Tenderizer

@Tenderizer@aussie.zone

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Republicans warn PM of 'punitive measures' over Palestinian recognition⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  This is exactly what I’ve been afraid of. Americans have couped our leaders before and Australia recognizing Palestine seems to have been a big deal. I think Albanese has a strong handle on the internal party politics and I think the arithmetic of what happened to Whitlam would be difficult though.

  The most likely approach would be to take unfavourable actions towards Australia as a whole and hope it costs Albo the election.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Dibber dobber Donny: Trump tattletales on TV reporter⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  THEN THERE’S NO BLOODY POINT.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Dibber dobber Donny: Trump tattletales on TV reporter⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I completely forgot YouTube had an algorithm TBH. I use an extension to block all the recommendations.

  You’re right though, assuming the legislation only bans users with accounts (can’t be bothered double checking) that’s the worst of both worlds. I guess there would be ways to create a subscription feed without an account and that may be able to circumvent the ban. Maybe I should put together a site that does that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Dibber dobber Donny: Trump tattletales on TV reporter⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, as I understand it it applies to Lemmy too. I forgot about that. If it were up to me I’d definitely only include the big players. I haven’t yet processed the fact that Lemmy may go away.

  As for parental controls, the issue is that it could create conflict within the family. Kids are going to HAAAAAATE this policy, he wants to be the noble sacrifice (I forgot the exact word for this) so the kids don’t hate their parents.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Dibber dobber Donny: Trump tattletales on TV reporter⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I have been deeply opposed to the social media laws. Then I went back deleting my posts on another site and noticed I supported such a policy. I understand the reasoning behind it and I just was angry at the prospect of needing to give Google my ID.

  However, including YouTube in the ban is beyond ridiculous. May as well ban Netflix and Sky News at that point.

  Then there’s the new age-checking on porn which is absolutely wild. Firstly it was passed without new legislation, but more importantly it is deeply invasive in how it’s to be enforced. I see the reasoning behind this too, but it’s as if they’re trying to stop even determined users from accessing it and once you get to that level it’s crossing a line.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If America descends into fascism, does Australia just grin and bear it?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  The competition, Reform in the UK, Trump in the US, National Rally in France, Likud in Israel, make India the least authoritarian of the lot.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If America descends into fascism, does Australia just grin and bear it?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Reform in the UK, National Rally in France.

  That leaves India as the most “liberal and democratic” of the nuclear armed countries in the coming decade. Followed by Cuba.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If America descends into fascism, does Australia just grin and bear it?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Australia is very limited in how it can move away from America, because the Coalition enthusiastically sells us out to them any chance they can get.

  Albanese, by repairing our relationship with China, is putting us on the right track. He can’t get out of AUKUS and there may even be advantages to that such as giving Albanese Trump’s ear and allowing him to potentially stop a war with China. I don’t pay enough attention to what Albanese is doing behind the scenes to strengthen Australia’s sovereignty.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Help Me Understand Nampijinpa Price⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  She is an opportunist. She does not care about the advancement of aboriginal well-being.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Some Melbourne suburbs could see apartment buildings as tall as 16-storeys become exempt from review under new draft plans.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Are you against houses or something? I get that hating property developers is something that unites the left and right, but we need property developers to develop property.

  I don’t know if you’ve noticed, but we have a shortage of housing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If Albanese’s lost his bottle, he should retire⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

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  You’re technically correct. I assumed this one amendment was passed in February and was to correct a typo, but looking closer it was in September. Still, this amendment was to basically move forward a report on the outcomes. I wouldn’t call that greatly improved, hell I’d say it makes it worse since it will turn the HAFF into a political football when the report shows barely any improvements due to the delays caused by the Greens (6 months + uncertainty) and the long-term nature of the HAFF.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If Albanese’s lost his bottle, he should retire⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The HAFF was passed unamended, after being delayed for 6 months and the actual housing it was supposed to build was delayed further by the uncertainty. The Greens blocked it with ridiculous demands like increasing the funding to address housing stress instead of the homelessness it was supposed to, an unconstitutional national rent-freeze, or reforms to capital gains and negative gearing that lost Labor two elections before they promised not to change it.

  The Greens see Labor’s pragmatism as evil. They see Labor as fundamentally evil just like the LNP.

  As for Palestine. Yes it was popular and yes it was just symbolic, but it has the potential to piss off the Americans and doing that consumes a lot of domestic political capital (because of American influence in Australia). Australia is more subordinate to America than most thanks to the LNP being willing and eager to sell out our sovereignty, we can’t really break rank alone on Israel, never mind how many time’s Labor has had to publicly condemn Hamas making cutting off military aid to Israel a domestic political nightmare.

  Once Ireland stops arms trade with Israel, then Australia could plausibly consider doing it. Until then it would 100% get Labor couped.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If Albanese’s lost his bottle, he should retire⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I wouldn’t call the senate “extremely” friendly. I wouldn’t even call it “friendly” after the HAFF.

