eureka
@eureka@aussie.zone
- Comment on women are the devil 3 days 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 days 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 days 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 days 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 5 days 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.
- Comment on Probably not a good look 6 days ago:
I’ll put a pineapple on: “I legally own a house but it’s really just an investment for my parents”
- Behind Trump’s spiralling tariff war: An interview with Marxist economist Michael Robertswww.greenleft.org.au ↗Submitted 6 days ago to worldnews@aussie.zone | 0 comments
- Comment on Rightwing lobby group Advance says it makes ‘no apology’ for support given to anti-Greens groups 6 days ago:
I’m also talking about Australia, I only brought up Cambridge Analytical as a notorious case of a phenomenon we also see here, ABC alleges there were online misinformation bots interfering with the recent referendum.
I completely agree that the ABC and having The Guardian and to some degree Independent Australia and The Chaser media in the mainstream puts us in a better situation than our neighbours. Yes, definitely. However, I also emphasise that this is still a heavily tilted table, with 7, 9, 10 and (depending on your region) Sky on public television and online, plus the usual suspects like The Australian, but also many regional news sites are owned by them too.
Until we (as a general society) shift away from those media platforms, they influence the information we (as a general society) receive and how it’s framed. Yeah, it’s better, but it’s still very uphill. Legislation and our political situation have made it easier, it helps but it can’t solve the problem on its own.
And thanks for replying, it’s made me realise that I should be sharing more news from progressive publications to help make that shift happen.
- Comment on Rightwing lobby group Advance says it makes ‘no apology’ for support given to anti-Greens groups 1 week ago:
Let the best arguments win, which is great cause their arguments rely on lies, fiction, and crimes against humanity.
How’s that been working out so far?
The “marketplace of ideas” is rigged when most media platforms are either directly owned by ultra-rich shareholders (e.g. most mainstream news outlets, and plenty of minor ones too, and most mainstream social media platforms) or dominated by astroturfed campaigns (troll farms, targeted political advertising e.g. Cambridge Analytica). Why should we expect the quality of an idea to determine its chances of winning?
You’re right that it makes those points easier to dispute and counter, but that won’t happen on its own, especially if the Greens can’t reach the same audience.
- Comment on Go Private? 1 week ago:
I think an important part of the pitch for federated instances is being on one instance while interacting with another. If someone new can’t do this before they make their account, could they get the impression that we’re unfederated? I worry that it might give the illusion that we’re a dead, insular site.
- Comment on Vote Compass Australia 2025 - Australia Votes 2 weeks ago:
The ABC isn’t trying to create the One Political Compass To Place You For All Time. They’re trying to show you where you stand relative to the parties on the issues being discussed this election campaign.
That’s true, and it does an alright job of that. And since the tool doesn’t really take independents and minor parties into consideration, who might have such policies, there’s no point in asking them anyway. My post is more a critique of trying to visualise the results in the style of a political compass.
- Comment on Vote Compass Australia 2025 - Australia Votes 2 weeks ago:
For what it’s worth, any political compass is a highly flawed way of modeling politics so I wouldn’t think about it too much. If they don’t give a concrete definition of “left” or “right” or units of measurement then it can’t possibly be more than vibes and feelings. Policies don’t ‘average out’ on these metrics, and often there are both ‘left’ and ‘right’ disagreements with a policy, especially given specific phrasing in a quiz where questions are sometimes loaded.
As a test (these aren’t my actual politics!) I managed, first time, to get this alignment when only agreeing with Labor on 5/30 (16%) of policies, being at least two positions away from them on 12 policies (e.g. ‘agree’ when they were ‘disagree’, or ‘much [x]’ when ALP was neutral), without having unreasonable or contradictory politics. In fact, my quiz answers agreed with Greens as much, based on their own metric.
THE ONE TRUE LEFT-CENTRIST
And, for what it’s worth, my actual honest result was this, putting me slightly right of Greens, despite a regular political analysis putting me firmly on the economic left of them - they just didn’t ask questions outside the Overton window.
THE WORKERS MUST ASK PEACEFULLY FOR PERMISSION TO OPERATE THE MEANS OF PRODUCTION
(@GreenMartian@lemmy.dbzer0.com, @zero_gravitas@aussie.zone)
- Comment on Legalise Cannabis Party 2025 2 weeks ago:
Parties and candidates who received at least 4 per cent of the formal first preference vote at the 2022 federal election received an automatic payment of election funding of $10,656. This initial payment amount was provided pursuant to the Commonwealth Electoral Act 1918 and is an indexed figure.
2022 Federal Election: Election funding payments finalised page. Interesting to see which parties and independents received funding. Legalise Cannabis Australia received a (relatively small) $15,121.09.
- Comment on Legalise Cannabis Party 2025 2 weeks ago:
I wish that we had so few problems I could vote on this single issue, but stopping any Australian version of maga needs to be priority number 1
Where’s the contradiction? Just preference them above Labor, Coalition, One Nation, Palmer, etc…
- Comment on Legalise Cannabis Party 2025 2 weeks ago:
For me, I’m preferencing them well above Labor and Liberal on my ballot, but they’re not at the top either.
It was nice to see NSW Legalise Cannabis MP Jeremy Buckingham stand on the parliament balcony to support the labour unions marches last year (we didn’t have a Greens member involved like the QLD rally did). Apart from that, my impression is they’re a one-issue party and I haven’t bothered investigating individual candidates.
