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⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bondi library removes book How to Sell a Genocide from shelves after complaint⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:
Woah, woah, woah. Your original comment was about the book? I wondered which you meaned between the two, and dismissed the comment being about the book as it didn’t make sense alongside the comment.

So let me get this right,

Your saying ‘How to Sell a Genocide’ as the books “title does leave a bad taste and doesn’t communicate scientific rigor”?

If so, fair enough, everybody’s got an opinion on things. It’s a racy title for sure.

But then the last part of the comment, if we’re talking about the title of the book still, makes no sense,

but it being a opinion piece with little value that should not be read

This indicates you’ve read the book? But, have you? If yes, then don’t mind me I assumed wrong. But if no, then how do you know it’s an opinion piece with little value if you haven’t read the book?

And who describes a whole book as an opinion piece? Especially considering most books have gone through referencing and fact checking processes. And doubly in cases like this where legal teams for news/media companies will inevitably be sniffing about.

I’m confused by your comment.

I just want to clear up any possible confusion about the location of this library below,

And reasoning for book removals from libraries can be pretty shallow in the US according to my perception, though that’s more of a school and minor library thing.

This is a library in Sydney, Australia. Near where two terrorists shot and murdered more than 10 people at a Jewish party at Bondi beach late last year.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bondi library removes book How to Sell a Genocide from shelves after complaint⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:
I’ve never seen that before. It’s a good idea. Seems a bit incongruous books about heavy topics being like this put on “bestseller/hot” shelves. No matter the content, it devalues the books serious content.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bondi library removes book How to Sell a Genocide from shelves after complaint⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:
The article isn’t much of an opinion piece. It’s pretty straight down the line reporting, they’ve gone to a broad range of sources for comment. Although not all of those sources contacted for comment responded, which has left a gap by absence. This could be a trick by the reporter by not allowing enough time/clear notification to respond, Murdoch media are famous for this practice, or it could simply be the organisations felt it better not to comment, the Sydney Swans Captain is a good example of ‘no comment’ yesterday.

Maybe what you mean is the language the Guardian chose to use communicates a bias in favour of the ‘book remaining on shelf’ advocates. I’d agree, whether it’s the voice of the author coming through or the stance of the publication this is something that is common and useful in journalism.

As to opinion pieces, the Guardian are usually quite good at clearly labelling an opinion piece of theirs. As per below,

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⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Deliberately misleading party name approved for Victorian election⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
This made me so incensed when I read it. If the Victorian government don’t have a response to this diagusting attempt at voter disenfranchisement then it undermines the creeibility of the whole system. There will be no reason to act in good faith, the clear signal to political players and Partys of all colours will be to attempt to deceive agendas and farm votes from those deceptions as much as this case.

In other words this is a potential precedent that should be decapitated in the strongest possible terms. It is worth the political cost to reject these deceitful and disgusting people’s plan.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Deliberately misleading party name approved for Victorian election⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
I think the AEC (and related State bodies) has codes it must enforce under its legislation, anything outside those codes it cannot enforce and would be going beyond it’s remit to attempt to. The agency won’t have the latitude that the judiciary have, nor should they.

Although these cases all build on the reality that the AEC’s rules may be inadequate for the multitude of bad faith partisans infecting Australian democracy.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Reinvesting my super in Timtams⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
Look in all seriousness, you have to consider the medium to long term effects of climate change on the chocolate industry and how thats going to affect the marketability of TimTams in the future. I would say the chocolate content of Timtams puts these biscuits into the medium risk category.

There are a couple strategies I’d suggest First Crumb Super consider implementing,
- The Family Favourites Index
A diversified index tracking the current selection of family favourites. As a biscuit drops out of the family favourites, that money is reallocated to the remaining family favourites biscuits.
- Monte Carlo Simulations
This is a high risk random sampling strategy, that may indicate such risky investment allocations into Wagon Wheels or Meiji Hello Pandas, or to such safe options as Monte Carlos themselves. This method may seem counter-intuitive but the method’s randomness can simulate the randomness of our world quite well, and may pay off with significant returns.

