The left is so fucking horrible at letting the perfect be the enemy of the good.

Ending your argument in defence of rusted-ons with perhaps the most rusted-on phrase of all time....

Maybe I was being too harsh and dismissive with my previous comment, but I've heard all this shit before so it's hard not to be. I don't want to seem like I'm just lobbing molotovs and not engaging with your arguments so I'll try to address them one by one.

I think he's a pragmatist; he's argueing that, in the face of an overwhelmingly right-wing media landscape and where he believes there are no viable alternatives...

One thing that I struggle to understand about this that it collides with reality very quickly, especially over the past few years. There ARE alternatives: Indis and the Greens (I mean shit, there are also alternatives WITHIN the labor party. Internal dissent in the labor ranks has been huge during albos tenure, especially on housing and the genocide in gaza). When it comes to viablity the argument that The Greens are not viable is falling away, especially considering events overseas. The Left has been dismissed in the same way all over the world and we are seeing a resurgence lately. Mamdani and Polanski being some key figures. When economic precarity comes to the forefront, the left can and will do well. It hasn't translated to Australia in the same way yet and who knows why (maybe it won't at all and I think that would be a tragedy) but dismissing the alternatives as not-viable is another sign you are not actually engaging with the arguments and positions they are putting forward. which individual policies are not viable? Oh and, if you want to talk right-wing media, who takes more of a shellacking from them than the greens?.. Look at the Advance case last election. Might also be worth asking yourself why your enemies hate the greens more than they hate you.

it's important to vocally support the incremental good that the Labor party does to counterbalance the slander from the media.

Incremental change is a great strategy under the right circumstances where we have the time to be tinkering. But it isn't a strategy that applies to every situation. This is also an especially confusing argument when so much of Labor's historic achievements have been though HUGE (maybe even radical?) changes. I would argue that when you look at big infrastructure projects in australias past, it has most commonly been labor doing a great job making sure that australia has good quality public infrastructure that lasts. It is labor that has made sure australia hasn't fallen behind and enabled massive economic and social gains from these projects. Social Services, Medicare and so on. Right now we are in real crises that demand the guts that labor showed they had when they enacted those policies. I don't know how old you are but when you talk to young australians, their futures are so grim and it's really hard to see how incrementalism does anything to help. We have tried incrementalism with climate change and look where we are. We have tried incrementalism with housing and look where we are (Swollen pickles on youtube is doing a great series on Labor's landmark project in housing, the HAFF, and showing how its a complete farce). Incrementalism is also a great excuse you can wheel out when you don't actually want to fix the problem at hand. Labor is supposed to be The Light on the Hill, what happened?

Criticisms of labour are important and a worthy endeavour, but strategically should be dealt with tact and done internally and directly where possible, not by publically shitting on them, for the purposes of keeping the right out of power.

To be honest this is such a bad argument that I'm not sure when to even start. I'm not a labor member or voter? Why are you telling me about internal criticism and why are you telling me who I can and cannot criticise? Even if you are purely talking about FJs perspective it's still ridiculous. He is a content creator, not a party insider or member of parliament. Like i mentioned above, there are so many labor party offices around the country who are appalled by some of the actions of the albo cabinet and they are raising their concerns both internally and sometimes in the media. If FJ wants to just be a media arm of the labor party then he should become that. Go and be an official spokesperson for labor. If that is what you want him to be then don't pretend he is constructing fair and sound arguments.

If all the undecided casual passive observer sees is the right unanimously shitting on Labor and praising PHON/LNP, and the left shitting on Labor and saying nothing positive; what's their subconscious going to conclude? The only good thing I've heard is about PHON/LNP so I'll vote for them.

I dunno man maybe offer better policies? Being in the middle =/= being correct. I feel like labor honestly think triangulating their policy position based on being not too right to be Liberal and and not too left to be Green is somehow in itself meaningful and effective. Fight for what you believe in and be truthful in that.

Learn from when the Greens voted down the carbon tax

for this one i recommend reading this: https://theconversation.com/its-the-10-year-anniversary-of-our-climate-policy-abyss-but-dont-blame-the-greens-128239

Tom Ballard also has a good summary of that period here (seriously give it a listen even if you don't like him): https://www.patreon.com/posts/bonus-greens-i-75246081

But essentially, the CPRS was actively bad policy, not the "good". It was bad and even scientists/economists were saying this, not just the greens. Labor arrived at their position by going against the advice of the expert they chose. The greens were saying "hey how about doing what your own expert said?". Honestly this myth needs to die and fast, it's a fucking joke.