Gorgritch_umie_killa
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- Hold the front page! Cost of clean energy transition just shrank by $100 billionreneweconomy.com.au ↗Submitted 2 days ago to australianpolitics@aussie.zone | 0 comments
- Comment on Cuts, punishment powers and a notable exception: Key changes in Labor's migration shake-up 1 week ago:
What absolute flogs. Fucking kids gloves with the Party who has caused the migration culture war issue, and lock and stock and two smoking barrels for the Party reacting to the clear electoral signals a massive portion of the electorate are now indicating they want.
Instead of attacking Labor why haven’t the NFF come together with the Universities and other migrant reliant employers and stamped the positive case for migration against the revanchivist culture vultures if they’ve been such great fans of migrant labour all this time.
…oh no, I forgot its only the migrants the regions don’t like, that have to go. Typical self obsessed industry group, undermining their own prosperity with their narrow bloody-mindedness.
God forbid anything ever negatively effect the precious farmers of this country, haven’t you heard? They’ve already had a bloody gut full /s
Theres going to be a leopards eat faces moment when university fees have rocketed up for their kids who often go to those city universities subsidised by all those International students.
Its going to slap even harder when the government can’t send as much aid in the inevitable floods or fires because the budget has had an international student sized hole blown in our exports.
But what do I know, the geniuses at Murdoch media and One Nation have a culture war to prosecute, and some brown people to shit on to satiate angry bastards five minutes of rage each night.
One Nation is most popular in the regions, Murdoch media is one of two free to air channels, and highly popular in the regions. This is a problem of regional Australia not understanding their gripes have consequences that they have to bear.
If NFF wants this changed, attack the people who have pushed this into a full blown electoral crisis, not the flat-footed Party with tweety birds flapping above their heads.
- Comment on 9/11 25th Anniversary: Rousing the sleeping dragon 1 week ago:
Fridge through the sky… 😆
- Comment on Latest poll: Greens surge to record-breaking 16%, ALP’s 2PP lead grows 1 week ago:
That day, the link wasn’t just broken… The link was missing!!!
- Comment on 9/11 25th Anniversary: Rousing the sleeping dragon 1 week ago:
Not a bad analogy. Very appropriate, as has been proven by the right wing terrorism list reference and how much the US appears in that list. Sorry, I didn’t think I needed to spell out we were interested in the amount the US appeared in that list.
I used both the German analogy and the Republican analogy to demonstrate that you its the individuals that must be held to account while the rest try to bridge the divisions in a society.
Please stop these echo chamber tier insults, you know how much I detest America
Well it gets a bit hard to take you seriously sometimes, but fair enough. I thought that line, and it definitely was a line this time, was nicely pithy though.
- Comment on 9/11 25th Anniversary: Rousing the sleeping dragon 1 week ago:
If US republicans in Africa, Asia, North America, weirdly not latin America…
This sentence makes no sense Claude. Recalibrate and try it again.
Lololololol!!! 😆 Its like your heads been buried in the sand for the last 15 years. Do you only consume right wing propaganda? Like on a scale from ‘Zero’ to ‘Only Consume’, how much Sky/News24 do you watch per week?
The right wing terrorists, that vote overwhelmingly Republican, are regularly targetting Democrats, racial minorities, religious groups like Islam all over the USA. Don’t let facts get in the way of good time though…
Heres a list. For interests sake scroll to the bottom for a comparison with Islan and Left wing.
So the point stands. You don’t attack whole groups for the actions of individuals. Even if some members of those groups commit or applaud the commitment of heinous crimes.
This is why all men aren’t in prison for domestic violence against women, its not all men, but theres a pattern of rape and murder of women by men.
- Comment on What 9/11 taught us about coexistence 1 week ago:
Coexistence is not the absence of disagreement; it is the decision to live with disagreement without turning the other person into an enemy. Perhaps, after 25 years, this is one of the most important things we can learn from 9/11: that the opposite of hatred is not indifference, but an ethical commitment to living together. An ethical life begins when we stop seeing the others as strangers and recognise them as human beings.
What a great way to end the piece by Sirwan Barzanji.
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- Comment on 9/11 25th Anniversary: Rousing the sleeping dragon 1 week ago:
I’m not saying ‘lines’, I’m trying to get you to wake up to the historic systems that create these sharp divisions and friction points.
I used to think Religion was a cause of hatred, but its actually a post-hoc rationalisation by the people experiencing circumstances they can neither see the cause of, nor explain. That includes people like Bin Laden, with all his wealth he was born into a part of a system, and became a part of that system where the logical reaction is to attack and try to pull down your perceived foe.
