Tenderizer
@Tenderizer@aussie.zone
- Comment on Who is telling the truth? 1 day ago:
I’d say the mere act of expressing these views publicly, possibly intimidating minorities, says a lot about someone’s character.
And the protests were organized by neo-nazis IIRC.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 day ago:
If someone’s views are hostile to a minority, even if they’re not hatred-driven, they should NOT express them publicly. There are plenty of private channels to reach out to politicians that won’t intimidate a vulnerable group. The mere act of expressing these anti-immigration views publicly is itself unacceptable.
- Comment on Battery found in Guzman Y Gomez burrito bowl, expert raises serious safety concerns 3 days ago:
Guzman Y Gomez constantly has job listings up. I suspect they have hectic conditions and nobody wants to stick around.
- Comment on France to sue Australian platform Kick for 'negligence' after livestream death 3 days ago:
I did some digging, looks like Labor offered it in exchange for support but in response …
Greens housing spokesperson Max Chandler-Mathers said the changes still did not go far enough.
Although I don’t know if mandatory disbursements are a good idea anyway. I’ve just accepted your framing of them as a good idea.
- Comment on France to sue Australian platform Kick for 'negligence' after livestream death 3 days ago:
So Gillard got couped too. Let’s just leave it at that because I can’t really be bothered.
- Comment on France to sue Australian platform Kick for 'negligence' after livestream death 3 days ago:
Source? Not that I really care. It barely matters.
- Comment on France to sue Australian platform Kick for 'negligence' after livestream death 3 days ago:
Sure, but it wasn’t an especially bold proposal.
Was enough to get her couped with a fake corruption scandal plastered all over the press. What are you expecting exactly, Whitlam levels of boldness?
Not a carbon tax.
Doesn’t matter. You can say all you want that it’s a lie to call it a “carbon tax” but does anyone in Australia know it by a different name?
It lasted only a few years because the Government lost at the next election. If Rudd had … instead of … that brought down both his and Gillard’s Governments.
Gillard was polling abysmally before Rudd took over. She was a terrible prime minster who nobody liked.
- Comment on France to sue Australian platform Kick for 'negligence' after livestream death 3 days ago:
Many NGO’s were prepared to hit the ground running with the HAFF funding, by blocking the HAFF the Greens screwed up the prepared contracts. They delayed much needed housing for people genuinely in need by years just so they could get brownie points with renters.
On the minimum payout, Labor conceded on that point immediately. The Greens were not voting against it on those grounds.
And before you say Labor should’ve made concessions, the Greens unlike Labor don’t actually face any electoral pressures since they have less than zero chance of forming government and basically zero chance of losing senate seats. The Greens, for good reason, have become politically toxic to deal with because they think acting like whiny children makes them charismatic. If Labor met the Greens $10 billion spending demands, it would’ve been used as a campaign point in this year’s election and Labor would’ve lost to the LNP who would’ve then cut the HAFF.
- Comment on France to sue Australian platform Kick for 'negligence' after livestream death 3 days ago:
Palaszczuk taxed the coal mining companies and balanced the state budget. And keep in mind this was in Queensland, the most conservative state in the country.
Rudd … there is so much I could say. One of Gillard’s first acts after replacing Rudd was to drop the taxes on mining, she then put in a carbon tax that even an idiot could come up with a scare campaign against, said carbon tax only lasted a few years and permanently poisoned the idea of a price on carbon. This is not even mentioning the CIA cables discussing whether they should replace Rudd with Gillard.
- Comment on Big tech is a weapon of mass destruction to democracy. Here are three ways Australia can fight back 3 days ago:
No further reading. Naturally though people find threats more important to know about than a news article saying “everything is fine, better than you think even, you don’t need to worry”.
Though doom scrolling does help keep people’s minds numb by flipping them between cat videos and RFK Junior endlessly. This is why doom scrolling is so good at making time disappear and some people want that.
