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- Comment on [Video] Australian police seizes “Wanted - Netanyahu" sign saying it is antisemitic 23 hours ago:
They should have started holding the sign together. Then they’d have to talk to him as well. If the cops wanna get obtusely technical, get obtusely technical back.
I hate how the cop reiterated that they ‘have rights’, but… ‘shut the hell up…’ paraphrasing of course.
Really feels like we’ve got our priorities straight this year. /s
- Comment on [Video] Australian police seizes “Wanted - Netanyahu" sign saying it is antisemitic 23 hours ago:
I don’t think inviting a kid to forcefully defy/hate like that was the right thing to do. The invitation to tread on the face as a sign of defiance/hate or whatever it was, was probably a poor choice in the moment.
I think its wrapped up in the problems with dehumanisation of enemies, that tends to breed generational circles of violence.
- Comment on No plans to ban more phrases under hate speech laws, Queensland premier says 5 days ago:
Cheers :) I don’t know why that threw me, maybe Sunday morning, brain not switched on.
- Comment on No plans to ban more phrases under hate speech laws, Queensland premier says 5 days ago:
I think its the first sentence that throws me,
But lets say its not,
I’m not sure what ‘it’ is in this sentence.
- Comment on Four minutes of air conditioning 5 days ago:
I suppose not far off 4 AI cat videos worth? If i’s to assume from the below comment yesterday?
- Comment on No plans to ban more phrases under hate speech laws, Queensland premier says 5 days ago:
But let’s say it’s not. Let’s say their claim that these are hateful calls to violence wasn’t an antisemitic lie predicated on the idea that all Jews are complicit in the crimes of Israel. Think through the consequences of that.
I don’t really understand what your saying in this bit.
- Comment on Sky News Australia rebrands as News24 6 days ago:
They really need to structurally put the boot into those cunts while they have the chance, because Murdoch press will be dancing on their graves when this governments time ends.
- Comment on Four minutes of air conditioning 6 days ago:
Interesting article, i’d only say the way Hannah Ritchie ended it feels a little lazy.
2nd last paragraph,
In colder countries, we wouldn’t accept people freezing in their homes. The opposite is also true: we shouldn’t accept people working and living in oppressive heat without ways to cool themselves down.
I think she’d have had a better ending at least acknowledging other methods people around the world use to cool themselves.
Not only because this ending makes it sound as if AC is the only option for all circumstances. But readers could take away a soft imperiousness that people from these countries can’t/won’t act in ways to improve their own lives.
This would be a fundamentally damaging assumption going both directions. It could mean aid people receive in these countries could be poorly targeted, and aid organisers could also forego the incidence of learning from people and their often ingenious strategies for dealing with life with the resources they do have.
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- Comment on Mark Carney’s warning: Albanese is choosing weakness for Australia 1 week ago:
This is a poor take by Paul Begly.
He neglects to consider that the world is uneven. Some countries have been in this new pardigm of great power/neo-monarch rivalry for a long time. I think a few African and Asian countries would be knowingly chuckling at the ‘western’ worlds late coming to this party.
Australia and the UK haven’t been attacked or lashed out at yet. This is important. That means we are still in the old paradigm, we cannot follow Carney in the way that makes natural sense, because if we do, we piss off our erstwhile great power ally. I use great power here instead neo-monarchy for a reason.
To broadly explain the difference. If Trump stays, or has an annointed transfer of power, US is more like a neo-monarchy state. If the loosely-democratic power structures of the US state as we have until recently recognised them reassert themselves and transfer of power is to a non-trump-alligned President, then the US is still a great power.
So applying a little game theory, heres the rub for the UK and Australia.
If we walk away from the US, on the basis of following along with Canada and European states, we also betray the alliance first in the eyes of those in the US who also aren’t alligned with Trump. We will kill the alliance, not the Republican Party, that makes it really difficult to ease into a more comfortable partnership later. It lends the question in the US, if Australia was willing to walk away over threats to Greenland (for example), then was that alliance ever really very strong?
So if we move away from the alliance, it has to be because we’ve been pushed in a meaningful way. A threat against Greenland is probably not a good enough reason for us to pull back in the eyes of the broader US governing and defence class.
The most we can do is subtly set ourselves up to part ways at a later date, (if that moment ever comes), which the AUKUS pact already has a pathway for with the UK submarine program.
