eureka
@eureka@aussie.zone
- Comment on The REAL reason Aussies don't use route numbers | Building Beautifully 1 day ago:
The number of contradictions they call out is impressive.
- Comment on The REAL reason Aussies don't use route numbers | Building Beautifully 1 day ago:
First time seeing the Ring Roads shield… I can’t really think of any ring roads in Sydney but I might be wrong
- Comment on High-speed train ticket between Newcastle and Sydney to cost $31 for one-hour journey from 2039 6 days ago:
How about we build the bloody thing before bragging about the ticket price.
- Comment on Queensland Tesla registrations in free-fall, as Musk embraces far-right 6 days ago:
Attributing the rise of one nation to “Nazis”
That is not what they said.
- Comment on Over 200K Australian Driver’s Licences Exposed in youX Cyber Breach 1 week ago:
I’ve salted some of my old accounts a while before closing them, but Facebook already though I was a baseball fan and other clear nonsense according to those GDPR data downloads you can grab, so I like to think they’ve mined so much incorrect data from me that it’s not worth much.
- Comment on What makes people proud to be Australian? The answer might surprise you 1 week ago:
Preferential voting is a huge step further than most other Western countries. Huge. To the point where states using FPTP should seriously hesitate in calling themselves democratic at all.
- Comment on Australia: Chinese HungryPanda food delivery drivers say police contacted family members back home as part of pressure campaign to stop them protesting 1 week ago:
- Comment on Australia’s Social Media Ban Is Isolating Kids With Disabilities—Just Like Critics Warned 1 week ago:
These places still exist, although admittedly they’re further from the spotlight and many were sapped by mainstream general-purpose platforms. But there are thousands of them around for those who care to look. I don’t even think it’s a stretch to say we’re on one, community hosted by Aussies for Aussies.
- Comment on The Epstein saga shows us the impotence of polite 'centrist' media – Greg Jericho 2 weeks ago:
Another prime example of this is the false equivalence media often draws between fascism and antifascism, simplifying it down to “both of them sometimes use violence”. (anyone who cares enough to look will notice that violence is a rare, and never preferred, antifascism tactic)
Luckily there are a few semi-mainstream and occasionally mainstream outlets who don’t fall for this nonsense.
- Comment on Three Australian millionaires say the nation’s super-rich should face higher taxes 2 weeks ago:
I completely agree. In fact, some of the best work I see are from tiny volunteer groups like Food Not Bombs, who literally won’t accept money (I’ve tried - my schedule doesn’t align with volutneering).
- Comment on The Epstein saga shows us the impotence of polite 'centrist' media – Greg Jericho 2 weeks ago:
The Epstein saga was one more case of it becoming clearer and clearer that the status quo, normal, is unacceptable.
There are hundreds more problems where profitable industries, everything from non-renewable energy companies to car companies to dairy to lawn care to plastics to drugs to gambling and so many more use their weight to fund ways to downplay change. And this works because mainstream news sources (generally speaking) are complicit. Every time they pick a think tank prop as the ‘expert’, this is direct propaganda.
Yes, Channels 7, 9 and 10 can be bought out. They are for-profit broadcasters, and quite frankly it’s shameful to be watch any of them now that there’s such a rich, freely-available and accessible world of alternatives. Obviously other broadcasters have their own inherent biases, but a channel owned my major stock owners and paid for by advertisers has direct anti-social results.
- Comment on Three Australian millionaires say the nation’s super-rich should face higher taxes 2 weeks ago:
The list of ways they can actually help are endless, they just don’t want to actually do any of them - they just want you to think they want to help.
This part is absolutely correct. A social billionaire is a direct contradiction.
The idea of billionaires self-regulating is utopian - if they were willing to do this without external coercion, they would already be doing it. At least something like a tax can be enforced, but even then, like you said, politicians who make laws are in the pockets of the owning class. We’d need a radical overhaul of the whole rotten system to be able to enforce any seriously important financial law on them.
