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- Comment on [META] New moderator, and changes to the comm 1 day ago:
I am an operative from New Holland here to besmirch our eternal enemy D e n m a r k.
I was thinking the same thing too, so I’ll see how this modified version goes.
- Comment on [META] New moderator, and changes to the comm 2 days ago:
Good thinking. The relevance rule is currently up to my interpretation, which isn’t ideal.
Those are useful suggestions for ways to make it clearer what is relevant. I think relevance is too complex to put into any hard rules without there being exceptions (e.g. Australian outlets also report on global news such as SBS on Californian earthquakes at least three times[1][2][3], USA is one of our major trading partners, some people may believe the Pacific or all of Asia is our region) and so I suspect the best approach is to use those factors as soft guidelines (e.g. “If your article is not from an Australian or Oceanian news outlet, and the article doesn’t mention Australia in it, it’s probably not relevant to this community.”)
- Submitted 2 days ago to worldnews@aussie.zone | 6 comments
- Comment on [META] Participation by non-Australians? Should we change this comm's display name? 2 days ago:
Moderator of the World, mmm I like the sounda that!
Definitely a future problem – there’s no rush and we’d want to find a good one before trying a db change. Federation could be an issue so can’t hurt to ask devs before tinkering. Honestly, I think just a title change should be enough .
- Comment on Genocide starts with weapon parts 3 days ago:
I want to mention that this is not the only case of critical F-35 components being produced here. The fuselage is produced by Quickstep near Blacktown, NSW. Our country is not just a part of the war machine, but an essential part.
- Comment on Genocide starts with weapon parts 3 days ago:
It’s bizarre. “Supply chain issues? Never heard of 'em!”. Even just natural disasters could take down critical parts of the supply lines, let alone community or worker actions against the factories. Australian whalfies have already shown during this conflict they’re willing to take anti-war actions, so disruptions are a real threat.
- Comment on [META] Participation by non-Australians? Should we change this comm's display name? 3 days ago:
As for moderation: let me know if you want to throw your hat in.
I can throw my hat in to try and make it more of an aussie-focused comm (there are some easy wins, like missing sidebar, no deletion of clearly irrelevant posts, etc.) although ultimately, I suspect one of the big problems is a generic Lemmy news poster can type “world news” into the community field in the post form and this place shows up the same as the rest, so hopefully adjusting the comm title will help, instead of needing a full id change (e.g. /c/aussieworldnews).
- Comment on 'Slap in the face' for police as memorial defaced with graffiti 1 week ago:
Ah, I had a look at @RadicalGraffiti to see if they had more images and quickly learned that 13th Dec is “13.12 day”.
- Comment on Users from Other Instances 1 week ago:
and not all bots are new [] and they may even be made by humans en masse then used as bots
Yep. There were some famous cases where accounts of deceased people on twitter started posting in support of a US political campaign. If a person is caught in a data breach and they’re vulnerable to credential stuffing, then their account can be hacked and sold to the highest bidder to turn into a political bot.
- Comment on Luigi Mangione: What we know about healthcare CEO shooting suspect 1 week ago:
What a bizarre extrapolation.
- Comment on Luigi Mangione: What we know about healthcare CEO shooting suspect 1 week ago:
In my opinion, the biggest thing this assassination did was clarify economic class. Look who came out in strong defense of the CEO, and look who came out in celebration. People used to the simple cultural “left”/“right” lens struggled to make much sense of it, saying this ‘united the country’, but the class divide was bright as day with the owning class panicking together and their politicians and mass media megaphones repeating a pretty consistent chant.
- Comment on Fair Work Commision decides pickets are bad faith and not allowed. 1 week ago:
I don’t even believe in an electoral solution, but as Markko said, we are not. Third parties are growing overall with over 30% of the HoR vote and 35% of the Senate vote going to them. With Labor’s betrayals this term on worker rights and foreign policy, I think they’ll be losing votes to third parties instead of the Coalition.
- Comment on Alan Yazbek ‘no Nazi lover’, magistrate says, as restaurateur escapes conviction for displaying swastika 1 week ago:
Moody made the right decision. While I haven’t read the legislation itself, I assume the purpose of it is to penalise (specific forms of) Nazi symbols for its threatening nature and to mitigate propagandising. This sign is obviously criticising the Nazi regime and making a negative comparison with the Zionist regime. The Nazi swastika symbol was clearly not being used to signal support of their offensive political ideology.
This abuse of the legislation in arresting Yazbek makes me wonder if it would outlaw some well-known antifascism symbols, like the swastika being tossed in a garbage bin or one behind a 🚫 . I wouldn’t surprised to see them come out in protest of the Nazi scum meeting in Rowville this Friday.