Maybe if the Virginias deliveries end up getting cancelled we’ll have saved some money to put into the actual submarine program with the UK. Heres hoping Eldridge Colby does just that sooner rather than later :p ^he won’t, nobody in the US says no to free money^
I’m also not sure tying the grand strategy of geopolitics with welfare benefits really worked in this article. It felt a bit apples and oranges. I think its just not a good enough link was drawn in the text maybe.
One more thing, hooli dooli, Canada is estimated to have a 41 million population?? They really are adding millions of people very quickly! I don’t know much about Canada and why this is. Be interested in why the absolute tear in population growth these last few years, ~2-3% each year.
- Comment on NSW Police target Sydney home over 'Boycott Israel' sticker 1 week ago:
Its bad faith arguing all the way down. They know, we know, they know we know. And now they’ve just made our Prime Minister embarass himself and the whole nation, by having Herzog, and his very political plus one Yaakov Hagoel - link to place in episode, spotify, here in Australia. Cheers for the info Scott and Os of Lamestream
Weirdly I don’t blame the PM for that decision, yet, the pressure he and his team were under across xmas seems intense. But its what they do now they’ve had some clear air that will decide whether i revisit apportionment of blame for my own score keeping.
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- Comment on What's the charge? Protesting a genocidal inciter? This is Democracy manifest. 2 weeks ago:
You’re still awake!? I thought you’d have called it after the ‘analogous’ fiasco. :p
That’s interesting, i’d’ve thought it would be the other round. ‘er’ seems more basic than ‘or’ gets the brits are the basic bitches this time. Oh how the turns have tabled.
- Comment on What's the charge? Protesting a genocidal inciter? This is Democracy manifest. 2 weeks ago:
Fuck! This has been on my mind all day, is it spelled protestors, or protesters?
Or is it a case of different for each case? Protesters (pro-testers) are treated like crash test dummies by the cops, while protestors (pro-testors) have a touch of the ecclesiastical, giving sermons from on high.
- Comment on Family of Australian aid worker killed in Gaza say Isaac Herzog still has questions to answer 2 weeks ago:
I hold little to no hope the Israeli’s will hold any of their IDF accountable for this. If there will be justice it’ll come from outside pressure. Which seems largely non-existent in halls of power.
Something our weak PM could do however is commit his government’s financial and logistics support to well run and effective charities like World Central Kitchen.
Call it the ‘Zomi Fund’ (with the families permission) and direct the fund to support a tight range of international non-military alligned food and medecine charities. Increase Australia’s aid budget to do so, and hopefully replace a little of what has been lost due to USAID cuts.
It’d give the added benefit of giving the government the ability to claim they’re acting on refugee and illegal migration in a humanitarian way, give the talking heads something more complex than ‘der… stop boats!’ to chew over.
Thwre were British and Polish people in that convoy as well. The Aus government could coordinate with those countries to implement separate but equivalent funds to compound the effects.
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- Comment on Cul de sac politics: Have the Australian Greens hit a strategic dead-end? 3 weeks ago:
Well the quote below is a mild, but surely by no mistake, direct critiscism of Max Chandler-Mather
While I haven’t always agreed 100% with his approach (either on policy priorities or on how elected Greens reps should wield power)
Sriringnathan doesn’t elaborate on how he differs from Chandler-Mather on ‘policy priorities’ and ‘wielding power’, so it would be up to him to elaborate. I said to u/manicmaniacalmania, i did slide into my own assessment with the pyrrhic victory opinion without a good enough distinction between the points there.
Meh, i wrote it late at night, the interesting stuff in that comment I think is the application of Gramsci to the idea Sriringnathan presents. Which is why I think taking strong stands, and creating excitement is maybe a good single election tactic, but not good strategy.
Say all the craziest dreams come true and Greens win an overwhelming majority in their own right, both houses, can’t move in the halls of Parliament without trippin over another Greens Party member, etc. The limiting nature of the Australian cultural hegemony, which I’ve labelled an investor-consumerist ideology, could mean they’d flame out. Have massive push back from the community, their own base even, who’re often very comfortable and I’m not sure well aligned to some of the harder socialist party lines, i think of this group as a kind of champagne socialist, the kind Sriringnathan as well refers to in his piece.
If they were to try enacting some more radical policies, even if they’ve told the electorate thats their plan, they could loselargw parts of their base, while also failing in those segments Sriringnathan refers to. Melbourne, Griffith, and outer suburban migrant and working class voters. All because what they’re doing isn’t within the contwxtual expectations of how life is lived in Australia.
