Sasha
@Sasha@lemmy.blahaj.zone
Yes, that Sasha
- Comment on Bring your friends! 3 weeks ago:
I appreciate the question, honestly.
It is mostly about pink washing, we’ve certainly seen plenty of that sort of thing coming from Israel as they try to sanitise the genocide.
I think there’s an important point to be made on cops though. While in some communities, the police have only ever been a good presence that makes people feel safe, there are many others where police represent only violence. To the indigenous and immigrant communities, police are a force who rip families apart, physically assault and even kill people in custody. Trans people face similar discrimination and violence, and there’s essentially no incentive for the police to change.
- Comment on Bring your friends! 3 weeks ago:
Yeah… Believe me I am not keen on it, fuck meta
- Comment on Bring your friends! 3 weeks ago:
We’re trying to get protection from discrimination and vilification while securing everyone’s right to gender affirming care. The Queensland government recently suspended it for minors and a federal review into gender affirming care was announced, in other countries thus has lead to an increase in violence and unfair scrutiny into people who just want to live peacefully.
If you’ve decided anarchy is deranged then I can’t convince you of why any of those points are important, but I will say that it’s simply that we recognise that our struggles are all bound up together, the intersectional approach is the only right one.
- Comment on Bring your friends! 3 weeks ago:
I assume more information will be announced on the Instagram page
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- Comment on How close are we to "manually tuning" LLMs? 1 month ago:
It would be easier and faster to just train it on the stuff you want it to output. There are hundreds of billions of weights in models like gpt, and no one really knows what any individual one does.
- Comment on Daily Discussion Thread: Tuesday, 4 February 2025 1 month ago:
I fucked up the inside of my lip at a show and it’s making me fucking miserable. I hate having to swallow half a tube of medijel just to eat…
While I’m here, if you’re a decent person and want to help protect trans rights in Australia after the Qld government decided to fuck over trans kids, come to the state library at 10am this Saturday.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
Trans inclusive radical misogyny
Personally I don’t, I can see someone not hating that kind of humour as much as me thinking it’s funny, in which case I guess it would be.
- Comment on Checking in 2 months ago:
I don’t know I just downloaded this to shitpoat
- Comment on Checking in 2 months ago:
NO
- Comment on Checking in 2 months ago:
I can’t explain this
- Comment on Daily discussion thread: 👨🔬 8 January, 2025 2 months ago:
Just another downside to living in Tassie
- Comment on Daily Discussion Thread: 🌃 Sunday, 5 January, 2025 2 months ago:
I had a lovely chat with a magpie today, they’re extremely friendly in my area. He was sitting on a low fence and I asked if he’d been in a fight because some of his neck feathers looked a bit shit, he seemed okay though.
- Comment on TIL: Certain councils offer subsided compost bins through CompostCommunity! 2 months ago:
Oh boy…
I accidentally left my bokashi bin cooking for almost an entire year and it ended up infested with flies. When I popped the lid to get rid of it I was simultaneously horrified at the infestation and fascinated by how much everything had broken down. It was basically a brown ooze, the only remaining things I could recognise were some pistachio shells
- Comment on TIL: Certain councils offer subsided compost bins through CompostCommunity! 2 months ago:
Holy shit they even have bokashi kits
- Comment on It's fundamental to Australia's democracy. But is your right to protest under attack? 3 months ago:
Authoritarian measures like this are not how you stop people protesting, this won’t lead to anything except further police violence being inflicted upon the best people in Victorian society.
I really hope Allan reconsiders, but I know she won’t…
- Comment on Thefts linked to cost-of-living drive rise in Victoria's crime rates 3 months ago:
Just remember to steal from the capitalists, not each other. I really don’t want to lose a third bike…
- Comment on Daily Discussion Thread: 🔆🥵🍨Monday, 16 December,.2024 3 months ago:
I put an emergency blanket over the window in my study because that’s the only window where sunlight comes in directly, it’s made an enormous difference and it was free lol
- Comment on Do you want the murderer of the UnitHealthcare CEO prosecuted? 3 months ago:
Yeah, at this point the discussion starts getting to the edge of my knowledge, I don’t think killing is good in either case. I don’t think it’s a way to repair hurt and I can’t imagine it helping me, I’d much prefer imprisonment (though there are more radical approaches I’d massively prefer over that).The Leftist Cooks video I linked talks about approaches that are far better than I’m capable of describing in a Lemmy comment (I tried and failed lol). In it they discuss what it’s like to be a victim of SA and how one reconciles that experience with being a prison abolitionist. tl;dr being a victim isn’t really a contradiction and there are better ways to heal that aren’t revenge based.
As for a deterrent, for one that doesn’t seem to work. This is one of the only reasons that supporters of the death penalty can give (other than a desire to inflict pain) and it’s generally shown to be very ineffective. This is one of the things I alluded to in a previous comment when I said I didn’t need to explain why the death penalty is bad. The other is that you can just get it wrong and kill people you shouldn’t, I’m more interested in moving beyond violence as a tool for suppressing further violence. We are capable of being better, I see it quite often in the radical groups I work with.
