ziltoid101
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- Comment on Australian government backs US strikes on Iran but urges ‘peaceful settlement from here’ 7 hours ago:
“We show outright support for the escalation of this conflict, but can we have peace pls?”
- Comment on PM breaks silence to back US military strikes on Iran 7 hours ago:
At least when LNP are in power I don’t get my hopes up for a sane response to anything… I was hoping the spinelessness of the ALP was enough to at least keep any statement neutral, pretty pathetic to see them outright supporting the US.
- Comment on Israel carries out strikes on Iran 1 week ago:
Cartoonishly evil at this point
- Comment on Minecraft 1.0 comes out 2 weeks ago:
Went on to play a few months ago with mates, all 4 of us had accounts deleted. Wtf, why wasn’t it an automatic process…
- Comment on What went wrong for the Greens in the Australian election? 2 weeks ago:
I’ve seen a lot of analysis and discussion for a very small percentage change in a single election. If I were the Greens, I’d definitely be reviewing policy and protocol because the party should be steadily growing rather than stagnating. But as a single data point I probably wouldn’t make any radical changes unless subsequent elections also produce disappointing results.
A lot of their stagnating performance is probably quite superficial. I’m reasonably fond of the Greens, but I think Bandt (and MCM too tbh) were probably a bit grating to the general public - and I think a lot of us have realised that with Bandt’s mediocre concession speech. I feel like a decade (or more) ago it was a lot ‘cooler’ to like the Greens, when they essentially branded themselves as “the science party”. They still have a lot of these policies, but it feels like their image in 2025 is a lot more… I don’t quite know how to put a finger on it… rage-batey?
Australian voters emphatically rejected Dutton’s culture war bullshit, but Greens need to not be careful to get caught on the other side of the culture war battle and face similar rejection…
- Comment on What went wrong for the Greens in the Australian election? 2 weeks ago:
There is definitely that perception of ‘being too oppositional’ unfortunately, even though the stats show they support Labor policy like over 90% of the time. Any reasonably politically engaged person will tell you that it’s not the job of the senate crossbench to pass policy that isn’t within their elected platform, although I empathise Labor is kinda between a rock and a hard place on that front (but that’s the cost of being such a big tent catch-all centre party imo).
A few years ago I had a bit of respect for Labor for their political civility (compared to the coalition) but in the last few years I must say I’ve seen way too many Labor MPs/influencers/rusted-ons spread disinformation (and not just debatable stuff, but stuff you could easily disprove quickly if you bothered to check - mostly about preferential voting and fear mongering about smaller parties). And also just repeating statements from the mining lobby?? Maybe that’s just a WA thing!
- Comment on Greens defector’s use of slur against fellow senator exposed in text leak 2 weeks ago:
Thorpe and now Cox… they really dropped the ball on vetting senators in 2022 it seems.
This is tangential, but it feels kinda weird where the “R word” is atm, seems like we can’t decide if it’s genuinely offensive or not. I have some social circles where saying it would be almost like saying homophobic/racist slurs, but other social circles that throw it around as a synonym of “idiot/lunatic”. I’m almost afraid to ask at this point what the correct answer is/should be, but I think humans will be joking around about mental cognition for many generations to come, R-word or not.
- Comment on 3 weeks ago:
Lose-lose situation for the Liberals. They’ll pretty much never get a majority without the nats, but the concessions they’ve had to make here aren’t going to help them win back any votes.
- Comment on Nationals leaving Coalition as David Littleproud announces split with Liberal party after election defeat 4 weeks ago:
The cycle continues… the Free Trade party merged with the Anti-Socialist party, and then with the Protectionist party (ironically enough) to form Deakin’s Liberal party… enough Labor dissidents fused with that to form the Nationalist and then the United Australia Party (no relation to Clive’s party). When the United Australia Party became so politically unfavourable, they completely dissolved and rebranded into the current Liberal party.
Either the coalition re-emerges in the near future (by far the most likely option), or we will see another shake-up/rebranding/fusion. Labor look set to hold power for several terms now, but the longer this continues, the longer the power vacuum for opposition stirs up. There are a lot of independents in the house now, and when they realise they may have collective power against Labor in a coalition with the Liberal party, they may end up uniting. Possibly within the decade. I think it would look very different to the Liberal party of 2025.
- Comment on Labor’s landslide victory obscures a disturbing trend for the major parties 1 month ago:
Bills still have to get through the senate to get passed at least, so the party with a lower house majority still does have to cater to that third option somewhat.
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- Comment on ABC 2025 Election Watch Party 1 month ago:
Durack has a 7% swing away from Labor (against the trend of the whole state), I think it’s safe to say that Keep The Sheep was successful in regional areas. However it doesn’t seem to have had much effect in the metro, aside from Canning if you include that.
- Comment on ABC 2025 Election Watch Party 1 month ago:
Actually, now that I dig deeper, I see that Canning has an 8% swing to One Nation, dayum…
- Comment on ABC 2025 Election Watch Party 1 month ago:
As a Perthlet, I’m pretty happy overall. Only real disappointment is Canning; would have thought it’s within Labor’s grasp but currently looks like a 5% swing against Labor, even after sitting MP Andrew Hastie said we should give our mineral stockpiles to Trump to stop the tarriffs. Any Mandurah locals have some insight into the sentiment - is it the Keep The Sheep campaign maybe?
- Comment on Albanese in trouble as polling shows Dutton most likely to be next PM 4 months ago:
Don’t like this trend. I’m resigned to the fact that an ALP majority is very unlikely but I’m hoping LNP stay well below 76 seats. Independents will have a huge bearing on this election.
Also, I had big fears about Bill Shorten and his lack of charisma in 2019, so seeing Dutton do so well in polls is a huge head scratcher. Politics aside he does not present as a leader at all.
- Comment on New discoveries regarding tomato hormones can increase total yield 10 months ago:
(Nerd warning) So awesome to see strigolactones on lemmy. Any other strigolactone researchers out there? I mostly work on the receptor protein D14.
- Comment on Tasmanian senator Tammy Tyrrell resigns from Jacqui Lambie Network, will sit on crossbench as independent 1 year ago:
Wonder where the disagreement has come from. Stadium maybe?