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- Comment on Israel is keeping up its blockade of aid as kids starve to death 37 minutes ago:
The crap I’ve heard Zionists say to anti-Zionist Jews, this is right on the money.
- Comment on Labor’s landslide victory obscures a disturbing trend for the major parties 1 day ago:
I always love ABC’s interactive visualisations. They’re usually well-made, and usually aren’t just tacked on jiggling keys.
(obligatory shout-out to explorable explanations^[wiki]^^[collection]^, a similar concept)
- Comment on News and Politics in /c/australia: "She'll be right", or "not on, mate"? 1 day ago:
If it makes you feel better, I can call you a fukken seppo wanker. Will that do the trick, mate? ;)
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- Comment on Rinehart blames ‘left media’ for Coalition wipeout, claims Australian voters ‘very short on understanding’ 1 day ago:
Now we all love a good chuckle at Clive Palmer’s money thrown down the drain, but spare a ha-ha for Rinehart’s $500,000 in donations to Liberal parties.
- Comment on Rinehart blames ‘left media’ for Coalition wipeout, claims Australian voters ‘very short on understanding’ 1 day ago:
It’s pretty funny that Gina asserts, or perhaps even believes, that the typical Aussie wants to cut government wastage more than Rinehart wastage.
- Comment on Gina Rinehart urges Liberal party to stick with Trump-like policies in the wake of election loss 1 day ago:
We’ve already got too many US patriots.
- Comment on Gina Rinehart urges Liberal party to stick with Trump-like policies in the wake of election loss 1 day ago:
Well using that logic, Australians don’t want a PM. And I respect that.
- Comment on Gina Rinehart urges Liberal party to stick with Trump-like policies in the wake of election loss 1 day ago:
I don’t know about less conservative (I actually don’t know) but even the concepts of “conservative” and “right-wing” are different in the US. We don’t have much of that ingrained proudly-capitalist red scare rhetoric that’s normal in the US, comments like “free healthcare is socialist” would make most politically-aware Australians laugh, and make unaware Australians consider looking into socialism. We nationally don’t have a good opinion of the US, as far as I’ve seen, despite them being cultural and geopolitical allies to our government. We’re less prone to dynasties (Bush family, Clinton family) and electing actors (Reagan, Schwarzenegger, Trump), we have some expectation of professionalism.
- Comment on Gina Rinehart urges Liberal party to stick with Trump-like policies in the wake of election loss 2 days ago:
To an audience that included three former prime ministers – John Howard, Tony Abbott and Scott Morrison – along with Dutton and the defence minister, Richard Marles, Rinehart said Australia needed to lift its defence spending to at least 5% of GDP and invest in an Israeli-style Iron Dome defence system.
Oh good, this will intercept all those missile attacks Australia has been constantly bombarded with. Finally, some common sense ideas!
- Comment on Is Australia's Overton Window Shifting? 3 days ago:
Might as well throw my cent in:
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yes yes yes
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I’d rather SES and other emergency services than military training.
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I don’t know enough to say 100% support, but it sounds smart to me. Not even just from an environmental pollution POV. That said, there would also need to be controls to avoid local price gouging.
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- Comment on MP berates informal voters after dud ballot spike in NSW seat 3 days ago:
My understanding is that an informal vote IS a valid way of voting.
An intentional informal vote is a valid form of political expression. I think it’s stupid idealism, and it’s not a valid vote, but it’s valid as political expression. Like you mentioned, there are also accidental informal votes, like [1, 2, 3, 1, 4] or [1, , , , ].
(A donkey vote, [1, 2, 3, 4, 5], is a valid vote)
- Comment on Australian Politics Out of Context 3 days ago:
Great compilation
- Comment on ABC 2025 Election Watch Party 1 week ago:
That is not why your post was deleted.
- Comment on Watch Peter Dutton lose his seat, live 1 week ago:
well he better go find it
- Comment on ABC 2025 Election Watch Party 1 week ago:
Looking at the Wikipedia page of election polling over time, just like Canada, there is a strong clear drop after the US inauguration.
- Comment on All the political mail I got this election 1 week ago:
No texts and no public advertising either (due to SA’s new laws)
Good on 'em. I expect the streets over here to be littered for months with some of those signs.
- Comment on All the political mail I got this election 1 week ago:
When you’re next looking for a house, don’t worry about if the nearby schools are good, the property values, the parks, the shops, parking and transit, neighbours, none of that. The real secret is to make sure it’s the safest seat in the country, whether you agree with that Member or not!
- Comment on All the political mail I got this election 1 week ago:
The liberal candidate kindly sent me two fake postal vote application forms
…from this, it sounds like something the AEC would be interested in.
- Comment on All the political mail I got this election 1 week ago:
Wow, this is wild. My electorate wasn’t worth the trouble, apparently, because I was sent nothing.
- Comment on Two arrested following fiery protests in Melbourne CBD 2 weeks ago:
This is a real concern, because I have seen cases where groups (government or not) try to distort definitions such as “antisemitism” to include valid critiques of the Zionist Regime, and then lump that in among actually progressive protections. I haven’t kept up with the Victorian legislation in question, I don’t know if this is the case, but the linked articles suggest it’s on the table.
That said, it goes without saying, the parts protecting the rainbow community from bigotry is obviously a benefit to society.
