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I assumed you were American. OK, there are other nationalities who are equally ignorant. Rabbits are an introduced species, released by bone-head Brits as food for the foxes they brought in, so they could enjoy hunting. As Oscar Wilde said, the unspeakable in pursuit of the inedible. It's estimated rabbits cost the Australian pastoral industry $206 million per year, in terms of pasture competition, and land degradation. When one sees a rabbit warren covering 40 acres, it's easy to understand why. You need to keep up. Calcivirus replaced myxomatosis for rabbit control almost 30 years ago. Feral cats can grow to twice the size of a domestic cat. I've shot a couple, they will kill anything, even new-born lambs. Australia is a harsh country, with harsh choices made by those living on the land. If you can't stand the heat, stay out of the kitchen.

I think you'll find sensible people will be avoiding the USA, as a paranoid, hate-ridden s##thole. Expect the US tourist industry to have slim pickings. just another example of the Law of Unintended Consequences. Boycotts don't only apply to exports.

Demonstrating your ignorance yet again. 1080 baiting targets pigs, foxes, dingoes, feral cats, and wild dogs. Kangaroos are not a target species. They are vegetarian. Now go and sob a little over the lamb or veal you are eating. Talk about a double standard.

In business, Trump stiffed contractors, went bankrupt multiple times. He thinks that business model will work in international trade as well. His tariffs are not a barrier to assist American industry. Who pays the tariff? Not the country exporting to the US. It's the American consumer. Tariffs are a tax. They hit the poor and middle class hardest. MAGA's simply don't understand how they are being screwed.

All of it is used for pet food. 99% of kangaroos are shot by professional shooters who are expert marksmen. That's just as humane as being herded into an abbattoir.

Ukraine is not nazi. That's a canard put out by the Kremlin propaganda machine, after Ukraine briefly collaborated with the Nazis back in WWII. Ukrainians soon found out the Germans were no better than the Russians. Please explain how a nazi regime is headed by a Jewish President. Any apartheid results from Stalin migrating Russians into eastern Ukraine after he killed about 6 million Ukrainians in the Holodomor, genocide by mass starvation.

The village idiot aka influencer took a young wombat from its mother for a photo op. I'll bet when you tuck into your lamb chops, steak, or pork, you don't think you are sponsoring murder. Explain the difference to me. No, I don't mean kangaroo leather, which is no more durable than pigskin or cowhide. I mean kangaroo fur, which is the most dense of any. The supreme test of any blade for sharpness is whether it can shave kangaroo fur. I have no convict ancestry. As an Aussie, I am happy to educate toffee-nosed prats who don't seem to realize the British Empire faded into history after WWII.

Your post demonstrates you know nothing about Australia, a common occurrence with Americans. Kangaroos and wallabies compete for pasture and water with sheep and cattle. They also damage fences. They are capable of suspending gestation for years during droughts. When the drought breaks, their populations explode. No risk of them becoming extinct. Culled kangaroos are not wasted. They go into pet food. Kangaroo fur is the most durable in the world. OTOH, the northern hairy-nosed wombat is critically endangered, and the southern version is at risk. I doubt your airhead influencer knew that. Or you, for that matter.

IIRC our PM suggested the American influencer should try her luck with our crocodiles.

Please post phrases that make some sense.

Detroit was 100 years ago. It's an empty shell for drug dealers now. Muscle cars, corner like a cow on roller skates. My son's Hyundai Kona N would pee all over your gas-guzzling behemoths. Drive a Kia Stinger if you want to know about modern cars.

According to the polls, it is no longer most Americans. The majority is now aghast at what he is doing to them, and to international relations. If you are going to start a thread, at least start with a valid premise. There are about 90 countries in the world that are democracies. You are just one in that number. If you are so free, why does America have the highest prison population in the world?

