Zagorath
@Zagorath@aussie.zone
- Comment on Analysing the Greens Election performance | Was it a Green collapse? 18 hours ago:
This video raises some interesting theories, but unfortunately it doesn’t have any data to back up the more controversial ones. I’m inclined to agree with it, but I’d rather see actual evidence to back that up, if it’s possible for that kind of evidence to be collected. Did the Greens’ strategy during the campaign and during the last term of Parliament lose them a significant amount of votes? It’s hard to say.
The summary being that the Greens were always going to lose seats as soon as the LNP slipped backward into 3rd place and got eliminated, giving votes to Labor, and that nothing the Greens could have done or not done would have changed that, is the most important piece of it, though.
- Submitted 18 hours ago to australianpolitics@aussie.zone | 1 comment
- Comment on Why can computers, like even very old laptops can seemingly get OS updates forever, while mobile devices hardly get a few years of updates before getting stuck out of date? 2 days ago:
just use double-sided tape
Could be a good use for one of those cases with slots for cards. Slide the drive in the slot, cut a hole for the USB C jack at the bottom, et voila.
- Comment on Explosions heard in Tel Aviv, Jerusalem as Iran retaliates for Israel's strikes on nuclear sites 4 days ago:
What is it Israel always says? “They have a right to defend themselves”?
- Comment on Sheeple 4 days ago:
fyi you can put alt text on an image by putting it between the square brackets
Might not be a great option for long and detailed alt texts describing all the text in a comic, but for something simple like this it’s much more convenient for people with screen readers.
- Comment on ‘We have a mandate to act’: PM throws open doors to bolder agenda 1 week ago:
Funnily enough, I kinda agree with that comment. The difference being that he wants them to move in ways that will make the country worse, just like his party constantly tries to. I’m hoping they might embrace their mandate to do something bold and progressive instead of the milquetoast liberalism they’ve done in the past.
- Comment on Freedom of the Press 1 week ago:
This is honestly just evidence that Americans are passable at maths. 2 > 1, after all.
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- Comment on Stable build go brr 1 week ago:
Idgi
- Comment on Scott Morrison receives Australia's highest honour for leadership during [COVID] crisis 1 week ago:
!notthebetoota
- Comment on HMAS Canberra accidentally blocks wireless internet and radio services in New Zealand 1 week ago:
Shit this joke is good.
- Comment on Brisbane hotel workers walk off the job to protest over Zionist-booked event 1 week ago:
Absolutely disgusting reporting of this came out of the Murdoch press, who just completely ignored the fact that the organisation being protested was explicitly zionist (as in, it’s literally in their name). They just whinged about a “rabid mob intimidating Jewish people” celebrating their holiday. And the rhetoric from our Lord Mayor has been equally deplorable.
Well done to these workers and to all those who supported them.
- Comment on Brisbane hotel workers walk off the job to protest over Zionist-booked event 1 week ago:
Can we standardise around the original URL in the post field and archives in the body? Doing it that way helps Lemmy’s auto-detection of cross-posts (including incidental cross-posts) work.
- Comment on OK so which is it? 1 week ago:
It’s definitely an instruction to the crocs telling them they shouldn’t swim here.
- Comment on We are seeing some vote manipulation 1 week ago:
Mods can see all votes in communities that they mod, up and down.
Admins can (I believe) see all votes, full stop.
- Comment on After hours 1 week ago:
That’s quite a small view of temples. Seems mainly restricted to stereotypes of Catholic/Christian abuses.
I agree. When I hear “temple”, the first thing I think of is ancient Greek, Egyptian, or Babylonian places of worship. To gods like Isis, Athena, or Enlil. After that I might think of the word being used by some Jews for the thing other Jews call synagogue or shul.
I would never call a Christian place of worship a temple. It’s a church in the generic, or sometimes more specific terms like chapel, cathedral, or monastery.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
A good comment from back when Reddit was good:
It’s what’s called a dummy pronoun, a pronoun that carries no semantic information and is only used to fulfill a syntactic requirement. More generally that’s called a syntactic expletive, although that page says that there’s some argument about whether this particular use of a dummy pronoun falls under that category.
