If you want a crazierfuckingvideo, look what happened when the coppers came across some Muslims in the middle of prayer, including some of the protest organisers in yellow.
Edit: see it at https://aussie.zone/post/29490599
Unfortunately reddit is the only source I can find right now: https://www.reddit.com/r/sydney/comments/1r00oj1/nsw_police_assaulted_muslims_praying_peacefully/
In this context, where the Australia is literally a imperial colony of the largest empire in the history of the world
It’s a mixed situation after Federation. Historically, Australia (the state) was founded as a British colony, and we legally are still part of the Commonwealth under their king, and also the US has significant influence over Australia, but we’ve seen Australia has demonstrated its own capacity for imperialism in the region.
This doesn’t negate your point at all, it’s just something which is often forgotten.
In Australia? The White Rose Society is the main public face of antifascist research, they had this page:
https://thewhiterosesociety.writeas.com/do-you-know-these-nazis
They help. But they aren’t enough. Community organising is essential to complement them where the law can’t reach.
Yep, most likely as ununiformed “active clubs” similarly to how they started. It’s the dominant neo-Nazi strategy internationally.
I’m not sure if it shows up on all Lemmy apps, so also check the aussie.zone/c/australia crosspost for more info.
Also, reminder that the government’s Special Envoy’s Plan to Combat Antisemitism did fuck-all to combat these scum, even after they made openly antisemitic speeches in a (police approved) flash mob outside of Sydney state parliament, instead they’ve targeted the pro-Palestine protests.
Sufficient government action has been many years overdue, but better this than more waiting. Next step is to crush their “active clubs”, because everyone knows they’re not going to simply disappear.
We will see how this impacts the upcoming Invasion Day marches more interesting, as the March for Australia counterprotest has already had members of the NSN show up as organisers, marshals and plain clothes stooges in the audience.
Organised by neo-Nazis.
It’s complicated.
Unfortunately, the Wikipedia articles I found lack citations, so they probably aren’t a good source. They claim that the ROC (Taiwan) claims all of the mainland.
This reddit thread refers to the ROC constitution and interprets it as:
In the Act Governing Relations between the People of the Taiwan area and the Mainland area, the following is stated:
“Taiwan Area” refers to Taiwan, Penghu, Kinmen, Matsu, and any other area under the effective control of the Government.
“Mainland Area” refers to the territory of the Republic of China outside the Taiwan Area.
“People of the Taiwan Area” refers to the people who have household registrations in the Taiwan Area.
“People of the Mainland Area” refers to the people who have household registrations in the Mainland Area.
The implication is that wherever this law applies, is what the ROC government considers to be “territory of the ROC outside of the Taiwan Area”. Currently the application of this law overlaps the entirety of the PRC, minus HK and Macau.
This the fun part. If you look at the ROC constitution, it makes […] mention to Mongolia and Tibet.
I don’t know how much of this applies beyond the KMT.
I think rules, written or otherwise, should have exceptions to account for extreme circumstances like this, but a lot of online people just go ‘No, if you don’t bring your cart back you’re a BAD PERSON no matter what!’.
To treat any rule as immutable is an idealist junk perspective. Rules, like all ideas, need to be applied to a context, and I personally don’t see the point in codifying every possible exception. Law officials, programmers and others can tell you how Sisyphean that task would be.
So yes, there are exceptions (obviously!). If you’re putting your cart back and you injure your leg, you don’t have to crawl on your arms just to put it back. But we can still generally say “people should put their cart back after shopping” and it’s clear that we’re generalizing.
In what country? It’s pretty normal to see companies lobbying for policy here, or urging people to sign petitions.
Though to be fair, Dutton was never going to be a better option.
Luckily we’re not trapped in a two-party dichotomy, Liberal’s opinions are slowly mattering less and less and minor candidates are getting more of the pie.
Lemmy’s web UI formats it as a footnote[1], I didn’t realise other apps might not read that formatting:
Sociopaths always win.
That’s not exactly my point, it’s more that our current political economy penalises pro-social behaviour (a business is more likely to be out-competed and fail if they actually treat their workers and customers well, so it’s an exceptional thing to see) and sociopaths are rewarded for profiting in this system, their gain comes at our exploitation so they’re effectively rewarded for hurting us.
If we can restructure our political economy so that sociopaths are rewarded by contributing to society, then their own competitiveness and greed is much less of a problem. For lack of another better developed-world example, look at how China keeps their billionaires on a leash[1]. Now obviously there’s plenty of problems in their political system and some would say they their billionaires are still a problem despite them being dominated by the government, but it’s an example of an alternative to the oligarchical system we know, proof that there are successful ways forwards which are applicable to our economies, even if we don’t copy them exactly (that would be silly).
(On top of this, a society is certainly capable of detecting and ostracising or punishing anti-social people such as sociopaths. The problem is that the most important ones are effectively out of reach in our society since they have a police force protecting them and we have a more alienated, disorganised society)
Wow, that’s surprising. It’s got less than a dozen users posting cute fox photos. Maybe they’re automatically blocking booru software, since plenty of others have porn.
For those unfamiliar with Prime Minister Albanese:
You do realize Australians can’t vote in the US election, right? Why the hell is she wasting time over here? We don’t want her.
Why do you hate Bill Gates now?
Always have. This isn’t a new concept, and their reputation laundering philanthorpism does not come close to countering the harm they and their foundation are still doing.
Hasn’t he been redistributing wealth properly?
For starters, holding around a hundred billion is hardly redistributing. That’s still hoarding.
I don’t have time right now to find that short-list of critiques @davel@lemmy.ml has, but in the mean time, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philanthrocapitalism is a good diving board, combined with https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gates_Foundation#Criticism
If AI replaces a lot of workers, we’ll have too many people in the country.
Unless you’re in China or India, you can look at those two countries to see just how high population can get without destroying a country. Literally in the billions. The bigger problem is how the country organises, not just the number of people. I’m guessing you can look outside for a few minutes or hours and notice plenty of jobs which could use people doing them, the problem is our political-economic system forces people to do what’s profitable, instead of what actually needs to be done. And when the people with enough money to employ people (i.e. to decide what work we do) are stingy parasites, we get this mass unemployment. In fact, some of that unemployment is intentional.
But, with all that said, you’re absolutely correct that we also need to consider the current situation and cope with that, and that a good government needs to try and manage that. And they’re not.
but decrease how much each person has available as resources? Essentially just throwing a lot of people into poverty?
That is not implied. Especially if we consider that the resources we waste are through supply chains rather than our own direct use. If my electrical supply comes from from a more efficient source, then my usage can be less wasteful and potentially cheaper. If my city continues to improve public transport, I can actually save money and use less resources in daily transit. Products we consume have serious potential to conserve resources at a mass scale, and often it even saves them money due to paying less for resources needed in production. A lot of waste also comes from overproduction, think of those Dunkin’ Donuts end-of-day-disposal videos. We make far more than we need in so many areas.
Furthermore, the most wasteful people are a minority of the mega-rich. You and I probably don’t need to cut down much on jet fuel costs. People close to poverty usually aren’t (directly) wasteful, hell, some of them actually reduce waste through dumpster-diving and recycling schemes.
Yes.
(On the bright side, comments like that show just how blatant and out of touch the cops are, to a point where even those with faith in the police are starting to see what happens on the ground and can no longer find excuses. Moments of escaping a media filter bubble is often an early step towards changing ones own political worldview. So, while this event was horrible, I’m optimistic that it’s thrown away the curtains and shown clear unprovoked state + police violence on display to those who wouldn’t have otherwise seen it)