They need mandatory voting, at the very least
Comment on Daily Discussion Thread: 🌞🌞🌞 Wednesday, November 6, 2024
TinyBreak@aussie.zone 1 month ago
Jesus Christ I HATE watching this US news, but I cant look away! Some folks are already calling it and I think I might throw up. Thats not a joke or an exaggeration.
StudChud@aussie.zone 1 month ago
underwatermagpies@aussie.zone 1 month ago
I’m very thankful for our electoral system.
Salvo@aussie.zone 1 month ago
We just need to educate our electorate that we can”t “Throw away your vote” by preferencing a special-interest party above a Major party…
Bottom_racer@aussie.zone 1 month ago
Like my gran used to say (she thought she was upper class)… “I deserve two votes” even though she never read any policy. I once flippantly said maybe charlie (her doggo pug) should get one too and she was thrilled at the idea.
imoldgreeeg@aussie.zone 1 month ago
Yeah I’m starting to get a bad feeling about it all. About to turn off notifcations and try to bury in work for a few hours
Seagoon_@aussie.zone 1 month ago
I have friends in the US 😭
Dalek_Thal@aussie.zone 1 month ago
It’s looking real ugly over there. People are talking about a red mirage, but…that seems more and more unlikely the longer this goes on.
Dalek_Thal@aussie.zone 1 month ago
Just saw someone talk about a republican house, senate and presidency altogether as a good thing.
Compared it to Obama. Obama had no interest in dictatorship. Republicans meanwhile keep getting real excited about Hitler.
Gibsonhasafluffybutt@aussie.zone 1 month ago
It’s too early to tell
Nath@aussie.zone 1 month ago
It is too early to be sure, but it took four days in 2020 to get a result and things looked a lot more purple than they do this time around.
Gibsonhasafluffybutt@aussie.zone 1 month ago
I’m definitely concerned, but I don’t think I pay attention to it till tomorrow. It’s really wracking my nerves.
MeanElevator@aussie.zone 1 month ago
The fact that it’s this close speaks volumes of the US population.
Salvo@aussie.zone 1 month ago
It is also how biased the US electoral system is to maintain the Status Quo.
Every time the Republicans get in, the cripple democracy a little bit at a time. When the Democrats get in, they don’t do anything to roll back the damage.
It has finally come to the Endgame for US Democracy.
All we can do is make sure that our elected officials are aware that it is not something that we want in Australia.
MeanElevator@aussie.zone 1 month ago
Have a friend who studied world history throughout uni. His statement about this is ‘All empires must fall’. This is the fall.
USA has been going down the toilet for some time, and the turds getting bigger.
I’m gonna switch off the US crap and focus on our local (milder) shitshow.
Seagoon_@aussie.zone 1 month ago
thinking on it I am not surprised
for 100 years the press and influencers have been making race an issue as a distraction to class , money and opportunity issues ( to stop the working class uniting , and yes, race is an issue )
the working class have genuine grievances and want a voice, sadly trump says he is their voice ( even tho that’s a lie )
they don’t want to hear more race issues
we need unity
MeanElevator@aussie.zone 1 month ago
I don’t disagree, but the GOP and Trump have not been the voice of the working class. The fact that enough people have been convinced that they are, is just sad.
This election was also about women issues, and that fell on deaf ears.
The media has a lot of responsibility for this shit show.
Seagoon_@aussie.zone 1 month ago
but fairness!! S/
the press are either cowards or love the money the drama of trump brings
in the meantime the independent voices in the media are getting shut down
just look at the drama of trying to bring this sub on lemmy under “control”