A US Diversion (As an example)
Look at the unpopularity of the US regime, a lot of their own voters say ‘they’ve gone too far’; or, ‘they didn’t believe them when they said they’d do the thing’; or, ‘thats not what I voted for’ when their program was well publicised. A lot of what they’ve done is lifted from that well publicised Heritage Project. But fascism or corrupt monarchism is outside the cultural frame for the dominant social order in the US. So even though they have the coercive force of the state, and the oligarchs reach and funds, they haven’t significantly shifted the cultural hegemony. Think of the reaction to the breaking of Constitutional Amendments. Especially interesting is the gun rights threats of the POTUS. The puritanical-ubercapital focused cultural hegemony in the US hasn’t really been altered, even with the cultural influences of the likes Thiel and his CEO-Monarchism harem of chums.
So to bring it back to the Greens, bold stances are at best a short term election injection, or, at worst a distraction to be lampooned in cartoons from our own Beer Battered Mussolini, probably both at the same time. So I think it puts the cart before the horse.
Greens should be working on shifting cultural ideas. Do what Chandler-Mather is good at, being great communitarians, but also lampoon the right wingers, change the face of the ‘scolding woke climate change commie’ that is in these people’s minds everytime they think of the Greens.
Look at crocodile dundee, a massive environmentalist and indigenous rights side to that character, while also having this outback weather beaten edge. That character appealed to a different idea of what it means to own ‘land’ and why. I can’t remember the following movies, but in the first there was a clear willingness to hold the value of the land.
Of course entertainment is only one lense where the cultural breaks can be varied, but i thought it was interesting because I can’t imagine a large land owner cone outback jack character being presented in that way today.
These are pretty speculative and undeveloped thoughts I’ve got though, long story short I think Sriringnathan is advocating fighting a battle, amidst a wider cultural hegemonic war.
- Comment on Cul de sac politics: Have the Australian Greens hit a strategic dead-end? 3 weeks ago:
Its a short critiscism,
While I haven’t always agreed 100% with his approach (either on policy priorities or on how elected Greens reps should wield power)
He didn’t say it would have been a pyrrhic victory, reading back this morning i should have made the distinction that, thats my summation of that grand housing bill stand off between Labor and Greens in that term.
Totally agree that One Nation’s rise in popularity is what Sriringnathan is basing his thoughts on, and this is analogous, and likely directly linked through the new ‘international’ CPAC, to the rise in popularity of the UK’s Reform Party.
But, Sriringnathan has neglected to compare the Labour Party of the UK and the Labor party of Australia, they’re in very different spots. UK Labour and Keir Starmer are deep underwater on polling, whereas Aus Labor has had a minor swing against it, and Albanese’s approval ratings have been damaged only recently in regards the Bondi massacre. They’re not in the same position and there isn’t enough of a movement for deep change in Aus like there is in the UK.
- Comment on Cul de sac politics: Have the Australian Greens hit a strategic dead-end? 3 weeks ago:
What is J.Sriringanathan talking about?
First, he quite rightly praises Max Chandler-Mather for identifying a key winning communitarian candidate strategy summed up pithily as, ‘all politics is local’. Then he, probably rightly criticises Mather for pushing too hard, then failing, for a pyrrhic victory in a political fight on the job.
Then he draws a comparison with the UK Greens party who, while exciting, are at the arse end of a decade of austerity, a brexit sized blow to the economy, and an unfortunately underwhelming and certainly tone deaf Labour government. Sriringnathan is comparing a mildly over-ripe apple with straightened then smashed banana.
Lastly Sriringnathan, with a nod to it being a choice, advocates the answer to be a radical position of anti-establishment and deep change instead of progressive reformists, with the seeming assumption that Melbourne, Griffith, outer suburban migrant and working class voters all want insurgent tactics and bold policy changes. Sriringnathan doesn’t back that position up with any voter sentiment data.
This is an incongruous text, Sriringnathan ends up advocating the Greens double down on the politics he criticises Mather for during Mather’s term in Office, but neglects to mention the attractive and effective communitarian legitimacy Max Chandler-Mather built up in his electorate.
All because the UK, a country in a very different place politically, is on track for coalition governments due to many varied and enormous structural issues affecting peoples everyday lives. Australians have a few accute issues, housing, cost of living, I’m sure theres more, but the structure is there, its the will that isn’t. Labor already tried to fix the impact of investors in housing, they lost to Morrison and are gun shy ever since.
