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- Comment on Greens Preferences Flow to Labor – 2010 and 2025 Compared | Antony Green 6 days ago:
Sure, although this article is talking about the overall two-party preferred preference flow in electorates, with Labor vs. Liberal/Nationals as those two parties. So purely in this metric our valid votes will flow to ALP or L/NP even if we preference them as our last options, and even if our local electorate doesn’t elect ALP or L/NP. If the two winning candidates in an electorate are Greens followed by One Nation, the two-party preferred preference flow chart will still only record whether you preferences ALP above L/NP.
And you’re still right, that absolutely can change, and we have some power to change it, but it takes more than us directing our own votes to make that change.
- Comment on Greens Preferences Flow to Labor – 2010 and 2025 Compared | Antony Green 6 days ago:
Yet they seem to share voters.
Please clarify how that’s relevant, I don’t understand the point that’s being made here.
People have limited choices of House voting (and in my experience, a huge amount have a limited understanding of parties or policy) so voting for a party cannot be assumed as endorsement of policies. Greens aren’t my favorite party and I’d enjoy seeing Labor leaders walk off a wharf, but I’ve lived in electorates where they were my 1 and 2 respectively.
(Note: “the voters are all wrong” is a hyperbolic statement)
- Comment on As of December 10th, You need to be sixteen to use Aussie.Zone 1 week ago:
The dot points read like an instruction guide to me. I was musing about a week ago about making a backup Facebook account ahead of time and subscribing to insurance companies and marriage memes pages, or staging a trip to France.
membership in youth-focused groups, forums or communities
My Little Pony fans have been warned.
- Comment on Keeping the energy rating sticker on the fridge 1 week ago:
Yep, finally had to replace my fridge to avoid food poisoning a few years back. Got the new one, within minutes the sticker and badge were gone.
- Comment on Jillian Segal misleads Senate over neo-Nazis - The Klaxon 2 weeks ago:
It’s refreshing when an article can just write:
This is false.
, and then, of course, prove it.
In fact, highly recommend reading the article. It’s a simple, firm breakdown of Segal’s job requirements and proof that they are not being fulfilled.
I’m glad to hear the Senate is actually asking about this blatant, public misuse of office. It would be trivially easy for Segal to have just pretended to do the job and put out a statement against the literal, self-declared neo-Nazis making public speeches at their March for Australia events. And even simpler to score an easy win to denounce the high-profile neo-Nazi flash mob explicitly targeting Jewish people. But the message is loud and clear - Jillian Segal’s job isn’t to combat antisemitism.
Segal is paid over $1,000 a day in a position costing taxpayers over $1 million a year.
- Comment on Nerd update 2025 2 weeks ago:
It’s refreshing to have this kind of regular peak behind the curtains. Thanks for the post, Lodion!
- Comment on 'Dirty, disgusting money': The heiress giving away her entire fortune 2 weeks ago:
Yeah. Unfortunately I see a lot of people just writing platitudes like “money makes people corrupt” or “corrupt people make money” without any thoughts on how or why that’s a trend. Engelhorn starts of with an insightful point - a typical wealthy life alienates one from most of society, “They’re disconnected idiots”. This is the kind of wealth where you can pay other people to do any daily work and chores, they have as much understanding of the typical person as most of us do to a Roman citizen - sure we can read some historical facts about them (or gleam a few bits from fictional films), and can try and empathise with what we know about them, but it’s ultimately an alien life to us and we’d sure sound ignorant if we tried to write a newspaper for them.
And a reminder, this is only ~44m AUD - at least a lifetime worth of money to us, but as close to one billion as a five dollar note is to a hundred note. And some of the people who own media companies control tens and hundreds of billions - Gina is estimated at $38 billion net worth. These people have strong political power, yet no understanding of the people they rule over.
- Comment on As of December 10th, You need to be sixteen to use Aussie.Zone 2 weeks ago:
I assert that imoldgreeeg… IS ACTUALLY YOUNG GREEEG!
