Comment on Could Musk's unpopularity in Australia impact the election?
RedCarCastle@aussie.zone 1 month ago
I think most of the stuff you listed, would at worst be a medium to high inconvenience, certainly nothing that’s going to shut down the country if it ever got down to it
eureka@aussie.zone 1 month ago
Most of them I want gone. From that list, I only use one or two Google/YouTube products, and am forced on a couple of the social medias only for specific event chatrooms.
You’re right, it’s cultural dominance, not reliance. They benefit from it more than we do.
Eyekaytee@aussie.zone 1 month ago
Same, I’m down to just Youtube and Iphone as the two things I could not replace…but how would the rest of Australia do
How would corporate Australia handle it if Trump did some truly insane things like an export tax on all Microsoft products +100% or banning American software in Australia?
He’s saying he wants to make Canada the 51st state of America so I’m not sure where the stupidity of him ends
How quickly would we go as a nation from Yeah Fuck Trump! to nooo don’t take my facebook!
mranachi@aussie.zone 1 month ago
Perhaps I am delusional, but I still hope that we are contrary and proud enough of a country to take whatever America can dish out to not be publicly humiliated into submission.
Obviously there are a multiple of less public submissions we’ve made over the last century, but I still have hope we can turn it around.
Taleya@aussie.zone 1 month ago
Software may be a bad example given we’re the biggest digital pirates on the planet
eureka@aussie.zone 1 month ago
Australia? We couldn’t possibly be. imma have to demand evidence.