Gorgritch_umie_killa
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- Comment on Labor separates gun control laws from hate speech reforms after bill turned down by Coalition and Greens 19 hours ago:
I feel like Labor won the political week with this. Instead of being accused of going too soft and slowly, everyone is saying slow down and don’t go that far!
Yes, they’re being criticised, it seems they’re not going to be able to make any decision without that, but they’ve flipped the direction of policy indicated by that criticism. Can’t help thinking this was the plan in order to neuter the Coalition and Murdoch propagandists.
- Comment on Greens capitulate to right-wing campaign against the Palestine movement 5 days ago:
Yet, with all your typing, you make my point for me… in the thick of it aren’t they.
Don’t trip over those double standards.
- Comment on Greens capitulate to right-wing campaign against the Palestine movement 5 days ago:
Could just as easily say those posts are related to, or in response to things Zionists have done. But hey, they’re special little princes and princesses, we can’t criticise their role in all these. 👑
Its laughable the willingness to turn a blind eye to the other very active, and at this time more malicious interlocutor group.
- Comment on Australia to form royal commission into antisemitism after Bondi mass shooting 1 week ago:
Oh my! I’m not sure how you mean that! 😂
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Is that a dig at the UK for getting bullied to take chlorinated chicken from the US?
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A dig at their privatised water shemozzle?
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An obscure WW1 chlorine gas reference (this ones my over-active imagination for sure! 😂)
Or,
- just that its a dirty place that needs more cleaning!
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- Comment on Australia to form royal commission into antisemitism after Bondi mass shooting 1 week ago:
You’ve made an assumption that everybody today has that original view of Israel. Even though it’s historic origins aren’t disputed, its important to veer away from dangerous generalisations like this as much as possible, its what genocides are made of. Stopping ourselves from making generalisations about whole populations means we can always maintain the ability to comprehend the contextual nuances of one another, something I fear too many in Israel itself refuse to apply to Palestinians, but not all.
Take Australia: Australia was a settler colonial penal colony. The world turned and the idea of what it would be then, is not necessarily what it is today. And importantly, its not what lots of Australians now believe about their country. Some people may think its still a settler colonial penal colony. The history certainly shows some peoples such as Aborigines have a more than fair claim to still believe that, but theres others that believe its a US satellite state, and yet others again who believe we are young and free.
My point is, a country is made up of multitudes. No matter what a country’s founding beliefs are, they’re gona change, some will cleave to those beliefs, but others will see their country in a vastly different ways to the founders, and as their lives are lived the face of a nation will change, for better or worse.
So historically yes that was it’s intention, and likely still has many subscribers to that intention. But, we can’t assume that is everybody who believes Israel should exist, or the only reason driving that belief.
- Comment on Australia to form royal commission into antisemitism after Bondi mass shooting 1 week ago:
I thought that to. I think genevaconvenience has made a logical assumption, that Israel and Zionism are 1 to 1. This might not be correct especially for the individual who may nlknow more or less about the prigins of Zionism, and the Israeli State and yet have strong connections there.
For instance, I have strong famiky connections to NSW but when I go there, the place as a whole feels quite different culturally.
- This WA-led study revealed the scale of plastic burning for fuel. What are we going to do about it?www.watoday.com.au ↗Submitted 1 week ago to worldnews@aussie.zone | 0 comments
- Comment on Explosions heard, low-flying aircraft seen over Venezuela's capital 1 week ago:
Yeah, like I don’t know about Africa. Welcome to the Sahel, you’re about two decades late to the party.
Wait, who’re the goodies and baddies! I think we’re gonna to implement some sort of cape system. Black as night, for the goodies, pink with gold sequins for the baddies.
- Comment on Explosions heard, low-flying aircraft seen over Venezuela's capital 1 week ago:
Rules based order allowed you to live a fairly peaceful life up until now. You’re going to need to change your opinion on the usefulness of soft power, and diplomacy. It would helpbyou understand the world better knowing what precedence means and its effects in human behavioural terms on the singular level and the macro level.