- Comment on Fair Work Commision decides pickets are bad faith and not allowed. 2 weeks ago:
And the country is permitting the filth to be in charge.
Obviously it’s not an easy thing to stop, but we must.
- Comment on Words reportedly written onto ammunition found at scene of health insurance CEO's killing [USA] 2 weeks ago:
Fair correction, thanks. Lots of it is illegal (hence some of those legal tactics mentioned on the shell casings), it’s simply just not punished justly by the legal system. It’s a distinctions worth making, even if the material end result is similar.
- Comment on Words reportedly written onto ammunition found at scene of health insurance CEO's killing [USA] 2 weeks ago:
That doesn’t excuse violence however.
That alone, in isolation, may not excuse violence. But it didn’t happen in a vacuum. Their messages on the bullets are an explicit reference to systematic antisocial techniques used by these companies to unjustly deny coverage. Which has knowingly resulted in pushing families into poverty and deaths on a scale of millions, far more harm than any act of direct physical violence has.
That kind of mass slaughter is certainly excusing of defense, physical or otherwise, and the legal system is clearly not a viable option looking at history. Even just looking at the exaggerated police response this assassination had compared to most other killings in the city is a hint that the legal system is rigged in the favour of the owning class of society. Violence becomes the only effective act of resistance remaining to protest this systematic mass killing which doesn’t involve slow and lengthy mass collective organisation requiring the co-ordination of many thousands. And, quite frankly, a handgun execution is far more humane than the kinds of slow deaths many people have suffered from at the hands of this company, so I don’t understand why this killing should be considered exceptional or disproportionate simply because it’s direct physical violence, as opposed to legalised denial of health service.
- Comment on [META] Participation by non-Australians? Should we change this comm's display name? 2 weeks ago:
An Australian perspective will happen in AZ comms just by manner of most members are from straya.
That’s a reasonable theory, although unfortunately it’s not playing out that way in this comm. One of the most active post makers does not bring (nor care about) an Australian perspective, so half the posts are just China news&opinions from Taiwan news sites, or Europe-centric topics unrelated to us at all. Most AZ members aren’t making new posts every day, nor do I suspect we’d bother posting fluff daily for the sake of matching their pace, so most members being strayan isn’t enough to make it happen.
Anyway you just turn the phone upside down to get our perspective dontcha 😜
The bloody thing keeps rotating! Such is life.
- Comment on China’s surveillance state has ensured peace and order. Yet it appears ill-equipped to prevent people from going on violent rampages that are on the rise, pointing to deeper underlying social tensions 2 weeks ago:
That slogan doesn’t hold true.
Stability, in the real world, requires some limitations on liberty. The mere concept of imprisonment is a HUGE violation of autonomy, freedom and liberty. Even basic foundations of civilisation like “don’t dump industrial waste and personal rubbish wherever you want”, “don’t kill people if you don’t like them” impose on liberty, and further restrictions for the sake of public safety and stability are clearly against liberty - “don’t drive vehicles when impaired by drugs”, “don’t yell FIRE in crowded venues”, “don’t employ workers without taking basic operational health and safety precautions”. None of these governmental dictations are tyranny, unjust or oppressive. They’re limiting liberties for the sake of stability.
And that also extends further. There is a general balance in governance between giving citizens, state forces and corporations the freedoms they need or want, and of keeping society from dissolving. If we let people with lots of money use it on whatever they want, we get environmental havoc, like that fucker who cleared koala habitats for a private runway and industries destroying the Great Barrier Reef. I don’t think restricting their use of their power (money) is tyrannical, but they certainly claim it is.
(As for China, I personally agree they lean too far into restricting some liberties of regular citizens. To a lesser degree, I even think the same thing about Australia too. However, I also believe Australia grossly under-restricts the freedoms of megacorporations and billionaires to destroy our wildlife, climate, living standards and practical rights to resist their dictatorial demands as employees, while the CPC is increasingly punishing the owner class for the sake of citizen empowerment, stability and their environment. This balancing act of the rights of the worker class vs the rights of the owner class vs the rights of the state create interesting differences which goes beyond simple concepts like freedom and tyranny. Politics and governance is complex and abstract ideals like ‘liberty’ as a general idea just can’t adequately explain it)
- Comment on [META] Participation by non-Australians? Should we change this comm's display name? 2 weeks ago:
I think the issue is more that we get people in the community who assume everyone reading it are from the USA.
True. We also get users like 0x815 who simply consider /c/worldnews as an arbitrary audience for their propagandising. To them, it is just another /c/worldnews to dump a news feed onto. It’s not even US centrism, it’s total apathy, objectification of our community.
