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4·10 months agoI barely know anything about the US presidency, but I could’ve sworn the presidency doesn’t have this power.
No?
1·10 months agoYour “left wing” democrats are further right wing than our mainstream conservative party coalition. (The Liberals, and probably the Nationals too, to be honest)
And that’s with an extremely right-wing owned press (Murdoch & Nine Fairfax, Australia).
Let that sink in.
And please, for the love of God, actually riot. I don’t enjoy the notion of being under the thumb of the US with the fuckwits at the helm.
It was bad enough with vaugely competent imperialists in charge.
The No Kings marches are piss-weak given people are ALREADY DYING and more will die because of the Dems capitulation.
I’m not a revolutionary, but I damned well would be in your country.
Seriously, and kind regards from the provinces.
Haven’t watched S2 because I’m beyond done with Disney
Watching it for free is very moral. It’s a great show. Suprisingly the best star wars media to date (in my opinion)
Amen friend, amen.
Though that doesn’t seem to be happening much anywhere these days :/
Technically they could fine you up to 1 Penalty Unit ($330 at time of writing).
But they just give you a $20 “administrative penalty” so they don’t have to litigate.
https://www.aec.gov.au/Elections/non-voters.htm
Turnout is very high every election, and we don’t need to waste political messaging airspace on “get out the vote”, so this part of our political system seems to be working well (capitalism and neoliberalism being a bane to our existence notwithstanding).
Side note, “get out the vote” is a weird sentence.
allowed red states to have worse and worse elections to cease control at a national level
If only they’d cease 🥲
Americans, I highly encourage you to do everything you can to seize the means of federal elections, and put it in the hands of an independent federal electoral commission, instead of the nonsense state administration you currently have.
Maybe one day you’ll have a voting system as good as ours (one point we are very proud of).
Love from Australia
I’m sorry, but the rules for how your government works are so confusing.
And requiring budget bills to pass every year or you entire government shuts down is a bug most other democracies patched out last century. (You just make everything roll over by default if you can’t pass a budget). The US Government seems to be constantly in shut down. It’s kinda dumb folks, it doesn’t need to be this way.
I could have sworn I heard that the 100 person US senate only needs 51 members to pass a bill, but I vaguely heard they don’t want to do that because it overrides the option to filibuster?
What???
Very lost over here
The “some metric” is also on the wrong axis, since it’s clearly showing time on the horizontal.
From the outside, requiring a 2/3 majority to pass a budget is insane. It’s no wonder we hear of government shutdowns from the US with regularity.
We (Australia) had one federal shutdown in the 1970s and it led to a constitutional crisis, and that was because the Liberals (the conservative party) refused to vote for supply.
Since 1999 government funding automatically rolls over and is instead altered by legislation:
Y’all have a stupid system, change my mind.
While the GOP are bastards, it needs to be noted that the system itself is stupid.
I feel justified in commenting on US politics, given its hegemonic status over us.
I’ve seen members of parliament walking down the street like a normal person on multiple occasions.
Unless you’re a front bench minister, there’s probably very little risk to your safety (for now, anyway).
Though, I suppose this is a natural outcome when you’re the hegemonic power of the world, much more incentive to kill politicans there (the USA)
It’s quite foreign to me though, luckily.
I’m from Australia, by the way.
This is obviously not an expectation on you personally, alone. But have you guys heard of fucking organising a coherent resistance?
Please. You have nukes, and imperium over much of the world.
Could you like, actually reform and not just roll over? We don’t want you. (Well, other countries in general. Not that I’d want to prevent people fleeing, personally).
A mass flight from the US is not a viable solution for the world. It’ll be Gilead, and we’ll all be fucked.
Sincerely, from the provinces.
(P.S. it’s not super rosy here either, but at least it’s just sparkling capitalism over here, and not full on fascism)
It might be a good time to: fight like hell. Get involved in your local political groups organising to stop the rise of fascism. If you don’t, then it’s on you (collectively).
This is the real answer. Really, really gross, just not necessarily illegal.