Most of Africa? Theres that racism on display again. You may as well call them shithole countries. Or shall we call them the bad guys, and then we can call the god guys to sort em out like we’re in childs story. Bad guys dobthis, good guys blow em up!
Its a childish view of the world. Two wrongs don’t make a right.
- Comment on Explosions heard, low-flying aircraft seen over Venezuela's capital 2 weeks ago:
You really need to learn how international norms and laws have helped protect Australia. The problem here isn’t getting rid of a dictator, the problem here is the precedent this sets. The US just made every one of their allies much less safe in this world, at a time when they’re pulling back from their commitments as allies.
Question you have to ask yourself now,
What stops China from coming and lopping off the Pilbara? The only thing now is raw power, of which, we only have a little. So is the US going to come to support Aus, can we still count on them? If you look at their behaviour around Ukraine, it seems their ‘friendship’ is pretty bloody fragile these days.
What about Taiwan now? Or some of the Japanese islands? How do you think those putative allies are feeling about this?
You want to set a precedent of our times? This just did.
Look at my comment history from yesterday, i wrote a long comment response that goes into the new geopolitical threat this country and the world now faces.
- Comment on Explosions heard, low-flying aircraft seen over Venezuela's capital 2 weeks ago:
This is not the way to stand up to authoritarianship. Australia has to keep out of this, even thoough it is damaging to do so, it undoubtedly is. There is no clean slate here for Aus. Unless all of south america stand up against US, there is nothing we can do.
- Comment on In your heart of hearts, you know this wrong 2 weeks ago:
I think the degree of movement Tim Dunlop thinks Labor has on any given issue at any one time is vastly overestimated. Degree of movement is the whole rationale behind incrementalism, and progressive Partys don’t have a wide degree due to the aggressive media and geopolitical environment they exist in.
Although Labor only just lost the 2019 election, they still lost it. Bringing on possibly the most damaging three years of Liberal/National strangulation of this country of that period.
I think Tim Dunlop underplays the importance of the old media in the new media landscape. Top 100 News & Politics YouTube Channels in Australia, dont know what the Burma channel is, but you get to 7, at Friendly Jordies, before you can argue you actually have anything left of centre. The old media isn’t as dominant as it was, but it still sets the agenda most often. And still has far reach across the voting public, enough to shape the hair brained narrative blaming the PM for the Bondi terror attack.
Thankfully independent media are growing in number, many are far more open to a non-billionaire alligned worldview. Some examples are,
- Guardian
- Ette media
- Independent aus
- Michael west
- Deep cut
- Crikey
- Urban wronsky
- Friendly jordies
- The shot
- The Klaxton
- John Menadue
- Cheek media
- Abby Dib
- Declassified
- Equator (monthly politics,culture, not sure if this fits.)
- Inside Story
- Antony Loewenstein
^Please reply if you know of more, i’ve been casually adding to this list, I don’t know yet to what end, but the degree of fragmentation is hurting these outlets, so I think some kind of public known central repository for readers to find these outlets would help.^
The geopolitical situation is an even larger challenge. There is an authoritarian shift in this world, and there is no reason to think Australia or any democracy can survive it. Author Sven Beckert apparently talks about this in his new book ‘Capitalism’ when he discusses the actual age of capitalism being older than the Industrial revolution in Britain, and capitalism surviving under many forms of governance, be it authoritarian, monarchist, democracy, dictatorship, there are many examples, democracy is just one, the best one, but just one.
So we can experience a significant degradation in our democracy without any significant effects on the capitalist system, just look to the USA to see this happening in real time.
For a country as small as Australia this shift poses a potentially existential risk to our Nation as we know. Whether we like it or not we are on a geopolitical tightrope. In 2025 the ‘Great Game’ as it was once called over a century ago before WW1 has been relaunched. Due to the growing power of nations like China, India, Brazil, Indonesia, Saudi Arabia, UAE, Qatar etc; but also through foolish and decadent policies of the USA and foolishly utopian policies of the Europeans.
