Anthony Albanese - How long? -2-

[Cold Sober]

Albo is just another rich bitch who has no idea or care for the battler.
He doesn't care whether he's re-elected or not, sound familiar. Australian politics, don't you luv it.
Pauline had the answer years ago and look what happened to her.

 

[Gralin]

What was Pauline's answer again?

 

[Cmarsh]

Now he's wasting time on a meaningless, easily avoidable age restriction on social media use which will annoy far more people than it will please.

Why do they insist on spending time doing this meaningless stuff?

They should be spending every week talking about Cost of Living.

It just looks like they're ignoring CoL and focusing on stupid stuff.

Albanese shouldn't host a press conference on anything other than CoL. If they want to announce a social media ban, send out the Communications Minister.

Who is advising these people??

Is one voter going to change their mind at all based on a social media ban? No, only in the broader impression of what priorities are.

How do they define social media anyway?

My son does gaming through a device that he can communicate live to his friends whilst they play. Does that count as social media?

 

[Chief]

Now he's wasting time on a meaningless, easily avoidable age restriction on social media use which will annoy far more people than it will please.

Why do they insist on spending time doing this meaningless stuff?

It's not meaningless, but it is a waste of time and resources.

 

[Gough]

It's not meaningless, but it is a waste of time and resources.

Coalition has been clever here. They've support this but they'll be quite happy to let the meaningless tinkering story take hold.

 

[Rotayjay]

I think the lesson from Trump's victory is that negative politics and blaming immigrants ****ing works like a charm

 

[peetoo]

Would you listen to a musician or watch a dancer who is not uni qualified?

Would you get a lawyer or doctor who is not uni qualified?

Many seek out alternate therapies. Not me

 

[Ghost Patrol]

It's not meaningless, but it is a waste of time and resources.

It’s half way between Harold Bishop and Footloose.

 

[The Punter]

It's very very hard to follow politics and try to put yourself in the shoes of somebody who doesn't follow it.

I don't think it is. It's hard when you are busy and you work in politics, because the only people you will see are in the bubble and because of common interests it will be all you will talk about. This is a particular problem with those who work in Canberra.

But people who don't follow politics (which is most people) will engage with it in certain ways. Listen and provide perspective when appropriate. Try to avoid blatant partisanship if you are merely seeking to understand someone who doesn't follow politics (funnily enough I'm not always trying to win people over, because first one should try to understand them).

People have different interests, and if you don't share those interests, it can be challenging to understand, and in that respect, politics is no different.

 

[Saint]

Huge portion?
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Without preferential voting and a first past the post system, this means that 2 million people turned up to vote (they might have wanted to vote for a Governor, Senator or House member) and tossed their vote away.

The larger story is how many didn't bother to turn up (15million).

When people say Trump won a larger chunk of a certain demographic. He probably won the same people, but the Dems lost a lot of theirs.

It's clear why minorities would be leaving the Democratic party who now seem to not care about the middle and lower classes, or immigrants or foreigners (Ukrainians, Palestinians ).

 

[Saint]

I don't think it is. It's hard when you are busy and you work in politics, because the only people you will see are in the bubble and because of common interests it will be all you will talk about. This is a particular problem with those who work in Canberra.

But people who don't follow politics (which is most people) will engage with it in certain ways. Listen and provide perspective when appropriate. Try to avoid blatant partisanship if you are merely seeking to understand someone who doesn't follow politics (funnily enough I'm not always trying to win people over, because first one should try to understand them).

People have different interests, and if you don't share those interests, it can be challenging to understand, and in that respect, politics is no different.

People who aren't interested in politics, I've found, almost never want to talk about it and I never bring it up with them. A bit like religion.

 

[Gralin]

Without preferential voting and a first past the post system, this means that 2 million people turned up to vote (they might have wanted to vote for a Governor, Senator or House member) and tossed their vote away.

With how the electoral college works nobody's vote really matters

The larger story is how many didn't bother to turn up (15million).

You don't have to vote in America and in some areas they make it almost impossible
They also vote on a weekday in a country where you have stuff all rights as a worker

When people say Trump won a larger chunk of a certain demographic. He probably won the same people, but the Dems lost a lot of theirs.

It's clear why minorities would be leaving the Democratic party who now seem to not care about the middle and lower classes, or immigrants or foreigners (Ukrainians, Palestinians ).

Now seem to not care?
They've never cared people are just realising it now because it's become so obvious

Also we've got a trend globally of incumbent governments that didn't help people during a cost of living crisis getting voted out

 

[Bunk Moreland]

Coalition has been clever here. They've support this but they'll be quite happy to let the meaningless tinkering story take hold.

This will absolutely be a deal between the ALP and LNP as they both want it. I wonder what the payoff is - what Dutton will be required to do.

 

[The Punter]

People who aren't interested in politics, I've found, almost never want to talk about it and I never bring it up with them. A bit like religion.

Well, and apologies for not stating this from the outset, but the only way to talk politics with people who aren't interested in it is if they bring it up first. It's easier when you've worked in politics because 1. people might know who work in politics and bring it up and 2. you can talk about your job as an entree into the topic.

Speak to someone long enough about their life and they'll eventually touch on politics is my experience. If they have kids, they'll talk schools. If they have older parents, they'll get to hospitals or aged care. If they live in the country (I do), roads will come up eventually.