The AI economy is the one thing propping up the American economy. This has implications.

We shouldn’t have local council elections, none of us know who TF these people are. Or we should have mandatory party affiliations in local council elections.

Banning accounts makes a lot of these worse when it comes to YouTube.

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Actions-wise, the LNP are not that far from the Democrats on social issues. They called the same-sex marriage referendum, passed gun control laws, supported a voice to parliament (until Dutton), mostly ignored trans people. The issues they’re right-leaning on are Israel (like the Democrats) and immigration (like the Democrats).

Climate change, is the one social (and economic issue) they’re to the right of Democrats on that I know of.

And of course, if you take the National party on it’s own then it’s definitely to the right of the Democrats.

But by American standards, they’re the equivalent of the Democrats … mostly. We have a party, “One Nation”, that’s closer to Republicans and some members of the Liberal party are ideologically aligned with One Nation but members of the Liberal party because they need to win elections (similar to Albo, who’s on the left-wing of labor but governs as a moderate because the far-left is an election losing position).

And a important thing for Americans to note is that in our ranked-choice voting system, a surprising number of One Nation (Republican) voters tend to rank Labor (Bernie Sanders) over the Liberals (Democrats). This is to say that not only is trying to appeal to swing voters in America a stupid idea because unlike Australia elections there are fought on turnout, but trying to do that by behaving like the Democrats has the exact opposite effect.

This is to say, if you put up a centrist for president in the (alleged) next election America then you will absolutely lose. Same if it’s a slimy disingenuous corrupt Californian like Harris or Newsom.

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Do you, perhaps, have a pro-speed bias?

Still, slower speeds in local neighborhoods makes a lot of sense. In Victoria it’s 50km/h which is way too high even for normal cars.

Can’t use a smartphone with gloves.

Try getting fingerless gloves.

Please don’t scare me with a title like that so soon after an election.

No mention of what they’re actually protesting?