cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/29061644

We’ve done it, we got rid of another soulless right wing politician!

Peter Dutton first made his party lose this election and now also lost his own seat much like Pierre Pullover

We’ve still got a government that green-lit new coal power plants in it’s last term, screwed over the Aboriginal community with a poorly run referendum, and still doesn’t give a shit about climate change, but baby steps hey.

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    We have a basic rule that the headline must match the article. Current headline reads:

    “Peter Dutton to leave Coalition leaderless, conceding he has lost his seat of Dickson”

    I’ll give you a fair shot to correct it before just removing it.

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      Done. Only because I respect you.

      It doesn’t make sense that rule. But you’ll disagree anyway and there’s never a chance of winning a mod argument anyway.

      The article headline you want is pointless and meaningless to the 99% of the world who visits this.

      Peter Dutton to leave Coalition leaderless, conceding he has lost his seat of Dickson

      I added context and a little bit of juice to it so it would make for a better headline for non-Australians. Did I add some anti Trump sentiment? Sure. Did that misconstrue the content of the article? No.

      I understand the current rule makes it easy to mod the place, but it also means you don’t let the OP add context for Lemmy. The rule should be: you can’t misconstrue the content of the article.

      Anyway, I appreciate all you mods do and I respect the rules that are in place.

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      Just remove it.

      People who do this shit are actively making this place worse.

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        Lol “the people actually making content are the problem” y’all are fucking clowns.

        Can we just be loose with the moderation while the “top” posts don’t even get 2k upvotes.

        It gave lemmy content, it led to engaging discussions, who tf cares if the title is bad.

        Jesus Christ I don’t understand this mentality

        You’ve made 3 posts in 2 years, op contributed to more fediverse in a day than you did in two years.

        You really want to make this place better, then quit your bitchin or contribute more and your bitchin will be more understandable

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          Editorialized titles distract from the content. There’s enough crazy ass shit happening globally that the added sensationalism isn’t necessary.

          Either way, maybe calm down a bit lmao.

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            If you take an article title directly from a local newspaper and post it verbatim on World News, nobody will know what the fuck it’s about and regardless of its content, it won’t see the light of day. It’s important that the article title is relevant to the audience.

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          Man fuck em, thank you for adding to the fediverse OP! You should look at non .world communities. .world is the more shitty instance filled with “um actually…” Style users and mods

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    19 hours ago

    Bravo to the Australian voters. However, you should have purchased the submarines from the French.

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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.

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        Don’t think I haven’t thought about it! I joke with my wife I’m going to open Cascadia Teriyaki in Australia and introduce them to Seattle style Teriyaki and Marionberry pie.

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    I hate the fact that it had to be the US that fell to these fascists… but at least it put the rest of the world on notice.

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    This forward progress to the human race is brought to you by the color ORANGE.

    We proudly demonstrated to the world the proper direction to go.

    Our loss is your gain.

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      It must be stated that the Labor party here are anything but progressive. They are centre-right by the most recent assessment of their values and support a variety of cunts in toxic industries who fund their campaigns.

      The libs (our very right wing major party) ran an exceptionally incompetent campaign, with Dutton as a key soulless idiot who can’t admit to mistakes when it hits him in the face. They had a bit of headwind from the global anti Trump sentiment, but it wasn’t like we were in the same situation like Canada.

      Regionally we already ARE the 51st state of the USA, because we provide them with much needed Southern Hemisphere intelligence bases which Australians have no right to visit, and they are our protector against any major military threat in the region.

      It’s a minor victory for any progressive minded person, as any mention of action on the climate emergency was stupifyingly absent from the entire campaign.

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      It’s going to be so weird helping the Germans defeat Nazi America

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        .ca

        You know it’s going to make more sense on some level, though. We love talking shit about America, we’ve just never been able to channel it anywhere.

        (Although if you’re closer to the border it’s probably different)

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      Remember that the ultimate enemy are the Sociopathic Oligarchs, and their Corporations. They have nearly unlimited finances, so they have to be resisted in other ways.

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      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.

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          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.

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            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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              Hey, we took in your draft dodgers. The main thing would be to not mess up our housing supply further. In any case, I doubt the safe third country agreement would withstand a court challenge at this point.

              It’s going to be trans people who would be eligible first, probably.

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    Foreign elections being won based on real opposition to Trump and those that style themselves after him. Democrats can do this, but it means they would have to stop trying to make deals with nazis.