eureka, eureka@aussie.zone

NewsPlentyFlaw doesn’t have the same ring…

edit: sleepy me misread ADF as AFP

Preferential voting is a huge step further than most other Western countries. Huge. To the point where states using FPTP should seriously hesitate in calling themselves democratic at all.

[Senator Hanson’s comments] that she felt “unsafe” and not welcomed in the area.

After the decades of garbage Hanson’s said about Muslims, continuing to this day, the fact that they’re welcoming Hanson to break bread is outstanding.

Yes, but you might be shocked at how many people discuss the equivalent kind of thing on Facebook, Whatsapp, and other US corporate-owned platforms (note: PRISM, and 5EYES, along with the basic class interests of such companies)

These places still exist, although admittedly they’re further from the spotlight and many were sapped by mainstream general-purpose platforms. But there are thousands of them around for those who care to look. I don’t even think it’s a stretch to say we’re on one, community hosted by Aussies for Aussies.

Another prime example of this is the false equivalence media often draws between fascism and antifascism, simplifying it down to “both of them sometimes use violence”. (anyone who cares enough to look will notice that violence is a rare, and never preferred, antifascism tactic)

Luckily there are a few semi-mainstream and occasionally mainstream outlets who don’t fall for this nonsense.

I completely agree. In fact, some of the best work I see are from tiny volunteer groups like Food Not Bombs, who literally won’t accept money (I’ve tried - my schedule doesn’t align with volutneering).

The Epstein saga was one more case of it becoming clearer and clearer that the status quo, normal, is unacceptable.

There are hundreds more problems where profitable industries, everything from non-renewable energy companies to car companies to dairy to lawn care to plastics to drugs to gambling and so many more use their weight to fund ways to downplay change. And this works because mainstream news sources (generally speaking) are complicit. Every time they pick a think tank prop as the ‘expert’, this is direct propaganda.

Yes, Channels 7, 9 and 10 can be bought out. They are for-profit broadcasters, and quite frankly it’s shameful to be watch any of them now that there’s such a rich, freely-available and accessible world of alternatives. Obviously other broadcasters have their own inherent biases, but a channel owned my major stock owners and paid for by advertisers has direct anti-social results.

The list of ways they can actually help are endless, they just don’t want to actually do any of them - they just want you to think they want to help.

This part is absolutely correct. A social billionaire is a direct contradiction.

The idea of billionaires self-regulating is utopian - if they were willing to do this without external coercion, they would already be doing it. At least something like a tax can be enforced, but even then, like you said, politicians who make laws are in the pockets of the owning class. We’d need a radical overhaul of the whole rotten system to be able to enforce any seriously important financial law on them.

That said, creating charities and aid isn’t a bad idea, it would be far better for them to support ones which already exist and are struggling. And it’s particularly difficult to trust billionaire claims of being charitable when so many already perform investment and other financial activity under the guise of philanthropism. Supporting grassroots aid efforts rather than building charities from scratch would demonstrate legitimacy. And like you said, there is no legitimacy in these claims.

Exactly

Even if you think it means to evict/kill all Jews in the land (which many people don’t mean when they say it), banning free speech threatens democracy itself, if people can be restricted from criticising unjust governments or policies.

Banning genocide advocacy, like suggesting people in a place should be killed because they are Jewish, really does not threaten democracy. Nor do anti-racism laws in general (the problem is that hate laws are being abused to include states like the Zionist Regime).

And of course, as we both know, this is just a hypothetical: the chant obviously isn’t anti-Jewish.

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)

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/

Amazing how big the list of protest locations has gotten. I wonder what impact this will have in the places outside of major cities. I hope this makes it easier for those out in the sticks to network and fight for change.

also, funnily enough, from the Australian Communist Party haha

Just in case it was confusing, my comment was referring to the “American Communist Party” (known for “MAGA Communism").

Yeah, that’d be nice it have. I’m happy to mod if you ever need an extra.

It’d be good to set it up early before a sectarian or reactionary group tries to do it, like we saw with /r/asksocialists (blatantly co-opted into an ACP grifter ad since late-2025). That said, I also think a more human site like aussie.zone would kick anyone who tried to turn a comm into an ad like that.

Correct. They’re wearing a White nationalist symbol and their speech left no room for imagination, no hiding behind soft language this time.

It’s what this rally aims to do and then does every single time with their “Open Mic” segment: have a Nazi plant speak openly, then pretend it’s just a regular member of the public and not the views of the event (despite using the Nazi organisations podium and megaphone and using them as uniformed marshals).

I reckon you’re right, I didn’t hear any complaining this year about the Triple J Top 100 being on a different date.

the wiki says its a movement to establish a jew only land in current Palestine.

More or less, yes.

How come they have so much power over protestant countries?

Long story short, they proved themselves in the 1940s to be a powerful force in the region. The Middle East is known to be rich in resources such as petroleum oil, and it also has major trade routes like the Suez Canal (I’m sure you saw the impact of the Evergreen blockage) and land routes through Afghanistan, Iran, etc.. One can see how important the region is in China’s Belt and Road Initiative. So, having a military outpost able to credibly threaten this region with overwhelming force is a very powerful tool for Western imperial powers like the US and (historical) NATO allies.

So, the Zionist Regime has influence over these countries because they want the Zionist Regime to help us keep power in the region.

CXORA mentioned the Evangelical Christianity aspect of it, which is real, but I consider that to be more the cultural propaganda reason than the underlying material reason.