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- Comment on *Wiitching Hour at Northland* - an important video about how Aussies can prevent Nazis promoting themselves and gaining power 4 days ago:
One of the important points is people sharing the uncensored message. This is a cut-and-dry example of unintentional promotion. For example, I tried looking up the initial news on /r/Melbourne and the mod team wisely said something like “The Guardian has chosen not to share the image in their article and we will do the same”, locking the thread so that no accounts, whether sincere curious people or Nazi astroturfers, can say " what did it say", “it said X, how fucked up”, “omg how can this happen?”. That’s an example of the no platform tactics , which given the nazis’ goals, is an effective tactic in the arsenal.
On the other hand, you’re right that Tanuki is raising awareness of the event. I think their perspective is, if they have a platform, it’s best to make crystal clear how pathetic these people are behind their anonymity. (And I’m not saying that as a blind claim, these people have had their own members embezzle them, get repeatedly infiltrated by current affairs shows, have major financial donors lose their jobs and half their members and promoters are headed to the camps one train after the socialists and Jewish). Their recruiting effort relies on trying to show they’re better than all those failed neo-Nazi groups like Patriot Front and Atomwaffen, so we if we must talk about them (ignorance doesn’t work), we should make sure to laugh at them too, show we have a community willing to fight these alienated tourist flash mobbers.
And I think you raise an excellent point about unnecessarily naming a specific group, pointing potential recruits towards them more easily and making it a more common name to hear. I would be guilty of that too.
- *Wiitching Hour at Northland* - an important video about how Aussies can prevent Nazis promoting themselves and gaining poweryoutube.com ↗Submitted 5 days ago to australia@aussie.zone | 3 comments
- Comment on Snap election likely as Tasmanian Premier Jeremy Rockliff loses no-confidence vote 1 week ago:
I appreciate the write-up, friend. Thanks :)
- Comment on We are seeing some vote manipulation 1 week ago:
What a loser. Great to see this kind of thing gets discovered, it was one of my concerns when joining Lemmy (and one of my motivations for leaving sites like reddit).
- Comment on We are seeing some vote manipulation 1 week ago:
I often downvote Hotznplozn’s posts because those posts are exclusively warmongering propaganda. That is literally the only posts they make here, so I’m usually downvoting them whenever they appear here.
I’m surprised my cm0002 votes are so one-sided. I think their drama is weird but I don’t see them much. If they post generic memes a lot they’ll probably get some downvotes when I browse All but I can’t think of any other reason I’d show up there.
- Comment on Australian high-speed rail has barely left the station – some experts say a new US project shows a better way 1 week ago:
Out of all the countries to take high-speed rail inspiration from, I would hold off until that US line is actually operating.
- Comment on Australia’s bowel cancer rates are world’s highest for under-50s. Scientists wonder if the gut microbiome is to blame 1 week ago:
And I’m also surprised it was higher for 25-44 than 25-24, although it could simply be that vehicle accidents knocked it down a spot.
- Comment on Australia’s bowel cancer rates are world’s highest for under-50s. Scientists wonder if the gut microbiome is to blame 1 week ago:
Bowel cancer is now the leading cause of death in people aged 25 to 44 in Australia.
This is surprising. It wasn’t even in the top 5 a couple of years ago, according to the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (gov).
- Comment on my kid is movin to AU 2 weeks ago:
any tips? warnings?
For your kid? Or for you?
If you’re ok sharing it with us, it would help to know what city/area they’re moving from and moving to, or even if it’s city vs suburbs vs rural. Even something as simple as “footy” could mean three different types of football depending on what state they’re in (and none of them are gridiron).
If you’re not from somewhere with many spiders, might be good for your champ to quickly learn the most common ones here and whether to run from them or keep them around to eat annoying flies. Plenty are harmless to humans.
And if you’re not from somewhere with ocean beaches, learn basics (how to stay afloat, riptides, basic beach safety like swimming between flags) and sun safety (“slip, slop, slap”).