Australia is completely linked to the US tech stack, financial stability relies on the US, our military and it’s technology are also dependent on the US. These are systemic structures you can’t change overnight except with a major and extremely costly break from our largest ally.
This restricts the types of overt or outwardly large movements to progressive policies that will be tolerated by our erstwhile and increasingly authoritarian allies and benefactors. A Machiavellian view and action and reaction framework is the only choice for Australia in this world. Luckily for us, we’ve already been practising this for the last decade or more between the maws of Chimerica.
Finally there are certain touch-stone issues such as housing that not enough Australians see a problem with yet to take significant action on. I can only hope that we can get a grand generational bargain on housing in this country before a government of any stripe does something so stupid as to open the market to the private investment houses, such as venture capital…
- Comment on A majority of Australians support banning pro-Palestine marches 3 weeks ago:
If they can get a representative sample then 1000 to 2000 is pretty good, and somewhat industry standard. Using statistical analyses on larger samples will only marginally improve quality of results. A key trick is to gain a representative enough sample, and 1000 to 2000 people tends to be enough to cover most segments/divisions of a population that are useful.
I’ve been reading the Foundation series by Isaac Asimov recently and its incredible how well he explained the predictability of large groups of humans. Modern statisticians are mostly a humble lot, having all been proved wrong many a time, but they all know that we can be fairly predictable on a population level. Listen to or read Nate Silver, Ben Raue, or Antony Green probably some of the most well known in our context of “Australians influenced heavily by US politics” all know they know things, but are fairly humble in their pronouncements about things, contrast this with lifestyle podcasters or most journalists and you’ll see what I mean.
To put another way, a lot of statistical analysis is built off averaging and predicting those measures of central tendencies, which after a certain size is reached vary little with more size, so once you reach a fair size sample the most important, and increasingly tricky part is finding its representative. I think a famous story of this is the readers digest polls who were famously highly reliable, until circulation or readership decreased and suddenly the reliability plummeted.
- Comment on A majority of Australians support banning pro-Palestine marches 3 weeks ago:
Yep, thats not a bad number to get for a poll.
I’m probably more worried about the speed in which they’ve put this together. So close to the event which they readily admit has made the results deviate from a normal results, which is the whole intention behind putting this out now. They can then assess the drop off in support as the event gets further back in time, and intervening events have their effect.
But the speed is also a concern because they’ve had to do this over the xmas period, when a lot more people are less available. So i have a concern about how representative they were able to make it. I’m sure they tried, resolve has a reasonable reputation for polling, but given the time period for responses it isn’t ideal.
- Comment on A majority of Australians support banning pro-Palestine marches 3 weeks ago:
16% of this Nation would be over 4 million people, so its possible both can be true.
- Comment on Israeli president invited to visit Australia after Bondi shooting 3 weeks ago:
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- Comment on Israeli president invited to visit Australia after Bondi shooting 3 weeks ago:
These people are committing a genocide! And we’re inviting their head of State here?? What the actual fuck is wrong with us!
- Comment on Israeli president invited to visit Australia after Bondi shooting 3 weeks ago:
Why exactly! As soon as he steps off the plane he will be acting to divide this nation to the benefit of his own. This is an Australian tragedy, no matter the outside influences of the actors themselves we are talking about Australians. It would cost Labor politically, but he should not be allowed entry.
- Comment on Massacre as political theatre: our shameful national response to Bondi | Amy Remeikis 3 weeks ago:
I’m glad people are speaking and writing about this. I’m finding it hard to put into words why i’m so disappointed by my country’s reaction to this massacre.
I think, to his credit, Albanese saw the connections that would be made and sought in that first speech on that Sunday night to temporally distance this tragedy from the genocide in Gaza. It might’ve been a futile effort, but he tried so hard in that moment to bring all Australians together, for Australians to reject the malign outside influence of an unstable world, to deal with our problems and disagreements here with compassion.
In this way i think Australia has failed the PM.
