Gorgritch_umie_killa
@Gorgritch_umie_killa@aussie.zone
- Comment on Gina Rinehart funded flights and fashion show for Pauline Hanson 17 hours ago:
So I have a more narrow issue I’m targeting in your comment than what your reply here seems to be replying to. I’m not trying to attack you for saying something positive about Hanson. A lot of your points I wholeheartedly agree with. Its about giving an unnecessarily wide band of excusibility when compared to her political/finances conduct. She seems to have shown a pattern of corrupt intent when it comes to financing and seems to have no intention of acting in good faith or sincerity where there is no perceived threat of journalistic exposure. This has led to the endless rolling financing scandals that she shows no intention or capacity to alter.
Its not about an insincerity of her beliefs around race or her backward looking frankness of Australia. Its the seemingly duplicitous intent behind the finances that without journalists constantly holding her to account she’s loathe to acknowledge.
Take Sarah Martin’s (Guardian) reporting,
This is a random example I found within moments. She’s only acting honestly around her political finances when tge pressure is on.
This is more of an overview article
From the article,
According to Ashby, the declaration of the Florida flight and Rinehart’s hospitality failed to happen on time because of an administrative error. Ashby, who has been working in parliament for more than 15 years, claims he submitted the wrong paperwork and only realised his error when contacted by the Guardian… …But last week, after further questions from the Guardian, which were ignored, Hanson’s office suddenly found three more undeclared flights that had been gifted to the senator through Rinehart’s beef company, S Kidman and Co, last year. The party updated the register along with a dump of flights provided for the South Australian election campaign, where the state’s new laws ban political donations… …Whether deliberately or absent-mindedly, Hanson has concealed the extent of Rinehart’s support for her. Indeed, in December, back on the ground from Florida for only a few weeks, Ashby said suggestions Rinehart was bankrolling the party were unfounded. “I haven’t seen any money from her,” he said. …
Noticeably a lot of the behaviour in the article is from Ashby, which on face value supports your thesis that her Party may be dodgy, but she’s “upfront”. But this view cannot be accepted due to her dictatoral control over the party itself. This control means Ashby and the rest are conducting themselves with the formal or informal consent of Pauline Hanson by dint of her position of total constitutional control. She has the power and the knowledge of these failures to demand reporting improvements but seems not to.
Hanson president for life of One Nation. Published 12 May 2018 2:40pm, in the years since I haven’t found changes that reverses this course.
“The president of the party is Pauline Lee Hanson,” the constitution now states.
“Upon resigning from the position of president, Pauline Lee Hanson shall appoint her successor to become the next president of the party.”
Only after the resignation of Senator Hanson’s hand-picked successor will the party’s national executive be able to elect future presidents by majority vote.
Looking back at your controversial take, what set me off was,
upfront about the gifts, it’s all in the open
When it takes journalists digging through and asking questions about expenses and many instances of corrections to the public record after that fact, that demonstrates an intent to conceal, not an intent to be upfront.
- Comment on Gina Rinehart funded flights and fashion show for Pauline Hanson 1 day ago:
They’ve taken every opportunity to keep their close relationship and friendship low key. This is because it seems a genuine personal relationship, but there is genuine public interest in this relationship which they are only forthcoming about because of media spotlighting. So many would not, and still don’t, know about this power-pair if it weren’t for a significant and ongoing campaign journalistically uncovering this relationship.
I say journalistically, because many people in WA already are well aware of this relationship, but thats through the gossip grapevine, not established facts.
All in all, I think that comment is going very easy on actions Rhinehart and Hanson cynically wouldn’t be upfront about if they hadn’t been ‘humiliated’ into it. In other words I tip my hat to Guardian, ABC, Michael West and the many other journalists in the country who’ve actually delivered a public good for the community in this instance.
- Comment on Secret tape recordings and ‘sham’ payments: the Liberals’ internal ideological war laid bare 2 days ago:
Its good that these things are being uncovered by ICAC, but it is really a weakness of our democracy that its so easy for these branch level activities to happen unnoticed. I think one of the problens is definitely low political party membership. Be much harder to pull this shit where there are large and active membership bases whatever the colours of the Party.
- Secret tape recordings and ‘sham’ payments: the Liberals’ internal ideological war laid barewww.theguardian.com ↗Submitted 2 days ago to australianpolitics@aussie.zone | 2 comments
- Israeli siblings who fear breaking law in Gaza under IDF owed protection by Australia, tribunal findswww.theguardian.com ↗Submitted 4 days ago to worldnews@aussie.zone | 1 comment
- Comment on Thanks For ~~all the the fish~~ Hosting, Let’s Get an Update 5 days ago:
I can help a little,
Donation: Kofi
This link is always available in the instance sidebar, along with the original breakdown of instance costs. Its near the bottom. The costs have probably changed since that was written, but it’ll be a fair indicator.
