pulse Report This Comment Date: December 20, 2020 04:52AM
So this is interesting. For the US people, Victoria (my state, left) has a
Labour government in power (kind of like your Democrats but maybe a bit more
left leaning) and NSW (right) has a Liberal state government (our conservatives,
similar but less right wing than your Republican party).
Rupert Murdoch (News Corp) owns probably half of the major newspapers in this
country, including the Telegraph.
Both states have fucked up hotel quarantine and ended up with COVID outbreaks in
their states.
Compare the front page of the next day's newspaper between the hated and liked
leaders states... then for the Fox viewers amongst you, wonder if your media of
choice isn't also biased. I know all media is, blah blah blah; but it's plain to
see.
No wonder there's been more than 500,000 signatures on a petition for a Royal
Commission into the role the media and particularly Murdoch media has in
influencing elections and opinions here.
Anon Report This Comment Date: July 31, 2022 04:14AM
Pulse is right. It's worse than that. For a long time people who didn't
support banning guns were called 'mentally ill'. Then this was published:
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sportingshooter.com.au]
Note what's not mental illness in the legislation:
(1) A person is not a mentally ill person or a mentally disordered person merely
because of any one or more of the following:
(a)the person expresses or refuses or fails to express or has expressed or
refused or failed to express a particular political opinion or belief,
(c)the person expresses or refuses or fails to express or has expressed or
refused or failed to express a particular philosophy,
(e)the person engages in or refuses or fails to engage in, or has engaged in or
refused or failed to engage in, a particular political activity,
One week later the slander of 'mental illness' was replaced with 'right wing
extremist'. The political control is that total. It took one week for the
slander to change.