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Dyslexicbirch
AustralianGovernment
Lmao sorry about that.
hajimedj
Just throw him in the fire already. Or set him adrift, the Canadian way
DeZaim
Or he could just go for a wander into the ocean, the Australian way.
capnsebastian
australians should be throwing pieces of coal at him every chance they get
nicouh
yeah, hit him right in the face and then yell "do not be afraid, coal cant hurt you"
TheredBeImgurians
I'd like that.
MisterSmithster
Cunt needs knocked down by a Ute
IFoundOutThatYouCanHave63CharactersOntheUsernameHowCoolIsThat
What economy, ScoMo?? What economy? The one where we sell energy/resources to other countries? including livestock, water, etc. etc? Where
IFoundOutThatYouCanHave63CharactersOntheUsernameHowCoolIsThat
our own farmers are literally killing themselves cause they see no future due to the droughts? Meanwhile the continuation of dumbing...
IFoundOutThatYouCanHave63CharactersOntheUsernameHowCoolIsThat
generations cause you've cut funding for education as well? You still wanna bring up economy as a defence for your inaction on bush fires?
IFoundOutThatYouCanHave63CharactersOntheUsernameHowCoolIsThat
Still wanna put economy on top of defunding THE ONLY THING THATS STOPPING THE COUNTRY FROM BURNING TO THE GROUND?
IWouldDoThings
Its almost like having terrible, eratic people as world leaders is bad....
Imsupposedtodowhatnow
Every time I see Scott Morrison:
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NPaine
Now this is a cunt!
tempmike
"The Chaser is a satirical media empire..." Not saying #3 is "false" but take it with a grain of salt.
bsafreak
Would totally be happy if David Mitchell was Australia's prime minister. Bonus points if he attempted the accent.
Berethian
Don’t have to be born here to be PM, so theoretically he could be.
Berethian
For Americans and Canadians being snarky about the Aussie government, at least we’re still in Kyoto Protocols and Paris Agreement.
cearn
"ClImAtE PrOTeSts HuRt EcOnOmY!" Y'know what also hurts the economy? The world becoming uninhabitable. Guess which is more significant.
Skippy76
PiggyWobbles
Discussing these issues as "environment vs economy" ignores the massive economic damage that unchecked climate change will cause
sardinexe
I have a few friends who live there. When the smoke reaches your city, the sky turns orange in the middle of the day.
tachikaze316
I saw a news report where it was pitch black at 2:30pm and the reporter was saying she couldn't see the cameraman right in front of her.
azazyel
They'll try to blame all of it on some firestarters
Deonan
They already have https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-01-08/fires-misinformation-being-spread-through-social-media/11846434
BQZip
Why no mention of their HORRIFIC fire prevention measures in Australia. Blame climate change if you want, but (1/2)
BQZip
You actively chose to avoid even the most basic of forestry fire prevention; also ignore that these fires were started by 4 dozen+ arsonists
InvalidAsh
How do you outlaw a boycott? Asking for a prime minister.
HippDeutschMan
It's like Trump's long lost brother? I mean wtf? Who does that twat think he is? What a total Muppet
PleaseDontLookAtMyUsername
Yeah... I mean the signs were all there
PleaseDontLookAtMyUsername
SkyxzStone
*shakes coal* this can’t hurt you....yea but how it was made can hurt you, you fucking muppet...
Rulweylan
Frankly, the fact that not one Australian MP has pinged a lump of coal at that cunts head across the chamber is deeply disappointing.
Potatopeelerkind
I think you mean how it gets used. Fixing carbon into coal is a good thing. Releasing that carbon is the problem.
KurtHamster
What? Do you mean being buried for millions of years?
renamedmyaccount
Same thought.
Pseudosim
(waggles chunk of coal) "It can't hurt you? Well I bet I can beat you do death with it you fucking muppet."
RemiRixJones
+1 for “you fucking muppet”. It’s an insult I don’t hear often enough.
ButtSweat10
Dear lord. Even Trump would've sent out more firefighters!
Couchwarrior1337
I mean Trump is convinced climate change is a chinese conspiracy to undermine our economy, so I'm not sure.
TheFastpaws
Throw him into the damn fire and declare a state of emergency with a new PM. So the UN can send aid and countries like the US troops to help
brickius
Stop fucking voting for him
Dyslexicbirch
I never did
AnonKneeMoose
Stop voting for the LNP. Period. Labor is not ‘as bad’ that’s the lie they feed you to stay in power.
obijan
Seems like they repurposed the "all sides are bad" canard down under!
AnonKneeMoose
Can’t repurpose it if it’s all the one media shit machine that does it. Fox News = 9/10 + News.com.au here
pierzstyx
That isn't how parliamentary systems work.
KPopGirlKimi
You guys don't actually get to vote? Damn.
DeZaim
On the contrary, we are pretty much forced to vote. Which is fine. But some people don't want to learn about the parties they vote for.
LurkerOfDarkness
He means the party votes on who leads it, but if people don't vote for the party, they don't get to be in power, which almost always 1/2
LurkerOfDarkness
Leads to the leader resigning (with dignity) or get ousted at the party congress. 2/2
Gingerbreadman18
Why do people believe the economy is more important than the literal air we breathe and the water we drink?
TrueLegateDamar
Because they ain't free, and in an anarchy you have to buy them from Lord Humungus
Emjayen
Because of short-term personal interest without fear of consequences (boomers are getting old).
UnrustleYerJimmies
Getting? They are old and the sooner they die off the better off we'll all be.
