I'm an Australian, as a 16 ur old I'd slong my gun over mu shoulder and rodee my trail bike up the range to hunt for pet food. Drape a gutted dead roo over the back of my motobike and bring it jwome, meat for the dogs and skin it. No one batted an eyelid or said anything.
Now I'd be labeled a terrorist, have police helicopters chase me down and be in jail for decades.
Used to be big fan but no longer, forcing somone to vote when they don't want to seems an odd thing to ne proud off. They wont make any sort of rational choice.
I read a stat some years ago that >60% of people still don't know who they will vote for as they approach the polling booth which is why we get slammed with a zillion how to vote cards. They should not be voting at all.
The US prenteded to be Australia's ally and friend, China is just another country who happens to be a great customer and that should be recognised but that's about it.
I'd pivot away from the US and try and forge better and closer alliances (more like we have with NZ) with places, The EU, Canada, Japan for tradr and defence but theres no warm embrace with China.
As an Australian I've long been a Green voter and their policy has been arms length from the US (and China)
That the US treats us with disdain has been obvious for decades.
You can make money betting the market will go down.
Sure but becase it's not productivity related its just swapping money. There ia no "winner", for every win there's a loss on the other side of that sort of trading.
This will just confirm to the MAGGAots that they're doing the right thing,.if the orthodox liberal elite are agaist it theyre in the rigth track as far as they are.
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EU, Canada, NZ, Japan, Australia should all move much closer. The UK made their choice to be by themsleves so I'd not bother with them.
As an Australian I'd love for us to try to join the EU, even though lately theu seem to have moved more pants on head inasne with AfD and the other right wing parties in Austria, France, Sweden etc.
For most of the democratic world, the US Democrats are right wing, like Canada, Australian mainstream. conservatives are to then left of the Democrats..eg it was Australians mainstream right wing party that brought in compararively draconian gun laws (by US standards)
The etire super industru js bemusibg to me, it's diesgned for grifters to take a % of the top.
I remember an article over a decade or more ago in the AFR saying if government were serious about Suoer recorm, all thats needed is two dozen people and a bunch of computers in an office.
I am reminded that the entirety of Berkshire Hataway is run out of a single floor of an office block in Ohama
There is a significant difference between what's best for the Super Industry and whats best for superannuants, and that can enver be fixed by tinkering at the edges.
The frustrating thing is the grift fron the financial industry has been normalised and people seem happy to accept it. This article is just another in a long line of examples.
Not sure what the pardox is ? Dodgy reporting of date iant a paradox. Most Australians dont give a shit, happy to elect polticans who support that. In a sane woukd The Greens in Qld would have had a significantly increaded vote but Qlders kick the couple Green politicans they had out and elected a bunch of ultra conservative nutters who running aroind dealing with the consequences of decades of ignoring it.
In what world is that force ? He wasnt holding a gun to her head, the opposite, he's freeing her from stupidity.
Decent people help others, they don't go along with their stupid ideas before at least trying to convince them its a stupid idea. An allegory perhaps, your friend comes over, they have a 1/2 dozen beers, they're going to drive home... In your world it seems it's force to ask them not to and to stay over.
It isn't your computer and if you are helping them you should do what they want
Helping them is the phrase you seem to be confused about. It's his sister, not his boss at the office.
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Yeah but thats a subreddit not REDDIT itself, you can similarly start a /c/TwoX on just about any Lemmy instance.