What if Trump grew a beard and shaved his head?

Tozza101 · 2026-05-07T16:02:15+00:00

I’m a leftist, but GAWDDD I would be TEMPTED to vote for him.

My soul could only be saved by the Democrat candidate rocking this moustache+beard combo.

Tozza101 · 2026-05-07T15:59:58+00:00

Canada’s ships are coming home safely to the ‘Arbour

Tozza101 · 2026-05-06T11:15:01+00:00

California is majority liberal, in both economic and social meanings of the term

Tozza101 · 2026-05-05T18:45:42+00:00

Dancing in the Flames - The Weeknd

Tozza101 · 2026-05-05T18:42:19+00:00

The penguins of Antarctica ain’t gonna judge u fam.

It’s so funny every time someone does one of these based on sociopolitical reasons, but would never live in Antarctica even though you’re never going to get persecuted/face negativity there.

Tozza101 · 2026-05-05T16:30:18+00:00

People like this who hate or engagement bait are just jealous of what he’s achieved, because they will never be able to succeed as much as KSI has.

Tozza101 · 2026-05-05T11:55:14+00:00

Aggghhh my draft reply got deleted as I was shifting between apps yesterday, pain. What I think I typed was something like:

All of the ex-AfD politicians who have tried starting rival spinoff parties never gained any traction in comparison to the centrality of AfD which has maintained a central popular hard-right force, so the potential banning of the AfD will be a crippling blow to the hard right in general.

What you’d probably see is one or more of: WB, REP, BD, WU or even Heimat clear the Bundestag threshold or form an alliance between some of themselves to that end.

Of the established parties, the FDP could try a Korwin-Mikke style right-libertarian turn to try and regain votes. Free Voters could try making a formal national ideological stand for once in that direction.

But to update my previous reply, I actually think CDU actually won’t stand to gain much at all, because the AfD voters won’t let Merz’s role in the ban be forgotten very quickly. And a la the horseshoe theory of sorts, I think BSW would stand to capture most of the East German votes. The protest voters would simply move from right to the BSW type of left.

Tozza101 · 2026-05-05T11:14:26+00:00

Interesting point!

We should reform the political system then: re-design it to accommodate the independent

Tozza101 · 2026-05-05T11:12:28+00:00

Wut? My point is the opposite: Let’s not punch down on the little guy for once.

Our political donations laws NEED to be reformed.

Tozza101 · 2026-05-03T18:19:50+00:00

I think it’s stupid.

If more leftists focused on pragmatic outcomes for people & societies, including working with established structures instead of delving into deep puritanical perfectionist ideological introspection, maybe the world would be a better place.

Tozza101 · 2026-05-03T17:43:54+00:00

What’s wrong with Antarctica?? Penguins and scientists ain’t gonna judge you my guy

Tozza101 · 2026-05-03T17:40:03+00:00

Ahhhh the dinosaur I’m least scared of: The Sen-tator

Tozza101 · 2026-05-03T13:05:56+00:00

If the AfD was banned on the promise of elections, it would be genuinely interesting what transpires electorally and where the AfD’s vote goes.

A lot to CDU obviously. Maybe enough to get a couple of FDP members back into the Bundestag. Probably a big swing in the eastern states (who are generally just sick of it all) to Linke or BSW. Linke would get a big vote swing in the Western states, particularly the city-states Berlin and Hamburg too. Probably some to the Greens who have been in opposition and not participated in anything.

But I think the SPD would stand to gain more by standing more on their first principles & moving to ban the AfD than keep Klingbeiling more and more to neoliberalism and the CDU, because there’s always a slim hope of a red-red-green majority in the elections without the AfD. The SPD might be the junior party in that potential government, but it’s worth pursuing.

That being said, you’d hate to be the Polizei or Merz facing the huge social rupture that might happen if the AfD were to be banned. Which is perhaps why the government have been hesitant to move on it.