This is a common construction in languages that don’t allow dropping pronouns (non-“pro-drop” languages). German has “es regnet”, French (the only Romance language that isn’t pro-drop, IIRC) has “il pleut”, but in Italian it’s simply “piove”.
- Comment on [META] New moderator, and changes to the comm 1 week ago:
I’ve already picked an example title, Overseas News, although this is temporary for now
About as temporary as the “temporary workaround” in my code.
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- Comment on Greens defector’s use of slur against fellow senator exposed in text leak 2 weeks ago:
Albo is being disingenuous
And so is Cox, considering her very vocal statements about recent Labor climate policy.
But I can’t get past what a terrible look it is for a party to accept with open arms someone fleeing bullying accusations.
- Comment on Greens defector’s use of slur against fellow senator exposed in text leak 2 weeks ago:
Maybe a bit, but it’s much less problematic than quitting a party because that party is investigating you for accusations of bullying. And it’s no less petty than quitting because your fellow party members voted for someone else as party leader, deputy leader, & whip.
- Comment on Greens defector’s use of slur against fellow senator exposed in text leak 2 weeks ago:
seems like we can’t decide if it’s genuinely offensive or not. I have some social circles where saying it would be almost like saying homophobic/racist slurs, but other social circles that throw it around as a synonym of “idiot/lunatic”
I don’t think it’s a lack of decisiveness. It’s just some people are very slow to adapt. Like some people still used “that’s gay” as an insult into the 2010s…or worse, used the f-slur in much the same way the r-slur is being used here. Heck, a prominent player of one of my favourite games used the f-slur in that way in just 2020. It was a relatively big scandal and I think he was briefly banned from streaming sites, but frankly as far as I’m concerned being that far behind the general public in adapting to that sort of change indicates a degree of homophobia that should not be considered acceptable.
- Comment on What went wrong for the Greens in the Australian election? 2 weeks ago:
There is definitely that perception of ‘being too oppositional’ unfortunately
There are definitely a lot of people who say that online. But I don’t think I’ve seen any evidence to support the claim that it had a significant effect at the election. I haven’t seen evidence to oppose that claim either, but that’s my point…we’re lacking in real data.
Maybe that’s just a WA thing
WA Labor definitely seems like the worst version of Labor when it comes to the environment…(NSW Labor is the worst in pretty much every other way, from what I’ve seen) But the federal party kowtows to their WA colleagues far too often. Remember when Plibersek had a deal for some climate policy with the Greens, only for Albanese to come in and destroy the deal, at the request of the WA Premier?
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- Comment on Palestine pulled - Media Watch 2 weeks ago:
Oh, and the ABC claims the interview contained “a factual inaccuracy”. The question of what this inaccuracy might have been was not interrogated.
- Comment on Palestine pulled - Media Watch 2 weeks ago:
Unfortunately, Media Watch has uncritically repeated the obvious nonsense excuse that it was “never supposed to go online”.
Worse, he even accuses the ABC of having been insufficiently critical of the Palestinian point of view.
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- Comment on Greens senator defects to Labor 2 weeks ago:
Here’s a news article that does a better job of representing the event than Courier Fail.
If you can find a way to access it, here’s the video. It’s honestly a shame to me that Sriranganathan continues to almost exclusively use Meta social media properties. As a politician I get that he needs to be where the people are, but as an anarchist you’d think he’d at least try to be promoting federated social media. But unfortunately as it stands, to be involved in political activism in Australia requires being on Facebook.
