The old “this is why I need a ballroom” fake assassination attempt ploy.
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I am so glad I am living in #Australia and I can use my vote to put good and honest Independents in the parliament. They hold the major parties accountable and call out their malfeasance.
It is truly a #blessing.
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Trump is underwater https://johnmenadue.com/post/2025/08/trump-is-underwater #Auspol
Whether it works or not isn't the lede - face-scanning everyone to access social media's fuck off dystopian. Government by Black Mirror.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-06-19/teen-social-media-ban-in-doubt/105435036
Lots of people told me that AOC cannot possibly win the US presidency. But I think she can, and I am not alone. https://www.yahoo.com/news/why-aoc-run-president-2028-110807645.html #auspol
This should be our national anthem!
Can you imagine if at the opening of parliament, every official and sporting event
everyone loudly sung together
"Wassamatter you
Itsa not so bad
Itsa nice place
Ahhh shaddupa you face"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sFacWGBJ_cs
#Australia #Auspol #auspolitcs
#australiaday #changethedate
#music #funny
Which is worse?:
1. fascists that know they are
2. know they are but pretend they're not
3. that don't know they are
Fascists are ineligible to vote
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#fascist #ostrichIfArseIsSand #H8 #myopia #duksezmoo #poll #worldPol #ausPol
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My great failure in life is that I never put myself in a position to monetise being this embarrassingly incompetent.
#auspol #australia #government #internet #censorship #children #ai #privacy #erotica #pornography https://rssfeed.media/@abcfeeds/114830436092858870
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#Auspol #USpol #History #ItalianHistory #Fascism #DodgyAndGreatLeaders
#Reading or more like dipping into
B. A. SANTAMARIA
ITALY CHANGES SHIRTS:
THE ORIGINS OF ITALIAN FASCISM
MA THESIS
UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE
1934
and am enjoying focusing on sentences and letting my mind mull over ideas while i do/ watch/ read other stuffs. this might become a thread with occasional ramblings.
i’m struck by some parallels with USA (how could one not be?) but for context am reminded mussolini had established himself as leader much earlier than hitler and was, in fact, admired by hitler. (i think a great deal of hitler’s success was down to goebbels.) both mussolini and hitler lived in a time when the ongoing war of ideas between communism and capitalism were front and centre.
the labels and the details morph and change over time, but when our previous opposition leader threw words like “liberal”, “commie” or “woke” around, i suspect it was really more of the same.
in the red corner, people who think governments can and should care about everyone, and in the blue corner, those who think individualism is essential to god’s grand design.
I wonder, sometimes, if the USA is one western country that never really had a “left” at all.
On the very first page of his thesis, Santamaria suggests the Italian public embraced fascism (and the idea of a strong leader) because parliamentary democracy seemed to suck.
(Echos of this in Trump’s “drain the swamp” rhetoric, and his now open contempt for the system altogether)
Discussing Mussolini, Santamaria goes on to say Lenin believed “the only man who could successfully rule Italy was the one who reproduced in himself the main characteristics of the great mass of Italians”
The USA has a problematic electoral system, and many people are disenfranchised in one way or another. I don’t want to slander an entire nation, but I do wonder how many people found it easier to identify with Trump than with Harris?
Closer to home, how well do we identify with this or that type of leader in Australia? Do we reject potential leaders more easily than we embrace them?
1975 in Australia was a disappointment, but I distinctly remember that, apart from the scare about whitlam overspending/ seeking dodgy loans from someone with a foreign name, a lot of people were fed up with having to vote, and all the campaigning that goes with more-frequent-than-usual elections.
"The Hollow Woman" - my sonnet about white supremacy in Oz. I pasted my poem onto a pic I made with the free AI at the Australian Nightcafe. Call it poetic license. #poetry #auspol #AIart
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Tell me again #America how holding up signs & walking through your streets is going to #StopTrump.
You have lost your rights. You have lost your government & whether or not you win the election, #Trump will say you lost.
You’re living in a #dictatorship NOW - not at some far away point in the future.
Get out of the #US if you can. I can only foresee violence in your future from this point on.
Shadow Treasurer #TimWilson has indicated the #COALition would support construction of a new #OilRefinery in #WesternAustralia.
Where would the oil to be refined come from Tim?
Hmmmm.... I have a feeling this will not end well. He's flakey, and his politics are suss. #AusPol
GetUp hires David Sharaz for senior role as it takes on ‘democratic threat’ of conservative groups
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/feb/08/getup-hires-david-sharaz-senior-role?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other
Lots of people in Brisbane ridiculing the absurd laws against saying the words river and sea. Crisafulli and the LNP deserved the mockery they received. Israel is a terrorist state.
#meanjin #Brisbane #Magandjin
#FreePalestine #FreeLebanon
#IsraelIsATerroristState
#Auspol
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Sounds like a very intersting book about Australian politics. #auspol #ALP
https://www.connorcourtpublishing.com.au/Iron-Law-No-More-The-Rise-and-Demise-of-the-Catholic-Labor-Alliance-in-Australia-by-Jeff-Kildea_p_690.html
https://www.connorcourtpublishing.com.au/Iron-Law-No-More-The-Rise-and-Demise-of-the-Catholic-Labor-Alliance-in-Australia-by-Jeff-Kildea_p_690.html
Why call the rise of the Pulinistas the "orange wave" or "orange tsunami"? it's the racist "orange spew". #OzFascism #auspol #OneNotion #Pulini #AIcartoons #Aiart #satire
The Grabbit is backing Pulini's desperate last-ditch appeal in the Federal High Court to have two previous judgments against her despicable #racism against Senator Faruqi overturned, confirming the endemic, opportunistic racism of the Liberal party over which he presides.
Archived SMH link is here: https://archive.md/Xb0vS #auspol #OneNotion #WhiteSupremacy #satire #AIart #AIcartoons
The ghastly #Pulini and her fash mob alienate us alright. However, neoliberalism and the inequity it fosters provide fertile ground for the PHONies and the ALP need to take responsibility for enabling it.
https://johnmenadue.com/post/2026/09/one-nation-is-the-symptom-labor-must-treat-the-cause/ #OzFascism #OneNotion #auspol #AIart #AICartoons
