Gorgritch_umie_killa
@Gorgritch_umie_killa@aussie.zone
- Comment on More DDOS(?) traffic 1 week ago:
I had no idea Blahaj was Australian run! Super interesting!
Are there any more Australian instances?
I suppose AZ was just the first to really dive in to fill that Australian communities niche in a somewhat organised way.
- Comment on Nationals leaving Coalition as David Littleproud announces split with Liberal party after election defeat 1 week ago:
It means the Liberals finally have the dead weight slackened from their necks. They have a chance now, and more clear air than they’ve had in years to develop some good policy.
If the Nationals really want Nuclear, then they’d make a long term argument for setting up a pathway toward a sustainable industry that inserts alongside the renewable rollout as the energy requirements of the nation expand. But i predict they won’t, because technology isn’t their goal, coal, is their goal.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
Lot of good advice here about curation, thats definitely an option to leverage your subscribed feed.
Another option, is to remove yourself from the largest server (lemmy world), look at your options on other instances, theres hundreds. The label to the right of usernames should denote what instance people are connecting from.
Some examples are blahaj, midwest.social, sopuli, feddit…
The links below have lists of a lot of the available instances,
Advantages of Choosing a Smaller Server
The experience of the ‘Local’ tab seems to be genuinely different from Lemmy World.
Lemmy World probably doesn’t look too different whether you sort by the ‘all’ tab or ‘local’ tab, so you really only have the ‘subscribe’ tab to find and hone your niche on the network.
Going for a smaller, but active in its own right, instance means you suddenly have a ‘local’ tab that is highly differentiated from the wider lemmy network, andgoing along with that its often a bit less political.
I’d use my own as an example here, but we’ve just had a major election in Australia, so its been pretty political lately, i’m expecting that to subside now that the chooks are counted.
- Comment on News and Politics in /c/australia: "She'll be right", or "not on, mate"? 2 weeks ago:
From what i’ve seen so far on here, i think you’re hovering around the same space i’m at. I think theres a lack of diversity of sources.
AZ seems always at risk of becoming a Guardian and ABC news reposting site. It makes sense, they are the so readily accessible and very high quality sources in their own rights.
But i don’t think its great for AZ as a value proposition for continuing and new users. It also means that conversation might become stalted and defined by the Guardian and ABC outlooks, again not bad, but diversity of voices is useful.
I’m not talking Murdoch propaganda trash btw, links need to have a certain connection to reality.
I’ve thought for a while now, the best way to do this would be for a cadre of the continuing posting users adopting a diversity of sources mantra with their posting. It takes more work, but the result could deliver a more valuable proposition to the rest of the users looking through the communities.
I act on this as a personal mantra with my posting in c/AussieEnviro, and c/Perth/Western Australia, i need to get myself organised to do the same with c/rage.
The glaring problem is, of course, the diversity of sources doesn’t result in high upvote numbers, so its a principle that seems to lack user engagement, (with some exceptions). I don’t know why that is, maybe a confort thing of knnowing ABC and Guardian, or maybe too many articles from different sources are a bit too obscure for the mainstream AZ user. I don’t know.
- Comment on Israel is keeping up its blockade of aid as kids starve to death 2 weeks ago:
I’m not really there with that description. It emphasises a pillar of the feuds over others. But I suppose you could argue the same of my initial description.
I intended it to encompass that, but i suppose arcane isn’t really seen as 20th Century inclusive.
But none of it really matters while the medieval destruction of these people continues.
That was my point denigrating the description of their superficial reasoning to ‘arcane feuds’. Any reasons for the conflict no longer have meaning against its barbarity.
If peace ever comes there is no justice that can be metered out, no reparations that would satisfy. The Israeli state is doing to another peoples something akin to what the Nazi State did to the Jewish Europeans, and other marginalised groups.
I know i’m not informing anyone of anything new here, sorry.
- Comment on Israel is keeping up its blockade of aid as kids starve to death 2 weeks ago:
This is heartbreaking. The Israeli people supporting this disgust me. They have no justification for targeting and killing all these people due to some arcane feud.
I’s listening to Podsave the World, his description of a little girl sitting traumatised after a bombing, then starting to bleed profusely from her nose, and the realisation that these were her final moments…
This is disgusting, and i’m ashamed of my general friendliness to Israel in the past. They deserve none.
Others who support, or commit similar crimes disgust me as well.
