Social media algorithms really fucked us huh?
Hmm. I’m a multibillionaire with an empathy deficit and borderline psychotic tendencies, and I’m in a perpetual pissing contest with my fellow billionaires. I wonder if I should let the masses take away some of my money through tax to spend on education and healthcare, or spend a fraction of that amount sowing division and mistrust and duping the plebs into blaming other plebs for their problems, which are, in fact, mainly due to me hoarding excessive wealth. Tricky.
It’s not a coincidence that social media was flooded with bots shilling One Nation and the party started rising in the polls after Gina the Hutt (Gina Rinehart, Australia’s richest person) decided she was done with the Coalition and went to Mar-a-Lago late last year.
So you’re going to give the land back to the aboriginals, right?
They said never again after WW2.
Guess that was bullshit. Populism is just running rampant
Propaganda worrks.
This seems to be a pattern, a dislike for too many migrants. It’s reasonable for countries to want to keep their cultural identities because cultural differences produce friction. However, some diversity is good. In the next summer Olympics, Australians will be cheering for Gout Gout.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_ethnic_and_cultural_diversity_level
This is a bit older, from 2003, but it has an index of the degree to which a country is multicultural in ethnic, linguistic, and religious aspects.
Looking up a couple of countries and their relative rankings, out of 215:
Country Ethnic rank Linguistic rank Religious rank Australia 172 106 3 Brazil 77 177 65 Canada 35 63 27 China 156 149 39 France 150 136 26 Germany 152 141 46 Italy 166 155 149 Japan 188 192 87 Mexico 75 145 181 New Zealand 107 140 5 Poland 165 178 182 Russia 133 121 116 Spain 101 90 111 Taiwan 126 75 31 United Kingdom 163 174 28 United States 90 64 2
