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- Comment on Greens Preferences Flow to Labor – 2010 and 2025 Compared | Antony Green 2 days ago:
Yes, positioning against the alp is mentioned in the analysisa, however, that wouldn’t explain the numbers, as there are multiple other minor parties, if the voters felt that the big 2 did not meet their needs.
- Comment on Greens Preferences Flow to Labor – 2010 and 2025 Compared | Antony Green 2 days ago:
If we take the votes as endorsement of policy, then the voters are voting for greens first and overwhelmingly, labor second. It would seem the voters of the greens feel their policies are in line enough for alp to be their second choice, above other parties large and small.
If you think the voters are misinformed and votes are not an endorsement of policy, (at least best policy availabke to vote for) then there is not really a discussion to be had, outside of marketing and politicking.
I don’t see a rational explanation as to why that would be the case outside of the article proposing that it’s a positioning against lnp. However, even then it doesn’t explain it to the extent it occurs.
- Comment on Greens Preferences Flow to Labor – 2010 and 2025 Compared | Antony Green 3 days ago:
Yet they seem to share voters. So either the voters are all wrong or your being hyperbolic.
- Comment on Greens Preferences Flow to Labor – 2010 and 2025 Compared | Antony Green 3 days ago:
O think it’s not that they depend on each other but rather they are competing for some of the same voters. So, even more competitive than cooperative. However, that should only matter for elections. Clearly they should be more aligned when governing.
- Comment on As of December 10th, You need to be sixteen to use Aussie.Zone 2 weeks ago:
Lol, only when stack d in a trenchcoat (not an admin btw).
- Comment on When your most obnoxious coworker starts up with their bullshit again 3 weeks ago:
Yes, but for 40 years.
- Comment on Neo-Nazi's bank accounts frozen as private sector moves to cut off group's funding pipeline 4 weeks ago:
I get that. I don’t know that the losses add up as the group was unheard of, but they didn’t pull the ban out of their ass. I think they did everything to try and hide where it came from.
- Comment on Neo-Nazi's bank accounts frozen as private sector moves to cut off group's funding pipeline 4 weeks ago:
We’ll, they did it on response to protests from a right wing group. I presume they worried that they would be associated with illicit content. It may be that they took a global view rather than western view of what’s acceptable.
I have no doubt that they wouldn’t care what people buy if there was nonprofit to lose.
- Comment on South African man’s visa cancelled after neo-Nazi rally outside NSW parliament 4 weeks ago:
Yes, but throw the book at all of them equally.
If he is prosecuted for hate speech, then remove his visa. Why are the “Aussies” getting off scot free. Why the double standard?
I used to think the Victoria laws banning swastikas etc was overkill. In this day and age, who’d be an actual nazi.
- Comment on South African man’s visa cancelled after neo-Nazi rally outside NSW parliament 4 weeks ago:
Who watches the watchmen? The same legal mechanism that was used here could be used against someone protesting the destruction of the environment. We’ve already seen similar. Or the Israeli genocide. We’ve already seen a peaceful protestor lose an eye. She was presumably a citizen given she was a candidate for election.
I understand the paradox of tolerance. I also understand state overreach.
I think the police and courts have too much power to stifle legitimate protest already. This will be a reason to stifle it more.
- Comment on South African man’s visa cancelled after neo-Nazi rally outside NSW parliament 4 weeks ago:
Like the recent greens candidate who was actually a lawyer, protesting Palestinian genocide and lost her eye due to excessive police force.
- Comment on South African man’s visa cancelled after neo-Nazi rally outside NSW parliament 4 weeks ago:
Haha, yes. I think there’s a difference between being intolerant if Nazi beliefs people facing equal punishment and singling out people that are not citizens for different treatment.
That is, of course, how the Nazis started out. Of course all Germans were to be treated equally. Guess who weren’t considered real Germans.
Why are the police that approved the rally not facing repercussions? That’s what if like to know.
- Comment on South African man’s visa cancelled after neo-Nazi rally outside NSW parliament 4 weeks ago:
I’m not a fan of Nazis, so I’m glad there are repercussions. I’m not a fan of people expressing views, even when awful, having machinations of the state used against them.
He deserves it, but will the next person?
- Comment on NSW police accused of ‘sickening’ double standard over neo-Nazi rally as Jewish groups demand answers 5 weeks ago:
Some of those that work forces….
- Comment on Barnaby Joyce will not recontest New England seat at next election 1 month ago:
Lol, compares it to a marriage break down. And just like his marriage breakdown, the reason may be because he is cheating with another.
Party of family values.
- Comment on Barnaby Joyce in advanced talks with Pauline Hanson to join One Nation 1 month ago:
I though they only wanted white people?
- Comment on Grattan on Friday: believe it or not, there would be a case for more federal politicians 2 months ago:
Doesn’t regular redistricting prevent the need for that?
