And I hope everybody in Australia blames the right people for this. Yes, this is a very fucking stupid decision by a very fucking stupid president of the United States, but it's all those red hat wearing motherfuckers in the United States that put him in power. In this particular instance, general Americans are the fucking idiots that are responsible for this shit.
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Also the "red hat" motherfuckers in australia that kept australia so dependant on fossil fuels when it has some of the best natural resources for wind and solar power.
Indeed and ONP just won 4 seats in South Aus,
They could've voted Green who have been pushing for dental in medicare, taxing billionaires, better public transport and renewable but instead they vote ONP, led by an another illiterate orange moron, flown around by a billionaire who is oft seen visiting Mar-a-Lago.
We should be asking wtf is wrong with Australian voters.
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Let's also add that Netanyahu is also just as, if not more responsible as well.
Pinky and The Brain of geopolitics right there.
"Bibi, what are we going to do this year?"
"Same as we do every year, Trumpy. Try to take over the world!!"
"Narf!"
Except neither is a genius and both are insane.
That works for the song beautifully. Well done.
Indeed. Fuck that cunt as well.
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Everything you said is true, but I hope more people are seeing the US as the canary we are in the realm of right wing politics. The cancer is spreading and getting more control around the world. Everyone should look at how the US has fallen under the Trump regime and what not to do. That's not to say that the US was doing great things outside of Trump, but this is certainly worse for the citizens of the US and the cascading effects are clearly having a negative effect on much of the rest of the world.
Personally I think the canary was Britain with Brexit, but I grant you that unless one has lived there for a while it's hard to really understand the politics of it all since due to their cultural favored image style, the Fascists in England are sleazy posh types kniffing others in the back rather than loud, obnoxious types punching others in the gut.
As I see it, America's Iran is the violent and loud country version of Britain's Brexit.
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Like all western societies, australians have their own flavor of red hats and a rich variety of home grown fascists. They love networking internationally (and then call us globalists). Blame and shame them.
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And we can’t forget blaming Albanese for his pandering to Trump every step of the way. Even today the spineless coward still won’t blame America for this.
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According the the lastest polls over 110 million Americans still think Trump is great and doing the right things.
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The people profiting off of making civilization dependent on oil should be the ones to pay when oil prices go up.
I am surprised that their country isn't mostly working on Solar considering the sun hours they get and the available space.
Don't get me started, we could be world leaders in renewables, if our politicians weren't funded by mining billionaires and our media wasn't heavily controlled by Murdoch
Former colony blues. It wasn't just the criminals we sent to Australia or the religious wackos exported to the Americas. We also sent people to exploit them and I guess old habits die hard.
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Just keep unwaveringly supporting America and Israel mate!
Regardless of whom he supports, the oil prices are still going to stay up for him, since he has no production of his own to compensate.
If America and especially Israel were treated as pariah states, this shit would've been less likely to happen.
As it so happens Australia is one of their biggest cheerleaders.
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is public transportation actually good in Australia? as in, you can actually do your daily living with it? (work, school, shopping, etc)?
Australia is big, but Sydney, when I was there a million years ago had very good public transportation with a single card that got you access to buses, ferries etc..
...good to know!
I used to be an avid user/defender of public transportation (in Canada). Used it for 15 years (11 of which I actually had a car but did not use for daily commute)
But then it was ruined... literally a 13 Km commute (less than 10 miles if you are American) would mean 1.5 hours in a bus EACH WAY, vs 45 mins by car (which is still a travesty for such a short commute)
Now I am lucky to work from home most of the time and commute with an eScooter when the weather allows me to
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Sydney and Melbourne have pretty good public transport. Unfortunately they're compensating for everywhere else, which has some truly fucking awful public transport. Looking at Adelaide in particular but I know others are also shit.
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Definitely not in Brisbane. Our public transport feels completely forgotten about. The only form I have access to is a bus and the closest bus stop I would have to walk to is over 2km away. I don't live in the middle of the city or anything but the area is well established and there is basically no infrastructure to provide basic public transport to people.
This whole fuel shit show will likely be awful and probably expensive.
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IIRC, Melbourne is one of the very few cities in the world that didn't demolish its streetcar network in the 1950s, so there's that.
I've been living in Melbourne for ~10 years and don't own a car. The public transport and bike infrastructure around where I live is pretty good.
If I need to move house or something like that there's a car share service that has vans you can hire by the hour.
Interestingly the State Government here has made all public transport free for the month of April. They only announced it late last week. LINK.
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That's more of a plan than, "High oil prices are great for us. We're gonna make so much money."
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Bye bye Petrodollar! Man is the us fucked.
And I bet companies still won't relaxe Home Office rules and still make everyone come into the office rip.
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Green power and electric vhicles go!
Great if you can afford them.
FYI: Most Australians drive used cars, it'll be ~10 years before we start to see used BYD's and such falling into the hands of the working class.
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This title is bullshit. Not a fair summation of what was said at all.
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