- Comment on France to sue Australian platform Kick for 'negligence' after livestream death 3 days ago:
A government can only go against lobbyist interests (and especially American interests) if they have the opposition on-side. Labor, to this day, has a long history of being couped and they’ve learned cowardice as a result.
Whitlam, Rudd, Fyles, Palaszczuk.
- Comment on France to sue Australian platform Kick for 'negligence' after livestream death 3 days ago:
I voted against the Greens because their behavior voting against the HAAF was straight-up psychotic. They were throwing the homeless under the bus for headlines and renters.
- Comment on Big tech is a weapon of mass destruction to democracy. Here are three ways Australia can fight back 3 days ago:
They don’t want to be outraged, they just feel anything that outrages them is important whereas anything that doesn’t does not. So any news that’s positive about Labor is unimportant to the audience and suppressed by the media, even if it’s true.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
It’s pretty damaging to your reputation to sue a rape victim for defamation. Or at least it should be.
- Comment on Albanese's politics of patience: Democracy needs mature leadership 1 week ago:
You suggest both sides are the same when you say winning is less important than acting symbolically on principle. Principles give you a coalition government. A flagrantly corrupt, shamefully incompetent government, one that will not just do nothing to stop America from owning us but actively seek that out, one that undermines the unions and willfully cheers on extinction, one that’s just recently come out with the policy of scrapping net zero.
You may suggest the Greens, but the Greens would 100% lose 9/10 elections if Labor disappeared tomorrow. And the Greens are the actual horrible people. They blocked the HAAF not to save people from homelessness, but from housing stress, because they wanted to pick up renters as a voting block. I remember Adam Bandt visibly seething in rage at having parliamentary rules explained to him, because he is a narcissist who wants everyone to know that he’s a good and infallible person because he acts on his principles.
Acting on principles is the easy thing to do, but it’s also dereliction of duty as prime minister, because it gets you the job title of “former prime minister”. Whitlam and Rudd acted on principle, they lasted 3 years and were proceeded by a decade of Liberals. We cannot afford another decade of Liberals.
- Comment on Albanese's politics of patience: Democracy needs mature leadership 1 week ago:
The Israel story doesn’t allege any Labor wrongdoing other than the Elbit/Hanwha deal. There was a non-response from the Department of Defense but I wouldn’t expect them to respond. The Elbit/Hanwha deal is a bit of a misnomer, because it was a deal with Hanwha that Elbit was subcontracted in. The decision to employ Elbit was that of Hanwha, while they didn’t actively push against it they also didn’t initiate it. This is all me just skimming so take what I say with a grain of salt.
You gotta remember that America owns us, and Israel owns America. Actively (rather than passively) boycotting Israeli arms manufacturers would likely put our system at risk without materially affecting Israel’s ability to shoot fish in a barrel.
The fossil fuel approvals, I can’t find a credible source debunking those claims and can’t be bothered looking into the details. I need to know why Labor would approve new fossil fuel projects because I don’t buy the narrative that they’re evil and/or corrupt. Until I know the reason I can’t consider the story credible.
The salmon farming thing was obviously an election promise to get Tasmanian seats. It ultimately proved unnecessary because Dutton fumbled the campaign so catastrophically but if he goes back on his word that’d hurt future elections.
- Comment on Albanese's politics of patience: Democracy needs mature leadership 1 week ago:
The prime ministers that didn’t play the game didn’t last more than 3 years. Then we got the LNP who actually actively strengthen the neoliberal system. This whole “both sides are the same” argument needs to die, firstly because the LNP is corrupt and much more incompetent, but also because it makes the corruption and incompetence seem less bad when people say (or imply) that.
- Comment on Albanese's politics of patience: Democracy needs mature leadership 1 week ago:
What is he doing that’s getting people killed?
- Comment on Albanese's politics of patience: Democracy needs mature leadership 1 week ago:
Putting lives before an elections means you lose both, if he even has sacrificed lives by being cautious.
Cutting arms shipments to Israel would be merely symbolic and would get Albanese immediately couped like Whitlam and Rudd (if he would even be able to do it in the first place), the HAAF was meant to solve homelessness rather than housing stress and it was delayed by a few years by the Greens, and climate change requires policy maintained over multiple elections cycles to address on a domestic level.
