AUSSIE AUSSIE AUSSIE
May. 4th, 2025 04:46 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lucymonster(International friends, the correct answer is “Oi! Oi! Oi! 😁)
I feel so buoyed up and proud to be Australian today. We’re still a flawed country with an unforgivable track record on our treatment of Indigenous people and asylum seekers, but we just delivered a resounding nationwide “no, fuck you” to the awful lizard man who thought he was going to rise to power on Trump’s coattails by way of an imported American-style culture war. The Coalition has spectacularly lost the election and we’ve bought ourselves another three years of sane, sensible leadership under a centre-left government.
It’s been terrifying to see that fascist bullshit leaching into our political waters. I’m relieved beyond words that the backlash against it has been so decisive - the wingnuts are loud and good at making themselves sound big, but our nation still has its soul and I love us for it.
Also I’m sorry but it’s really fucking funny to see Dutton so humiliated. Couldn’t have happened to a nicer piece of racist, sexist, MAGA-bootlicking trash.
I feel so buoyed up and proud to be Australian today. We’re still a flawed country with an unforgivable track record on our treatment of Indigenous people and asylum seekers, but we just delivered a resounding nationwide “no, fuck you” to the awful lizard man who thought he was going to rise to power on Trump’s coattails by way of an imported American-style culture war. The Coalition has spectacularly lost the election and we’ve bought ourselves another three years of sane, sensible leadership under a centre-left government.
It’s been terrifying to see that fascist bullshit leaching into our political waters. I’m relieved beyond words that the backlash against it has been so decisive - the wingnuts are loud and good at making themselves sound big, but our nation still has its soul and I love us for it.
Also I’m sorry but it’s really fucking funny to see Dutton so humiliated. Couldn’t have happened to a nicer piece of racist, sexist, MAGA-bootlicking trash.
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Date: 2025-05-17 11:22 am (UTC)I want to believe that we have it in us to say no to the cruelty and vindictiveness of those whose only goals is to hurt.
I'm going to be honest, before our election results came in, I was on the verge of losing faith in this. The whole world's politics have felt so hopeless for so long. But there are people fighting back, too!
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Date: 2025-05-22 04:47 am (UTC)