Gorgritch_umie_killa

@Gorgritch_umie_killa@aussie.zone

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Record January migration intake⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  When people have an agenda, they won’t let a little thing like facts get in their way.

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘We’re living in an Orwellian nightmare’: Grace Tame calls Anthony Albanese a ‘coward’ in scathing critique⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Hmm, for a bit of fun i’m gona do a list of names that i think are pretty uncompromised that you mightn’t have thought of, I’ll try to think of people across the political spectrum, see what you think,

  • Andrew Pocock
  • Jacqui Lambie
  • Chris Bowen
  • Jim Chalmers
  • Jordan Steele John
  • Ed Husic
  • Julian Leeser
  • Andrew Wilkie
  • Helen Haines
  • Anne Aly
  • David Shoebridge
  • Kate Chaney
  • Parrick Gorman
  • Andrew Hastie
  • James Patterson

  Theres probably others. As I say, i might not agree with much of what these people say, but i generally listen when they speak because they’re coming in with some fairly consistent positions where you can see their own ideologies at work instead of being led there by others. But I haven’t read that book, so maybe i’m misinterpreting what is caught in the definitional use of the term compromised.

  I suppose those in leadership positions i’m giving a somewhat looser reign, namely Jim Chalmers, because leadership over such a complicated entity as Treasurer of a Nation I think is inherently compromising having to weigh up so many competing interests.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘We’re living in an Orwellian nightmare’: Grace Tame calls Anthony Albanese a ‘coward’ in scathing critique⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Really?!

  Zero candidates across Australia? Or do you mean zero candidates that your vote could have gone to directly?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘We’re living in an Orwellian nightmare’: Grace Tame calls Anthony Albanese a ‘coward’ in scathing critique⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Genuinely chuckling at this, even read it in Goughs voice lol

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘We’re living in an Orwellian nightmare’: Grace Tame calls Anthony Albanese a ‘coward’ in scathing critique⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Maybe the Greens, if any? I’ve heard her on The Shot pocdcast before, speaks well. Bloody confident.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘We’re living in an Orwellian nightmare’: Grace Tame calls Anthony Albanese a ‘coward’ in scathing critique⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Look you can denigrate other cop shows, but CSI Miami is a straight up fly on the wall documentary. Those cats do it, By. The. Book. /s

  Yeah, maybe they were less comfortable than I presented it as, but at the same time the key question of Pine Gap had been put to rest by Whitlam by the time of the dismissal. Maybe the Vietnam draw down played a role, seems petty though.

  I think I need to see a clear intervention before I could call it anywhere near a CIA coup just because of the behaviour of the other actors. Like those Palace letters, Kerr was gunning for it for over a year, he was so obsequious to the crown, it was quite skin crawling. He contacted the High Court justices they didn’t say boo to the PM, Kerr wouldn’t talk to Whitlam, Fraser had the perfect opportunity to discuss the seriousness of the situation on the plane ride. The whole thing sits poorly with me, self interest stacked on top of self interest, all the way down. I’ll admit Whitlam seems like he could be overbearing to deal with at times, maybe that played a bigger part.

  The thing i’d forgotten about was the coupmaster part, cheers.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘We’re living in an Orwellian nightmare’: Grace Tame calls Anthony Albanese a ‘coward’ in scathing critique⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Felt inspired to listen to the Do Go On podcast on Harold Holt - spotify today. Those three really go on. Its okay if you wanted to learn marginally more about the man, and be mildly amused one day when you’re bored for an hour and a half. :)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘We’re living in an Orwellian nightmare’: Grace Tame calls Anthony Albanese a ‘coward’ in scathing critique⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  A source for Holt?

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  I’ve read fairly far into the Whitlam dismissal. The CIA involvement has no more evidence, yet, than to suggest Whitlam wasn’t the US’ first choice. With the ‘note’ that was passed on. And that they were keeping tabs on a developing situation. If i remember correctly, they were aware of the Palace communications and of Kerr’s previous links. Its mostly circumstantial, with multiple possible reasons for these things to occur, so not enough evidence of CIA involvement for nefarious purposes.

