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rokat @rokat.bsky.social · 1d

Personal thanks! You are my 500th follower!
I must admit, I hoped this historic moment would have been acheived by a more significant post of mine, not just a general moan about America, but nevermind, we must be happy with whatever the algorithm provides?

rokat @rokat.bsky.social · 1d

So what's changed, culturally and intellectually, in America in the last 150 years?

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rokat @rokat.bsky.social · 1d

It's how FIFA works!
Have you forgotten Qatar already?

The fans are totally sick of FIFA.
Will they follow the game to Trump's America?

rokat @rokat.bsky.social · 1d

Making a joke of Trump wrecking the economy, ICE thugs invading peaceful Portland, and world-wide US-inspired madness, shouldn't be funny?

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rokat @rokat.bsky.social · 1d

What a disgrace!
What a blatant denial of political neutrality!
And Meta is currently arguing in Australian courts that it is not harmful to under 16's?

rokat @rokat.bsky.social · 1d

ALL white people in America are "proud immigrants"!
ALL brown, black or muslim people in America are "illegal immigrants"? All mexicans are drug dealers. Native Americans don't count.
Have we got that policy sorted now?

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rokat @rokat.bsky.social · 1d

leave it til November next year, the mid-terms, and you'll have a place to hide?

rokat @rokat.bsky.social · 1d

You obviously didn't read the important parts?

rokat @rokat.bsky.social · 1d

I believe you!
If the "United States of America" could honestly say the same, we wouldn't be in the mess they made?

rokat @rokat.bsky.social · 1d

Unfortunately, Australia can't refuse re-entry to those famous Australian politicians, Abbott and Morrisson, ex-PMs, indisputably kicked out, dumped, mocked, now lauded on the international conservative scene and thororoughly despised at home.

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rokat @rokat.bsky.social · 1d

Who would have thought Zuckerman would censor Meta for a favourable interpretation of the 1st Amendment?

rokat @rokat.bsky.social · 1d

2/2 The Minister of Transportation will get a job advising new rail projects too expensive to be built?
The Minister of the Environment will use social media to convince you everything is getting better?
And police will carry guns, like America!

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rokat @rokat.bsky.social · 1d

!/2 When a politician resigns, or loses their seat, who do they turn to?
The Minister for energy will find a lucrative position on the board of an oil company.... for his contacts, not his knowledge of the industry?

rokat @rokat.bsky.social · 1d

Why do so many American sites that I like, just repost and not speak for themselves?

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rokat @rokat.bsky.social · 1d

Depends where you're lookin?
You haven't bin to Glasgow?

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rokat @rokat.bsky.social · 1d

The Master of Marketing - as he markets himself - was always running this country for his friends and masters?

Now, like Abbot, he's making a name for himself in conservative US circles? As an ex-PM, not as a failed and detested politician.

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rokat @rokat.bsky.social · 1d

A nun with a heavy period?

(Do nuns have periods?)

rokat @rokat.bsky.social · 1d

An ICE arrest in Alabama?

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rokat @rokat.bsky.social · 1d

I wish Portland well! It seems incredible that Federal thugs can invade this peaceful city with immunity!

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rokat @rokat.bsky.social · 1d

Watching from Australia, I love America's daily complaints!
Apart from frogs in Portland, lame memes from the Governor of California, cringeworthy social media posts by Schumer and Dem leaders, I don't see democracy working?

rokat @rokat.bsky.social · 1d

One thing we can never allow again is a legal system appointed by the defendant!!

rokat @rokat.bsky.social · 1d

Taxpayers might be spending millions more on dentistry, but Councils are saving thousands!

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rokat @rokat.bsky.social · 1d

Not exactly? ISIS had an evil ideology in which they believed?
ICE are just thugs and pardoned felons who get a thrill out of intimidating hard-working Americans, wearing military gear and pointing guns at people, with immunity guaranteed by the President.

rokat @rokat.bsky.social · 1d

"another partisan manufactured thing" manufactured by Mike Johnson!

rokat @rokat.bsky.social · 1d

Good luck with the court move!
You'll probably get restraint for doing anything from State or lower federal courts, but are bound to lose when you get to the Supreme Court because that one was definitely bought by MAGA!