Emjayen
That's the intended implication.
twfeline
Jorbs!
nppraxis
The economy is literally the exchange of goods and services and our means of life. Wrong question. Bad air and water threatens the economy.
asianmilkspray
That question is based on the wrong basis. Giving support to firefighters and supporting climate change isnt going to threaten the economy.
etherbunny41
Because you can't buy a house with air and water.
Habbadax
The ethical and moral skewing of living under Neoliberal Capitalism! The Market and the Profit Motive take precedence over everything else
Habbadax
Because the core of the Neoliberal ideology is that Economic Freedom, the freedom to make profit, is the truest form of freedom
Habbadax
And the belief is that the more freedom there is to make profit, the more freedom there is in general
Wheresmycodpiece
The people who only care for the economy can afford to move somewhere where the air is cleaner once they finish raping the country.
tachikaze316
Saw someone defend selling literal poison as workout supplements because laws to require they do what they claim would hurt the economy.
rbudrick
Money
malikcarr
Camelspotting
They are China's second largest foreign supplier.
malikcarr
China has put a cap on the current level of Australian market share to prop up their own domestic mining concerns and stakeholders.
RigoryMorty
"We could save the earth, but noone wanted to pay for it." History won't be kind on our generation.
deimosVII
I guess this is the leadership you get when the people’s main source of information is owned and directed by a soulless old reptile
Kripptic
Pitty fire and emergency are a state level issue.
Dyslexicbirch
The only news worth watching is ABC
DesolateMirror
Install the "Bye Rupert" Chrome add-on to block all his trash tier sites.
SoapyMammaryMasturbation
Murdoch is directly responsible for the state of politics in Britain, Australia, and the US. It's fucking astonishing how much damage...
SoapyMammaryMasturbation
...one nasty little conniving cunt can orchestrate.
LizardEnterprises
Hey! Don't lump us in with him!
wheresthetone
I live in the Melb bubble. We forget Aus has a lot of racist bigoted arrogant stupid fuckwits that fly under the radar, till they’re elected
viasycosis
No offense or anything, but your Melbourne bubble can fuck right off. Tell your stupid mates to stop licking everything & wear a damn mask.
viasycosis
Not sorry. You’re probably a really nice person, but ffs. Y’all are making Oz look like a bunch of entitled wankers.
wheresthetone
Ah, my comment has 0 to do with corona, it’s about cultural & ideological diffs between parts of Aus /1
wheresthetone
Some are loud and ignorant that vote and can be voted for. When you’re surrounded by like minds (educated open minds) you forget about them.
AngryGroundhog
It was only a matter of time before the people getting duped started electing one of their own to positions of power.
ProfLiebstrom
Murdoch is Palpatines latest apprentice
GnomeDeGuerre
Would it be moral to let him and his empire continue?
sgnight13
Palpatine learned it from Darth Plagueis. Plagueis it learned from Murdoch.
Thisusernameisalreadyinusefuckyou
At least Palpatine is entertaining and looks better
jarbombe
Lachlan will be worse unfortunately.
OwlsAreTheWorst
I know a boomer from Brisbane who blames the indigenous people for the fires. People like ScoMo in power Is hardly surprising.
indrindri
I once had a family from Cairns tell me word for word that “every single problem in Australia is in some way caused by aboriginals”
GoogleFu
Of course it, if only they could have stopped those damn Brits from taking over their land!
Amonrob
Sound logic mate.
FlatPlutoSociety
I hope you tell this person to fuck off on a daily basis.
PancakesAreDefinitelyCakes
An Elder took us on a bushwalk mid last year said he'd never seen the ground so ready to burn. He said backburning hadn't been sufficient.
PancakesAreDefinitelyCakes
Just in case anyone misreads, he was warning that the land was being mismanaged by the powers that be. He predicted the fires.
tarquinious
ChillaAquila
It's like the plague scene from Prince of Egypt, with Pharaoh refusing to budge
ThrownClub
Use his blood to stop a small fire.
TheWiseAlaundo
Does he have any? Blood requires a heart to pump it and he clearly doesn't have one of those.
hetriedtokillmewithaforklift
"now shake my hand"
Skippy76
AustralianGovernment
LompHoofd
AustralianGovernment
override367
idk if australian conservatives are like american conservatives, but in the USA they think the world's about to end anyway so who cares
override367
jesus is going to come back, there is literally no reason to care about anything except punishing the muslims
override367
note: other brown people being punished is also acceptable
EddyWantok
They are gonna freak if he ever comes back an they see his Danny Devito lookin Brown Jewish arse.
prophet002
Apparently this issue has been mitigated for thousands of years by the aboriginals with frequent controlled burns. Keep blamin this guy tho.
SouperScott
As a government official, wouldn't be part of his job to ensure controlled burns happen?
JimboSlyce
No that is dictated by each state not by the federal government.
SouperScott
That's fair I suppose.
FuriousBakedPotato
This is most likely the perfect use of this meme. Bravo +1
Skippy76
furnitureandeffects
Gold.
cantmasterbait2this
I almsot feel bad upvoting past 69
Mexicatstail
We did it
Prunebane
Free to upvote now, sir. We're at 276 and counting
DrakeRamorayMD
Let’s get it to 420 babyyyyyy
LordLchaim
I almost feel bad for upvoting past 69
cantmasterbait2this
The cycle continues!
thelittletrainthatcanteven
I upvoted to 420. Together we form dank edgy teenager
VoidofLostKnowledge
Why are people talking about climate change when over 180 people have been arrested for arson in Australia over causing the bushfires.
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ithoughtitwasaboogerbutitsnot
No it’s not. What is the baseline for climate change? Where is the Earths normal temperature?
tachikaze316
Climate change isn't about things spontaneously combusting. Less extreme conditions (temperatures, drought) would make it easier to fight.
