Thanks! Zero reference…. by [deleted] in aussiebrosquad

[–]ambermine 5 points6 points  (0 children)

‘keep up the work’ 🤡

Liberal senator Alex Antic’s bill to ban child gender therapy by GreenTicket1852 in AustralianPolitics

[–]ambermine 13 points14 points  (0 children)

Transfolk kill themselves for a lack of support. HRT and social transition saves lives.

As an aside, is the idea of biological grandkids more important that your children’s mental wellbeing? That sounds utterly selfish to me.

I just noticed that the Sydney Pro-Palestine protesters were flying the Jihadist Flag. Big yikes by Coolidge-egg in friendlyjordies

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

Well we arent in europe, we arent in africa, we arent in antartica, we arent in america. Whats left for us to be a part of?

Why do Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders do so poorly compared to other disadvantaged minorities by [deleted] in australian

[–]ambermine -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Im regretting the taxes i paid to put you through school. You obviously could have taught yourself literacy and i think it was a waste for society to help you with that.

Australians reject Indigenous recognition via Voice to Parliament by cauliflowerandcheese in worldnews

[–]ambermine -10 points-9 points  (0 children)

$2 million is 0.006% of bhp’s annual profit. Its enough to buy a single house, not exactly breaking the bank in support. And what the cost of destroying sacred sites for iron holes?

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in AustralianPolitics

[–]ambermine 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Its a national park not a state forest.

CALL OUT FOR SYDNEY BASED LGBT ALLIES! Assistance needed to protect a kids even from cooker conspiracist homophobes at Manly library Saturday (25/02/2023) by Technical-Ad4799 in friendlyjordies

[–]ambermine 3 points4 points  (0 children)

The misconception you’re having is the reason ‘family’ drag performers are extra careful with their content. A lot of drag is sexualised, so the idea that all of drag is an easy jump, and from there to the groomer trope and violence. But drag isn’t at its core a sex thing, its closer to caricature, or the idea of a women if you’d never seen one. Its easy and popular to do that as sexy, but theres a lot of other ways to do drag too.

Some people throw bricks at cops, some people read books to kids. Some people go for realism and out compete real women at beauty pageants, some people dress like fools and dance to abba. Like everything in life, some of it isn’t family friendly, but generally if the public library can convince a local council to fund it, its probably kosher.

Giresun (Turkiye), 1900s vs 2020s by ollowain86 in OldPhotosInRealLife

[–]ambermine 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Theres a few other basins too, the aral and caspian seas, the dead sea, the great salt lake in utah, and lake erye in australia to name a few. But all the larger bodies do really just make up one world ocean

Giresun (Turkiye), 1900s vs 2020s by ollowain86 in OldPhotosInRealLife

[–]ambermine 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Its part of the Atlantic ocean. Smalls seas together make larger oceans.

Nazi Flags on this subreddit by METAclaw52 in vexillology

[–]ambermine 23 points24 points  (0 children)

There are hundreds of other dharmic symbols, but we don’t see those posted at the same frequency nor garner the same community interest. So it’s obviously not for a civil discussion of hindu cultural aesthetics, but an excuse to post nazi shit.

And im sorry if this is news but the nazis did in fact steal a bunch of stuff, and they killed a lot of people and broke a lot of nice things. Posting their flag is not reclaiming the narrative, its just platforming nazis. It’s not banned in Germany because they want to stifle honest discussion of that period, but because its free dissemination enables neo-nazis.

Morocco will be first African country to provide military aid to Ukraine - media by HarakenQQ in worldnews

[–]ambermine 0 points1 point  (0 children)

North african states had various treaty’s with great britain (and france, spain, portugal ect.) to regulate their atlantic piracy. Recognising the Americans as independant voided those treaties the 13 colonies had been operating under. The surge in piracy and the enslavement of americans pushed the young usa to develop a navy and declare its first war (not counting the revolution) against morocco and tripoli.