- Comment on As of December 10th, You need to be sixteen to use Aussie.Zone 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on Physical resistance, rocks and how to build a mass movement [Part of a discussion of protest tactics] 3 weeks ago:
I suppose Red Flag are claiming the tactics used are why it’s not broadly supported? I’m not sure.
Where does one get anti-fascist combat training? I don’t know about any projects in Australia, apart from possibly LIFT Collective in Melbourne. There are probably a few affinity groups without internet presence rather than open organisations, maybe a SHARP might know.
Contrast with other countries with loud and proud red gyms and open martial community defense projects like 0161.
- Physical resistance, rocks and how to build a mass movement [Part of a discussion of protest tactics]independentaustralia.net ↗Submitted 3 weeks ago to australianpolitics@aussie.zone | 2 comments
- Comment on I can agree Pauline Hanson is a problematic individual, but did they have to ban her from the Australian senate just for that one stunt with that burqa? I have more questions than we started out with. 3 weeks ago:
Here is a copy of the censure motion (25 November 2025) which explains why they believe the censure was necessary:
aph.gov.au/…/EEC94CC7AC00476E9A80D151BD9CB504.ash…
Articles report the motion passed 55 votes to 5 (90%+) so it’s fair to say this represents the parliament’s standards.
- Comment on 'Lions of Zion' group event celebrating Israel's pager attacks condemned 3 weeks ago:
The United Nations officially published this article, in which their experts consider the pager attacks to be war crimes. Interestingly, in the final paragraphs, they characterise the reckless booby-trap method as terroristic to civilians.
- Comment on Millennials are the first generation to move left as they age 3 weeks ago:
If you mean all the cuts and animations in the introduction, that eases up afterwards.
- Comment on Millennials are the first generation to move left as they age 3 weeks ago:
And, in case anyone doesn’t already know, the left-right model of politics and all its variants (political compass, horseshoe, etc.) are not useful models for analysing politics.
- Comment on Question: I don't agree with what Pauline Hanson did, but doesn't it kind of challenge the senate's stance on the issue to have reacted the way they did? Imagine if they had shrugged what she did off. 3 weeks ago:
in a similar fashion to how we don’t allow motorcycle helmets and other headgear which fully obscures one’s face?
…these are allowed. In fact, it’s illegal to ride a motorcycle without a motorcycle helmet.
I’m guessing you’re talking about special or private places like banks, but that’s not what Pauline Hanson was proposing, at all.
- Comment on Question: I don't agree with what Pauline Hanson did, but doesn't it kind of challenge the senate's stance on the issue to have reacted the way they did? Imagine if they had shrugged what she did off. 3 weeks ago:
Correct in a vacuum, but in context we must acknowledge that people like Pauline Hanson use anti-Islamic arguments as a proxy for racism against Middle Easterners. It’s distinct from mere opposition to the religion itself.
We see the same thing with critique of Judaism being used as a pretext by antisemites to launder their racism against people with Jewish ethnicity. Bigots know that the majority of society object to overt racism, so the more tactful ones use proxies like cultures and religions to attack race.
- Comment on Neo-Nazi's bank accounts frozen as private sector moves to cut off group's funding pipeline 4 weeks ago:
The article says that apart from the ASIC parts, companies are doing this independently, not due to government pressure. There are a few foreign neo-Nazi groups on Australia’s terrorist entity list, but the NSN are not officially considered a terrorist group, despite repeatedly committing violent political terrorists acts on citizens. (Also, the AEC has said it appears White Australia will likely be able to register that party name electorally)
That all said, it is important that we as citizens continue to develop the power to push these companies to repress neo-Nazis and not pro-social political activists.
- Comment on Neo-Nazi's bank accounts frozen as private sector moves to cut off group's funding pipeline 4 weeks ago:
Maybe everyone considers this to be good progress
I don’t see it as progress, but good in this scenario. Like you said, this isn’t a new development at all.
this is a pretty dystopion look when you take a step back
I think it already is. Has been for over a century, for many people. The bottom line is private companies can essentially shut people out of employment, if they want. It’s tough to live like that, that’s why anti-discrimination legislation has been so important. So yes, I do cheer when a company decides to, or is pressured into, removing confirmed neo-Nazis from employment, but I’m aware that we don’t want to revert to a society where people are unreasonably removed due to age, ethnicity, sex/gender, union status, etc… Not all politics is equal or equivalent, neo-Nazism is inherently and proudly harmful to most of society, there’s no “both sides” symmetry.
