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- Comment on Australia bans DeepSeek on government devices over security risk 1 hour ago:
I’m still impressed by how many times it’s happened.
- Comment on Australia bans DeepSeek on government devices over security risk 5 hours ago:
You’d have to be mad to
Yes, but at the same time, an astounding amount of people are mad when it comes to tech.
My mate in IT says just this month someone in their corpo office used their work email to sign up to a malicious fake copy of a piracy website. If they were reusing the same password, that could let a hacker into the company account, let alone any other things that employee signed up to on that work email.
That doesn’t even cover the people posting things they shouldn’t on facegram.
- Comment on Australia bans DeepSeek on government devices over security risk 5 hours ago:
Yes, it is.
The USA is a tyrannical regime. Their congress is about as meaningful as North Korea’s at this point. They couldn’t even impeach the corrupt criminal.
In fact, on paper, bloody NK already had better seperation powers than the USA before this election, but obviously it means little because they’re both tyrannical regimes in reality.
As for their malware, NSA TAO have a reputation to uphold. Private corporations aren’t immune, we’ve known about PRISM for over a decade, for a famous example.
- Comment on Are you a Coles patriot. Or are you a Woolies nationalist? 4 days ago:
Why choose? Steal from both.
- Comment on friendlyjordies | manufacturing your consent. 4 days ago:
I rarely watch fj, so I’m not who they’re talking about, but Manufacturing Consent is the first political theory book I properly read. It’s certainly worth a read and clearly still relevant today (but if you know you never will read it, at least read the wikipedia summary). The book can be easily downloaded online for free.
Reminder for the newer crowd: “This is extremely dangerous to our democracy.”
There are chapters in this video labelled “corporatism”, and I think this is one of the few times I’ve seen that poor term used correctly.
The word “corporatism” is so often misunderstood and misused instead of “corporatocracy”, a system where business corporations have strong influence in politics (which is effectively just describing capitalism…).
But corporatism isn’t even referring to these corporations, it’s derived from the word ‘corpus’; body, to refer to a system where economic interest groups like guilds and labour associations, collectively bargain on the basis of their common interests. Notably, it advocates for class collaboration rather than class struggle, an idea which sounds pretty nice in a speech but has repeatedly resulted in domination of labour by either the owning class or the state, and the suffering of the worker class, who has been disempowered by being forced into collaborating at a rigged table.
While corporatism has a long and varied history, and I don’t mean to oversimplify it, corporatism is especially well-known as a core aspect in Fascist ideology [wikipedia]. It’s no coincidence that the video author is drawing comparisons to Mussolini’s face on the Palazzo Braschi. The fascists said a lot of contradictory, arrogant and garbage things in speeches, but one can’t ignore this quote of ᴉuᴉʅossnW in The Doctrine of Fascism:
“Fascism should more properly be called corporatism because it is the merger of state and corporate power.”
- Comment on Today could be a day for soul-searching. Instead we cling to a distant monarchy in denial of our racist past | Paul Daley 6 days ago:
At some point you have to leave the past in the past and build a more equitable world for all, today.
Yep.
Unfortunately, some people confuse equity with “just treat everyone the same, I don’t need to do anything about the things my ancestors stole”. That leaving the past in the past means ignoring its continuing impacts. As long as systematic disadvantage from stolen land and oppression is ongoing, it’s not the past - it’s the present.
- Comment on Today could be a day for soul-searching. Instead we cling to a distant monarchy in denial of our racist past | Paul Daley 1 week ago:
What’s the point of blaming dead generations? That doesn’t achieve anything for society. Guilt doesn’t fix things.
If my dad stole your car five years ago and I inherited it, I wasn’t involved at all, but you still had your car stolen. Would it be fine for me to say “I’m not a thief, you should blame my dad” and keep driving it around?
Of course, a car is a trivial example. Seizing entire communities’ land, kidnapping and massacring them, for starters, is obviously a bit harder to forget about after a few generations, because the consequences still impact people today.
