briongloid
@briongloid@aussie.zone
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🪷 Sunday 11 May 2025 3 days ago:
Happy Mother’s Day
- Comment on Discussion Thread 📖 Wednesday 7 May 2025 6 days ago:
Reminds me of when my grandmother visited Ireland for the last time, she knew it would be the last time due to age. She lived another 15 years.
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- Comment on Discussion Thread 😃 Sunday 4 May 2025 1 week ago:
9 for Double Coat.
- Comment on Discussion Thread 😃 Sunday 4 May 2025 1 week ago:
Had to call over the self-checkout assistant, so they could check the video of me putting the catalogue in my bag, before I could go back to checking out my groceries for them.
- Comment on Discussion Thread 😃 Sunday 4 May 2025 1 week ago:
It’s a massive gain for Australia. When they lost their moderate seats to the Teals, the party room became disproportionately alt-right despite existing in a voting system that demands moderates.
The cooker influence told them that Trumpism was the way forward and to win government again, when that only worked by disenfranchising voters. When everyone votes, a political culture that thrives on the extreme works the opposite.
American politicians need to go overboard to compete for attention just to get people to turn up and vote based on anger and fear, the people in the middle of the spectrum get disenfranchised more as both two-party single vote options stretch further from them to garner good or bad attention. This results in no vote, which is nowhere near as bad as a vote transferring to the opposition.
In a mandatory/preference country, hyperbole and extremism costs you the vote and because they have to vote still, your lost vote goes to the opposition and is a net change of -2 votes. 1 less vote + 1 opposition gained vote.
Peter Dutton was the leader amongst the right wing faction of the party when they had the moderate Liberal members, when Turnbull lost the leadership it was due to an internal power struggle from the right wing of the party room. At the time Morrison won because he was perceived to be both a moderate and somewhat conservative, when the room included the former Teal seat moderates they kept the leadership from going more fringe with Dutton.
Without the moderate members that lost to the Teals, the right wing of the Liberal Party had the majority of the party room and they put their leader in charge despite what happened in American being counter and unrepeatable to our much better voting system.
Now that the Liberal party has gotten a proper swift kick up the bum for letting themselves shift too far from center, with the leader changed in the process, if they have any sense they will realise how much they got wrong or they’ll never win another election.
They have no choice now but to level and rebuilt their party, or the Commonwealth will become like Victoria and WA, having no second party option while the rusted on Liberal voters cost everyone the opportunity of a new second party emerging.
- Comment on Discussion Thread 😃 Sunday 4 May 2025 1 week ago:
I completely forgot that Tony Abbott also lost his seat, it just wasn’t immediately as he lost the leadership.
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🗳️ Saturday 3 May 2025 1 week ago:
A moderate party that is as pro infrastructure as Labour would be more successful as an opposition.
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🗳️ Saturday 3 May 2025 1 week ago:
It was nice to see a regular professional concession speech again.
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🗳️ Saturday 3 May 2025 1 week ago:
Well he wasn’t opposition leader, but John Howard as PM in 2007.
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🗳️ Saturday 3 May 2025 1 week ago:
Victoria needs a new second party, would be nice to have a Vic only party instead of another federal organisation in Victoria.
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🗳️ Saturday 3 May 2025 1 week ago:
As for frame, I’m strongly against fabric bases, horrible for mold.
Personally I’d go 100% metal base, maybe stained wood if I could guarantee mold free.
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🗳️ Saturday 3 May 2025 1 week ago:
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- Comment on Discussion Thread 🗳️ Saturday 3 May 2025 1 week ago:
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🗳️ Saturday 3 May 2025 1 week ago:
Peter Dutton looks to be out of his seat.
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🗳️ Saturday 3 May 2025 1 week ago:
Can’t believe it’s already been called, this is wild.
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🗳️ Saturday 3 May 2025 1 week ago:
I’ve laughed out loud nearly every time he’s talked.
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🗳️ Saturday 3 May 2025 1 week ago:
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🗳️ Saturday 3 May 2025 1 week ago:
It’s odd to me that we don’t hold all vote counting until the final electorate closure, to avoid influence of early outcomes.
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🗳️ Saturday 3 May 2025 1 week ago:
carn the moderates
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🗳️ Saturday 3 May 2025 1 week ago:
He was pretty adamant that it would be included, so long as the preference flow didn’t go to that round.
Not sure with the Senate tho, that was about the lower house.
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🗳️ Saturday 3 May 2025 1 week ago:
I’ve been worried for months that took many Australian’s where like Trump’s supporters.
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🗳️ Saturday 3 May 2025 1 week ago:
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🗳️ Saturday 3 May 2025 1 week ago:
I was told the other week by a regular AEC worker that they still count votes like that if the intent is clear and if it isn’t a practical issue for the vote like the last missing.
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🗳️ Saturday 3 May 2025 1 week ago:
I voted early so I wouldn’t have to wait long on the day, then I went with someone who didn’t vote early and spent over an hour in line with them anyway.
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🗳️ Saturday 3 May 2025 1 week ago:
The same person would be complaining of they saw what the masses would do to it, once it’s gone it’s gone.
We have surplus land that doesn’t need protection from unrestrained greed.
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🗳️ Saturday 3 May 2025 1 week ago:
The $800 was advised to me by someone who was already doing previous Vic/Aus elections, he said $800 flat rate regardless of hours on election day.
But that also meant some would be 12hrs, others 3hrs, so the value for work is very ambiguous.
Every other day was around minimum wage.
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🗳️ Saturday 3 May 2025 1 week ago:
Happy birthday
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🗳️ Saturday 3 May 2025 1 week ago:
