If I start taking birth control pills does this mean I get to be Prime Minister now?
― They'll be dancing in the streets of Košice tonight (King Boy Pato), Tuesday, 29 June 2010 10:20 (thirteen years ago) link
Thanks to King Boy Potato
http://www.smh.com.au/national/gillard-against-gay-marriage-20100630-zkcj.html
Dozy fucken bitch.
― bettina arnderpandts (Autumn Almanac), Wednesday, 30 June 2010 02:11 (thirteen years ago) link
See now, I dont read her saying "I'm against gay marriage" in that article, seems a bit shit stirry to me. Fucking papers.
― C.R.E.P.E (Trayce), Wednesday, 30 June 2010 02:28 (thirteen years ago) link
Labor policy on gay marriage will remain the same under her prime ministership, Ms Gillard told Austereo show today.
"We believe the marriage act is appropriate in its current form, that is recognising that marriage is between a man and a woman, but we have as a government taken steps to equalise treatment for gay couples," Ms Gillard said.
Asked if that was also her personal view, Ms Gillard said it was.
= against
― bettina arnderpandts (Autumn Almanac), Wednesday, 30 June 2010 02:35 (thirteen years ago) link
abolish marriage for heteros imo, this is a valuable step towards equality
― how much can a koala ˁ˚ᴥ˚ˀ (sic), Wednesday, 30 June 2010 02:38 (thirteen years ago) link
^^
― you're the fucking treasurer (electricsound), Wednesday, 30 June 2010 03:50 (thirteen years ago) link
Abortions for some, tiny Australian flags for others!
― C.R.E.P.E (Trayce), Wednesday, 30 June 2010 04:02 (thirteen years ago) link
http://yfrog.com/0g96erj
― bettina arnderpandts (Autumn Almanac), Tuesday, 6 July 2010 09:12 (thirteen years ago) link
(thanks to mr bidness)
― bettina arnderpandts (Autumn Almanac), Tuesday, 6 July 2010 09:13 (thirteen years ago) link
...
― king solomon and the surrealists (electricsound), Tuesday, 6 July 2010 09:17 (thirteen years ago) link
erection erection erection erection erectnio erecirtonn eredcoifn
― bettina arnderpandts (Autumn Almanac), Saturday, 17 July 2010 00:27 (thirteen years ago) link
keating will shit this in btw
― bettina arnderpandts (Autumn Almanac), Saturday, 17 July 2010 00:28 (thirteen years ago) link
i better update the address on my enrolment innit
― iPrincess 2.0 (electricsound), Saturday, 17 July 2010 00:42 (thirteen years ago) link
Loving various TV stations insinuating the announcement is late because the PM and the G-G are having girlie-talk.
― bettina arnderpandts (Autumn Almanac), Saturday, 17 July 2010 01:19 (thirteen years ago) link
Talk about your periods here, girls: Better Dead Than Redhead: the 2010 Australian Federal Election thread
― "The Dad" from Gay Dad (King Boy Pato), Saturday, 17 July 2010 01:25 (thirteen years ago) link
Grim.
To give you some idea of how utterly vicious the JobSeeker cut is: rent eats up a full 65% of my reduced payment leaving me with just $130 per week for bills and food. This is what today looks like for millions of people— Joshua Badge (@joshuabadge) September 25, 2020
― xyzzzz__, Friday, 25 September 2020 09:36 (three years ago) link
Our labor ‘opposition’ makes starmer look like corbyn, but then we have Fitzgibbon to make Albo look less than a complete collaborator.
― American Fear of Scampos (Ed), Friday, 25 September 2020 20:39 (three years ago) link
Feel I need a safe space to experience dread
My wholly unverifiable prediction is that people sharing amusingly-captioned photos of Morrison crash-tackling an 8 yr-old are somehow going to swing the election for the Coalition by playing into some kind of Buffoon Daddy image that the inhabitants of this dipshit colony secretly crave
My other prediction is that the UAP are going to be a much more potent electoral force than anyone is anticipating
Would be glad to be proven wrong on these, maybe 13 years of this shit has trained me to reject any optimistic scenario (I mean to be fair the best possible outcome is an ultra-milquetoast Labor govt, pretty hard to get super excited about this)
― lemmy incaution (emsworth), Thursday, 19 May 2022 00:01 (one year ago) link
Agreed on all, except UAP are a joke even to their constituency. But the "shy tory" vote and the invisible hand of the Boomers will keep the LNP in power for another decade I think.
The ALP did well to avoid their fatal hubris when ahead in the polls, but they've become so centrist there is literally no positive reason to vote for them other than "less worse than the Coalition". There's nothing to believe in any more in Australian politics, just a choice between parties offering the same things while one group openly enrich their power base while the others clutch their pearls.