- Comment on Jacinta Nampijinpa Price joins Liberal Party as leadership race heats up 2 weeks ago:
Read the article after this comment… and yep
- Comment on Jacinta Nampijinpa Price joins Liberal Party as leadership race heats up 2 weeks ago:
The reason for this has got to be to swell the numbers for Angus Taylor to become leader.
- Comment on ABC 2025 Election Watch Party 3 weeks ago:
That is an interesting perspective. A kind of standard setter position can be hard to quantify. Is it better to be in the tent or outside.
But thats really been the heart of the issue for over a decade, its a key decision that i wish the emotional barbs would give more space to, because its omportant to get right.
I’ll say the industry was put on notice during the Gillard Government over live sheep export that thjbgs needed to change, and a lot of changes seemed to be made from Austraoia’s end.
But the underlying issues after hand over i can’t see have changed much. So isuppose you could take that as a point against that case that Australias influence lifts the standards of all in this area. But thats a circumstantial point at best.
- Comment on ABC 2025 Election Watch Party 3 weeks ago:
Good opinion, and it seems you agree,
My opposition to your words
~My vote doesn’t matter so you give me the lie to it
Is tackling the same notion as,
It’s for everyone; there’s a pervading notion that voting is either irrelevant, useless, or a balancing act to find the least-worst option
So you actually agree with me, you just don’t understand you do.
- Comment on ABC 2025 Election Watch Party 3 weeks ago:
No i meant consumerist.
The carelessly detached mindset that is promoted by my vote doesn’t matter so you give me the lie to it leads to a benign indolence of voters, making them just like shoppers listlessly wandering around a mall, being mildly entertained for a few moments by some trinket.
Also, i want to be clear, I’s clearly stating Mandatory voting as a first step, not an only step. Lots more could be done, someboptions are as you highlight. Lots more can be done is Aus to, we are far from as effective democratically as we could be.
- Comment on ABC 2025 Election Watch Party 3 weeks ago:
Yeah the fish farms, i wish they’d worked better than they have. Years ago they were touted as such a sustainable way of business. Its sad to see the reality never lived up to the hype.
- Comment on ABC 2025 Election Watch Party 3 weeks ago:
Yeah, there’s definitely a risk premium that can come into proceedings where decisions and their implementations are rolling through quickly, can’t think of a specific international example… oh wait, yes i can :)…, but the policy for the live export ban is super slow, predictable and with plenty of finacial supports.
One silly argument against live export that I heard some people parroting is that if Australia doesn’t do it some other country will and the standards of care for the sheep will be much lower than ours. That’s just bullshit IMO.
Even if that did happen, big if, thats happening all over the world in all kinds of areas. We can only control what we do, and attempt to set a better example where we can. It is such a bullshit, and cynical argument. As soon as i hear that, i generally start thinking the other person is debating in bad faith.
- Comment on ABC 2025 Election Watch Party 3 weeks ago:
“Forcing” by essentially hitting people on the head with Parsley isn’t exactly the same as the sentiment in your comment.
If people really don’t want to vote in Australia, they don’t vote, theres fines sure, but they’re not big, and i’d be surprised if they chase people for it.
But theres more people than you’d think who never enrolled to vote, thereby never getting a fine, and also never voting. I’s listening to a podcast, i think it was Ben Raue’s, where they demonstrated that the participation rate is actually probably lower than reported due to non-enrolled people not voting. So in percentage terms its maybe high eighties, still good… but… So the rosy picture sold by the media isn’t quite on the money.
If turnout is low then give the lie to “my vote doesn’t matter”.
This is a consumerist centric view to take. People have self regard for themselves and their immediates above others. I’m not saying some neo-lib greed is good shit, we humans can just find it difficult to see much further past our immediate priorities.
Parties, and Governments aren’t a mall filled with products for casual perusal, they’re a tool we’ve collectively come up with to deliver a greater vision for the tribe’s success in general. But these tools need feedback, and they need energy to function properly.
They only work if theres participation. If people don’t want to bother with that, then they’ll find sooner or later an even less generally amenable decision making system will guide the future of their tribe.
Its the same as the old Bread and Circuses saying, distracting the masses and suppressing their voice makes it easier to seize more control.
- Comment on Australia 2025 – Wrap-up of the night 3 weeks ago:
Welp, i think you’ve convinced me on that.