And finally,
- The Braveheart Method
Probably the most high risk strategy, but has monopolisation potential. This strategy calls upon the historic role Scotland has played in both biscuits and economics. Over leverage on, and attempt a hostile, and very snackable, takeover of the shortbread market. I’m talking Walkers, I’m talking Arnotts Scotch fingers, even Black and Gold Scotchies. If theres Tartan on that package, its a Buy! Buy! Buy!
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Five points that show the Gaza genocide hasn't stopped⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
gaza-verified.org

Is a possible way to help Gazans directly. Due to aid organisations being systematically suffocated by Israeli authorities, see article.

The site and people running the organisation seems genuine, although some of the case managers will undoubtedly be swindlers. So care is required.

I don’t know how this interacts with Australian laws, but there are lots more civilians there than terrorists and they need help, and we have an extent of free association. But the ‘so called’ ethical ‘West’ doesn’t only ignore them (like we do Sudan), we actively support this through our acceptance and civil and military connections with Israel.
Five points that show the Gaza genocide hasn't stoppedsubstack.com ↗
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⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Gina Rinehart funded flights and fashion show for Pauline Hanson⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
So I have a more narrow issue I’m targeting in your comment than what your reply here seems to be replying to. I’m not trying to attack you for saying something positive about Hanson. A lot of your points I wholeheartedly agree with. Its about giving an unnecessarily wide band of excusibility when compared to her political/finances conduct. She seems to have shown a pattern of corrupt intent when it comes to financing and seems to have no intention of acting in good faith or sincerity where there is no perceived threat of journalistic exposure. This has led to the endless rolling financing scandals that she shows no intention or capacity to alter.

Its not about an insincerity of her beliefs around race or her backward looking frankness of Australia. Its the seemingly duplicitous intent behind the finances that without journalists constantly holding her to account she’s loathe to acknowledge.

Take Sarah Martin’s (Guardian) reporting,

One Nation senator, Pauline Hanson, has breached Senate rules, declaring another flight taken on billionaire Gina Rinehart private jet more than two months late.

This is a random example I found within moments. She’s only acting honestly around her political finances when tge pressure is on.

This is more of an overview article

From the article,

According to Ashby, the declaration of the Florida flight and Rinehart’s hospitality failed to happen on time because of an administrative error. Ashby, who has been working in parliament for more than 15 years, claims he submitted the wrong paperwork and only realised his error when contacted by the Guardian… …But last week, after further questions from the Guardian, which were ignored, Hanson’s office suddenly found three more undeclared flights that had been gifted to the senator through Rinehart’s beef company, S Kidman and Co, last year. The party updated the register along with a dump of flights provided for the South Australian election campaign, where the state’s new laws ban political donations… …Whether deliberately or absent-mindedly, Hanson has concealed the extent of Rinehart’s support for her. Indeed, in December, back on the ground from Florida for only a few weeks, Ashby said suggestions Rinehart was bankrolling the party were unfounded. “I haven’t seen any money from her,” he said. …

Noticeably a lot of the behaviour in the article is from Ashby, which on face value supports your thesis that her Party may be dodgy, but she’s “upfront”. But this view cannot be accepted due to her dictatoral control over the party itself. This control means Ashby and the rest are conducting themselves with the formal or informal consent of Pauline Hanson by dint of her position of total constitutional control. She has the power and the knowledge of these failures to demand reporting improvements but seems not to.

Hanson president for life of One Nation. Published 12 May 2018 2:40pm, in the years since I haven’t found changes that reverses this course.

“The president of the party is Pauline Lee Hanson,” the constitution now states.

“Upon resigning from the position of president, Pauline Lee Hanson shall appoint her successor to become the next president of the party.”

Only after the resignation of Senator Hanson’s hand-picked successor will the party’s national executive be able to elect future presidents by majority vote.

Looking back at your controversial take, what set me off was,

upfront about the gifts, it’s all in the open

When it takes journalists digging through and asking questions about expenses and many instances of corrections to the public record after that fact, that demonstrates an intent to conceal, not an intent to be upfront.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Gina Rinehart funded flights and fashion show for Pauline Hanson⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
They’ve taken every opportunity to keep their close relationship and friendship low key. This is because it seems a genuine personal relationship, but there is genuine public interest in this relationship which they are only forthcoming about because of media spotlighting. So many would not, and still don’t, know about this power-pair if it weren’t for a significant and ongoing campaign journalistically uncovering this relationship.

