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111 sats \ 2 replies \ @Scoresby OP 5h \ parent \ on: Australia Enforces Age ID Checks for Search Engine Users Politics_And_Law

Before covid, I never really had a sense that Australia was a den of autocrats. It's like the pandemic sparked something, or perhaps it was already happening.

I'm still kinda rooting for this guy (#1245026), and I'm holding out hope, even though the cops are trying to save face by claiming he is dead

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111 sats \ 0 replies \ @unboiled 5h

Before covid hit, most Australians never knew that being an Australian did not give them any right to return to Australia, either.

So many were stuck in foreign countries, out of visas and income. Many thousands were stuck on borders inside the country between states too.
Yet the government steadfastly refused to allow Aussies to return to their own country - even after they let a bunch of tennis pros in to compete in the Australian Open.

But at least politicians did get to "show strength" by first tutting at, then expelling Djokovic - but only after he arrived.

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113 sats \ 0 replies \ @optimism 5h

I think it's more "the totalitarian rule of the slim majority". Same in Europe, same in the US. I think it's awful.

The UK puzzles me because despite the regular shifts in election results, laws that took years to be formulated get passed.

I'm still kinda rooting for this guy

I haven't followed it closely, but these things are ugly.

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