• Affidavit
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    1 year ago

    Glad this is over with. I fully expect the next week or two to be filled with articles bemoaning how ‘No’ only succeeded because people are racist/stupid.

    Hopefully after this final whinge our politicians and media can start narrowing focus on things most people actually find important.

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      1 year ago

      Lots of people do care about this and find it important.

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        1 year ago

        Hence why I used ‘most’. Democracy, amiright?

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          Yes democracy. Point being that most no voters aren’t racist but fully have zero empathy for minority groups in this country and wouldn’t dare lift a finger.

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      To be fair, there are a lot of very racist people in Australia. Its reputation as a deeply racist country is known far and wide.

      Also, Australia voted to not be a republic, and people think Clive Palmer is their friend and saviour, so… Yeah, plenty of idiots out there. I mean, the no campaign basically promoted and lived on ignorance. “If you don’t know”? Come on. How dumb do you have to be?