Ilandar
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- Comment on Bandt's project to change the Greens failed. Along the way, he helped wreck the appeal of minority government 7 hours ago:
It seems kinda misleading, if not malicious to the purpose the greens aim to serve in politics
What purpose do you think they serve?
- Comment on Is Australia's Overton Window Shifting? 1 day ago:
Of course the remaining people in the moderate faction think they need to be more vocal. It doesn’t change the fact that they are really struggling right now and that the people in leadership positions seem to be more interested in listening to Gina Rinehart and Sky After Dark, who are still arguing that the reason the Liberals are losing voters is because they haven’t moved far enough to the right and still don’t spend enough time on culture wars.
- Comment on Is Australia's Overton Window Shifting? 1 day ago:
From what I understand, the only people contesting it are Angus Taylor (from the right faction) and Sussan Ley (whose positioning seems debatable). Neither seem like particularly great options, though. The moderate faction seems to have been decimated, even at the membership level. From Crikey:
One moderate contacted Crikey the morning after the election, describing the faction as a “critically endangered species”. They were plainly upset at what they saw to be a shift to the right supported by the party’s membership base.
“As long as you have a cooked membership, we’re going to continue to have cooker candidates,” they said.
The concerns echo a piece in the Australian Financial Review by Phil Coorey, who said the Liberal Party had “no soul to search” after many future leaders of the party lost their seats or saw their margins decimated. Coorey noted many of those were moderates, and “the broad church is no more”.
It doesn’t sound like they actually have many options left if they want to lead the party back towards the centre in the short-term, and getting wiped out of major cities isn’t going to help that either.
- Comment on Australian Politics Out of Context 1 day ago:
The “you’re not saying anything Tony” clip gets me every time, surely the weirdest moment in my voting life to date. It’s incredible that someone who struggled with the media so badly became prime minister.
- Comment on Greens leader Adam Bandt projected to lose in Melbourne, leaving party without its captain - ABC News 1 day ago:
A lot of that was eaten into by boundary changes. As I understand, Bandt lost the hipster suburbs of Fitzroy and Brunswick which are major Greens areas (reflected in the Greens great performance in Wills, which absorbed those areas) and his electorate gained some southern Labor booths. Combined with a smaller swing against him everywhere else, he was in trouble.
- Comment on Is Australia's Overton Window Shifting? 1 day ago:
Labor might not be left enough for you personally, but each time the libs are defeated they need to move to the left to be viable, and Labor will have to move further left to differentiate themselves.
I’m not sure that’s actually how it works in Australian politics, though. Because the major parties are campaigning for the votes of politically disinterested people, they don’t need to be ideologically distinct from one another. A campaign where they essentially buy votes through micro-targeted policies suits both of them.
That is to say, the spectrum of acceptable opinions is moving to the left in an observable manner, right now.
I don’t necessarily think that’s accurate either, at least not based on what the major parties are doing. Generationally it might be true (millennials aren’t moving right as quickly as previous generations), but so far the Coalition has made no attempt to move back towards the centre (and might not even do it after this election) so Labor is under very little pressure in that sense.
- Comment on Greens leader Adam Bandt projected to lose in Melbourne, leaving party without its captain - ABC News 1 day ago:
I think even some Greens voters dislike her, although maybe she plays better with younger voters now. I would like to see if her approach changes as leader, though.
- Comment on Bandt's project to change the Greens failed. Along the way, he helped wreck the appeal of minority government 1 day ago:
Yes, as a long-term Greens voter I completely agree that the shift happened under Di Natale, not Bandt. He (Bandt) is getting dumped on because, until now, no one other than long-term Greens voters were even aware that these issues existed. The media mostly ignores The Greens, and when they have reported on them it has generally been under the context of consistent growth. A single election where that growth appears to have stalled and suddenly everyone acts like it is a crisis for the party that must be related to Bandt’s recent leadership.