I say journalistically, because many people in WA already are well aware of this relationship, but thats through the gossip grapevine, not established facts.

All in all, I think that comment is going very easy on actions Rhinehart and Hanson cynically wouldn’t be upfront about if they hadn’t been ‘humiliated’ into it. In other words I tip my hat to Guardian, ABC, Michael West and the many other journalists in the country who’ve actually delivered a public good for the community in this instance.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Secret tape recordings and ‘sham’ payments: the Liberals’ internal ideological war laid bare⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Its good that these things are being uncovered by ICAC, but it is really a weakness of our democracy that its so easy for these branch level activities to happen unnoticed. I think one of the problens is definitely low political party membership. Be much harder to pull this shit where there are large and active membership bases whatever the colours of the Party.
Secret tape recordings and ‘sham’ payments: the Liberals’ internal ideological war laid barewww.theguardian.com ↗
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Israeli siblings who fear breaking law in Gaza under IDF owed protection by Australia, tribunal findswww.theguardian.com ↗
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⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Thanks For ~~all the the fish~~ Hosting, Let’s Get an Update⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
I can help a little,

Donation: Kofi

This link is always available in the instance sidebar, along with the original breakdown of instance costs. Its near the bottom. The costs have probably changed since that was written, but it’ll be a fair indicator.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘We are waiting with bated breath’: experts alarmed as BoM says gathering El Niño could be strongest on record⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Yeah, i think we’re in for it. And we’re not really as prepared as we could be, especially when it comes to remediation practices of the natural environment. Theyre next to non-existent on the scale that we should be planning for.

I live near the Northern Jarrah forests of Perth and its a tinder box in summer, so we have a good bush fire brigade, but we barely have anyone going in to build the resilience of the bush. Most active resilience tactics we’ve got are still back-burning and clearing.

They’ll probably alwayd have a place, but they’re relied on so much now that it actually decreases the resilience of that bush. Of course, this is because the back-burning and clearing is about saving properties and lives, rather than understanding what the bush needs to stay healthy and not fire prone during hard years.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[META] Overseas News - Proposal for increased enforcement of Rule 1⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
An hour is a fairly short period of time. 24 hours is probably too long. Something in between those.

If people aren’t intetested in this but you want to try your hand at a bot, I think I could think of something on one of my communities. Maybe a weekly post of National air quality or something on AusEnviro or we could vote on c/rage for a gavourite aus music show that the bot could post each week. Or something else, just spitballin.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[META] Overseas News - Proposal for increased enforcement of Rule 1⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
I think the Boomerang and Kangaroo emojis makes it unmistakeable. Afterall we don’t want some Kiwi getting lost coming on to the community thinking its NZ!
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[META] Overseas News - Proposal for increased enforcement of Rule 1⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Yeah, its been a pretty relaxed rule I guess. I’ve always tried to consider it in my posts here, maybe not always successfully though. I’m a bit with Zero_gravitas on this.

But I believe like any market (which is a network ;)) well organised and applied principles determine it’s success. So with that in mind active but not overbearing moderation for the maintenance and ongoing reason of the community is definitely a good thing.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Author/Writer Names in Title⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Yeah, fair to a degree. But it seems comatose also because there aren’t enough commenters for the amount of posts.

Look at Food Australia, CEOofmyhouse does a simple whats for dinner post each day, people comment each day, but it gets buried under the deluge of bot posts constantly posting from the ABC or Guardian. That bot undermines the ability to develop discussions on topics with the smaller commenter base here.

But yes, i think its probably an idea for a certain type of community, not site wide, doesn’t make sense f as a rule for c/pictures or c/foodaustralia.

Maybe I’ll look at doing it for c/auspolitics?
Author/Writer Names in Title
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⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Unlike Count Binface, joke parties can’t run in Australian elections — and that’s serious⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
You’re a member of Fusion. I’ve found some of their policies interesting in the past. They have a fairly active and interesting Mastodon account.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Shoebridge demands Segal correct ‘inflated’ Gaza death toll claim⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Cheers, didn’t realise there was a difference. I thought their whole operation was substack.
Shoebridge demands Segal correct ‘inflated’ Gaza death toll claimsubstack.com ↗
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⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The deeper argument for cultural diversity | Jonathan Sriranganathan⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:
First, I love a 40k quote. Second I haven’t sat down to read the article yet, so please take all I say with that in mind. I want to respond to your point about them not having multpile perspectives.

