Thecornershop

@Thecornershop@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Let's chat about these SEVEN nuclear power plants the LNP want to build ...⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Worse than that, it’s an intentional miss direction so that their billionaire benefactors can continue to squeeze the fossil fuel sponge well into the future. They want to get every last almost free drop out of our resources.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Families distressed after 'highly misleading' video used by anti-Voice campaigners goes viral⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  You know, I’d tend to agree with you on that, but recently I’ve come to see that the vast majority of people just take what they hear as fact and don’t really think to much about it.

  What that means is that if you have billions of dollars of capital at your disposal and tens or more of billions of dollars of future earnings at stake it’s pretty cost effective to manipulate those people who I mentioned in the first paragraph of my post.

  Depressing, but unfortunately true as best I can tell

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why Australians are snubbing this fast and free way to lodge their tax returns⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I lived in NZ for a while, it was heaps better over there you don’t need to do anything, they just send you a refund or bill, then if you have any other deductions you can claim those. Great for forgetful/lazy people like me.

  Completely unrelated, I somehow forgot to file last year so need to do two now <facepalm>

  Can I do that through ATO or do I need an agent?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fact-checking for the "No" referendum pamphlet was not compulsory⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Was there no requirements for the essays to be factual? I honestly can’t understand how or why blatenet and provable falsehoods were aloud to be in this important document?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Big W removes sex education book from shelves after staff members abused⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I didn’t realise these kind of culture war astroturfing regressive religious groups were this active in Australia. I hope there is something we can do at a societal level to prevent this escalating.

  • Antivaxxers
  • Sovereign Citizens
  • White supremacists
  • Anti Trans “protesters” (making threats to libraries)
  • Religious “mothers” groups banning books

  I’m happy for people to have their beliefs but these things all feel like they are being done cynically by dark forces that want to change the fabric of our society - Or maybe I am off with the fairies, I don’t know sometimes.

  Am I alone in thinking that? What can we do about it?

• Big W removes sex education book from shelves after staff members abused
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