- Comment on Brisbane City Council pulls funding for Queensland Music Awards over jazz award winner 3 weeks ago:
The lord mayor is taking clear anti-Israel statements and falsely calling them antisemetic.
Compare this to calls for dismantling Apartheid South Africa or Nazi Germany being called anti-white. There’s a clear, huge leap between denouncing a genocidal settler ethnostate and denouncing their founders’ ethnicity.
- Comment on Greens policy to make drones and missiles as a 'credible Plan B' to replace AUKUS 3 weeks ago:
If all else fails, release the toads.
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- Comment on Australia moves to arm troops with anti-ship missiles as China threat looms 5 weeks ago:
Another day, another media scare.
- Comment on !ask@lemm.ee, an Ask community that can be used by Aussie.zone! 5 weeks ago:
Ah thanks, I overlooked it.
- Comment on !ask@lemm.ee, an Ask community that can be used by Aussie.zone! 5 weeks ago:
aussie.zone, admin takes requests for new communities if we want them.
- Comment on !ask@lemm.ee, an Ask community that can be used by Aussie.zone! 5 weeks ago:
If anything, I’d rather we leave that one abandoned and make one here where more Aussie users will see it.
- Comment on China’s ambassador criticises Australia’s move to limit DeepSeek 1 month ago:
If we’re going to be specific, then those restrictions just mean it’s not FOSS according to the Free Software Foundation. The source is still open, it’s auditable.
- Comment on Egg prices likely to remain high as shortage tipped to last until 2028 1 month ago:
Hello. We are a community talking about Australian News. While US policy is indirectly related, these outbreaks are part of a global trend rising since 2020.
- Jewish Council of Australia slams universities' adoption of dangerous, politicised and unworkable antisemitism definitionwww.jewishcouncil.com.au ↗Submitted 1 month ago to australianpolitics@aussie.zone | 2 comments
- Comment on [TW] Convicted r**ist runs One Nation election campaign 1 month ago:
The article includes some details which make it clear there’s no room for benefit of doubt, this is an extreme abuser.
A One Nation spokesman said Senator Hanson was “aware of the circumstances around Mr Black’s conviction.”
- Comment on Resolve political poll: Labor on course for election defeat - LNP 55 - 45 2PP 1 month ago:
who have now picked up the Greens as a partner in their coalition
What do you mean? At a glance, I can’t see any information about Greens as a partner to the LNP-Nationals coalition, nor do I see any reason why either side would want to join one.
Why do you want Labor gone?
I know you weren’t asking me, but I want them gone for stabbing the labour movement in the back, repeatedly, including the recent corrupt administration of the CFMEU. There are other reasons, but the Labor party defanging the labour movement says it all for me.
- Comment on Planes diverted as China conducts rare military drill near Australia 1 month ago:
and no one in the rest of the world respects them
That’s a bit near-sighted. Their regional neighbours obviously aren’t happy about them, nor 5EYES states like Australia, but to other regions like Africa and the Middle-East, their long-time bullies are countries such as the US, Britain and France (and in many cases that’s not just pushing boundaries, but a full-on military occupation and colonisation), so China’s relatively-peaceful diplomacy there in contrast to IMF economic strategies has certainly won wide respect there, and I suspect the USA’s recent diplomatic suicide, destruction of USAID and other forms of ‘turning inward’ will make China more appealing to distant countries as a stable and (in their eyes) relatively friendly partner.
About half the world (the Global South) generally sides politically with them more than the West, so this isn’t just nitpicking. The bottom line is that with three main powers to choose from, China (despite their rudeness in our region) is the one which has hurt the least of them.
This quote from a US DARPA medicine worker gives a typical example of how distant countries perceive Western and Eastern powers:
When you were on the ground, how did our engagement in Africa stack up with Chinese and Russian engagement? Did you cross paths?
Yeah. There’s an example of where we were waiting to go in to meet with an African delegation. I won’t name the country, but our team was prepared to speak in French — we had translators. And we got half an hour with the delegation from their Ministry of Health. We walked out, and the Chinese delegation came in, but they went to the effort of not only knowing French, but also knowing a local language that none of us had ever heard, and they spoke in that language to their hosts. We were ushered out. The Chinese stayed for three hours.
They had developed a deeper relationship than we had, mainly because they were outspending us. Obviously, they built the African CDC and have made some major investments in Africa. Now, are we losing that diplomatic battle? It’s hard to say, but I can tell you that they’re putting an enormous amount of funding into Africa to develop as much credibility as they can on the infectious disease and clinical front, furthering the agenda that President Xi has laid out.
- Comment on ‘Wilful act of bastardry’: Henry condemns tax system for crushing young Australians 1 month ago:
Yep.
You should vote, but your vote is statistically near-worthless. You have political power far beyond your vote, especially for people working useful jobs. Unions and their members have the ability to pressure governments into doing the right thing by us rather than the bosses. Weak unions mean weak rights.
- Comment on Albanese in trouble as polling shows Dutton most likely to be next PM 2 months ago:
I duno what can be done tbh, I really don’t
Informing voters, for starters. Break free of the two-party false dichotomy if you realise the ALP are a lost cause, don’t believe you are forced to defend them in order to critique the coalition.
I know this is far easier said than done, but there are so many ways to do this which an individual (or better, group of friends/co-workers) like you and me can even casually do this.
