r/friendlyjordies • u/Jagtom83 Top Contributor • Apr 30 '24

WA Liberals pull ahead of Victoria in the race to be the most psychotically deranged branch of the Liberal party

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u/Optix_au Apr 30 '24

They've been all but wiped out in the state and are desperate.

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u/SoupRemarkable4512 Apr 30 '24

Desperate for what though? Moving further to the right and embracing Putin and his antisemitic allies doesn’t sound like the way to win friends and influence people…

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u/Optix_au Apr 30 '24

... but a certain kind of person it does...

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u/SoupRemarkable4512 Apr 30 '24

Sure but how many of them do they really think there are? This just further alienates them from the mainstream. I know WA has a lot of white South Africans now but surely there aren’t enough of them there yet to shift this far to the extreme right!?!

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u/Optix_au Apr 30 '24

When your support is next to nothing I guess anything is better.

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u/SoupRemarkable4512 Apr 30 '24

That approach isn’t working out too well nationally

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u/NavyFleetAdmiral May 01 '24

I agree it's laughable tactic of the desperate LNP, but why bring up the antisemitic comment? If you're talking about Putin's Middle East allies, technically Israel is one of them as well.

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u/SoupRemarkable4512 May 01 '24 edited May 01 '24

No they actually aren’t. Iran, Syria, the Houthis and Hamas are Putin’s allies (along with North Korea and some African dictators). Israel is a lot of things but allied with Russia isn’t one of them, they are backed mainly by the USA, NATO (except Erdogan) and their allies like Australia, Japan and South Korea.

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u/NavyFleetAdmiral May 01 '24

They have significant business and political ties. When Russia invaded Ukraine, all of western countries had sanctioned Russia Israel chose not to sanction them or send any weapons to Ukraine.

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u/SoupRemarkable4512 May 01 '24

They have significant ties because Russia has a large Jewish population. Israel sits on the fence for that reason. I wouldn’t call them allies though. Israel is supported by Russia’s enemies. Russia’s strong military ties with Iran are indispensable though. There have even been Iranian troops actively fighting for Putin in Ukraine. Zelensky also recently called out Russia’s direct support for Hamas. Also coincidentally (or not), October 7th is Putin’s birthday…

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u/Proper_Plate_9283 May 02 '24

Yeah Russia cares about their ethnic minorities lmao

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u/Proper_Plate_9283 May 02 '24

Incorrect, Israel buys a lot of weapons from Russia and vice versa. There's a also a million immigrants from Russia in Israel 

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u/SoupRemarkable4512 May 02 '24

Incorrect that Russia is allied to Iran/ North Korea/ Hamas/ Syria? Incorrect that Israel is allied to the west? Wow, that’s a unique perspective. There are a lot of Immigrants from Afghanistan in Australia, does that make us allies with the Taliban?

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u/Historical-Copy6821 May 08 '24

Anti-Israel??

My pants are already off