- Comment on Today could be a day for soul-searching. Instead we cling to a distant monarchy in denial of our racist past | Paul Daley 1 week ago:
Sometimes it’s not even about denial of what happened, but rather a mindset that the past doesn’t affect the present anymore.
I often-enough hear people saying things along the line of, well, past generations took the land but society is better and less racist now, we collectively apologised, and my family weren’t even here at the time, so we have no obligation to do anything now. Almost like if my dad stole your car ten years ago, died after, and I say well I’ve never stolen anything in my life, it was my dad’s car, this car is mine, stop complaining about the past. It doesn’t make sense to start acting like equal treatment is fair after so much is stolen and so little is given back. But I know people who believe morality is that own individual behaviour, whether they are doing hurtful acts, and disregard their own position in society, how they got there and who suffered to allow that to happen.
Guilt isn’t what people are asking for, guilt actually doesn’t do anything useful, but rather we need people to realise that it doesn’t matter that we personally didn’t commit massacres and seize land, because the consequences of those acts still disadvantage current generations of the victims, and it’s not resolved if we dismiss the consequences as someone else’s sins.
- Comment on The series of anti-Semitic attacks that have shocked Sydney 1 week ago:
Thanks, luckily there are also a few in Aus too, including en.wikipedia.org/…/Jewish_Council_of_Australia who have been important in providing a voice to mainstream media which isn’t just a Zionist mouthpiece.
- Comment on The series of anti-Semitic attacks that have shocked Sydney 1 week ago:
Zionists pretend to speak on behalf of all Jews, but never have [en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-Zionism#Early_Jewish_a…] and certainly don’t now - all the Palestinian rallies I’ve seen have a notable contingent of anti-Zionist Jews protesting alongside them. For an extreme example, you can find plenty of cases of Orthodox Jews burning flags of the Zionist State even decades before this conflict.
It’s important not to confuse the Zionist Regime with the Jewish peoples of the world, just as one doesn’t conflate neo-Nazis with all Europeans. Both the Zionist movement and anti-semites (esp. Nazis) intentionally try to push this false narrative for their own separatist goals, and it’s important we recognise and counter it.
- Comment on The series of anti-Semitic attacks that have shocked Sydney 1 week ago:
That article is worth a post of its own for awareness, I reckon. That’s not trivial.
- Comment on Where Does [the] Australia[n continent] End? 2 weeks ago:
Definitions of the continents in general are surprisingly variable, from what I’ve seen. I was surprised many years ago when I went online and found an Eastern European calling Eurasia one of the six continents. There are a few different systems taught in schools around the world, not just the 7-continent model we’re used to. Like they’ve said in the video, different branches of science benefit from different understandings of continents.
- Comment on How did I miss this important Australian historical event? 3 weeks ago:
Yeah nah I don’t think they’re just deciding that from a clip of one copper. More like the years of Australian mass media support of the Zionist regime, our country’s critical military support of the ongoing genocide, and the rest of the shit that’s been going on here.
Zionism has too strong a foothold in this country, we need to throw that garbage into the bin where it belongs with the Nazis. Fortunately, the neo-Nazis here are finally getting their doors smashed in by vigilantes, but just like with the Zionists, the cops are doing their best to defend genocide’s right to peace.
- Comment on TIL: Deer are popping off down here 3 weeks ago:
In Victoria, they only want to hunt deer “sustainably”, so they have recognised “Deer Habitats”.
I say this without context, but this just sounds absurd. They’re an invasive and destructive species, right? To sustain native wildlife, we don’t want to sustain the deer population.
- Comment on TIL: Deer are popping off down here 3 weeks ago:
First off we’re not America, we take care of our citizens. We don’t need to feed them carcasses killed by some rando.
We’re definitely doing far better than the US, and while there’s room for improvement on taking care of our citizens, not even the US needs to feed them carcasses killed by volunteer hunters. Easily preventable food wastage alone can solve shortages, overproduction is the status quo.
NRA
Agreed, fuck no.
- Comment on Woolworths says it will 'do more' to celebrate Australia Day 4 weeks ago:
I’ve managed to find ones which are a step below supermarkets, so selling flags and nationalist paraphernalia is probably beyond their scope.
