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It's hard to believe they're hanging onto fossil fuels so much. Move on.

Andaith 5y ago
We fuckn want to, mate! There's a large move away from fossil fuels for the average person. I see a lot of electric cars, solar panels, and shopping centers have electric charging. There's only so much that can happen when both major political parties are owned by Rupert and the coal lobby. Hell, the govt is funding a coal mine somewhere in NSW because all the major banks refused to.
- inshadows 5y ago
  I know mate. I watch promotional videos from your government's department of genuine satire: https://www.youtube.com/user/thejuicemedia https://www.youtube.com/user/thejuicemedia
  - mmerlin 5y ago
    JuiceMedia are awesome! Presented in satirical style, but they are basically stating the truth of how much we are governed by vested interests that capture profits whilst creating or perpetuating negative impacts for the vast majority of the population. In the same vein, on iview (abc.net.au) Micallef's last few seasons on Mad as Hell are cutting pretty close to the bone also, exposing the ugly truths of our inept/corrupt politicians via humour. IMHO we sadly have no honest or brave politicians to vote for in any of the parties that have a chance at forming government.
rasz 5y ago
Whole Australian economy is running mines and supporting infrastructure.
- magnetowasright 5y ago
  Is it? I thought mining was something like 6% of our GDP. I suppose it doesn’t really matter if it is or isn’t our whole economy because either way it needs to stop; we need to stop voting in people who are happy to destroy the planet so they can further increase their personal wealth regardless.
0xdeadb00f 5y ago
We're stuck with: 1. An incompetent government 2. An incompetent people [who refuse to vote these fuckers out] 3. Basically the worst MSM in existence
- atatatat 5y ago
  They're not incompetent, they're very competently selling you out.
  - bamboozled 5y ago
    Was going to agree, they seem completely corrupt and on the take. My theory is that all the police state and surveillance stuff they carry on with is primarily to keep exploiting the country without disruption.
  - 0xdeadb00f 5y ago
    Okay. You are right about that.
- 0xy 5y ago
  You imply there's a political solution, while seemingly glossing over the fact that both major parties support gas-fired plants and building new gas-fired capacity to shore up energy supply. Even the Greens oppose the only proven baseload power source that's also green -- nuclear. [1] As recently as last year, the opposition party supported the construction of new gas plants. [2] The entire Australian political establishment supports the construction of new non-renewable power generation capacity, on both sides. [1] https://greens.org.au/policies/nuclear-and-uranium https://greens.org.au/policies/nuclear-and-uranium [2] https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2020/oct/29/labor-agrees-to-support-new-gas-projects-after-public-brawl-sparked-by-joel-fitzgibbon https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2020/oct/29/labor...

We fuckn want to, mate! There's a large move away from fossil fuels for the average person. I see a lot of electric cars, solar panels, and shopping centers have electric charging. There's only so much that can happen when both major political parties are owned by Rupert and the coal lobby. Hell, the govt is funding a coal mine somewhere in NSW because all the major banks refused to.

inshadows 5y ago
I know mate. I watch promotional videos from your government's department of genuine satire: https://www.youtube.com/user/thejuicemedia https://www.youtube.com/user/thejuicemedia
- mmerlin 5y ago
  JuiceMedia are awesome! Presented in satirical style, but they are basically stating the truth of how much we are governed by vested interests that capture profits whilst creating or perpetuating negative impacts for the vast majority of the population. In the same vein, on iview (abc.net.au) Micallef's last few seasons on Mad as Hell are cutting pretty close to the bone also, exposing the ugly truths of our inept/corrupt politicians via humour. IMHO we sadly have no honest or brave politicians to vote for in any of the parties that have a chance at forming government.

rasz 5y ago

Whole Australian economy is running mines and supporting infrastructure.

magnetowasright 5y ago
Is it? I thought mining was something like 6% of our GDP. I suppose it doesn’t really matter if it is or isn’t our whole economy because either way it needs to stop; we need to stop voting in people who are happy to destroy the planet so they can further increase their personal wealth regardless.

0xdeadb00f 5y ago

We're stuck with: 1. An incompetent government 2. An incompetent people [who refuse to vote these fuckers out] 3. Basically the worst MSM in existence

atatatat 5y ago
They're not incompetent, they're very competently selling you out.
- bamboozled 5y ago
  Was going to agree, they seem completely corrupt and on the take. My theory is that all the police state and surveillance stuff they carry on with is primarily to keep exploiting the country without disruption.
- 0xdeadb00f 5y ago
  Okay. You are right about that.
0xy 5y ago
You imply there's a political solution, while seemingly glossing over the fact that both major parties support gas-fired plants and building new gas-fired capacity to shore up energy supply. Even the Greens oppose the only proven baseload power source that's also green -- nuclear. [1] As recently as last year, the opposition party supported the construction of new gas plants. [2] The entire Australian political establishment supports the construction of new non-renewable power generation capacity, on both sides. [1] https://greens.org.au/policies/nuclear-and-uranium https://greens.org.au/policies/nuclear-and-uranium [2] https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2020/oct/29/labor-agrees-to-support-new-gas-projects-after-public-brawl-sparked-by-joel-fitzgibbon https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2020/oct/29/labor...