- Comment on Peter Dutton deserves lifetime membership of the ALP for his support during this election 2 weeks ago:
the very worst candidate that the LNP could have chosen.
Talking to rank-and-file members within both ALP and LNP parties, it’s very clear that they are corrupt and end up selecting people who are clearly the wrong choice, with no connection to their constitutes, despite any clearly popular options. Losing un-losable elections is normal. It’s pretty sad.
despite being one of the worst governments in recent history
Having only one Prime Minister is an outstanding achievement for recent history. Fuck albo, I’m just saying recent history is garbage and the duopoly has gotta go.
- Comment on Welcome to Country booed by neo-Nazis at Melbourne Dawn Service 2 weeks ago:
The biggest issue with this is that people that think like this tend to throw accusations like “neo-Nazi” out like lollies, at everyone that they disagree with about on certain things that are in no way “nazi-esque”.
These people literally call themselves neo-nazis.
No-one here is pretending that disagreeing with a position makes someone a Nazi. No-one here is throwing that label around. We’re talking about a specific political organisation who demand new members read Mein Kampf and Siege, imitate the language and symbolism of the historical NSDAP, and seek similar political policies. This action was an act of political propaganda for their White Nationalist organisation, in line with their ideological beliefs, in an attempt to recruit people closer to the mainstream.
Criticizing the welcome to country does not make someone a neo-nazi. Obviously not! In fact, even progressives are able to criticise it, I know some who do. The problem is that you went out of your way to trivialise the literal, loud-and-proud neo-nazis engaging in nazi propaganda, as an instinctive reaction to my comment, suggesting that I’m the problem here for calling an apple an apple. You don’t have to stick up for those neo-nazis in order to critisise the welcome to country. This isn’t a two-sided sport, not everything is some “left-right” culture war crap.
When you suggest that there aren’t real neo-nazis involved here, and imply that it’s ridiculous for us to point them out, you are enabling nazism, and Australia has no reason to tolerate that antisocial behaviour. So, please, don’t do that again.
- Comment on Sugarcrete: An open access, eco-friendly and remarkably effective building material 2 weeks ago:
Well, kids licking sugarcrete walls is a step up from the lead paint of old.
- Comment on Welcome to Country booed by neo-Nazis at Melbourne Dawn Service 2 weeks ago:
The paradox is the result of the liberalist idea of some universal, general right to tolerance; that there’s some inherent moral or pragmatic obligation for us to uncritically tolerate everyone and everything possible.
There’s no moral nor pragmatic benefit to tolerating neo-nazis in a community. We don’t need some mental gymanastical paradox to excuse that material fact. Being a neo-nazi is a personal choice to be harmful antisocial scum, comparable to child abusers and billionaires, and the abstract liberalist idea that they automatically deserve freedom, liberty or tolerance in the first place is pointless and dangerous.
- Comment on women are the devil 3 weeks ago:
Well, if this is some attempt at a virgin sacrifice, I don’t think they’re doing it right.
- Comment on Labor made plenty of promises at the last election. Did they deliver? 3 weeks ago:
Personally, I don’t want the Coalition to keep the promises I’ve heard so far.
The parties obviously aren’t the same, I haven’t seen anyone say that here. In fact, I prefer one far more than the other and my preferences reflect that. But both are inadequate. The false dichotomy people keep implying, despite the consistent rise of minor parties and the crossbench, is bloody irritating.
- Comment on 'Read the room': WA Greens reschedule Anzac Day dance party fundraiser 3 weeks ago:
Absolutely. I’ll try and find the post, but IIRC the OP quietly vented their annoyance to their wife that, as a newer vet, they felt ignored by that town’s service only mentioning WWI and WWII. Some grouch overheard them and tried to argue "this isn’t about you!’ then made posts on FB trying to shame them and get them banned. And look, I am critical about most wars Aussies have been in from 1900 to the present, but you’re absolutely right that it’s a stupid take, and I’ll add that it’s horrible and ridiculous too. Vietnam is especially complex because (among other things) there was still conscription ongoing, so it’s unfortunate to see how many people broadly directed their frustrations at the soldiers (mostly fellow worker-class victims of the situation) rather than the people responsible for commanding our citizens.
- Comment on The Prime Minister called me a disgrace - PurplepingersTV 3 weeks ago:
Agreed. It’s an unfortunate situation, it really is, but there is a housing crisis and it’s been [FAIAP] uninhabited for 18 years. Hope they manage to recover the furniture somehow.
As for the second one, I love what van den Lamb is doing but there absolutely needs to be critique and correction to avoid those slip-ups getting through vetting. Mess-ups can have serious impacts to innocent people and furthermore could further harm the public perception of squatting as a valid coping mechanism for combatting homelessness.
- Comment on 'Read the room': WA Greens reschedule Anzac Day dance party fundraiser 3 weeks ago:
Honestly, did anyone outside politicians actually have an issue with this?
On reddit’s military forum, there are stories there of some ANZAC day memorial services themselves were excluding modern veterans, claiming the day isn’t about them. Regardless of one’s own opinions on the armed forces, it’s bizarre to see towns arbitrarily considering post-Vietnam ANZACs invalid.
So, my guess is, actual veterans probably have far more important complaints about the day than some ragebait headlines about some people actually doing fun things long after the ceremonies.