Could Elon Musk's unpopularity in Australia impact the federal election?
www.abc.net.au
New data shows Australians are making it clear they want answers to their economic malaise and that the obsessions of super-rich Americans are not the same as theirs.

So a pretty general article but this part stood out to me:

in vintage Lambie style she warned him not to “suck up”.

“[America] need[s] Australia more than what we need them, and they need our critical minerals. So, if Trump wants to play with Australia, I suggest you start getting your cowboy hats on,” Lambie said.

“… Don’t play bloody Trump’s bluff. Don’t play it. You don’t move Albo. Don’t you move on him. Don’t you dare. Don’t suck up.”

Why does she think they rely on us more than them?

Average Australian has an iphone, uses facebook/instagram/whatsapp/facebook messenger/marketplace, google, gmail and youtube, and all its services along with Apple/Microsoft, most corporates are damn near 100% Microsoft, Microsoft Windows on Microsoft laptops with Microsoft Teams and Microsoft Edge and MIcrosoft Office365, all our movies are American, all our top hit singles in music are American, TV shows, netflix, Food with McDonalds, KFC, products with Amazon, Amazon prime etc Walk around a shopping centre and count the NBA/NFL/American tshirts

Why does she think Americans rely on us more than us on them? We are deeply embedded in America at this point

  • ikt@aussie.zoneOPEnglish
    4·
    5 days ago

    Most of them I want gone

    Same, I’m down to just Youtube and Iphone as the two things I could not replace…but how would the rest of Australia do

    How would corporate Australia handle it if Trump did some truly insane things like an export tax on all Microsoft products +100% or banning American software in Australia?

    He’s saying he wants to make Canada the 51st state of America so I’m not sure where the stupidity of him ends

    How quickly would we go as a nation from Yeah Fuck Trump! to nooo don’t take my facebook!

    • mranachi@aussie.zoneEnglish
      4·
      5 days ago

      Perhaps I am delusional, but I still hope that we are contrary and proud enough of a country to take whatever America can dish out to not be publicly humiliated into submission.

      Obviously there are a multiple of less public submissions we’ve made over the last century, but I still have hope we can turn it around.

    • Taleya@aussie.zoneEnglish
      2·
      5 days ago

      Software may be a bad example given we’re the biggest digital pirates on the planet