Gorgritch_umie_killa

@Gorgritch_umie_killa@aussie.zone

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘Wilful act of bastardry’: Henry condemns tax system for crushing young Australians⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Even people who don’t really have a Union, there are lots of other community groups that can be joined or created.

  Something overlooked far too often though is just the fact of joining a political party itself. Helping to change and shape its direction from the inside.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do electricians know what a bin is?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  This last one is the most like my experience lately. Shut all over the show. I walk around finding offcuts, and little piles of plasterdust where they’ve been drilling.

  Should’ve seen the insulation batts, feckin everywhere but where they were meant to be. Those bastards went out of their way to leave them in weird angles. Surprised none were left on the chminey!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Albanese in trouble as polling shows Dutton most likely to be next PM⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  So what your saying is Labor, and other parties/independents need to hook Australians on this fantastic new drug called hopium. ;) maybe…

  It is in short supply around the world at the moment, that should change.

  If theres one good thing about the US turning in on itself, it’ll mean more space for Australians to spread our own cultural, mechanical, industrial, military and many other wings again. Maybe jot be so focused on our “comparative advantages” in the “global market”. Theres potentially a lot of hope in projects of that nature.

  The world mightn’t be in the right place for a message reliant on hope, maybe your right Australians might be. I think even our most regressive individuals are in a different, more detached place from their erstwhile peers in other countries.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Albanese in trouble as polling shows Dutton most likely to be next PM⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Hmm, mediscare did work though, the threat of privatising energybin WA tends to go down well also. But I’m not sure i can think of an example where it has failed. Have you got an example?

  Also its not the politics i’d like, thats for sure.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Albanese in trouble as polling shows Dutton most likely to be next PM⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, i’ll never understand the philosophy behind Labor not supporting that.

  I’ve heard it explained as, we need both sides otherwise its untenable and the LNP will repeal it in the Government they have.

  But thats fine, sets up a political fight that future Labor can bash LNP over the head with, its an issue Labor could fight on, and at best overwhelm the agenda of that LNP Government, rendering them less effective. Come voting time the electorate will wonder what they’ve done apart from fight with the opposition all term. Thats maybe a best case scenario though.

  I’ve also heard it makes it hard for campaign promises, statements. I don’t buy it, seems like an easy out. Or i’m not taking the time to understand it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Albanese in trouble as polling shows Dutton most likely to be next PM⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  They’re just too focused on getting a balanced budgets because they don’t want a bad headline in the Australian (which they’ll get anyway regardless).

  Yeah, they shouldn’t worry. It’d be interesting in future to get Chalmers to speak candidly about this time period. I find it hard to believe he fully accepts the Classical economics view on balanced budgets.

  Also, see my reply to Ikt, i was also replying to your first point. Got a bit carried away, but hey, this ain’t a microblogging platform for a reason. :)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Albanese in trouble as polling shows Dutton most likely to be next PM⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  By the inclusion of transport workers, i’m guessing train workers in particular, i’m guessing they’re talking NSW Labor.

  I don’t know what pay is like for these people over East, but if its anything like here, Nurses and Train workers are paid fairly well. What I meanbto say is they’re able to live firmly middle class lifestyles on their incomes.

  To fix the crises in cost of living and housing we really want to be targeting the lower end band of wages, and increasing costs on housing investments like tax discounts and exemptions; at the same time some of these tax discounts apply to assets in general, those should stay, to promote the conversion of investment in property (all types), to more productive assets (ASX, private enterprises, Super, the list is endless). By doing this we’ll begin gaving a pool of money aiming for diverse growth investments, thereby helping the economy to diversify theough private capital flows.

  Government of course can help direct these private capital flows by crowding in with Government resources (grants, exemptions, lending,etc) on those industries and companies that align with national targets, such as building feckin submarines, or whatever the shit the Government of the day wants.

  Bit of rant, sorry. Reading Mariana Mazzucato again.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Albanese in trouble as polling shows Dutton most likely to be next PM⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Yep, this is true. It comes down to the media in this country.

