Tenderizer
@Tenderizer@aussie.zone
- Comment on Labor plans crackdown on social media algorithms as Taylor says he’s ‘deeply sceptical’ 4 days ago:
Like I said, people know what “the algorithm” is.
- Comment on Labor plans crackdown on social media algorithms as Taylor says he’s ‘deeply sceptical’ 4 days ago:
The news headline is not the text of the legislation. What people understand and what’s appropriate to put into legislation are two different things.
- Comment on Labor plans crackdown on social media algorithms as Taylor says he’s ‘deeply sceptical’ 4 days ago:
People might not know what “algorithm” means, but they do know what “the algorithm” means.
The algorithm: Personalized recommendations over which you have opaque control.
- Comment on Labor plans crackdown on social media algorithms as Taylor says he’s ‘deeply sceptical’ 4 days ago:
Should require age verification to turn the algorithms back on.
- Comment on Labor vows to listen to voters after One Nation's historic WA upset 6 days ago:
The tax reforms are modest, but the precedent ripping up contracts because we’ve retroactively decided they’re unfair isn’t. We could raise slightly more revenue from tax on future projects but gas is on the decline anyway and Australian gas isn’t that profitable. The political capital would be far better spent on something with bigger positive impacts for our economy like a land value tax (assuming there’s any politcal capital to spend, since Labor already spent all of the 2025-2028 political capital on reforming negative gearing).
As for Labor being corrupt. Have they been personally enriching themselves? Taking bribes? No. They’re doing what they’re doing because it’s in the best interest of the country, and because it helps them get re-elected. Don’t dilute the term corruption, what you’re seeing is just politics. Corruption is what you see from the LNP and One Nation.
- Comment on Labor vows to listen to voters after One Nation's historic WA upset 6 days ago:
Not honouring past agreements would hurt our economy.
- Comment on Labor vows to listen to voters after One Nation's historic WA upset 6 days ago:
Gas is a relatively small part of our economy. We’d lose far more from the rest of our economy than we’d gain from gas.
- Comment on Labor vows to listen to voters after One Nation's historic WA upset 6 days ago:
Who’s to say it didn’t. That aside, the AUKUS flip-flop was not on the same level.
- Comment on Labor vows to listen to voters after One Nation's historic WA upset 1 week ago:
Sovereign risk affects all industries, not just the gas industry. “Moral cover” counts for nothing.
- Comment on Labor vows to listen to voters after One Nation's historic WA upset 1 week ago:
What’d hurt the economy isn’t losing the gas industry, it’s losing all the other industries that depend on the government not tearing up contracts already signed for a quick buck.
- Comment on Labor vows to listen to voters after One Nation's historic WA upset 1 week ago:
Most gas is already under contract. Breaking those contracts would massively hurt our economy and those contracts would get reinstated in court anyway. Some gas isn’t under contract but the money we’d raise from it isn’t that much anyway, especially as (ideally) the world moves away from fossil fuels.
- Comment on Zomi Frankcom: Penny Wong condemns ‘insulting’ decision to clear IDF over Gaza strikes that killed Australian aid worker 2 weeks ago:
New South Wales Labor is moving away from the trade union base, but otherwise Labor is very much still controlled by the trade unions. If you pay close attention to what Labor does they do actually have strong left-wing credentials. Under Labor renewables have been rolled out rapidly, world leading anti tax-avoidance policies, repealed negative gearing and the capital gains tax discount, etc.
Australia’s political system favours centrism (or at least the appearance of it), but Labor’s actions tell a different story.
We should also probably make some definitions to avoid confusion:
- Progressive: Supports the fair treatment of all people, regardless of race, gender, religion, or disability.
- Trade unionist: Supports workers rights and high salaries for the working class.
- Economically left-wing: Supports welfare and wealth redistribution, as well as trade unionism.
- Left-wing: All of the above.
- Comment on Zomi Frankcom: Penny Wong condemns ‘insulting’ decision to clear IDF over Gaza strikes that killed Australian aid worker 2 weeks ago:
Labor is a trade unionist party, not a leftist party.
- Comment on Low-income Australians should accept substandard homes, Liberal frontbencher says 3 weeks ago:
I would, but the laws stand in the way of small and dense housing.
