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- Submitted 14 hours ago to australia@aussie.zone | 2 comments
- Comment on Teenage girl wearing jersey with Palestinian flag refused entry to Sydney A-League game 17 hours ago:
Israel is a cult? A lot of people would agree with you regarding monotheistic religions.
Israel is not a religion; it’s important we differentiate Israel and Zionism from Judaism, because lots of mainstream media here has already tried to conflate them, trying to claim opposition to Israel is antisemitic (even Jewish opposition to Israel), and that actual antisemitic attacks are the fault of anti-Israel movements.
- Comment on Breaking: Neo-Nazi group says it will disband due to proposed hate speech laws 1 week ago:
they will scuttle away to whatever holes they can find
The March for Australia (26th Jan) is a nice sunny hole for them - we’ve seen that they have members as official marshals and event organisers. They’ll probably try and sneak into One Nation, since they had trouble infiltrating the Young Nationals last time. And as The Age’s expert suggested, they’ll probably resume their “active club” formations, minus the uniforms.
- Comment on Breaking: Neo-Nazi group says it will disband due to proposed hate speech laws 1 week ago:
Wonderful news. I agree with (Ross?) in The Age that they’re likely to regress to their “active club” stage.
Reminder that this group’s members and sympathisers made clear plans to counter protest Invasion Day marches. It wouldn’t be wise to assume the dedicated neo-Nazis would suddenly abandon their efforts simply because their organisation is disbanding to avoid imprisonment - they have shown with the March for Australia rallies their willingness for deception, such as acting in plain clothes and as staff/marshals while others wear their uniform. So it’s vital we show up on the 26th and make sure these scum stay gone for a while.
- Comment on Australia’s red and yellow beach flags can confuse tourists. Is it time to change them? 2 weeks ago:
Sure, but without a danger-danger elsewhere, a caution-danger might reasonably be interpreted as “don’t swim here”
- Comment on Australia’s red and yellow beach flags can confuse tourists. Is it time to change them? 2 weeks ago:
What about green and yellow?
- Comment on Cameron Corner celebrates New Year's Eve three times in one night, on three state borders 3 weeks ago:
Image Gee Bill, your mum lets you have three new years?
- Comment on oi mates wtf is going on over there 3 weeks ago:
Please don’t just say “title” when the post title explains absolutely nothing.
- Comment on Christmas Present Inspiration Thread 4 weeks ago:
One that worked very well a few years back (although around the limit of your budget) was getting a picture of their record collection, with permission, then sending the list to a music-fan non-mutual friend and asking what else they’d probably like.
Easy simple ones are small soaps, food treats like cheeses (yes, especially for the lactose-free crowd, e.g. goats cheese). I think you can’t go too wrong with something that’s quick enough to go through and doesn’t end up cluttering someone’s space if they don’t use it if you give it to them each year and birthday.
But for close family, we openly just ask each other what we want.
- Comment on Breaking: NSW Police responding to reports of shooter at Bondi Beach 5 weeks ago:
I think that’s their point - the Zionist movement intentionally tries to conflate Israel with Jewish people and with Judaism. For example, criticism of the country Israel and pro-Palestinean actions have generally been framed by Zionist groups as an attack on Jewish people, rather than an attack on a country and its actions.
This uses Jewish people as a shield for the actions of Zionism, and encourages antisemitism as a result. When some mass media news, social media influencers and racist agitators (e.g. neo-Nazis) try to associate regular Jewish locals with the atrocities of Israel, this scapegoating puts all Jewish people (even those who are anti-Israel) in danger of indiscriminate attack.
- Comment on Breaking: NSW Police responding to reports of shooter at Bondi Beach 5 weeks ago:
Coincidentally, they are wrong (the guns were legally owned), but it doesn’t even matter. They’re coming into a grieving community to sarcastically troll about US gun legislation using some ridiculous strawman argument.
So they can get fucked.
- Comment on Breaking: NSW Police responding to reports of shooter at Bondi Beach 5 weeks ago:
Horrific. This is horrible, I hope the ambulance are able to help all the wounded. It’s important that we do what we can, as a community, to help support those affected.
The heroic response from those around, including citizens and the police, probably saved many lives, and it’s important that we recognise their courage.
- Comment on Breaking: NSW Police responding to reports of shooter at Bondi Beach 5 weeks ago:
Police media have confirmed to the ABC that 10 people have died in this evening’s shooting at Bondi Beach, including one of the shooters and nine victims.
Twelve people were also injured, including multiple police officers responding to the incident.
A second shooter is among the injured, and is in custody.
- Comment on MegaThread: Under 16 lockout/verification/ID required 1 month ago:
- Comment on MegaThread: Under 16 lockout/verification/ID required 1 month ago:
On the bright side, hopefully the social media giants cop some big fines.
- Comment on As of December 10th, You need to be sixteen to use Aussie.Zone 1 month ago:
The dot points read like an instruction guide to me. I was musing about a week ago about making a backup Facebook account ahead of time and subscribing to insurance companies and marriage memes pages, or staging a trip to France.
membership in youth-focused groups, forums or communities
My Little Pony fans have been warned.