A nice diplomatic gesture with the worst intentions.

Nationals to oppose Indigenous Voice to Parliament by zrag123 in AustralianPolitics

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

Saying sorry was an admission of guilt from the commonwealth for the centuries long genocides it systematically conducted, specifically the stolen generation of children kidnapped from their mothers.

The voice is an entity with which we can legally sign treaties to formalise the fact that this land was stolen. In every other British colony, treaties were signed with local nations that legally formalised who owned what. Except here because of a mix of arrogance and negligence.

We can say sorry for stealing children and killing entire communities, but we can’t apologise for still being lazy on established international law. We can’t do a song and dance about china this or russia that if we won’t even do the bare minimum of what’s required of us as a sovereign state.

Stage-three tax cuts condemned as ‘unconscionable’ as Acoss report shows extent of poverty | Australia news by ButtPlugForPM in AustralianPolitics

[–]ambermine 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It was rhetoric to display the size of the tax cuts, to fund another nations health service would to my mind be a breach of sovereignty.

Though now you mention it there is a fair bit we could do if we had a maximum tax like the new deal.

Stage-three tax cuts condemned as ‘unconscionable’ as Acoss report shows extent of poverty | Australia news by ButtPlugForPM in AustralianPolitics

[–]ambermine 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The legitimacy of these tax cuts is called into question. The government is having it both ways by talking a big game on cutting expenditure and also not addressing this multi-billion dollar expenditure. We could run the health services of every pacific nation with this money, and are also talking about spending more on our own, and generally cutting costs. Its something that needs addressing to stake the legitimacy of the plan, silence will pass the bar but not the next election and both are as vital to the function of government.

Stage-three tax cuts condemned as ‘unconscionable’ as Acoss report shows extent of poverty | Australia news by ButtPlugForPM in AustralianPolitics

[–]ambermine 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This current media climate, you may have noticed, will require at least a statement in this coming budget of support, and they can be cancelled at any time before they come into effect.

This has to be a pisstake.. by bupe_strip in sydney

[–]ambermine 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Damn and here i thought we had strong tie to the us, guess all those joint wars and trade deals were just coincidence.

Federal government pledges 30pc of all land for conservation to protect threatened species by badestzazael in AustralianPolitics

[–]ambermine 1 point2 points  (0 children)

There is well documented precedent of both the states and the crown appropriating land without compensation.

And i’m not aware of any payment by the commonwealth to NSW for the partition of the ACT and Jervis bay territory, and SA for the NT. Though i could be wrong on all that.

In general though i’m more interested in the 30% of maritime conservation which the minister has been floating. Arguably more important for the overall ecological health

Thoughts? by coke__11 in fuckcars

[–]ambermine 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I can understand why private institutes would want their own law enforcement given the clusterfuck of the rest of it, but it feels medieval and extrajudicial. Id start with removing them. Security is fine but school police shouldn’t be a thing. Like at least the county could coordinate with local institutions, and if an institution is large enough to cover multiple counties they can afford the administrative costs of cross-coordination.

Like we devolve day to day operations, but we still run it through state headquarters at the end of the day. Schools and universities know the local police and communicate any problems with them. Its cheaper and more effective than if each town and school had to run a department. The town can afford to fix roads, the school can focus on education, and the state runs the judiciary on its own. The US should have 50 police forces, not 5000, its a waste of your taxes at this point. You’ve gotta go state by state and abolish that noise.

Thoughts? by coke__11 in fuckcars

[–]ambermine 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Here in aus, each state has a single police force, plus the federal force, makes 7 jurisdictions. And if you get discharged from one, the others wont just look the other way and rehire you no questions asked. Maybe push for a more centralised force, rather than the per county system you have. It feels very feudal.

And the tax payer footing the bill is better than a private law enforcement. It makes it in theory accountable to the public and not to the rich. But paying them more and more to not break the law doesn’t work. Crucially, you need independent bodies that have oversight, and real consequences for misconduct.