Erection Day 2013. 'Straya decides.

[Iommic Pope]

So, for all the other Aussies on here...

THANK FUCK THAT SHIT IS OVER!!

Personally, I donkey voted.
Fuck all those arse-hats.

[THEBEERHAMMER]

Vote for whoever can lower gear prices...

[backwardsvoyager]

Heh. I'm not even enrolled to vote.



We're screwed, anyway.

[Twangasaurus]

I don't understand why everyone feels so disenfranchised. You don't vote for the leader you vote for the policies. Sure Rudd and Abbott are both colossal cunts but I sure as fuck know which direction I want this country to take. Besides, we are lucky enough to live in a country where voting for someone other than the two major parties can make a huge difference in the balance of power. Also, preferential voting.

[backwardsvoyager]

You don't vote for the leader you vote for the policies. Sure Rudd and Abbott are both colossal cunts but I sure as fuck know which direction I want this country to take. Besides, we are lucky enough to live in a country where voting for someone other than the two major parties can make a huge difference in the balance of power. Also, preferential voting.

I agree. I just don't think my opinion is worth considering because I don't get involved in politics at all and will most likely move overseas as soon as I can afford to do so.

[Twangasaurus]

You don't vote for the leader you vote for the policies. Sure Rudd and Abbott are both colossal cunts but I sure as fuck know which direction I want this country to take. Besides, we are lucky enough to live in a country where voting for someone other than the two major parties can make a huge difference in the balance of power. Also, preferential voting.

I agree. I just don't think my opinion is worth considering because I don't get involved in politics at all and will most likely move overseas as soon as I can afford to do so.

I'll move with you. I don't want to be in this country any more. I mean, a dinosaur Prime Minister? How do you even fit a Australovenator into parliament?

[tuffteef]

vote labor
super high speed porno

[Twangasaurus]

vote labor
super high speed porno

As someone who knows far more about networking than I would like to the Coalitions idea to scrap the NBN makes me want to shoot puppies with a shotgun. Malcolm Turnbull is a fucking tard.

[Twangasaurus]

*growl* I'm so angry right now. I really wish I didn't care.

[Iommic Pope]

I don't understand why everyone feels so disenfranchised. You don't vote for the leader you vote for the policies. Sure Rudd and Abbott are both colossal cunts but I sure as fuck know which direction I want this country to take. Besides, we are lucky enough to live in a country where voting for someone other than the two major parties can make a huge difference in the balance of power. Also, preferential voting.

Actually, I agree with you wholeheartedly. Personally though, I haven't heard any well thought out policies/policies I can agree with/policies that will actually survive the election (realistically) and I'm sick of the cult of personality around these Fuckheads instead of a focus on realistic and progressive policies. Not shit that sets us back/or is blatantly fucking stupid. The preference system is nearly useless in a two party preferred system like ours. Its game theory.

I'm usually a swinging voter and it has actually taken a lot to get me to throw my vote away. I can see how that might piss you off, but in all honesty, I just don't feel like enough has been done to earn anyone's vote, let alone little ol me.

Ok, I'm done ranting now.

[dub]

It has a few annoying quirks but I dig the system we have over in NZ, where you get one vote for your local MP (which I think should be preferential, but it's FPtP) and a second party vote which makes up the percentages of Parliament. I LIKE the fact this always ends up with cobbled together coalition governments, who can't just push shit through. Although our right wingers managed to almost get 50% last time, and have been pushing laws through under urgency with no democratic scrutiny.... *sigh*

Still, they got their turn and will probably get kicked out in the next one. We seem to go through cycles of progressive Labour govts getting in and shaking things up a bit (in fact they fucking pushed through all the neo-liberal reforms during the 80s, under some sort of Thatcherite fucking spell), then having National come in and run the country for a few terms while gutting the public service.

Having to put a preference for every candidate seems fucking stupid. Surely going to ten or something would be enough? I guess its that whole "you must vote" law... if your preferences were exhausted, your vote wouldn't count.

[dase]

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6nUNwzWxgvU[/youtube]

listening to this on repeat right now. Guess kids are going to have to go back to gettingtheir education about our shameful history from anywhere other than their fucking teachers given what they wanna do to the national curriculum.



edit: I'm drunk. whatever.

[backwardsvoyager]

Well, fuck.

[futuresailors]

[intothegroove]