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- Comment on Israeli parliament votes to ban Unrwa from Israel within 90 days 3 weeks ago:
is going to erode their already shaky position with purported allies.
As if… their history is full of stuff worse than this and nothing ever happened to them. Whatever chain they have in the ones they command is unbreakable. I think anything sort of nuking Palestine wouldn’t affect them.
They can literally bomb their allies if they don’t do what they want with no consequences. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_David_Hotel_bombing
- Comment on Hope I won't regret this: Does anyone here live in a van? 4 weeks ago:
Isn’t the UK right handed, like here? How do you do with that? How did you take the car to europe?
- Comment on Hope I won't regret this: Does anyone here live in a van? 4 weeks ago:
No idea how it is in the US, but I imagine it’s the most car centric country in the world. I know from reddit that there’s a lot of people living in cars there.
How was it on the bicycle? I want to do that… did you stay in cities or wild? How do you do with all the water that needs to be carried? I wouldn’t do it on a city though. Staying on a tent in a city is too exposed for me. But I love the idea of even more freedom, not having to worry about car registration, fuel and fines.
So you have toilet in the car? My basically just have waste water from brushing my teeth, so it just goes straight to the street. Isn’t it too much issue to handle that? Though it must be nice to not have to look for toilet…
And your power is not solar?
Ordering things online, or anything that needs an address is still a big challenge for me. I’m trying for the first time ordering something to a post office and I’ll go get it to see if it works. I don’t think there amazon dropboxes here, but even if there were I would never buy something from amazon…
- Comment on Hope I won't regret this: Does anyone here live in a van? 5 weeks ago:
Sydney is not the worst. The worst one is Byron bay by far. I’ve never seen a more hostile place. But I certainly hope never to come back to Sydney either. NSW in general is pretty bad, with Queensland much more open to people living in cars.
I don’t like doing stuff in the van. I do kind of well too, but the other person has to host. I don’t feel well with random people coming in my van. But I know a lot of people are very social and do that. As long as they are quite… Party people destroy van life for everyone and end up making the councils hunt us. I imagine it’s what happened in Byron bay.
Diet is an issue… I would still like to know how to fix that other than eating out, which is pretty expensive. I certainly eat better when I have a place to stay.
- Comment on Hope I won't regret this: Does anyone here live in a van? 5 weeks ago:
I use open street map which is very good. And I can add things when they are not there so other people can see it. But some times it’s closed in the morning, or I’m parked too far away.
- Comment on Australia sanctions more Iranians over missile strikes 5 weeks ago:
I’m not sure if it’s influence of propaganda. I used to be very active against israel and US some 15 years ago. I was sacrificing my life for it and I realized nothing would change but I was hurting myself. 15 years later nothing changed. It didn’t change 15 years before I started either. So a long period of time will mean I won’t live to see it.
I stopped getting involved and tried to just not know about it. The result is the same but I don’t suffer. But living here it’s impossible to ignore and I’m part of the problem. It won’t change, but I’m helping to make it worse here
But yes, I’ll do what you and jaek suggested until I figure out what to do. To me it’s much more important to not help israel than it is to help those they destroy. And that’s the main thing I want to do, not help them.
- Comment on Australia sanctions more Iranians over missile strikes 5 weeks ago:
I’m in a small town, so not much going on here. And while the protests should continue and I’m happy with their numbers, the media actually manage to turn it against the cause and increase the general population support for this kind of atrocity. When I see the news on the tv covering protest I’m afraid, because I know exactly what it will show and I’m always right. They usually don’t even mention what the protest is about and the few people they give voice and the morons they interview are always just talking about how dangerous the protesters are, how “against peace”, how pro terrorists, how they damage the economy and how they will eat your dog and rape your kids. Basically inciting the population to protest against the protesters.
I have never seen such biased and clearly controlled media as here, except for the US. It’s amazing how powerful they are. I know that in most countries they usually just show the israeli side and just “forget” to show the other one. But here it’s a clear propaganda and manipulation. So if anything the average person who doesn’t look for more info will just defend the war point of view more with the protests being shown on tv.
And it shows. Even here, where people are more “leftists” (whatever that means) I see many “fox news” points of view. On reddit it’s a lost cause. And talking to the average people it’s the same. Everyone just knows that “israel is fighting terrorists”.
It’s what I complained about on my other posts regarding the military monuments. It’s a fundamental part of australian culture and I see little hope of that changing. The countries that show some courage against israel have a whole history of not admiring the military and not being dogs of the US that often. Or being muslim based countries.
So I don’t see how that can change any time soon but that doesn’t change that I am being part of the problem being here, and that people are being murdered with my support.
Supporting help for palestinians is good and should happen, like the protests. But that won’t fix anything and will just have to be something that needs to be done forever. Or until there is no Palestine left.
- Comment on Australia sanctions more Iranians over missile strikes 5 weeks ago:
And I am complicit with this, and all the support Australia gives to US and israel by paying my taxes. As some @#$!#$ from the government said when censoring the protests, “Australia is a peace loving country”.
