eureka
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- Comment on Today's Murdoch front pages are about as unhinged as we've come to expect 7 hours ago:
OUR
- Comment on It's Our Gas - Answering your questions on taxing gas 12 hours ago:
would squeeze a dollar out of a rock!
Wish they’d squeeze a dollars out of those rocks insteada us. Gina Writeoff could pay their share…
- Comment on MAGA federation query 20 hours ago:
Oh it’s really simple: the admin doesn’t follow them.
- Comment on Budget opinion poll 20 hours ago:
This. There were a few nice moves, but they were far too moderate, not even enough to offset the bad moves.
- Comment on MAGA federation query 21 hours ago:
I don’t use All as much as I do Local so I’m ambivalent. That said, I would consider defederating to make a point - we do not support instances which are hypocritical and whose entire userbase is based in bigotry.
- Comment on 'Go for government': Western Sydney One Nation's next target after by-election win 2 days ago:
Western Sydney? Between that and the Inner West, I don’t know which would be the least likely place in NSW to vote for them.
I’m trying to avoid underestimating them and their ultrawealthy backing, but this is ridiculous. We had outstanding reception there with pro-Palestine protests. Maybe they’ll have half a chance if Hanson breaks flatbread at the Lakemba Night Markets this time.
- Comment on Why are people trying to raid Scientology buildings around the world? 2 days ago:
This reminds me: I’ve heard that Mormons are notoriously common CIA recruits. The religion gives them US religious values, loyalty, they’re (theoretically) less likely to engage in compromising activities, and those who do mission work often know a foreign language and culture.
- Comment on Why are people trying to raid Scientology buildings around the world? 2 days ago:
“Why are people trying to raid Scientology buildings around the world?”
Another interesting question is, why did Scientology raid the FBI?
- Comment on VicPol at the NDIS rally yesterday afternoon 3 days ago:
It’s a shame the video doesn’t begin a second or two earlier, it would help paint a clearer picture.
Reporting OP reply to “Could someone post literally any context so the rest of us don’t have to enter the Zuckerberg dimension?”
The NDIS rally was a bit of a mess: there was a Falun Gong event going on at the same time and location, they’d already set up well before anyone got there, rally organisers did not want to move, Falun Gong had a marching band arriving as the rally was supposed to start, there was a great deal of argy bargy just getting the parade to wait for disabled people to move over to the north side of the SLV.
And their band played through many of the speakers.
Anyway, 10-15 minutes after the rally concluded David Limbrick the Libertarian Party MLC showed up to address the Falun Gong rally. Some of the people lingering around recognised him and started heckling him, and then police started arresting.
And you see what happened next: as they’re escorting someone away out of nowhere one of the cops runs out of their escort cordon to knock an old man to the ground, someone tries to stop him further assaulting the old bloke, and he gets pulled to the ground and punched and maced.
The old guy was then completely forgotten by police and walked away, raising the question what was this all about?
One witness says they saw cops knock people over into the path of an oncoming tram: www.instagram.com/p/DYG4B4dTUeS/
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- Comment on UK Labour suffers historic local election wipeout as Reform surges 4 days ago:
I heard some pre-election excitement around their Green Party. While they did make notable gains, their vote share:councils ratio is unfortunate.
- Comment on Public forum on Minn's slogan ban, targeted by reactionary media: Call for more attendees today! 1 week ago:
[forwarding from cross-post] I missed some news from last night:
Stop The War On Palestine said in an Instagram post: “Venue cancelled but forum going ahead.” The group said the meeting would instead be held at Charles Kernan Reserve in Darlington.
The organisers wrote: “We reject the implication from Clover Moore that our meeting risks public safety and respect for members of the community.”
“It is the Murdoch media that has been spreading fear and lies about the forum and about the slogan ‘globalise the intifada’,” they said.