I think valid practical reasons would be things like bringing an end to harm, for example had Trump actually been assassinated, I might not have to be so damn worried about all the trans people in the states. Killing Netanyahu or Putin might save a lot of lives, though in all these cases there are a lot of people who would carry on that work, and they may even decide to inflict greater suffering as a response.
There’s an interesting edge case where the killing of Shinzo Abe was driven by revenge, but ultimately put such a spotlight on an issue that it caused the government to take action. I honestly don’t know how to feel about it, it wouldn’t be possible to predict the result so I can’t see it being justified beforehand, but at least it lead to something good in the end.
To be quite frank, I want to build a better world, and I don’t want killing to ever be a part of it. It might take a lot of death to build that world, but we should move beyond it. I don’t feel like people can be deserving of suffering, however they can and should be made to repair what suffering they’ve caused where at all possible, and prevented from causing more. It’s these points that I’m referring to when I say I’m an idealist.
- Comment on Fair Work Commision decides pickets are bad faith and not allowed. 3 months ago:
Got any posts or links I can share around? I’d go myself but I’m very annoyingly unwell at the moment, least I can do is try to mobile people in my network.
- Comment on Fair Work Commision decides pickets are bad faith and not allowed. 3 months ago:
WOOLWORTHS IS STRUGGLING??? WOOLWORTHS???
WTF is wrong with this country
- Comment on Do you want the murderer of the UnitHealthcare CEO prosecuted? 3 months ago:
Oh don’t get me wrong, I’m absolutely an idealist and I acknowledge that.
Let me be clear, I specifically think we shouldn’t immediately jump to killing as the first choice. If killing an evil person is going to lead to actual good outcomes, and is seemingly the best/most viable option, I’m not necessarily against it even if I don’t care for it. Violence is a tool we can use, but I prefer to limit it where possible.
Reform would be great if possible, it likely may not be. I think taking away the ability to do harm is probably the best place to start, imprisonment is certainly an option there but it’s not the only one (and doesn’t need to look like the current prison systems we have). If killing leads to a good outcome, and it’s not possible to do anything less (for example we don’t have the power to just round up all the billionaires and corrupt politicians to do these things), then it’s justifiable.
Once approaching justice after the harm has been stopped, one also needs to consider how victims feel and what they’re going to need to try and reduce the impact of the harm they’ve suffered. I’m no expert on any of this and I don’t pretend to be, but I know there are better ways than the current judicial systems. In all honesty I think it’s a case by case kind of thing.
My main concern with this whole affair, is that it hasn’t changed any power structures, people will still be exploited. I want to see structural change, not just blind revenge.
- Comment on Do you want the murderer of the UnitHealthcare CEO prosecuted? 3 months ago:
I am vegan, and that’s exactly the reason why.
I think it’s quite simply the case that we should make the choice to try and make life as uncruel as possible. That’s what I believe and I understand that many people won’t agree with me.
Also hey, I’m just having a discussion here we’re all friends. There’s no need to be mean and say I’m talking gibberish.
- Comment on Do you want the murderer of the UnitHealthcare CEO prosecuted? 3 months ago:
It is in some cases justifiable, but I don’t think it’s necessarily the only option in the majority of cases where people might jump to it.
I don’t really agree we’ve been trained to respond that way, when I quite often see the exact opposite. Killing is a fast and easy solution that many people are quick to advocate for. I’m quite steadfast in my belief that being able to look beyond killing is one of the few privileges our intelligence gives us, to be better than the cruelty of nature.
I don’t agree the breaking the social contract means death is appropriate or justifiable, but it does mean we can seek to undo that injustice and reduce the harm by other forceful methods. Acting in vengeance is not justifiable.
- Comment on Do you want the murderer of the UnitHealthcare CEO prosecuted? 3 months ago:
I don’t want him prosecuted, but not because I think killing people is good or forgivable (though it couldn’t really happen to a better person lol) but because the criminal justice system is awful, especially in the US.
If the death penalty is on the table, then I don’t think I need to explain why that’s bad, but I fundamentally disagree with imprisonment. I’m no expert, but there are better ways to handle harm and justice, and I feel the current system is unjustifiably evil in it’s treatment of convicts.
- Comment on Woolworths grocery shortages: Protesters delay reopening of Dandenong South distribution centre 3 months ago:
I slapped a “pay your workers” sticker up on one of the notices lmao, thanks for the links this is way better!
- Comment on A freight train of voter anger might be about to hit Albanese 3 months ago:
It will be, it always is… sigh
- Comment on Wait, my body's own heat is enough? Always has been. 3 months ago:
I won’t go into detail because it’s personal and a bit gross, but adding on layers doesn’t always work for me due to a disability. I just become even more uncomfortable, and my extremities are still in pain…
- Comment on Dyk, Bobby? 4 months ago:
Oh that’s so cool, thankyou for sharing!
- Comment on Australian news. Defend genocide or human extinction? Or maybe both? 4 months ago:
You sure can, there’s a fundraiser to help pay legal costs and fines. I fully intend to pay my own fine, so hopefully this goes towards those who are facing larger fines and need the help.
