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I’m sold. We are living through the dumbest government in the history of Western democracies. We’ve just replaced one President with dementia for another, who has surrounded himself with an Idiocracy of unqualified boot lickers. Every day the village idiots seem to out do their own stupidity...

Is America great again yet?

Is America great again yet?

Omicron variant of COVID first known to science on 24 November 2021. Health departments collected real world data over the following weeks and by the end of the year there was enough evidence to say with confidence that vaccines were no longer reliably stopping transmission of this variant...

Can someone please psychoanalyse why they keep calling Trump “daddy”?

My 2 cents to the more grown up and constructive conversation on the Colombia issue in this thread:

It’s more than just import/export tarriffs - which as you point out, increase prices for Americans not Colombians. Colombia is a critical ally for the US in Latin America, not only economically but also diplomatically and militarily. That relationship has been built over decades to address key...

The omicron variant of SARS-CoV-2 was first reported in South Africa on 24 November 2021. Data on its transmissibility and clinical severity and differences to previous variants were systematically collected and analysed by public health units around the world over the next few weeks/months...

“Trump isn’t racist”

Probably best not to make such definitive statements like this if you’re not across the subject matter. 1. Many vaccines require multiple doses for optimum efficacy. Flu is recommended annually. Here’s the childhood immunisation schedule. Some of these vaccines ‘just’ prevent severe illness and...

Good point. And this is the insane thing about spectating US politics from an Australian perspective. By any metric and for anyone with even a basic understanding of the political spectrum, the Democrats were running a centre-right policy platform heading into this election. Particularly with...

Have we forgotten that Musk has openly supported far right wing fascist parties in the UK, France, Italy, Hungary and Germany during recent elections? What amazes me isn’t that these posters are deflecting or defending his Nazi salute, it’s that they aren’t embracing and celebrating it. This is...

The Epstein files must be in the next round! Maybe his Executive Order signing pen ran out of ink?

Deport people who say things I disagree with. Haha. Sure sounds like the party of free speech to me. It is hilarious that nothing pisses MAGA ‘Christians’ off more than the actual teachings of Jesus.

They need to pay really close attention to what’s happening with young voters - especially male voters. What messages will resonate with this group? How do you authentically engage with them? Also, while I agree with you that the immigration issue is being blown way out of proportion, I think...

In the interests of having a sensible conversation with the grown ups, dragging this over from the other thread.

Serious question? Serious answer. Not wanting to be reactionary and ignore the fact that in the US, Canada, Australia, UK and France right wing political parties were rejected and lost elections in 2020, 2021, 2022, 2024 and 2024 respectively, but yes I agree there is something to learn from...

The centre-right have been on a slippery slope, digging themselves into a deeper and deeper hole for a while now. You have to ask why they get so viscerally upset when people merely point out what are to any sane person, more and more obvious examples of christofascist theocracy influencing...

Using technology first developed and proof of scalability first demonstrated in smaller, wealthier countries like Australia. A great demonstration of the global impact investment here can have. Leading the way.

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Musk and the right as champions of free speech. Haha. That’s superb. Keep them coming. My personal favourites are the thin-skinned types who can't stomach having their opinions challenged and conflate this with oppression of free speech. “You can’t say anything anymore” 🎻 Then you have Musk’s...

If it walks like a duck, and quacks like a duck

Frame it, straight to the pool room. 😍

It is so on point for Trump to launch his own crypto the weekend before his presidential inauguration (while holding 80% of the coins). Inevitably, once enough of his gullible but undyingly loyal supporters have jumped on board and inflated its value, he will (like every other cryptocurrency...

Like Al-Qaeda, ISIS, Hezbollah and other radical fundamentalist groups, I think of Hamas as an ideology rather than a distinct group of people or a geographical region. The leadership is mostly gone but that ideology persists and is probably strengthened coming out of this.

I don’t think they were planning an exact number, but I’m certain Hamas’ aim in all this was to provoke Israel into killing thousands of Palestinian civilians, destabilise the region, and radicalise more Muslims to extremist ideology. I’m also certain that history will show they succeeded with...

Just for variety, some common sense takes on the LA fires. 1. 4mm of rain in LA in 6 months, extreme drought increasing the fuel load and pushing the fire danger season into winter when Santa Ana winds are more frequent. 2. Wind gusts of 100mph (160km/h) were recorded during the fires. 3. The...

His words not mine. Nothing I've seen in the eight years since makes me think he was wrong either. It’s not controversial to say that Trump’s core supporter base is uniquely devoted to him, bordering on dogmatic. No other US politician (Democrat or Republican) could for example suggest...

Well that was annoying. Fair play to Forest they were bloody well organised.