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Dear Americans We elsewhere in the West have always admired you as brave defenders of freedom. We shook our heads and indulged as your quirk that freedom justifies tolerating poverty, let alone the guns and mass murder. Still we believed you on freedom. Yet you seem to accept a would-be tyrant.

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If another proof of Zola's dictum that the only sin that God doesn't forgive is the sin of bad taste, it was Trump, on a WH balcony, declaring Pope Francis, who died at Easter, "a good man"...alongside a cartoon bunny. I felt like puking.

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Dogwhistle Dutton

submitted 70 days ago • 0 comments

Canvassed today with @zoedaniel.bsky.social on a street of Saturday morning shoppers. A visiting New York couple were astonished to see the MP, chatting casually to any constituent who approached her - no security, no minders. Democracy doesn't only die in darkness perhaps, but in distance.

submitted 75 days ago • 0 comments

If you were setting out to destroy the West, you couldn't be more thorough. If there really were a deep state in national security, it couldn't be more supine. It was a long game, Americans, but you were played.

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submitted 89 days ago • 0 comments

www.theage.com.au/national/tru... Dear Americans, especially Republicans in Congress and competent Defense officials, read this. Is this the outcome you sought?

submitted 101 days ago • 0 comments

Trump has announced tariffs on Australian steel and aluminium. He's said to see tariffs as bargaining coin. So what's on the table? US trade surplus with Australia? US intelligence and communication bases eg Pine Gap? US defence materiel eg nuclear subs Australia just made an early down payment on?

submitted 108 days ago • 0 comments

American exceptionalism: Wilson proposes the League of Nations, US refuses to join; US creates GATT/WTO, Trump 1 unilaterally imposes tariffs; US leads on creation of Nuremberg principles, US always rejects International Criminal Court jurisdiction, Trump 2 sanctions ICC for applying them.

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Suspend disbelief. Imagine that Gaza can be depopulated without bloodshed or massive costs for relocation and compensation. Now imagine persuading bankers to fund resorts and then "internationals" to buy or holiday in a place guaranteed to attract terrorism fueled by hopelessness and revenge.

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submitted 111 days ago • 0 comments

Has anyone in the US seen the similarity between the puppies raised to attack dogs by Napoleon the pig in Orwell's Animal Farm and Musk's tech kids savaging US agencies?

submitted 113 days ago • 0 comments

Will an American explain to me how, leaving aside everything else the fat fraud has done to render him suitable for office, most don't guffaw each time he turns up with that make-up?

submitted 117 days ago • 0 comments