Is there anything I can do other than just leave? I love living here, but this military fetish gives me constant guilt and anxiety of being here because I know I’m supporting that, and who knows how many people were killed using my work, to then later on get a monument erected praising the fact…
- Comment on Hope I won't regret this: Does anyone here live in a van? 5 weeks ago:
Ehehehe, you guessed well. All of the above, plus beach showers when it’s not too cold. Camping showers for when I’m in the outback. It’s not usually a problem, and certainly wouldn’t be in just 1 week, but it’s a defining part of it.
I say having to find toilet is a much bigger issue, but even then rarely really a problem.
- Comment on Hope I won't regret this: Does anyone here live in a van? 5 weeks ago:
There are many issues (with my social phobia, people being 90% of them), but I like it a lot for one thing only, freedom.
Only recently I traveled for some months, which was awesome, mostly because of the outback. Most of the time it was staying close to work, but I still loved it so much always be close to the beach which I would never be able to afford otherwise. And over time I learned the safe places to stay, so I didn’t have much issue with not being able to sleep because of noise.
But it’s certainly not for everyone. Most of the problems don’t bother me at all, when I can have so much freedom. But for most people it would be too high of a price to pay, or they don’t enjoy the benefits that much.
I do miss having a house though, specially one with lawn and trees. But the cost is more than the benefits, specially since it means I have to slave my life away to pay for it. If I was super rich and could buy something in a nice place I would though.
- Comment on Hope I won't regret this: Does anyone here live in a van? 5 weeks ago:
Kind of… It’s kind of like being in a hotel for a week and considering that you lived in one. Though you did have the actual experience then of not always having a bathroom or shower around
- Comment on Hope I won't regret this: Does anyone here live in a van? 5 weeks ago:
How long ago was that? Was it out of choice? I struggle with the concept of being homeless. My van is my home, I have a roof to sleep under, so I don’t know if I’m homeless. If a home can only be a fixed place, then yeah.
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- Comment on Failing Gaza: Pro-Israel bias uncovered behind the lens of Western media 1 month ago:
Thanks for posting this. The bias is stupidly obvious to anyone, but it’s the first time I see inside coverage. I wish they could check the Australian news…
Without proper investigation it just sounds like conspiracy theory. Even as i watch Australian news I have trouble believing the bias control.
- Comment on NSW police attempt to block pro-Palestine rally on 7 October an ‘attack on fundamental democratic rights’, protesters say 1 month ago:
Thanks for the info. Though what I wanted to post was asking about the protests, which zero_gravitas answered.
- Comment on NSW police attempt to block pro-Palestine rally on 7 October an ‘attack on fundamental democratic rights’, protesters say 1 month ago:
I wish I could do something about people using facebook/instagram… What I can see is very limited. But thanks a lot! From the thumbnails I got the location. I will try to go. The APAN website seems to have better info. I saw that website before but got confused. There are many websites and it’s hard to tell what’s more “official”.
Regarding posting here, I don’t have the energy for that. I learned a lot from the last post, but it’s very exhausting when I have a polemic opinion and I get a bunch of people against me. And like a guy said there, I may just be the problem. Either way with the links you gave me I now know where to look. So thanks again!
- Comment on NSW police attempt to block pro-Palestine rally on 7 October an ‘attack on fundamental democratic rights’, protesters say 1 month ago:
Where do you get that info? I’m trying to find but searching online just gives me zionest news like abc and so on. I imagine it’s all on facebook which I don’t use. Even searching on lemmy I only find news about the conflict. I imagine mods don’t allow support for protests, even though I thought lemmy would be the ideal place to post about this.
I thought of making a topic about it but i fear i might just get banned, since my previous post against military wasn’t exactly well received.
Anyway, do you know where it will be?
- Comment on Join fediverser.network, make it easy to bring Australian redditors to the Fediverse? 3 months ago:
Lemmy is difficult. So much more than reddit… It could be like Linux. Something you try again and again and eventually get the hand of it or accept it. I spend many years going back and forth between using Linux and not using it at all until I got completely rid of Windows. And I do not regret it at all!
But it wouldn’t have happened if people stopped trying to make Linux’s transition easier. I don’t believe I’m harmful to the Linux community. It could be that it would be the same for people on reddit. I hated being on windows, but I still kept using it until the alternative seemed viable to me.
Of course I could be wrong and the community destroyed. But then… a new community elsewhere? I’m an old man on the internet, I’ve seen this happening a lot. Filters after filters after filters and some times the end result is perfect.
- Comment on Join fediverser.network, make it easy to bring Australian redditors to the Fediverse? 3 months ago:
Since I just made an account, I’ve been wanting to give my opinion on this for a while.
I agree that the usual reddit people would destroy a nice community like aussie.zone. But I wanted to mention that the bad kind of people from reddit would not try to find an alternative. They are happy there. There are decent people who want out, but don’t know where to or how. I am very confused with lemmy (not that I am a decent person, that remains to be judged), and I would have appreciated more help. So helping people dissatisfied with reddit might be helpful as they are unlikely to be bad (or at least not belonging to the normal reddit bad) and wouldn’t harm the community.
I have some other opinions as well but that was the main point I wanted to bring every time I see this kind of comment.