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- Comment on TikTok goes dark in the US as Trump says he's likely to give ban 'reprieve' 2 days ago:
Disappointing to hear it’s filled with “influencers”. I wonder how popular a platform can become without allowing the petty grifting and attention seeking tricks of social media.
- Comment on Israel and Hamas reach Gaza ceasefire deal to end 15-month war 5 days ago:
It’s an interesting point. Trump has campaigned on a peace platform and I’m seeing evidence of that even here among some niche Aussies, claiming Tromp’ll stop the wars in 30 days.
But the truth is, even if Trump sincerely believed it, they’re also ultimately a Zionist who supports the Zionist Regime’s position in the Middle East and really has no interest in the Palestinian’s wellbeing, let alone enough interest to compel the CIA into ‘protecting national securuty’. Their platform contradicts their own values and their party position. The (probably few but real) pro-Palestine Muslim Trump backers who believed it will soon be disappointed.
- Comment on Israel and Hamas reach Gaza ceasefire deal to end 15-month war 5 days ago:
My money is on the Zionist Regime breaking it in days, if not hours like the last one.
- Comment on PM refuses to bite as Dutton seeks fight on Australia Day events 1 week ago:
dutton, mate, i couldn’t give a fuck what event the council runs. i’ll be marching through the city and then relaxing with my mates regardless. take your vapid culture war and piss off.
- Comment on Pacific Palisades fire: Mass evacuations, mansions ablaze as wildfire rages in Los Angeles 1 week ago:
Especially considering we have a history of our firefighters helping California in their summer and vice versa. If they’re having fires at the same time as us, it seems we won’t be able to help each other as much.
- Comment on Would Kryal Castle be the best place to hold out a zombie apocalypse from? 3 weeks ago:
is there anywhere better?
I suppose small islands off the mainland are cheating, we would have to embrace Curse of the Black Pearl rules to keep it challenging.
- Comment on [2024-12-24] After hosting a (failed) neo-Nazi recruitment event, head office gets their door bashed in by Santa and office sprayed with liquid 3 weeks ago:
Also, for those who didn’t hear the news from two weeks ago, here a news update from their previous event:
After allegedly performing the Nazi salute, Mr Richardson asked the crowd if he was “going be fined now”. [1]
“Australian actor Damien Richardson has been charged with performing a Nazi salute at an event in Melbourne.”[2]
Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.
- [2024-12-24] After hosting a (failed) neo-Nazi recruitment event, head office gets their door bashed in by Santa and office sprayed with liquidwww.instagram.com ↗Submitted 3 weeks ago to australianpolitics@aussie.zone | 4 comments
- Comment on Labor looks likely to win 2025 Election 3 weeks ago:
IIRC July was also at the start of the CFMEU allegations, before the corrupt government administration came into effect.
The CFMEU had around 125,000 members as of a year ago, and obviously we can’t assume they’ll all follow their leaders’ advice and swing lefter-than-Labor but having seen the huge presence of other union members marching along side them and having seen the former Labor supporters in my union express their shock and betrayal, there’s a real chance of that big chuck of the labour movement abandoning Labor.
- Comment on Labor looks likely to win 2025 Election 3 weeks ago:
No one else has even the slightest chance of gaining any influence in Australian politics.
Our ranked choice system and the existence of a crossbench means that independents and minor parties actually do have some collective influence, and furthermore, that’s how we help shift the playing field for next time - look at how insignificant Greens were 20 years ago. If we want to fuck over the big three, we have to vote for someone better.
donkey vote
Don’t do a donkey vote, just do an invalid or empty ballot. Preferably just put a huge line through the form. Makes it easy for election workers to know which pile to sort it in. A donkey vote is counted as a valid vote.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
Yes, thank you.
- Comment on Luigi Mangione pleads not guilty to murdering health insurance CEO 4 weeks ago:
but we definitely still require Ethics as a gen-ed at a lot of schools. In fact, I teach it.
Are you talking about US high schools? This is an Australian community so it would be nice to have some context (or if possible, comparison) so we can better understand your perspective. My high school never touched philosophy or ethics in a formal manner, beyond a couple of mentions of academic concepts like plagiarism.
- Comment on Luigi Mangione pleads not guilty to murdering health insurance CEO 4 weeks ago:
You can break the law and not do anything wrong.
In fact, there are laws which most people would agree are wrong not to break. Legality and morality/ethics are not the same, not defined by the same peoples and if anything are growing more and more separate. You and I don’t play any real part in designing the laws, they are not some liberal-democratic ‘will of the people’ as I’ve seen lots of people elsewhere saying. They are the dictatorship of the politicians, and more so, of the mega-wealthy class that own them.
This is what happens when universities stop offering ethics in their courses
If you want professionals to not give a shit about ethics, call one of the courses “Ethics in [career]”. It has to be ingrained throughout education (let alone society). Universities are not the cause.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
WARNING: This post (and your other recent post) break rule 1 of our community:
- We are not a generic World News clone. News must be relevant to Australians and our region. Obvious disregard will earn an warning and then a ban if continued.
Please read our rules and learn about our community before posting.
- Comment on [META] New moderator, and changes to the comm 4 weeks 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 4 weeks 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 4 weeks ago to worldnews@aussie.zone | 6 comments
- Comment on [META] Participation by non-Australians? Should we change this comm's display name? 4 weeks 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 4 weeks 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 4 weeks 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? 4 weeks 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 5 weeks 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 5 weeks 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 5 weeks ago:
What a bizarre extrapolation.
- Comment on Luigi Mangione: What we know about healthcare CEO shooting suspect 1 month 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 month 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 month 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. 1 month 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] 1 month 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] 1 month 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.
