Eyekaytee
@Eyekaytee@aussie.zone
- Comment on Why Keating’s greatest speeches still matter after the Voice failed 47 minutes ago:
I hope you can appreciate that there is a but more subtlety to this issue than you seem to give it credit for.
The reason I (and most people who aren’t green haired devils in melbourne) don’t give it much credence is because any subtle effect of being Indigenous is overruled by other brown/black/asian people who are also impacted by the same issues and often coming from worse situations improving their lives drastically simply by working hard, studying hard, and doing their best to integrate.
You live in Australia, not Africa, playing the victim card only works for so long, people get tired of hearing about it.
Hence the no vote:
You can’t blame whitey when literally every demographic is represented in that 60% no vote and there wasn’t even a no campaign, all the pink haired melbourne devils like /u/Taleya’s running around screaming if you don’t vote yes you’re racist!!! somehow didn’t seem to impact the majority of the electorate that again, includes whites, blacks, browns, asians, and everything in between.
- Comment on Why Keating’s greatest speeches still matter after the Voice failed 1 hour ago:
ok thank you for informing me of this 👍
- Comment on Why Keating’s greatest speeches still matter after the Voice failed 17 hours ago:
next time you have a thought like this that adds zero to the conversation maybe keep it in your head?
- Comment on Why Keating’s greatest speeches still matter after the Voice failed 19 hours ago:
The prosperity of all non-indigenous Australians is built on
hard work, good culture, stable government, stable modern society, low corruption, democracy, luck with international markets needing our commodities, speaking English, alignment of values with other western nations
we could give them a hand to regain some benefit of our prosperity
It’s been 50 years since the end of the stolen generation, it’s been 3 decades since that Keating speech of giving them a hand
In 2023–24, the Indigenous-specific bodies will employ 2,714 full-time-equivalent public servants.
Estimated 2023–24 total Australian Government expenditure on all Indigenous-specific programs is $5.3 billion
aph.gov.au/…/AustralianGovernmentIndigenous-speci…
I would argue that as a settler society we should take responsibility for our collective past actions.
A lot of people think we’ve done more than enough to help them and quite frankly it’s starting to look like dependence
- Comment on Why Keating’s greatest speeches still matter after the Voice failed 1 day ago:
If it isn’t reasonable to say that if we can build a prosperous and remarkable harmonious multicultural society in Australia, surely we can find just solutions to the problems which beset the First Australians, the people to whom the most injustice has been done.
What?
There’s no obligation for us to hold hands with them anymore than any other Australian
In fact if there’s 2 people, 1 indigenous and 1 from north korea, and the north korean wants to work hard and learn and study and grow and the other doesn’t, then I’m putting my money on the north korean
it seems like many people haven’t learnt a thing from the no vote
- Comment on Australia to spend $1.1 billion on Anduril undersea drone fleet 1 week ago:
good! take the money out of aukus and put it towards this
- Comment on Inquiry finds British committed genocide on Indigenous Australians 1 week ago:
sorry buddy I’m not really concerned with when Melbourne was founded
- Comment on Inquiry finds British committed genocide on Indigenous Australians 1 week ago:
20 years after the state was colonised, in the early 1830s.
The 1830’s???
which could include reparations.
???
Estimated 2023–24 total Australian Government expenditure on all Indigenous-specific programs is $5.3 billion
Fark moi
- Comment on Why the cost of living crisis will not get better 2 weeks ago:
Obviously I think more needs to be done on housing - end capt. gains discount for property, neg. gearing. But agreed.
yes please!
What do you is going to happen when the Americans wake up? I think both of us are going to get some replies.
lol i see you have the same problem as well
will see how it goes
- Comment on Why the cost of living crisis will not get better 2 weeks ago:
not saying we should elect a dictator
You’ve just found the problem with communism ;) when you centralise all resources under one man, it turns out people can be real power hungry dicks
So your argument is we let things get worse, and be thankful of what we have.
I don’t really see things getting worse, with immigration rates going down and labor spending a ton of money on building houses and streamlining approvals I expect over the next 5 years house prices to cool
Cool, chill, you do that buddy.
tbh i can’t ask for much more? I have pretty much everything anyone could want and I’m just a regular joe :S
Is there something I should want? 2 overseas holidays a year?
