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- Comment on Discussion Thread 😛 Friday 17 April 2026 3 days ago:
Disappointed that today’s emoji was not the fire one, @YarraByte.
- Comment on Former US Marines pilot Dan Duggan loses bid to avoid extradition from Australia 4 days ago:
Really? Giving lessons on taking off/landing on short runways - lessons that could be applied to air operations on an aircraft carrier, constutute state secrets? He hasn’t denied teaching pilots this stuff, though he claims he never knowingly taught Chinese airforce pilots. He also taught tight formation aerial exhibition flying, which again could have military applications.
From what I can tell, that’s the main thing he’s accused of. There’s been no accusations of weapons or combat training, actually landing on aircraft carriers etc. As I read it all, I thought “that’s it?” He’s also accused of sending money abroad in some sort of laundering thing, but I can’t see how the US military would care about that enough to extradite him.
They might have more charges once he’s in US hands, but from what I’ve seen in the indictment documents, people could probably learn that stuff in Australia.
- Comment on Former US Marines pilot Dan Duggan loses bid to avoid extradition from Australia 4 days ago:
What a fascinating case! Former US fighter pilot becomes an Australian citizen. Then trains pilots in Australia and overseas.
Is he training pilots in military flying? Or just civilian flying? Is he breaking any laws? Who bloody knows?Reading more about his case:
The 2017 indictment said “Duggan provided military training to PRC (People’s Republic of China) pilots” through a South African flight school on three occasions in 2010 and 2012.
He’s denying this. Though the fact that he lived in Beijing for eight years looks pretty sus. He claims he’s just teaching civilian flying.
His defence lawyer is claiming that ASIO gave him a security clearance to acquire an aviation license in 2022 while he was still in China, enticing him to return to Australia. That clearance was revoked a few days after he arrived and suddenly he’s facing extradition to the USA. The defence is saying they lured him to Australia only to extradite him. And to be frank, that holds water. Though, I could probably also be convinced that US officials were monitoring his movement and started proceedings once he entered a country they had an extradition treaty with.
Dude has been in solitary confinement in Lithgow for over three years so far. That’s frankly pretty damn harsh all on its own for the accusation of ‘three cases of military training’. Three years in solitary for a person who hasn’t even got a guilty verdict? Are the yanks saying that you go to prison for a year per military flying lesson? Are they going to recognise time served if they find him guilty? Are both government going to compensate him for what this has all cost him and his family if he’s found innocent? They have frozen the family home half-built. It can’t be sold or lived in. The family have racked up half a million dollars defending the case so far.
I have trust issues around releasing an Australian citizen to the mercies of the present US administration/military. I am unconvinced he’ll face a fair trial.
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- Comment on Girl, 13, looked up punishment for running someone over after hitting cyclist in stolen car, court hears 6 days ago:
I don’t know what the maximum sentence it is possible to give a kid in this situation, but the longer she’s away from whatever toxic community such acts bring notoriety, the better. Also, there is a significant danger she’ll kill someone if let out onto the street. That simple fact has to weigh down on whatever judge gets this case.
We’re talking about a kid born in 2012, here. She was in 2/3 during Covid lockdowns. It boggles the brain that someone so young can be acting this way.
- Comment on Victoria Cross recipient Ben Roberts-Smith arrested, expected to be charged with war crime of murder 1 week ago:
There was probably reluctance to accept it as true because he’s a VC recipient. One of the only seven living recipients in the world. These guys are meant to all be heroes. And what this dude did in 2011 was heroic. It’s just that he (allegedly) did stuff after that date that we don’t want to believe a hero is capable of.
- Comment on The ‘Third Front’: China resurrects Mao’s military capabilities 2 weeks ago:
I was speaking of conventional warfare - which is what it would take for a “third front” to be necessary. There’s a huge difference between the assorted military operations we’ve seen in my lifetime and total warfare. Even in Vietnam, the major powers held back. The USA hasn’t actually declared war on a country since 1942.
If the USA actually decides to go all-in on a country, that country is in for a bad time. Even if that country is China. That said, **any **nation that invades China is also in for a bad time. The very idea of such a war is horrendous.
- Comment on The ‘Third Front’: China resurrects Mao’s military capabilities 2 weeks ago:
In a land of spy satellites, stealth bombers and ICBMs, “hiding” critical infrastructure in your remote mountain fortress is a little archaic in thinking.
