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[–] [email protected] 80 points 1 year ago (1 children)

How do we sleep while our beds are burning?

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I love this song, it's still in my playlist

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (4 children)

There is a recent cover version by AWOL Nation & Rise Against (or maybe just Tim McIlrath, not 100% sure).

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[–] [email protected] 59 points 1 year ago (31 children)

I'm voting yes, and i have tried to help people see why it's a good thing, but when people call me racist for saying I'm in the yes camo, i know that far too many are just morons who have no critical thinking, or ability to tell what is a good source of information.

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[–] [email protected] 59 points 1 year ago (29 children)

All this over an advisory board with no real power? How could that even be harmful?

[–] [email protected] 47 points 1 year ago

Conservatives oppose it for the same reasons indigenous groups want it.

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[–] [email protected] 45 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The real reason it will fail is politics. The opposition party decided getting this voted down would strike a blow to the government.

So they’ve just blown racist dog whistles, racist trumpets, set of racists cannons and doubled down on ignorance: “If you don’t know vote No”

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[–] [email protected] 33 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What's even the point of having a democracy if the majority of the voter base is uninformed

[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 year ago

Not just uninformed - deliberately misinformed.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Colonialism intensifies

[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Voting on yes or no was made very easy when I saw that neo nazis, flat earthers, anti vaxxers and a multitude of other whack jobs are voting no. You are the company you keep in my book.

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago

Well that's disappointing.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago

What a bunch of cunts

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago

This is the best summary I could come up with:


Australians look set to reject a referendum proposal to recognise Indigenous people in the constitution by creating a body to advise parliament, with polls showing a clear majority for no in almost all states before Saturday’s vote.

The yes campaign has also been battered by the Blak sovereignty movement, which has led the progressive no case, arguing the voice would be powerless while pushing for truth and treaty to come ahead of constitutional recognition.

The no campaign has leaned heavily on the slogan “If you don’t know, vote no”, which former high court justice Robert French described as an invitation to “resentful, uninquiring passivity”.

The Australian prime minister, Anthony Albanese, spent part of the final campaigning week in the nation’s centre, Uluru, where the proposal for the voice was first formally presented in 2017.

Sitting with senior traditional owners in central Australia, Albanese said Australians had an opportunity to “lift the burden of history” and move forward with a positive vote on Saturday.

“Many Indigenous Australians who are on the frontlines of dealing with these problems in towns and cities and communities and outstations and home lands are very worried about the prospect of losing the voice because they already have little say, and a loss will mean that they have even less.”


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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

fucking national disgrace....

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

'cos Aussies love racism

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