• PDFuego@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    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.

    • Hanrahan@slrpnk.net
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      9 hours 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