Age of consent varies. Example in Victoria Australia is it’s within 2 years until 16, anyone from 16 as long as they’re not your teacher or someone else with authority, and then 18 anyone older than 16.
Prevents stupid shit like I’ve heard from the US where an 18 year old gets booked because the parents don’t like that their 17 year old is having sex…
Don’t look up the age of consent in China, they’ve really dropped the ball on that one 👀
I have the same opinion of Israeli Jews as I have of Japanese people: you don’t judge the individual who may have various views, you judge the voting block as a whole.
Same way I hold Japan responsible for pretending they didn’t do war crimes, I also hold the Israeli people collectively responsible for the actions for their government.
They keep voting for it
11·1 year agoI’m a big defender of China when the “China Bad” crowd comes out, but this graph is meaningless beyond what people’s perceptions are.
Real trade unions are banned. All must be part of the party, workers rights are routinely not enforced, and given the lattitude the government has to act, there isn’t really much of an excuse.
The CCP enjoy massive support, though, this is undeniable. The reasons for this support is debatable and vary from person to person.
I for one, very much enjoy when the Chinese government does things in line with my socialist ideals. But let’s not pretend like they’re actually keeping the capitalists in check. There are many, many billionaires in China, something that ought not be possible under an actual socialist country.
It doesn’t take a genius to look at their system of voting to quickly conclude that you don’t really have a say, the People’s Congress functions as a rubber stamp for what the inner party has already decided.
Again, my opinions aside, people in China generally are supportive of the government at this present time.
I feel like this is shifting the focus to imperialism, where the US is overwhelmingly and undeniably worse.
However, domestically, if you wanna pretend that someone as a random citizen, has any chance of receiving political representation in China, well you enjoy your fantasy.
The US and China are both deeply undemocratic places. I’m saying this as someone from neither country.
Anyone who’s actually been to China would know this. It is authoritarian. It’s not even something viewed as bad by most people in China. It’s just the way things are there.
There is pretty strong support for the government there, albeit that could be argued as product of censorship, repression and also genuine support. Many see the CCP as having done a lot of good things which they are grateful for, which in addition to the bad things, in fairness, they have done.
I’m getting kinda tired of some leftists knee jerking “China Good”, just as much as I’m getting kinda tired of the “China Bad” crowd, when the truth is neither wholly good nor wholly bad.
We can be leftists and not have a hard-on for any country claiming to be socialist, you know
Really appreciate your insights on this, and can understand tribalism in the context of being treated as an outsider. Also, even in countries where foreigners’ work rights are relatively not that much worse than the locals (Australia), there is still plenty of people being taken advantage of because they’re afraid of losing their visa (people not on permanent visas).
I think your analysis makes sense, because the Mandarin speakers I’ve heard also don’t refer to Australian born Chinese as 外国人 (foreigners), but rather as 华人 (something like ethnically Chinese). So I do suspect they’re using 外国人 as an ethnic catch all for any races not historically from China.
Perhaps I’m missing something, but I still find this use interesting, because 国 (country) doesn’t just refer to China, but any country in general（法国，德国，美国）this makes my understanding that speakers are always speaking from the perspective of their country of origin, rather than where they physically actually are.
Language is interesting!
It’s a pretty widely accepted fact that no matter your citizenship, the party will always consider you Chinese ¯_(ツ)_/¯
Out of curiosity, do you know where the phenomenon of Chinese people, outside china, referring to locals as ”外国人“ stems from？I’ve found this fascinating as in english you refer to yourself as a foreigner when you are in another country, not the locals.
Is this just a language thing, or is this also influenced by the mindset brought on by heavier nationalism (than I’m used to, anyway, in Australia), in your opinion?
Damn, we are built different haha
As much as not protecting endangered species sucks and is stupid, what you’re talking about is the MUCH more concerning part.
Annoucement by annoucement, the US accepts rule by decree.
How, in the ever-loving-fuck, are people not marching in the streets (I am aware people are, but as a percentage of the population it’s really not enough given what’s happening)