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Aaron Dodd
@aarondodd.bsky.social
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Melbourne/Gippsland - based small business owner. Progressive. Judo, NMFC. These are my personal views and opinions. Curmudgeon.
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Aaron Dodd @aarondodd.bsky.social · Jan 4
Note: If you repetitively use the words "duopoly" or "genocide" in your tweets I will probably inevitably mute or block you. #auspol
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Rather than it being a snub, Trump chickened out of his meeting with Albanese. The gulf between Albanese's intellectual and moral clarity and Trump's would have been too embarrassing for him. That's why they call him #TACO. #auspol
June 18, 2025 at 3:32 AM
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Mussolini famously said "Fascism should more appropriately be called Corporatism because it is a merger of state and corporate power." This move by #Trump is fascism in its purest form. #auspol #uspolitics #NoKings www.nytimes.com/2025/06/15/b...
‘Golden Share’ in U.S. Steel Gives Trump Extraordinary Control
www.nytimes.com
June 16, 2025 at 4:37 AM
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While #Trump orchestrates and basks in the adulation of a DPRK-style military parade, proud American citizens begin their uprising against his fascism.

All power to them. If America's institutions can't save its democracy, it's people must.

#auspol #USPolitics #NoKings
June 15, 2025 at 8:14 AM
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The Victorian Liberals are beyond help. Let them sink and start again #auspol #springst www.crikey.com.au/2025/06/13/m...
The Victorian Liberals are beyond help. Let them sink and start again
Despite the corruption rampant in Victoria, the Victorian Liberals remain obsessed with their own internal brawls, and remain unelectable. Genuine liberals may have to go elsewhere.
www.crikey.com.au
June 13, 2025 at 3:31 AM
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Like the citizens of 1930s Nazi Germany, US citizens have a choice. They can turn a blind eye to the atrocities of their government and leader and reap the consequences as the meek Germans did in WW2, OR they can stand up to fascism and end the tyranny now.
#auspol #Trump
June 13, 2025 at 2:41 AM
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#uspolitics #Trump #MAGA #LA #NoKingsProtest #auspol
June 13, 2025 at 12:38 AM
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The reliability of of coal. #auspol
www.afr.com/companies/en...
Outage at power station broadens Victoria’s energy crisis
The disruption at EnergyAustralia’s Yallourn coal power station comes as Victoria is already facing the risk of winter gas shortfalls on peak-demand days.
www.afr.com
June 12, 2025 at 7:58 AM
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Australia knows very well that Morrison is a corrupt pathological and compulsive liar. If he says #AUKUS is safe, Australia should plan for the exact opposite. #auspol
June 12, 2025 at 7:44 AM
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For anyone playing along at home the "bombshell decision" was an announcement that the NACC had found "no evidence of corruption or any intervention by either the Coalition or Albanese governments in the mediation process". #auspol
June 12, 2025 at 3:30 AM
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It's obviously time to review whether Pine Gap and the US Marines base in Darwin is "Australia First". #auspol #USPolitics #Trump

www.theage.com.au/world/north-...
AUKUS in doubt as US starts review into whether the deal is ‘America First’
The snap review comes just days before Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and President Donald Trump attend a world leaders’ meeting in Canada.
www.theage.com.au
June 11, 2025 at 10:18 PM
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Scott Morrison’s King’s Birthday honour is an insult to the truth
#auspol
www.thenewdaily.com.au/opinion/2025...
Scott Morrison's King's Birthday honour is an insult to the truth
Scott Morrison doesn’t need punishment, but Australia needs clarity. Because if Robodebt can be rewarded, then nothing is off limits.
www.thenewdaily.com.au
June 11, 2025 at 9:44 PM
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FFS. The Austrian President states "[the school shooting] is the darkest day in their history".

The Anschluss?
The mass deportation of Jews to death camps?
Mathausen Concentration Camp?

#auspol #Austria
June 11, 2025 at 8:39 AM
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Nine myths about electric vehicles and who falls for them
#auspol
www.thenewdaily.com.au/life/auto/20...
Nine myths about electric vehicles and who falls for them
Electric vehicles are vital in the fight against climate change, but pervasive misinformation is a significant challenge to their uptake.
www.thenewdaily.com.au
June 10, 2025 at 9:10 PM
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For decades the American gun lobby justified its awful stance on the need for citizens to be armed so they could resist government over-reach.

If that moment is not now, when is it?

#auspol #uspolitics #Trump #LA
June 10, 2025 at 5:33 AM
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Australia needs to do the same. It especially needs to dump #AUKUS. Australia should not be allied with, and our ADF should not be integrated into the US military while it careens into a fascist dictatorship. #auspol
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...
Canadian PM vows to boost defence spending and reduce dependency on US
Carney says Canada will hit Nato target of 2% of GDP five years ahead of schedule amid ‘dangerous and divided world’
www.theguardian.com
June 10, 2025 at 4:35 AM
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As Trump and his militia torch America, Albanese recklessly insists on business as usual via @crikey_news #auspol www.crikey.com.au/2025/06/10/d...
As Trump and his militia torch America, Albanese recklessly insists on business as usual
Anthony Albanese avoided talking about Australia's changing strategic circumstances during the election. But as Trump embraces fascism, he may not be able to much longer.
www.crikey.com.au
June 10, 2025 at 3:06 AM
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Americans elected a fascist as President. Now they're upset when that fascist does fascist things. Idiots.

#auspol #USPolitics #Trump #MAGA #LA
June 9, 2025 at 7:18 PM
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#Trump’s claim that the LA protesters are paid is pure psychological projection. Because he does not lift a finger unless there is money to be made from it, he assumes everybody else has the same debased corrupt "values" (for want of a better word. #auspol #USPolitics #MAGA
June 9, 2025 at 4:16 AM
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Bless. @senpaterson actually thinks he and his diminished party are still relevant. #auspol
www.theage.com.au/politics/fed...
The Coalition says it’s open to tax reform – but there’s a catch
The federal opposition went to the last election opposing the government’s tax cuts. Now it says it backs tax reform on one condition.
www.theage.com.au
June 8, 2025 at 10:47 PM
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BREAKING: Former PM Scott Morrison has been awarded a record 7 Orders on Australia in this year's King's Birthday Honours List - one for every cabinet minister position he held. #auspol
June 8, 2025 at 8:47 PM
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Petition to revoke Scott Morrison's King's Birthday AC. Please sign and share.

www.change.org/p/stop-scott...

#auspol
Sign the Petition
Stop Scott Morrison's Order of Australia
www.change.org
June 8, 2025 at 8:44 PM
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Scott Morrison's King's Birthday AC for "leadership during covid" is the best argument yet for an Australian Republic.

#auspol
June 8, 2025 at 12:07 PM
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Just did it: Nike cuts ties with Grace Tame #auspol www.theaustralian.com.au/business/mar...
www.theaustralian.com.au
June 7, 2025 at 5:58 AM
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Why do the Greens keep referring to "the major parties"?

They are a major party themselves.

#auspol
June 6, 2025 at 12:20 PM
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So did I get this right? Musk's accusation that Trump is in the Epstein files is an admission that he knowingly helped put a paedophile in the Oval Office?
#auspol #uspolitics #Trump #MAGA
June 5, 2025 at 11:06 PM