[–] 54 points 8 hours ago (7 children)

The blue states just need to enact malicious compliance. They could declare a floating public holiday called voting day, pay electoral staff penalty rates and make it a law that all workers required to work that day are given paid time off to attend a nearby voting station. They could setup a time slot booking system that lets people nominate a voting station and a timeslot with information about how many people are attending at that time so they can make informed decisions about when to attend. Could they impose a tarrif (apparently it's not a tax) on political parties so that a percentage of their donations need to go to supporting the local elections. Republican billionaires want to buy elections? Whoops all democracy.

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  • [–] 11 points 1 day ago (2 children)

    The meeting was definitely Jefferies whining about how he felt bad taking so much Israeli money for doing so little and needing to gargle more Israeli balls more regularly to make up for it.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 day ago

    Soo .. less than a year for a pandemic, a US civil war and a world war? Who is the US supposed to be fighting internationally while also fighting itself? I don't see Russia, China and Europe joining forces on anything, is the US joining forces with Russia and Israel to fight Europe and China on two different fronts?

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    Some pretty salient points from Malcolm Turnbull. Morrisons shit subramine deal is going to haunt us for decades to come.

    I'd like to give him the benefit of the doubt that by patriotism he means a focus on serving our country rather than the nationalism it tends be associated with. I'm not a huge fan of Turnbull but he has always been pretty well spoken.

    I think his idea that the Liberal party are good economic managers died about 25 years ago with Howard. It could be argued they've always been shit at economics, just noone called them out on it in the old days. I agree that they should be pushing back to the centre of they want to deal with Hanson's racist arsehole party.

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