Gorgritch_umie_killa
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- Comment on Request for bonzai plant community 2 days ago:
There could be a weekly bonsai thread.
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🥞 Sunday 26 October 2025 2 days ago:
So did a dinosaur eat the server?
- Comment on ICJ rules Israel must allow aid groups unimpeded access to Gaza 4 days ago:
Yeah sure, the UN is USeLeSs keep living that dystopian WW3 fantasy if you want.
Did you look up the work the UN actually does yet? Na? Its a shame you’re not going to, theres lots of stuff they do that really makes a difference to people’s lives. Sorry they can’t solve all the world’s problems. Talk to ya another time mate.
- Comment on ICJ rules Israel must allow aid groups unimpeded access to Gaza 4 days ago:
Strongly worded letters lead to actions and reactions. Its foolish to think otherwise, the power of the UN in that regard is great, look at the news who isbquoted more often the Pope or the General Secretary? Hard to pick which isn’t it.
The UN does a lot more than words,
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it adjudicates where no other party can legitimately claim such a role.
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it delivers aid all over the world, often in record time after disasters or war. And importantly the people they’re trying to help, aren’t shot.
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the General Assembly provides a platform of relatively equal footing where the nations of the world coordinate, interact, and communicate the desires and directions. Communication on such a scale is key for stability in this world, where inconsistencies arise catastrophic blunders can soon follow.
I don’t know IKT, go read some of the UN agencies websites for yourself, see the projects they do, the help they render. This stuff is incredibly transparent and easy to look up.
Lastly, comedians can be great for observations that challenge common understandings, but you shouldn’t draw your understanding of the world from them, they should inspire you to learn more about the subjects they highlight. Dave Chappelle certainly did that for me.
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- Comment on ICJ rules Israel must allow aid groups unimpeded access to Gaza 5 days ago:
A might makes right world in a geopolitical sense doesn’t exist now. The post war consensus exist, it means nations are self limiting with a floor under which they do not sink. Israel has sunk below that floor, the West’s inability to even recognise that has dealt untold damage to faith in the current world order, but the only other viable option ‘might makes right’ is unpalatable to most powers.
The UN oversees and impartially adjudicates, its track record from the earliest years on leading interventions was patchy at best, a catastrophe at worst. The UN only assembles military force if there is truly no alternative. Haiti might be one upcoming example. So no, i and the UN don’t advocate for some international UN police, it is nation states that make up this world order, it is nation states who must steer it together. The UN is a fantastic, and peaceful tool for that multi state mission, facilitating all with a chance to convince and guide.
In the zero sum ‘might is right’ world everybody loses a little all the time. You have to remember zero sum thinking assumes winner takes all, but it rarely accounts for the costs of a victory. A lesson hard learned with millions of lives.
The rise of zero sum thinking that is implicitly advocated by ‘might makes right’ or Chappelle’s sketch leads to instability, fear and greater amounts of stagnation. A middle power will be a mere play thing in the hands of the great powers, Australia’s growth will be retarded, our freedoms curtailed in service to great power competitions. We aren’t really in that now, and we can avoid that outcome, but not by buying into an ‘us or them’ mentality.
- Comment on ICJ rules Israel must allow aid groups unimpeded access to Gaza 5 days ago:
‘Might is right’ is the world your wishing for. It isn’t the world you’ve lived in. ‘Might is right’ means Australia will fall under the extreme coercive control that you saw of a client state in such power relations as the USSR. The Post War American led consensus was not that, we are now at risk of it becoming that, and the actions of Israel have help along that emergent future.
You know i’m no fan of many of the USA’s activities, not only under this latest administration, but up until now there has been a self imposed, self limitation by powers like the US that allowed for the freedoms Australians have enjoyed in living memory. The impunity with which Israel has been treated also breaks that dynamic.
- Comment on ICJ rules Israel must allow aid groups unimpeded access to Gaza 5 days ago:
Australia’s freedom as it is today relies on the rules courts like these attempt to uphold. When Israel pisses on these conventions and courts, they piss on our freedom as well.
