naevaTheRat
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Despite all my rage I’m still a rat refreshing this page.
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- Comment on Fears Aboriginal languages are being lost, as communities work to save them 3 days ago:
Don’t use the passive voice and weasel-words. If you want to make claims make them.
It could be argued that the use of the passive voice and the abstract attribution of an argument to a nebulous other. A practice which has been described in some literature as the use of “weasel-words”, has a deleterious effect on comprehension and dilutes discussion by making unclear distinctions between the beliefs of interlocutors and mere speculation.
- Comment on Guardian reporting on antisemitism plan proposed by government. Sweeping proposals including withdrawing funding from unis. Envoy claims that academia is steeped in antisemitism. 4 days ago:
It’s antisemetic to report on an army gunning down semetic civvies.
- Comment on Guardian reporting on antisemitism plan proposed by government. Sweeping proposals including withdrawing funding from unis. Envoy claims that academia is steeped in antisemitism. 4 days ago:
I dunno how much blood is personally on his hands, but the government certainly continues to support and arm their genocidal regime.
Settler-colonial solidarity I suppose :s would be nice if our lords and masters could be on the right side of history for once.
Something I really struggle with on this shit, is the government has cracked down so hard here, but like aboriginal Aussies are still undergoing genocide here as we speak. Massive overpolicing, massively higher deaths in custody, massively higher deaths in healthcare, horrific amounts of racism. Yet apparently we need a special action body on legitimising Israel :|
- Guardian reporting on antisemitism plan proposed by government. Sweeping proposals including withdrawing funding from unis. Envoy claims that academia is steeped in antisemitism.www.theguardian.com ↗Submitted 4 days ago to australianpolitics@aussie.zone | 10 comments
- Comment on Farmers are executing wombats because wombats don't respect human legal documents. Laws against this are not enforced. ABC reports on the culture. 1 week ago:
I find that the historical precedent of commons and allotments has many appealing safeguards built into it. And end to corporate buy ups and land speculation for instance. In leftist economic theory a distinction is usually made between personal property (stuff you use, your toothbrush etc) and private property (the means of production, agricultural land, factories etc held by individuals or companies for the purpose of exploitation).
It might serve a farmer to say over-exploit land and wear it out but a community that lives there, presumably having young people and children, are unlikely to feel that way. Similarly is a community unlikely to leave a field fallow because holding land that is not in use to later sell is very profitable. People invested in their personal property and local community, the business of living somewhere and presumably some of them farming the commons; they are still invested in paying attention to the environment and quality of the land.
You have probably heard of the tragedy of the commons but this was based off highly unusual transient conditions (sort of like the alpha wolf study) and historical evidence points to many enduring and stable arrangements. ian.umces.edu/…/the-triumph-of-the-commons-no-act… is a good primer and Ostrum, E’s work for further study if curious.
I am defs also keen on citizen’s assemblies, more democracy is awesome and evidence shows that true democracy (i.e. broad opinions and randomly drafted shmucks) consistently returns good results.
- NSW government reaches agreement with rail Union. 92% of workers vote to accept 12% payrise over 3 years.www.abc.net.au ↗Submitted 1 week ago to news@aussie.zone | 1 comment
- Comment on Farmers are executing wombats because wombats don't respect human legal documents. Laws against this are not enforced. ABC reports on the culture. 1 week ago:
I would agree, which is why I tend to come down against private property/privatisation of land. It serves everyone to have agriculture, but only if that agriculture is done in a way which serves everyone. Of course a community controlling its land and allocating it to people who want to use it to benefit the community is no guarantee they use it responsibly, as we can see with this one.
Managing things like environmental impact requires a very large scale view and coordination, a river might be able to tolerate run off from the first farm, but by the 50th downstream it might be cooked. It’s difficult to expect the person at the first farm to really understand their impact and responsibility. Significant attitude changes are needed, almost everyone in Australia behaves in ways the earth cannot sustain and which violently exploit other animals including other humans (e.g. our diets, our trinkets). We really need to reframe what being a human in the world means and what responsibilities it entails, and set up institutions that make it easier instead of harder.
- Farmers are executing wombats because wombats don't respect human legal documents. Laws against this are not enforced. ABC reports on the culture.www.abc.net.au ↗Submitted 1 week ago to news@aussie.zone | 8 comments
- Comment on Australians are choosing foods that contribute to leading causes of disease. Why? 5 weeks ago:
What people think of as absurd or not is informed by culture which marketing attempts to shape. There are absolutely dishes and combinations enjoyed in other cultures that would turn your stomach.
