Comment on Albanese's politics of patience: Democracy needs mature leadership
Sasha@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 weeks agoPutting an election before lives is pathetic.
Comment on Albanese's politics of patience: Democracy needs mature leadership
Sasha@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 weeks agoPutting an election before lives is pathetic.
Tenderizer@aussie.zone 3 weeks ago
Putting lives before an elections means you lose both, if he even has sacrificed lives by being cautious.
Cutting arms shipments to Israel would be merely symbolic and would get Albanese immediately couped like Whitlam and Rudd (if he would even be able to do it in the first place), the HAAF was meant to solve homelessness rather than housing stress and it was delayed by a few years by the Greens, and climate change requires policy maintained over multiple elections cycles to address on a domestic level.
Sasha@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 weeks ago
If you really don’t think Also is directly responsible for people dying, there’s nothing I can say that will convince you. The shitty neoliberal system isn’t a justification for inaction, it’s a disgusting tumour that he’s actively strengthening. You’re assuming that he has to play the game, he doesn’t, it’s a choice.
I’ll add this one specific thing though. Albo is actively making climate change worse and ensuring that the country continues to be reliant on fossil fuels.
Tenderizer@aussie.zone 3 weeks ago
The prime ministers that didn’t play the game didn’t last more than 3 years. Then we got the LNP who actually actively strengthen the neoliberal system. This whole “both sides are the same” argument needs to die, firstly because the LNP is corrupt and much more incompetent, but also because it makes the corruption and incompetence seem less bad when people say (or imply) that.
Sasha@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 weeks ago
Why do people think criticising Labor for entirely valid reasons is a both sides are the same argument? It isn’t, it’s valid and necessary. Both sides do sometimes agree on things, but it isn’t me saying they’re the same… I never said they are the same, I never even mentioned the LNP.
Unwavering support for corrupt politicians needs to die because it actually does legitimise harm and makes corruption and incompetence seem less bad. You’re literally trying to justify corruption because they’re not the LNP.