Australians travelling overseas again in record numbers despite the cost-of-living crisis
- Comment on Why the cost of living crisis will not get better 2 weeks ago:
The USSR took a backwards country of starving peasants and turned it into the worlds greatest superpower while defeating the Nazi’s
Worlds greatest superpower? This one?
American “Lend-Lease” support sent to the USSR not only tipped the scales in Eastern Europe but enabled the victory on the Russian Front.
Assisting the Soviet war effort American Lend-Lease eventually transferred over $11 billion dollars of goods to Soviet Russia—roughly the equivalent of $250 billion today. Those shipments included 400,000 vehicles, 14,000 aircraft, 13,000 tanks, 8,000 tractors, 4.5 million tons of food, and 2.7 million tons of petroleum products, as well as millions of blankets, uniforms, and boots, and 107,000 tons of cotton
nationalww2museum.org/…/lend-lease-eastern-front
I assume you’ll be the first in line to thank America :D
You also forgot to mention this en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_famine_of_1930–1933
Major factors included the forced collectivization of agriculture as a part of the First Five-Year Plan and forced grain procurement from farmers. These factors in conjunction with a massive investment in heavy industry decreased the agricultural workforce.[11] It is estimated that 5.7[9] to 8.7[10][11] million people died from starvation across the Soviet Union.
Oopsie woopsie 😂 bloody hell that’s so bad though, so glad communism died out
I also have no idea why you’d use a failed state as an example of just how great marxism is, I guess it’s slim pickings when economic reality hits economic idealism, also funny how literally all the break away soviet states had popular revolutions away from communism and none of them have any intention of going back
It’s for the return to Australian values, the socialist ones of the post war era. An era which the baby boomers grew up in and then preceded to gut for their profit
Most Australians are doing pretty alright, in the context of the world we have a super high quality of living, we live like kings, unlimited food, entertainment, access to the worlds knowledge, we live a life unrivalled, the biggest protest we had recently was for… Palestine lol? a place a million miles away which has nothing to do with us
The biggest problem is housing which is largely because again, we live like kings, more single people living in 2 and 3 bedroom houses/apartments than ever before, many elderly and simply holed up in massive houses by themselves due to stamp duty making it uneconomical to downsize
You seem to be solving a problem that largely isn’t there
- Comment on Why the cost of living crisis will not get better 2 weeks ago:
Yes, this is a Marxist analysis
oh no wonder i was so confused, I’m like the economics of this are weirdly based on vibes, poor innocent third world countries exploited by the big bad west🥴
Australia does not manufacture most of the goods we consume
Right, if anything this puts us closer to the global south than other first world nations because the majority of our exports are commodities and resources instead of global north high value manufacturing and services
I am arguing, in the medium term, we will not get as good of a deal as we have been historically
With who? Our biggest partners are China, Japan, South Korea and United States, with the exception of China which still scrapes into global south because of its currency manipulations and deliberately keeps it’s workers poor (there’s that communism 😂) … who feels like they’re getting fucked over by our trade deals? The only one I can think of is Trump who we have a negative trade balance with so we’ve not really been a focus at all.
We have a positive trade balance and mainly trade with the global north (outside of china and india), I think I’m focused on Australia because you posted in Australia, you’re focused on a grand marxist theory that explains everything and losing all the details in the picture and thinking maybe of continental europe ?
- Comment on Why the cost of living crisis will not get better 2 weeks ago:
none of your links refer to Australia, they just seem to be a general vibe
And if you intensify the exploitation of your domestic resources, you undermine the ecological basis of production. Capital, therefore, requires some kind of “outside”, an external frontier, where it can exploit labour and nature with impunity, and where it can externalize social and ecological costs.
We live in Australia, we are the major exporter of resources?
dfat.gov.au/…/australias-goods-and-services-by-to…
Not only that but I’m not sure how well we pay Afghanistan for its resources it’ll still be a corrupt islamic shithole.
It feels real simple to be like, the south is poor because of the west, all you need to do to counter this is find a country that was poor and now isn’t anymore. Singapore, Israel, Qatar, etc
Even eastern european countries as they shake off communism and socialism and embrace capitalism have had considerable improvement in quality of life
- Comment on Why the cost of living crisis will not get better 2 weeks ago:
We were getting a good deal on our imports, taking more from poorer countries (Global South) than we gave in return, but that has been coming to an end.
