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- Comment on This is the moment it all came crashing down for Hanson and her ilk 1 day ago:
Still reading, I want to give you thanks for posting the archive link and copying the text across. It’s much easier for me to read (especially now that the archive.md Google captcha is now asking some people for phone verification)
- Comment on Live: Pauline Hanson's press club address interrupted by protest banner 4 days ago:
And to emphasise my perspective, it’s harmful to supply “airtime without criticism” - that stunt drew attention to a sharp critique. It hijacked what would have otherwise been a notable occasion regardless.
- Comment on Hanson casts One Nation as rising anti-establishment force in protest-hit Press Club speech 6 days ago:
Hanson demands a homocultural nation.
- Comment on Live: Pauline Hanson's press club address interrupted by protest banner 6 days ago:
Fair call, promotion wasn’t the best word. What I meant to say was, they give her airtime without criticism - I’d say that’s a form of support, for a similar reason to your concern about giving her attention. Even if we’re talking about cases where the reporting is neutral, factual and with minimal bias, it’s still selected and reported on regularly, and that shapes the worldview of the audience, especially if the heavily-flawed ideas Hanson espouses aren’t addressed in the reporting. Repeating their messages verbatim through a megaphone is spreading their ideas - outlets almost never do the same with open neo-Nazis’ speeches, for obvious reasons.
And as is common knowledge, there are additionally some mass media favourably promoting PHON, like Sky News.
- Comment on How the explosion of the ultra-wealthy risks democracy 6 days ago:
For the most part, yes.
Voting for a representative every four years is not democracy, in any meaningful sense. The AEC is outstanding compared to other countries, I hold them in high regard and I am grateful, but we cannot pretend that people and their needs have more political influence than capital.
- Comment on Live: Pauline Hanson's press club address interrupted by protest banner 6 days ago:
and the media are just. Cool. Our turn!
and this makes plenty of sense once we inspect the owning shareholders of media corporations. Protip: it’s owning-class ultrawealthy parasites, same as in the USA
- Comment on Live: Pauline Hanson's press club address interrupted by protest banner 6 days ago:
I do have to question if that is giving her more attention, eg. “interrupted by protest banner” vs “Pauline Hanson’s press club address” really what we want?
PHON is not a problem that can just be ignored, considering that capitalist mass media is constantly promoting her and the party is regularly claiming polls and some election results of >20%. We are past the era of denying attention. If we’re lucky, we’re still in the era of education and inoculation against their propaganda.
- Comment on One Nation branch official defended Hitler Youth and called Aboriginal people ‘stone age’ in racist posts 1 week ago:
Well, Zoo magazine wasn’t where I expected to find neo-fascist propaganda, but in hindsight maybe I shouldn’t have been surprised.
When asked if his role was elected or appointed, he said “none of your business so bugger off”.
Democracy in action, folks.
- Comment on Seven arrested at Brisbane Palestine rally including flotilla activist detained by IDF 1 week ago:
Detained by the IDF and QPS! Ridiculous speech restriction…
- Comment on Stop Victoria's fake party rort !! 1 week ago:
Tom Tanuki made a video about this, in particular about the e-celeb grifters patting themselves on the back for this “genius” idea.
But the sad thing is, I think political consciousness right now is so low that people could conceivably give votes to parties just based on their ballot name.
- Comment on New technology developed in Canberra could prevent 70 million tonnes of milk waste each year 2 weeks ago:
Great to hear, thanks for sharing. I always love some good CSIRO news.
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- Comment on ABC, SBS reject federal government, special envoy’s definition of antisemitism [DE-PAYWALLED LINK IN POST] 4 weeks ago:
Good to see, hopefully this institutional pushback gives some extra mainstream legitimacy to the objection.
- Comment on One Nation's popularity is rising. Which Australians are supporting the party and why? 5 weeks ago:
A neat little array. Worth an actual read or at least a skim, it’s not just PHON voters.
It also helps to see this kind of thing so we can notice lines of parallel and work on top of them to bring people away from ON. Many have [I believe sincerely] said “I don’t agree with many of her policies”, so we should build on that and show parties which have the same focus on real working issues but without the nationalist garbage.
- Comment on 'No place in Australia': Burke adds 'neo-Nazis' to proscribed hate group list 5 weeks ago:
How can you possibly ban a “group” under any name they “reform” under?
What’s the issue? The NSN officially disbanded, yet almost all the same members created a ‘new’ organisation (i.e. they reformed), continue to run events through their front group (March for Australia) and continue to show up to various events together as a group. It is clearly a continuation of the same violent organisation in an attempt to circumvent the ban, something Sewer even talked about at the time of their disbandment, referencing what National Action members in the UK did, many getting arrested afterwards for trying the same thing.
Is this a preemptive ban on any groups that could be anti Israel - before they exist?
Very obviously no. Now, if you’re concerned that these anti-hate laws could be abused to censor groups critical of the Zionist Regime, then that’s a valid concern, especially if Libs or ON take government in the future. But no, neo-Nazis are a distinct ideological phenomenon, even distinct from Nazism these days.
- Comment on Today's Murdoch front pages are about as unhinged as we've come to expect 5 weeks ago:
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- Comment on It's Our Gas - Answering your questions on taxing gas 5 weeks 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 5 weeks ago:
Oh it’s really simple: the admin doesn’t follow them.
- Comment on Budget opinion poll 5 weeks 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 5 weeks 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 1 month 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? 1 month 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? 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month 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 month 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 1 month 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 2 months 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.