Australian Politics

If LNP wins we will continue to burn coal as our primary source of energy for another 30 years.

This is what the ALP is actively trying to do, if you haven't been following along... They've approved new coal and gas extraction projects for 2050 and beyond. You know, when we're supposed to be at net 0???

When they announced a bunch of these last year we immediately called a bunch of snap protests at Labor mp offices around Melbourne and the only one who came to talk to us was Ged Kearny (everyone else either literally ran away or just rolled the shutters down), and all she did was offer excuses for why we actually have to keep digging up fossil fuels and burning them for decades to come.

And Tanya Plibersek goes on the news and has the audacity to lie and say they've approved no new projects, almost immediately after she approved a new project and expansions to another.

They're not doing anything to prevent this, they're not taking climate change seriously and they are sucking up to the industry at the expense of everyone else.

I guess you didn't read anything I wrote, because as I said, ALP is not doing anything near enough. So yes, we have to protest them and we should. Tell me where I ever said we should vote the LNP in? Protesting ALP is not the same thing as endorsing the LNP and pretending that is, is embarrassing. It's similarly embarrassing that you're acting like this is the one and only election we'll ever have and that if the LNP win they'll just hold power for eternity.

The narrative you are pushing right now is harmful and does not get anything done, it's a delay strategy that gives an objectively terrible party licence to continue being absolutely dog shit.

I'll say this again, if the ALP ignores what is literally being screamed in their fucking faces and loses the election, then that is on them and no one else. They've been in power for three years and have done fuck all with that time to make any meaningful change.

Threatening their power during an election is basically the only chance we've got that they'll listen, I don't know you and I've no clue what you've done for this fight, but I've watched so many friends sacrifice themselves and be absolutely crushed by the oppression of this government for very minor actions. Their only response to activism outside of the election cycle is to crush it and silence the people most affected.

Nothing else is working and I'm sick and tired of this bullshit getting people killed, destroying entire nations and ruining the chance for anyone to have a bright future.

You can be that asshole while the world dies saying "well isn't it great the ALP did this instead of the LNP" because that's all you're saying right now.

It's completely moronic to give anyone a free fucking pass to fuck everyone just because they use lube.