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As an American working on moving to Australia this was great news to wake up to!
YISSSSS congratulations !! Pierre pull-over. I am gonna steal this.
Love it.
For anyone needing how to actually pronounce this douche canoe’s name is Peepeepoopoo as we say in liberal Canada
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Damn, two conservative PM candidates in two former British colonies both losing their seats within days of each other. Things are picking up.
I'm not Australian and I don't know much about Australian politics.
However, I know that Australian people drive some of the biggest cars in the world. Car companies just manufacture huge SUVs and sell them to the Australian, thinking "these dumb fucks will buy them".
That's not good for the climate. That's bad for the roads. That's not even good for Australians themselves, because it's very unsafe for pedestrians. I heard that Albanese encouraged mandatory rules for better fuel efficiency. Which is a good idea. I just don't understand why the other bald guy says they are bad.
In the 1990s and 2000s, the US Auto Industry successfully fought against every attempt to impose fuel efficiency rules. After US Auto manufacturers went bankrupt in 2008, President Obama bailed them out and forced them to save some fuel. Because outside North American, no one wanted to buy american cars anymore.
During his first mandate, Trump rolled back all those Obama fuel-efficiency rules:
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/15/us/politics/trump-obama-fuel-economy-standards.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/13/climate/cafe-emissions-rollback-oil-industry.html
Lack of strong fuel efficiency rules is the main reason why American cars are so heavy and consume so much oil compared to European cars. The bald candidate is wrong to say fuel efficiency rules are bad.
I dont know the actual justification behind it but i would say:
- The Liberal party here love protecting business interests and giving pretrochem companies huge incentives, tax breaks, etc to take our resources and they probably get hard for how much more fuel they can sell here.
- Australia has inexplicably bad fuel standards, as such car manufacturers dump their shittest engines here which run on this low grade fuel and every time we talk about reforming this the manufacturors run a scare campaign about how much extra cars will cost if they have to meet these standards and the Libs have been jumping on that.
As to the big cars thing, we have typically had quite regular sized cars and our typical tradesperson vehicles (called "Ute's" here, "trucks" in the USA) were significatly smaller than their american equivilants, but local manufacturing shut down and now we buy from whats available on the market. Also the laws around taxing work vehicles is worded in such a way that bigger cars get taxed differently and incentivises people buying these cars and slowly our car sizes are increasing and more and more giant 'Yank Tanks' are appearing on our roads. And couple this with car manufacturers slowly changing the publics idea of what a 'family car' is from a large sedan to a small suv to a full blown suv or 4x4 7 person tank.
(called "Ute's" here, "trucks" in the USA)
Pickup trucks in the USA. "Truck" is a more generic term that covers just about everything from semi trailers (a.k.a. articulated lorry, heavy goods vehicle) to vans.
Fair enough, but it also spins me out when americans call prime-mover trucks 'tractor trailers'
Are those the trucks that are only able to move 1, 2, 3, 5, 7, 11 or 13 things at once? (I've never heard that term before)
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While I’m extremely happy about the election results, let’s not forget that the Conservatives were on track to sweep before Trump shit the bed so badly that the entire world had to hold its nose.
perhaps, but they also had an absolutely miserable campaign and labor was phenomenal… it wasn’t a single issue that they won on
Omg I posted this in the wrong thread! This was in reference to Canada’s election.
I guess most of that I said can still be salvaged 😂
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WWIII teams are forming up
Hopefully more like Cold War II. And honestly, Australia's in a pickle there - most other democracies are pretty damn far away from it. They might try to do the Finland thing instead.
Hoping must work better outside the US, all it got me was a government composed of nazi terrorists.
The way you phrased that makes it sound like there's something I should personally do to make sure an inevitable conflict stays cold. If you have an idea, I'm all ears.
Anyway, hopefully Canada will open up asylum to Americans soon, in case things get really bad.
I really hope they do, but I feel like nobody is going to take American refugees until mass atrocities are well underway
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The Canadian cons didn't actually boot Polievre, instead they're giving him an easy to win riding and a brand new seat in parliament so he can stay on. Which probably means he'll stick around and win the next election. I hate it.
Edit: autocorrect
The good news is that the riding he has to run in is incredibly rural. He's going to hate it.
Poilievre is a city boy. He grew up in the Calgary suburbs. Then he moved to Ottawa to become an MP. The only job he's ever had involving physical exertion is when he was a paperboy as a kid. Now he's going to have to spend some time in his new riding surrounded by farmers. The biggest "city" there has a population under 20k. Everything else is towns, villages and hamlets. Assuming he buys a house in Camrose, if he wants Thai food, he'll have to drive over an hour to get to Edmonton.
Maybe because the conservatives have such an overwhelming majority in Battle River - Crowfoot, they won't care that he's a carpetbagger and he won't have to put much effort in there. But, I think eventually he'll have to spend some time in his riding, and it will be a major culture clash.
A lot of farmers are just rich guys, basically, but smug on top of it because of the tough image they have. The ones that own land aren't the ones that do the work, and the work that people who aren't immigrants do tends to be the sitting in a cab kind. There's not a lot of people between 20 and 45 here in rural Alberta anyway. The Hutterites are an obvious exception, but they don't vote anyway.
From what I've seen they really liked Kurek, are mad Poilievre is an outsider, and doubly mad because he's an Ontario city type, but it's nothing a firm handshake and some rabble-rousing won't smooth over. He might get only 70%
I dunno, I'd like to try to be hopeful. The NDP has a real shot to completely rebrand and come back swinging. Convince Charlie Angus to come out of retirement and lead the party, and spend the next however-long-this-term-lasts rebuilding support. I can't think of a better outcome than having to Sophie's Choice between Carney and Angus. Imagine having to choose between 2 legitimately good party leaders.
The deep mind 3D chess move to make here would be to found a better conservative party and split the conservative vote.
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