SuperOKNumberTwo
So would firebreaks, controlled burns, and other responsible forestry.
SuperOKNumberTwo
Shhh your hurting the narrative. No one needs to hear that controlled burn permits have all been rejected, and firebreak construction 1/2
SuperOKNumberTwo
has been made illegal through the trees being designated as carbon sinks. And definitely no one needs to know that there has been no 2/3
SuperOKNumberTwo
significant change in temperatures or rainfall from previous years 3/3
OldmanSerious
Because climate change is the reason the fire season has started earlier and earlier. It is why there is hotter temps and droughts.
OldmanSerious
Yes, there are idiots lighting fires but the hotter, drier weather means those fires are a lot more dangerous than ever before
3minence
Why are talking about climate change? Our gov has taken 0 action towards preparing for what we have predicted would happen for over 15 years
VoidofLostKnowledge
Idiots lighting fires?
butts4life
The global conservative movement is morally bankrupt and their denial of climate change puts that on display.
puffyjacket69
Along with every other policy they have.
TheMassiveChode
The denial of people starting fires?
TheRealArclight
FlatPlutoSociety
These ghouls are okay with the world literally burning if it means that their shareholders will get a good dividend next quarter.
CreateYourOwnNormality
With every degree of warming, more Russian Tundra becomes open to build on and extract oil and gas. And politicians LOVE rubles.
ithoughtitwasaboogerbutitsnot
Climate Change? https://www.axios.com/australia-wildfires-nsw-police-arrest-24-arson-suspects-e633d496-4fd1-4bbf-aecd-aca98824842d.html
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ithoughtitwasaboogerbutitsnot
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RapthorneLycaeus
And yet people keep voting them in
Habbadax
Perks of owning the means of production for media! Allows for a wicked effective propaganda model. Murdoch owns like 80% of Aus media alone
jarbombe
Fuck Murdoch.
Ferrumkit
I agree that the conditions are made available but it seems that about 77% of these fires are man-made/caused, more disturbing it's arson...
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Ferrumkit
Re-read my statement, I said climate makes the conditions, the majority are shitty people https://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-50400851
Amonrob
One of the articles I linked said 13% arson but yours is newer. After doing more research I found one even worse. ~40% arson ~47% accident
Ferrumkit
I'm not aiming to overstate the arson, simply expressing that while the conditions are terrible alot of it is man made rather than nature, >
Amonrob
VoidofLostKnowledge
180+ people arrested for Arson, climate change is real but natural and this has nothing to do with it.
revivelocalmultiplayer
Climate change is grossly accelerated by human activity. What is being observed is not natural. There are countless studies showing the (1/)
TheMassiveChode
But people were arrested for starting the fires so it sounds like what your talking about isn't related
Amonrob
People are arrested for starting fires every year. Always have been. Bot campaign underway to mislead people about this year being different
revivelocalmultiplayer
Direct connections between human activity and acellerated greenhouse gas levels in the atmosphere. The rate of change can be seen to be (2/)
revivelocalmultiplayer
Unnatural in the dire impacts on existing ecosystems (mass extinctions etc.) And the rate at which they are occurring compared to past (3/)
revivelocalmultiplayer
Climate events.
DeadSchrodinger
Precisely
pierzstyx
hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha "global conservative movement"
MajesticSquire
Well it's not like all conservatives believe in climate change just like how there is flat earthers on both sides
MakeItBackAlright
Isn't like half of conservative media owned by one guy, why are you laughing
The6thPhantom
Probably because theres no "global" conservative media. It's just a buzz word.
AustralianGovernment
Ever heard of Rupert Murdoch? He owns almost ALL of Australian media. It's not a buzz word.
MakeItBackAlright
The same guy provides the main source of conservative news across the US, UK, and AUS. I'm not sure what that would be otherwise
MedTactic
US? Ehh the only conservative media we have is Fox News, and they've gone moderate in recent years
dizzyturtle
Scott Morrison is a liberal.
Amonrob
The corporate rulers judge politicians not by the colour of their campaign signs but by the content of their bribe price.
TheWiseAlaundo
Small "L" liberal and capitol "L" liberal mean different things in Australia. He is a Liberal but not liberal.
Thefluffernutter
Look up what a liberal is in Australia.
dizzyturtle
I didn't know this - "In contemporary Australian political culture, the Coalition (Liberal and National parties) is considered centre-right"
Thefluffernutter
I feel you. The terminology can be really confusing.
thedarkcanuck
And puts the entire planet at risk. I hope they'll be held accountable one day
Treblaine
It'll be small comfort holding anyone accountable when we're all standing in the ashes.
shponglefan
Nah, they'll all be dead.
asianmilkspray
This. They are doing what they are doing because the repercussions likely wont happen in a few decades.
thedarkcanuck
What about their offspring? Just like the rest of history, the problem people in our society will just pass the reins to their kids
upthehillandtotheright
Is there any political unrest in Australia rn. I surprised to not see any mass protests or stuff going on.
hnngh
I'm pretty sure God has that taken care of.
FuriousBakedPotato
Wouldn't count on that...
Tesseract09
The worst of it has been over Christmas, so lots of people travelling and on holidays. Makes it harder to organise.
DanJDare
By and large Australians are too lazy to riot. 'meh' best describes Australians attitude to politics.
viasycosis
Ah yes, the Great Aussie Apathy. I first about that shit in frickin’ primary school...over 30 yrs ago.