- Comment on ABC 2025 Election Watch Party 3 weeks ago:
Well, put it this way, whats harder?
Everybody of voting age has to vote.
Or (for example),
Number the candidates in order of most preferred. (Ranked Choice)
I think the first one is simpler to communicate than the second, and in an electoral reform decision like this simplicity of communication is very important.
But thats my point, not that IRV or MMP, et al, are uniquely hard or complicated to understand.
- Comment on Australia 2025 – Wrap-up of the night 3 weeks ago:
The Greens’ only failure is one of PR. That Labor supporters have been so successful in their lies that even people on left-leaning Lemmy believe them.
I don’t think theres need for a conspiracy here Zag, if i’ve forgotten a concession the Greens managed to get in the Bill that went through around November time, thats just my poor memory. My bad.
As such i’d still call it a pyrrhic victory due to the amount of time wasted on a key issue the electorate wants action on.
- Comment on ABC 2025 Election Watch Party 3 weeks ago:
Hahaha, i’ve heard nothing but dunks on Taylor, its been pretty funny. There’ll be a collective national groan if they select him i think.
- Comment on Australia 2025 – Wrap-up of the night 3 weeks ago:
Well, i kind of said in my comment before, they made a tactical mistake last year by failingvto give themselves a way to back down from their housing policy blockage.
Their strategy, ‘to push for ever greater housing reform’ was popular, and they managed to deliver a win for themselves the first time round by securing, was it extra HAFF funding? But the second time round they didn’t have a plan b when Labor didn’t play along, that was a mistake.
So my point was they need to be more alive to the Parliamentary games they need to play.
Its a sign of their importance and success that this is now needs to be a consideration.
Next time housing comes up, they need to setvup their debate with possible off ramps, where they can still claim some success and not lead to a months long stand off, or worse cede the legislative ground to a Liberal preferred option, which tends to be bad for the Greens stated policy directions.
- Comment on Australia 2025 – Wrap-up of the night 3 weeks ago:
This is slightly wrong. Just about everything the Government does has to pass both houses, so in a way minority government is the norm for Australia because its quite rare that a sitting government gets an outright majority in both houses.
In this cases it looks like its going to be the same, majority in lower house, minority in upper house.
The thing that undermines the bargaining power of a crossbench is when the two majors team up to pass legislation, which happens often enough. Afterall we don’t want an opposition that simply opposes everything because they’re the opposition.
So the crossbench, i think in this case the key players will be the Greens, have to have a strategy but be able to change their tactics as the Parliament progresses. Their failure to not get a deal from Labor last year on housing, and subsequent inability to find a path to back down for so long, and also the lib-lab team up on electoral and funding reform early this year, showws me they haven’t mastered parliamentary tactics yet.
Viewing it from the Party of Governments perspective, i think, is easier. Its not a cross-bench they’re dealing with, its two or more paths to passing legislation thpugh both houses.
Since Labor is in power, they have the option to attempt legislation with Liberal support, or Greens support. This is where the Greens need to step up, Labor will go with the Liberals if they’re the easier party to deal with on legislation, Greens should aim to be the Partner of choice for the Government this term, this can keep legislation primarily on the progressive side of the ledger.
- Comment on ABC 2025 Election Watch Party 3 weeks ago:
Yeah, they’ve been insane all over my area as well. I struggle to remember any campaign that has been so active.
I haven’t read an argument for it that doesn’t rely in the greater part on emotion. I’ve seen very little sober argument for the negative effects of the ban.
The key argument i’ve read is it delivers the industry into an abbotoir monopoly, this is undoubtedly a problem, which is in old Economic parlance a market failure. I’m slowly going to the Mariana Mazzucato view of Economics, so i see the live export closure as an opportunity for market shaping, by the stakeholders, gov, busines individuals, farmers, involved in it.
An idea the WA Government should consider is a government owned abbotoir which can set a steady floor on the prices farmers get for the sheep. Sorry if i get a little gross hereafter. But the meat from this abbotoir doesn’t necessarily have to find a profitable buyer, but can be used to deliver high protein food to disadvantaged communities here, and internationally. Abbotoir meat purchases could constitute a part of the Australian international food aid budget, or sent out to aboriginal communities, food shelters in the city, or island communities or nations in the pacific.
- Comment on ABC 2025 Election Watch Party 3 weeks ago:
Yeah, agreed. I’s not defending their current system. I’s arguing for political bias to be taken out of a theoretical election reform process as much as possible.