I think its harder than that. I don’t think its everyone voting on that side of politics but I recognise the type you’re talking about. I think those people don’t have any respect for people they percieve as lefty liberals; or greenies; or hippies; lazy pencil pushers; i suppose its whatever loose and lazy label suits their rhetorical needs in the moment.

And thats the key, all those terms are used to flatten their opponents into these two dimensional constructs, a soft dehumanisation, which they can then dismiss and disregard.

Whether the lack of respect is learned behaviour through local community, mass media, or both its the case that it allows them to dehumanise any people that loosely fit these categories and therefore before that person has even spoken to them, they’ve dismissed anything they’re saying.

So to refer to your proposed solution, to be able to first show them the ‘Abyss’ their confidence in their lack of respect needs to be shaken and broken, or someone that fits a mould they already do respect. Perhaps for Pauline Hanson personally that might’ve been Paul Hogan, considering her comments last week.

So the two options are finding an influencer that doesn’t change their dehumanising attitudes, whichbis probably the easier but less sustainable road, or breaking their self confidence in the mental barriers they’ve erected, a complicated but sustainable option.

For the second option, I think the experience of the eventual majority acceptance of the queer community to a large degree by so many is the case to point to.

Maybe one of many of these cases that have been turned into movies might be Kinky Boots. A story where the straight owner of the boot company fails over and again at being the masculine success story while being pulled out of the abyss again and again by the happily feminine gay man. But theres thousands of these stories in real life, I’m not sure how much of Kinky Boots is real, certainly some of it is.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨PM 'unequivocally' apologises for 'shag, marry, date' podcast comments⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:
They’re a disgraceful waste of time. Makes me so sad when I think about the state of media in WA. Australia as well, but its so terrible in WA.
Australia enters new alliance with Fiji, and more Pacific nations could joinwww.abc.net.au ↗
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⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Housing price downturn accelerates as 'perfect storm' hits market⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:
Yeah the guys talking out his arse on immigration being so the government can have some tax. That podcaster sounds like some neoliberal low/no tax wanker.

The second part you mention about going into recession without a reasonable level of immigration is absolutely the driving reason. No government wants to be in power when a recession occurs, whether they’ve been a cause in it or not.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨One Nation overtakes Labor, Liberals in Victoria; Allan’s rating dives⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:
Its easier when theres big money, friendly porpogandists in the media, and social media slop farms backing you and keeping you’re face and latest message constantly in people’s faces.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Beaumont-Hamel⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:
I think its the meandering of a stream. Maybe the water is quite deep in a ravine its carved there, or maybe its a stream that doesn’t always flow.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Australia secures $250m US package for F/A-18F & EA-18G fleets⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:
I didn’t read the article before commenting. I now have. Based on this comment I think you might’ve missed it in the article as well. Anyway whatever our miscommunication, its announcing a training and support package, no new aircraft are being purchased. So this fits with maintaining status quo and readiness. So from both our comments we probably agree on that.

But your response had a problem I want to highlight. You didn’t really demonstrate how its a move in the direction of multipolarity instead of my claim that its a move that can undermine Australia’s sovereign capability.

For me, what I’d be looking for to answer the caution around US technology sales to an ally would be something in the deal and it’s ongoing delivery that shows meaningful independent decision making and agency in use and destruction by the purchasing nation. Nothing in your comment really addressed that.

As I say it doesn’t matter now, but for the wider discussions around US hegemony of the Allied US/NATO alliance structure it does.

The below is where I’m at, when it comes to trust in the alliance. Its more of restatement, in a different way, of my first comment though.

Further sales of these aircraft are from a Nation that has demonstrated it’s willingness to simply consider invasion (Greenland) of an allies’ territory. This lowering trust joins a rising caution that its very hard for a purchasing nation to eliminate the possibility of kill switches being installed, either before or after purchase, for exquisite platforms. These combined should do lasting damage to the prospects of having a trustworthy alliance partner in the US. If they’re not raising alarm bells in defense, politics, and the country in general I question whether we really understand the predicament these developments place us in.