Saw this at the supermarket right next to a $24 magazine called “ChatGPT: Start your own business!”
Things are getting bleak. Hopefully in the future the only time we see shit like this is in history books showing propaganda during the fall of capitalism
Looking at Declan Mansfield, it’s honestly shocking it took his comments on trans people to get him cancelled.
Albo is so fucking tame from my outside perspective, I have no idea why chuds make it seem like he’s the second coming of Stalin
It’s the same thing they did to Dan Andrews. He’s so shit
Conservatives in America literally call anyone 1° degree left of Hitler the Second Coming of Stalin.
Thankfully transphobia hasn’t taken off here the same way it has elsewhere. People have tried to campaign on it and only gotten resounding “meh” from the public.
I hope it stays that way but also I don’t know how much faith I have in the average australian
Dutton arguably lost the election over it. I’m not saying the Australian public have no heart for cruelty, but generally saying it out loud in public doesn’t get much traction. Not because of the content but because you look like a Try-hard.
It’s the one benefit of the average australian “not caring about politics” I think.
No one seems to like diversion from a very basic centrism. Maybe it’s more of that tall poppy syndrome
It’s the Australian wing of a British publication
They lost the war against emu, do they think they will win the war of defending their trade routes with China against China?
I lost my job because of Trans activism
Sounds to me like that’s a good thing
This raises so many questions. Why is there a solar panel on the one guy’s helmet? Why is there a jellyfish warning sign? Is it just not a real beach in Australia until there’s some kind of deadly wildlife involved? Is the guy on the right Hamas? Why is the gun flaccid but also drawn by someone who has never seen a gun in their entire life? Why are there two ships in the background with very specific slightly different silhouettes?
I need some Ben Garrison level labeling on this.
From left to right:
- PM Anthony Albanese is ‘weak’ on defense so his gundick is drooping. His nose is long because ohno pinnochio liar (could also be penile envy on behalf of the artist)
- Energy Minister Chris Bowen is all in on solar power (not ‘baseload gas’ supposedly or nuclear but lmao go ahead and frack beetaloo basin and bomb the bight that’s ‘green’) so he has a solar panel on his head
- Defence Minister Richard (Dick???) Marles visited Hawaii or something? When something else was happening? But it was to meet with USA and Japan, this is probably trying to get back at Labor for painting former PM Scott Morrison as negligent for having a beach holiday while we had a catastrophic bushfire season
- Foreign Minister Penny Wong is apparently Hamas now despite only putting forward ‘both sidesing’ rhetoric at best, so she has a kuffiyah
The ‘warning jellyfish’ is because Labor is ‘spineless’ (the joke is that the jellyfish are on the sand not in the water)
The ships on the horizon are Chinese ships that travelled down the East coast of Australia earlier this year and got everyone in a tizzy
The starfish on the sand are arseholes
Energy Minister Chris Bowen is all in on solar power (not ‘baseload gas’ supposedly or nuclear but lmao go ahead and frack beetaloo basin and bomb the bight that’s ‘green’) so he has a solar panel on his head
Because if there’s one thing that Australia is famous for lacking, it’s sunlight.
”Weak on defense”
lol, because
faces so many threats and all.If you listen to ASPI (which our pollies do) you’d believe Xi Jinping has already moved into Kirribilli House
This clears things up because I thought it was Newt Gingrich and Ruth Bader Ginsburg with two other people, which would be odd for an Australian publication to put on their cover.
They are very poor caricatures, the artist can’t draw for shit
Thank you, this clears up a bunch of totally impenetrable deep cuts which are also very stupid. I especially would never have gotten the jellyfish thing.
Unhappy to help please don’t make me do libreading again
Why is the gun flaccid but also drawn by someone who has never seen a gun in their entire life?
this actually gets more wild the longer I look at it, I’d say it looks like a water gun or laser tag gun or something except it has no trigger and his hand appears to be inside the stock
it’s a bullpup of some kind which is mildly sensible, i think they used the steyer AUG for a while. some guns do have a full hand thing instead of a regular trigger guard but that’s more common in cold places because you can fit a glove in there or in places where you’re going to hit people with the thing because you’re a fascist piece of shit.
bullpup is a decent explanation, although there’s no magazine for us to tell if it’s a bullpup or a normal gun with a big stock…
i think his arm is covering it, that thing is really giving me aug vibes and the grip doesn’t look like it takes a mag
We may have seventeen school shootings per week, but at least our dumbass chud editorial cartoonists can draw a damn gun
like sure, it’ll be some monstrous AK/AR hybrid, but at least it looks like a real gun
Bruh I live here and I’m just as confused
literal IPA/other cuck think-tank rag that spun off from the UK version ran by Andrew Neil
cannot believe it is actually printed
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