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SilverNicktail t1_j7qyjpv wrote

Reply to comment by uglykidjoel in Australia blocks coal mine to protect Great Barrier Reef by WorldMarketFella

They finally voted the conservative fossil fuel shills out of office and now there's a flood of environmental laws going through. And all it took was devastating wildfires and huge reductions in wildlife populations.

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CryptographerShot213 t1_j7rgkdb wrote

Impatiently waiting for this to happen in the US…

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ThinkingWithPortals3 t1_j7sas05 wrote

Our voting system is a lot less screwy than theirs, so you're probably going to be waiting for a while.

Ours is still a bit screwy, but less than them.

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pnutbrutal t1_j7v098d wrote

Is ours not more screwy with gerrymandering? In what way do you mean less screwy? Genuine question, please don’t get mad :)

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ThinkingWithPortals3 t1_j7v155e wrote

We've both got that but American gerrymandering is an art form.

They've got the electoral college, but their winner take all system basically excludes realistic third parties.

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