- Comment on The ‘Third Front’: China resurrects Mao’s military capabilities 2 weeks ago:
I believe all nations should have strategies to defend themselves in the event of an attack by a foreign power. I see no controversy, here.
- Comment on Thieves steal 12 tons of KitKat chocolate bars in Italy 3 weeks ago:
The truck and cargo are both missing.
Fun fact: The KitKats are worth more than the truck! - Submitted 3 weeks ago to worldnews@aussie.zone | 6 comments
- Comment on Smoking has already killed far more people this century than in the entire 20th century 4 weeks ago:
Plus there are probably loads of smoking-related deaths in the 20th century that weren’t attributed to smoking.
- Comment on Trump calls out Australia in blistering post declaring the US does not 'need' ally support in Iran 4 weeks ago:
Two key points from the article:
- The US hasn’t actually requested support from Australia.
- Australian government is not discussing Trump’s personal war - even today.
“I think it’s a reflection on his character more than us.”
That about says it all.
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🍓 Friday 13 March 2026 5 weeks ago:
The last holdout servos finally went above $2/l today. I topped up at $1.49 last week. Is this even real?
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🍓 Friday 13 March 2026 5 weeks ago:
Jazz hands!! 👐
- Comment on ℂ𝕆𝕄𝕄𝔼ℕℂ𝔼 𝕄𝔸ℕ𝕀𝔽𝔼𝕊𝕋𝕀ℕ𝔾 ℍ𝕐ℙ𝔼ℝ 𝔸𝕌𝕊𝕋ℝ𝔸𝕃𝕀𝔸 5 weeks ago:
You just know you are important when people need to Google who you are and even Google doesn’t know!
Do I take it that the point of the whole post is that the Libs and Nats are kissing and making up?
- Comment on ℂ𝕆𝕄𝕄𝔼ℕℂ𝔼 𝕄𝔸ℕ𝕀𝔽𝔼𝕊𝕋𝕀ℕ𝔾 ℍ𝕐ℙ𝔼ℝ 𝔸𝕌𝕊𝕋ℝ𝔸𝕃𝕀𝔸 5 weeks ago:
This has happened to so many politicians, I can’t be expected to remember them all.
- Comment on ℂ𝕆𝕄𝕄𝔼ℕℂ𝔼 𝕄𝔸ℕ𝕀𝔽𝔼𝕊𝕋𝕀ℕ𝔾 ℍ𝕐ℙ𝔼ℝ 𝔸𝕌𝕊𝕋ℝ𝔸𝕃𝕀𝔸 5 weeks ago:
Okay, Thanks Google. But I still have no idea what’s going on. I remember Sussy being ousted, but didn’t know/remember who replaced her.
- Comment on Are users who openly parrot literal Nazi talking points allowed here? 5 weeks ago:
Another is shaping the norms of a community and what is acceptable.
This is incorrect. The community shapes itself. The community is lovely. We are not it’s shapers.
You’ve been here about as long as the instance has existed. In the almost three years we’ve been at this, have you ever seen us shaping discussion? Who the hell am I to dictate to everyone what the norm is, anyway? I’m just some guy on the Internet.
I was reluctant to remove a reported post on /c/worldnews the other day, despite it being in clear violation of the sidebar rules.
One neat thing about Lemmy is moderation is all transparent. The modlog is just down there on the bottom of every page. You’ll see that just about all the accounts I ban are for spam with a smattering of troll accounts. We are accountable to the users and not some secret group manipulating discussion out of sight.
- Comment on Are users who openly parrot literal Nazi talking points allowed here? 5 weeks ago:
That’s good to see, but as of right now the Nazi’s explicit mask-off comment is still up, and they are still not prevented from commenting further in the future.
Which you’re clearly good with, since your screen-capped version of the comment is also still up. The purpose of moderation is to prevent people from being exposed abhorrent content, spam, unsolicited nudity, scams and other harmful content. I’m reluctant to step into discussions that are clearly between actual humans as a general rule, unless they are being abusive or derailing threads. I could also count on my fingers the number of human user accounts I’ve needed to actually ban from the site. Whatever a power-tripping mod is, I am not.
The next time you think a comment should be removed, I would recommend that you don’t go out of your way to be sure more people see it as you report it. As things stand, I see more value in this moment as a learning point. Yours is still the only report that particular comment received. The truly offensive stuff, I can be pinged by half a dozen reports within 30 minutes of the comment being posted. I also remain unconvinced that the user who made that comment would self-identify as a Nazi. Zionist, sure - though that is apparent more from other comments than this example.