  What I dislike is people always blame the CIA that has little evidence, when the behaviour of two members of the High court, Kerr, Fraser, the Liberal Senate leader of the day and many others who couldn’t accept a progressive government for a few years was so egregious and in some cases treasonous.

  Whether outside influence from the Palace or the CIA occured the key players were all Australian, and that side of politics have never been held to account, except arguably Fraser and Kerr, forbtheir actions that damaged Australia to this day. They couldn’t win the political argument, so they overturned the rules and guidelines to win again. Truly disgusting.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘We’re living in an Orwellian nightmare’: Grace Tame calls Anthony Albanese a ‘coward’ in scathing critique⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah true, surely they must’ve.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘We’re living in an Orwellian nightmare’: Grace Tame calls Anthony Albanese a ‘coward’ in scathing critique⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Theres an implicit claim here that I don’t think has any basis in reality. Source for Harold Holt conspiracy theory?

  ^Note: I’m not trying to denigrate whatever you’re thinking in regards Holt, if he was murdered, etc, then it would very much have been a conspiracy. Conspiracy theory has a bad reputation as a stand in for only being outlandish and crazy claims in discourse, annoyingly.^

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘We’re living in an Orwellian nightmare’: Grace Tame calls Anthony Albanese a ‘coward’ in scathing critique⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I like the description of a geopolitical chokehold. Thats a good way to describe Australia’s position.

• ‘We’re living in an Orwellian nightmare’: Grace Tame calls Anthony Albanese a ‘coward’ in scathing critiquewww.theguardian.com ↗
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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨An 18-year-old woman in Queensland faces two years in jail for wearing a shirt that says "from the river to the sea."⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m gona jump in to defend Brandis a little here and say his views on these things are usually ideologically consistent. I don’t know if he’s been asked specifically about this case, but his response (if he decided to respond), would likely be worth listening to. Even if disagreeable.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are users who openly parrot literal Nazi talking points allowed here?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  So Western Australia has two electorates larger in land area than Texas.

  • ‘Tinpot’ Texas is 695,662 sq/km

  • ‘Oceanic’ O’connor is 1,126,937 sq/km

  • ‘Big Dog’ Durack is 1,410,947 sq/km

  So, I think this Letterkenny fan should be saying ‘Thats a Durack sized 10-4’ if they’re coming onto Aussie-zone slinging sick quotes.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are users who openly parrot literal Nazi talking points allowed here?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Fuck ! I forgot my field stone chorin!!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are users who openly parrot literal Nazi talking points allowed here?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, i realised the admin angle I’d overlooked after I posted this and saw you’d responded this arvo as well.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Senior ADF source confirms Australian Army preparing for war⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Not really, the problem i have is the ownership and what that certainly means. It could be a left leaning article in this case.

  But The Nightly is a publication with the obvious purpose to make an impression on and guide the discourse of the millenial and younger generations. This i expect is because their traditional mastheads and their distribution channels aren’t gaining great traction with these generations, and the expected conservative movement coming with age hasn’t occurred.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Senior ADF source confirms Australian Army preparing for war⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  (The Nightly)[en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Nightly?wprov=sfla1]

  Fuck oligarch run, funded, and owned newsmedia. This outlet is a wolf in sheeps clothing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are users who openly parrot literal Nazi talking points allowed here?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t see this as, as much of an acceptance of Nazis problem than a lack of moderator problem. There is one active moderator for that community, that moderator also happens to be a rather busy bloody bee, seeing as they are the AZ admin/owner, and they’ve stated their personal life business before.

  This is a problem I’m actively concerned about with communities I moderate. I advocate for more moderators per community, and to ensure those moderators are still somewhat active.

