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Yea I recon that matters a lot. But here, even the Lib run states generally had a decent response, with a bit of a 'fuck-off' to Morrison when he started his pr
by ageofwant 6y ago
Yea I recon that matters a lot. But here, even the Lib run states generally had a decent response, with a bit of a 'fuck-off' to Morrison when he started his predictable bullshit. And as a rule, Australian's sense of civic duty carried the day, not so with Americans - as far as I can tell through the media lens anyway.
- jim-jim-jim 6y agoIt's cute to frame the death toll discrepancy in terms of national character, with Americans who don't even _believe in science_ coughing on everybody as their scooters whirr merrily to the nearest hamburger depository, but at the end of the day, most Americans and Australians were killed by the same thing: their precarious positions in society. It's not like private nursing homes, increasingly casualized work, and an insane weath gap aren't a thing in Australia either. Everybody slobbering Dan's knob conveniently forgets that the second outbreak could have been avoided if the government hadn't subcontracted out all the hotel security. Australia's neoliberal death march has yet to reach the brutal conclusion that America arrived at, but it's trodding along. And smug complacency certainly won't reverse that course.
- mxxx 6y agoHuh? So Americans were killed because of privatisation, casual work and wealth gap, but Australia also has these and the results were different? I’m not quite following your point.