That said, creating charities and aid isn’t a bad idea, it would be far better for them to support ones which already exist and are struggling. And it’s particularly difficult to trust billionaire claims of being charitable when so many already perform investment and other financial activity under the guise of philanthropism. Supporting grassroots aid efforts rather than building charities from scratch would demonstrate legitimacy. And like you said, there is no legitimacy in these claims.
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- Comment on Nationwide Protests Against Israel's President (Monday 9 Feb) 3 weeks ago:
Amazing how big the list of protest locations has gotten. I wonder what impact this will have in the places outside of major cities. I hope this makes it easier for those out in the sticks to network and fight for change.
- Comment on 5 weeks ago:
I reckon you’re right, I didn’t hear any complaining this year about the Triple J Top 100 being on a different date.
- Comment on 5 weeks ago:
It’s possible to celebrate what a nation has become without celebrating what they’ve done.
A nation’s actions are a direct result of what the nation is. And many of the shameful actions of Australia are ongoing.
I love this land, I love many, many people here, and I love many of the things we’ve created together. But I have no desire to celebrate this nation as it stands. I feel no more kinship with someone on the other side of the country to someone on the other side of the world - we are all fellow humans. I treat visitors and immigrants with the same respect I give local citizens. For the many positive parts of Australian culture, I spot as many negatives.
- Comment on Invasion/Survival Day Events Across Australia 5 weeks ago:
Good to hear the event has been organised. Food Not Bombs have catered up in Sydney so I assume they’ll be here today.
- Comment on ‘I’ve never watered it’: how an Australian groundskeeper achieved the world’s ugliest lawn 5 weeks ago:
I appreciate that the competition is a tongue-in-cheek awareness stunt, but mate, if it doesn’t look like the (metaphorically) plastic monoculture grassscape that lawn enthusiasts make, it’s far from the world’s ugliest. I’ve seen people in the US dyeing their lawns green with a gurney. If it can’t attract butterflies and other bugs, it’s an ugly lawn!
Good video on lawns: youtube.com/watch?v=KLYMjPNppRQ
- Comment on March for Australia admins encouraged people to join White Australia Party 5 weeks ago:
Stop dividing ourselves by race.
Yes. Although unfortunately, such divisions are already deeply ingrained into our society (e.g. casual racism in news and media, lack of historical representation in government, generational loss of land, segregation in many towns within living history), and we can’t mend these systemic divides by simply ignoring race. So it’s tough to mend the divide without giving some preferential treatment to the groups who need to be lifted back up.
I agree that the constitutional referendum wasn’t the best way to help lift up Indigenous people and mend the divide, I agree with your point that it presented some issues of its own, and I also believe it doesn’t make sense to treat it as similar to white-supremacist racism, which serves the dominant side in the divide, splitting it further.
it sends a clear signal to guys like this that it is OK
Ultimately, Nazism just does not care about what society thinks is ok. They claim to themselves that most people are brainwashed by a “Jewish conspiracy”.
To them, liberalist concepts like free speech, democracy, equality before the law are interpreted as weakness, foolish or just tools to be exploited on their path to dictatorship (like how their leadership is currently crying about their democratic rights while they want to strip those same rights from most of the population; they don’t care about these rights, they just want to exploit them when convenient). In their worldview, the constitution is just a list of tools that governments politely gave them.
- Submitted 5 weeks ago to australia@aussie.zone | 3 comments
- Comment on Teenage girl wearing jersey with Palestinian flag refused entry to Sydney A-League game 5 weeks 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 month 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 month 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? 1 month 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? 1 month ago:
What about green and yellow?
- Comment on Cameron Corner celebrates New Year's Eve three times in one night, on three state borders 1 month ago:
Image Gee Bill, your mum lets you have three new years?
- Comment on oi mates wtf is going on over there 2 months ago:
Please don’t just say “title” when the post title explains absolutely nothing.
- Comment on Christmas Present Inspiration Thread 2 months 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 2 months 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 2 months 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.
