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One Nation secures historic victory in Secret Harbour by-election (www.abc.net.au)
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[โ€“] 7 points 2 months ago (3 children)

I confess to being surprised. Not about yesterday's result, though I would have been a few weeks ago. I was at a Fathers' day thingy last week and my Brother-in-law and my dad were essentially talking about One Nation as a viable choice. Dad has been a bolted-on Labor guy with every 80's stereotype those voters came with (battler, literal blue collar, lifetime CFMEU member, union shop steward - the whole works) for my entire life. Dad coloured my understanding of politics as a child (Fraser bad/Whitlam good).

So for him to be shit-talking Labor and talking about One Nation as something viable - yeah I was really taken aback. He doom-scrolls Facebook all the time, so I know where this has come from. If he can be shucked from Labor boat and turned, I bet loads of others can be as well.

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  • [โ€“] [S] 5 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    Facebook is for sure the worst. The glimpses of the shit my olds are reading on there is the most toxic and dishonest slop.

    What I can't understand is why it's so hard for people to double check the information they're considering, check the context a bit before locking in the point of view presented.

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  • [โ€“] 3 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    Critical thought and awareness of how misinformation and algorithms target people seems to be falling off a cliff. Is this result not a demonstration of exactly that?

    Of course I'm not suggesting people should vote for corporation backed parties, they're demonstrated that they'll always pander to donors. Surely there were actual candidates with strong and responsible policies.

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  • [โ€“] [S] 2 points 2 months ago

    Yeah, I didn't pay too close attention to the actual policies driving the campaigns, not interested in it enough. There was something I kept hearing about red bins, but that could be 'woKErAti climate wars' LGA edition. So probably not policy exactly.

    I don't think awareness of disinformation and individualised algorithmic targeting were ever really widely known or understood enough for it to 'drop off a cliff', it seems like people are completely uninterested in understanding these systems of manipulative influence. At least from where I'm standing it seems that way.

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