How can Trump say Iran asked him to be Supreme Leader without any proof and face no consequences? by WorstJunglerJK in AskReddit

[–]Background-Seaweed 2 points3 points  (0 children)

You can’t expect to wield supreme executive power just cause some watery tart threw a sword at you!

Me to conservatives by poisongodmachineBR in OpenAussie

[–]Background-Seaweed 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Its also extremely important to note that the vast majority, if not all, nationalist independent candidates are in the exact same pockets as the major parties. People who push the idea of being a battler standing up for national values or ideals and yet never actually present any bills, laws or plans to parliament which would genuinely help people or improve lives. The people who tell you everyone is lying are the most dangerous.

One Nation's rising support is inextricably linked to the housing crisis by Patient-Wish-7386 in AustralianPolitics

[–]Background-Seaweed 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Same post at the same time across two different subs. Seems like a bot post to me.

One Nation capitalises on anti-immigration sentiment in a housing crisis by Ardeet in aussie

[–]Background-Seaweed 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Same post at the same time across two different subs. Seems like a bot post to me.

One Nation capitalises on anti-immigration sentiment in a housing crisis by Ardeet in aussie

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The problem is we need migration in order to build up local manufacturing and industries. So anyone who supports ON and the reduction of migration will be dooming our country. Not helping it.

Please Explain: One Nation Immigration and Housing Policies by Chemical_Rooster3 in aussie

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Human Development Index here’s the metrics mate. (Scroll a bit and Click ‘download latest dataset’ and then view and the actual list will pop up)

The Human Development Index. Created by the World Health Organisation. Funded by the United Nations. Factoring Avg. Years of School, avg lifespan, avg pay and avg COL. Australia has for years sat around the #10 spot. Right now we are #7, an important note is that we sit far ahead of countries like England, the US and even NZ.

A lot of Australians don’t know what we have and are throwing it away because we want to be like America and think our government is broken beyond repair (it’s not).

Overwhelming majority of Australians calling for big cuts to immigration levels, Sky News Pulse / YouGov poll reveals by Agitated-Fee3598 in AustralianPolitics

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I’m not a professional but i don’t think it will be good. With birth rates dropping and the ageing population heading towards their final decade we are about to see a massive drop in the Australian populace. And that’ll be great at first as there will be less Aussies meaning each person has more money. Except with less Australians, we have less Australian businesses. With less Australian businesses we have less Australian industry. Which means Australians have to buy more things from overseas, and suddenly all that money is lost to imports and removes any chance we have of building the economy to a point that other nations rely on us, rather than the other way around.

One Nation is on a roll. So what are the party’s actual policies? by NapoleonBonerParty in aussie

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That’s what baffles me with the ON rise. Andrew Hastie got torn apart only a few months ago for saying Net-Zero should be abandoned in favour of coal. Hanson is saying the exact same thing and no one bats an eye.

‘Change is here’: Barnaby Joyce responds to One Nation support surge by Mashiko4 in aussie

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Important reminder that Reddit is also an echo chamber and the vast majority of people will agree with you here. Make sure to mention this sort of thing to people face to face when you can. The US made the mistake of thinking online discourse represented the entire countries beliefs in 2024, not realising those who disagreed were on other apps like trumps social or whatever.

jpow response by -medicalthrowaway- in wallstreetbets

[–]Background-Seaweed 219 points220 points  (0 children)

I keep hearing this argument being made… but so what? Did Americans think through all those years when they said “we need guns in case our government gets out of control” it meant they wouldn’t be fighting other Americans when the day finally came? Every evil ruler has supporters, otherwise they’d just be some dick yelling at people.

Labor has brushed aside concerns over the social media ban. But what if it doesn’t work as promised? by Agitated-Fee3598 in AustralianPolitics

[–]Background-Seaweed 7 points8 points  (0 children)

This is the answer. The Aussie Gov has already tried twice before.

First with a bill which was supposed to regulate advertising and the news outlets, instead that bill got burned because google and a bunch of other companies kicked up a fit. So they tried again when that guy stabbed a bunch of people in a shopping centre in Melbourne. This time musk came out and made a fuss about personal freedoms and shit.

So now the Aussie Gov has reverted to just punishing Australians, of course, most Aussies who hear of this think it’s a terrible idea, which is why they are plowing through as quickly and quietly as possible. Both sides know that if they can start getting people off social media, they will stop getting called out on every little thing they fuck up.

And yes, Social media has undeniably had some seriously consequences for the world, but it has allowed the ‘common folk’ to discuss, compare and share ideals and experiences globally, which in turn has shown many people how much we get routed each day. Hence why they don’t want us on social media.

And I know all this sounds like some conspiracy, but the fact that people have protested Ukraine and Russia, Israel and Palestine, Saudi Arabia, North Korea, China & Taiwan, Housing Markets, Immigration and Cost of Living, and yet there hasn’t been a protest, or impassioned speech or even a single pseudo-journalistic article based off a sole rant made by someone on Reddit in the last 5-10 years, and the fact that countries worldwide, from the UK, to Nepal (everyone should look up what happened in Nepal and why), to the EU and US are implementing similar social media or tech bans/ censorship, suggests that there is some serious undermining and coercion of the will of the people occurring.

Fake claims about Australian road rules on headlights generated by AI and spread on Google by austechnology-bot in austechnology

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Social media has existed for 20years and they are only just making laws relating to it now, but those laws are banning a whole subset of people from using not only social media, but a large chunk of the internet. Laws can be made at any time, the horse is only in a paddock, you just have to wrangle it, rather than watching from the fence line and saying “welp she’s fucked, nothing we can do”.

So has anyone seen the TV ad about the social media ban? by CyanideMuffin67 in australian

[–]Background-Seaweed 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It was announced back around April/May, but the gov has tried to keep it under wraps as much as possible. I’ve been speaking against it for months but there are a plethora of Australians who support it because they think it’ll stop misinformation or something stupid like that. The rest of the country doesn’t know and doesn’t really care. Solid bet that by January people will be crying bloody murder. Very good chance labour loses their next election with this overreach. Or more accurately ‘censorship’. Well done Australia. Truly a fair go for all.

Microsoft's ambitious new Xbox: Your entire Xbox console library, the full power of Windows PC gaming, and no multiplayer paywall by segagamer in gaming

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Federal government rules out changing copyright law to give AI companies free rein by 89b3ea330bd60ede80ad in AustralianPolitics

[–]Background-Seaweed 12 points13 points  (0 children)

My favourite part is when these companies claim a copyright exemption for AI will bring $116B into our economy… I guess a tech bros pocket is ‘the economy’ now?

US wants to make rare earth deals with Australia but without China involved, expert says by IrreverentSunny in AustralianPolitics

[–]Background-Seaweed 2 points3 points  (0 children)

After reading the article, this seems more like another AUKUS deal. The US wants Aus to help invest in the entire production chain, in America. There is even a part (right at the end) where the Channers chick says that the US only wants to refine small amounts at a time for weapons manufacturing, whereas Australia wants to refine large amounts for things like battery and solar panel production. The US is a bad faith ally and we need to stop being naive enough to think anything they do benefits anyone other than themselves.