I couldn't find an existing Australian politics thread after trying a little bit, so I'll recap Australian stuff.... A couple months ago, the Liberal Party (Australia's main right-wing party) was favored to win in Australia's two party preferred system (since Australia has a good election system that America's parties won't allow). And for many things, including some association with that party and Trump's policies, the polls started shifting towards Labor (the main left-wing party). Well, the election was today, and spoilers: it's not going great for them: https://www.theguardian.com/austral...l-who-won-is-winning-votes-count-seats-latest Dutton, the Liberal party leader, appears to have lost his own seat and they may be on track to have their worst results in party history. The Labor party PM is the first PM to win two elections since John Howard in 2004, I think, and the two party preferred vote, which was 52-48 in 2002 in favor of Labor, is looking to be around 56-44 this time.
I'm slightly impressed and also depressed. Impressed at how the actions of Trump have managed to make both Canada and Australia reject the right wing quite effectively and at pretty short notice Depressed at how the UK also had elections this week and still voted in favour of Reform which is a right wing party under Farage. Glad the left is in charge and fingers crossed they show they are the grown ups on the international stage and show that cooperation not isolation is the way forwards.
Labour would have still won regardless of trump but they almost certainly picked up a seat or two because of him
If I had a nickel for each time a Five Eyes country had their populist conservative opposition leader lose their own seat in an election this week that they were supposed to win before Trump was elected I'd have two nickels, which isn't a lot but it's weird it happened twice
Also, I do feel slightly obligated to point out that there isn't a Labour party in Australia, it's the Labor party. because Australia doesn't spell the party name with a U for what I can only presume is a weird reason.
I think I read it was newspapers saving ink and headline space on the extra letter way back when, and then it just stuck. It is frustrating they don’t spell it properly, though.
Not disagreeing with you, but why do you know this word? Why does this word exist? Why are we all here?
Clearly you weren’t a 16-22 year old on Tumblr during the early 2010s when an unholy hodgepodge of Harry Potter, Skins, Doctor Who, Sherlock, underfed pasty British men, and the 2012 London Olympics sent young women into a teaboo frenzy for several years.
Oh Well that’s more my bad for not reading the end. I just thought we were naming things that made tumblr tumblr.
Not to be confused with a Teeboboo, which is a Dulok who is not only obsessed with Teebo, but also wishes they were Teebo.
