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Post by raspberrybullets on Mar 30, 2019 2:33:03 GMT
Has anybody else seen the expose/doco by Al Jazeera? The reporter secretly recorded One Nation (racist political party in Oz) meeting with the NRA in the US. They had this set up over 3 years, the journalist hiring a private investigator to pretend he was some Australian gun lobbyist and looking into the NRA. But he hooked up with One Nation and they sent a delegation to visit the NRA. They talked about how to do PR around gun massacres and how they could gain control of the Australian government and change the laws in Australia around gun control. It was shocking to see how they talked, what they discussed. I feel like anybody who watches this and is not hardball pro guns and pro what these people are saying would just be shocked and leave the party in droves. For Americans, what an eye opener on the inside workings of the NRA.
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Post by tangent on Mar 30, 2019 10:13:03 GMT
That's sounds dreadful. The Guardian has reports here and here.
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Post by Mari on Apr 4, 2019 16:30:55 GMT
I hadn't heard about this, but I miss the news more often these days.
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Post by raspberrybullets on Apr 5, 2019 10:08:00 GMT
I wonder how quickly people will forget We expect the election to be called any day now.
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Post by tangent on Apr 5, 2019 11:23:03 GMT
Too soon, I think. Give the general public six months and they will have forgotten entirely.
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Post by raspberrybullets on Apr 6, 2019 2:05:44 GMT
I'm always surprised at how much people vote for what's in it for them. The current government is planning a tax cut which would save middle class people about a thousand dollars. To compensate we'll get terrible services, kill our environment and continue to mistreat refugees. But people don't give a shit, they just care that they will have less than a hundred extra dollars every month.
Anywho, I highly recommend watching the doco if you can. It's super interesting, though shocking.
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