Anthony Albanese says action to prevent Iran from getting a nuclear weapon was acceptable, but that talks should now resume.
  • hitmyspot@aussie.zoneEnglish
    71·
    2 days ago

    Sticking to principles is the opposite of flip plop. I agree, they are not pragmatic, though. However, no other party with a chance at a seat was anti genocide. If they did the same or better, the argument could be made that aussies care. They did worse nationally. Aussies don’t care.

    • Aussiemandeus@aussie.zoneEnglish
      21·
      1 day ago

      Yes but governments can’t make massive changes in legislation easily and small incremental changes over time can achieve the same results.

      Like they say, don’t let perfection be the enemy of good

      • hitmyspot@aussie.zoneEnglish
        12·
        1 day ago

        Yes, I agree, but they were still the only party that were opposed to genocide and nobody cared enough to vote for them.

        So whatever your views of the greens, the voters view of genocide was that it wasn’t important.

        • Aussiemandeus@aussie.zoneEnglish
          21·
          11 hours ago

          No, that’s wrong.

          You can’t elect a party on one issue, three entire election is multifaceted you can’t try claim because the greens said the were against genocide and no one voted for them it’s simply due to that.

          The greens could have lost on any of their other policies with their views on genocide being ignored.

          Look at America, good old “genocide Joe”, lost the election being supposedly pro genocide while trump was going to fix it.

          No one is elected on one issue

          • hitmyspot@aussie.zoneEnglish
            21·
            10 hours ago

            No, I’m saying that as the only party to be anti genocide, if Australians cared about it as an issue, their votes would have increased, not decreased.