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‘We’re living in an Orwellian nightmare’: Grace Tame calls Anthony Albanese a ‘coward’ in scathing critique (www.theguardian.com)

submitted 1 week ago by Gorgritch_umie_killa@aussie.zone to c/australia@aussie.zone

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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.

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[–] nonentity@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Really?!

Zero candidates across Australia? Or do you mean zero candidates that your vote could have gone to directly?

[–] nonentity@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 week 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.