- Comment on ICJ rules Israel must allow aid groups unimpeded access to Gaza 5 days ago:
In case you’re not acting in bad faith and wish to begin understanding the reasons Israel is a pariah State, listen to this interview with James Elder (spotify), just one of the many stories that still manage to get out of Gaza although Israel still doesn’t allow international journalists free access for the rest of the world.
- Submitted 6 days ago to worldnews@aussie.zone | 13 comments
- Comment on 'Fit for purpose': How a Labor veteran helped create Fraser's vision of a new political party 6 days ago:
Its such a different world to the petty scrooges that lead this country now. From Billionaire daddy’s girls (The big G), to the fearful, or ideologically dogged politicians, to the media who are so bankrupt of their journalistic values.
- Could ‘trash fashion’ save this Nairobi neighbourhood from drowning in discarded western clothes?www.theguardian.com ↗Submitted 2 weeks ago to worldnews@aussie.zone | 0 comments
- Comment on Boycotting Israel has gone mainstream: ‘We’ve never seen such traction before’ 2 weeks ago:
Peter Beinart, author of Being Jewish After the Destruction of Gaza, said: “Israel’s capacity to maintain its authoritarian system of control of the Palestinians, instead of cutting against the grain of politics in other countries, in some ways is actually at the vanguard of the rise of ethno-nationalist authoritarians around the world.
“South Africa was not a model for anybody in the late 1980s. But Israel is a model, whether it’s for Modi [in India] or Orbán [in Hungary] or the AfD [in Germany] or the Republican party in the United States to some degree. For all of those reasons it’s a much more uphill struggle, even though we are seeing shifts in public opinion.”
This is a very salutary point.
- Submitted 2 weeks ago to worldnews@aussie.zone | 2 comments
- Comment on 'He doesn't feel like a normal child': War's toll on Gaza's babies 2 weeks ago:
“Statistically, the sheer number of children as a percentage of the population that have been killed or wounded is huge, so Gaza’s different because of the level of indiscriminate attacks.”
The majority are growing up in tents and ruins, deprived of food and safety.
Nearly 40,000 children have lost one or both of their parents, Gazan authorities say.
According to the UN, there are more child amputees per capita in Gaza than anywhere else in the world.
- Submitted 2 weeks ago to worldnews@aussie.zone | 1 comment
- Comment on Australian Gaza flotilla activists detained by Israel complain of ‘degrading and humiliating’ treatment 3 weeks ago:
Well said.
- Comment on Australian Gaza flotilla activists detained by Israel complain of ‘degrading and humiliating’ treatment 3 weeks ago:
I saw this lastnight on wider lemmy. The Israelis are a lost and sorry people it seems, if they think these acts are in any way acceptable or intelligent. It seems they’re driven by haye and spite at this point. And too few of their number speak out against it.
- ‘Don’t panic’ could be Albanese’s mantra but that doesn’t mean we aren’t concerned about life, the universe and everything | Peter Lewiswww.theguardian.com ↗Submitted 3 weeks ago to australianpolitics@aussie.zone | 0 comments
- Comment on China ferry fleet built amid Taiwan invasion preparations, classified report warns 4 weeks ago:
Thats it, i think. Send a token force alongside whatever the US does?
The problem i have with Australians at the moment is we’re not really thinking very clearly about the practicalities of the changing global order. We should be increasing the size of our military as quickly as possible, whether that means a reinteoduction of conscription i dont know, but i find it surprising defence and government officials aren’t bringing up these issues with the Australian public more. I think the best example of this discourse, was Malcolm Turnbulls series of defence diacussions at the beginning of the year.
- Comment on China ferry fleet built amid Taiwan invasion preparations, classified report warns 4 weeks ago:
Those things are huge. They’ve been planning for this for a long time, but American Republicans are making it easier than ever for the Chinese to foresee the possibility of invasion.
