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How America ripped off Australia with 'free trade' (www.abc.net.au)
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[-] shads@lemy.lol 17 points 3 weeks ago

And the worst part is we, as a populace, will buy into the mining industry captured press and vote him in enthusiastically.

There's a large part of me that wonders how bad the world will have to get before people stop voting against their best interests, and a more cynical part that acknowledges that we probably won't.

[-] No_Eponym@lemmy.ca 11 points 3 weeks ago

we probably won't.

[-] null_dot@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 3 weeks ago

Things going badly never seems to contribute to progressive votes. On the contrary.

[-] Frenchys_prospecting@aussie.zone 1 points 3 weeks ago

There is no lie detected here

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