Hal0peridol
We’re lazy shits who are too busy trying to keep our heads above water to take the time to protest ... oh yeah and they’ve banned protests.
Hal0peridol
The same soulless old reptile owns 70% of the media outlets in Australia. Close up it’s the same grubby bunch of unrepresentative swill ...
discowitch
There’s one planned this Friday the 10th
recliningpanda
It’s too hot to go outside :)
itsallgood27283
We are trying to just survive at the moment because everything is on fire
tripsyrich
There's tonnes of protests happening but the majority of the media won't report on it.
IFoundOutThatYouCanHave63CharactersOntheUsernameHowCoolIsThat
we're not Americans who'd protest while there are important things to do, like supporting ravaged communities. It's also too smokey outside.
qwaszx8888
Theres more people in NYmetro than all AUS. NY area could mass protest and still be 10x people sitting home in US than a natl AUS movement.
Dyslexicbirch
Online yes but like most western countries we don't protest much anymore
UntilItSleeps0
If I go outside right now, I’ll gonna have an asthma attack. Plus every is more focused on helping victims then fighting villains.
CptAustralia
Too busy trying to survive
joeinsurgent
Hal0peridol
There are. Not enough but we’re lazy bastards
specialfae
Normal Aussies (especially older) trend against protesting due to murdoch media influence. Protesters are seen as whiners getting in the way
moonray55
Yeah we’re pretty well pacified
borocanuck
It’s a pretty good fish tank to live in after all, certainly better than most other countries. Waters just getting hot and dirty atm.
Lulabel73
The problem is that there’s no one good to take over. He was literally the best of a bad bunch. (I’m Australian)
Hal0peridol
Disagree there and I’m Australian. You’ve been reading too much Murdoch Press.
Lulabel73
You think Bill was better? Even workers in high vis wouldn’t shake his hand.
Hal0peridol
You talking about Morrison? Where he grabbed that woman’s hand, or the one who said he was not her PM or the firey who refused to shake it?
Lulabel73
When they had the leadership take over, you want Dutton or Abbott?
Hal0peridol
Bill’s not the leader of the Labor Party His problem was he offered policies not tax cuts, wasn’t a liar and didn’t suck up to Murdoch.
Lulabel73
He’s was when they lost. He lost more than scomo won.
Dyslexicbirch
We have Albo now and I would deffernily want him over Scum-o anyday
Lulabel73
Same. Labor should have had him as leader years ago.
Morgrath
Definitely lesser of two evils, at the least. Bill gave a shit, and they had some good policies for the people. More than the LNP can say.
Lulabel73
Bill only cared about himself. You could see he wasn’t a good person with that trouble wth buying a pie. I’d vote for albonese(spelling?)
IsMurderOK
Probably too busy actually helping people in need like unlike some PMs
MERGATROYDER
Well, if they join up to overthrow their government, they’ll get shot down.
verylittleinsight
Don't be bloody stupid. Anyway, we don't overthrow gov'ts. We get a 6 mth plan, oust the old leader & wait for a suitable candidate for PM.
borocanuck
As long as they don’t mess with sports and drinking laws, the government is tolerated.
deywut
it's all they have as a culture
borocanuck
What more is there really?
verylittleinsight
Bullshit. Scotch and dry cans are $80 a carton because the gov't was trippin' on sweet drinks for teenagers; we just took it on the chin.
senefen
Nationwide protests are planned for this Friday. It's expected to be a big one.
Dyslexicbirch
What really i haven't see anything about it I'm aussie and not seen it anywhere
Nyoibo83
https://www.facebook.com/pg/unistudentsforclimatejustice/events/?ref=page_internal
Dyslexicbirch
Closest one to me is over 2 hours away :(
Nyoibo83
bugger
gostoso666
Most folks are staying off roads for non-essential travel and it's 45 deg (120) and the air is hazarfous.
Nyoibo83
There's a wave of protests coming up against the current government
jarbombe
The problem is, half the population side with Morrison and are climate change deniers as well. I had to delete Facebook too many uneducated
jjm152
The LNP are not climate change deniers. They are the ones that ratified the Paris agreement and the doha amendment to Koyoto protocols
jjm152
They are also the party that supplied several billion dollars to make sure that Australia meets it's commitments under that agreement
DeZaim
Found out recently that a guy who I thought was an alright kinda bloke is a climate change denier. Dunno how I'm going to talk to him now.
FuriousBakedPotato
Just don't
dickwaffles
Actually please do talk to him. Listen. Challenge his beliefs. Delusional people can break when you challenge them enough.
ChaosInherent
Except for the fact that of they're dumb enough to ignore the obvious facts in the world, they're too dumb to listen to logical people
MedTactic
Don't shoot off retarded shit from your side as well then, and only tell the absolute truth IE wind good, but will raise taxes
borocanuck
First clue, don’t call them dumb or despicables.
VitaminP6
Most of my coworkers for some reason blame the Green party for all of this and I've never been more ashamed to live here
valen00
ask them how long the greens have been in government
slipmagt
Is everyone fighting to have the worst leader right now? What's in the world is happening.
highfiveskittens
This is what happens when you let the ruling class do as they please.
FigmentImage
The inevitable collapse of liberal democracy into an ineffectual protectorate state for the capitalist class.
chrisjamesrules24
People who register to vote put these kind of people in power. Register and vote to do your part to change things.
EngineerforPresident
Dark ages P2. “Strong men create good times, good times create weak men, weak men create bad times, bad times create strong men..”
pip1
Late-stage Capitalism is happening
FuriousBakedPotato
It's beyond curing at this point
pip1
Infernos and hurricanes are a kind of cure, I guess
idrinkcheapbeer
Globally, being a white, English speaking person isn't a good look these days.
