@john_macgowan Is it possible that you have the most esoteric and in depth knowledge of the Australian political sphere at both the mundane and deep levels of anyone in the country?
Alternatively the left’s great vision for Australia:
- Pay for foreigners to move here and replace the native born population of Australia
- Balkanise the state into a bunch of different mutually hostile ethnic enclaves
- Give these ethnic voting blocs permanent veto power over Australian foreign policy
- Eventually remove Australia from the Western alliance system
- Change the name of the country, change the flag, change the name of all major cities so that nothing is left of Australia’s traditional Western culture
- Eventually make Australia simply a Chinese vassal state/resource extraction colony as permanent revenge for white people settling the continent.
This exchange is so revealing. Kenyon points out the obvious - that the more people that enter a country, the more houses that country will need. But upon hearing the argument that immigration puts pressure on the housing supply, the Green candidate immediately defaults to her "I'm shocked and horrified you could ever say such a thing!" mode. The funny thing is, she ends up agreeing with him, but even then she tries to pretend he has said something appalling. This is what happens when politics is rooted in feelings rather than facts.
What most foreigners don’t know is that in 1988, Brazil established the most progressive constitution in world history.
They think Brazil became a narco-state because crime simply overpowered the state—being stronger and controlling more regions or people by thriving financially.
Which is a huge lie. The police can easily enter any favela and arrest any criminal. The real key issue stopping Brazil from becoming safe is the Justice system. Once a criminal is jailed, they are granted all kinds of protections and aid through international NGOs and their lobby with the Brazilian left and the judiciary.
Today's Brazil faces problems deeply correlated with the exact same ones affecting Europe and North America.
Sorry, and RIP, but we have had Instagram and cheap airfare for a decade. Globetrotting is a mid-wit hobby that enlightens no one. There is nobody more shallow and incurious than the well travelled.
@LeeRespecter Men have largely checked out of pop culture. We live in our corner of the internet and they live in their corner which is also backed by state media
“Pretty ironic for a BRITISH person to complain about mass immigration!”
Actually it’s not because my political beliefs are motivated by self interest not some kind of bizarre obligation to supposedly restore karmic balance.
It took <100 years for American settlers to destroy fully 99% of this unique landscape and the thousands of species of plants and animals that called it home
The level of betrayal that has played out here is insane.
Normally, labor scarcity is how an economy heals itself. When workers become harder to find, employers have to raise wages to deal with it, and out of this market slowdown the seeds of a new boom would be sowed as young people have greater purchasing power to buy a home, get married, and have kids of their own.
But instead of allowing that correction to happen, America chose a different model. We’ve mass imported millions of replacements to suppress wages, blowing out asset prices in the process and leaving native Americans economically (and increasingly culturally and politically) dispossessed in their own country.
‘Australian’ is implicitly understood.
Go to a war memorial and read the surnames etched in stone.
See which ‘Australians’ turn up to the dawn service to honour our dead.
They have no Plan B if Australia falls on hard times.
Walk past a school football game, Aussies vs ______. Children understand it, despite the indoctrination.
Migrants regularly ‘other’ themselves in reference to ‘Aussies’, without perceived malice or a feeling of exclusion.
Ask them what an Aussie looks like, they’ll tell you.
The Australian public overwhelmingly know it to be true instinctively, even if they state otherwise.
"Last year, Republicans gave ICE $140 billion.
Now, Republicans want to give ICE $70 billion more.
Your taxpayer dollars are funding an out-of-control mass deportation machine."