We have used RCV in Australia for about a century counting paper ballots by hand and there has been one election within my lifetime where the result wasn’t known on election night. There are always a few seats that go right down to the wire and take longer to get the final result, but I see that as a feature, not a bug. We do also use computers in the count, but the initial count and preference distribution is done by hand.

We are too impatient already.

I don’t understand why people are so obsessed with getting a final, definitive result on election night. You have a ridiculous 2 month gap between the election and the new congress and president being seated, and the outgoing congress and president still get to legislate and exercise executive power in that time. It’s ludicrous to me that the losing party gets two months to sabotage the incoming government.

Well we are on Lemmy, so yes

I can see the republicans going for the 25th if they dress it up in very flowery language about how “the president has done a fantastic job but he’s become very unwell and for his own health he needs to step down and it’s a shame that he isn’t able to make that decision for himself any more” or some crap like that, then they might get enough defectors on board for it to pass. They get to keep praising him, claim it’s for his own good and that they’re doing it because they care about him, rather than the betrayal of voting to impeach and convict.

Not knowing who any of those homunculi are (and I don’t want to know), I’d guess pink pants is Natalie Harp holding his nappy bag (diaper bag for the Americans).

The kind of person who would buy these would also circulate them to somehow “own the libs”

This is exactly what happened after the Bondi shooting that targeted a Hannukah festival last year. Conservative media and politicians (and even fucking Netanyahu himself) went absolutely feral blaming the government despite the fact that ASIO stopped monitoring the shooters in 2019 under the previous government, and that one of the shooters was born in Australia, with the other (his father) having migrated here about 30 years under the conservative Howard government.

Earlier in 2025 our government recognised the state of Palestine. Ever since the shooting the Epstein class has been astroturfing the far right here and doing their damnedest to destroy the government. I don’t believe that’s a coincidence.

The whole existence of said deadline was an exercise in antidemocratic bastardry on the part of the GOP state government orchestrated by McConnell himself to frustrate the Democrat governor’s ability to appoint his replacement.

I swear that in 6 months time it’ll be “this person writes in complete sentences with correct spelling, must be AI”

In Westminster parliamentary systems, the government has a cabinet of ministers responsible for different policy areas, similar to the US presidential cabinet. The leader of the cabinet ministers is the prime minister, the head of government. The closest US analogy would probably be a cross between speaker of the house and house majority leader (the role of the speaker of the house in Westminster parliaments is somewhat different - in Australia the Speaker is a member of the House of Representatives elected by the House, and is responsible for the operation of the house, but does not get to decide what legislation gets put to a vote. That’s up to the governing party). The prime minister is supposed to be “first among equals”, but in reality the PM is the leader of the party and is hence the boss. The PM also de-facto exercises executive power, since the Governor-General who legally holds executive power only acts on the advice of the prime minister.

No more Nazis!

This statement made some people very, very upset before Wolfenstein 2: The New Colossus came out for some reason …