• MisterFrog@aussie.zone
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      Thank god we have preferential voting. It must be death being a leftist in the US and having to deal with the annoyance of criticising the obviously right wing Democrats and having “centrists” tell them not to because it’s helping the Republicans.

      Well, I have encountered Labor members like this, but luckily most people don’t because preferential voting exists.

      I’ll take Labor over the LNP and PHON, but heck, the Labor party is pretty shit too, and we need not support it

      • FistingEnthusiast
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        I vote for the greens, or the local equivalent every time

        I don’t always agree with them, and I miss DeNatali as their leader because he was actually scientifically literate, but they’re leagues better than the other parties, particularly in my home of Tasmania

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          Not close either, is it?

          Federally, they’re miles in front of Labor on every metric. They’re now beginning to show some foreign policy skill and spine in the way their Senators, particularly Shoebridge, are dealing with the Israel issue.

          They have good policies, good people and they know how to govern, unlike the claims that Labor PR, who are as piss weak as their party, want to push.

          I’ve been voting Green for 35 years. They’ve always been better than Labor.

    • minty@aussie.zone
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      Same but we don’t want a democrats situation where people have the legitimate point they’re both shit and therefore labor/liberal implode. of course liberals are suffering a well deserved implosion. Labor looks strong rn but there is potential to implode (look at vic labor) We should place pressure on labor to be much less evil (looking at you minns) so people want to vote for them rather than holding their nose while voting.

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        Labor and the Libs are far closer in Tassie than other places, but that’s a combo of Labor being worse and the Libs being marginally less awful than in the mainland

        Lotsa idiots down here though unfortunately

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      If Australians hadn’t been deliberately voting for the lesser evil for decades, maybe Australia wouldn’t be one of the bad guys?

      The duopoly appreciates your (illusion of) choice.