  If @lodion@aussie.zone wants help with moderation I can jump on board with the community in question.

  I’d also advocate lodion inviting by P.M. another one or two people to help out with moderation as well. Because many hands = light work. And a bank of moderators could help smooth things when issues such as inactivity of mod accounts arise.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Broken Image link?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Hmm, okay thats good, maybe its just my end. Cheers.

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why some in Australia are mourning Iran's Ayatollah Khamenei, as criticism mounts⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I think its one of those periods where history changes slowly, then all at once.

  Many elements leading up to this period have been bending and breaking for a couple decades. In the case of the West, (i refer to that since that has been the leading force in the world and I’m part of that construct for better or worse),

  • The West led by the US has now failed militarily (Iraq, Afghanistan, Ukraine only the most notable for their reasons)

  • It has failed economically with rolling crashes followed by narrowly dispersed recoveries and increasingly failing to deliver on historical cultural promises of standards of living.

  • Finally through wikileaks, panama papers, support of a genocide of Palestinians, and now Epstein we find our legal and ethical standards are rotten to the very core of our power structures.

  Organisations like the UN will survive in some form, there is a practical need for the convening and discursive power of international bodies. But the US led order cannot be the same now.

  I don’t know where the US ends up, but the path for Australia is clear, reduce our productive reliance on other Nations (costly, but neoliberals were just flat out wrong on targetting their narrow definition of ‘efficiency’), make Oceania as a regional network of Nations a meaningful entity, increase commitment to organisations and summits such as UN and APEC, augment our relationships with our traditional allies to make them less US centric, and increase collaboration worlwide with mid-sized powers (Carney’s assessment is correct).

  This is all medium to long term projects. The sad thing is most of this will have to be done after the current US administration have left Office. It will make this change harder if saner heads in the US prevail once again, in fact that would be a significant threat to building a country like Australia’s sovereign capability.

  The only way a country like Australia can stay so closely tied to the US is if there is a just reckoning for those in power, and those who have influenced the powerful for their own gain. Such a reckoning would span such a wide range of coutries and internal groupings that it is near impossible to foresee.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Habitat - A Potential Complementary Social Media.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, i think thats fair. I can’t see enough people outside of the facebook ecosystem discovering this at the moment, to make it naturally grow. But at the same time there is a kind of ‘build it and they will come’ philosophy that could apply with these things.

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  I suppose this post is part of me slowly trying to figure out how a networked set of online options could be built out for Australians in particular, and thats less reliant on other countries, especially US, Russia or China, et al.

• Habitat - A Potential Complementary Social Media.
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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨RSA urges Albanese govt against further privileging religion through a faith advisory body | Rationalist Society of Australia⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Hmm, learned something here. Thanks.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨RSA urges Albanese govt against further privileging religion through a faith advisory body | Rationalist Society of Australia⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  When the Minns government established the 19-member NSW Faith Affairs Council in 2023, it excluded non-religious representation, even rejecting an application from a non-religious leader who was endorsed by a Christian minister.

  What is the other ~39% - ABS of Australia?.. Faithless - yt

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The rhetoric ramping up over ISIS brides has nothing to do with the women and children themselves⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Australians en-masse might not like this group of Australians, but we nonetheless have a responsibility to them, and we are failing in that responsibility.

  There is nothing patriotic or nationalistic about abandoning your countrymen especially when they’re in a fucked and disagreeable situation.

  You wanna play favourites with groups of citizens? Guess what, you don’t support your Nation, you’re an ideological toad.

  Always remember people who support abandoning any Australians are the lowest of the low. Its an embarrassment that so much of the political gravity in this country is pressed into this ideological and racist cul-de-sac.

  Fuck the hipocrisy on full view by all these people in positions of influence refusing to help and actively working against Australians being able to live again in their homes. They’re about as loyal to Aus as an egg on a teflon pan. Get these people home, deal with them here.