Gorgritch_umie_killa
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- Comment on The deeper argument for cultural diversity | Jonathan Sriranganathan 2 days 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 days 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 1 week 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 1 week 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 1 week 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 1 week 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 1 week 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? 3 weeks 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? 3 weeks 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? 3 weeks 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? 4 weeks ago:
Is it working better today?
- Comment on Kath & Kim fun run pokes fun at dangerous Qld law 4 weeks ago:
One police officer is reported to have told one of the participants: “There are bad things happening in Queensland but this is not one of them”.
Thats the kind of contextual acknowledgement more cops need to have. Maybe NSW cops could learn a from this protest.
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- Comment on Palestinian baby shot dead by Israeli troops in occupied West Bank 4 weeks ago:
In a similar incident, Israeli troops operating in Tamoun, in the northern Jordan valley, opened fire on a vehicle travelling through the village on 15 March, killing a Palestinian couple and two of their children. The victims were identified as Ali Bani Odeh, 38, his wife, Waad Bani Odeh, 36, and their sons Othman, six, and Mohammad, five.
According to the Israeli human rights group B’Tselem, soldiers removed two other children from the vehicle, Khaled, 11, and Mustafa, eight, both of whom suffered minor shrapnel injuries. The organisation said the troops then subjected Khaled to a violent interrogation at the scene.
B’Tselem said the military initially prevented ambulances from reaching the area and allowed medical teams access only after a delay. The organisation added that soldiers later confiscated the family’s vehicle, which it said was riddled with bullet holes.
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- Comment on Australia sanctions Israeli extremists in response to violence in Palestine 5 weeks ago:
Bit rich to call out someone for propaganda with your anti-China posting record. Focusing on the negatives of China amounts to the same effects as you claim of the other user.
Since I find you commenting today, i’m interested, why is your posting subject so focused on the single topic? Ie, ‘China bad’.
I ask because if you really are passionate about that subject, then I’d argue you’re failing on persuasion. The impersonal posting of article after article casting China in a negative light has undermined the argument, and made youre account look like propaganda to be ignored and passed over.
One thing I will say is, you’ve always (from what I’ve seen) kept to reasonably reputable sources for these posts. Which is why I’ve rarely drawn attention to your account like I do today. I inly do so today because I don’t often come across your comments.
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- Comment on Polling suggests one nation preferred over labor, negative perceptions and low awareness of budget blamed. 5 weeks ago:
polling also claimed they’d win SA
Um, that not correct. Nobody thought Malinauskas wasn’t romping it home. Predictions were pretty unanimous for Labor domination.
Antony Green’s Election Blog, 2026 South Australian Election Preview
- Comment on Polling suggests one nation preferred over labor, negative perceptions and low awareness of budget blamed. 5 weeks ago:
Hmm, maybe thats an idea. I know theres a few pages that have Music Journalism publications of Australia both current and past. I found it pretty invaluable when it came to finding links for c/rage sidebar, it really helped me find a whole bunch of those links.
Yeah, i did think about doing a satirical section, and that’d be a good section to have on a wikipedia page. It didn’t suit my purposes at the time for making the list, which is finding other independent journalistic voices apart from the mainstream to link to in Posts on Lemmy (non-mainstream social media). For me, theres a natural alliance between these two and it could be a real point of difference for Lemmy over other aocial media places like Reddit.
- Comment on Polling suggests one nation preferred over labor, negative perceptions and low awareness of budget blamed. 5 weeks ago:
good journalism going on - and I don’t really put a lot of effort into looking for it
So, I have a list I’ve been slowly adding to over the last few years of independent media in Australia with journalists doing good work. There might be some in this you might be interested in.
List of independent media in Aus
- Ette media
- Lamestream
- 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
- Mayne Report (Shareholder Activist Stephen Mayne)
- Antonylowenstein.com (Palestine Laboratory)
- Overland
- Greenleft.org
If anyone has any ideas of what I should do with a list like this, except sharing it occasionally like this, I’d interested to hear about it.
- Comment on Royal Commission under fire for excluding Palestinian perspectives 5 weeks ago:
This piece below is along the same lines, but takes more time to explain the issues at the heart of this Royal Commission,
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- Comment on Zionism in real-time: insights from the Royal Commission on Antisemitism and Social Cohesion - Nick Riemer - Overland literary journal 5 weeks ago:
There is so much in this article. It puts down in words what I feel about the whole damn thing. And there is so much in this article I think Australians need to consider and sit with. Ask themselves the question, ‘Is this powerful leaning, unequal treatment the Australia I want to live in?’
Riemer builds to a conclusion that should show anyone willing to listen that the Royal Commission is damaging to Australia’s multi-cultural society.
I think for me the part that resonated with me the most is the below. Often I see the crimes being committed a world away, then see the support or apathy shown toward the perpetrators and victims. Its incomprehensible to me that all these values and traditions I was raised with in Australia are absent here. At this point I look at the world, and look back at my countrymen and wonder what event is it that will make us speak out, as one, do we have any shared values? Or was that a fictional narrative only rolled out for posturing on events like ANZAC day. (I won’t ever really believe that last part, but our apparent disinterested apathy makes me question my beliefs about Australia).
While the Royal Commission sits, Israel continues to murder and starve Gazans as they try somehow to survive. Since the genocide is, indisputably, the necessary overarching context for a discussion of antisemitism in Australia at the present moment, it is perverse that the Commission has refused to hear from the Palestine solidarity movement — the very people whose opposition to the genocide, Zionists claim, is at the source of attacks on Jewish people today. No objective attempt to get at the truth about antisemitism in 2026 could reasonably block its ears to Palestine supporters, many of whom are themselves Jewish.
- Comment on Australian flotilla participants join ICC case, alleging abuse in Israeli custody 5 weeks ago:
Our people were beaten. Our people were tortured. Our people suffered sexual violence."
I heard they were push through this darkened part of a hall where two or three Israeli’s were waiting to beat them as they were pushed through.
The group also alleged that one Australian humanitarian worker was injected with an unidentified substance while in Israeli custody.
“Neither the survivor nor the Australian public has been told what the substance was, why it was administered, or what the potential health consequences may be,” Awad said in the statement.
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…Prime Minister Anthony Albanese for declining requests to meet with those detained following their return
Of course not. Solidarity can only go one way. I think its the media that stops him, but if thats the case and your PM with a stonking majority and a very favourable cross-bench, why the fuck aren’t you using this time to nail down media reform on these billionaire cucks in these newsrooms.
It could improve Australia so much for the future. Imagine being able to have a debate instead of a culture war, or articles based on reality instead of lines of bombastic propaganda.
- Comment on Chris Minns Slammed In Parliament Over His ‘Biological Differences’ Comments 5 weeks ago:
Uh huh…
- Comment on Chris Minns Slammed In Parliament Over His ‘Biological Differences’ Comments 5 weeks ago:
She’s a person whose thoughts have shifted on this particular topic over time and its an interesting and very public pathway she’s trodden with lessons.
As to why you might care. You were given a chance to gain more understanding about this world we share. Its up to you whether you take it.