You’re hatred for religion, and one in particular helps nothing, and actually hinders the development of a less religious world, which I suspect you see as a better way. It hijders it because you make an enemy out of the majority of the people on the planet, and enemies are famous for having little trust in each other. And trust in each other is key if you want them to take notice of your ideas.
Also a picture of a guy protesting with an ineffective protest sign, like its not even witty its just rage in printed form, and a wikipedia list of recent terrorist attacks by small groups of terrorists is your idea of presenting a case for hundreds of millions of followers and supporters? … pffft thats horribly a undercooked for the population sizes, and doesn’t even make logical sense, as I will explain in two ways below.
US Republicans just had a convention in Texas where someone was advocating shooting some Democrat and was apparently cheered for it. By your incoherrent logic that means all Republicans and those that vote for that Party are blood thirsty murderers, because a guy did a thing at a convention. Its just not true.
Many, not all, Germans genuinely cheered on the Nazi’s for years, but they would never have committed the crimes Nazi’s committed, or thought thats what they were supporting by supporting the Nazi’s. Its one reason why the allied forces decided to march 1000 people from Weimar (or a village nearby) up to Burchenwald concentration camp to witness the attrocities that had been committed there. Because they knew the support was still there, the cognitive dissonance was so strong that without the incontrovertable evidence in so many of the German’s own eyes and nostrils that the attrocities could be dismissed as the occupying force propagandising.
- Comment on 9/11 25th Anniversary: Rousing the sleeping dragon 1 week ago:
Yeah, i felt writing that and not recognising Bin Laden’s wealth was an oversight that she needed to address for her narrative to work properly. I don’t think it disqualifies the narrative though, but glad someones highlighted that.
Not to mention theres still open questions about how much the Saudis knew, the extent of their involvement, and how high that went. And they are by no means poor or powerless, even then.
Yeah for some reason it’s always one particular religion
Thats just incorrect bigotry about a whole religion, spanning many sects and classifications, not to mention countries and cultures
Definite props though for stating later (not ALL muslims). But blaming a whole set of people at all for the crimes and shit behaviour of a few is never right.
Its like blaming all Jews for what Israel is doing to Palestinians, or all Christians for what the IRA did to British people. Or vice versa in all cases. Was the Pope responsible for Bloody Sunday?
I think theres something real in what you’re picking up on though. But i think its a systemic issue to do with the historic construction of what has become the ‘Islamic world’. European colonialism was influential here, but also more localised and ongoing tribal conflicts. Even environmental pressures.
The conflicts across the Sahel due to the expansion of the Sahara pushing groups into each other’s lands they use for subsistence has been an underlying driver of conflict across that region. Tim Marshall Prisoner’s of Geography was a good distillation of that.
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- Comment on Australia declares its new air defense missile system combat ready 1 week ago:
Ah yes, the humvee. I like that line from the humvee commander in the movie Black Hawk Down. “These things are bullet magnets!”
I suppose a possible answer if they’re determined to have heavier armour is compartmentalised and autonomous setups. Having the operator in a separate location to the cannon could reduce the armouring requirements of both and splitting them up could make delivery separately on those c130’s possible. Of course the draw back is a platform far more susceptible to electronic warfare.
- Comment on Australia declares its new air defense missile system combat ready 1 week ago:
, but every new generation of people looking at war inevitably say “ah, this next war we won’t need armor we need to make everything as lightly armored as possible!” and then that strategy fails spectacularly until people create more heavily armored version and the cycle repeats…
Seems like you have an interesting historical annecdote your drawing on where this has happened. Is it a story worth sharing?
- Comment on Real Capitalism Hasn't Been Attempted (tm) 2 weeks 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) 2 weeks ago:
Too true.
- Comment on Real Capitalism Hasn't Been Attempted (tm) 2 weeks 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 3 weeks ago:
- Comment on Right-wing candidate used fake AI portraits in council campaign 3 weeks 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.
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- Comment on IDF soldiers heading to Australia to compete in the Sydney Marathon 3 weeks 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 4 weeks ago:
What the fuck are we doing!
- Comment on The new McCarthyism: Gaza and Australia – Richard Flanagan 4 weeks 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.
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- Comment on Australia’s China policy built on a strategic double standard - Independent Australia 4 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 4 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 4 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 4 weeks ago to australianpolitics@aussie.zone | 0 comments
- Comment on Bondi library removes book How to Sell a Genocide from shelves after complaint 5 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.