I rarely lie, when I do it is with good motives. I don't lie to manipulate people. When I find someone has lied to me, I assess it it from the viewpoint of the damage done. The person either goes on a treat with caution list, or gets shut out of my life entirely.

Who benefits from Trump attacking Iran and its proxies? Answer: the Saudis, who have already invested $2 billion with Trump's son-in-law. Trump may be coming for PHARMAC, which may or may not affect you personally. The Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme in Australia is targeted by Big Pharma, who will probably be lobbying with money to shut it down. You are probably next. https://www.theage.com.au/politics/federal/big-pharma-plea-to-trump-to-punish-australia-for-cheaper-medicines-20250319-p5lko1.html How many times have I told you Trump is a narcissistic sociopath who doesn't care about anything but money?

Australia has two spy bases, Pine Gap and North West Cape. They supply about 40% of American world-wide surveillance capability, and are sovereign US territory. There are also 2500 Marines stationed in Darwin. You think the bases would not be a target for a nuke? Canada is buying our world -leading radar in preference to anything you can produce. Perhaps that says you may be right about your standard of education. https://www.thenewdaily.com.au/news/national/2025/03/19/canada-australian-radar? Your last remark demonstrates your abysmal ignorance of Australia. I can probably name most states of America, you probably can't name one in Australia without Google. Travel probably has not broadened your mind.

The adjective you are trying to use is IRRELEVANT. MAGA posters want to cut back on education, so they can drag everyone down to their own ignorant level. Please do close down your bases in Australia. It just makes us a nuclear target. We get nothing in return, except getting slapped with tariffs. Thanks to the craven you have in the White House, you are a worthless, faithless and gutless ally.

You're kidding, right? Fords are among the biggest piles of automotive crap ever assembled. Why do you think people say the name stands for Fix Or Repair Daily?

My dental implants and bone grafts came from Switzerland. I don't care what my dentist uses, I did not buy it. Yes, if there was a medical prosthesis only made in the US, I would avail myself of it. BUT, you think you are the only guys in the world that can make stuff? The Chinese make EV's better and cheaper than you do. 40% of the tractors used by American farmers are Kubota.

How much do you think the debt will be reduced with tax cuts, and American exports being boycotted?

Er - drill baby drill is not really a path to slowing global warming. Nor is tariffs on Chinese EV's. I certainly won't knowingly be buying anything made in the USA while there's a felon in the White House.

The Muskrats have probably never heard of institutional memory. Any savings they achieve will be wiped out by having to hire back the people they have fired as consultants, and the accidents they will cause with their indiscriminate firings. Chernobyl cost an estimated $700 billion to clean up, ineffectively. Fukushima cost $180 billion. That's the sort of money that is needed when nuclear accidents are involved.

How many Australian items have you picked up from Tops? Be specific. What makes you think Tops would be a purveyor of fine food? I guess Fray Bentos is about your speed.

On the statistical sample of one Australian meat pie from Tops, you have concluded Australia has no culture, and is the sphincter of the world? That's quite an extrapolation. We certainly get enough people trying to emigrate to Australia, to get away from worse lives elsewhere. The wealthy Chinese and Indians love Australia. Has it occurred to you we would send our mass-produced food and wine overseas, and keep the best for ourselves?

If life in Russia is so great, why are alcoholism and crime spiking since the invasion? https://jamestown.org/program/russia-faces-spike-in-crime-and-alcoholism-as-war-nears-two-year-mark/#:~:text=Russia's war against Ukraine has,and mirroring Soviet-era trends.&text=The spike in alcoholism correlates,2023%2C the highest since 2011. You obviously have never had a steak and onion pie from Bertoldo's Bakery in Griffith.

Russia has already lost. An economy in ruins. 87 men to 100 women. You think any Western bank or foreign company will ever put capital or technology into Russia again? There's only China, which has its own problems. Any help it gives Russia will have a hefty price tag. You think Boeing and Airbus will say all is forgiven, we don't care you seized our aircraft? Dream on.