No, Australia is already outright owned by plutocratic mining corperations. In the US they have to go through all the lobbying and buying millions of trumpcoin.
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the_q@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
Isn’t Australian society very similar to American conservative crap?
GluWu@lemm.ee 1 month ago
princessnorah@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 month ago
Riiiight, Australia is the one that’s outright owned by lobbyists, and America is a bastion of free speech. Yeah, alright mate.
GluWu@lemm.ee 1 month ago
Didn’t say it was, cunt.
Zagorath@aussie.zone 1 month ago
Not nearly to the same extent as America, but in general, yes. Same direction, just less extreme.
popjam@lemmy.world 1 month ago
We also voted against the Trump crap last election, I’d imagine if America had preferential and mandatory voting they would have too
Ilandar@lemmy.today 1 month ago
No.
Wandering@aussie.zone 1 month ago
Unlike the MAGA movement, most of Australia’s right wing are neither Vatnik, nor Fascist. I mean, there are those as well, like Clive Palmer, but he is a spam pest and a joke - most people think he is ridiculous. So no.
hanrahan@slrpnk.net 1 month ago
Yes, alas pretty much
Letstakealook@lemm.ee 1 month ago
They are. In fact, we can thank America’s largest spewer of hate (fox) on one of their homegrown assholes, Rupert Murdoch.
Zagorath@aussie.zone 1 month ago
Hey now, he might have been born here, but he’s not our arsehole. And he hasn’t been for 40 years.
princessnorah@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 month ago
He doesn’t even have Australian citizenship, does he?
Zagorath@aussie.zone 1 month ago
Yeah exactly. He chose to get rid of it 40 years ago this year.
Ilandar@lemmy.today 1 month ago
Only because he forfeited it.