These moves are why the post war world order, where there were still some semblance of international rules was so determinedly held onto for so long. Without a legitimate successor international regime it becomes might makes right, something American Republicans will never understand, or possibly even feel the consequences of.
- Submitted 4 weeks ago to worldnews@aussie.zone | 4 comments
- Comment on I feel like there's been a sudden influx on new active aussie.zone users. Coincidence, or did something happen? 4 weeks ago:
There is no way you should be paying that on your own. I thought things were good with once a year payments, but i’ll look at setting payments up for monthly instead. I’ll increase the amount as well.
- Comment on I feel like there's been a sudden influx on new active aussie.zone users. Coincidence, or did something happen? 4 weeks ago:
Well, okay. You know more about this stuff than i, it might not be a bot. If you view by Local theres usually a post in the top ten most active still up from their latest account.
Theres someone that keeps launching new lemmy.world accounts and spamming some AZ communities. A look at their history and you can see they’re doing the same with British and European communities as well. The accounts when left to run, quickly reach the hundreds of posts, with only a few comments so there seems to be someone actively controlling it to some degree? Some of the comments were… interesting. They don’t seem malicious, from what i’ve seen at least, but definitely spammy, which can undercut quality of discussions.
So i don’t know if this is a bot or not, but its kinda insane behaviour, relentless, if its a person doing all of it.
- Comment on I feel like there's been a sudden influx on new active aussie.zone users. Coincidence, or did something happen? 5 weeks ago:
It must be time consuming, especially due to the constant monitoring.
- Comment on I feel like there's been a sudden influx on new active aussie.zone users. Coincidence, or did something happen? 5 weeks ago:
We’re pretty protective of our ~500ish regulars. We are not a large instance, but our users are very engaged. We don’t want them to be drowned out by a massive influx of new accounts utterly shifting the vibe of the site overnight
Well i hadn’t considered that, but perhaps i should’ve considering the effect that one bot account has had.
- Comment on I feel like there's been a sudden influx on new active aussie.zone users. Coincidence, or did something happen? 5 weeks ago:
Whoever has been spamming Lemmy with that bot, davriellelouna or whatever they’ve called it this week, i think has deteriorated the salience of discussions to a degree. But these accounts a getting tagged really quickly in the last week, i suppose this is something Lodion and Nath are doing in the background. Cheers for your efforts admins!
- Comment on I feel like there's been a sudden influx on new active aussie.zone users. Coincidence, or did something happen? 5 weeks ago:
Yeah, i think Lodions a great steady hand on the tiller. For me, i feel like AZ could become the basis for a wider ‘fediverse first’ set of social media alternatives for Australians. That would take more active growth and discussions and actions on direction in that vein. Lodion has a different vision to me on this projects development, and Lodions the lead on this experiment, and we’ve hashed that out before.
There are definitely practical, time consuming administrative hurdles that Lodion and Nath have highlighted that a user and cheerleader like me rarely notices, i think this is a key driver behind the non-listing. The only thing i can say to that is there seems a fairly technologically knowledgable and engaged set of people on AZ that might be willing to muck in to support the project in material administrative ways. There are some particular users that i’m surprised aren’t admins from the beginning tbh, but thats my ‘on the outside looking in’ assessment of a situation i don’t really know about.
- Comment on Republicans warn PM of 'punitive measures' over Palestinian recognition 5 weeks ago:
No surprise that these ghouls can’t see a problem with the failed US policy in regards Israel and Palestine.
The rest of the west should carry on. This should be the beginning of the medium powers working more cloesly together, outside of the coordinating influence of the Major power.
- Submitted 5 weeks ago to worldnews@aussie.zone | 9 comments
- Pod Save the World - Interview with UN Under Secretary General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief, Tom Fletcher. From Episode: Can the FBI Survive Trump & Kash Patel?aussie.zone ↗Submitted 5 weeks ago to worldnews@aussie.zone | 0 comments
