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TLDR: the trumpist tendancies of both conservatives candidates of Canada and Australia made them lose the election in favor of their leftist opponents.

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[–] crumbguzzler5000@feddit.org 18 points 4 days ago

Australians for the most part hate US style politics. But the rich billionaires in Australia are stupid enough to not realise that and wasted millions of dollars basically forcing people to go for the centre left option.

The Australian Labor Party I reckon ran a similar campaign as always, its the right which tried to do something different and it totally back fired on them, just the exact same as it did in Canada.

It really does give me some faith in humanity

[–] starlinguk@lemmy.world 9 points 4 days ago

Meanwhile, the Brits looked at Trump, went "yay" and voted fascist en masse.

[–] Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Back when the Leave Referendum in Britain was won by Leave, in the rest of Europe the number of people who wanted a Leave Referendum instantly dropped by half in just one month and the far-right who until then were vocally anti-EU, suddenly stopped doing it.

As I see it, judging by what's happened in Canada and Australia as well as by the very overt distancing of Trump by most of the far-right in Europe, Americans are taking it in the chin for the rest of us.

Now if only they themselves would learn that supporting fascism abroad also breeds fascism at home (I just found out that AOC voted in favour of a new bullshit "anti-semitism" definition from the Israeli lobby, so guess not even the supposedly "left" wing of the Democrat Party have yet to learn the lesson).

[–] jagged_circle 3 points 4 days ago

Trump wasn't the beginning, nor is he going to be the end of fascism

[–] Bluetreefrog@lemmy.world 5 points 4 days ago (2 children)
[–] can@sh.itjust.works 7 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Not in Canada. Another win!

Edit: archive link for those less fortunate

[–] huppakee@lemm.ee 2 points 4 days ago

You can go to archive.is (also archive.today, archive.ph and some other domains) and search for a URL (copy past the paywalled link) to read it, never had a big news outlet like WSJ not archived yet. You can come back here and post the 'new' URL here to save your friends at Lemmy some time like this:

http://archive.today/2025.05.03-111252/https://www.wsj.com/world/first-canada-now-australia-the-trump-factor-boosts-another-world-leader-in-a-close-election-bef1c5a