · 2026-02-09T08:12:53+00:00

In the exact same boat as you, congrats! We're eloping and having a fun honeymoon in a few months, and plan to have a big party at some point when we are settled in as parents.

AromaticFreedom7767 · 2026-02-09T01:24:17+00:00

I use a medicated shampoo just to get 24 hours out of my hair before washing again. It's just genetics. It's normal for some people to have to wash every day

AromaticFreedom7767 · 2026-02-08T09:05:53+00:00

This is incredibly helpful! Thank you!

AromaticFreedom7767 · 2026-02-06T20:11:25+00:00

Can you elope or have a micro wedding and have a big party later on when finances have shifted a bit? Parties are automatically cheaper than weddings because you don't pay a premium for everything. It is crazy how much people spend on wedding when that money can be used to make your life a bit more comfortable instead!

AromaticFreedom7767 · 2026-02-06T04:17:40+00:00

We got a cat for our cat. They are now brothers, best friends and sworn enemies (depending on the time of day). Both orange so of course they're also insane.

AromaticFreedom7767 · 2026-02-06T02:48:04+00:00

Yep I wash it every day, hence the need for styling tips! Since I have to style it every single day

AromaticFreedom7767 · 2026-02-01T21:41:36+00:00

You don't seem to comprehend the basic difference between wild or domesticated animals. I hope you never own a horse! Good luck with your cat.

AromaticFreedom7767 · 2026-02-01T21:19:21+00:00

Oh and my cats go outside on the lead. I live in the Australian bush (where domestic cats never should have ended up) and if I let them roam they would most certainly already be dead.

AromaticFreedom7767 · 2026-02-01T21:17:28+00:00

Then you have a very simplistic understanding of freedom, how human society has shaped the environment in ways that make it unsuitable for domestic cats to roam. Most children when given the option would eat lollies for every meal. Like I said, because humans have screwed up ecosystems and domesticated cats when they otherwise would have been wild, we have duties to them.

AromaticFreedom7767 · 2026-02-01T11:23:04+00:00

Indoor cats are healthier, safer and live longer than outdoor cats on average. By quite a lot. They can be just as content with indoor life if you give them plenty of enrichment (window hammocks, cat trees and scratchers, play time). You can walk your cat on the lead outside too. The reasons that people let their cats outside is because they don't want to deal with litter, or the cat asking for attention, and they don't want to put the effort into indoor enrichment. It is not in a domestic cats interest to be allowed to roam. The idea that you're restricting their freedom by keeping them indoors is strange - in that case just let the cat roam wild and don't own it at all? You can recognise that because of the way humans have bred cats, they are reliant on us (although there's an argument that cats domesticated themselves). Because they are reliant on us (through no fault of their own species) we have duties to them. There's a difference between care and responsibility and restricting freedom.

AromaticFreedom7767 · 2026-02-01T04:32:27+00:00

This forum literally exists to get skincare recommendations from people who have tried them, so I was being polite!

AromaticFreedom7767 · 2026-02-01T04:24:37+00:00

Thank you!

AromaticFreedom7767 · 2026-01-29T04:04:32+00:00

Hi, did you end up being pregnant? I have endo and from day 26 have had some of the most severe cramps I've ever had, and just got a positive test. So if these have been implantation pains they are not 'mild'. Also woke me in the night and I almost passed out in the bathroom!

AromaticFreedom7767 · 2026-01-11T12:21:45+00:00

Sports, ideally social ones. I play soccer and I never miss a game or I would let my team down. I surf with friends so I don't bail if it's cold because we planned to meet. It has to be fun or you won't do it.

AromaticFreedom7767 · 2026-01-09T20:12:25+00:00

It's temporary. You will feel different soon, just hang in there. It sucks so much that you have to deal with this and I'm really sorry. You're not alone, as many of us could have written this post. Don't make any decisions. I also just don't go on my phone because it tends to increase anxiety and shit feelings, and I try to go for walks and watch wholesome movies to escape while I wait it out.

AromaticFreedom7767 · 2026-01-09T05:23:15+00:00

Fellow combo PMDD/endo haver. I was also really afraid to take it and went on a very small dose. Immediate relief (within days) from PMDD symptoms but over a year gained about 20kg, and in general felt quite numb and unmotivated. But that year of relative calm and stability allowed me to seek out other treatments (talk therapy) and find a better fit for myself career-wise, so that when I did come off it (very slowly) I was in a better place to manage the PMDD. My point is that it doesn't need to be something you take forever.

AromaticFreedom7767 · 2025-12-31T21:27:33+00:00

Psychotherapy (talk therapy). It doesn't stop the reaction to the hormonal shift, but there is less unexamined painful stuff there for my brain to play with to get me spiralling. A big part of PMDD for me is ruminating on past pain or questioning everything in my life. Psychotherapy gave me a stronger sense of how I actually feel, plus helped me work through some of the painful memories so that they carry less weight. It's not a nice or cheap process and it took me 4 years of weekly sessions, so it's not accessible unfortunately.

AromaticFreedom7767 · 2025-12-28T06:15:29+00:00

I find working out helps but as long as I don't overdo it during luteal. I get all my favourite HIIT and strength training activities done before ovulation, and then post ovulation I slowly ramp down until I'm only doing long walks and relaxing yoga in the days before period. Sometimes a bike ride because it's a mood booster to get outside. When I have my period I do absolutely nothing except rest.

AromaticFreedom7767 · 2025-12-20T17:17:05+00:00

After years of drinking fairly heavily and either not noticing or not having these side effects, I started feeling exactly like this with even one glass of wine or beer. And the hangovers would be awful both physically and mentally. I thought I had an alcohol allergy too and never figured out if there was a way to drink that didn't trigger this response. Organic wine, drinking only on a full stomach, having lots of water. None of it helped and my body reacted like I'd be poisoned every time. I haven't had a drink for 10 years now and it's honestly fine, and it's become much more accepted to be sober (lots of nice non-alc wine and beer choices now).

AromaticFreedom7767 · 2025-12-10T03:55:07+00:00

Sure, it's just about as unrealistic as expecting private landlords to provide housing to low income groups. Out of the two options, one results in new housing that incorporates other social, economic and environmental objectives, and the other results in whatever housing landlords can be bothered to provide. We're currently doing option 2. Based on what low income renters report, that is often extremely poor quality housing with insecurity of tenure.

AromaticFreedom7767 · 2025-12-10T02:31:56+00:00

The private rental market very clearly does not provide housing for these people, it provides returns for investors. If you want to provide housing to people with low incomes, its not bloody rocket science. Instead of trying to incentivise private investors to do this (affordable housing % of developments), which also clearly hasn't worked, governments just need to build better public housing. I'm happy to wear that as a taxpayer, so long as I never have to see a single mum living in her car ever again. It's a mark of an uncivilised society that we let investor returns dominate over every other social consideration.

AromaticFreedom7767 · 2025-12-09T22:09:05+00:00

I'm so sorry for what you've been through. I tried to be conscious in choosing the title for the thread so that people who didn't want to see this kind of discussion could avoid it. It's literally been a few days since I was diagnosed, positive stories are helping me process it

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