- Comment on Are users who openly parrot literal Nazi talking points allowed here? 1 month ago:
I get every report about every community on the instance, even if I’m not listed on the Community. They come as notifications to my phone. It’s pretty rare for any report to take longer than an hour or so to be looked at.
- Comment on Are users who openly parrot literal Nazi talking points allowed here? 1 month ago:
Lebensraum is a relatively infamous policy, and one which neo-Nazis like the NSN explicitly invoke.
Sorry. While I readily acknowledge that I don’t hang out in those circles, nor really scrutinise their rhetoric, I have honestly never heard that phrase before. In English or German. This does paint the comment in a brighter light, and I probably would have been more inclined to remove it had I been familiar with the term.
- Comment on Are users who openly parrot literal Nazi talking points allowed here? 1 month ago:
We’re missing a bit of information here. I got your report, went to the thread to get the context.
Firstly, I saw that you had literally screen-capped the comment in question and included it in a new reply. So, removing the comment would have achieved nothing - it would have still been there.
Secondly, the comment was Zionistic in nature, which while especially unpopular in nature is not against instance rules.
Thirdly, I wasn’t aware that the comment in question was similar to something Nazis said. I don’t even know if the user who made the comment knew that. So, leaving it there and letting downvotes do their thing allowed for education as well.
Lastly, the comment was in the Australian Politics community - which is intentionally the lightest-touch moderated community because there’s a difference between political discussion where parties disagree quite vehemently and an outright echo-chamber. If you delete all the users from your politics community that you don’t agree with, what is the point of the community?To answer your question: No, we don’t allow Nazis here. It is literally one of the questions we ask on the application screen. “Nazi talking points” is not on its own a good metric of what is acceptable today. We basically have a whole community in support of Reichsnaturschutzgesetz. I don’t especially take issue with Tierschutz, either. One of the reasons the Third Reich gained actual popular support was some of their early policies were in fact in the best interest of the German people. There is still a Kindergeld today, though giving full credit to the Nazis to that one wouldn’t really be genuine. It is fair to say they supported this policy. So I guess our stance on “literal Nazi talking points” will boil down to other factors and get taken on a case-by-case basis.
Finally: If there’s a user you genuinely don’t wish to see around here any longer, you can hit the little down arrow on any of their comments and block them.
- Comment on Media personality, broadcaster, and Agro puppeteer Jamie Dunn dies aged 76 1 month ago:
A little nostalgia for you.
- Comment on Guardian Essential poll: more than half of Australians open to voting for One Nation despite Hanson’s Muslim comments 1 month ago:
Let’s hear from an actual expert on this topic:
“I think some of the surge in One Nation support is in response to a generic polling question. Many disenchanted voters already have high profile Independent members and candidates in their local seat. It is Independents who are a bigger threat to the Liberal Party, but complex four cornered contests increase the importance of the order candidates finish on primary votes, and affect whose preferences get distributed.”
No, One Nation are in no position to win elections.
- Comment on YouGov: One Nation now 2 points behind Labor on primary vote 2 months ago:
Sorry, I’m missing some context here. Who’s voting at the moment?
- Comment on Australia cancels visa of Jewish influencer who previously called for Islam to be banned 2 months ago:
When atheists shoot up Bondi killing 15, take hostages in the lindt cafe
theguardian.com/…/invasion-day-rally-perth-man-ch…
Incompetence/luck is the only reason this type of scenario didn’t play out in Perth yesterday.
Morons are going to Moron. They come in all shapes and sizes, all nationalities and religions (or no religion). Lumping them all together with people who aren’t morons is just silly.
- Comment on A majority of Australians support banning pro-Palestine marches 3 months ago:
I have no idea who they polled, but I have grave doubts that it was a fair sample of the population.
I’d also love to hear how the questions were phased. For example, I do think the Holocaust should be taught in schools. But the infographic words this like it should be a subject or something.
I think the Holodomor should also be taught in schools, and if it was, I must have been chatting to a mate that one moment or something. While the Holocaust had loads of attention by comparison.
- Comment on As of December 10th, You need to be sixteen to use Aussie.Zone 3 months ago:
Noooo!
I used my icq all the time! In 1997. - Comment on As of December 10th, You need to be sixteen to use Aussie.Zone 3 months ago:
This is a great idea, but keep in mind I’m likely to test it.
