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Violet_Crumble

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1. The bigger story here is how Scomo refused initally to condemn the violent rhetoric...
Mon Nov 22, 2021, 02:52 AM
Nov 2021

He sided with the microscopic anti-vaxxer demographic because, reasons... No, actually it's because they were threatening the life of a Labor state premier who's done an amazing job at dealing with the pandemic. Not happy with that hat-tip to the US zany Right, he swiftly started going on about voter suppression/fraud blah blah because, reasons... Seriously? Read the room, scotty from marketing! The vast majority of Australians actually have a life and want to be in and out of the voting booth and grab a sausage sandwich, then get on with their weekend. There's no time or interest in going around different polling booths, lining up and going 'd'uh, nope. I haven't voted anywhere else today!' I really strongly dislike the tendency of the Liberals to try to fit weird US stuff from a very unhealthy democratic system into our very healthy system. I just wish the Labor party had a really strong leader. I like Anthony Albanese but when it comes to charisma, he's not doing that great...

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