Mockingbirb
Ever seen "The Empire Strikes Back"?
MrMagoobar
The world is starting to focus more on pathos than logos.
JustDaShoemaker
Registered TM violation
Hammsammiches
When all we need in reality is thanos.
heartlessninja6
nasukkin
It's just Mother Nature's way of reminding us to sharpen the ol' guillotine, m8.
twozerooz
Boomers desperately fighting against irrelevancy, and getting hit hard with Age-related cognitive decline.
FuriousBakedPotato
I truly believe this. Hopefully we'll see a brighter time when they die out.
StellarJay77
It's also coupled with an extreme resistance to change due to risk aversion and poor risk assessment skills.
Ryermeke
The Fourth Turning
Macwhiskey
popular apathy towards voting leads to democracy being taken over by the non-democrats. We're in the Endgame now...
Macwhiskey
Give it one more decade and democracy will finally be truly dead.
Deadpoolio7
People are getting dumber and believing everything they see on the internet.
taytothief
People have always been dumb. Manipulation has become more complex
Vorrt
It's a competition. Last one to overthrow their government is the loser
Dartacus
Its ending.
gorgeousninja
People are stupid because they listen to Murdoch’s nasty mouthpiece’s. There was a clear choice in Aus election and most people voted dumb.
wadatahmydamie
They’re trying to rebrand it with shit like PragerU too. It’s like OT1 for the far-right.
FuriousBakedPotato
What's murdoch? (I'm Asian)
IsItawKWard
These idiots are winning because they provide tax cuts for the super wealthy
BelowAverage355
And everyone believes that they too will one day be super wealthy so want to help. It's just the (majority) American mindset unfortunately.
BelowAverage355
2/2 almost nobody that's poor in America is willing to accept that they'll stay poor. They're just a rich person temporarily struggling.
penisjokebackfire
Every leader in the world is trying to gain the most money for thenselves. No idea why
revan1202
Open a history book on fallen empires and list all the nails for their coffins because we already got that in spades.
scoutMoonDiver
And the US of A wins again
VodkaReindeer
We're fighting to have the youngest leader and fucking Austria just overtook us.
Joomuk
Corporations has been creeping on policy making more and more.
Iamyourcaptainnow
We elect dishonest people with no morals as leaders, that's happening.
SaItyEuropean
the Anglo-Saxon countries are indeed in quite a bad shape, for the rest of us it's fine tho
TheWarHymn
We're definitely in the bad timeline.
Jmoneymoney
Almost 200 people arrested for setting these fires. Not climate change... Why is no one talking about that??
minkfarm
It doesn't support the weak millennials narrative of fear mongering
AustralianGovernment
Oh, do shut up, you daft cunt.
EddyWantok
Because it's bullshit?
Jmoneymoney
How?
EddyWantok
Just looked at your activity mate, your a troll. On mute you go.
FuriousBakedPotato
Are you suggesting 200 people are responsible for the global-wide changes in climate?
LetMeSeeMyKids
No, you are. Only you could of prevented forest fires, and now look at Australia. Look at it
AntiSaneity
Because it's false. 183 are charged or cautioned with bushfire related incidents. 29 for arson. Your reading comprehension isn't very good.
FiveShiftOne
The fact that some people started the fires is not actually evidence that climate change is uninvolved, believe it or not.
emmina543
Because that’s not what happened. 24 people were arrested for attempting to light fires, the rest for violating fire bans.
Jmoneymoney
Link? I’m referring to the article on Australian. Not sure what you’re talking about... it’s up to 183 last I read.
emmina543
Check out the guardian website for the live update steam or any actual publication by the police force.
emmina543
*stream (FYI I would have included the guardian link but it’s too long for the character limit)
Jagerbeast
It cant be a coincidence... the same people are buying all our govt's
ILikedTheirOldStuffBetter
Rupert Murdoch is Australian, isn't he?
johnvictor
He is, the cunt.
Serenitis
Can you guys get on top of locating his phylactery, and smashing it into fucking pieces please?
Deafguy8
Bobbinapples
Oligarchies, as far as the eye can see.
Moxmox
No, everyone is overreacting to everything
thedmoninme
Have you guys not watched the great hack on Netflix? Goverments being installed by cambridge analytica. Check it out. You wont be surprised
LetMeSeeMyKids
Die Bart Die
Serenitis
No-one who speaks German could possibly be a bad person.
whocanPelican
We didn't start the fire?
DeadSchrodinger
The lower oxygen levels nowadays is negatively affecting human cognition worldwide.
malachilenomade
The patients are running the asylum.
DonjuanV
Australia sells coal to the world and would rather die burning than admit we need to change. I'm from Canada and shit ain't better here, oil
ChloeRed
UK here.. er.. *looks for our major industry...* idiot production?
EddyWantok
I'm one of many Australians that do not fit your description my commonwealth cousin.
DonjuanV
Yeah. Thats the big issue. pretty much everyone is against those policies yet they still pass.
EddyWantok
Well, once they are in, they are in, so they have the numbers to pass legislation. Thanks QLD!
ratcamper
Well sure. They are Government policies. People outside the government don't count.
GraeYstaG237
This decade is ends with everyone having shit leaders at the top...
evilcarp
Hold our Budweiser and watch this!!!! You have to top trump to win.