  As for the rest, I think recognizing Palestine took up far more political capital than you think. The Americans OWN us, and have a history of couping Labor leaders that step out of line even for minor transgressions.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If Albanese’s lost his bottle, he should retire⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The idea is to make it seem like they’re doing nothing, doesn’t matter whether that’s from a progressive or conservative perspective. Take for example how the press basically ignored all the good Queensland Labor managed to do before they were ousted.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ABS decision to reuse biased, coercive Census religion question puts human rights in the spotlight⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Per the article, without a “no religion” option people will pick the religion of their parents even if they’re now atheist.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘Thriving Kids’ could help secure the future of the NDIS. But what will the program mean for children and families?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Last time they tried that, they couped the prime minister and replaced him with Gillard who immediately reversed the taxes.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Zero stars for the Young Liberals⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Actions-wise, the LNP are not that far from the Democrats on social issues. They called the same-sex marriage referendum, passed gun control laws, supported a voice to parliament (until Dutton), mostly ignored trans people. The issues they’re right-leaning on are Israel (like the Democrats) and immigration (like the Democrats).

  Climate change, is the one social (and economic issue) they’re to the right of Democrats on that I know of.

  And of course, if you take the National party on it’s own then it’s definitely to the right of the Democrats.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Zero stars for the Young Liberals⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  But by American standards, they’re the equivalent of the Democrats … mostly. We have a party, “One Nation”, that’s closer to Republicans and some members of the Liberal party are ideologically aligned with One Nation but members of the Liberal party because they need to win elections (similar to Albo, who’s on the left-wing of labor but governs as a moderate because the far-left is an election losing position).

  And a important thing for Americans to note is that in our ranked-choice voting system, a surprising number of One Nation (Republican) voters tend to rank Labor (Bernie Sanders) over the Liberals (Democrats). This is to say that not only is trying to appeal to swing voters in America a stupid idea because unlike Australia elections there are fought on turnout, but trying to do that by behaving like the Democrats has the exact opposite effect.

  This is to say, if you put up a centrist for president in the (alleged) next election America then you will absolutely lose. Same if it’s a slimy disingenuous corrupt Californian like Harris or Newsom.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨'We've had enough': Warlpiri elder issues plea to prime minister⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  And blocked because considering your views I don’t need your voice to join the many (less racist) voices in my head.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Greens and Coalition bristle against Labor’s changes to the standing orders [to allow kicking out MPs for longer and to avoid recording the names of MPs who on some motions]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The names of the Members who are in the minority shall be recorded in the Votes and Proceedings.

  Given the amount people are up in arms, you’d assume they’re hiding who those 6 people are entirely (and even if they were, it’ll really only benefit fringe mp’s like the Greens). Sure, it lumps the yes votes with non-attendance but if the vote is overwhelming I don’t think a few people not showing up is of much concern to the public interest. Plus the crossbench is well over 6 people so if it’s just the major parties this won’t even trigger.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Decoding a voter’s poor handwriting is subjective – let’s enlist AI to help with the Bradfield recount | Simon Jackman⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Not really, but it’s mass-producing garbage content. It’s only useless for cost-cutting at the expense of quality and that reality is undeniable, the more it’s used the lower the quality of everything we engage with.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Decoding a voter’s poor handwriting is subjective – let’s enlist AI to help with the Bradfield recount | Simon Jackman⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Because it’s too vague.

  It could mean the useless silicon-valley venture that is being slotted into everything and making it worse (generative AI), or it could mean clustering algorithms that are indispensable in everything from medicine to meteorology (machine learning).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Australia joins other nations in call for an immediate end to war in Gaza⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  If this war were about the hostages, said hostages would’ve been freed ages ago.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Drew Hutton says Greens have ‘lost their way’ after party votes to expel co-founder⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Free speech is an American concept, in Australia inciting hate against minorities is not considered a thing that should be allowed and rightly so. That said we (like America) need to do more on defamation laws so it’s not the rich people enforcing speech restrictions.

  That said, specifically Drew Hutton wasn’t even accused of transphobia. The issue was that him criticizing the Greens for their decision to expel a transphobic member “provided a platform for others to demean trans women” which is … I think we can all agree unreasonable. That was only a suspension though. The specific “criticism of trans extremism” that later got him booted from the party entirely isn’t entirely specified.

  “People are starting to see the Greens as weird and unlikable”

  Hence why I am keen to give Drew Hutton the benefit of the doubt here.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Decoding a voter’s poor handwriting is subjective – let’s enlist AI to help with the Bradfield recount | Simon Jackman⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  We collectively need to stop using “AI” to refer to “generative AI”. Specialized AI, or rather machine learning, can be extremely useful.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Independent MP to push for lowering of Australian voting age⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Make it non-compulsory for over-65’s.

  Although that would 100% give license to the LNP to make it non-compulsory for everyone, and our compulsory voting system is what makes us immune to populism (that and our country not crumbling before our very eyes).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Independent MP to push for lowering of Australian voting age⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  These kids will need to be driven to the voting booth by their parents, and if the parents know and disapprove of the child’s political views then that’ll give the more controlling parents effectively more than one vote.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Antisemitism envoy praises Elon Musk's X for using AI to 'root out hate'⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Wasn’t she in the news for saying something else insane recently? She is not a good a good anti-semitism envoy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Albanese's plan to 'unleash the private sector'⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You need to win election to fight capitalism. Could you even imagine Australia voting for Adam Bandt to be PM? Incrementalism is not evil, and sure beats the alternative of going scorched earth and handing us another decade of the LNP. This isn’t America, we can’t beat the LNP on turnout.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Albanese's plan to 'unleash the private sector'⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You want Albanese to single-handedly abolish global capitalism, against the will of the Australian electorate? I think, as far as capitalism goes, small business is on the less unethical side.

  Albanese is an adult, he needs to deliver the best outcomes he can from within the system we’re given, not refuse to engage in the hopes that it would somehow fix things.