Fun reminder: IGA is a US brand.
- Comment on Australian bosses on notice as 'deliberate' wage theft becomes a crime 5 weeks ago:
The important point in this situation is that the ruling class is the owning class; the bourgeoisie. The racial and sexual composition of that class may change (and is already different in many countries), but we should not mistake that for a solution because until there is economic overhaul, the owning class is the class which determines and benefits from laws.
While you are correct that the most influential in Australia are rich and often also ‘white’ men, we must remember that these laws are ultimately written by politicians subject to capital owners, and written to benefit capital owners. That’s why wage theft was only a civil matter - because business owners of all stripes benefit from wage theft.
- Comment on Woolworths says it has more than 40 competitors in Australia – we went looking for them 1 month ago:
Only 5 years old and already competing with the big bullies.
- Comment on Happy Gravy Day! 1 month ago:
I knew the song but haven’t known anyone trying to make a day out of it. (The gravy is for Christmas Day! and all the following hamdays)
- Comment on It's the 170th anniversary of the Eureka Stockade 1 month ago:
It’s unfortunate that the article didn’t add some more detail about the long-standing use of the Eureka flag by the labour movement as a symbol of worker’s rights. I’ve seen it a few times among the pro-Palestinian/Lebanese protests and in the CFMEU anti-administration protests.
- Comment on Lone Soldiers. New Australian IDF recruits due to arrive in Israel in January 2 months ago:
Lmao the hezbollah and iran are the one fighting ISIS.
Many, many groups and states are fighting ISIS, even the Western alliances. There are thousands of reasons to criticize the zionist regime, so please avoid coming over here and posting weird claims like suggesting only Hezbollah and Iran are combating ISIS - there’s no point in playing out the liberalist ‘good guy’/‘bad guy’ fantasy and ending up with american-level exceptionalism like this. Genocide is genocide, and Hezbollah and Iran are defending themselves against the expanding genocidal zionist regime.
- Comment on Lone Soldiers. New Australian IDF recruits due to arrive in Israel in January 2 months ago:
Small difference, ISIS are the most disgusting
animals/people on the planetThat’s a similarity, not a difference. The main difference is that the zionist regime does comparable acts of torture and genocide at a systematic state level, enabled by its allies.
Whether one group is muslim or not makes no difference in this context. Australian citizens are being recruited to engage in a genocidal conquest, no point in saying one is better than the other.
- Comment on Parliament delivers a performance piece of legislative 'enshittification' that raises more questions than answers 2 months ago:
Ah great, the word ‘enshittification’ is already going to shit.
- Comment on Bunnings told to destroy 'faceprint' data after landmark ruling on facial recognition use 2 months ago:
fwiw, personal privacy isn’t the reason I close the door, it’s consideration of others.
- Comment on Australia versus the world: How we rank on air quality — and the city lagging behind 2 months ago:
Ah, making a clickbait article about a ranking and quoting the experts telling people not to just look at the ranking!
Thanks, Antibait Aktion!
- Comment on The country is done for 2 months ago:
Zedda is a new one to me, but I reckon it will stick.
- Comment on Harry Houdini Flew a Flimsy Aircraft in Diggers Rest. But Was He Really the First to Fly in Australia? 2 months ago:
But Was He Really the First to Fly in Australia?
Obviously such a question depends on the definition of flight, but it would have been nice for the article to give an honourable mention to Lawrence Hargrave, who lived in Australia since age 15.
Of great significance to those pioneers working toward powered flight, Hargrave successfully lifted himself off the ground under a train of four of his box kites at Stanwell Park Beach on 12 November 1894.
Obviously very different to a piloted and controlled flight like the Wright Brothers and these examples, but certainly notable.
- Comment on The country is done for 2 months ago:
by not using the countries name
“America” is not their country’s name either (“USA” is actually closer, now that you mention it)
- Comment on The country is done for 2 months ago:
no one says Gen Zed
Odd choice of example, I hear it often.
- Comment on Who was our best Prime Minister and why? 2 months ago:
Who was our best Prime Minister and why?