- Comment on Greens senator defects to Labor 2 weeks ago:
Full text of Sriranganathan's post
Watching the mainstream media and the Liberal National Party constructing alternate realities is fascinating but also kinda scary. The mayor has been defaming me on his public social media channels, but he’s previously blocked my account so I can’t even respond to the misinformation. For those who missed it, there was a peaceful protest outside the Wickham Hotel on Saturday night after a bunch of hospo workers refused to work at a social event organised by the State Zionist Council of Queensland. The Zionist Council is a political group which supports forcibly removing Palestinians from their land (often referred to as ‘ethnic cleansing’) and annexing the rest of Palestine into the Israeli nation-state. I was present for most of the protest on Saturday (I left about 15 minutes before it ended). It largely consisted of people standing on the footpaths outside the Wickham, chanting slogans about freeing Palestine and rising up against oppression etc. Some media reports suggested there were 150 people participating in the protest. Personally I reckon there would’ve been 70 or 80 at absolute maximum. Usually the mainstream media grossly underestimates the number of people attending pro-Palestine protests, so it’s funny that in this case they’ve significantly exaggerated the turnout. Let’s look at some of the claims made by the Courier Mail and other conservative media outlets like 4BC radio: - protesters ‘surrounded’ the building – this is false - protesters blocked entrances/exits to the Wickham Hotel – this is also false (I think reasonable people could argue that it WOULD have been ethically justifiable to block entrances to prevent the Zionist event from happening, but that’s not what happened here in the real world) - protesters “stormed the venue” – utter bullshit - protesters ‘hurled objects’ at attendees – I didn’t see anyone throwing anything at Zionists, and people on the megaphone were repeatedly emphasising the importance of keeping the protest peaceful. It’s worth noting that several police were present at the main entrance and would almost certainly have arrested a protester if they’d thrown something. Channel 7 had a cameraman onsite and lots of other people were filming too. If a protester had thrown something at another person, there’s a very high chance it would’ve been filmed, and there probably would’ve been arrests. I’m gonna treat this claim as false too until someone shows me footage to the contrary. So what we have here is a noisy but strictly non-violent footpath protest, that didn’t block roads, driveways or building entrances, during which even the Queensland Police (who love creating bullshit excuses for arresting activists) couldn’t find ANY examples of assault, hate speech, trespass or anything else for which they might justify arresting someone. And yet, if you read the Courier Mail or listen to 4BC radio shock-jocks, you’d be led to believe that a violent anti-Semitic mob attacked a Jewish religious festival. We’ve all seen media beat-ups before. But in this case the chasm between reality and how the media are describing it is breathtakingly wide. I should note that a few commenters have suggested that even though Israel’s genocidal invasion and occupation of Palestine is worthy of condemnation, it’s wrong to protest outside a social event that’s held to coincide with a religious festival. This line of argument falls into the same trap of conflating anti-Zionism with anti-Semitism. Remember: this event was organised by a political advocacy group in a bar/nightclub. It’s in no way equivalent to a religious ceremony at a church/temple/mosque. If the Minerals Council of Australia (a political lobby group that advocates for the interests of mining billionaires) held a Christmas Party at the Wickham Hotel, I would protest that too. The fact that the party was connected to a religious event – Christmas – doesn’t mean that protesting outside would be equivalent to spreading hatred against Christians. Political groups that wield significant power in society while advocating harmful and destructive policies don’t get to claim immunity from protest just because their social events double up as religious festivities. I know different people have different definitions of what the word ‘Zionism’ means to them, but as far as I know, the State Zionist Council of Queensland is still actively supporting the Israeli regime and advocating for more Australian government support for Israel’s invasion of Palestine. Until the Zionist Council publicly condemns the brutal murders of tens of thousands of Palestinian civilians, I will feel very comfortable supporting peaceful protests against such an organisation. I’ll end with a quote from a Jewish-Australian woman, Robin, who was present outside the Wickham Hotel on Saturday night in support of the workers protesting against the event. “Shame Courier Mail! Disgraceful so-called journalism. I was there - on the outside - and I am Jewish. It was a Zionist event - not a Jewish one. It was literally the Zionist Council of Queensland. We don’t know the ethnicity or religion of the people who attended - only that they are Zionists- which is a political ideology. Many Zionists are not Jewish. And many Jewish people - like me - oppose Zionism. No-one on the outside said anything about Jewish people. And no-one stormed the place. The Courier Mail has “limited” who can comment on this story but we need to call out their conflation of anti-Zionism with anti-Semitism and their referring to Zionists as Jews. Stop the genocide. Free Palestine!”
He also live-streamed a video of it while he was there. You can see they’re being particularly non-disruptive. I’m not particularly inclined to trust the word of anonymous strangers, especially when directed towards criticising anti-genocide groups and Sriranganathan: both groups I know tend to attract unfair outsized criticism. And especially with a claim like
very shaken up by it even a few days later
This just reeks of pearl clutching.
