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Farrer presents One Nation as a genuine electoral threat rather than just a protest - ABC News (www.abc.net.au)

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[–] tombruzzo@aussie.zone 11 points 2 months ago

In a way this isn't surprising. I'm from Griffith, which wasn't originally part of Farrer but got brought into the seat a couple of years ago. We suddenly went from having a representative people seemed OK with to being part of one of the largest electorates in the state with the typical setup of an MP in Sussan Ley who had been there for years that did nothing for the place but never got voted out.

Sussan Ley was health minister for a bit, then ended up leading the party out of default through lack of any better option.

It was never going to go Labor because it never had been, and they weren't given the option. And it's not like anyone else gave them a compelling choice to vote for them who would realistically get in.

Combine this with the media telling everyone how One Nation is ascending and your right wing brain worm algorithms and it's no surprise this happened. Are commentators really worried, or will this make the news a lot more intere see ting for them in the lead up to the next few elections?

[–] FistingEnthusiast@lemmy.world 7 points 2 months ago

Fucking hicks

They reinforce the stereotype at every turn, then they complain about their betters judging them and finding them wanting

[–] kingofras@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Look it’s 10 years since 2016, Australia is overdue to follow the same footsteps. Pauline doesn’t even have to change the acronym.

Eventually 2 party stupidity always leads to this. And Australia is a wealthy country with a high living standard, so leaches like her and her ilk can extract a lot of wealth before any will even notice.

I just wonder if Palmer will be picked as minister of education or something. Like what’s Pauline’s RFK Jr pick?

[–] stylusmobilus@aussie.zone 4 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

The broad concern for me is how much damage Rineharts influence and funding is doing.

This is a problem to be honest. The entire mainstream media is owned and in lockstep. There’s a continual attack on the left and anything social and it’s all one way as Tracy Westerman commented today. The main social media sites are being botted and paid trolled to the shithouse, they’re fucking everywhere. It’s all Rinehart and her money plus Murdoch and Stokes as well.

Labor is too pissweak to anything about it. They have an absolute majority and they won’t pass anything that stops or arrests this, like legislation which breaks up media ownership or ensures some integrity. They’re giving away money to developers for infrastructure, ignoring the public on a gas tax, cutting NDIS and the campaign Rinehart been paying for since the Voice is just fucking everything because everyone’s terrified of the left when they are the only ones fighting for us.

Labor’s the problem; if they did the two or three things needed, like public housing access fixes, instituted that gas tax and didn’t cut the NDIS they wouldn’t have half the issues they’re having now.

[–] kingofras@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

It’s much deeper than that. Labor isn’t anymore the problem than the Democrats are. It’s just mega easy for an oligarch to puppeteer whatever the plebs vote into power. Albo was always a spineless weasel, as was Dutton going to be. Dutton was going to get the country down the drain faster, but we’ll get there with 1 or 2 more labor terms too.

The problem is human nature. We have it só good, we are so immensely Comfortably Numb™, and historically it takes a fair bit of hunger, war and disease before that numbness wear off and for good people to get off their ass and stop doing nothing.

Considering how poor the leadership of Australia has been for nearly 2 decades, it’s remarkable how it’s still has relatively few social problems, compared to other similar countries.

[–] hanrahan@piefed.social 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

quite the level of stupid

[–] shirro@aussie.zone 1 points 2 months ago

Agreed but lots of dumbarses think we live in a two party system and when the Libs disappeared from their feeds the "never-labor" crowd could only see one choice. Blame the liberal party for shitting the bed.

[–] Doorknob@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Let's just see how long he waits before he ditches PHON, now they've served their purpose for him

[–] FistingEnthusiast@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

That's everyone's prediction!

[–] auzy1@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

It's one seat.

They completely lost SA. The only thing that has changed in 30 years is that Pauline has started pretending she's a successful politician

We have preferential voting and most people will still put her close to last

Most of us hate Trump and Gina. Just because its hair is orange instead of its face doesn't mean we'll be fooled

ON supporters just tend to be vocal idiots

A good thought experiment is the covid vaccine. Based on social media, you'd think we were all worried about it. However, if you then click on their profile, it's almost always a car, truck, guns or horse.. And those seem to be the communities causing 99% of the noise. Even if we assume some people lied about the vaccine, it's still likely 9/10 people with it

[–] FistingEnthusiast@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

Empty vessels make the most noise, that's for sure

[+] Walk_blesseD@piefed.blahaj.zone -6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

These people should be knelt over shallow graves (I'll leave what happens next to your imagination)

[–] stylusmobilus@aussie.zone 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

This is Australia dude. You want to behave like a Zionist, on your bike sunshine

[–] Walk_blesseD@piefed.blahaj.zone 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Are you agreeing with me or with the one nation dickheads?

[–] stylusmobilus@aussie.zone 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I don’t ever agree with One Nation or their voters but advocating for bending them over shallow graves is dogshit.

That’s the type of shit their extremists advocate for.

[–] Walk_blesseD@piefed.blahaj.zone 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Killing nazis is community defence 🤷‍♀️

[–] stylusmobilus@aussie.zone 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Most of these voters aren’t Nazis, they’re misguided, stupid people who listen to the shit they see on Stefanovics blog or Natalie Barrs show in the morning.

Rural people have long been painfully conservative. Doesn’t make them Nazis.

[–] Walk_blesseD@piefed.blahaj.zone 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

We have a word for people who voted for the NSDAP not because of an informed commitment to their ideological tenets but because they were gullible racist and xenophobic troglodytes—we call them "nazis."

And yeah, I live in rural Australia, I know most ruroids are concavebrained and suited to nothing more intellectually demanding than a peasant lifestyle. It's a shame that we live under a political system in which these ghouls get the same amount of influence as people who actually want to improve society somewhat.

[–] stylusmobilus@aussie.zone 2 points 2 months ago

Well I’m fuckin glad we live under one that doesn’t allow and frowns upon beheading of even these rural people. You’re not the only one who grew up among them; I’m well aware of what views some hold.

Still, we are not in the business of beheading cunts over shallow graves regardless of how deep their interpretation of Nazism is. In fact it reads like some Che Guevara revolutionary shit from a teenager and not something you’d expect from someone who claims to have lived in the bush. I hated it too, dude.