JonathanAustralian billionaire now getting into the business of autocracy by founding his own Trump-like political party.
Welcome to the real New World Order. Complaining about Soros' was just their projection.
killing.more.people.is.worsePalmer failed, all of his recruits defected, and one of them became one of my favourite senators.
or is there a new one?
@kmpiw No, I guess it's that guy. He just launched whatever it is he's doing in the past day or two, so I guess he must have tried this before?
The previous guy was called #ClivePalmer
He probably tries every election but our system is designed a bit better and thus a bit harder to "Trump" it.
But Clive is the reason I'd vote to keep #KingCharles
I'd be very cautious about any model that included a president. Even if on paper he has the same powers as a #GovernorGeneral being elected would give him a stronger mandate, the GG is already a bit to powerful, bloody Kerr
Hurting more people is worseyeah, it's the same nitwit.
from that hashtag he's not going to have any luck, but he's not even in it to win, he just funnels votes to the conservative and far right parties.
no #WastedVotes in our system, but some go on stupid detours on the way.
he's functionally more like a lobbyist giving candidates campaign funding or publicity.
The good thing about the Australian electoral system is the far right are so disagreeable that they manage to split votes even in a system designed to prevent that.
For the federal senate there are often dozens of parties running, often over a hundred candidates in total, and usually half of them are borderline Nazis, but they don't cooperate with each other and their voters do the bare minimum to fill out the ballot, so none of the nuts get elected.
It is possible to waste a vote, you can pick your favourite and a second choice and third, etc. but if NONE of the candidates you pick have a chance then the vote does get wasted.
I number every party that I hate less than the Liberals, then just ignore all the squabbling Nazis.
It sounds complex but if you just vote for what you actually want and at least one of the popular parties then Australian #PreferentialVoting is designed very well to reflect what you wanted.
I think how well the election turns out this time depends on how well the Liberals lie, about how voting works and about their nonsense that they're "good at the economy" … we have an entire stolen continent of minerals, if we're not all filthy rich, someone – like #ClivePalmer – is being a greedy bastard steeling it.
@kmpiw that's only fun until someone unifies them. Hmm. Anyway good that it is splintered now.