- Comment on Child mortality: an everyday tragedy of enormous scale that we can make progress against 1 month ago:
In Australia’s case its a choice newsrooms make. Even if we don’t concentrate on Africa, which we should.
Shall we spend the next 24 hours talking about the latest violent shark attack? Or the admittedly interesting, mushroom murderer but for the 100th time. Did we need to know quite that much?
- 650,000 deaths in 2023 for children under 5 years old in Oceania. Thats our region, they’re our neighbours, Australia has a recognisable benefit to helping our neighbours. Its not purely altruism, these are the lines even the Murdoch media with their endless cultural emergencies could run with.
Reduce immigration? Help children survive, its directly correlated with economic prosperity. It can be such a ‘right-wing’ project its absurd they cede that political ground to the ‘left’.
- Child mortality: an everyday tragedy of enormous scale that we can make progress againstourworldindata.org ↗Submitted 1 month ago to worldnews@aussie.zone | 1 comment
- Comment on As of December 10th, You need to be sixteen to use Aussie.Zone 1 month ago:
Na, its to pop a cultural crisis balloon the media was blowing up last year.
There will be some tangential benefits, i think the no alcohol before 18 is a good analogy, the only problem is there can be some benefits to social media, whereas theres not a really an upside to alcohol.
But largely its due to talk-back wankers, and the Government not wanting a distracting fake cultural crisis. Commercial media in this country suck large round ones.
Anyway, thats my view.
- Comment on Merry Christmas, James 🎄 1 month ago:
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- Comment on Merry Christmas, James 🎄 1 month ago:
Okay, i’ve looked at this a few times, i don’t get it.
- Comment on As of December 10th, You need to be sixteen to use Aussie.Zone 1 month ago:
Is there going to be a spike in alcohol sales because of this ban?
Could i even say… beer and pints… to the moon?!? 🌜🪙🍺💱🍻💲🌛
Watch out bars of Australia! Here comes the Lemmy wave!
- Comment on As of December 10th, You need to be sixteen to use Aussie.Zone 1 month ago:
- Comment on Genocide in Gaza in international law 1 month ago:
Below UWA Associate Professor of Internaitional Law Dr Melanie O’Brien describes the actions Israel committed evidencing genocide.
^Note: There are a lot of links throughout the piece on the website if you want more info about a claim it likely has a link provided. Visit the website.^
The report details evidence from two years of investigation, referring in detail to actions also previously assessed by organisations, experts and scholars to determine that Israel is committing genocide. These actions include killing members of the group: extensive killing of civilians (including children), who make up the majority of those killed in Gaza, thereby indicating that the attacks are not self-defence nor justified by military necessity or proportionality (at the time of writing, almost 65,000 people have been killed). People have been killed by bombing and shooting.
Starvation is being used as a method of warfare, and is also a significant component of the genocidal conduct. Many Palestinians have died from starvation, malnutrition, thirst or disease. This is due to the denial of food, water, sanitation and healthcare to the Palestinians in Gaza. This amounts to the genocide crime of deliberately inflicting conditions of life calculated to bring about the group’s physical destruction, and are acts that my research on previous genocides has determined is a key part of the genocide process.
The genocide crime of causing serious bodily or mental harm is also being committed. Over 163,000 injuries have been reported from the violence, and the health impacts of malnutrition will be long-term. Reports demonstrate the significant trauma experienced by residents of Gaza from the ongoing violence, death and fear of death.
Israel is also imposing measures intended to prevent births, the fourth crime of genocide. This is carried out through systematic sexual and gender-based violence, and substantial harm to the reproductive capacity of girls and women due to the starvation and lack of sanitation and healthcare. The destruction of maternal healthcare has increased the number of miscarriages and childbirth complications. The Commission of Inquiry highlighted an attack on a fertility clinic that contained over 4000 embryos.
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- Comment on 'Dirty, disgusting money': The heiress giving away her entire fortune 1 month ago:
Citizen’s Assemblies, we Aussies gotta get this train.
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