- Comment on Greens leader Adam Bandt projected to lose in Melbourne, leaving party without its captain - ABC News 1 day ago:
Hanson-Young as replacement? Maybe I’m biased cause she’s from SA, but she has also represented the party at the federal level for by far the longest (even longer than Bandt).
- Comment on Greens' Adam Bandt in danger as seat of Melbourne remains on knife's edge 1 day ago:
Seems only fair, considering one of the biggest excuses people give for not voting Greens is “they don’t have the experience”. No fucking shit, you only get that from being consistently voted in lol
- Comment on The Greens crossed a line and Australians pushed back 2 days ago:
Right wingers who are hard coping and Labor supporters drunk on schadenfreude, I guess. I have said in other comments that I do think perhaps Gaza was an issue for some softer Greens voters in the sense that The Greens were positioned on one side of a very loud culture war that Trump’s re-election redefined in their minds. That’s very different to claiming the Greens were “overwhelmingly rejected”, though.
- Bandt's project to change the Greens failed. Along the way, he helped wreck the appeal of minority governmentwww.crikey.com.au ↗Submitted 2 days ago to australianpolitics@aussie.zone | 5 comments
- Comment on Greens' Adam Bandt in danger as seat of Melbourne remains on knife's edge 2 days ago:
Something good is not better than something really good, though. That’s always where the balance lies for The Greens. They have an obligation to the hard left of their party to be tough negotiators but they do risk frustrating the softer left who ultimately don’t want to see Labor governments being sacrificed in the pursuit of Greens objectives. Labor governments also have a responsibility to everyone, including their voters, to ensure legislation does actually get passed and that means they need to be willing to make concessions to The Greens. It is a line that is getting harder to navigate as The Greens grow and their relationship with Labor becomes more volatile due to greater influence in the electorate, particularly in those seats where they are now direct competitors to Labor.
- Comment on Three years after a cinematographer was killed by a stray bullet on set, "Rust" is being released in theaters this weekend. Funds from the release will go to the victim's family, mainly to her son. 4 days ago:
It is clearly being review bombed. 46.3% of the user ratings are 1/10 and two of the three 1/10 written reviews are related to the shooting.
- Comment on Australia 2025 – Wrap-up of the night 4 days ago:
That’s completely the wrong takeaway for The Greens and sounds like the left-wing version of Jacinta Nampijinpa Price cope on ABC’s coverage last night, trying to blame everyone and everything except herself and her party. As a party they need to reassess what their goals are and whether their actions and their communication over the last term were effective in making progress towards those goals. Being super obstructionist on housing during a housing crisis, aggressively loud on Gaza during a period of rising antisemitism and hate in communities around Australia, publicly linking themselves to (and backing) unions with alleged links to criminal organisations are all things that may play well with their left-wing base but are not necessarily going to help them expand further.
A regular Greens voter like myself down in SA may appreciate and understand the nuances around some of these positions, but I seriously question whether the people who voted Green for the first time in Queensland at the last election were happy with the outcome. Don’t forget that action on climate change (and better relief for the disasters it causes) were massive issues at the last election, particularly in that region, and they were issues that the major parties were seen to be failing on. Those are mainstream issues that these Greens MPs were elected on, yet when they got into parliament they did not behave like a mainstream party and continued to play to their hardcore base. That is ultimately going to hurt them in a country where fringe politics is nowhere near as powerful due to compulsory voting.
It’s very important to remember that The Greens didn’t actually perform particularly poorly overall, this isn’t a total rejection from their existing supporters of their strategy and positioning within the system. It was only a failure to take their left-wing agenda any further. They need to decide whether they are willing to sacrifice some of that to manually peel off left-leaning Labor voters once again (rather than just automatically picking them up through disillusionment as they have been previously, that isn’t going to work after such a decisive result) or whether they are content to be a fringe party that plays an important role in the Senate but is mostly absent in the lower house.