???
China is Australia’s largest trading partner. Trade and investment with China is central to Australia’s future prosperity. In 2023, China bought $219 billion of Australian exports, worth 32.5 percent of Australia’s total exports to the world; China is our top overseas market for agriculture, resources and services. Chinese investment in Australia reached almost $88 billion by the end of 2023.
our top exports are to china, are you american ?
- Comment on Australian government criticised over ‘disgraceful’ $400m deal to deport foreign-born former detainees to Nauru 2 weeks ago:
On Friday Australia and Nauru signed a memorandum of understanding allowing the government to deport about 280 members of the NZYQ cohort, a group of noncitizens living in the Australian community whose visas were cancelled on character grounds.
Sounds good to me
- Comment on Lynas flags uncertainty over Texas rare earths plant, posts profit slump 2 weeks ago:
but processing critical minerals is dirty so the greens won’t like it
- Comment on Queensland man sentenced to four years imprisonment after string of terror offences 3 weeks ago:
The Logan man was found to have engaged in a Brisbane-based religious group motivated by extremist ideology, including a desire to travel to Syria to engage in hostile activities.
great, good to know there’s more of them
- Comment on This day of protests has given me optimism for the upcoming counter-protests against the cryptofascist "March for Australia" this weekend 3 weeks ago:
bruh there’s like 10 people here calm down
- Comment on Australia’s amount of plastic waste surges as recycling rates fail to improve 3 weeks ago:
The largest source was due to product packaging, responsible for about 1m tonnes of new plastic each year. Other large plastic users included the built environment (18%), electrical (9%) and clothing (8%).
True for me, duno what else you can do, chips, biscuits, cheese etc all come wrapped in plastic
- Comment on Could living in smaller houses redefine the Australian Dream and help fix the housing crisis? 3 weeks ago:
Yes please, I currently live in a 3 bedroom apartment but would be far more suited to a cottage
- Sydney cleric, Islamic State child groomer targeting pro-Palestinian cause for recruitswww.abc.net.au ↗Submitted 4 weeks ago to australia@aussie.zone | 0 comments
- Comment on Australian Government funnelled $2.5B to Israeli arms manufacturers 4 weeks ago:
What the hell joke of an article is this?
Lara Khider, Senior Lawyer at the Australian Centre for International Justice
This will be about Gaza won’t it 🙄
committing internationally wrongful acts in relation to its military and other operations in Gaza
My gosh they won’t stop reaching will they 🙄
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- Comment on Kate Chaney: By increasing the GST to 15%, we could make the tax system fairer for younger Australians 4 weeks ago:
Yet our GST is among the narrowest and lowest in the OECD. It applies to just 7.5% of the economy, compared with an OECD average of over 11%, and its rate is half the OECD average.
I don’t think anyone on the ground level of the OECD is arguing in favour of their higher rates
- Comment on Europe’s power grids under pressure amid record-breaking heatwaves 4 weeks ago:
N’oubliez pas le meduse
- Chinese carbon dioxide emissions fell 2.7 percent during the first six months of 2025, while U.S. CO2 emissions were up 4.2 percentwww.politico.com ↗Submitted 4 weeks ago to energy@slrpnk.net | 1 comment
- Comment on Why Western hegemony is over 4 weeks ago:
tough question, most of the time I just leave it alone, this is a waste of time overall, I have spent like 30 years, over 50,000+ posts on various forums over the years so reading nonsense isn’t particularly an issue
Outside of that I don’t mind reading just about anything, if anything I want to read articles that argue against what I believe so I can develop a better understanding of their position, if only to critique my own or better understand it so I can argue against it better
just part and parcel of internet forums I think, that said if they’re just constantly posting non-sense that doesn’t add value to what I’m interested in then block is just a click away :)
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- Comment on AZ issues 16/8/25 4 weeks ago:
Good stuff :)
I was wondering whether it was a backend issue which can be fixed but if it’s malicious traffic :(
- Comment on Why Western hegemony is over 4 weeks ago:
Trump is a retard, everyone knows this, don’t need an article written by a traitor to realise this
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