Something like potato gems needs to be understood to be in the same category as gummy worms. Not a normal meal food, a treat which is absurdly rich.
Price per calorie is obviously not the major concern, and I put to you most people probably have no idea about how much energy is in what they eat or what its nutritional merit is. They make decisions based on their impression of what is a reasonable food in whatever category.
Potatoes and fish are meal foods in our culture, and culturally they retain this after being deep fried and battered. However bread which is a meal food does not retain meal food status if battered and fried. See what I’m getting at?
If you can buy battered potatoes in the frozen veg isle, next to the peas, and it has pictures on it informing you that this is an entirely reasonable food to put on a plate with peas then you might easily grab some for that purpose.
- Comment on Australians are choosing foods that contribute to leading causes of disease. Why? 5 weeks ago:
Sigh, read what I wrote re gummy worms.
Also sugar isn’t addictive, not in any meaningful way. It is pleasureable but labelling it as an addiction is a health crank position.
- Comment on Australians are choosing foods that contribute to leading causes of disease. Why? 5 weeks ago:
The health star rating is under reform! Good news!
And I think regulating the content of food based on nutritional guidelines is quite difficult, a bit joyless, and likely to backfire and entrench established food products and production while hampering stuff like plant based alternatives which may represent healther and more ethical ways to produce hyper palatable treats.
I think it’s easier to place restrictions (at least now) and what can represent itself as good and normal parts of a human diet as opposed to what is essentially a starch or fat based lolly.
- Comment on Australians are choosing foods that contribute to leading causes of disease. Why? 5 weeks ago:
Sure but the idea that humans are silly automatons that follow price exclusively dies in first year econ classrooms. Canned beans are extremely cheap and much closer to a food you can sustain yourself on, yet marketing promotes the idea that fish fingers and a side of chips is a more reasonable meal than baked potato and a side of beans with sauce, which doesn’t feel reasonable. Palatability is also not the most significant factor because people also aren’t serving fish fingers and a side of gummy worms despite gummy worms being extremely cheap per calorie and hyper palatable.
We’re a long way from being able to restrict the sale of junk food legislatively but not that far from being able to prevent things like showing hot chips on a dinner plate as something reasonable to serve.
- Comment on Australians are choosing foods that contribute to leading causes of disease. Why? 5 weeks ago:
Look I am a straight up commie, my pipe dream is humans working together with mutual consideration in mind (an idea that makes you nearly unspeakably radical lmao). Do you know how fucking elated I would be if we could just like ban advertising on “junk food” and idk have it be plain packaged?
Chips are nice, I like chips, I just don’t think companies should be free to try hijack our biological drives to maximise destructive pleasure habits.
We can have a little vice, as a treat.
- Submitted 5 weeks ago to news@aussie.zone | 12 comments
- Comment on First Nations writer speaks out after being stripped of $15,000 State Library of Queensland award over Gaza tweet 1 month ago:
Deeply unserious.
- Comment on First Nations writer speaks out after being stripped of $15,000 State Library of Queensland award over Gaza tweet 1 month ago:
So firstly the invasion of France (assuming you mean French capital R resistance? not like the Warsaw uprising or whatever?) was not a program where the French nationals were split into disconnected areas while German nationals took their land. That sort of displacement was basically only done by German military and government in order to set up their occupation infrastructure.
Secondly the occupation of France was quite short, and during an active was so comparing the circumstances directly is a bit misleading. What did early Palestinian resistance look like?
Thirdly, and I think this is quite key, the French resistance did a shitload of absolutely horrifying stuff and discussions of the right to resist usually point this out: en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right_to_resist
The unfortunate reality is that resistance is ugly and chaotic, that the moral responsibility lies with oppressors to not oppress, and not turn their citizens into targets by involving them in oppression and carrying out acts in their name, and it is the responsibility of citizens to avoid claiming fruits of such programs such as land and resources.
- Comment on First Nations writer speaks out after being stripped of $15,000 State Library of Queensland award over Gaza tweet 1 month ago:
little L liberals support every struggle for freedom except the current one.
I have no idea what people expect resistance to systematic displacement, imprisonment, discrimination, and murder to look like. If waving some flags and a few kindly worded speeches would have been enough then the 100 prior years was plenty of time for it to do that. At a certain point it becomes kill your attacker or die. Let’s not forget who the aggressors are.
Shit sucks, but there aren’t exactly innocents in an active colonisation and genocide program.
- Comment on Two NSW Health nurses have been stood down after video emerged showing them allegedly bragging about killing and refusing to treat Israeli patients. 4 months ago:
Speculation is pointless, their records will be examined. It wouldn’t be the first time, but even a negative attitude and/or neglect could lead to deaths or suffering which were avoidable. Look at Aboriginal deaths in the healthcare system for an example of this.