Labor are probably going to remain gun shy, and the Greens being anti-establishment, especially on housing, are probably going to fail due to the cultural hegemony in Australia’s housing culture.
This is Antonio Gramsci, where he postulates that “the working class and the other classes identified their own good with the good of the bourgeoisie and helped to maintain the status quo rather than revolting.”
Today was the first Tuesday of February 2026, thats Reserve Bank day in Australia, and we had a 0.25% rate increase. It took two minutes to find this mortgage calculator article and this one on the big 4’s reaction to the rates decision.
These are both helpful and well meaning articles, but in them they adopt the dogmatic acceptance of the Australian economic and housing system where all is suborned to cyclic inflation targeting. A practice introduced during the monetariansim phase in 1993, (take the date with a grain of wikipedia). 33 years of economic policy is not exactly evidence of its long term viability as the economic gauge to watch. Especially considering much of the Reserve Bank’s complaints over the years of the tools failure to have the effects they hoped. Adding to this, the ongoing and obvious failures of much of the monetarian structures worldwide, and there is nutrient rich soil for radical change yes, but are there green shoots?
Radical change can mean ‘move fast and break things’. The USA seems to be testing this philosophy on its whole economy right now, to “mixed” results, and its hard to see what their path forward after this phase. Or it can mean gradually at first, then all at once, this could allow for the propogation of new ideas to capture the increasing cultural malaise around Australia’s accute problems.
The tangled narrative that is the "investor-consumerist’ of housing (note, this hegemonic narrative is present in more of Australia than housing) is the philosophical approach that makes this problem so hard to figure out. On the one hand you have Australians willing to spend the money to accomodate a lifestyle they strive for, while they always consider the investment potential of any dwelling, hence the oft-repeated mantra ‘dont over-capitalise on you’re reno’.
The ‘investor-consumerist’ philosophy leads to De’beers style hoarding and constriction of supply in a successful effort to maintain or grow prices, at the same time as there is a gestalt drive to ‘upsize/sizemax’; move near the beach; away from the highway; and above the neighbours. These together have created a hardening wedge of less ownership with more consumption. In the case of houses, the more consunption comes through renting plus moving costs between rentals, plus the mortgages, which have turned into a sort of… long-term fixed place 30 year rental?
So, I don’t advocate a particular alternative economic system here, a wholesale economic revolution may be on the horizon, or maybe tinkering is all we need. But I know without presenting any economic arguments that capture the gestalt imagination of the Nation thereby changing the cultural hegemony of the investor-consumerist philosophy, the Greens calling for anti-establishment deep changes will fail to win over the interest rate targeting; home loan borrowing; investor-consumerist… Australian.
- Comment on Video - She Was FIRED for Criticizing Israel — Then This Australian Journalist Fought Back and Won | Zeteo 4 weeks ago:
Antoinette Lattouf mentioned a growing number of journalists striking out as independent organisations in Australia. Below is a list i’ve casually been building of some of those media organisations,
Ette media Independent aus Michael west Deep cut Crikey Urban wronsky Friendly jordies The shot The Klaxton John Menadue Cheek media Abby Dib Declassified Equator (monthly politics,culture, bot sure if this fits.) Inside Story antonyloewenstein.com/articles/
- Comment on Nationwide protests planned as details of Israeli President’s visit to Australia revealed: ‘We will flood the streets’ 4 weeks ago:
I think there should be no protests near the meeting places with this genocidal prick and Jewish Australians, but any meeting with politicians and the GG is fair game, and are probably the appropriate places to send a message. If victims and families want to meet with this person, well, I can’t help but question their moral compass, but if they personally feel it will help heal… then I’d try to be respectful of that.
But Australia should make his life hell for every point he is not at Bondi or directly with Jewish Australian victims.
I suppose a distinction would have to be drawn on what constitutes a victims meeting, and what constitutes a political meeting, I expect there’d be some grey area between those.
- Comment on Live: Colin Boyce to move Nationals spill motion and run for leader 4 weeks ago:
I think the media rural areas are delivered is a big part of this. Albanese needs to do something like Turnbull did when he opened the way for Guardian to enter Australia, he played a small part, but it was important. Albanese needs to introduce some balance into the rural media environment, especially after the conservatives (the scomo gov) handed Murdoch the keys to rural Australia in free to air license.
- Comment on Australia cancels visa of Jewish influencer who previously called for Islam to be banned 4 weeks ago:
This must be down to the lateness of the hour. I was referring to Joel Cauchi, the Bondi Stabbing in 2024.