- Comment on Record El Niño to bake Australia after extreme heat and fires across Europe and North America 5 weeks ago:
But I just bought an aircon. I don’t want fire.
- Comment on Pauline Hanson laments end of White Australia policy and talks up daughter’s leadership potential 1 month ago:
Reminder that the White Australia Policy was a Labor invention. Labor always has and always will be the tough-on-immigration party, and Pauline Hanson is centuries behind them.
- Comment on Discussion/change my mind: There are almost no examples where privatisation has been a net good* 2 months ago:
Brightline.
- Comment on Polling suggests one nation preferred over labor, negative perceptions and low awareness of budget blamed. 3 months ago:
I’ve seen the way the press frames things in Victoria, they definitely are pushing an electoral agenda.
- Comment on ‘Extremely Concerning’: Chris Minns Slammed Over Trump-Like ‘Biological Differences’ Comments 3 months ago:
There is a middle ground between “treat trans people exactly like cis women at all times and in all circumstances, steamrolling the concerns of any women who are uncomfortable” and erasure.
- Comment on ‘Extremely Concerning’: Chris Minns Slammed Over Trump-Like ‘Biological Differences’ Comments 3 months ago:
The article is a bit hyperbolic, Realistically there is a middle ground.
- Comment on Albanese & Burke Confronted During Eid Prayers At Lakemba Mosque 5 months ago:
Hated by both sides, just as god intended.
- Comment on [Video] Australian attorney-general Michelle Rowland confirms it is now illegal in Australia to say Israel is committing genocide. 7 months ago:
The specific criteria is “that would, in all the circumstances, cause a reasonable person who is the target, or a member of the target group, to be intimidated, to fear harassment or violence, or to fear for their safety”.
There are all manner of exceptions and qualifications. Yes, under certain circumstances saying “Israel is committing genocide” might pass the test. Just saying it as a statement of fact is not alone enough to be a crime.
The title is misleading. Michelle Rowland says it will be illegal is certain specific other criteria are met.
- Comment on Israeli president invited to visit Australia after Bondi shooting 8 months ago:
A war criminal is someone we’re obligated by law to arrest. We are not obligated by law to arrest the president of Israel.
- Comment on Israel to compete at Eurovision Song Contest in 2026, prompting several nations to withdraw 8 months ago:
Julia Gillard was neither left wing nor right wing, she was narcissist wing. I imagine all Labor leaders since her support Palestine’s right to self determination, at least privately, but Australian voters hate even the faintest whiff of culture wars.
- Comment on These platforms are currently exempt from the under-16s social media ban. But that could all change 9 months ago:
There’s a really simple solution to this that e-safety refuses to consider. Let anyone make an account but limit interaction until age is verified. And while they’re at it they should do something about algorithmic brain rot.
- Comment on Liberal Party formally abandons net zero by 2050 climate target 9 months ago:
Actual zero is impossible. “Actual net zero” is what we should aim for (climate accounting with offsets can get a bit freaky)
- Comment on What are “rusted-on” Labor voters thinking ? 9 months ago:
This post misses another reason for voting being rusted-on Labor. The alternatives are more interested in virtue signalling than actually forming and keeping government. Labor have delivered meaningful results to Australians, in some areas they’ve not delivered but they’ve lost every election where they promised solutions to those issues.
Minor parties have historically blocked forward progress. The ETS, the HAFF, the logging ban in Tasmania, etc. Labor has historically delivered forward progress (Renewables, Superannuation, etc).
- Comment on Reddit and Kick added to child social media ban 10 months ago:
This. If I was designing the social media ban I’d have 3 rules:
- To post content of any kind requires age verification.
- To receive algorithmic content recommendations requires age verification.
- To install a social media app to your phone requires age verification.
- Comment on Julia Gillard endorses Donald Trump 10 months ago:
I was going to comment on how Gillard’s soullessness and treachery made the headline believable, but then I remembered Abbott eating the raw onion and I couldn’t pass up the chance.
- Comment on Julia Gillard endorses Donald Trump 10 months ago:
That was Abbot, not Gillard.