Submitted 2 days ago by Gorgritch_umie_killa@aussie.zone to australia@aussie.zone
Tame contrasted Albanese’s historical advocacy for Palestine and critique of Australia’s involvement in the Iraq war with his current position on Iran, alleging as a “relatively defenceless Pacific middle power, Australia cannot afford to cut its military ties with the US and Israel”.
“We’re in a geopolitical chokehold,” she said.
“To Albanese, I am difficult because I am both aware of this reality and unafraid to scream it at the top of my lungs, much to his obvious chagrin.
Grace Tame is so rad, and she’s absolutely right.
Part of becoming PM. Albo has been shown what’s behind the curtain and probably worried he’s gonna be Harold Holted if he doesn’t tow the line.
We’re in a geopolitical chokehold by intentional choice of our leaders, because that’s what their largest donors want - easier to extract resources and demand favours from a vassal state.
Theres an implicit claim here that I don’t think has any basis in reality. Source for Harold Holt conspiracy theory?
^Note: I’m not trying to denigrate whatever you’re thinking in regards Holt, if he was murdered, etc, then it would very much have been a conspiracy. Conspiracy theory has a bad reputation as a stand in for only being outlandish and crazy claims in discourse, annoyingly.^
Honestly I think they just conflated Holt with Whitlam.
Other poster is right, I conflated Holt with Whitlam.
There’s an ollld conspiracy theory that Holt was a Chinese spy and spirited away when he was close to being nabbed by ASIO iirc, zero hard evidence to this day, just novelists and crackpots.
He was disappeared by the CIA for not toeing the line with American interests. I don’t think it was China at all, for once.
We’ve also had evidence come out that the Whitlam situation was more CIA dicking around
It’s long past time we tell the Yanks to fuck off.
Based Grace!
I like the description of a geopolitical chokehold. Thats a good way to describe Australia’s position.
Is Grace a member of any party?
Is vote for her
Maybe the Greens, if any? I’ve heard her on The Shot pocdcast before, speaks well. Bloody confident.
nonentity@sh.itjust.works 6 hours ago
For the past 3 decades, basically the entire span of my adult life, I’ve been unable to identify any candidate worthy of actively voting for, and the only memorable specimens have been clowns I’ve needed to vote against.
This country chose to gave Howard 4 fucking terms to undermine and obliterate the Australian social fabric, and no one since has had the cognitive calibre required to correct his debasement.
If you need a primer, this is a decent point to start: Where it All Went Wrong
Gorgritch_umie_killa@aussie.zone 2 hours ago
Really?!
Zero candidates across Australia? Or do you mean zero candidates that your vote could have gone to directly?
nonentity@sh.itjust.works 2 hours ago
I’ve only recently, really looked deeply into politics, and I may be back propagating my current understanding in an inconsistent manner, but I can’t identify a single entity who has elevated to the level of candidate and is worthy of voting for.
The state of politics in Australia has become so thoroughly polluted that one must intrinsically be irreconcilably compromised to participate, which leaves the only justifiable path being to vote for the least bad option, if one can be gleaned in time.