That’s funny, and helps explain my own reaction to that film, because though I expected to like it (a Day-Lewis epic with great review would normally be my thing) I couldn’t take it seriously at all. I was disappointed and annoyed. Seems like that kind of behaviour doesn’t fly with us Australians!

Don’t worry, I’m not a spelling pedant.
One day Bluesky will add an edit window like Threads so we can make minor edits. In the meantime I try to not care too much about typos.

Yes, it is different, because Christian Americans are raised on charismatic religious speakers. Kirk was terrible at debating confident opponents, but when up against college students he quickly dismissed their lefty opinions in ways that were very entertaining to the young men who agreed with him.

True. We’re lucky we don’t have the same kind of far right leaders who can appeal to young men. US culture has always had charismatic speakers who can wrap everything up with religion & bigotry. Their bigot extremists entertain their audiences in ways ours can’t. Alan Jones came close.

It’s wrong to dismiss Panahi’s involvement in the far right. Her main audience isn’t old Australian tv viewers. She sometimes gets millions of foreign views on her YouTube clips, just look at these recent ones since the Kirk murder. She’s part of the US extremist mediascape.

Some of their more inflammatory clips got over 1m views, which makes it clear they have a large overseas audience for their most extreme content.
It’s weird that we still treat News Corp as an Australian news organisation, they’re not.

It was worse on SkyNews Aust’s YouTube page. Yesterday they were pumping out Kirk videos at almost 100 in under 24 hrs, with some of them explicitly calling him a martyr, blaming the left, calling for a violent response, before they even knew who did it. They’re a foreign extremist group.

Kirk was a bigot for profit. And his people believe hundreds of dead school children are an ok price to pay for gun freedom. They also made a man who tries to use mob violence to overturn elections President. They’re a violent regime who are now morally outraged that it can hurt them too.

Plenty of US minority folks (trans, Latinos) are already scared just to be out in public, it’s too late already. Fascism almost always brings violence and oppression for minorities (China, Russia, 30’s Germany), and not fighting back doesn’t make it go away.

Does the same go for Murdoch’s Sky News Aust? They have plenty of fabricated tears over this US anti-gun control extremist, getting millions of views. They weren’t this upset when US schoolchildren or Democrats got shot.

Half right. US media old & new will report on mass movements (or Trump’s crimes, or anything) and move on - unless it’s in the interests of the media oligarchs to push it. When Fox News or Musk want to target an issue, it’s hammered till they get results. Thats what the anti-Trumps don’t have.

I’m not sure what age you are, but the constant lying about climate science was started by Howard, News Corp and their associates in the 90’s, when Aust helped the US wreck the Kyoto agreement. They got away with it, made a bundle, and it was a terrible turning point.

The anti-trans hate was actually just a handy replacement for anti-gay hate, after the News Corp political team lost the marriage equality battle. It’s always easy to target minorities, only the choice of targets changes.
But the extreme lying about climate to help corporations, that was a new one.

The US stock market doesn’t seem to care about this bad news. The investor class thinks Donald’s war on America will be profitable (war usually is), and that they don’t need workers anymore anyway (AI will do it!). Not sure what kind of country they expect to have left to spend their money in.

They look like patricians at a very terrible play Caligula has put on and demanded they all watch, and it’s been going on for hours. And they can’t leave or they’ll be fed to the lions.

Most Australians wouldn’t be upset if the deal was cut off. It was a controversial deal to start with, and now that the US is going down the unhinged authoritarian path we’re even less keen on it.

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