- Comment on Albanese's politics of patience: Democracy needs mature leadership 1 week ago:
All the things people are saying he needs to be bold and aggressive on, Labor has done so in the past and it’s lost them election.
The fact is we’re all too immersed in the American social media ecosystem and so we expect bold action to solve American problems that would only be vote-winners in a non-compulsory voting system where elections are fought on turnout (usually as a centrist vs. nutjobs race). Albanese knows the Australian political system well, that being that nobody really cares about politics here and if Labor wants to win they need to stay out of the press because it’s run by private school kids who hate him (at best).
- Comment on Albanese's politics of patience: Democracy needs mature leadership 1 week ago:
Albanese is considered to be on the left-wing of the Labor party. He’s extremely cautious and with good reason. Culture wars, tax reform, and defying America are all election losers.
If you want to see someone who has no values look at Gillard. She couped Rudd by offering to drop the taxes on mining corpos, governed based on spectacle rather than long-term outcomes, and now spends her days campaigning on behalf of Israel last I checked.
- Comment on Could living in smaller houses redefine the Australian Dream and help fix the housing crisis? 1 week ago:
Granny flats may be a great way to act on this … assuming your parents live in a property that would allow for that.
- Comment on Traffic pollution contributes to more than 1,800 premature deaths per year, study estimates 1 week ago:
catalytic converters namely, which of course thieves steal for the precious metals inside.
- Comment on Netanyahu doubles down on Albanese attack despite Australian Jewish group urging calm 2 weeks ago:
At some point, Netanyahu really needs to consider the possibility that he’s the one who’s the problem.
- Comment on Benjamin Netanyahu says Anthony Albanese 'betrayed' Israel 2 weeks ago:
What he said to France, Canada, and the UK is far more boiler-plate and less emotive than what he’s said about Albanese.
- Comment on Benjamin Netanyahu says Anthony Albanese 'betrayed' Israel 2 weeks ago:
Given his reaction, I take that to mean Australia’s recognition of Palestine is actually a REALLY big deal. He didn’t say this about France and Mexico (two much more powerful countries). I don’t get how Australia in particular is so important though.
It’s worth noting recognizing Palestine comes with a lot of political risk. Labor prime ministers have been couped twice, and the LNP made a joke of any efforts they tried to improve the country in the following years. These coups both happened for defying US foreign policy.
- Comment on Kate Chaney: By increasing the GST to 15%, we could make the tax system fairer for younger Australians 2 weeks ago:
The suggestion that there’s no excuse not to take a gamble and try again really undersells how bad the LNP is for this country. A decade of Labor would do far more good than properly taxing the mining companies.
I know a lot of terminally online people like to say both sides are the same, and on the headline policies a lot of the time they are, but if you pay attention to the fine details you’ll see that the coalition are SO much worse.
- Comment on What if Australia were Ukraine? Trump and Putin prove our strategy to trust the US is a roll of the dice 2 weeks ago:
I meant invade like if they invaded California and overthrew Gavin Newsom (this is not an endorsement of Newsom).
In our case, they’d enter parliament, arrest Albanese, and put Ralph Babet in charge. Probably after the Murdoch runs a whatsitcalled campaign to give plausible deniability to the Americans for doing this. Then again, the CIA has couped our leaders before (although I don’t image the Americans will be satisfied with Sussan Ley or another ALP member in charge so they’d probably need to do a full military intervention).
- Comment on What if Australia were Ukraine? Trump and Putin prove our strategy to trust the US is a roll of the dice 2 weeks ago:
No way America would give up Pine Gap.
I think America is more likely to invade us than China is anyway.
- Comment on Queensland premier rules out changes to coal royalty scheme despite pressure from mining industry 2 weeks ago:
He promised it before winning the state election, but I guess the prospect of a balanced budget is too much for him to turn up.
Good for Queensland. Good for Queensland.