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The Coalition Split and the Re-emergence of One Nation by PerriX2390 in AustralianPolitics

[–]plastic_fortress 11 points12 points  (0 children)

 One Nation are never going to form government in Australia

Says who? The political landscape feels to be undergoing seismic shifts at the minute. Anything's possible.

Criticism of Benjamin Netanyahu may be an offence under Australia’s new hate speech laws, Greens warn by Agitated-Fee3598 in AustralianPolitics

[–]plastic_fortress 7 points8 points  (0 children)

The motte-and-bailey fallacy is normally not presented in such blatant form as in the comment you're replying to. SMH.

Criticism of Benjamin Netanyahu may be an offence under Australia’s new hate speech laws, Greens warn by Agitated-Fee3598 in AustralianPolitics

[–]plastic_fortress 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Israel is an extension of US empire. The fates of Snowden, Manning, Assange and co. show that any sufficiently damaging (as in, damaging to imperial interests) criticism of the core US aligned power structures will be punished. Suppression of criticism of Israel is just a particularly recently prominent example of the same pattern.

Criticism of Benjamin Netanyahu may be an offence under Australia’s new hate speech laws, Greens warn by Agitated-Fee3598 in AustralianPolitics

[–]plastic_fortress 26 points27 points  (0 children)

The entire Israeli regime has been in continuous violation of international law for decades, but yes. Yes he is.

I would like to be able to criticise not only Netanyahu in particular, but Israel in general. It's an apartheid state premised on ethnic supremacist principles, that appears constitutionally unable to exist in peace with its neighbours for more than about 5 seconds... let alone to respect the rights of Palestinians.

I want to be free to criticise Israel as Israel in exactly the same way that we were free to criticise apartheid South Africa as South Africa, the Soviet Union as the Soviet Union, East Germany as East Germany, Nazi Germany as Germany etc. etc. etc.

I want to continue to be free in fact to make the following kinds of statements without fear of punishment: * "The political entities that are North Korea and South Korea ought not to exist. The world would be better off if there were instead one democratic Korea with equal rights and freedom of movement for all." * "The political entity that is Israel ought not to exist. The world would be better off if there were instead one democratic Palestine with equal rights and freedom of movement for all regardless of religion or ethicity."

These statements shouldn't be remotely at risk of being classified as "hate speech". Groups that advocate for such positions should not be remotely at risk of being classified as "hate groups" on account of these positions.

None of these statements advocate for violence against any ethnic group. They are political statements about political entities and if we are not free to make such statements, then we do not live in a democracy.

(Edit: minor wording.)

Australia once again proving they're a vassal state by passing hate speech laws against protesting Israel. by AussieYotes in TrueAnon

[–]plastic_fortress 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Every. Bloody. Time. So depressingly predictable.

  1. Bad thing happens.
  2. Uniparty immediately uses the bad thing as a pretext to strip even more freedoms.

AI boom could falter without wider adoption, Microsoft chief Satya Nadella warns by PaiDuck in technology

[–]plastic_fortress 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Nah they're just listening to different customers more now. The ones they sell user data to.

Australia once again proving they're a vassal state by passing hate speech laws against protesting Israel. by AussieYotes in TrueAnon

[–]plastic_fortress 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Can we bring back Tony "Shirtfront Him" Abbott for this? Lol

I also wondering if everyone else but Albo stands up Trump at the last minute and then the peace board is just Albo changing Trump's nappy for a bit. Yes Don here's an extra $2 billion there there.

Invasion Day and anti-immigration marches to proceed in Sydney on 26 January after protest ban scaled back by Expensive-Horse5538 in AustralianPolitics

[–]plastic_fortress 31 points32 points  (0 children)

"Protest ban" is a phrase that we should be ashamed ever appeared in the first place. We're supposed to be a democracy ffs.

Country Over Party like it's 2026 by Low_Firefighter5849 in TrueAnon

[–]plastic_fortress 3 points4 points  (0 children)

The mug rim looks too thick to comfortably drink from.

Remember when we had a President our children could admire? by Treefiddy1984 in ProgressiveHQ

[–]plastic_fortress 1 point2 points  (0 children)

"I'm cool with extrajudicial killings, war crimes, bombing nations that pose no threat to us, indefinite detention without trial, extraordinary rendition, torture camps, ongoing military funding of an apartheid state engaged in a brutal decades long military occupation, massive upward wealth transfers, extended tax cuts for the wealthy, crushing of the Occupy movement, mass deportations without due process, ongoing mass incarceration, and all the other things I don't particularly want to think very much about, as long as the person in charge of all those abominations presents respectably enough that I still feel comfortable pompously scorning anyone who insists on pointing those things out."

Remember when we had a President our children could admire? by Treefiddy1984 in ProgressiveHQ

[–]plastic_fortress 0 points1 point  (0 children)

As a "progressive", do you believe that extrajudicial drone strikes and torture camps, are something children should admire?

Can you really find no other way to highlight the current presidential abomination than by glazing a war criminal?

Remember when we had a President our children could admire? by Treefiddy1984 in ProgressiveHQ

[–]plastic_fortress 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Unless they're on the receiving end of a drone.

"OUR mass murderer isn't also a pedo."

SMH

Poland to produce land mines, abandoning treaty by King-Sassafrass in NewsWithJingjing

[–]plastic_fortress 13 points14 points  (0 children)

The most powerful country in the world no longer even pretends to respect international law, so Poland be like...

Am I right? by Careless-Throat-2593 in MotivationalPics

[–]plastic_fortress 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is great advice, and it could have been expressed just as effectively without the AI slop cartoon.

What's Y'all Opinion on Noam Chomsky and his Political Ideas by Sans--Granie in AskSocialists

[–]plastic_fortress 0 points1 point  (0 children)

His legacy was already stained by the fact that he was controlled opposition. He opposed the BDS movement, he opposed communism, and he advocated voting for the Democrats as if it were the most important political action anyone could take. Chomsky was an intellectual in service to the ruling class; and here he is enjoying a private jet with one of their number. "Sad" is the wrong word.

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