u/PlanktonDB
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This is such a bizarre and ridiculous take, it has nothing to do with David making a decision, it is long standing Greens policy and consistent across all previous situations of direct military aid.
Kind of incredible to invoke an issue around LBGTQ+ as well considering the issues around it still in Ukraine and the RW nutjobs who are screaming about this situation of the Greens are actually biggest supporters of Putin and the supposedly anti-woke, anti-gay Russia that is an oligarchic kelptocracy more than anything.
Trump who Labor, LNP and PHONies all want to jump in bed with is one Putin's biggest supporters and plays exactly the same might is right game as Putin, but also panders to Putin. inviting him to come his golf course for the upcoming G20 meeting Florida. trump wants to bring Russia back into trade.
If anyone could be considered a modern Chamberlain it's Trump, peace in his time, because FIFA gave him a medal you know.
This is the same guy who Albo was falling over himself to grab a selfie with
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/sep/02/whats-really-behind-trumps-deference-to-putin
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/sep/23/trump-putin-g20-summit-miami
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Every candidate and position in the party is subject to local member or delegate voting, same for policies.
There is no formal Fed leader position and never has been, it is a construct of Fed Parliamentary team and has absolutely no power or influence in the party in a formal sense. Some states have leaders others do not and they have no process to decide one because that is what members have voted for. Fed leader can't control any process in terms of the party including preselections.
Until such time as members democratically vote to a changed constitution or process it is entirely BS argument.
Some want change, some are ambivalent and think local preselections and party positions is more important, there's been votes on it. Adults with a functioning brain can see there's a few points to consider and there is no other process supported by members so far.
The idiotic takes and grasping at straws won't change anything
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The fevered minds of the insufferably online hacks of auspol on reddit are going to be out of their minds
Shoebridge new Greens leader FWIW the whole team is important and capable, popularly elected by Greens members in their electorates
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Yeah why would I believe some random reddit idiot over direct knowledge?
Nothing has actually happened yet aside from a lot of ignorant snowflakes posting like mad on a few subreddits
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Yeah explaining the process of candidates and MPs in most democratic party is a problem in the world of Auspol. You think.
Many comments in this sub just reinforce the hysterical ignorance that mostly partisan hacks and media ignorant of Greens actually promote.
Greens members can disagree and debate, it's being an adult human being. Don't feel pressured to delete my comment like others apparently have
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The PHONies are so utterly pathetic
Endlessly criticising others and having the most fragile glass jaw
Just seems to reinforce what a bunch of pathetic snowflakes those who claim to be patriots are.
Hanson can't even bothered to show up for work half the time and harps on about others being lazy. If anyone has had a gutful it should be Australians tolerating that garbage attitude and gutlessness to face people who have a question to put
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The level of unsubstantiated crap posted in this sub reddit, or many places online these days, is incredible. Though here it is particularly prevalent dressed up as fact.
In a time where fact checking is so easy the wilful ignorance is remarkable.
Switzerland has ~32% of population born outside, which is close with Australia as highest levels in OECD. Like most developed countries, an ageing population without migrants would fall over in terms of services and large parts of the economy
Japan has increasing migrant workforce to keep things going. Despite historical small intake. Almost as many Chinese now in Japan as in Australia. Biggest reason for Japanese business failures is lack of workers. So forced to get migrant workers in
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-01-04/japanese-island-etajima-migrants-oyster-industry/106176486
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God the idiotic takes about just being gutless and mediocre in auspol is exactly why things are crap for so many
Grow up mate, this is politics and arguing for doing better, having some convictions and a different view is exactly what it is about.
Maybe some are happy to be whinging pathetic excusers but thankfully not everyone is. Much of what people enjoy of modern world was not won by being gutless sycophants, but by people organising, asking for and expecting better
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Historically Europe was even more of a mess from centuries of blood feuds between feudal kings. With the largest documented genocide of modern times being right in the heart of Europe still in some people's living memory.
The craziness of not realising the relative peace of the last 80 years is largely a product of peace in European societies after the incredible mass destruction, murder and genocide of WW2.
Much of prior European history is a bloody messy affair between incestuous feudal lords where the people payed for largely internecine wars. The middle east was in earlier times maintaining and developing fields of maths (algebra, algorithm) and science (chemistry) as well as a home of poetry and arts. Incorporating classic texts and ideas from the west as well as the east, which is also where many ancient texts came back to the western world from.
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What a load of complete idiotic garbage on so many levels
Fragile pathetic and incapable of acknowledging the unique and deep history of this land and the first people of here, with a history deeper than any other contemporary human culture
Australia was never about equality to start with, first it was a dumping ground of imperial England, emptying their prisons
Then as a colonial state passing laws specifically against the rights of any 'non-white' people to come and live here. While practising a genocide of the original inhabitants under the pretext of an empty land.
Australia as a nation state was forged in imperial literally and explicitly colonial racist terms
Only in the last 60 years or so was a different view formed
As someone who can find a direct ancestor on the roll of honour, who died as a British subject of the king not an Australian citizen which didn't exist until 1948
All the bloody fascist can go and get totally fucked and never ever speak on behalf of the dead
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This dickhead once again and probably others, claiming people, including my direct ancestor on the roll of honour at AWM, died for white Australia
Privileged child of property hoarders is exactly the Auspol idiocracy you expect to find behind such efforts
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This racist dickhead been promoting booing at welcome to country particularly at ANZAC services
Privileged elitist parading as Aussie hero, white Australia only of course
Child of property hoarder family hardly surprising element of Aust Idiocracy
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This is bizarre view but common in repeating total BS takes on Greens
Almost all polls that have demographic data have Greens at close to or higher than Labor in 18-34 yrs. Often most popular party in this cohort over recent months. At 30 to 33% often.
YouGov on 7th April Greens 30 Labor 27 in 18-34 yrs
The amount of ignorant takes just repeated without any check or understanding is sadly unsurprising in the idiocracy of auspol.
There is just no media coverage of it. But there is heaps of media for boomers on PHON, who will be dead in the decades to come and won't have to deal with the shit they leave future generations.
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Celebrating the idiocy that no Australian citizens and all our MPs have no role in deciding if our sons and daughters are sent to die and kill on foreign fields for some idiotic megalomaniac toddler interests is not the win you seem to think it is
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ON totally support these landlord rorts How stupid do you have to be?
It's about policy decided democratically by members many years ago before invasion and nothing specific about Ukraine at all or any decision David made
It has come up only because of RW nutjobs and journalists asked specifically, and then probably driven by bots to make a fuss. Absolutely nothing has changed aside from the delusional state of people suddenly making a fuss about it.
Greens have been pushing Labor govt to make even tighter sanctions on Australian funding of Russia by continuing to buy their oil by backdoor. We gave Russia more than 2x the funds by buying their oil than we have given Ukraine by military support.
https://www.news.com.au/world/europe/australias-shameful-russian-oil-addiction-laid-bare-in-damning-senate-report/news-story/84b86a74a5ab3adb82486454a2d12e2b