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    • ms.lane@lemmy.world
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      11 hours ago

      The excuse we get in Australia for why Labor have to do everything exactly the same as how the Liberal Party would do it, is that if they don’t, they won’t get elected and the Liberal Party will get in instead and do all of exactly the same things, but with a different banner.

      Time for some new actual centre-left/left/far-left politicians. ‘Drain the Swamp’.

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      1 day ago

      I can almost guarantee you at this point that it was either the air travel lobby, or dems being worried that Trump might actually be able to whip the votes to nuke the filibuster. Leaning more towards the filibuster at this moment.

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        24 hours ago

        i’m convinced that it’s the filibuster too; it’s way too much of a popular tool for lobbyists to let go.

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          22 hours ago

          Yeah, much harder to do their little “Revolving Door Villain” Strategy when all it takes is a simple majority to do anything. Not impossible mind you, but definitely much harder.

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      2 days ago

      Lmao why did you tag the OP in your reply ?

      Edit: I did not know they were coming from mastadon and I had no idea their platform worked like that. Sorry!!!