AUSSIE AUSSIE AUSSIE

[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.

Comments

[sonofgodzilla]

This is the feel good news I have been asking for. I know we're all on a tightrope, but I want to cheer you on, I want to pitch in and share your optimism, 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.

*ahem*

Oi! Oi! Oi!

[verdande_mi]

Good news indeed :D

[osprey_archer]

Oi! Oi! Oi!

Trying not to feel irradiated with envy, lol. At least somewhere there's sense left in this world?

[walgesang]

Oi! Oi! Oi! :D I have some other Aussie friends and they were likewise thrilled about Dutton's fate.

[lucymonster]

DUTTON IS SUCH A DICKHEAD. Ever since he started with his bullshit MAGA-lite election campaign, people have been calling him Temu Trump, which replaced his previous nickname of Voldemort. I don't know anyone who likes him. Even the bloodcurdlingly racist, conservative old guys who I overheard discussing the election in a cafe a few weeks ago didn't like him. Of no one has it ever been more truly said, Good Fucking Riddance.

[lucymonster]

I think that's the silver lining - or possibly the insult on injury? - to what you guys are going through in the US: after witnessing the actual outcomes of Trump's policies in action, even the subsection of Australian voters who were inclined to like him on culture war grounds ended up cooling on the idea of a leader taking after him. The tariffs pissed off absolutely everyone.

[lucymonster]

:D!

[lucymonster]

10/10 delivery, handing you your Honorary Aussie badge, come party with us here in rightwing-reactionary-crisis-averted-land any time. :D <3

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!

[sonofgodzilla]

It's honestly an example I hope we can follow but... everyone seems to be an arsehole in this country right now. Still, I will treasure being an Honorary Aussie and continue to hope for people here to stop being dicks, lol.