- Comment on Rule 34 rule 2 weeks ago:
Wow, that’s surprising. It’s got less than a dozen users posting cute fox photos. Maybe they’re automatically blocking booru software, since plenty of others have porn.
- Comment on Rule 34 rule 2 weeks ago:
Findafox is a good, work-safe example.
- Comment on Floods in Australia 3 weeks ago:
- Comment on Why Do Co-Op Stores Only Work in Small Towns? 3 weeks ago:
“Economics” isn’t a useful answer.
- Comment on Why Do Co-Op Stores Only Work in Small Towns? 3 weeks ago:
At least six food co-ops in Sydney appear to have died since 2018, which I suspect is partly due to COVID.
- Comment on More DDOS(?) traffic 3 weeks ago:
Could be a scraper? But it doesn’t sound much like one if the user agent wasn’t clear, or suspicious. A DoS attack would probably be making an odd request, intended to waste the most resources possible.
- Comment on News and Politics in /c/australia: "She'll be right", or "not on, mate"? 4 weeks ago:
[I’m not sure if @ pinging works, so just in case it doesn’t, I’m replying just so you know I referenced this post over here]
- Comment on News and Politics in /c/australia: "She'll be right", or "not on, mate"? 4 weeks ago:
However, best to start as we would mean to continue.
Only if it makes sense. @ikt@aussie.zone has a valid point about having smaller communities until there’s enough traffic to justify dividing it up, which I personally think is less critical on aussie.zone due to how the site is set up but can be make-or-break on forums with distinct boards, where it just gets filled with 3 half-dead communities instead of 1 active, inviting community.
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Agreed.
- Comment on Star Ownership 4 weeks ago:
Yeah I assumed “high seas” just meant the waves were big, not “high” as in hundreds of kilometres upwards. Well we’d better be careful where we shine laser pointers if this all decides to happen.
- Comment on News and Politics in /c/australia: "She'll be right", or "not on, mate"? 4 weeks ago:
As a counter question: if you’d prefer to see less news and politics, what sort of content would you prefer to be posted instead? There might not be enough.
I’ll leave this question to others, since my account is very much focused on news and politics.
- Comment on News and Politics in /c/australia: "She'll be right", or "not on, mate"? 4 weeks ago:
Is there a specific issue you are trying to fix or is the duplication the issue?
It’s mostly the duplication, but also that it would frustrate people who don’t want to see all the politics posts. (For what it’s worth, I think politics is important and people should be informed whether they want to or not, but there are valid reasons for wanting to block politics comms for a while.)
Nothing’s really broken, but this is something that can be nipped in the bud if other users think it deserves fixing.
- Comment on News and Politics in /c/australia: "She'll be right", or "not on, mate"? 5 weeks ago:
If it makes you feel better, I can call you a fukken seppo wanker. Will that do the trick, mate? ;)
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- Comment on Can someone explain Australian parties to me? 5 weeks ago:
Funnily enough, an actual Libertarian party has since popped up and the Liberals challenged their name with the AEC, which as I said is funny because the Electoral Commision correctly pointed out that if ANYBODY has an incorrect name, it’s the Liberals.
From a historical/polsci perspective, the Liberal Party is a conservative liberalist party, and the Libertarian Party is probably also a conservative liberalist party claiming to be a classical liberalist party (right-libertarian is also appropriate, as opposed to the original meaning of libertarian, which is now called libertarian socialism).
The US discourse using “liberal” to refer to “progressive liberalism” is more the source of confusion than the Liberal Party.
- Comment on Can someone explain Australian parties to me? 5 weeks ago:
Im not a fan of Albanese due to him largely coasting on important issues; like housing but Im not aware of the broader population thinking he was a cunt.
For what it’s worth, I’d say many online communities (including Lemmy) are more progressivist than the average population, so a non-Australian could easily get that impression.
- Comment on Can someone explain Australian parties to me? 5 weeks ago:
It’s preferential FPTP
This contradicts FPTP - Australia does not use FPTP.
