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• Ixoid@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Well actshually… Australia used to be run by right-wing nutjobs. The current mob in power are centrist nut jobs.

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  • Pregnenolone@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    The power behind the throne in Australia is still right wing but jobs and corporations

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    • Obi@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I feel like Australia and New Zealand is kind of like England and Scotland in that sense.

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      • Uncle_Bagel@midwest.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Australia is essentially just Texas out in a remote corner of the world. Just a bunch of mining and oil companies running a country.

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  • WiseMoth@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I am generally curious what you mean by centrist nut jobs. Isn’t the whole point of the centre to be somewhere in the middle and therefore the best of both worlds that everyone has something in common with?

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    • MotoAsh@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      There is no “best of both worlds” when one side wants you to be a fucking slave. Wake up, dummy.

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      • 9point6@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        How about just a little bit of servitude…?

        …wait

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  • PickTheStick@ttrpg.network ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I’m really curious (as I’m not living there) what the difference is. Is it just their religious tendencies? Or is it their feelings towards the nebulous “other” that defines them?

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    • Cypher@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      In Australia there are two major political parties, Labor and Liberals.

      Liberals does not mean what it does in the US, they are the right wing party, who are in a coalition with the Nationals party which is even further right wing.

      Labor is now centre-right as they kept running on centre-left policies and losing.

      The defining difference between the parties on the domestic front are that Labor supports and Liberals oppose

      1. Social safety nets

      2. Universal medical care

      3. Taxation of corporations

      On a foreign policy front they parties are broadly aligned however their stance on how to deal (interact) with China is vastly different, where Labor engages the Liberals attack China endlessly which resulted in a trade war which we’re still feeling the effects of.

      This is a very shallow examination of Australia’s political landscape but I’m not a political commentator.

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• abrasiveteapot@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I would like to point the RWNJs finally got voted out in Oz last year (federal and most states). Of course Murdoch and co. are working hard to reverse that, but semi sane leadership is in place for at least a year or two more.

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• cordlesslamp@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  You forgot Africa, South America, Canada, Greenland(?).

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  • rasmus@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Greenland is a part of Denmark so in the EU

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    • Bumblefumble@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Well yes, but actually no. Greenland is part of Denmark, which is in the EU, but Greenland is not in the EU.

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      • barsoap@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        But the Data Protection Authority is the same and they have quite similar laws, most likely completely compliant with EU regulations. Both because cultural connections as well as them wanting to position themselves as a location for internet infrastructure.

        Countries like Iceland straight-up implement GDPR because EEA. I’d say both could easily be convinced to become EU members by reforming the fisheries policy into something sane, both when it comes to size of quotas (the EU could pull an order of magnitude more fish out of the water if we’d let stocks recover to the levels from 100 years ago) and distribution of quotas – coasts should be considered (more) like mineral deposits: We’re not getting any Austrian silver either why are they getting our fish, if they want to fish they can buy quotas from a coastal state.

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    • LwL@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I also had to look this up but Greenland is not in the EU

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  • JJROKCZ@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Africa is still developing so data privacy is the least of their concerns. They’re focusing on creating stable corruption free governments that don’t undergo a coup or civil war every 5 years, and having a hell of a time with that.

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    • thecrotch@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Africa is an enormous continent, it contains 53 different countries and what you said is only true of a handful of them.

      I don’t blame you, I blame the eurocentric educational system and news media.

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    • Gabu@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      that don’t undergo a coup or civil war every 5 years, and having a hell of a time with that.

      If by “having a hell of a time with that” you mean “the US loves shutting down developing nations”, absolutely.

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      • JJROKCZ@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        There is no evidence the US has been involved in the last several coups, we’ve been supporting efforts at fair democratic processes and development in Africa for years.

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• phoenixz@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  China and Russia are dictatorships meaning they do whatever the fucknthey like and if you don’t like it you might become suicidal.

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• Ryumast3r@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  As with most things in the US, California has similar laws to the gdpr (though admittedly not as powerful), so a lot of websites are starting to change a bit in the US because of california.

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