DizzierDizzi
Mass Corruption
Forgotmyoldaccountbutohwell
Probably the world on the verge of destroying itself. So much for being dead before that happens.
bobyran
It's a coordinated effort by the super rich to turn us all into slaves.
euphoriamint
As climate change affects the coastal countries, immigration is becoming more prevalent causing a pushback amongst the small-minded who then
euphoriamint
Elect Trump and his ilk
MyUsernameMakesNoSenseAtAll
As a german, I'm just happy that we aren't participating
HereDueToYourOnePeskyDownVote
Race to the bottom my friend. I thought we (the UK) had a chance with Boris but Australia literally set their country alight to win.
DeadSchrodinger
It's Ideocracy slowly turning in to a documentary.
seros
Not so slowly at that... Idiocracy is set in 2505, if we keep this trend going we'll be there by 2100.
DeadSchrodinger
I think we will be there by 2050
seros
Presidentially, yes =P
DeeDoubleYu
New zealand aren't playing at least
VitusApollo
Hard times create strong men. Strong men create good times. Good times create weak men. And, weak men create hard times.
weshallseeeee
Please share a graph demonstrating such a cycle in the economy
Amonrob
Hard times(depression) created strong men who fought ww2 creating good times in the postwar era. Weaksauce Boomers were born. Sorry no graph
keyonne
Did you not pay attention when you learned about the Great Depression? Or literally the reason why boomers are called boomers?
heartlessninja6
His school didn’t have a history class. The district cut funding to anything outside of coal mining skills.
keyonne
Economic boom leading to a baby boom?
hirosjimma
Literal end of booming lead to baby booming. (They all started to frick after WW2)
VitusApollo
The boomers have lived in the spoils of their parents. We're at peak weak.
probablyshouldbedoingwork
Great so we're supposed to clean this shit up and become the next "greatest generation?" I'll do it but I'm gonna complain the whole time
StandAgainstTyranny
That gave me a good laugh. Thank you lol
Rodrodington
Once we fully own it, I think we will be too busy fixing things to complain.
TheSovietUnion
Wow this made me feel a slight amount of hope rather than the usual tumultuous dread. Thank you. I hope we can do it.
probablyshouldbedoingwork
I feel it too. That overwhelming anxiety that things aren't going to be ok. And they might not. They weren't in 1939 either. We'll make it
Amonrob
skelitor120
Y'all laughed when Trump was elected. Then all the slick European politicians were replaced by fat boomers with fake hair too. --
skelitor120
-- I've never heard of Australia having a good PM, tho, to be fair.
GettingPaidToPoop
1991 was the last time we had a good PM.
taytothief
Who are you talking about? Are you talking about Boris? Who else?
StandAgainstTyranny
Y'all remember that particle accelerator accident, a few years back, that some people worried might have altered spacetime?
Amonrob
It was supposed to end the world. We all laughed but nothing has seemed real since then.
VulcanP90
quantum immortality.
StandAgainstTyranny
Yeah no I'm definitely aging
Serenitis
We're living in the 'bad' timeline that serves as the horrible warning to one or more plucky adventurers.
planetfinder
No, all of this has happened before and all of this will happen again. The fall of Rome, the French Revolution, WW1, WW2, etc.
StellarJay77
Root cause of this is peoples resistance to change, especially as they get older. Risk assessment gets poorer and risk aversion greater.
hairytrigga
The rise of the cylons....
feanoreldar
Viva la revolution
JustDaShoemaker
Oh wait this will be good, so what’s your hypothesis now?
StandAgainstTyranny
NewNaibas
*laughs in New Zealand*
FakePlasticTreehugger
*Chuckles cautiously in Canadian*
CantankerousCantaloupe
Same here in Finland, both our right wing president and social democrat prime minister look quite respectable in comparison all the morons.
hasgreatsituationalawareness
Propaganda works.
SAFireStorm
I like my theory that the world ended in 2012 and we are in purgatory, hell, or the Bad Timeline now
DahPanda72
All the money hungry leaders are like " oh shit the nerds were right, how do keep making more money"
NaziHunter38
It's a world wide Fascist movement. They call it the Nationalist movement.
revan1202
It's a world wide socialists movement. They call it the progressive movement.
Camelspotting
Uh where?
KryptonianRise
Conservatives found a way with waning popularity to keeping grabbing seats of power.
johnvictor
Gerrymandering, voter purges, fake news, and Russia's help.
StellarJay77
Yup, they're gaming the system like Las Vegas, making it appear they are doing it for the people but really only doing things for themselves
RemiRixJones
*Canada shrugs as Trudeau fixes his hair* He’s not the worst we’ve had.
Evanrudeplz
Y'all got room for the rest of the world suffering under right wing buffoons?
Notmypants
Most of our provincial governments are right-wing buffoons
StatisticallyInsignificantCanadian
Sadly, yeah.
Notmypants
If I told you that I live in a province led by a dumbass that looks like your least favorite uncle, could you tell which one it is?
probablyshouldbedoingwork
Ugh what a shit-show that election was. You know it's bad when you vote for captain hair-do just so an idiotic homophobe doesn't win...
Amonrob
Mon cappy tan hair has a beard now so he’s improving.
DrStubb
"mon cappy tan" Ha! +1
revan1202
So keep the racist cuck that's going to sell Canada to china bit by bit ok. Either way it doesn't matter the end is coming for all cheers.
Talligan
lol
probablyshouldbedoingwork
I got bad news bud. Harper sold us to the chinese for that pipeline years ago. We dun fucked up for a while now.
TheAccursedHamster
Anyone who uses the word "cuck" typically doesn't have anything worth hearing out to say.
revan1202
If you were so high & mighty you wouldn't have bothered to reply yet here you are with the rest us in this boat that is clearly sinking.
Amonrob
Almondzmbduck
I was wondering the same thing.