- Comment on Just one more thing 3 months ago:
I take your original point at face value with the assumption you are not anti semetic. However, it can also be interpreted as saying I think antisemitism is acceptable.
The same post could be said about white people or Americans. It rarely is used against those from those groups that are not wealthy. Antisemitic sentiment affects the average jew and not the wealthy ones with large influence, which is few and that influence is because of their wealth and/or political influence as a conscious plan, not their religion. In fact they are more likely to hide behind their religion to campaign for things that have nothing to do with their religion or ethnicity.
- Comment on ‘Thriving Kids’ could help secure the future of the NDIS. But what will the program mean for children and families? 3 months ago:
The cost blowouts with the ndis aren’t just ramping up care. Due to the massive increase in funds available, demand increased significantly. So prices rose on lots of stuff. Those in allied therapies are charging hourly rates in the 100s of dollars, where previously, their hourly rate was 60-80. There is a private style system but public style demand. This is less efficient.
Think of going to a public hospital out patient, with lots of waiting and queuing, versus a therapist charging for an hour, having no admin support (why bother as it’s just a cost), so all admin (eg payments, booking appointments )are done during appointment time, billed to ndis. In a hospital, all that is passed off to admin workers while the therapists just see more patients, at a lower hourly rate. Then look at equipment, sometimes costing thousands. Hospitals have it as a shared resource. Private therapists have it now too, but it’s used less frequently and so less efficient from a cost point of view.
The whole point of the scheme is great, but we don’t suddenly have a whole bunch of extra qualified staff. So, to encourage staff, qualified or not, prices went up. Then you have people, who are desperate, willing to pay anything, and then suddenly having a blank cheque. This should normalise over time, partly from a,rhetorical forces, partly from trying to rein in spending, like this.
This is before you even consider inflation was over 25% combine over the last few years, with double the participants. Add on the inefficiancy of rapid ramp up. Look at employment in government and non government spending over the last 3 years. It’s concerning for the economy in general.
- Comment on I fast-forward through the songs... 3 months ago:
Buffy and scrubs are the only two where it was good and worked and made sense in the show. Star Trek strange new worlds has tried to follow that, with making the story make sense to have singing, but it’s just cringey.
- Comment on The guy President Trump nominated to lead the US Bureau of Labor Statistics 4 months ago:
Riot? Insurrection, coup?
- Comment on Actors that have been the least believable scientist castings, I’ll start. 4 months ago:
Yes, I find with any remake or reboot, you have to be ready to abandon preconceptions of what you wanted or expected. Fan service is good and bad. There is no point in a remake where it is all the same. Generally, of it’s a ground breaking classic, the remake is bound to disappoint. It can never be as groundbreaking or original, by definition. Subverting expectations can be good but it requires reference to the original, that the original can stand on its own without
- Comment on Actors that have been the least believable scientist castings, I’ll start. 4 months ago:
For me, I found the bits that were most a copy of the anime to be most disconcerting and disappointing. What they did differently was more interesting.
I did like Major, I didn’t like Dr ouelet but I like Juliette binoche. It was a bit stilted. Michael Pitt was a bit one note and underwhelming but it might also be the concept has dated since the original.
The actor for Major is currently in foundation, of that’s your jam.
- Comment on Actors that have been the least believable scientist castings, I’ll start. 4 months ago:
Haha, yes I did. It got criticism for whitewashing. That’s not on Herz that’s in the producers. She did as fine a job as of expect anyone to do, but it’s a pretty robotic role.
- Comment on Actors that have been the least believable scientist castings, I’ll start. 4 months ago:
But was still a fun character and it was a ludicrous but fun movie. At that time, they were leaning into the cheesez rather than trying for gritty, in the Daniel Craig era.
- Comment on Actors that have been the least believable scientist castings, I’ll start. 4 months ago:
Independence day was great when it was released. Men in black, too.
Lucy was interesting. Ghost in the machine wasnt as good as the (amazing) original, but was still good.
- Comment on GPT-5: Overdue, overhyped and underwhelming. And that’s not the worst of it. 4 months ago:
There are degrees of collapse too. I don’t mind if all the billionaires and corporations are left holding the bag. I am concerned that we have a collapse of the stock market and lost jobs and recession globally.
- Comment on GPT-5: Overdue, overhyped and underwhelming. And that’s not the worst of it. 4 months ago:
True, but I still don’t hope for a collapse. A soft landing is better, if unlikely.
- Comment on GPT-5: Overdue, overhyped and underwhelming. And that’s not the worst of it. 4 months ago:
A collapse will lead to job losses in the short term.
- Comment on GPT-5: Overdue, overhyped and underwhelming. And that’s not the worst of it. 4 months ago:
No, the general economy is pretty poor right now, the AI collapse will cost lots of jobs, incomes and lives. A collapse doesn’t just affect that industry. It spreads and affects finance and lending globally.