I’m definitely familiar with censorship and oppression powers being used against both reactionary and progressive groups. In fact, that’s an important part of how Lemmy was founded and grew. And it’s also why socialist groups campaigned against some of the protest laws introduced under the guise of being anti-Nazi legislation, which clearly didn’t achieve it’s purported goals. You’re right to be skeptical about institutions making political decisions with their power.
As for private companies, these political decisions are typically either guided by the personal beliefs of the owners/shareholders (see Elon Musk’s influence on twitter’s speech restrictions, or any mass media company) or by public pressure and reputational risk (see reddit only deleting some controversial communities once they make it into a newspaper, or the millions of companies making paper-thin political signalling efforts in line with whatever political positions are widely popular).
Because of this, I believe it’s important for us to build worker power as citizens to be able to pressure these companies into making pro-social political decisions, instead of anti-social political decisions in the interests of their rich shareholders. In a word, make private companies care about us, because most of them don’t.
- Submitted 4 weeks ago to australianpolitics@aussie.zone | 2 comments
- Comment on Neo-Nazi's bank accounts frozen as private sector moves to cut off group's funding pipeline 4 weeks ago:
Good to see these financial institutions doing the right thing here. Our current political economy is dominated by private institutions so it’s important that some are doing this, and it’s important for us to build the power to pressure others into doing likewise.
- Comment on Microsoft in damage control over Copilot bundling bungle 1 month ago:
Mate I get the flex but def restart them occasionally unless you understand the security risk you’re taking on.
- Comment on Man critical after being mauled by dog in Sydney apartment 1 month ago:
Hoist with his own pet
- Comment on Tensions erupt in Melbourne as immigration rallies held across Australia 2 months ago:
Oh yuck. Big tent is one thing, but someone just opportunistically doing this is not on.
- Comment on Tensions erupt in Melbourne as immigration rallies held across Australia 2 months ago:
It’s strange that this comment is demanding skepticism while declaring “Authoritarians always hold counter protests, always.”
To contradict that assertion: The flash bang video in that article clearly shows many flags front and centre of the Melbourne counter-protest are anarcho-socialist flags. Out of all ideologies, it’s tough to get any more anti-authoritarian than them.
And, as we’ve seen, the March for Australia protests that these people are counter-protesting is organised and lead by neo-Nazis, Nazism being infamously and proudly authoritarian.
Looking at history, I don’t think “authoritarian/anti-authoritarian” is a useful lens for analysing state politics, but if we’re using it, we can tell that the counter protest is not the authoritarian side. I mean, some of them are literally throwing things at the authority, how could they be any clearer.
- Comment on Tensions erupt in Melbourne as immigration rallies held across Australia 2 months ago:
I hear a lot of theorists talk about how being involved in a movement forces people to come to terms with the reality of it. Propaganda often doesn’t hold up against what’s in front of your face. And it’s reassuring to see that it’s sometimes the case.
- Comment on Tensions erupt in Melbourne as immigration rallies held across Australia 2 months ago:
Commander Wayne Cheeseman said police officers were pelted with rocks, glass bottles and rotten fruit
Well then don’t stand in front of nazis.
English police officers in Brighton figured this one out and let the '43 Group throw bricks at the BUF, Mosley didn’t appear in public again.
- Comment on Turning Point Australia moves into SA 2 months ago:
(OP usually refers to the original poster, which for this post would be hazel@blahaj. Thanks for adding the account name to avoid confusion)
- Submitted 2 months ago to meta@aussie.zone | 16 comments
- Comment on what is up with u/dwazoup 3 months ago:
Whether or not you meant it, your post is quite poetic. A tragedy in two lines, or perhaps a koan, the irony of their inactivity screaming out to them in vain.
