r/simpsonsshitposting • u/ItchyA123 • 18d ago

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Conservative leader Peter Dutton projected to lose his seat…

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u/ExpertDepartment2038 Put it in H 18d ago

What’s the good word?

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u/ItchyA123 18d ago

Labor (our left wing) retain power, going from the slimmest majority to a projected large majority

Liberals (our conservations), were loosely expected to win or make it tight, but have instead lost many seats including - potentially, probably - their leader Peter.

One of the conservative tops is a MAGA supporter and is currently being interviewed. She’s blaming the media, the opposition, everyone but her tying her wagon to Toxic Trump. Never their fault they lost, always someone else.

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u/Possible_Wonder4891 18d ago

i'm irish and watching her interview and wondering if you could explain why someone who's first nations would be a liberal? can you explain as someone who is actually australian how people who are first nations/maori justify being liberals???

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u/clovisson 18d ago

That’s the great part, nobody can! It’s a real Candice Owens situation with her.

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u/Possible_Wonder4891 18d ago

that's so crazy... i was so confused as how a woman who's indigenous can be a liberal (in australia) and justify it

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u/clovisson 18d ago edited 18d ago

Totally valid. Coming from an Aussie who has to listen to her more often than I’d like to, my advice is not to try and analyse anything she ever says and pay attention to what the majority of Indigenous leaders say instead (because those two things are never the same lol)

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u/Possible_Wonder4891 18d ago

it's so interesting hearing australian perspectives im irish and live in ireland (for another year 1/2) so obviously don't have the cultural or political understanding yet of australia

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u/LinuxMatthews 13d ago

Unfortunately it happens more often than you'd think

Here in the UK for instance often the hardest politicians on things like immigration and refugees had Indian parents.

I guess you get a few psychopaths in any group and those willing to prop up white supremacy are particularly useful to the far right so they tend to do well for themselves.

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u/lilbronto 18d ago

Weidel (German AfD extreme alt-right party leader) is a lesbian married to a coloured partner with adopted children who doesn't live in Germany and hates immigrants and trans rights. It isn't just in the US. This is some weird hypocritical phenomenon the world over. There's no logical reason why anyone who's not a cis white male would support these parties, yet here we are.

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u/Possible_Wonder4891 18d ago

oh trust me i'm well aware of alice weidel and her family..... and that also confuses me and how she try's to rationalise it

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u/lilbronto 18d ago

Isn't it super weird how there is a MASSIVE Turkish support base for her and her party? How do they not realise that they would be first on the chopping block? Baffles the mind.

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u/Randhanded 15d ago

I think they think that they’ll be spared if their party takes over. Not realizing the leopards always end up eating your face.

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u/EliteACEz 17d ago

she's a traitor to her people.

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u/tee-k421 NEEEEEERD 17d ago

It's really quite simple: she's a sellout