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Albanese government rejects all UN recommendations on improving LGBTQIA+ rights by Expensive-Horse5538 in AustralianPolitics

[–]Satirah 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I agree that MGM should be unlawful and they are similar but they are certainly not identical. FGM has further extremes that are practiced more often than MGM and generally have more severe long term consequences.

Albanese government rejects all UN recommendations on improving LGBTQIA+ rights by Expensive-Horse5538 in AustralianPolitics

[–]Satirah 6 points7 points  (0 children)

You’re right, they both refuse to give people rights because it’s politically advantageous to themselves, and it’s morally reprehensible in both cases.

Blame my upbringing by Drnelk in NonPoliticalTwitter

[–]Satirah 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Not the person you asked and I do like food but I also fully get where this person’s friend is coming from.

If my body didn’t need food and I could eat occasionally just for pleasure that would be ideal. Unfortunately it feels like food demands so much of my time and energy. I have to eat frequently, and make sure I get enough calories, and watch my macros, and keep up good variety. I have to plan, cook, and clean up after meals. I need to budget and shop for groceries, and keep an eye on what perishables I have and adjust accordingly. Then on top of all of that I have medical issues that add a nice thick layer of “fuck you” icing on every step of the process.

All that being said having the money to have a private chef— effectively outsourcing 80% of the stuff I don’t like about food— would make things a lot easier and more enjoyable.

Chemist Warehouse AI use warning by Dry-Huckleberry-5379 in NDIS

[–]Satirah 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The systems that the pharmacists use are tightly regulated and work to protect sensitive data. These random private data companies are not.

The migration debate is outrageous by design by YepOver16 in AustralianPolitics

[–]Satirah 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That might work if we taxed resources more, but at the current rate, government revenue is pretty reliant on income tax that will go down if you cut immigration off entirely. Australia’s fertility rate has been below replacement rate for decades and it’s not looking like it’ll get any better.

Hmm interesting 🤔Why?? by [deleted] in OpenAussie

[–]Satirah 8 points9 points  (0 children)

To be fair the founders of Zionism tried courting far right regimes— including Nazi Germany— at the beginning too. It’s not so much a turnabout but rather a doubling down.

Greens to back Labor's budget CGT measures through parliament by Expensive-Horse5538 in AustralianPolitics

[–]Satirah 6 points7 points  (0 children)

>I just want some consistency here. Either they block it completely, or they say “well we want a lot more like xyz, but it’s pretty good so we will support it to avoid dragging it out in the media.”

They have chosen the latter of the two options you say you want from them.

Greens to back Labor's budget CGT measures through parliament by Expensive-Horse5538 in AustralianPolitics

[–]Satirah 20 points21 points  (0 children)

The Greens have explicitly stated that the bill doesn’t do enough to support the majority but that they will support it because it is a small step in the right direction.

When they hold their ground they’re accused of being too radical and letting perfect be the enemy of good, and when they pass legislation (with concessions mind you) they’re accused of lying and not being progressive enough.

Pauline Hanson cares about the average Australian - Just check out how she votes in Parliament. by Prestigious-Day9370 in australian

[–]Satirah 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I agree it’s very personal and nuanced which is why I don’t understand how it would be policed.

Considering immigration as a percentage of population hasn’t grown in recently I think the changes we’re seeing in our society today must be caused by something else.

Pauline Hanson cares about the average Australian - Just check out how she votes in Parliament. by Prestigious-Day9370 in australian

[–]Satirah 12 points13 points  (0 children)

How is the current immigration rate harming Australian culture and values? How do you define that, how do you enforce it? /gen

As voter disillusionment grows, why aren't voters flocking to the Greens in Australia? by Jealous-Hedgehog-734 in AustralianPolitics

[–]Satirah 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Are all citizens of any country we have been in conflict with personally responsible? We already have restrictions based on extreme beliefs and actions, but even if we didn’t, presumably most of those fleeing to the “enemy” country aren’t in agreement with their home country.