- Comment on All the political mail I got this election 5 days ago:
I received a couple but only from the two majors. No texts and no public advertising either (due to SA’s new laws). Very refreshing!
- Comment on Netflix's CEO says movie theaters are old news. Director Rian Johnson says his next movie belongs there anyway. 5 days ago:
I am not a horror fan either and I really enjoyed Sinners. I would almost go so far as to say it has more in common with dramas and musicals than it does horror.
- Comment on John Lithgow Won't Let J.K. Rowling Haters Bully Him Into Quitting ‘Harry Potter’ Role 1 week ago:
To be clear, that’s not a quote from Lithgow. It’s a quote from the author of the article. This is what Lithgow said:
Shortly after he picked up the role, Lithgow received a letter from the mother of a trans-identifying child, titled “An Open Letter to John Lithgow: Please Walk Away from Harry Potter.”
“That was the canary in the coal mine,” Lithgow said. “I thought, ‘Why is this a factor at all?’ I wonder how J.K. Rowling has absorbed it. I suppose at a certain point I’ll meet her, and I’m curious to talk to her.”
When asked if the backlash made him consider ditching the role, though, Lithgow said, “Oh, heavens no.”
- Comment on What movies have you watched this week? 1 week ago:
I saw Sinners today. Amazing film that works on a lot of different levels. A lot of time is allocated to the introduction of the characters, including side characters, so that you actually care about their fates later in the film (rare in this genre). There are some very strong themes around family and its sort of a celebration of African American and minority culture. I was surprised by how moving Sinners gets for a “horror” film, you can really feel that the writer/director had something to say and was passionate about this piece of work. The soundtrack is also amazing, the film is not really a musical but it’s also not afraid to let music come to the forefront and really dominate everything else for extended periods. There’s even an R&B track written specifically for the second half of the credits, which was totally unexpected but ties in very strongly with the themes of the film and makes a lot of sense as a musical coda.
- Comment on Conclave was almost a great movie, but failed to stick the landing 1 week ago:
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The vote for Lawrence doesn’t go through because the terrorist attack interrupts it. He is essentially on a path to become Pope until the moment he attempts to cast his vote. Immediately following that, the cardinals have their emergency meeting in the theatre and Benitez makes his big speech which is part of what convinces a majority of his colleagues to vote for him, the other part being the hole in the window exposing them all to the outside world and reminding them that they are in service to God and his creations rather than themselves. As for why we don’t see Lawrence vote for Benitez, it’s because we’re not necessarily supposed to pick up on the significance of these events until after the plot twist where Benitez is elected. That’s also why they made his reaction to the speech ambiguous and why that election scene is shot in such a way that it initially looks as though Lawrence has won, and when he hasn’t, isn’t immediately clear who has (out of Tedesco and Benitez).
- Comment on Conclave was almost a great movie, but failed to stick the landing 1 week ago:
I don’t think that aspect of the film is actually relevant to the central themes or story, though.
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The terrorist attack is more of a plot device to break the isolation of the Conclave, and thus to bring the cardinals back from the temptation of power and to remind them of the greater world and the people they are ultimately in service to, as well as to setup the final confrontation between Tedesco and Benitez.
- Comment on Conclave was almost a great movie, but failed to stick the landing 1 week ago:
I actually rewatched it tonight and I’ve changed my mind that the “power corrupts” theme doesn’t go anywhere. On a second viewing (where I could concentrate 100% without someone eating popcorn loudly in my ear) I thought there was actually quite a well rounded arc built around that theme,
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with the conclusion coming when Lawrence admits to Bellini he has considered his own papacy and finally succumbs by voting for himself. The suicide bombing occurs right as he casts his vote, and acts as a symbolic intervention from God in response to his sin. Aside from distraction in the cinema and the benefits of a second viewing, I think the reason I overlooked this the first time around is because it is immediately followed by the multiple plot twists involving Benitez, who until then hasn’t featured much in the film. Originally I thought his story didn’t really tie in with that of Lawrence, and I still think it is underdeveloped considering the ending of the film, but now I can see that if Benitez represents innocence then the ending of the film is really about Lawrence coming through a trial of his faith and the temptation of sin to rediscover this.
