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- Comment on 'Investor' is a dirty word for first-home buyers — but are they the real villains? 1 day ago:
Hoarding a scarce, essential resource to make money is villain shit, yes. Get a real job, Margaret.
That said, the real villains are politicians for not outlawing housing investment. Privileged opportunists will do it until it’s illegal.
- Comment on Is there an Australian equivalent for boycotting american products ? 1 day ago:
There arr some great sailing guides on !piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com
- Comment on Labor says Dutton has questions to answer over timing of share purchases 1 week ago:
Yes, and abstaining only gives them a larger proportion of the votes.
Find the left wing candidates (the senate has some even if your local ballot doesn’t) and preference them, if you want to help keep out Lib and Lab.
- Comment on Australia's spy chief: Antisemitism now agency's 'top priority' 1 week ago:
Is it all really genuine?
The only recent acts of antisemitism (not to be conflated with anti-Zionism) are from fringe neo-nazis (who have always been racist pricks) and a wave of vandalism and arson which, so far, appear to have been done for pay rather than sincere political motivation, with police saying they’re looking into foreign actors funding them.
All that to say, I doubt it’s genuine. The rest of the things I’ve seen called antisemitism in the mass media are simply protesting against the Zionist Regime (‘Israel’), which disingenuously attempts to conflate itself with all Jewish peoples.
- Comment on Families fighting to keep loved ones out of extremist groups struggle to find intervention programs 2 weeks ago:
It’s aggravating they’re such a danger because they’re all such pathetic losers.
Exactly. When communities have organised in response, the NSN get chased up the road even when they bring out knives (see: failed attack on Gummo Cafe). But when a community does nothing, they’re left with a group of a couple of dozen interstate tourists trying to seek attention and intimidate people, often with a police line protecting them. Any group of a dozen, no matter how pathetic, will make unorganised individuals less likely to do anything, and the problem only grows if they gain greater numbers to mobilise.
One of them is on record at a UK fascist conference saying that when they’re outnumbered and getting told to leave, they “feel like shit, it’s horrifying”.
- Comment on Could Musk's unpopularity in Australia impact the election? 2 weeks ago:
Australia? We couldn’t possibly be. imma have to demand evidence.
- Comment on Families fighting to keep loved ones out of extremist groups struggle to find intervention programs 2 weeks ago:
It’s self-defense, and it’s community defense.
grouping
I didn’t look the first time I read this, but wow that’s bad. I shot better with an automatic SMG the first time I held a gun in my life.
- Comment on Could Musk's unpopularity in Australia impact the election? 2 weeks ago:
Their are 3 countries with rare earth minerals
There are more, and I don’t know any specific REM primarily in those three countries. But yeah, they’re three of the more important ones, alongside USA, India, Brazil, Russia and Paraguay.
Most of out trade is with China so us cutting us off has very little impact on our trade.
I think ‘very little’ is exaggerating (apparently 11% of imports and 5% of exports), but yep, we have other options if push comes to shove.
+1 for the soft power tools being their benefit rather than ours. +1 for us hosting critical intel bases.
- Comment on Could Musk's unpopularity in Australia impact the election? 2 weeks ago:
Most of them I want gone. From that list, I only use one or two Google/YouTube products, and am forced on a couple of the social medias only for specific event chatrooms.
You’re right, it’s cultural dominance, not reliance. They benefit from it more than we do.
- Comment on Inside News Corp’s backfired 'UNDERCOVERJEW' operation 3 weeks ago:
I don’t think the Telegraph understand how codenames work lol
- Comment on Australia accuses China of 'unsafe' fighter jet move 3 weeks ago:
Does OP ever post anything but negative stories about China?
I believe that OP is the fourth of a series of German-manned accounts (the previous accounts being 0x815 then thelucky8, and then randomname) all following the same posting pattern and almost exclusively posting the same kind of news. In short, it’s a propaganda operation (regardless of whether it’s one person acting on their own beliefs, or not).
When you see this pattern, it’s pretty disingenuous that they keep switching accounts and doing the same thing. Assuming they are the same person, their posting has received complaints here before.
- Comment on Australia accuses China of 'unsafe' fighter jet move 3 weeks ago:
I couldn’t see an Australian source saying where in the sea this occured. China’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs claims this happened on the Paracel Islands:
“The Australian military airplane deliberately intruded into China’s airspace over Xisha Qundao (Paracel Islands) without China’s permission. Such move violated China’s sovereignty and undermined China’s national security,” said Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Guo Jiakun, according to a transcript.
“China has lodged serious protests with Australia and urged it to stop infringing on China’s sovereignty and making provocations and stop disrupting peace and stability in the South China Sea.”
Wikipedia: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paracel_Islands
The ownership of the islands remains hotly contested. The People’s Republic of China (PRC) on mainland China, Vietnam, and the Republic of China (ROC) on Taiwan all claim de jure sovereignty, although the PRC has had de facto control of the archipelago since the Battle of the Paracel Islands in January 1974. In July 2012, China (PRC) established Sansha, Hainan Province, as administering the area. In February 2017, the Asia Maritime Transparency Initiative reported 20 outposts of the PRC built on reclaimed land in the Paracels, three of which contain small harbours capable of berthing naval and commercial ships.
Looking at where Australia is on a map, and that we had a surveillance jet flying near their (claimed, and effectively owned for over 50 years) territory, I understand why they’re telling our military to fuck off. Imagine if China started flying jets around the Timor Gap, I reckon we’d tell them the same.
- Comment on Australia bans DeepSeek on government devices over security risk 4 weeks ago:
I’m still impressed by how many times it’s happened.
- Comment on Australia bans DeepSeek on government devices over security risk 4 weeks 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 4 weeks 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? 5 weeks ago:
Why choose? Steal from both.
- Comment on friendlyjordies | manufacturing your consent. 5 weeks 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 5 weeks 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 5 weeks 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 5 weeks 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 month 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 month 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 month 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? 1 month 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? 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month 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 2 months 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 2 months 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 2 months ago:
Only 5 years old and already competing with the big bullies.
