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Reactions to Melbourne politics & media.

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@dieworkwear @JohnsonEmma Four weeks a year (or more) is standard in Australia, Europe etc. Americans have been sold a dud employment and healthcare system.

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@dieworkwear I thought the USA couldn’t have universal healthcare because that would mean higher taxes? That’s a lot of tax for a nation without free healthcare!

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@mjfree @SandraEckersley Trump has always been tacky.

[derek guy @dieworkwear]

i just had andrew and tristan tate arrested in miami for wearing these outfits

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@ellymelly Ignorant. Back in the 70’s my friend got chicken pox naturally then shingles at age 10. The thing that went wrong is people like you being given a platform.

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@elonmusk It’s because you and your billionaire mates have all the money Elon, majority can’t afford children!

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@Scott77Tracey @Mon4Kooyong $200 per hour, and $200 for a 20 minute drive each way!

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@FuzionPty @JaneCaro Please explain what medical care is available to help a 16 week survive outside of the uterus?

[Harry Sisson @harryjsisson]

So Trump basically gave Iran everything they wanted and we got the Strait of Hormuz opening… which was already open before the war started. ART OF THE DEAL EVERYONE!

[Monica Verduzco-Gutierrez, MD @MVGutierrezMD]

What I’d NEVER do as a brain injury rehab doctor:

• Motorcycle
• Tackle football (for my kids)
• Ignore BP
• Skip helmets
• Normalize repeat COVID infections

Because I take care of what happens next.

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@AdamLowisz @elonmusk You won’t save money if insurance premiums reduce because you will pay an expensive subscription to access FSD.

[Former Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene🇺🇸 @FmrRepMTG]

On Easter morning, this is what President Trump posted.
Everyone in his administration that claims to be a Christian needs to fall on their knees and beg forgiveness from God and stop worshipping the President and intervene in Trump’s madness.
I know all of you and him and he has gone insane, and all of you are complicit.
I’m not defending Iran but let’s be honest about all of this.
The Strait is closed because the US and Israel started the unprovoked war against Iran based on the same nuclear lies they’ve been telling for decades, that any moment Iran would develop a nuclear weapon.
You know who has nuclear weapons?
Israel.
They are more than capable of defending themselves without the US having to fight their wars, kill innocent people and children, and pay for it.
Trump threatening to bomb power plants and bridges hurts the Iranian people, the very people Trump claimed he was freeing.
On Easter, of all days, we as Christians should be reminded that the son of God died and rose from the grave so that we can be forgiven once and for all of our sins. Jesus commanded us to love one another and forgive one another. Even our enemies.
Our President is not a Christian and his words and actions should not be supported by Christians.
Christians in the administration should be pursuing peace. Urging the President to make peace.
Not escalating war that is hurting people.
This NOT what we promised the American people when they overwhelmingly voted in 2024, I know, I was there more than most.
This is not making America great again, this is evil.

[Gandalv @Microinteracti1]

Right then.
Let me explain something very slowly, because it appears some basic logic has gone missing somewhere over the Atlantic.

No serious nation in the history of warfare has spent fourteen months insulting its allies, threatening to annex their territory, siding with their common enemy, and then knocked on their door expecting them to come running to rescue a catastrophe of its own making. That is not how alliances work. That is not how anything works.

You abused the UK. You threatened Canada. You tried to grab Greenland. You called the EU an adversary. You praised Putin, the one man every serious NATO ally has spent decades preparing to fight. You hosted Kremlin officials in the Capitol. You undermined European elections. You abandoned Ukraine. You imposed tariffs on your closest partners. You did all of this loudly, proudly, and on camera.
And now you are surprised that nobody is returning your calls.

Here is a question worth sitting with. Why do you think that is? Is it possible, just possible, that when you treat your allies like enemies for over a year while cuddling up to their actual enemy, those allies might update their opinion of you? Is that concept too complicated? Does that require more working memory than is currently available?

You did not plan this war with your allies. You did not consult them. You did not build a coalition. You started a conflict, watched it go sideways, and then got on your knees asking for help from people you spent fourteen months calling weak, corrupt and irrelevant.

NATO is not what it was. Not because Europe changed. Because Washington made crystal clear which side it is on. And it is not ours.

You want European boots on the ground? Start by explaining why America is more aligned with Moscow than with Brussels. Take your time. We will wait.

Gandalv / @Microinteracti1

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@PaulLUFCAUS @SandraEckersley @DavidM_Friedman Australians with functioning memories will never forget.

[Harry Eccles @Heccles94]

Is the world really going to have to burn because the USA can't impeach a president?

[Stephen Mayne @MayneReport]

Have seen some strange things but Gina Rinehart - who has amassed a $40b pile digging up taxpayer owned Aussie iron ore - singing about being a proud American whilst hosting Rita Panahi’s 50th birthday party on a boat near Mar a Lago is right up there.

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@Matt_Pinner Hazel

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@ellymelly Do you drive a car? Catch a train? Yeah, you are using the public purse.

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@Jim_Jordan Australia has compulsory preferential voting, no ID required once enrolled. Millions of Australians either vote by post or turn up to a polling booth, tell the official their name and address, name is marked off the electoral roll and ballot papers handed over. All on paper.

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@froglet80 @drseanmullen They declared the highest warning level in January 2020. People always focus on the day they said it had become a pandemic when that wasn’t the critical date. The horse had bolted.