- Comment on ‘We are waiting with bated breath’: experts alarmed as BoM says gathering El Niño could be strongest on record 5 days ago:
Yeah, i think we’re in for it. And we’re not really as prepared as we could be, especially when it comes to remediation practices of the natural environment. Theyre next to non-existent on the scale that we should be planning for.
I live near the Northern Jarrah forests of Perth and its a tinder box in summer, so we have a good bush fire brigade, but we barely have anyone going in to build the resilience of the bush. Most active resilience tactics we’ve got are still back-burning and clearing.
They’ll probably alwayd have a place, but they’re relied on so much now that it actually decreases the resilience of that bush. Of course, this is because the back-burning and clearing is about saving properties and lives, rather than understanding what the bush needs to stay healthy and not fire prone during hard years.
- Comment on [META] Overseas News - Proposal for increased enforcement of Rule 1 1 week ago:
An hour is a fairly short period of time. 24 hours is probably too long. Something in between those.
If people aren’t intetested in this but you want to try your hand at a bot, I think I could think of something on one of my communities. Maybe a weekly post of National air quality or something on AusEnviro or we could vote on c/rage for a gavourite aus music show that the bot could post each week. Or something else, just spitballin.
- Comment on [META] Overseas News - Proposal for increased enforcement of Rule 1 1 week ago:
I think the Boomerang and Kangaroo emojis makes it unmistakeable. Afterall we don’t want some Kiwi getting lost coming on to the community thinking its NZ!
- Comment on [META] Overseas News - Proposal for increased enforcement of Rule 1 1 week ago:
Yeah, its been a pretty relaxed rule I guess. I’ve always tried to consider it in my posts here, maybe not always successfully though. I’m a bit with Zero_gravitas on this.
But I believe like any market (which is a network ;)) well organised and applied principles determine it’s success. So with that in mind active but not overbearing moderation for the maintenance and ongoing reason of the community is definitely a good thing.
- Comment on Author/Writer Names in Title 2 weeks ago:
Yeah, fair to a degree. But it seems comatose also because there aren’t enough commenters for the amount of posts.
Look at Food Australia, CEOofmyhouse does a simple whats for dinner post each day, people comment each day, but it gets buried under the deluge of bot posts constantly posting from the ABC or Guardian. That bot undermines the ability to develop discussions on topics with the smaller commenter base here.
But yes, i think its probably an idea for a certain type of community, not site wide, doesn’t make sense f as a rule for c/pictures or c/foodaustralia.
Maybe I’ll look at doing it for c/auspolitics?
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- Comment on Unlike Count Binface, joke parties can’t run in Australian elections — and that’s serious 2 weeks ago:
You’re a member of Fusion. I’ve found some of their policies interesting in the past. They have a fairly active and interesting Mastodon account.
- Comment on Shoebridge demands Segal correct ‘inflated’ Gaza death toll claim 2 weeks ago:
Cheers, didn’t realise there was a difference. I thought their whole operation was substack.
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- Comment on The deeper argument for cultural diversity | Jonathan Sriranganathan 3 weeks ago:
First, I love a 40k quote. Second I haven’t sat down to read the article yet, so please take all I say with that in mind. I want to respond to your point about them not having multpile perspectives.
I think its harder than that. I don’t think its everyone voting on that side of politics but I recognise the type you’re talking about. I think those people don’t have any respect for people they percieve as lefty liberals; or greenies; or hippies; lazy pencil pushers; i suppose its whatever loose and lazy label suits their rhetorical needs in the moment.
And thats the key, all those terms are used to flatten their opponents into these two dimensional constructs, a soft dehumanisation, which they can then dismiss and disregard.
Whether the lack of respect is learned behaviour through local community, mass media, or both its the case that it allows them to dehumanise any people that loosely fit these categories and therefore before that person has even spoken to them, they’ve dismissed anything they’re saying.
So to refer to your proposed solution, to be able to first show them the ‘Abyss’ their confidence in their lack of respect needs to be shaken and broken, or someone that fits a mould they already do respect. Perhaps for Pauline Hanson personally that might’ve been Paul Hogan, considering her comments last week.
So the two options are finding an influencer that doesn’t change their dehumanising attitudes, whichbis probably the easier but less sustainable road, or breaking their self confidence in the mental barriers they’ve erected, a complicated but sustainable option.
For the second option, I think the experience of the eventual majority acceptance of the queer community to a large degree by so many is the case to point to.
Maybe one of many of these cases that have been turned into movies might be Kinky Boots. A story where the straight owner of the boot company fails over and again at being the masculine success story while being pulled out of the abyss again and again by the happily feminine gay man. But theres thousands of these stories in real life, I’m not sure how much of Kinky Boots is real, certainly some of it is.
- Comment on PM 'unequivocally' apologises for 'shag, marry, date' podcast comments 3 weeks ago:
They’re a disgraceful waste of time. Makes me so sad when I think about the state of media in WA. Australia as well, but its so terrible in WA.
