• Lodespawn@aussie.zone
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    1 month ago

    Look, albo is a significant improvement on the bunch of conservative idiots and psychopaths we had over the preceding 10 odd years, but he’s still doing some pretty shit stuff … also it saddens me that Scott Morrison gets to say he was our prime minister and will draw a prime ministerial pension. Such a fuckin buttpipe …

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        Morrison was worse than Abbott. I’m not saying Abbott was good, effective or competent in any way, but Morrison was worse. It’s wild how the Coalition flip flopping resulted in them flopping to that incompetent wanker.

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        Morrison was worse than Abbott.

        Abbott stood for a couple of decent things, such as giving his personal time as a volunteer. Morrison stands for nothing decent and is completely devoid of anything warmly human. Completely transactional and with the depth of a piss puddle taken in a cold room.

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          Oof, tough run. The latest PM is pretty good?

          In these times, a national leader doesn’t have to be amazing, just “not shit” is amazing enough, lol

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            He’s okay. It’s Labor; it isn’t anything like a government that truly takes the country forward.

            He kept his promise on holding the referendum, economically the country is doing okay, he got pushed around and seriously let down by the rest of Australian Parliament (and the country to be fair) over the latest tragedy. Their housing policies aren’t that crash hot either…they’re all controlled by the banking industry and investors as you’d expect.

            Yeah getting real tired of ‘just not shit’ though. Labor suck as well.

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              'tis a lucky country. Probably doesn’t seem like it sometimes, but it really is one of the good places to be. If I were picking a place to set up for the rest of my life, it’s definitely in the top 5. Hope it stays like that in case decid to head on back to my home away from home.

              But Christ is it far away from everything! 🤣 Not an ideal base for globetrotters.

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                lucky country

                You need to look that one up, that’s not a compliment.

                That said, it is very much a lucky country in the sense the author meant it. Look at how badly our cigarette and cape policies are working and how we’ve painted ourselves in the corner we have with housing.

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                  Oh, okay. Maybe I got a rosemary tinted view. I’m very nordic these days, but that weather and countryside and beach beauty. I miss it. The people are great too. The culture is great.

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    Been fun watching the conservatives self immolate for the past few weeks. Not gonna be as fun when the hard right is all that’s left standing after the next election.

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      Yeah, Pauline’s rubbing her hands together gleefully. LNP are scum, but she and her ilk actively want to make the country into America.