  Which makes me pose the question, where the fuck are Labor and the unions on opening or supporting friendly media?

  Like, sure the super industry have the New Daily for what thats worth, but arguably Turnbull has done more for media balance in this country than anyone on the “Left” has by being friendly to Guardian coming over here.

  The idea that Murdoch still has a lock on country broadcasting along with ABC, after three years of Labor is laughable. They should have been white anting that gift of a contract since day one.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Albanese in trouble as polling shows Dutton most likely to be next PM⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Ugh, this feels just like the Voice polling a slow moving car crash.

  Will Albanese ever show he’s a PM for Australia, and not just a political manager?

  I suppose its not surprising the only strategy thats worked in the last few years is small target.

  Maybe villainise Dutton, go after him with everything, full negative campaign, make it about Dutton. The guy is dislikeable bash it every chance they get,

  Q - What is your plan for this,

  A - Our plan is in our policy documents, but wheres Dutton? What’s this grand plan he promises?

  Instant pivots to Dutton, link him to Rinehardt, and Palmer everytime mining or wealth inequality, or housing is brought up.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Misleading and false election ads are legal in Australia. We need national truth in political advertising laws⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Hmm, maybe.

  I always found the british are more cynical, which makes it seem like they have less trust. But when you observe their behaviour i think they’re more trusting of institutions, than the Americans.

  I think an interesting example of Britain’s trust in their Government is all the Leave voters thinking the Boris Johnson, Farage types actually had a plan for brexit, beyond corruption. I think thats evident in the amount of leave voters who have switched their own assessments.

  Comparing that to the US theres no signs of changes to population divisions or sentiments about the other side or Government. Of course all sides have truths to point to, where resolutions to those truths aren’t delivered, which doesn’t help any healing or moving on prospects.

  I’ve found Americans can be super positive people about all kinds, but its almost a social sin to speak well of government services. Of course, i’m speaking in the broadest possible terms here, i can think of a friend in NY who undermines this argument a little.

  Doesn’t help the UK have one of the most aggressive medias in the world. They’ll oerblow a straight banana, if they could… oh… wait…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"Create" button spins forever for new post, but the post is created anyway⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Not me. But i’m mobile jerboa mostly.

  It has some bugs itself, when loading the title to a post i find it loads quicker if i input the community field first, then go back to the generated post title. Its a weird bug, and it works so much quicker doing it that way around. If you read this far sorry for enticing you to read something that helps in no way with your issue :)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Future Made in Australia: Senate passes Labor's flagship clean energy plan⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Ah, fuck yeah!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Misleading and false election ads are legal in Australia. We need national truth in political advertising laws⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I think the United States has probably always been in a different spot on trust in institutions from Australia, NZ and UK, (don’t know about Canada). Maybe it goes back as far as the founding fathers and the structure of the Constitution, but the Australian Constitution is heavily based off the US, sonit cant be the whole story. And as Anthony Scaramucchi noted on Rest is Politics, a lot of authoritarian States have very similarly worded Constitutions to the US.

  Maybe its simply the amount of political appointees that remain politically motivated in their procedural capacities. So many appointments are made by inckming administrations, then the legal system Judicial arms race, elections for Sheriffs.

  Or maybe its neither of these things, maybe the United States has always had less cohesive political positions between each other, and the success, wealth, and strength of the country has meant the people of the Nation haven’t been put in a position where they’re forced to reconnoitre with their erstwhile political enemies.

  Or maybe its something else, but the US’s individualism and distrust of… authority? Institutions? I don’t know, has definitely been a difference between our Nations.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Misleading and false election ads are legal in Australia. We need national truth in political advertising laws⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I think they want to persuade you that the Greens have a nefarious plan to turn all the old telstra phone boxes into streetside change rooms.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do electricians know what a bin is?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  That one apprentice who can’t get their qualification because they can’t master the subtle art of leaving wire offcuts everywhere.

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Misleading and false election ads are legal in Australia. We need national truth in political advertising laws⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Okay, sure. Our only difference is we’re working off different meanings of truth for this.