- Comment on [META] Participation by non-Australians? Should we change this comm's display name? 2 weeks ago:
On other sites, I’ve done this a few times. Promise to be more active online and then end up doing the opposite. It’s unfortunately common.
- Comment on [META] Participation by non-Australians? Should we change this comm's display name? 2 weeks ago:
Eg: the Music community is called “Rage” - a reference that only an Australian would get. So, when someone searches for “Music” communities, they’ll never find ours.
On the other hand, I just assumed it was specifically about the Rage program and overlooked it. ¯_(ツ)_/¯
I’d consider adding something to the name, like “Rage - Aussie Songs”, which it would help discovery for better and worse but at least make it clear we don’t want the whole world promoting the junk.
- Comment on [META] Participation by non-Australians? Should we change this comm's display name? 2 weeks ago:
A month ago, the aussie.zone founder said, in reply to a proposal to make an /c/AskLemmy comm here:
Maybe AskAnAussie? Or something like that. Want to keep the communities here Australia focused.
And I agree with this perspective, with respect to federation. This is a themed instance based around Aussies and Aussie topics, there are literally hundreds of other instances which can and do pick up general global topics.
My question is: why should we host a /c/WorldNews at all? What unique value does it have by being “for Aussies”? How would that change the posts in the comm?
Is there any reason why international news (not world news) specifically affecting Australia or Australians should be separated from other local comms like /c/news and /c/AustralianPolitics? e.g., news about a conference between officials from Australia and Pacific islands, or incidents involving Australian tourists. It would be good to hear from /c/news and /c/AustralianPolitics users before assuming, but if so, we can simply dismantle this comm and take the relevant parts to /c/news. Easy solution.
- Comment on New Woolworths strike threat as more union members 'put on notice' for picket support 2 weeks ago:
The National Building Industry Group Unions (BIG) — which comprises about 20 union leaders and formed following outrage among some blue-collar unions after the Construction and General Division of the Construction, Forestry and Maritime Employees Union (CFMEU) was placed under administration — said its 80,000 Victorian members were “on notice” to support United Workers Union (UWU) members who are taking industrial action.
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“The BIG Unions support for the UWU’s distribution centre members is unconditional and the combined unions will campaign and support the dispute industrially, politically, and financially until these workers win this dispute,” read a statement from BIG posted on the CFMEU Victoria and Tasmania social media pages on Tuesday afternoon.
“Should Woolworths try to break the picket line, the BIG is putting all our members on notice, if the UWU members require support for the picket we will be there in large numbers at the moment’s notice.”
Good on them. CFMEU (along with some others) have a strong history of supporting other unions whether it’s legal to or not. And I think after the administration fiasco, they’re more than fired up to make these kind of big solidarity acts.
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- Comment on Woolworths grocery shortages: Protesters delay reopening of Dandenong South distribution centre 2 weeks ago:
I’m not sure. Are you using any browser content blockers or VPN proxies? They’re usually the two culprits for me.
- Comment on Woolworths grocery shortages: Protesters delay reopening of Dandenong South distribution centre 2 weeks ago:
I’d try again, there are listed donations still going through.
- Comment on Joe Biden pardons son Hunter in final weeks in office 2 weeks ago:
Weird that he’s been pardoned for buying a gun and evading taxes. I thought those things were supposed to be rights in the USA.
Gun rights and tax evasion are privileges!
spoiler
- People and companies rich enough are avoided by the IRS as it’s too much work to put a case against them. Taxes for the poor, not the powerful. - Gun control legislation has repeatedly been enacted after anti-slavery, worker strikes (during red scare) or when minority groups armed themselves (The Mulford Act, which even the NRA supported). Gun control for the poor, not the powerful.
- Comment on Why doesn't Greens MP Max Chandler-Mather own a home yet? 3 weeks ago:
will left wing progressives who love Gaza really have that big of an influence
Labor have dropped the ball on a few of their assumed voter bases, people concerned about Gaza/Lebanon/etc. is one and another sizable group will be unionists. The dodgy CFMEU administration has taken many Labor voters in my union by surprise, and in at least some of their rallies the speakers have called for voting for further-left parties, suggesting the Greens as an example.
Looking at NSW and Victoria council election results, I expect the Greens will gain votes and maybe even a seat or two, I doubt there will be drastic gains or losses.
- Comment on Why doesn't Greens MP Max Chandler-Mather own a home yet? 3 weeks ago:
I assumed it would also be illegal discrimination, but I have no evidence.
- Comment on Sydney student banned from year 12 formal for wearing Palestinian scarf 4 weeks ago:
the guy who invented airplane hijacking
Hungarian aristocrat and geologist Baron Franz Nopcsa von Felső-Szilvás?