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- Comment on Google age verification 2 weeks ago:
I’ve found the mobile website (as opposed to apps) fine, although I generally avoid apps unless they’re necessary. Which app are you using? (and who are its developers)
- Comment on Car hits pedestrians in Melbourne, killing Supernova Comic Con attendee 3 weeks ago:
It’s a pretty reasonable long-term goal in many areas, like cities. There are pedestrian-only streets near me already. We just need a long-term vision and the infrastructure to follow it.
- Comment on Former US Marines pilot Dan Duggan loses bid to avoid extradition from Australia 3 weeks ago:
Dude has been in solitary confinement in Lithgow for over three years so far. That’s frankly pretty damn harsh all on its own for the accusation of ‘three cases of military training’.
I thought the max security prison was a bit extreme - their alleged crime is obviously serious to the state, but hardly one that requires high security or solitary.
- Comment on Man charged with using newly banned phrases in Queensland tries to argue law 'insane' 4 weeks ago:
It’s important to understand that Australia, like plenty of other countries, has its own imperial interests in the region. It’s unhelpful to blindly assert someone has to be blackmailed in order to abide by these horrors.
- Comment on Man charged with using newly banned phrases in Queensland tries to argue law 'insane' 4 weeks ago:
Damn it, he’s using the reverse-insanity plea!
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- Comment on Anti-war activist to face court over 'From the River to the Sea' banner 4 weeks ago:
Mr Dowling said he had a banner with the words: "From the River to the Sea-
“OOO he said it again!”
- Comment on Israel said it targeted Hezbollah, so we went to the site of a strike 4 weeks ago:
Oh, you ain’t kidding: aussie.zone/post/30293643/21777175
- Comment on U.S. Pushes Allies to Chase a New Terrorism Target: The Far Left 4 weeks ago:
Yeah, CPAC.
- Comment on U.S. Pushes Allies to Chase a New Terrorism Target: The Far Left 4 weeks ago:
Last Christmas, a friend of the family said “Every journalist in Australia is a communist.”
- Comment on U.S. Pushes Allies to Chase a New Terrorism Target: The Far Left 4 weeks ago:
“It is important to recognize their actions as political terrorism rather than mere protest or criminality,"
The silver lining is, we know they’re terrified.
- Comment on U.S. Pushes Allies to Chase a New Terrorism Target: The Far Left 4 weeks ago:
a ‘far left’
Electorally? None with any real hope, in my view. Possibly some local council members?
There are certainly people with communist and anarchist ideas, organising with like-minded people and engaging in antifascism. I don’t know to what degree they’re organised, and there are efforts from the government to chill them, but they exist.
- Comment on Max Chandler-Mather to lead revamped Green Institute (official press release) 4 weeks ago:
From Wikipedia:
The Green Institute is an Australian public policy think tank founded in 2008. The institute “supports green politics through education, action, research and debate”.
In disclosure returns lodged with the Australian Electoral Commission, the institute indicated that it is an associated entity of the Australian Greens. The institute is similar to the Liberal Party aligned Menzies Research Centre and Labor’s Chifley Research Centre.
Forming a “mass movement” approach would be an interesting shift for an institute affiliated with The Greens.
- Max Chandler-Mather to lead revamped Green Institute (official press release)www.greeninstitute.org.au ↗Submitted 4 weeks ago to australianpolitics@aussie.zone | 3 comments
- Comment on Donald Trump says he has agreed two-week ceasefire with Iran 5 weeks ago:
We were never at war with Westasia
- Comment on Victoria Cross recipient Ben Roberts-Smith arrested, expected to be charged with war crime of murder 5 weeks ago:
From news.com.au coverage of political reactions:
Greens senator David Shoebridge posted a screenshot of an article about the arrests, and wrote: “Good.”
- Comment on Newly established neo-Nazi group NRWM recruiting Sydney teens 5 weeks ago:
For anyone unfamiliar with the NSN, a child-grooming cult, many of Tom Tanuki’s YouTube videos provide solid overviews of them and their close associates.