- Comment on ABC 2025 Election Watch Party 3 weeks ago:
Na, you need to get the people to the booths, otherwise your always pumping for turnout each election cycle.
Without mandatory voting a dissafected electorate will be more likely to not vote as their message to the politicians in a given election, than send a message by voting. In those circumstances, which the UK is finding itself in a lot! (Brexit included here.) You need to demand the populace make their voices heard.
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There is a practical reason, MMP, IRV, whatever you choose are far more complicated to explain than, ‘you must vote, or i’ll hit you over the head with some parsley.’ Mandatory voting is simple to understand, and demands voters become more engaged, which would help with further reform.
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Smaller parties have to have a path to success, a party of Government needs to be theoretically possible for them all. Genuine electoral reform would need to account for that, otherwise they’d fail to live up to the demands of democratic governance. But this is why I say as an unpopular technocrat, Starmer could be in a rare position here.
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- Comment on ABC 2025 Election Watch Party 3 weeks ago:
Mcgrath said that.
That was actually pretty wild for his side of politics to go that far in these times. His side of politics are fully dominated by MAGA-esque types.
He went further than what you say even, he identified himself with the Neo-libs (Reagan), and the Neo-Cons (Bush), pretty sure he even mentioned Nixon, but i can’t remember now.
Basically he identified himself with everyone from his side of Politics except the current ruling international faction, what i’ll call the Dickwads International Klan, or D.I.K.
- Comment on ABC 2025 Election Watch Party 3 weeks ago:
Is that a reaction to State level politics?
Or do they just hate the Federal Libs?
- Comment on ABC 2025 Election Watch Party 3 weeks ago:
Its definitely gona be Keep the Sheep for part of it. I’m surprised it wasn’t more of an issue in the end.
A friend, (not a farmer), at the start of the WA election campaign was getting hot under the collar about Labor’s live export ban. I said to him, “this is a minority issue, its hardly going to touch the sides in terms of political issues.”
I stand by that comment, but man, they’re a noisy bloody minority! They certainly made me feel i’s gona have to eat my words.
- Comment on ABC 2025 Election Watch Party 3 weeks ago:
Briggs? I tuned in late, what happened?
- Comment on ABC 2025 Election Watch Party 3 weeks ago:
I think, or more hope, Sky propagandists are as usual wrong.
I think there might be some strong Liberals that could come right into the foreground.
Now that the 2010’s crowd are finally getting shoved to the side, the Liberals might have enough clear air, or a clean enough slate, to reinvent and renew themselves to be more representative of the direction and attitudes of the country today.
Problem they’ve had since Abbott, has been this idea they’ve loosely held of a natural line of succession. That Turnbull had to have his turn, Dutton the same, Friedenberg was also expected to have a turn as Party leader along the same vein. Morrison was definitely the wild card in that though.
A Member i’ll be watching is Andrew Hastie, he seems a good operator, shit opinions on the world, but competence is important, especially in a time for rebuilding a Party, which the Libs obviously need to do.
- Comment on ABC 2025 Election Watch Party 3 weeks ago:
If Labour take anything from this election its that Starmer should walk into his cabinet room tomorrow/this morning and put all his chips on electoral reform.
Top of the list, ‘soft mandatory’ voting. He’s surely got the numbers in Parliament, he’s already quite unpopular, and he’s probably someone you could trust to deliver electoral reform that represents what the people in a given election want, not skew ot to what a Party wants.
The Conservatives would never do electoral reform, and if they did, theres no-one there that could be technocratic enough to be reliable. So it could be the UK’s best chance in a long time.
- Comment on ABC 2025 Election Watch Party 3 weeks ago:
I think it woukd have been the blocking of legislation last year, if anything.
But i have heard the seats they won last time were a bit of fluke narrow path to victory that would be hard to hold, but the ABC are saying they’re marginally increasing overall vote share 12.5% to 12.7%.
So maybe this will be a story about an aberration election, followed by a correction to their tradition of rising broad support across Australia.
If thats the case then they shouldn’t look at tonight’s outcome as a bad result, they gave the Majors their first genuine scare last election, with their vote share rising, this will make it more likely to happen in more diversified seats across the country. Thats a great future for the Greens, ehat they don’t want is to have a fate like the Nationals whete they’re geographically cornered with no real avenue for growth as a Party.