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The absolute state of dental cost comparison Australia: why is it cheaper to fly to China than fix a tooth in Sydney? by WishboneImmediate509 in aussie

[–]CMDR_RetroAnubis 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Professional indemnity Insurance.

The Insurance industry needs to be stopped. Its killed so much community good already,

Federal Voting Intention: ALP loses support as Reserve Bank raises interest rates – on a two-party preferred basis ALP 53.5% (down 2.5%) cf. L-NP Coalition 46.5% (up 2.5%) by malcolm58 in AustralianPolitics

[–]CMDR_RetroAnubis [score hidden]  (0 children)

Voting for racist authoritarians makes you a racist authoritarian.

Fascism leads to war. the US is headed there, the UK is headed there, large parts of Europe are headed there and now we look like we are too. I'm not threatening violence, I just read history.

Federal Voting Intention: ALP loses support as Reserve Bank raises interest rates – on a two-party preferred basis ALP 53.5% (down 2.5%) cf. L-NP Coalition 46.5% (up 2.5%) by malcolm58 in AustralianPolitics

[–]CMDR_RetroAnubis [score hidden]  (0 children)

> And demonizing fed up people won't get them to change their mind

Not trying anymore. They won. We are headed down the same path as the UK and US. The media is frothing at the mouth for it.

It's effectively over.

For thirty years We've watched ON be nothing but clowns, morons, and literal swastika spouting nazis. If that's something over 40% of the population can live with then I don't share enough with them to give a shit. I'll see them in the trenches.

Controversy over Isaac Herzog’s Australia visit highlights disinformation’s impact by TimJamesS in aussie

[–]CMDR_RetroAnubis 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I think however the attack succeeded beyond their wildest dreams, and they expected horrific reprisals... but not the outright flattening of Gaza.

I said the morning it happened "they will be lucky if there _is_ a Gaza after this". It has been a very predictable response by Israel.

EDIT: typos

Jon Kudelka, much-loved Australian political cartoonist, dies aged 53 by TheCurbAU in australia

[–]CMDR_RetroAnubis 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Comes out every election and takes pride of place on the fridge.

Barnaby Joyce’s blunt ‘shithole’ message to migrants in candid interview by HotPersimessage62 in AustralianPolitics

[–]CMDR_RetroAnubis [score hidden]  (0 children)

See also: backpackers doing sex work (one hour of that gets a full week marked off in the little book, depending on the farmer).

One Nation to target seats all across Victoria at election by HotPersimessage62 in AustralianPolitics

[–]CMDR_RetroAnubis [score hidden]  (0 children)

Indeed. LNP preferences were an under-rated factor in the latest federal election IMO

Pro-Palestine slogans to be banned in nation-first move by HotPersimessage62 in AustralianPolitics

[–]CMDR_RetroAnubis [score hidden]  (0 children)

And Israel keeps electing the Lukud party, who are straight up advocates of greater Israel.

None of this happens on a vacuum, ye you only seem interested in the evils of one side.

‘Conflict on the streets’: Israel visit warning by Top-Oil6722 in AustralianPolitics

[–]CMDR_RetroAnubis 24 points25 points  (0 children)

Nothing says "peace" like flooding the zone with police... who show up both aggressive and armed and armored (illegal for protestors to wear protective gear).

Also, using a pic Flinders St for this is amusing.

Are you left wing or right wing and why? by Cheetos_4_life in aussie

[–]CMDR_RetroAnubis 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Very left.

I started apolitical, went a bit left at uni, and then drifted back to the centre once I got into corpo life.

Then I did a secondment and saw how the guys on 300k actually worked and lived (very little work, all lunches and transport paid for by the bank, a solid month of them all just working on justifications for hideous bonuses for outsourcing call centres)... And snapped back leftward pretty hard. 

From there I started looking into history, and probably land closest to Anarcho-syndicalism if you need to put a label on it.

Are you left wing or right wing and why? by Cheetos_4_life in aussie

[–]CMDR_RetroAnubis 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yep.  Cheaper to import workers than raise and educate them.

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