Look at that. Putin and Trump didn’t have to lift a finger.

And I would love to keep it that way. The golddigger just removed all her posts and deleted her account. Lemmy turned out to not provide her with the mirror mirror on the wall function she desired.

Take care

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Ok, sticking up for the Trump supporter and not being able to connect two topics. I can be civilised, but people like you and the golddigging-Trump-supporter-in-denial make it really hard.

Ah good you’re all fine then. You’re welcome here too, as world mods seem to be on the side of making sure fascist enablers like yourself are treated civilly (while you support the guy who is the most uncivilised doing inhumane things to non white Americans. Citizens and non citizens. )

But of course your rich husband needs to be richer and that takes precedence. Totally understand.

So after Reddit and Lemmy where do we go next?

Kallas noted that \*\*Russia is already spending more on defense than the EU’s 27 nations combined, and this year will invest more “on defense than its own health care, education and social policy combined.”\*\*

Two things. Why is she always referred to so indirectly? She’s a pretty bad ass women who is one of the few with that level of integrity on that level in Europe. When she falls out of a one story window you’ll know the Russians are coming.

The excessive defense spending both by RU but also US is mirroring the last years of the Roman (and probably other empires). It’s a good thing. The giants of the 20th century are self imploding as there was no way to defeat them anyway. The world now needs smart and compassionate people to figure out what we do once they’re gone.

Hate is not going to get you anywhere.

Yes some of them voted for him but a bunch of them didn’t.

Stop being defeatist.. inform yourself.. look at the numbers. Look at the evidence. Get active.

If you’ve wondered why everything looks like a coup since he got in, perhaps it is because it is one.

https://lemmy.world/post/31401705

https://youtu.be/AaKFx5rxdmA

https://smartelections.us/

https://electiontruthalliance.org/

Edit: the upvote/downvote ratio on a comment like this shows how rapidly Lemmy is turning into Reddit. Nobody cares about the data, if you remotely sound like defending the GOP down the chute you go.

It’s your loss America. I’ll sleep fine as long as we don’t have electronic voting systems here.

I happen to be against fascists going hard and fast every where without thinking we’re ever going to forget or never going to come after them, but you don’t hear me *removed* about it in a speech.

All good. Thanks for all you do around here!

You can see it in the crosspost

Counterpoint. I posted an article from the Australian national broadcaster. They have their flaws but they aint breitbart.

While I sensationalised the title and added my 2 cents in the original OP I cross posted to this community, I linked to a nice source and created a more world context friendly title, yet far from disingenuous click bait.

The upvotes and the comments are largely based on that.

What this rule is currently accomplishing:

• people will just post sensationalist sources with clickbaity titles and questionable journalism

• or people will create sensationalist titles for neutral higher quality sources and then the top comment is always going to be about this level of virtue signalling.

What’s the point of a community if these are the rules? You’re asking for bad sources and at best or you’re just a comment section provider for legacy media.

Done. Only because I respect you.

It doesn’t make sense that rule. But you’ll disagree anyway and there’s never a chance of winning a mod argument anyway.

The article headline you want is pointless and meaningless to the 99% of the world who visits this.

Peter Dutton to leave Coalition leaderless, conceding he has lost his seat of Dickson

I added context and a little bit of juice to it so it would make for a better headline for non-Australians. Did I add some anti Trump sentiment? Sure. Did that misconstrue the content of the article? No.

I understand the current rule makes it easy to mod the place, but it also means you don’t let the OP add context for Lemmy. The rule should be: you can’t misconstrue the content of the article.

Anyway, I appreciate all you mods do and I respect the rules that are in place.

At your service.

That’s what I thought about you when I read your message.

Whiskey Tango Foxtrot mate?!?

Easy tiger. I voted yesterday. Pipe it down a notch.

Not sure. I can see them go full Trump and get aligned with our extreme right wing parties and billionaires and make their own truth social and just double down hard calling it a hoax. All the flooding is just weather engineering with chemtrails, didn’t you know?

Happy to have a bit of a debate over that. You can put them dead centre if that makes you feel better.

They certainly have some positives for the general public, and more so than the $.25 rebate promised by LNP. However, the majority of stuff they offer are stopgaps, instead of fixing the real underlying issues. High power bills aren’t going to go down with one off rebates. First home buyers 5% isn’t fixing the housing supply, or over demand, nor is it a solution to anyone over 40 who still hasn’t been able to buy, because a 5% deposit means you’ll pay for forever and then some.

Same with tax cuts. Also Tax Cuts are right wing, though they are usually for the wealthy.

They are still all for really terrible corporate developments, they are still cosy with the coal lobby, they’re just smart enough to not bring a big beautiful lump of coal into parliament anymore. They won’t tax mega corporations fairly, they won’t do anything for the climate emergency, just boost green energy, without any serious international commitments or plans to reduce or go net zero in this term of this new government. None of that anywhere.

They tried one terribly worded referendum which probably blew the Aboriginal community a chance at some form of reconciliation for the next half a century, and there’s no more follow up. They have no solid plan for the housing crisis, just a few hand outs.

It’s not screaming right wing, and I didn’t say it was, and it certainly isn’t Trumpism, and our democracy is bar none one of the best and most secure in the world, but it isn’t progressive or left at all. It is fairly competent centrism, maintaining the status quo for corporate Australia, while minimally appeasing the plebeians, because thank fuck, it could have been so much worse. it is a shameful far cry from what we needed in order to really respond to the situation we’re in on the global timeline.

Oh god… We had Jacinta Pryce (extreme right winger in Oz) try the same here tonight. How do they expect this to work? I suppose because it worked for Diaper Don..

Telling people to google stuff is so fcking reddit mate.

Thanks for providing context.

Wait what? Source please