- Comment on Australia cancels visa of Jewish influencer who previously called for Islam to be banned 4 weeks ago:
That answer has displayed, yet again, a complete lack of understanding of the individual and societal drivers that cause radicalisation. Religion is the excuse, but anger has causal connections to people’s material wellbeing, such as economic stability, subjugation as a group or as an individual (think about the M.O. for all those US school shooters, they’re often like your example of jihadi jake).
The simple answer of ‘Islam is the target’ is at best selfish to our physical selves in our own time and leaves any manner of ongoing issues for future generations to deal with.
Bondi??? Come on…
What do you reckon the beliefs of the Bondi stabber were? Despite the false and societally damaging claims of Islamist, he was defintiely not, and probably christian or atheist (doesn’t say what though). What about Desi Freeman, or any of the murderers in this post.
These are all radicalised people, harming others. Islamist terror attacks might be more numerous against Australians now, but they won’t be forever, and by targeting the group and not the root societal causes you leave the real problems to fester and harm different groups of people, out of each different group (religious or other) some will be radicalised.
Stalin, Pol-pot, Lenin, Mao all claimed at one stage or another to be atheists, they’re examples for you of truly terrible atheists, they had communist ideologies, but not religion. I find it hard to believe Stalin really had an ideology though, he was just pedo cunt I think, so of you really want a non-ideological mass murderer try him, or the Kim (NK) clan.
Also, you can say Islam is a bad ideology, and you want nothing to do with it. Thats okay, best thing to do is move through your life without going out of your way at every instance to attack Islam as a group with examples of individuals of that group showing their personal extremism. By attacking the group, we only fan the persuasive flames of the radicals exploiting the existing prejudices and causes of societal dejection these often, young men, feel.
To take your examples of the bridge flag cunts. If you blamed those people, and said what dickheads are they, instead of blaming all Islam for what ISIS represents, (which is how it comes across in your comments), I think you’d have a much better reaction from people. But instead your comments flatten the beliefs of millions of people under one homogeneous identity.
A personal source to end: I grew up with a Muslim, one of the most peaceful bastards I know. I also grew up with atheists, one of those I just found out beat and emotionally tormented his ex-wife. Go figure.
- Comment on Australia cancels visa of Jewish influencer who previously called for Islam to be banned 4 weeks ago:
Stop fighting this broad amorphous thing called ‘religions’. Fight policies, fight extremist ideologies of all kinds, afterall they generally end up with very similar policies of a need to dominate and top heavy hedonistic wealth accumulation.
For example, theres plenty of shit atheists, being a good person isn’t in what you purport to believe, its in what you do and act on every single day. By this measure theres plenty of good christians, jews, hindus, muslims, atheists, et al.
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- Comment on Pauline Hanson In Hot Water Again Over Controversial New Anti-Woke Movie 4 weeks ago:
Keep the bastards honest… 😂 😂
… please spare us all another round of the crocodile tears for some fictitious ‘yesteryear-Australia’ spun up in those outback jukeboxes for brains. Can’t even see their tapshoes for dancing they’re that deep in the oligarch’s rears.
In all seriousness though, screeching and crying over these movies these circlejerkers get off on is not the way to counter it.
The fact she’s finally owned the Please Explain moniker is a good marketing move, if insanely late. I think these movies are exceptional marketing. The LGBTQ+ communities, and othera, should take a leaf out of their book.
Fight humour with humour, but make the movies free, afterall its about reach not fundraising. I think it should be the LGBTQ+ community who get stuck in for a few reasons, they’re a key target for these people, they’re a pretty organised bunch, and they can be a cuttingly witty community in the best sort of ways.
- Comment on Australasian Society for Social Media? 4 weeks ago:
hiddenforces.io/…/the-epstein-files-are-worse-tha…
Been listening to this today, so thinking about the situation of media and social media in a more expansive way.
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- Comment on Peak Muslim body defends radical Islamist group as Labor pushes hate speech laws 5 weeks ago:
In that section I’m drawing a comparison to where the laws have been drawn, and where the laws are proposed to be drawn. Trying to show that these laws are a heavy increase to what exists, and questioning whether that is the appropriate extent to go to.
Although, i want to say, I haven’t actually read the legislation on this, and i did hear something about a 2 year assessment period. So I don’t want to claim these laws are definitely going too far. But I do want to draw attention to the fact that unintended people and groups can get caught by laws that were designed for others.