The election thread - Two middle-late aged white men trying to be blokey and convincing..., same old shit, FFS.

Who will you vote for?

  • Liberals

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Labor

    Votes: 21 31.8%

  • Nationals

    Votes: 1 1.5%

  • Greens

    Votes: 21 31.8%

  • Independant

    Votes: 15 22.7%

  • The Clive Palmer shit show

    Votes: 4 6.1%

  • Shooters and Fishers Party

    Votes: 1 1.5%

  • One Nation

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Donkey/Invalid vote

    Votes: 3 4.5%
  • Total voters
    66
silentbutdeadly

silentbutdeadly

has some good things to say
Comic Book Guy said:
Yes, yes you are.

More importantly, was she a minister?o_O
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She was the Environment Minister. That job now belongs to Susanne Ley. But the responsibility for hot air and other emissions goes to the Energy Minister, Angus Taylor. Haakon will be pleased to have that weight off his mind #notreally
 
Haakon

Haakon

has an accommodating arse
First us, then India and now the EU taking another hard right turn... This is the way its gone in recent centuries in the lead up to major conflicts.

It’s not looking good for humanity these days.
 
Binaural

Binaural

Eats Squid
Haakon said:
First us, then India and now the EU taking another hard right turn... This is the way its gone in recent centuries in the lead up to major conflicts.

It’s not looking good for humanity these days.
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Eh? Early indications looking like the opposite, populists significantly underperforming. My German wife was telling me that the Greens are now the second-biggest party at the EU level. They are more centrist than the Australian version, to be sure. So not really a hard right turn as far as I can see.
 
Haakon

Haakon

has an accommodating arse
Binaural said:
Eh? Early indications looking like the opposite, populists significantly underperforming. My German wife was telling me that the Greens are now the second-biggest party at the EU level. They are more centrist than the Australian version, to be sure. So not really a hard right turn as far as I can see.
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It’s sorta both from what I can tell. Centrist parties are the main losers. Marine le Pen is doing well in france...

Germany is not all roses. Antisematic attacks are on the up and there’s a something of a movement to “reclaim” their nationalist tendencies. Had some super uncomfortable conversations with 20 somethings in Berlin last time I was there ...
 
Nambra

Nambra

Definitely should have gone to specsavers
That's how I broadly understood it too @Haakon. I thought Antisemitism was prejudice toward Jews by definition; you're referring to anti-Islamic sentiment in the German context?
 
pink poodle

pink poodle

気が狂っている男
Nambra said:
That's how I broadly understood it too @Haakon. I thought Antisemitism was prejudice toward Jews by definition; you're referring to anti-Islamic sentiment in the German context?
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Semites/Sometimes people are not exclusively Jewish. It's about language roots (I had to look that bit up, I thought it was about descending geographically from the middle east) rather than religion. There are plenty of Muslims that are not of Semitic ancestory.

Nationalism seems to be on the rise in a lot of places, coupled with a fear of multiculturalism and sharing.
 
johnny

johnny

I'll tells ya!
Staff member
Haakon said:
First us, then India and now the EU taking another hard right turn... This is the way its gone in recent centuries in the lead up to major conflicts.

It’s not looking good for humanity these days.
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India re-elected the BJP. The Hindu Nationalists have been there for a while already.
 
Haakon

Haakon

has an accommodating arse
Nambra said:
That's how I broadly understood it too @Haakon. I thought Antisemitism was prejudice toward Jews by definition; you're referring to anti-Islamic sentiment in the German context?
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Nope, good old fashioned antisematism against Jews, with a rise in directed violence.
 
Nambra

Nambra

Definitely should have gone to specsavers
Haakon said:
Nope, good old fashioned antisematism against Jews, with a rise in directed violence.
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You’re quite right it seems, the Jews are copping it from both home grown fascists as well as the imported Muslim extremists.

Not that I’m favouring the NY Times but this 2017 write up on Gotz Kubitschek is revealing. Immigration seems to have given rise to nationalist movements across Europe (and elsewhere) who fear cultural dilution.

Thanks for highlighting this - I didn’t realise the extent of these new right movements.
 
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