― assert (matttkkkk), Thursday, 19 May 2022 00:50 (one year ago) link
UAP are 100% clown car shit for sure, but I actually think their dopey messaging is gonna translate to a reasonable anti-major party protest vote. Precisely on account of that Lab/LNP death spiral you mention.
I actually thought Labor went into the last election with a non-terrible policy offering, and they were eviscerated by boomer self-interest, News Ltd, right-centrist media bias generally and Shorten's uncanny lack of human qualities. So I guess I understand their timidity this time. But they are gonna get smashed again.
― lemmy incaution (emsworth), Thursday, 19 May 2022 01:39 (one year ago) link
This is beginning to feel pretty grim. It does feel like the Coalition is staging a comeback and it might come down to whether some of the teal independents can win and we end up with a hung parliament.
― Zelda Zonk, Thursday, 19 May 2022 01:44 (one year ago) link
I find it helpful to expect the worst
― assert (matttkkkk), Thursday, 19 May 2022 02:08 (one year ago) link
It’s what both major parties’ policies are offering, so
― Yul Brynner film festival on Channel 48... (sic), Thursday, 19 May 2022 02:10 (one year ago) link
Bit in the Guardian this morning saying 25% (!!!) of early voters exit polled in Wentworth (fuckin WENTWORTH!!) copping to voting UAP. That may be unscientific data but my dread is empirically real.
― lemmy incaution (emsworth), Thursday, 19 May 2022 20:02 (one year ago) link
sharma reported “shook”
― Yul Brynner film festival on Channel 48... (sic), Thursday, 19 May 2022 22:18 (one year ago) link
Yeah, the UAP is going to get a lot more votes than the polls say. But I have a hard time thinking they'll get 25% in Wentworth! I live on the edge of that electorate, and it's basically evenly split between rich people who will reliably vote Liberal no matter what, and young professionals who will vote all over the spectrum, but are hardly naturals for a populist conspiracy theorist party. But who knows anymore.
― Zelda Zonk, Thursday, 19 May 2022 23:31 (one year ago) link
Appalling automated text message I just received from Clive Palmer’s party. Brazen Trumpian lies like this one should not be part of our political discourse. Shameful attempt to scare voters pic.twitter.com/6kodfSx1cF— Lily D'Ambrosio MP (@LilyDAmbrosioMP) May 20, 2022
Yeah this sucks but if the major parties were committed to truth in political communication they would make it illegal to lie like this. But they’re not, so they don’t. https://t.co/ULbIJdyzc2— Tim (non-spooky, non-Halloween version) (@burgotastic) May 20, 2022
― Yul Brynner film festival on Channel 48... (sic), Friday, 20 May 2022 07:36 (one year ago) link
idk i am feeling more optimistic than most of you, signs of a labor victory look much better than 2019's signs were and even if the same sort of polling error is repeated that just gets into likely labor minority territory (& at the very least some of the problems with the polls last time have been fixed). still possible that things go very wrong but it doesn't seem overly likely, things aren't too close on paper at least. labor getting 52-53 TPP and somewhere around 80 seats seems pretty realistic, at least i hope
i am not optimistic about labor being very good at all but there is at least the possibility of them being pushed to the left a little by the greens (who they will necessarily need to rely on in the senate to do anything that isn't terrible) & they're absolutely an improvement over the coalition at least. don't think they're quite as useless as say, uk labour or the us democrats yet
also feel reasonably optimistic about the prospect of the greens finally winning another house seat or two, things seem quite good for their chances in a few seats, especially in some of the brisbane seats, so hopefully they'll be able to scrape a victory together somewhere at least
― ufo, Friday, 20 May 2022 09:06 (one year ago) link
thanks UFO, this country has trained me to live without hope, but I hope you’re right
― lemmy incaution (emsworth), Friday, 20 May 2022 09:56 (one year ago) link
Final two polls both have it 53-47. I am daring to hope...
― Zelda Zonk, Friday, 20 May 2022 10:44 (one year ago) link
I’m not. But good luck Straya.
― assert (matttkkkk), Friday, 20 May 2022 13:46 (one year ago) link
today has been very very long and slow
― estela, Saturday, 21 May 2022 07:13 (one year ago) link
Ok bracing for a golden shower of UAP primary votes
― lemmy incaution (emsworth), Saturday, 21 May 2022 08:34 (one year ago) link
Have been enjoying the endless minutes of Lib, Nat and ALP numpties on the ABC all explaining how a vote for anyone not affiliated with a party formed before the end of WW2 is a vote for chaos and the end of civilisation.
