Current Events > 2.7 million hectares have been burned to the ground in Australia

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https://www.msn.com/en-au/news/australia/alarming-map-shows-the-extent-of-devastating-bushfires -surrounding-sydney-that-have-now-burnt-through-27-million-hectares-of-land/ar-AAK1rTh

What's our Prime Minister doing?

Well, to begin with, he argued against paying volunteer firefighters for their extraordinary service during our worst bushfires ever. Why? Because "they want to be there".

He's consistently downplayed climate change, recently lowballing it as "one of many reasons for the bushfires". Australia's fire marshals have countered back with "most of those many reasons tie back into climate change".

Our fire services have been receiving pay cut after pay cut under the Liberal National coalition government, and rather than pledge more support to our firefighters, Scott Morrison has resorted to damage control to save his own skin and the skin of his government. He would gladly throw our nation's firefighters under the bus and call them names if it means he can avoid any wrongdoing, even as they work around the clock trying to save entire communities from being burned to the ground.

A fun fact to keep in mind while reading the above: Australia's firefighters have spent more time this year battling bushfires than our politicians have spent in parliament. The same people cutting funding to fire services and talking themselves up as hot shit while they do it have served the Australian people for less time this year than the brave men and women battling bushfires.

We've know for months that our nation's fire marshals came to the government as far back as 3 years ago with bush fire warnings, promising catastrophic destruction if serious action isn't taken. Every year after these projections were shared with the government, the government has been cutting their funding anyway. And now the piper's piping, and all they can do is stand around with their dicks in their hands and try to look good while the do it.

The government refuses to come to the table on a national fire safety summit. We have 29 fire marshals willing to convene and share their views on Australia's worst bushfires in a century, pool knowledge and resources to further fight it, and offer support to our nation as our east coast burns. Our nation's fire marshals are preparing to meet independently of the government come March, showing more united leadership than our country over the past 8 years. Not because the government hasn't been invited - because they refuse to spend time or money listening to the people working their asses off to fight these fires and prevent even more permanent damage to this nation.

And the kicker on top - while our communities go up in clouds of ash and smoke, as dozens of people and thousands of animals roast to death in these fires, that stocky, balding prick Scott Morrison isn't even in Australia. He's on vacation in Hawaii.

These bushfires are one of the biggest national emergencies of this decade. And the shit-for-brains leader of my country can't be fucked sticking around to even offer some lip service, after his party spent years ignoring the lead-up to this crisis and actively sabotaging the services who could have helped us most.While our country burns, he feels it's appropriate to leave the country and enjoy some down time in fucking Maui.

There are some strong swears I wish GameFAQs would replace with those asterisks instead of banning outright, because I would love to level them at the squat, bald, shit-eating leader of my nation for the way he and his ilk have sold my nation's people down the river. He's not offering any comfort, he's not making any grand statements of solidarity, he's embarked on a PR roadshow for his dogshit political party before leaving Australians to burn to death along with their communities. The sick fuck is probably sipping vodka out of a hollowed out pineapple on the beach.

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https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=jVe1aVJNEus

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Trump and all of the other crazy righties are trying to destroy the Earth

The koalas are done fucking around.

Questionmarktarius posted...

The koalas are done fucking around.

At one of our national parks, over 350 koalas were killed in one fire, in one day.

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Did anyone notice? Probably not.

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MrMallard posted...

Liberal National coalition government

liberals at it again

Goodbye Australia.

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Kaiganeer posted...

liberals at it again

the Liberal party is our conservative party, and they've banded with the National party who's further right than they are. Our liberal party is called the Labor party, with the Greens being their further-left equivalent to the Nationals.

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