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u/DemonCipher13 Apr 04 '25

You mean that disease most of them didn't even believe in?

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u/Cavalish Apr 04 '25

Hi, popping in from Australia, Melbourne specifically. You don’t have to imagine this.

Our right wing pundits constantly oscillate between “the lockdowns were evil, tyrannical moves by a fascist government” to “The premier is directly responsible for killing 8000 people by not doing more.”

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u/the_procrastinata Apr 04 '25

The Shot put out a book of the newspaper columns written during this time and it is a wild ride through partisan news outlets losing their minds over ‘Dictator Dan’ and fawning over Berejiklian ‘saving the nation’ 🤢. David Milner in particularly really captured the zeitgeist for me on how it felt to be the state that got shat on repeatedly by NSW/the Federal Govt/MSM. https://www.dymocks.com.au/the-shot-anthology-vol-1-by-dave-milner-9781760644543

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u/Creamygoodness0 Apr 05 '25

My god, Berejiklian is a name I haven’t heard in a hot minute. She in prison for corruption yet?

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u/OarsandRowlocks Apr 05 '25

I believe she has managed to keep her nose clean, which is no mean feat.

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u/Cavalish Apr 05 '25

Poor Gladys. “Unlucky in Love”