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Discussion Thread 🎨 Monday 16 June 2025 (aussie.zone)

submitted 1 week ago by YarraByte@aussie.zone to c/melbourne@aussie.zone

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[–] tombruzzo@aussie.zone 12 points 1 week ago (5 children)

The news feels like foreshadowing in a bad apocalypse movie and I still need to go to work

[–] melbaboutown@aussie.zone 3 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I’m desperately trying to ignore it all.

US politics

Israel has gone for Iran which I saw in passing, and looking now apparently the US might get involved. I don’t really like discussing US politics but kind of wishing we weren’t allied right about now

[–] tombruzzo@aussie.zone 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Yeah, Iran, the protests, the military parade. It sucks to know we're on the side of the bad guys. It feels like one of those Lenin decade weeks so let's hope for a similar revolution

[–] melbaboutown@aussie.zone 3 points 1 week ago

Plus ICE, and reporters being shot with rubber bullets.

…I dunno about that part. Didn’t the revolution eventually result in Stalin? :/

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