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If you took the Modship you could ban the real cretins here from that board: Nails, Booby, Horseboy, Blight (in no particular order of cretinism.)

MeisterEckhart wrote on Feb 25^th, 2024 at 8:55am:

Rubbish!
Besides Americans not even being able to live 20 years longer like Castro's Cubans.
America has done everything for itself.
Not for Australia. Not for something like a Commonwealth, unless its there for itself and not for the United Nations.
Besides 'complimentary' Trade.
Australia has done more for America.
If we had sold GrainCorp to America, they would have sunk it after a polite 3 years - to their own advantage and domination of market.
America can not compete fairly. It must destroy the competition. They couldn't even leave Russia alone - they feel they must turn it into another 3rd world nation.

America is the most psychologically insane nation on the planet and it is all their own doing.
A nation that hopes to flee to Mars and leave something worse behind.

British Politics is the truth, American is the lie.
But, like Albanese's ALP now sucking up to the rich media savvy.
Australia sucking up to America because its 'bigger' than Britain, is the illusion that brings about Australia's weakest links in its 'chain', a chain that keeps us disciplined to our 'Convictions'. Too much 'freedom' can be like a death penalty.

Jasin wrote on Feb 25^th, 2024 at 9:42am:

Something like a Commonwealth, eh! The British Commonwealth was the consolation prize for Britain's loss of its empire, it was not conceived for the benefit of former imperial possessions but to maintain British projection of power around the world.

The British abandoned Australia to its fate in WW2.

The US defended Australia during WW2 and has protected its interests ever since.

The US protected trade routes that made Australian trade with the world possible.

What has Australia done for the US that the US couldn't do for itself? Supplying actors to Hollywood, who go on to play American-accented characters, maybe?

Jasin wrote on Feb 25^th, 2024 at 10:16am:

Can't help it! You're too easy to shoot down!

Jasin wrote on Feb 25^th, 2024 at 10:24am:

What does that even mean?

All nations are political entities.

Jasin wrote on Feb 25^th, 2024 at 10:39am:

Australia's future cultural empowerment will be predicated on the advancement of mainstream Australian values, as inherited from British and Irish cultures and absorbed from American and other Anglosheric and European nation-states, and also increasingly from subcontinental and East Asian cultures.

Jasin wrote on Feb 25^th, 2024 at 10:47am:

It will be subcontinental and East/southeast Asian cultures that will increasingly influence Australian culture.

Jasin wrote on Feb 25^th, 2024 at 10:54am:

These days, cultures arrive and make themselves at home via immigrants arriving in their tens of thousands by plane.

Aerial travel - making the cosmos smaller, one planet at a time.

Twenty years ago or so, few Australians who hadn't travelled much would have heard of Diwali, let alone partook in its celebration. Now Australian Mints produce precious-metal coins in its honour, while non-Indian Australians gather in their thousands in parks, on coastlines and river banks to join in on the celebrations.

Everyone likes a party.