• Zealousideal_Fox900@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    Hey everyone! I’m aussie and I’m here to explain this to people who need help understanding this. Tony abbott is a far right wing conspiracy theorist who ignored the UN and for one term was prime minister of Australia. He is disliked and hated by many in his party and others. He also defunded the ABC (Australian Broadcoasting Corporation, national broadcaster).

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    9 months ago

    I know I don’t have any responsibility for the actions of Tony religious nutjob Abbot but I still offer my apologies to the world. When this fuckwit left parliament I though the damage he could do was over, I was wrong.

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    9 months ago

    I will forever treasure the clip of him in a grocery store trying to stage a “meeting the people” photo op only for a badass old guy to refuse his outstretched hand and only say a single word to the then prime minister of his country:

    “dickhead” 😄✊️

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    9 months ago

    Lachlan is asserting his authority and trying to break with his father’s legacy by appointing Tony “onions” Abbot to the board to try and drag it to the left and closer to the center.

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      Sorry but appointing the former leader of the Aus right wing political party will move the board to the left?

      What leads you to think this, who is he to replace, Benito Mussolini?

      At best he will just be more of the same.

      Edit: Never mind, the sarcasm flew right over my head.

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        9 months ago

        Ahh well, you tell a joke on the inter webs some times you hit sometimes you miss.

        The onion eater is somewhere to the right of Gengis Khan, but then again so is the rest of the organisation.