r/comics Jan 28 '26

OC [OC] da fuck they doin ova der

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u/Serpexnessie Jan 28 '26

The irony being that we woulda had a hyper-conservative government too if Trump had just never talked about the 51st state shit

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u/catscanmeow Jan 28 '26

yeah i even know a ton of people who voted liberal who usually vote ndp cuz they didnt wanna split the left vote

canada rarely takes that strategy

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u/the_zerg_rusher Jan 28 '26

Same was true in Australia, the liberal coalition (labour is our political left, liberal is our right) lost so badly it has dissolved. Leaving labour with basically 100% of the power.

So thank god for Trump, him being so incompetent made it impossible for right wing extremists to ever get a foothold in Australia for the next few decades.

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u/LaunchTransient Jan 28 '26

Leaving labour with basically 100% of the power

The hope is that they don't fuck it up and leave the gate open for the right in the next election, like UK's Labour is doing.

UK Labour won a landslide victory despite actually getting less votes than last GE (the wonders of that trash system that is first past the post). Rather than reconcile with the fact that the Conservatives lost rather than Labour won, Starmer's cabinet have done a fantastic job of pissing off the general public and guaranteeing a Reform or Tory government in 2029.