• Mantzy81@aussie.zoneOP
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    13 days ago

    The dumbest man in politics replaces the dumbest woman. ALP are the real winners here.

    Even as a lefty, I wish there was a functional opposition (though I wish the opposition was further left than ALP tbh).

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      13 days ago

      Even as a lefty, I wish there was a functional opposition (though I wish the opposition was further left than ALP tbh).

      Well, vote Green, preference Labor?

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      13 days ago

      Don’t be so oversure. Everyone seems to be concluding that this will result in the Tories becoming even more unelectable and in permanent ALP one-party rule until the Greens become the opposition or the sun goes nova, though seem to have forgotten that the equally dislikable gronk Dutton was cruising to victory until the realities of the second Trump administration derailed the electoral ambitions of the Trump-adjacent right (as they did in Canada).

      If Labor rests on the comfort of having no challengers and becomes shit and the public get sick of them, they will eventually vote for someone else whom the billionaire-owned media push, whether is whatever megachurch headbangers are jumping up and down under the Liberal Party banner, Hanson, Palmer, some actual neo-Nazis who have unconvincingly repudiated the whole master-race thing and strategically only wear long-sleeved shirts, or someone else. And then we’ll be back to where we were in the long Howard era, where it’s as common knowledge that The Strayans Are A Conservative Mob as it was before the election that Yeah Nah We’re Not Buying It.

      • finallymadeanaccount@lemmy.world
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        13 days ago

        I dunno. I’ve been getting pretty fucking sick of some of the shit Labor’s been up to - or not been up to - despite promises to the contrary. I’ve voted Labor for decades, but I won’t be next time. I won’t be voting Libs, Phon, Other Assorted Fuckwits, either, of course. Hopefully there’ll be a progressive Indy I can vote for. If not, the Greens.

        • maniacalmanicmania@aussie.zone
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          13 days ago

          I thought about editing it because it sounds super snarky towards @Mantzy81@aussie.zone which wasn’t my intent. I was trying to say we should treat the ALP as the opposition and never let anyone to the right of Labor close to power ever again.

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            11 days ago

            I read it as labor dont know how to govern and spend their time in power trying to outflank the lnp living rent free on the right

            That or they are hollow shills for the worst industries

            Or hell why not both

            Fun fact i live across the road from a labor mp and she and her husband are the worst white trash ive seen in a while They are living way out of their means only by virtue of their mp paycheck. I have so many stories what garbage people they are, living in literal garbage house surrounded by garbage

            Elected only bcs of morrrison hate, stands for nothing, fat trash