― Nag! Nag! Nag!, Saturday, 21 May 2022 08:59 (one year ago) link
No landslide for Labor, that's for sure
― Zelda Zonk, Saturday, 21 May 2022 09:46 (one year ago) link
Brisbane *is* rather interesting. ufo otm yesterday!
― Nag! Nag! Nag!, Saturday, 21 May 2022 10:19 (one year ago) link
Labor minority govt with Greens support, if that's how it pans out, is probably the best result
― Zelda Zonk, Saturday, 21 May 2022 10:41 (one year ago) link
sickos_yes.jpg
― Yul Brynner film festival on Channel 48... (sic), Saturday, 21 May 2022 11:34 (one year ago) link
Albo in, Scummo out, happy for Aussies.Albanese describes himself as "half-Italian and half-Irish" and a "non-practicising Catholic". He is also a music fan who reportedly once went to a Pogues gig in a Pixies shirt and intervened as Transport Minister to save a Dolly Parton tour from bureaucratic red tape. In 2013, he co-hosted a pre-election special of music program Rage and his song selection included the Pixies and Pogues alongside the Smiths, the Triffids, PJ Harvey, Hunters & Collectors and Joy Division.
Time for DJ Albo! #AusVotes22 pic.twitter.com/uKHOFnoCYo— Sam Menhennet (@sammenhennet) May 21, 2022
― gyac, Saturday, 21 May 2022 12:21 (one year ago) link
sentiment taken as intended but afraid I had to FP you
― Yul Brynner film festival on Channel 48... (sic), Saturday, 21 May 2022 12:46 (one year ago) link
Cautious phew
― lemmy incaution (emsworth), Saturday, 21 May 2022 12:51 (one year ago) link
Feeling pretty good! Greens have done well, Labor won't be able to ignore them. Frydenberg losing is pretty sweet.
― Zelda Zonk, Saturday, 21 May 2022 13:16 (one year ago) link
Dutton’s “I am your cuddly Liberal Daddy” repositioning speech was super gross
Very glad that my worst imaginings re auspol shitshow failed to materialise - strong Green vote unexpected surprise - realise I know not much about the teal independents other than at least one of them is an ex-Lib - not sure what the implications are if a bunch of them get elected?
― lemmy incaution (emsworth), Saturday, 21 May 2022 13:32 (one year ago) link
this is… quite a good result all round?
― Pre-Raphaelite Brah (King Boy Pato), Saturday, 21 May 2022 14:30 (one year ago) link
This guy scraping by to keep his seat would be a win for nominitive determinism.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ian_Goodenough
― Peter Greenaway's Fleetwood Mac (S-), Saturday, 21 May 2022 16:33 (one year ago) link
I know not much about the teal independents other than at least one of them is an ex-Lib - not sure what the implications are if a bunch of them get elected?
they're a mixed bag, some are very much tree tories who would happily fit into the moderate wing of the liberals if they didn't believe that was a dead end, some are fairly progressive on a lot of things and even to the left of labor on many issues but usually more conservative on economic issues
their overall influence will likely be fairly limited as labor will necessarily require the greens' support to pass anything in the senate & likely won't need anything more than the greens' support in the house at most (they could still end up with a majority but minority seems more likely), so the teals shouldn't have any ability to block anything & if labor passes something that they support but the greens don't, it'll have trouble getting through the senate
― ufo, Saturday, 21 May 2022 23:57 (one year ago) link
this is pretty fantastic result, the worst result for the liberals in at least 40 years which will put them in existential crisis territory, and unexpectedly great for the greens (the greens have gained at least 2 seats and it could be up to 5, though some of those are rather unlikely) while also teaching labor a lesson or too (no, people weren't inspired by your small target and parachuting terrible candidates like keneally who have no community backing into "safe" seats can horribly backfire)
the one risk is labor gets very bitter about the greens 'costing' them a majority (if that's how it works out) and refuses to negotiate on issues much at all & parliament becomes horribly dysfunctional. really just have to hope that they'll be pragmatic enough.
― ufo, Sunday, 22 May 2022 00:03 (one year ago) link
Yep, agree this is a pretty great result. I think Albo's instincts will veer towards the pragmatic re the Greens. But he'll worry about the optics (cue Coalition talking points about Bandt the puppet master) and feel the need to beat his chest and invent confrontations.
― Zelda Zonk, Sunday, 22 May 2022 00:36 (one year ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/QpWJlzK.jpg
― Yul Brynner film festival on Channel 48... (sic), Sunday, 22 May 2022 05:45 (one year ago) link
Amazing number of pissy Lib/Nat takes saying that the party had drifted too far to the left (!!) - like, I kinda get that this is jostling for control of the post-loss narrative but it’s also utterly demented.
― lemmy incaution (emsworth), Sunday, 22 May 2022 06:13 (one year ago) link