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A 27 year old inner city art student has revealed her horror at the meeting between Albo and Trump earlier this week.

Sofia Hurley, the daughter of a magistrate judge and a well-known art dealer, has lived in her city’s once working-class inner suburbs ever since her parents bought the place as an investment.

She now insists that Prime Minister Albanese has “let the country down in a big way.” [...]

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[–] jaek@lemmy.world 10 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

Implying she's financially illiterate, when she made the only good financial decision Australians under 40 can make -- having rich parents.

I'm sure all of the BuzzFeed tier writers at betoota are real working class Heroes with irreproachable financial acumen.

[–] Eyekaytee@aussie.zone 1 points 4 months ago

Implying she’s financially illiterate, when she made the only good financial decision Australians under 40 can make – having rich parents.

You want under 30, I'm 38 and doing fine

[–] Ilandar@lemmy.today 10 points 4 months ago

Betoota Advocate being employed by Labor makes this less funny than it otherwise would be.

[–] naught101@lemmy.world 8 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Solid miss on this one.. Would have been more effective to just ignore it

[–] MHLoppy2@aussie.zone 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

¯\_(ツ)_/¯ I submit ones that I find funny, and this one I did. My favorite (Australian-themed) satire of the year is still this one because I enjoy how absurd it was, but that was another one that was less popular (albeit less controversial in the voting).

[–] naught101@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago

Sorry, I was critiquing Betoota, not you

[–] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 5 points 4 months ago

"Hitler only wants to rebuild Germany, they'd be a fool not to seek good relations with him"

The nerve to call someone an illiterate anything while making that kind of argument

[–] spiffmeister@aussie.zone 5 points 4 months ago

There's a bit too much "I actually believe all of this but I'll write it like it's a joke" for this to be funny, reads like conservative humour.