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Could Musk's unpopularity in Australia impact the election? (www.abc.net.au)

submitted 5 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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So a pretty general article but this part stood out to me:

in vintage Lambie style she warned him not to "suck up".

"[America] need[s] Australia more than what we need them, and they need our critical minerals. So, if Trump wants to play with Australia, I suggest you start getting your cowboy hats on," Lambie said.

"… Don't play bloody Trump's bluff. Don't play it. You don't move Albo. Don't you move on him. Don't you dare. Don't suck up."

Why does she think they rely on us more than them?

Average Australian has an iphone, uses facebook/instagram/whatsapp/facebook messenger/marketplace, google, gmail and youtube, and all its services along with Apple/Microsoft, most corporates are damn near 100% Microsoft, Microsoft Windows on Microsoft laptops with Microsoft Teams and Microsoft Edge and MIcrosoft Office365, all our movies are American, all our top hit singles in music are American, TV shows, netflix, Food with McDonalds, KFC, products with Amazon, Amazon prime etc Walk around a shopping centre and count the NBA/NFL/American tshirts

Why does she think Americans rely on us more than us on them? We are deeply embedded in America at this point

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 days ago (2 children)

Most of them I want gone

Same, I'm down to just Youtube and Iphone as the two things I could not replace...but how would the rest of Australia do

How would corporate Australia handle it if Trump did some truly insane things like an export tax on all Microsoft products +100% or banning American software in Australia?

He's saying he wants to make Canada the 51st state of America so I'm not sure where the stupidity of him ends

How quickly would we go as a nation from Yeah Fuck Trump! to nooo don't take my facebook!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 days ago

Perhaps I am delusional, but I still hope that we are contrary and proud enough of a country to take whatever America can dish out to not be publicly humiliated into submission.

Obviously there are a multiple of less public submissions we've made over the last century, but I still have hope we can turn it around.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Software may be a bad example given we're the biggest digital pirates on the planet

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 days ago

Australia? We couldn't possibly be. imma have to demand evidence.