ArtOzz
Legit question: who is winning this race to the bottom you think?
SDev0
We are
370zSteve
Venezuela.
ilikepot8os
The rich.
Kronzor
They’re not winning the race. They’re winning because there is a race.
itsthevoiceman
They started the race, bet on the race, and aren't going to lose the race because they're insulated by their money. Rat Race (2001)
ilikepot8os
They defined the rules of the race and get to pick the winners and losers regardless of work
MyNameIsJesusAndIStealHubcapsFromCars
china, you just don't hear about it.
YourNeighborhoodLesbian
The citizens
Cwalkdawg
Truth
doyouwanttoseemydogs
I'm to lazy to put it together, but someone should make a list and post it. With some snippets about these clowns.
Captainjack1911
Australia, the UK, and others may seem like they're winning the race right now, but we have a trump card here in the US ?
ArtOzz
That asshole ruined that word for at least the next 1000 years or so.
Onimgurinsteadofworking
At least he will be remembered as the worst president that ever existed so far.
FelineDk
Crazy world when Kim Jong-un isnt even mentioned
ourari
NK is what NK has been for decades. Stable democracies voting to undermine themselves is a fairly new phenomenon, and a headscratcher.
HereDueToYourOnePeskyDownVote
Or that horrid cunt from Myanmar.
HereDueToYourOnePeskyDownVote
Or Winnie from China.
humaneffigy
I think Australia is jumping ahead, but don't count the Americans or Israel out yet.
GirlWithTheDragonSticker
As an American, sadly, we’re “winning”
DahPanda72
Trump be like "hold my beer while kill someone"
Redandpurpleunicorns
Or the Brits! Look at our total Johnson of a PM. Literally spent his life being fired for lying, somehow getting better jobs after
hopethisoneworks
Everything now is confidence not competence. I say im smart so I must be.
PJVeddersGirl
Yep, you've hit the nail on he head there, Bud
IssacCox
Iran>China>Australia>North Korea>US>Russia>UK>Venezuela>Brazil>Canada>etc imo
cosmicbovine
Canada? What are they doing?
EmeraldLight
Everyone hates Trudeau
Porda
Not everyone. Some of us just don't love him!
DorthLous
Man, that's a hard list to rate. Are we going for the world or their own people?
IssacCox
For their own people. A governments primary interest should be the well being of it's populace.
DorthLous
Then North Korea. Can't think of any being worse.
YourNeighborhoodLesbian
I saw somewhere that sociopaths are more likely to seek out political power...
JessicaShadowless
https://www.forbes.com/sites/victorlipman/2013/04/25/the-disturbing-link-between-psychopathy-and-leadership/
YourNeighborhoodLesbian
Yes! That's the article I was referring to, thank you!
TehPengi
As a borderline with npd, I want the best for my filthy peasants.
StellarJay77
And then you couple that with a hero complex where they are willing to take action only in a crisis and it's a recipe for disaster.
FightDirty
As someone who has worked very closely with national level politicians, its worse than that. A LOT of them are stupid sociopaths.
ratcamper
See Tony Abbott. Not sure how much was whitewashed off the internet but he is in his own league.
FightDirty
I'm not even from Oz, and I agree that fella was a world class turd cocktail.
thekeyofe
This is true, but it's always been true. Why are we noticing it more now? Are we just more observant or is there actually a difference?
StellarJay77
Better access to information so it's easier to spot the bullshit.
JustDaShoemaker
Boomers are dying and trying to take us all with them.
Charcharm
Not ok! Bad boomer, bad!
Ransbear
Fucking right.
akom
Okay
arfysdad
Downvoting, because as a boomer I despise this man and Trump and their policies. As do all my Boomer friends. Attack the men, not the
arfysdad
generation. Don't be so simplistic. It's how we got into this problem.
itisiwhonutstothat
Sadly you are in the minority of your generation who do not vote for good policies or not in a QLD electorate
Zombiechews
Go out with a boom
Mumalot
Boomers gotta BOOM!
gorgeousninja
I’m gen x fucker. Been watching the world burn since I can remember and trying my best to stop it so fuck you
Mumalot
yea...? nowhere in my comment did I say this behavior was ok/notOK, ty for putting words in my mouth and then getting butthurt over it.
Mumalot
anyway, here ya go https://lmgtfy.com/?q=joke+definition ... also maybe you should stop Fucking GenXs, or learn how to use commas/grammar.
qpx1
Yeah, because everyone born between 1946 and 1955 wants to kill their children, grand children, and great grand children. /s
JustDaShoemaker
I know it’s like kids today “Don’t trust anyone over 30” - Now get off my lawn punk bitches
johnvictor
They sure as shit seem to with how they're voting now a days. Especially in regards to climate change.
BlackCatCasper
But muh fixed income ...
Giantmutantcrab
Yes, they are. They took the world and will rather let it die than change or actually put in any credible effort.
badgerkin
Sure does seem like it.
ImHereToExplainTheJoke
The generation of 6 pointless wars, climate change denial, and Donald Trump/Boris Johnson? Yeah I'd say so.
thefrompleman
LargeHadronDivider
They don’t want to help.
Quisaxaderak
Strange that nobody sees a problem with blaming a whole group of people for a few peoples beliefs. Ok boomer is hilarious when deserved
johnvictor
When you have evidence of a group collectively voting in people who make things worse it's not too far to call them out on their bullshit.
freeforallstuff
Do that, even with the statistics to back you up, and you'll be called racist and Nazi. So, yes but not really.
Quisaxaderak
But ffs it isn't the whole group. It's never the whole group.