  To this,

  Truth needs to be verifiable in these situations, otherwise it can’t be established and actionable.

  Even if someone is telling the truth, if they cannot prove that truth, the ‘rest’ (other people) cannot rely on it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Misleading and false election ads are legal in Australia. We need national truth in political advertising laws⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  It really isn’t as hard as you imagine.

  Government functionary bodies, enforce legislated demands for truth in national life all the time, ACCC (consumer protection laws, advertising), ASIC (company reporting), Fuel regs (notice those little check signs on each bowser), nutritional standards, and all the others, finally AEC already has responsibilities in this area, just not in the whole time period, which is what this article is about.

  A tiny amount of the cases these regulatory bodies deal with ever end up in court. Even the mention of further action gets compliance in more cases than not. You could describe the presence and continuance of this system as a positive example of a chilling effect.

  In this case, the mere presence of our system, acting against misleading and lying behaviour, acts as deterence in itself.

  Backing this up with a predictable and ascending order of approbium, corrections and punishments reinforces the expectations of the functionality of the system.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Misleading and false election ads are legal in Australia. We need national truth in political advertising laws⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I think the Unions are still big enough to deal with the threat of frivolous defo suits. Or, more importantly, they’re large enough that the wealthy have to think twice.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Misleading and false election ads are legal in Australia. We need national truth in political advertising laws⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Okay, so what we need to get these laws passed is the Unions to come up with false and misleading advertisements about Dutton, the Nationals, and Albanese, in the next week or two before this next election is called, and sit back and watch the amendments sail through with the full support of the opposition.

  “If the Unions are doing it, it must be wrong!” Some Liberal staffer, probably.

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Australian economist argues China is conning the world on net zero⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  For another perspective have a listen to this conversation,

  Decouple, on China’s Electrification

  This week, we go to China. I spoke with David Fishman, senior manager at The Lantau Group, on the motivations and strategy behind China’s world-leading electrification efforts. What seems like a climate-action utopia to Western analysts appears to be a pragmatic response to pollution and energy security concerns. China’s vulnerability to maritime oil blockades has spurred aggressive electrification across transport, industry, and urban infrastructure; and its state capitalist model has enabled a pace and scale of investment in nuclear power, electrified transport, and renewable energy that makes Western efforts to achieve an energy transformation look piecemeal.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Australian economist argues China is conning the world on net zero⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yep, typical Murdoch propaganda, identify the enemy, use narrow identification of issues and tortuously extend the conclusion to reject the whole. Reason? ‘They’re your enemy.’

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cover-up over: Scott Morrison's 'Sports Rorts' advice finally released - Michael West⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Maybe the Teals or Greens will be able to make something of it. Or that Marroon candidate thats running against Dutton in his electorate. Be a bit hard for Labor to say much after they’ve run protection this whole term.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cover-up over: Scott Morrison's 'Sports Rorts' advice finally released - Michael West⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The normal argument against this case is that all records of communications being a matter for public record could have a chilling effect on the frank and fearless advice Ministers may be willing to provide.

  My answer to that argument is:

  If your not willing to stand by the reasons you had for providing advice in the past, then the advice was baseless then, and is undefendable now. Even if you’re mind has changed on the advice, you should still be able to quantify legitimate reasons for the advice given then.

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Daily Discussion Thread: Tuesday, 28 January, 2025⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh man, i always miss this stuff then suddenly realise when i see the deleted posts checking older post comment sections.

  Yeah, hopefully they’re both back and happy again at some point.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Daily Discussion Thread: Tuesday, 28 January, 2025⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Baku’s gone again?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ley compares First Fleet to Musk's Mars mission in Australia Day speech⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Her birth name is Ussan? That explains a lot!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What Constitutes contravention of Rule 4, no ads/spamming?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Thanks Baku! I’s originally aiming for one event post a week, i think i’ll stick to the more personally interesting posts. Thwt’ll still be quite a few, but other people will have to do things like AFL and such :) If they want it.

  I’d thought things like weekend markets arpund the State could go in a weekly thread like you suggest