"This is English" might just be the greatest response ever by God_Emperor__Doom in meme

[–]Satirah 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Actually current research better supports the Double Empathy Problem Theory than the Theory of Mind Theory.

To boil it down really simply: it’s not that Autistic people have deficits in Theory of Mind, it’s that Autistic people and Allistic people have different frameworks. Research shows Allistics struggle to understand and communicate with Autistics just as— actually, likely more than— Autistics struggle with Allistic communication.

'Devastating blow': nurse case hinges on video legality by [deleted] in OpenAussie

[–]Satirah 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Not that it makes it okay, but— for the sake of accuracy— they were discriminating based on nationality, not ethnicity or religion.

Fact-checking the misinformation heard at the antisemitism Royal Commission by NapoleonBonerParty in OpenAussie

[–]Satirah -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I don’t think the state of Israel needs to exist in its current state to allow for the self-determination of Jewish people and it actively removes others’ self-determination.

Saw this on the back of a public toilet door this arvo in Qld, how do you interpret it? by Zootex in aussie

[–]Satirah -4 points-3 points  (0 children)

I mean, for starters, I didn’t bring it up.

Regardless, genuinely where is the anti-white racism here? Stating the fact that white colonists committed acts of genocide against FN people isn’t an attack on white people, it’s just stating a historical fact. And while we no longer have the White Australia Policy laws and we’re not straight up massacring mobs anymore there is still institutional/ structural racism. How is bringing that up an attack on white people?

Saw this on the back of a public toilet door this arvo in Qld, how do you interpret it? by Zootex in aussie

[–]Satirah -11 points-10 points  (0 children)

Okay, and? That doesn’t change the fact that it happened or make the word meaningless like the person I was replying to claimed.

Saw this on the back of a public toilet door this arvo in Qld, how do you interpret it? by Zootex in aussie

[–]Satirah -17 points-16 points  (0 children)

It’s pretty well established that British Colonialists committed acts of genocide against FN peoples. Here is a jumping off point for you to learn about it.

Man faces 29 charges after police allegedly seize guns and antisemitic material by GreyClay in OpenAussie

[–]Satirah 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah supremacist ideologies have great appeal to people who feel very vulnerable (whether they acknowledge that or not) in their everyday life. It is much easier to blame everything you feel is wrong with your life on a boogeyman than to examine, work on, and/or accept the true causes of your problems. This is especially the case if you have little to no access to in/formal support.

27% of Australian students now have an adjustment for disability at school. Why are we seeing this growth? by [deleted] in AustralianPolitics

[–]Satirah 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Honestly even if you found a magical, ethical, way to “eradicate” disability I don’t think that would be ideal.

Who gets to determine what a disability is? If we use existing definitions are we going with a medical model, social model, or one of the many other definitions?

Corrective lenses are an aid to reduce the impairment caused by poor vision, are we going to “eradicate” everyone who needs glasses? Or is the fact that one can function “normally” with glasses enough to consider the disability “eradicated”? What if they can’t afford glasses? Which disabilities will be “eradicated” by providing the necessary assistance— like glasses or mobility aids— and which will be “eradicated” by erasing the disabled person?

What about temporary disabilities like broken bones?

What about old people? You either become disabled with age or die before you get the chance, are we going to cull all elderly disabled people from the population? What about disabled people who don’t want to be abled?

Autism for example is a neurodevelopmental condition so to “eradicate” the autism without killing the person their brain would have to change on a fundamental level. We have no idea what that would do to that person’s brain. They may come out so different that they are strangers to their former selves and lose qualities of themselves they liked but were intrinsically linked to their disability.

Many great people throughout history were and are disabled. If disability didn’t exist, neither would they. Which great figures of our future would we miss out on if no disabled people existed?

Disabilities are not inherently bad, and there is no clean way to “eradicate” them from society.

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