I like Fedora

tip M’lady

(I’m using Bazzite, which is based on Fedora though)

To expand on that further, the reasons why we don’t import US beef are 1. we produce more than enough for ourselves and 2. most importantly we do not have mad cow disease in Australia, whereas the US does. US beef is a biosecurity risk, which we take very seriously.

our federal pharmaceutical procurement thing

It’s called the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme, and it’s basically the government being the single buyer for pharmaceuticals and then subsidising the cost to Australians. Big pharma hates it because if the government thinks they’re ripping us off we just won’t buy it and they’ll basically be shut out of the Australian market. The government also will only buy drugs that are proven to be effective, so they can’t unload useless junk or derivatives that are more expensive but otherwise the same

I tip my fedora hat to you kind gentlesir! Updoots to the left!

The exact same thing happened on January 6th. They initially expressed disapproval and dismay, but once the “it was just a riot, bro” narrative caught on all dissent vanished. They’d received their marching orders so they no longer had to face the terrifying prospect of actually having to think for themselves.

It’s been one hell of a year, right?

Captain, it’s been a month!

I would rather smear human shit in my eyes than watch it.

Also the problem of relying on a nation state to allow these certificates to be issued in the first place. A repressive regime could simply refuse to give its citizens a certificate, which would effectively block them from access to a platform that required them.

No, they’re negative.

Exactly. What do you want him to do? Attempt a coup to stay in power? Americans voted for this and nobody is coming to save you.

Because fuck you, who’s going to stop him?

If he’d ever actually parented any of his children he’d have already experienced that at least once.

Don’t you know that pointing out the obvious consequences of electing trump before the election was actually supporting genocide?

“now don’t you escalate that war Vladimir!” wink wink

It’s the same here. The Therapeutic Goods Administration, our equivalent to the FDA, generally follows along with FDA regulations (though I don’t think that will continue from next year somehow).

Cries in Australian

Unfortunately the press and the peanut gallery have it very wrong on this one.

Deliberately. Comparing it to the Purge rather than the Kristallnacht gives the majority of people who only read the headline the wrong idea about what he actually meant, which derails the discussion towards “crazy old man says another crazy thing” rather than “crazy old fascist says another fascist thing”.

In Australia you can buy permanent residency, which is then a pathway to citizenship.

The article doesn’t even mention the best part, that Fox News realised what was going on and removed the stock ticker soon afterwards.

I am absolutely convinced that Trump’s entire election strategy was to just coast to victory on “Biden old” and “I got shot”. By the time of the republican convention he was confident that he had it in the bag and didn’t need to keep trying, so when Biden dropped out it completely shattered his plan and he’s got nothing to replace it. He does not have the cognitive ability to pivot against Harris/Walz and his ego is way too big to actually listen to his campaign strategists (if he even has any that aren’t just yes men).

* this should not be interpreted as complacency. It is definitely not a sure thing that Harris will win

He’s already earned a page in the history books, might as well make it a whole chapter.