• Echo Dot@feddit.uk
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    2 days ago

    People like him do exist in other countries. But without a cult of personality they don’t really achieve very much, and no one can do cults like the US.

    The MEGA equivalents in other countries are actually having a bit of a problem because everyone can see a live demonstration of what their policies would actually look like, and no one likes it.

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      1 day ago

      The MEGA equivalents in other countries are actually having a bit of a problem because everyone can see a live demonstration of what their policies would actually look like, and no one likes it.

      alas, a huge rise in this stupid in Australia.

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      That’s basically what happened in Australia’s last election. The Liberals were trying to play up culture war shit & wanted to emulate DOGE, and it backfired hard. I was waiting to lock up a polling place for the night in Western Australia which is a couple of hours behind the eastern states, by the time they’d finished packing up the votes to be counted it was already so lopsided that even if every remaining vote was Liberal it wouldn’t have mattered.

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        1 day ago

        yeah, calling bullshit on that oft repeated trope, it’s just Dutton was really on the nose, how do we know ? witness the rise and rise of One Nation