They’re far from perfect, but the alternative was Donald Dutton
I get what you’re saying, but there were other viable alternatives (as unlikely as they were!) precisely because we aren’t in a two-party FPTP system.
- Comment on Can someone explain Australian parties to me? 5 weeks ago:
It’s also an insult. We’re a nuanced people.
- Comment on Can someone explain Australian parties to me? 5 weeks ago:
Y’all have first past the post / winner takes all, don’t you?
Nope. Instant-Runoff Vote, where we rank preferences. It’s much better.
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ncase.me/ballot/ has a neat interactive visualisation of different voting methods.
Labor, coalition, independents, etc. what kinds of parties are these?
The Coalition is a coalition of allied parties, not just one party. Generally speaking, it’s the Liberal Party and the National Party. Now, if you’re used to American political media, you’ve probably learned an incorrect definition of ‘liberal’ - it doesn’t actually just mean ‘progressive’, liberalism is an ideology focusing on the ideal of liberty, and most parties in modern liberal-democratic countries are liberals, whether they’re classic liberals (think US Libertarians), progressive liberals (think a Green party) or conservative liberals. The Liberal Party of Australia are conservative liberals, and they’ve been mirroring some of Trump’s rhetoric and US Republican Party ideas like the DOGE. Australia apparently didn’t like that.
Labor were historically a social democrat party representing the labour movement and unions, but has drifted further away from that and is now considered either the centre or centre-left party.
The Greens are the third biggest, a populist progressive party, focusing on issues like environment and climate, social justice and housing.
Independent candidates are independent, they aren’t in a party. Some have left their old parties, some were never in one.
I thought Albanese was a “cunt” yet his party seems to have won again?
Since when has that stopped politicians from winning?
What’s going on?
The Liberal Party faceplanted, many of their voters swung to Labor. Others will have chosen smaller parties, but Labor and Coalition each had about 33% of the primary vote in the past few years with Greens and One Nation down somewhere around 10% so Labor was clearly the most likely to win this year.
Interestingly, unlike the House of Representatives which election coverage has focused on, there is still a crossbench in the Senate, it looks like Greens will still have around 11 members there, forcing Labor to appeal to them in order to pass bills in the Senate.
These are generalisations, there are some technicalities I’ve avoided.
- Comment on Should police have the power to arrest demosnag dealers who don't accept EFTPOS? 5 weeks ago:
It’s a monopoly conspiracy! Big Sausage won’t get away with this.
- Comment on Got plans for May Day tomorrow? 1 month ago:
We still celebrate it every year in March.
What happened in March? I don’t know as much about other states’ Labour Day history.
I’d be in favour of us changing the date to one that relates to our accomplishment as well.
I think that’s missing the point of International Workers’ Day - it’s not just about our national accomplishments like Labour Day. Our labour movement has had effects on other countries (e.g. our pioneering contribution to the eight-hour day struggle, green bans, the Dalfram dispute re: Imperial Japan, black bans of the Dutch Black Armada trying to colonise Indonesia, wharfies in general), and other countries on our struggles (again, maritime work in general is an example, where worker unions and members from different countries regularly interact and interrelate. An interesting specific example was the solidarity actions with Australian waterside workers in 1998, including parliamentary and harbour actions in Spain, anti-scab actions in New Zealand, and the picketing of Australian embassies in the Phillipines, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, and the USA^[1]^.
We live in a global capitalist economy, our work often relies on the products and demand from other countries, and therefore an international perspective of labour is useful for any of us who want the best outcomes for our worker class. And so, while it’s obviously not the most important thing in the world, I believe celebrating an explicitly international labour day is constructive and beneficial even from a local perspective.
- Comment on Got plans for May Day tomorrow? 1 month ago:
Will do! Have a great time on Monday :)
[just fyi] - The Labour Day public holiday isn’t today in any state (AFAIK), this is for May Day/International Workers’ Day.