Even if these people were utter saints professionally they have harmed everybody by undermining the trust nursing staff need extended to them to do their jobs properly, which benefits all of us.
It’s completely contemptable behaviour that nobody should make excuses for or diminish. Targeting people for where they were born is insane.
- Comment on Labor, Coalition to suspend Lidia Thorpe from the Senate after she tore up a motion by Pauline Hanson 7 months ago:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=A_pIPTih5iM
Racist attacks against someone with the goal of excluding them from power are violence.
Pauline is a piece of human filth, I struggle to imagine an australian less worthy of life.
- Comment on Those poor plants 10 months ago:
lmfao this is hilarious
- Comment on Those poor plants 10 months ago:
The above comment is made of glyphs arranged to convey meaning. The Code of Hammurabi is made of glyphs arranged to convey meaning.
So the comment will very well be likely a significant contribution to human culture.
- Comment on Daily Discussion Thread: 🐷 🛖 🐺 💨🏚️ Thursday, August 29, 2024 10 months ago:
soz but are the animals killed for the cat food not equally deserving of life and happiness as a cat?
- Comment on Daily Discussion Thread: 🐷 🛖 🐺 💨🏚️ Thursday, August 29, 2024 10 months ago:
I used to agree, but nuttlex buttery is actually quite good!
although personally don’t add fat to much, being an enthusiastic cook that is growing sideways a little more than I ought to.
- Comment on Daily Discussion Thread: 🐷 🛖 🐺 💨🏚️ Thursday, August 29, 2024 10 months ago:
Hope that’s oil or margarine on that popcorn! Chicken salt is fine though, amusingly it has no chicken in it. Weird name huh?
- Comment on Daily Discussion Thread: 🐷 🛖 🐺 💨🏚️ Thursday, August 29, 2024 10 months ago:
Hi! I’m the mod that started this all! I think everyone who uses the phrase “obligate carnivore” is outing themselves as a complete buffoon since it has literally 0 application to whether or not it is possible, which would be obvious if people looked up the definition.
But of course, that would be expecting a lot from people :)
- Comment on Can someone define "liberal" (in its use as an insult) for me? 11 months ago:
Look ultimately words mean what they mean in the context that they’re spoken but broadly neoliberalism is highly socially permissive. Provided, that is, one does this as a responsible member of the capitalist economy and doesn’t disrupt the market.
Like you can have neoliberals that love trans kids, celebrate pride, want more black female drone pilots etc. It is, however, not a neoliberal position say compare the number of vacant properties to the number of homeless people and suggest that perhaps we should just take the unused houses and give them to homeless people? That would violate the principles of private property and free markets. After all: what freedom does one have if you can’t watch someone freeze to death on the doorstep of your vacant investment?
If your friends think that freedom to do that is utterly absurd and a society which defends that is fundamentally rotten then they are not liberals in the academic sense, however their substantially more leftist stance may be called liberalism in the political context you find yourselves in.
- Comment on Can someone define "liberal" (in its use as an insult) for me? 11 months ago:
To clarify my question. What do you mean ‘actually liberal’ ideologies?
Like what are their thoughts on monetarism?private property? free association? private entities in markets? Debt and paying it, both private and state held?
If they think that the state should provide the means of subsistence of the entire populus, that property should in general be held in common and private property is not sacred, that government entities in a market are often more effective than private and/or that business should be heavily regulated to serve common good, that debts should be cancelled when it is not realistic or fair to pay them etc. Or perhaps even further afield positions like questioning nation States, police, militaries and boarders… well, then they are not in fact liberals haha.
- Comment on Can someone define "liberal" (in its use as an insult) for me? 11 months ago:
What do they see as different between neoliberalism and classical liberalism. Neoliberalism is mostly a post-Keynesian revitalisation of classical liberal economic positions updated with modern banking practices and globalisation.
- Comment on Can someone define "liberal" (in its use as an insult) for me? 11 months ago:
… everyone? hence my use of broadly? It has complete and utter ideological hegemony since like the 70s. If you study economics you study neoliberal economics and they don’t even bother specifying. All major political parties in the anglosphere and most of western Europe follow neoliberal ideology, even the green-left is largely neoliberal. There are basically no classical liberals left.
- Comment on Can someone define "liberal" (in its use as an insult) for me? 11 months ago:
I think I misunderstood you.
See my other comment for why I think freedom is sort of a useless thing to frame anything around. At least without further clarification.