- Comment on Conclave was almost a great movie, but failed to stick the landing 1 week ago:
Yeah I definitely saw this and was a little disappointed it didn’t amount to anything. I left it out because I wasn’t actually sure it was really there, or if I just read it into the film without serious evidence.
I had the exact same experience. I went with some family, so we were talking about it afterwards and I mentioned that I was kind of disappointed that this seduction of power element didn’t go anywhere and no one else even knew what I was talking about. But I think we’re right, it was definitely in there…we’re not crazy!
- Comment on Conclave was almost a great movie, but failed to stick the landing 1 week ago:
I agree with you and I think quite a few other people have shared similar sentiments here too. There is nothing wrong with any of the narrative components that comprise the ending, but they aren’t given enough time throughout the film to match everything that has come before. All the political thriller tension type stuff leading up to the finale is consistently excellent and there is a lot of time spent on this sort of personal crisis the lead is going through, with quite a bit of foreshadowing that he is going to be corrupted by a lust for power. Yet that never actually comes, and instead we get a different ending which is fine but hasn’t received anywhere near as much attention. It’s like a 9/10 film for 85% that drops to a 6/10 right at the end. I left the cinema feeling somewhat disappointed but if I reflect honestly on the entire film it was still great and absolutely worth the watch.
- Comment on Sydney Sweeney to Star in ‘Split Fiction’ Film Adaptation From Director Jon M. Chu, ‘Deadpool and Wolverine’ Writers (EXCLUSIVE) 1 week ago:
There is literally a Play-Doh movie in production, nothing is off lmiits now lol
- Comment on Suffering from minor party confusion? Some links I found helpful 1 week ago:
Using major parties like Labor, or even popular third parties like The Greens, as an example misses the point. The reason they are more trustworthy is because their candidates are screened more intensely. There is a much stronger connection between the party and the candidate, and the actions of one can often be an insight into the other.
On the other hand, it is quite normal for micro-parties to be a confusing clusterfuck, and for that reason you can’t assume a local candidate is good or bad based on how the broader party is operating in other areas. Micro-parties are not organisations/institutions in the same way as larger parties, they are ultimately just collections of individuals who share some kind of common sentiment and that makes them much more volatile.
- Comment on Suffering from minor party confusion? Some links I found helpful 1 week ago:
Again, I don’t necessarily agree with that last part because every candidate and branch may (or may not) be different. Frankly, I don’t really care who is being preferenced in Victoria when I’m voting in South Australia. But yes, I absolutely agree that Fusion as a concept has a major issue in that it’s values and policy positions are so broad that it makes it very difficult for me as a voter to determine which aspects of the party platform are core, where influence lies and why my candidate is running under the party banner. I like a lot about Fusion but I expect that I’m actually a minority in that regard and that people are probably more likely to be attracted by specific elements of the party, which is a problem for stability and transparency. I am fortunate to have a lower house Fusion candidate in my seat but I can’t preference him above The Greens guy because it’s not at all clear why he is running or what he stands for.
- Comment on Suffering from minor party confusion? Some links I found helpful 2 weeks ago:
This is only from Victoria, it doesn’t mean necessarily mean that your local candidate or branch is the same (depending on where you live). Fusion is a micro party that attracts a very wide range of people, so I don’t think a painting them all with the same brush is a particularly smart or helpful thing to do.
- Comment on 'Minecraft Movie' Envy Puts Gen Z Video Game Adaptations Front and Center 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on The 'Leaders' Debate 3 weeks ago:
The irony is that some on the left also think Speers and the ABC are biased against their side of politics.