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Old 4th May 2019, 03:04 PM   #338
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Originally Posted by cullennz View Post
Let me explain something to you.

He got in because someone else left

Do you how many votes he got in the election?

19

Yes 19. Or 0.00% of votes.
Let me explain something to you, now.

It does not matter HOW he got there.

It does not matter if a Nazi "ran unopposed". How do you think that happened?

It does not matter if the Nazi merely replaced someone else. How do you think he ended up in that position where he was able to do that? Magic? He was the lucky 100th caller in the Replace the Leaving Senator phone contest?

It does not matter how it happened. What matters is that it happened, and now he's a bona fide Australian senator who is casting votes and influencing national-level legislation there. These people are not clowns of 70's and 80's hollywood movies, hilariously bumbling their way into elected offices purely by accident while a studio audience laughs. They get where they get because enough people say "pssht, like that's ever going to happen" without understanding that is a self-fulfilling prophecy.
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