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I love how angry this removed got about her portrait.
Gina, you're a woman (apparently), and in Trump's world order, women are second-class citizens who should keep their mouths shut. As a fan of his policies, therefore, you should do just that.
She kinda resembles ginni Thomas
Fuck you Gina.
Do not interrupt your opponent when they are making a mistake.
So yes, Australian conservatives should def go full MAGA, then they will die and future elections will be between the neolibs and an actual leftist party.
Yeah, we said the same thing about the MAGA idiots, and Trump back in 2016. Thought having Trump on the ticket would make Hillary an easy shoe-in. Turns out they were wrong.
I would have agreed with you up until last week, where the Aussie conservatives (including all MAGA/cooker parties) had their greatest defeat since the 1940's.
Australia is definitely not immune, but the best defence against fascism appears to be the consequences of fascism. Thanks America! Now fix your shithole cuntry.
Australia has compulsory voting, parties with only minority support can't win by suppressing turnout.
The US has a party that promotes voting and voting rights, and alas another which does everything possible to prevent voting.
Not every country has an illiteracy rate of 75%, so it isn't a shock that US citizens were wrong about something.
It's that attitude of "it can't happen here" that will get you into trouble. You need to remain vigilant.
I was pointing out why they were wrong, not that it cannot happen elsewhere.
We actively encourage kids to enter the work force at 15 nationally so I wouldn't be overtly confident about the status quo in Australia.
I was in the workforce at the age of 10 and can read at a post secondary level so I am unsure what this has to do with literacy rates.
Dude, pretty much every person in the U.S. can read. You have the statistic backward, 70% of people have an at or above average literacy rate.
Edit: Besides, it's not reading that got us Trump, it's billionaires and Fox News. Russia, China, and any other not friendly country to the U.S. disinformation campaigns have been rampant for a decade or more now.
21% of the country is clinically illiterate. In the remaining 79%, 54% read at or below a 6th grade level. This means that about 75% of US adults are functionally or clinically illiterate.
This impacts their ability to think critically because they cannot comprehend the "facts" they are told to read because the language is above that of a 6th grader allowing propaganda to flourish.
I just looked up the numbers Wednesday, in a similar question comparing US to Canada. You are squarely in the middle of the error bars with your numbers, alas, speaking as one USian who is actually able to read and comprehend.
On the bright side, she's probably the most hated person in Australia
Let them do what she says. It will destroy them
She's still bitter because of this
Tell me more. What do I Google?
Edit: found a Time article. Awesome.
The Guardian has been all over it
It's a really good source of news in general, but particularly good for Australian stuff
Also ABC news
And an outfit called SBS
That thing will be around long after she's gone, and, I hope, will show up on the first page of search results every time.
I recommend you remove any criminal like Trump from running and place him in jail where he belongs.
That's the fun part cause the people who seek power don't deserve it. Bring on the global anarchist revolution!
Fucking rich people.
This cunt needs to fuck right off with the rest of the rich nepo billionaire babies.
I think the election showed that most Aussies are sick of the constant slide to the right wing of politics.
Broke American MisterNeon Urges Australians to Embrace keeping that garbage out of your continent.
STFU Gina
Isn’t Trump one of the reasons the Liberal party got creamed? Not that I expect her to realize or accept it.
PP of Canada is using the same words verbatim when he lost, getting their script from ruzzia
Huh, they were always assholes, but now they really want to make being an asshole in public acceptable again…