Asgarus
Yeah, everybody knows that. Usually, when someone talks about a group, they don't mean every single member of that group.
samials
It’s not all boomers. But look at who supports these leaders (ScoMo, BoJo, and Trump), and you’ll see that boomers overwhelmingly favor them
freeforallstuff
It's the US government's strat. They make the population blame each other to deviate blame from them. You can't change their mentality.
ImHereToExplainTheJoke
Except it's a majority of that age group who vote for this shit. Seriously, look at the raw data in 2016. Voters over 50 accounted for -
ImHereToExplainTheJoke
56% of the votes cast, and 52% of them voted Trump. In 2018 it was a more even split in their voting but come on. You had objectively bad-
PiggyWobbles
Its not that they want us dead, its that an extra couple bucks in their pocket today is worth my and my kids' security in the future
orbat
Rich kids will be fine. It's us plebs who are fucked
OrgasPandaCat
The rich kids will be fucked too, be sure. In The face of a collapsed ecosystem we are all poor.
Woodcastle
I mean. Itll be crazy expensive to make earth livable after it turns into Venus.
D4rkmatter
Seems like it
feeltheice
My dad just wants to be left the fuck alone.
EddyWantok
Sure fuckin does doesn't it
baitdog
Everything they are doing is proof of this.
LightStriker
If not, they sure are trying very hard.
jyb906
They want their bloody nuclear WWIII!
AeroEngineer
Nuclear winter will reverse global warming
Taxicat
So would shutting off the North Atlantic Gyre by flooding it with freezing water. Nothing like violently swing the climate 1/
Taxicat
from “everything’s on fire” to “everything is buried under miles of ice.” 2/
forgetthisnoise
Best explanation yet
DanceFail
From Boomers to Doomers. Great.
BallsackHippo
I know it might be hard to believe but Scotmo is only 51 years old. He was bord in '68 which makes him a Gen X.
SymmetryLeary
Meh...it's on the cusp.
JustDaShoemaker
Honorary Boomer
Feldspartacus
*deputy......the term honorary just doesn't seem right for this cunt
PressRelease
Boomers accounted for the biggest percentage of Liberal voters at the last election
MindTheGap7
What is your liberal party like in Australia if they’re voting for these guys? Who’s your progressive party
aussysadmin
Liberal means conservative I’m Australia. Cause they claim they’re economically liberal.
LittleMathCat
Well, they account for the largest percentage of voters overall.
PressRelease
Its not as pronounced here as in other countries on the basis if mandatory voting, however Oz does have an ageing population .
gorgeousninja
Blaming everything on them isn’t helpful, dumb people can be any age
gorgeousninja
All the comments below exactly prove while the worlds is so fucked all the younger generation blaming everyone else but doing shit
keyonne
Neat. Almost all the people in power making the stupid decisions are boomers.
TheFireFerret
Yeah but all the stupid boomers are in power making the fuck ups
LeeLooDaIIasMultipass
While it's easy to say that now, unfortunately we don't know what will become when our generation takes the reins.
Yakumae
Sure as fuck not this shit
ButtTrumpett
Ok boomer
gorgeousninja
Thus point proved. Dumb people need to be sterilised. Where’s my pliers?
SymmetryLeary
No
anengineerandacat
Only boomers get that aggressive over a comment, plus it's 2020 and chemical sterilization is a thing.
TallonMaguire
Ok boomer
N00k
Ok boomer
ButtTrumpett
I’m a Millennial, 300k house hold income, own house two cars, college educated, own my own business - fuck off boomer.
ButtTrumpett
Ok boomer
angrybluegill
By the ocean?
GTR16
What a stupid comment. I'm 37 (an old millennial).. I have never missed a major election. Don't just bitch, vote. 71% of those over 65 1/
GTR16
Voted in the 2016 presidential election.. 46% of 18-29 yr olds voted. Stop bitching on the internet and vote.
RadicalLeftist
The death throes of conservatism as climate change becomes observable by regular people, trickle down fails and fact checks are easier to do
warriorofdiscord
The death throes of conservatism...? Really? You're going to claim an entire political thinking is going to just vanish over, what a decade?
RadicalLeftist
No but it wont have the political majority it had.
warriorofdiscord
It'll swing back 'round. It always does. Conservative to liberal to conservative to liberal, pretty much every 4-8 years.
RadicalLeftist
Potentially but im of the opinion that since conservatism has spent 60 years pushing economic and social policies that are terrible 1/2
Ilovemakingusernames
I upvoted, but money, propaganda, and scapegoating are powerful. Sadly, I dont think the right are going to be dying or changing in anyway.
feanoreldar
This set of circumstances have happened before, it's called revolution for a reason.
yesyoucancancan
Well, newscorp can just fix up that narrative.
RadicalLeftist
Thank got they posted a $306mill loss in november.
LikeTotallyNotTheNSA
Ugh, when I heard "drill baby drill" I knew it was the last grasps of dying ideals.
Amonrob
For me it was the tshirts “I’d rather be Russian than a Democrat” when the phrase used to be “better dead than red” it’s animal farm here.
LikeTotallyNotTheNSA
They can't escape the grave fast enough. The more earth they grab, the sooner they bury themselves.
DonnaNobleInTheLibrary
It's really weird when the prime minister of Bavaria - who's of the most conservative party - is greener than the German government.
DonnaNobleInTheLibrary
He apparently has realized that to be conservative, you need something worth conserving.
stevencloser
Even the rightest of the right parties in Germany would be considered dirty commies by American standards.
RadicalLeftist
Theres a republican mayor who pushes for 100% renewables in his town because of the conservative economic principals.