It’s not particularly conservative. Imo, maybe Chris disagrees, we don’t really have a particularly conservative state anywhere. Just an evenish spread of deplorables. Maybe Queensland leans a little more conservative (warmer, northern state with a lot of tropical climate similar to Florida I guess) but I can’t really think of another. Got a few fairly liberal states though but basically every state has had both conservative and ‘progressive’/liberal governments in the last decade.
https://twitter.com/sheeraf/status/1640112769939951617?s=46&t=2EWo86OWsdcXuzICYQdT0A
Ok looks like it’s Israel’s turn to kick off.
I’d say QLD and WA. WA is like Texas minus the god and guns but still with the mining economy and isolationist attitude.
TAS is not conservative, idk why they have Liberals still but it’s probably local issues. State governments don’t tend to be all that ideological. I would attribute most of Labor’s current dominance to simply the pendulum swinging back that direction, but the Liberals do have some issues with a base that is fracturing along sociocultural (especially gender) and environmental lines. Lot of doctor’s wives getting sick of being opposed to their party on every issue aside from their material interests.
The Liberals are centre-right (“Liberal” originally in the sense that they favoured laissez-faire employer relations) and Labor are… centrist to centre-left. Australian politics has typically been very centrist while I have been alive although the hard right has gotten a bit more of a foothold in the federal Liberal party in the last decade or so. Australia has a more urbanized population than the US, so politics is dictated by the big cities to a greater extent.
Nice image.
https://twitter.com/krassenstein/status/1640071584172892160?t=r23mWMl38t0gFnN0iSWpzg&s=19
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How bad things are here in Israel? All McDonalds branches are on strike today
THAT’S SOCIALISM!
What I dont understand: How did these people get into government when there is broad opposition to these changes. Was that something that wasnt on the agenda before?
Pretty sure 35% or whatever of Israel are deplorable and love Netanyahu
Emotions fueled propaganda wins over concrete policy almost every time. People vote against their interests all the time in service to fear based narratives about IMMIGRANTS and GLOBALISTS and URBAN THUGS.
Israel is mostly right wing (our version of right wing - just racism not economic or social right wing). Usually this ends in a center-right government.
Since the centeric parties oppose netanyahu he had to go to the extreme right. It worked, a lot due to incompetence within the zionist left-center, and they formed a semi historic coaliton of fascists and ultra religious.
Its not really the people rising up to tyranny because the goal is to bring back the nice apartheid
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I gave a run down of the parties here. The coalition is from likkud and to the right.
Mererz, the leftist zionist party, didnt make the minimum 4 seat threshold
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More good news for authoritarianism:
So proud of the Israelis for standing up to that nonsense
last time i was at a macdonald in israel they didn’t put cheese on their burgers anyway.
There are kosher branches and non kosher branches. You can get cheese on your burger still (dunno what will happen in a few years). I think the large majority of mcdonalds are non kosher. You ran bad or was in jerusalem or airport
But tbf israel is probably top 5 best food countries in the world if you dont care how expensive everything is. eating mcdonalds here is very silly
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it was in TelAviv, towards the end of a birthright trip. food in general was excellent, but we had a good time ripping mcd’s for that one time
My colleague was encouraging me to go to Israel but it’d be like Switzerland where all I’d end up doing is complaining about how expensive everything was and refusing to splurge on stuff because of it.
I’ll stick with the Balkans and Caucasus for travel. Fun and cheap.
Does any place, McDonald’s or not, put vegan cheese on a real meat burger?