@Airaxora Some sort of engagement bait. I’ve seen this post from a variety of accounts in my FY page, so someone’s collating responses, and it isn’t the users of X 🤷🏻♀️
@ragepiggie I’ll never understand how they’re so ‘out there’ with their alleged rapes. They are not courageous women & lack the courage to tend to themselves before putting themselves out there with these stories, not even trying to express the horror authentically, it’s just victim anger.
Why did every Australian government from Chifley to Rudd, 1945-2010, not allow permanent US military bases in Australia?
Because when you allow bases you give up sovereignty.
Gillard changed it, and now, as a US diplomat told me, Australia is effectively under US occupation.
Billionaires do a ton of objectively bad stuff, but I just want to be clear that the mere act of holding onto that much money in a world with this much inequality is in itself a brutally evil action and alone makes them bad people.
You want to know what imperial conditioning looks like from the inside?
It looks like a person who knows that the United States has the largest prison population in the history of human civilization, and still describes other countries as "unfree."
It looks like a person who knows their healthcare system allows people to die from rationed insulin, and still describes other countries' economics as "failed."
It looks like a person who watched their government spend $2.3 trillion over twenty years building a state in Afghanistan that collapsed in just 10 days, and still trusts that same government's assessment of which other countries are "stable" or "democratic" or "ready for self-governance."
It is not stupidity.
It is something more structurally interesting than stupidity.
It is what happens when the story a person needs to believe about themselves is in direct conflict with the evidence their own eyes can see, and the story wins.
Not because the evidence is unclear.
But because the cost of following the evidence to its conclusion is too high.
Better a comfortable contradiction than an uncomfortable clarity.
The empire is built on that choice, made daily, by millions of people.