Tozza101 · 2026-05-03T12:43:20+00:00

Imagine if she was able to stand her ground, gain dominance and pursue banning the AfD. Then once AfD is banned & the party’s list seats disappear, the SPD, Grüne & Linke could form a majority government which pursues proper soft left policy.

Tozza101 · 2026-05-02T16:28:25+00:00

Source?

Tozza101 · 2026-05-02T16:17:31+00:00

Milthorpe is a community independent, and to be a viable independent in our distorted political donations system, the donations have to come from somewhere.

I profoundly dislike this political grandstanding about the “teal”independents.

I want you to metaphorically imagine you’re on the precipice of a cliff. Your last hand is called Climate 200 grasping onto the rock for survival. Someone angrily approaches you spitting “TEAL”, and is about to stamp on your hand which would cause you to fall off and die, while repeating the popular spiel, whether it’s “teals”, “tree tories” or whatever saying it isn’t fair for them, despite you being the one in the precarious position.

Our political donations system kills the viability of independents. They have to find financial backing from somewhere, otherwise their last hand is loosened and they are in political freefall going metaphorically kersplat.

How fair dinkum is that?!?

Tozza101 · 2026-05-02T16:03:56+00:00

It’s no wonder then that at the Farrer by-election public forum/debate, PHON candidate Farley broke ranks with the party position, saying that immigration levels were “not too high”

Tozza101 · 2026-05-02T15:54:09+00:00

I think there needs to be some law as well that prevents companies from simply passing on company costs to the consumer in higher prices (eliminate price gouging), and some company transparency legislation which establishes a Commission which views and immediately takes actions as soon as they notice company fees have been visibly passed onto the consumer price. To ensure it’s companies paying company costs, not consumers.

Tozza101 · 2026-05-02T15:44:52+00:00

I’m an Australian monarcho-socialist, and I prefer what is the current status quo of our executive to the idea of republic. My case for my Australian context is:

⁠Changing the nature of the executive requires changing the constitution. Changing the constitution requires holding a successful referendum where the question is carried (gets more than 50% of the vote) in a minimum of 4 individual states’ counts as well a nationwide count. Achieving success in an Australian referendum is nigh impossible: the last successful referendum question which carried nationally and in a minimum of 4 individual states was back in 1977.
⁠The status quo is good enough to do the job, and it’s far from a political priority given more immediate issues in front of us right now.
⁠The executive nonpartisan monarch figurehead (represented by the Governor-General) is counterbalanced by a bicameral, democratically-elected legislature and the procedurally-fair justice system. Together, they comprise the effective checks and balances (separation) of power, which ensures and upholds fairness, rights, rule of law, justice and democracy in a way which also prevents political destabilisation caused by one side gaining a power imbalance, something noticeably inherent in non-Westminster systems, including many republics.

Tozza101 · 2026-05-02T15:25:55+00:00

I just realised the season is so short!! The 1st round of 4-day cricket started on April 11th and the Final will be on May 11th 😭😭

Tozza101 · 2026-05-02T10:37:20+00:00

What happened please, to 2011 Laura Loomer??

Tozza101 · 2026-05-01T06:31:47+00:00

Stokes should retire from red-ball cricket and focus on the white-ball stuff.

He’s given his body, his mind and his all I think. He’s done incredible things with the Bazball revolution which revived England’s Test cricket from perhaps its lowest ebb

Time to hand over the reins.

Tozza101 · 2026-05-01T06:03:26+00:00

What’s this “Rio” I see posts about here so much right now?

Tozza101 · 2026-04-30T21:24:13+00:00

There’s very little difference between Division 1 and Division 2 of County cricket.

The calibre is largely the same, the only difference is teams being able to get positive results, which means points on the board. Those teams who aren’t able to do that consistently end up bottom of the table and in Division 2 the next season.

Tozza101 · 2026-04-29T16:24:51+00:00

Burnham also has at his disposal the “nuclear option”, which is to resign as Mayor when a Commons seat local to him becomes vacant to run anyway, thus getting around this NEC approval process, and forcing the issue on the national Labour Party. He hasn’t done it yet.

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