Hanrahan @ hanrahan @slrpnk.net

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the midterms are going to be a massacre for Republicans no matter how much money they throw at it,

I don't think that assumption will age well

I think we should just go the Swiss-route and do direct democracy;

That's literally the Anarchy system. I.e Laws and no leaders.

As an Australian who has ranked choice (we call it preferential) it's not the panecea folks here seem to think it is to bring about the enlightenment.

I'm 58, have voted in every election from when I was eligible through to this year. We don't have ICE but we have Border Force and we routinely deport non citizens, we inspect digital devices at the border, we off shore legal refugees in internment camps, we have zero care for the enviorment and love penis shaped defence spending, we are a car dependent shit hole with few redeeming qualities.. It's ever been thus, Donad Horne oponed on this in the 1970s.

We don't have feedom of the press or freedom of speech, so often these things are unable to even be reported on at all and our most egregious atrocities have widespread support amongst the broader population. In that respect its not as big a divisor as. n the US as we're all arseholes :) We're happy to allow religious scumbags to discriminate against LGBQT folks, happy to have our privacy removed, are quite fond of fucking over our indigenous peoples and the wider enviorment and near zero concern for exestential issues like climate change. We're happy to shit over homeless people and have unaffordable housing and racism is broadly endemic.

We have never elected a government that i think is anything but objectively fucking horrible, we have our tongue firmly stuck up the US foreign policy asshole and follow them into every stupid dumb shit military action. We have had the occasionally decent poltican but then so does the US (Bernie etc) .

Like us, your people are broken and you're not going to cure what ails ya' with RCV.

Let's hope so

You say booming ? But every woman needs to have 2.1.on average to have a stable population, so "booming" would be 4-8 at least, per woman. Is it that high ? Hungary ?

Australia's first female member of it's federal parliment had 13 kids for example, my mother was one of 8, I was one of three, my brother has 2, my sister and I none.

I was refused (tried a few tines from 18-20) and had it done overseas im my late 20s. Thay was decades ago though so it might have changed.

Am Australian.

Im 57, i tried to have a vasectomy at 18 and was refused here in Australia mutiple times over 2 years because "I would change mind" and I was told I would meet somone who would want to have kid with me and they'd be upset if i was unable to."

I flew to Thailand in my late 20s and had it done at the end of a holiday there in a hospital in Bangkok, no pun intended.

Rich ones, easy peasy

https://archive.is/20250521020828/https://www.ft.com/content/9fd850ae-41da-4547-9414-3e7f11f4c9de

The new scheme, which came into effect in April, removed English-language requirements and lowered the investment threshold for the “growth” visas to NZ$5mn (US$3mn). Applicants must spend just 21 days in the country to establish residency, down from three years. The application process has also been cut to 11 days, on average, according to the immigration department. 

Centeist ? The slow drift to fascism as they appease the rabid right and dont work towards the issies that really need solvong ;(

Fuxk voters

And Australia

Indeed, looking at your Portugal, Australia, UK, NZ, Canada etal

This reminded me.of this incident in Australia where a 95 yr old.woman with dementia using a walker was holding a knife and they tasered and killed her

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-66229582

Fascinate the fools then muzzle the intelligent. (Bertrand Russell)

The first step in a fascist movement is the combination under an energetic leader of a number of men who possess more than the average share of leisure, brutality, and stupidity. The next step is to fascinate fools and muzzle the intelligent, by emotional excitement on the one hand and terrorism on the other. - Bertrand Russel

Yeah, went Mint 18 months ago. Started at MSDOS in the 1990s, ended at W10.

Not defending the OP but his argument is that here in Australia the government is doing the censoring, he's all for platforms delisting it if they wish. As an aside, that's effectively the same thing (as argued by people like Philip Adams here in Australia)

As an Australian, I find government censorship of the arts problematic, this case is glaringly easy to agree with but there are a plethora of edge case issues that leave me feeling uneasy and I'm squarely on the side of Karl Popper with this.

As to everyone "disliking nazis", thats not true. Russia is led by one, as is the US and India, the current Austrian Government is led by a a political party set up by literal Nazis, across the border the AfD is praised by the US.

Look at Hannah Ardent and Albert Einstein's letter to the newspapers about the horror of Israel. So I'd suggest there is broad support for nazis, unless u mean literal nazis from Germany circa WW2, of which there aren't many left but we had one in charge of NATO, another designing rockets for Nasa and on and on, so there is that.

https://archive.org/details/AlbertEinsteinLetterToTheNewYorkTimes.December41948

Among the most disturbing political phenomena of our times is the emergence in the newly created state of Israel of the "Freedom Party" (Tnuat Haherut), a political party closely akin in its organization, methods, political philosophy and social appeal to the Nazi and Fascist parties. It was formed out of the membership and following of the former Irgun Zvai Leumi, a terrorist, right-wing, chauvinist organization in Palestine.

Indeed, Trump ironocally doing more for the enviorment then any owtjer President was not on my bingo card. Recession, people buying less shit, less tourism etc

What a world :)

Bizzare thing, the "kid" is 31, has a previous conviction for 5 yrs, that was reduced to 3.

They said they were told only "criminals" would be deported, did they ignore their sons conviction?

In Australia that would have seen him deported when he was released from jail (anything >2 yrs) if anyone thinks my scumbag country is any better and "both sides" support that.

Are we ever goibg to get another Shiekd ? My Pro still works great (used adb and have FLauncher installed) but if it craps itaelf :(

Ask Trump?

Thats mostly what happned in Australia back in the day when we tried it. Mu friends wife was a social worker, she said coercion to have babies was endemic and the money taken off the mother by the asshat father when said money arrived. Not really a lack of critical thinking per se, just desperate :(

What a debacle.