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Fucking seriously? I know it's popular to hate "America" lately -- since it makes a nice big clean target and it gives you a nice fuzzy "edgy" feeling to do so -- but it seems more like Australia's leading the pack when it comes to overreaching soft-authoritarian policy.

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Actually, it's more "Queensland" that's the problem, although I think things are going to get rapidly worse at the federal level too.

Fuck my state. Who's idea was it to give a populist idiot (Newman) a super-majority?

(I agree with you, for what it's worth, but there is definitely a not-so-subtle undercurrent in politics of "We should do what America does")

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