Gorgritch_umie_killa
@Gorgritch_umie_killa@aussie.zone
- Comment on Real Capitalism Hasn't Been Attempted (tm) 2 hours ago:
This is the sane response of a normal person. But sanity has near zero engagement. Soooo, obscure and unrelated macro-economic debates it is! Yay!!! 🙌
- Comment on Real Capitalism Hasn't Been Attempted (tm) 17 hours ago:
Too true.
- Comment on Real Capitalism Hasn't Been Attempted (tm) 17 hours ago:
I saw a post breaking down how that Saxony election in a ‘first past the post’ electoral system would have delivered all but like three seats to AFD on only ~42% of the vote.
Ueybmore evidence that its the preferential voting system for the representative win!
Too bad places like Britain and most of the US won’t pull their fingers out on this system flaw.
- Comment on Right-wing candidate used fake AI portraits in council campaign 5 days ago:
- Comment on Right-wing candidate used fake AI portraits in council campaign 5 days ago:
“Physical attractiveness has been shown by extensive research to have a clear positive impact on electoral success,” Rodrigo Praino, professor of politics and public policy at Flinders University, told Deepcut.
“This is particularly true in the case of low information electoral contests, that is, when voters typically do not have very large amounts of information on the candidates, their policies and their records.”
I mentioned this to my partner, highlighting it as one of the less covered reasons I think the Secret Harbour election was lost so convincingly. The ON candidate doesn’t have the worst mug out there, added to this, I saw some very unfortunate photos of Georgia Tree.
In a possibly unfortunate turn of events for Herdegen, now he’s in office, it’s what’s on the inside that counts.
- Submitted 5 days ago to australianpolitics@aussie.zone | 2 comments
- Comment on IDF soldiers heading to Australia to compete in the Sydney Marathon 1 week ago:
If you wish to contact the relevant Minister Tony Burke, as I have done this evening. The contact form is here
I lost the copy of the text, (too much copy/pasting). I spoke about the horrific war crimes alleged against the IDF, and how such allegations demand visa approvals processes have a carefully considered assessment. I acknowledged that every case will be unique, but allegations of abuses, torture, murder or allegedly acting in aid of those crimes should be enough for Australia to determine the person is not currently of ‘good character’ to enter our borders. If we can’t even stand up for the moral value of ‘dont do genocide’ for something so trivial as a marathon then we really are an embarrassingly supine and supplicant state.
We’ve got to grow a backbone and stand steadfast for the, mostly, peaceful values we live our daily lives by in Australia. Stop bowing to the twisted and broken logic of a morally bankrupt state.
- Comment on IDF soldiers heading to Australia to compete in the Sydney Marathon 1 week ago:
What the fuck are we doing!
- Comment on The new McCarthyism: Gaza and Australia – Richard Flanagan 1 week ago:
I think theres more going on than what the government is admitting to. I think they’ve made the calculation that they don’t have broad enough support to really push back hard, which basically makes Australia cucks to whatever the orange cheeto and the child murderers desire.
But this is me speculating, because I can’t fathom why a government that bases itself on broadly humanitarian principles wouldn’t be acting in the way the Spanish government has been acting.
- Submitted 1 week ago to australianpolitics@aussie.zone | 3 comments
- Submitted 2 weeks ago to worldnews@aussie.zone | 0 comments
- Comment on Australia’s China policy built on a strategic double standard - Independent Australia 2 weeks ago:
I think the article highlights two foreign policy imperatives, and the associated needs those create.
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We need to reduce our dependence on the USA as a long term project. Still allies, but we need to have far more ability to act independently from them, and to have an ability to push back, in a friendly way, when its their actions destabilising national security.
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We need to pull back from this war mongering attitude we’ve adopted toward China. Labor has been doing this fairly well. I’d call the link in you’re comment a sad exception rather than the rule.
We need this pull back, not only to show China that we can co-exist, but to reduce the mistrust from other South Asian nations that we’re a reliable partner that understands the power balancing the region already undertakes vis-a-vis China and the USA.
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- Comment on Australia’s China policy built on a strategic double standard - Independent Australia 2 weeks ago:
The media performs a similar role. Commentary by John Queripel and Fred Zhang argues that Australian reporting has often made China the default villain, elevating security theatrics over diplomacy and recasting ordinary commercial activity as an “assault” or “surrender”. Whether one agrees with every example, the broader caution is sound: a public sphere saturated with threat language cannot easily sustain calm, evidence-based debate.
- Australia’s China policy built on a strategic double standard - Independent Australiaindependentaustralia.net ↗Submitted 2 weeks ago to worldnews@aussie.zone | 4 comments
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- Andrew Hastie is effective in attacking One Nation, unlike his Liberal colleagues. So why won’t they use him? | Tom McIlroywww.theguardian.com ↗Submitted 2 weeks ago to australianpolitics@aussie.zone | 0 comments
- Comment on Bondi library removes book How to Sell a Genocide from shelves after complaint 2 weeks 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 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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,
- Comment on Deliberately misleading party name approved for Victorian election 4 weeks 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 4 weeks 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 4 weeks 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 5 weeks ago:
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.
- Submitted 5 weeks ago to worldnews@aussie.zone | 1 comment
- Comment on Gina Rinehart funded flights and fashion show for Pauline Hanson 5 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,
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 5 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 1 month 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 ↗Submitted 1 month ago to australianpolitics@aussie.zone | 2 comments
- Israeli siblings who fear breaking law in Gaza under IDF owed protection by Australia, tribunal findswww.theguardian.com ↗Submitted 1 month ago to worldnews@aussie.zone | 1 comment
- Comment on Thanks For ~~all the the fish~~ Hosting, Let’s Get an Update 1 month 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.
