Sorry mate, you seem to be blaming voters for the Greens loss.

Every party faces the same paradigm, they need to promulgate their policies, and convince voters they are capable of implementing them.

All parties have policies phrased in such a way as to be appealing, but there’s often a great disparity between the policy and the practice.

Nonsense. Every party thinks they had “a way better plan”. Voters selected the plan they thought was the best.

I’m not sure that’s the right message to take away from what’s happened.

Rejecting Dutton because he was stoking the culture war from the conservative end, does not mean that the electorate will embrace a leader who stokes the culture war from the progressive end.

For example, the voice to parliament was part of the culture war, and it failed spectacularly for Labor. They were lucky to recover really.

That’s not to say the electorate doesn’t want trans rights, but voters do want someone who’s going to address the bread and butter problems they’re facing.

I’ll spell it out for you mate.

Scroll past the comments that don’t interest you. That’s it. You don’t need to reply to every comment that you don’t find engaging.

If only there was some way to determine which content was shown on your device.

Like when there’s too much content to show at once, maybe it could be organised in a tall “page” and you could jump around to read different comments.

Although it would be tall enough it’s more like a scroll I guess. You could “zoom” up or down the scroll and read those comments you found interesting or engaging.

Actually, maybe you could get users to promote those comments they found most interesting and demote others.

It’s a shame nothing like this exists.

Qualification: I’ve only seen it a handful of times in the last few days.

Assertion: Still very irritating.

If that were true, why has my mild criticism been met with such derision?

Greta undermined the dems in the US campaign. Perhaps not enough to cost them the election, but not very bright regardless.

Given everything that has happened in the last few months that’s pretty shameful.

If everyone on lemmy thinks you’re an asshole…

Which US leader do you think Palestinians preferred?

young Australian men do not seem to be pulling hard right

I think this is true. Of course there are some who are, but there are fewer than in the US. There is much less “machismo” in Australian culture, there’s still masculinity but it’s focused on sport, cars, outdoor stuff like fishing and camping. It’s much less concerned with power, control, or force.

“minor” political parties are more popular and feasible than in the US.

Yes, and yes it’s because of ranked choice voting. In the recent election there were a lot of seats where Labor (center left) and Liberal (center right) received similar numbers of votes, but then a third candidate from the greens (further left) had an almost equal number of the primary vote. When those voters second preferences are counted enough of them voted center left to push them over the line.

This happens with independent candidates also, who have put on a very impressive show in the most recent election. I’m a bit vague on this part but candidates who won a significant number of votes this time round will receive financial support from the Australian Electoral Commission for their campaign next time.

your right wing parties risk losing their identity

Yeah so our Liberal (center right) party has been whingeing a lot about this. They’re saying they have the further right parties stealing votes from them, and Labor on the center right.

This is exactly the same for Labor (center left) because they have Liberal on their right and the Greens on their left.

That’s politics.

A phrase that’s been coming up a lot in the last 24 hours is that the Liberal party should return to their roots of being “fiscally dry”. That is their identity. Lower taxes, fewer services, small government. They got lost in the weeds trying to get elected on a Trump platform which thankfully the Australian people have rejected.

Are you implying that a vote for the democrats is tantamount to making peace with slavers?

Maybe take a moment to reflect on the last several months. The republicans are implementing a new slave class. What have you done to stop them?

How do you propose achieving peace in the Israel / Palestine conflict?

Harris.

I was just listening to something that said the liberal seat losses were predominantly the moderates. The hard-line conservatives fared better, so you might be right.

Thanks. That’s helpful.

IDK anything about Canadian politics.

Didn’t this guy just preside over a pretty epic loss? Why does his party still want him?

Similar thing just happened here in Australia. Leader of the party lost his seat. Even if he hadn’t he would probably resign in shame because he’s really made a mess of things.

Of course its political. A political solution is required in order to end the violence.

She was pushing the both sides narrative during the US campaign.

Why has everyone started saying “counterpoint” all of a sudden. Every comment is a counterpoint.

Counterpoint. Hopefully people aren’t idiots that upvote sensational headlines.

Counterpoint. Everything I already said.

Counterpoint. You could make your own community where people sensationalise headlines.