- Comment on Nerd update 2025 1 month ago:
It’s refreshing to have this kind of regular peak behind the curtains. Thanks for the post, Lodion!
- Cancer Council's iHeard articles - responses to claims people have heard about cancerwww.cancer.org.au ↗Submitted 1 month ago to australia@aussie.zone | 4 comments
- Comment on 1 month ago:
No, they are not Live-Action Role Players (well, not primarily). They are violent chauvinists with large amounts of funding and increasing connection with the electoral right-wing, intentionally organising to harm whoever they consider to be undesirable (non-Europeans, progressives, etc.). They’re pathetic outcasts, you’re absolutely right, but they cannot be trivialised as just roleplaying.
Many of them are recruited by the NSN targeting vulnerable, alienated young men. They have even been discovered trying to get jobs in the NDIS with the open intention of working only with young men diagnosed with autism.
- Comment on As of December 10th, You need to be sixteen to use Aussie.Zone 1 month ago:
I assert that imoldgreeeg… IS ACTUALLY YOUNG GREEEG!
- Comment on As of December 10th, You need to be sixteen to use Aussie.Zone 1 month ago:
- Comment on Couple from Kazakhstan allegedly used hidden camera and earpieces to win $1.18m from Sydney’s Crown casino 1 month ago:
The good news is we only hear about the ones who got greed enough to get caught (/s?)
- Comment on Couple from Kazakhstan allegedly used hidden camera and earpieces to win $1.18m from Sydney’s Crown casino 1 month ago:
Using science to fund science!
Not wholesome but also interesting: I recall a Russian mafia managed to acquire an Australian slot machine, and reverse engineer it to discover the psuedo-random number generator was effectively a huge but finite list of random numbers, in order, that would just loop back around to the start once it reached the end of the list. So they developed a simple phone app to put in operatives’ pockets, and record the spins (e.g. a cherry-cherry-apple spin might be swiping up-up-left). After a few of these, the app would figure out where in the list the machine was currently at, and the app would vibrate whenever the next one was going to be a winning spin, so they could bet higher amounts on them.
- Comment on Australia’s under-16s social media ban is weeks away. How will it work – and how can I appeal if I’m wrongly banned? 1 month ago:
It’s likely companies will use profiling to estimate users’ age, and many people will simply not need to do anything to keep using it
I wonder if I can preemptively add some activity to my profile to feign this, like add ‘married’ as a status and subscribe to insurance companies.
- Comment on Australia’s under-16s social media ban is weeks away. How will it work – and how can I appeal if I’m wrongly banned? 1 month ago:
How about I prove I’m old by not taking a selfie.
- Comment on The threat of sabotage from China is growing. That’s not an excuse to erode Australians’ freedoms. 2 months ago:
When it comes to the cybersecurity threats presented by our largest traditional adversaries, there are broad differences in their goals. For example, DPRK (North Korea) have heavy sanctions and frequently prefer profit/ransom attacks. The PRC (China) generally seems to prefer long-term access, rather than immediate sabotage, exfiltrating information or profiteering. Which matches up with what Burgess is discussing, I’m just surprised to see this framed in the article as a new strategy.
I definitely agree with the article that the upcoming safety/censoring measures are a dangerous overextension, and have mixed feeling about them being framed as state security measures.
However I disagree with the author over their general concern of state security blurring into private business, especially in a country where much of critical national infrastructure is privatived. When it comes to digital security, rather than social and political aspects like censorship and safety, that interference is generally beneficial, I don’t believe in companies’ freedom to leave a big hole in their fence.
- Comment on Chinese companies are largest shareholders in two Australian mines producing minerals vital for Beijing's hypersonic missiles, helping China to access key resources 2 months ago:
In Australia, like most liberalist countries, the ‘right wing’ of government and mass media has consistently been pro-privatisation and anti-nationalisation. Their ruling ideas are often echoed by their support base, the ‘right wingers’.
The centre Labor Party have also privatised major assets, including Commonwealth Bank of Australia, Telstra and Qantas, however “the difference between privatization under Hawke-Keating and Howard governments, is argued to be one of ideology”, the right-wing Liberal Party’s economic liberalisation.
- Comment on Chinese companies are largest shareholders in two Australian mines producing minerals vital for Beijing's hypersonic missiles, helping China to access key resources 2 months ago:
Which never happens and it doesn’t matter if the mines are owned by Chinese or as is more often the case US/UK.
Or by Australians. Gina isn’t sharing.
The problem isn’t which nationality the shareholders are in, it’s that the mines are run as a business for shareholder profit, shareholders who have enough capital to throw their weight around parliament and avoid having to use Australia’s resources to benefit Australia.
- Comment on Chinese companies are largest shareholders in two Australian mines producing minerals vital for Beijing's hypersonic missiles, helping China to access key resources 2 months ago:
Given that we live in Australia, it’s not strange at all that we’re concerned with how profits from these mines are distributed.
- Comment on Confidential letter for takeover of the Betoota Advocate 2 months ago:
I have twitter blocked at a DNS level
Nice.
I sometimes use alternate frontends to get to places like that and instagram if necessary, such as xcancel.com (Nitter) to view twitter.