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- Comment on Housing price downturn accelerates as 'perfect storm' hits market 3 weeks ago:
Yeah the guys talking out his arse on immigration being so the government can have some tax. That podcaster sounds like some neoliberal low/no tax wanker.
The second part you mention about going into recession without a reasonable level of immigration is absolutely the driving reason. No government wants to be in power when a recession occurs, whether they’ve been a cause in it or not.
- Comment on One Nation overtakes Labor, Liberals in Victoria; Allan’s rating dives 4 weeks ago:
Its easier when theres big money, friendly porpogandists in the media, and social media slop farms backing you and keeping you’re face and latest message constantly in people’s faces.
- Comment on Beaumont-Hamel 4 weeks ago:
I think its the meandering of a stream. Maybe the water is quite deep in a ravine its carved there, or maybe its a stream that doesn’t always flow.
- Comment on Australia secures $250m US package for F/A-18F & EA-18G fleets 4 weeks ago:
I didn’t read the article before commenting. I now have. Based on this comment I think you might’ve missed it in the article as well. Anyway whatever our miscommunication, its announcing a training and support package, no new aircraft are being purchased. So this fits with maintaining status quo and readiness. So from both our comments we probably agree on that.
But your response had a problem I want to highlight. You didn’t really demonstrate how its a move in the direction of multipolarity instead of my claim that its a move that can undermine Australia’s sovereign capability.
For me, what I’d be looking for to answer the caution around US technology sales to an ally would be something in the deal and it’s ongoing delivery that shows meaningful independent decision making and agency in use and destruction by the purchasing nation. Nothing in your comment really addressed that.
As I say it doesn’t matter now, but for the wider discussions around US hegemony of the Allied US/NATO alliance structure it does.
The below is where I’m at, when it comes to trust in the alliance. Its more of restatement, in a different way, of my first comment though.
Further sales of these aircraft are from a Nation that has demonstrated it’s willingness to simply consider invasion (Greenland) of an allies’ territory. This lowering trust joins a rising caution that its very hard for a purchasing nation to eliminate the possibility of kill switches being installed, either before or after purchase, for exquisite platforms. These combined should do lasting damage to the prospects of having a trustworthy alliance partner in the US. If they’re not raising alarm bells in defense, politics, and the country in general I question whether we really understand the predicament these developments place us in.
- Comment on Australia secures $250m US package for F/A-18F & EA-18G fleets 4 weeks ago:
Great another ‘exquisite’ platform for us to do only what the US allows/demands us do with it, while we pay through the nose some US company for repair (the parts, hopefully we’ll do the repairs).
Excuse me while i highlight our supplicant State status as I point to 2000 US troops in Darwin an intelligence base in NT, a Submarine base in Perth, et al.
Oh and lets not forget our wealthiest idiot wants to give the Israelis a bunch more of our land and treasure to come and park their genocidal arses in Far North Qld for… reasons?..
With the events of the past two years a commitment to the US, and from the US, like this must be seen as a form of likely entrapment by a hostile major power, not an increase in the trust and capabilities of the alliance.
This is either a foolish decision by a naive and uncritical defense and political leadership, or we are in deep trouble with our largest so called ally and are already paying a form of tribute.
This is not a wise investment. This ties us closer to US hegemony over Australia’s sovereignty in a world where we should be crab walking away from such dependence on an unreliable and manipulative partner.
- Comment on You rock up to Super Cheap to deck out your silver 2009 Toyota Yaris. Which aisle endcap you going with? 1 month ago:
Okay heres the thing, its an obvious choice the Couture has a far higher proportion of bling than the Western. Look at all those hangers. Gotta go with the bling man. And yes… pink on pink on pink is the colour for me.
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- Comment on As voter disillusionment grows, why aren't voters flocking to the Greens in Australia? 1 month ago:
Lol, 😂 had to go all the way to the otherside of the world in Sweden in a vain attempt to prove the ‘Islam bad mm’kay’ isn’t a farcical position. How many billions of Muslims are between here and there?
You speed-ran to the Nazis, its the acceptance that whole groups of people in a society are degenerate that creates the conditions for genocide… a pretty immoral act the Nazis, among others, are infamous for.
- Comment on As voter disillusionment grows, why aren't voters flocking to the Greens in Australia? 1 month ago:
Most Australians also absolutely detest Islam because it is an extremist backwards ideology
You gotta stop calling the religion of a quarter of this world an extremist backwards ideology. You’re not correct in your statement. If Australians detest anything its not having access to toilet paper.
Flattening the wide differences between 2 billion people is farcical. Not to mention you’re insulting hundreds of thousands of your own countrymen, 👏 well done you, who share your Australian values and have Islamic faith.
Try targetting degenerate extremists of any stripe and credence. That would be far more reflective of reality than targetting all and sundry hanging out in a mosque .
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- Comment on Quokkau not federating correctly? 1 month ago:
Is it working better today?