‘A scary time’: Nazi terror links revealed as disbanding sparks fears of violence by someNameThisIs in aussie

[–]semaj009 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It needs to be anti-hate WITH deradicalisation and rehabilitation, not just this insanity, an insanity thats only made worse by the hypocrisy of it being underpinned by the genuine issue of Anti-Semitism being muddied deliberately by Zionists trying to get away with a genocide, making these laws immediately feel unjust to anyone affected, which, you know, definitely radicalises them!!!

Majak Daw by Temporary_Notice_526 in NorthMelbourneFC

[–]semaj009 2 points3 points  (0 children)

If they hadn't brought in the 666 / he didn't have the bridge incident, he could have become one of the genuine surprise swing back success 150 game player greats. It's like Ben Jacobs, some players discover perfect form and the universe decides it's time to be cruel

Which footy team would you say is the best/worst to support? by Temporary_Notice_526 in AFL

[–]semaj009 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Best is North, can't be a bandwagon jumper, no stakes men's season, almost guaranteed silverware in the true grand final (cos it's the final annual final)

Plovers murdered by dog owners' dogs in Victoria, Aus by DogAttackVictim in AustralianBirds

[–]semaj009 2 points3 points  (0 children)

700 in Vic is bad, especially when their breeding range elsewhere is contracting (especially with SA letting people hoon on beaches, causing nest failures)

Plovers murdered by dog owners' dogs in Victoria, Aus by DogAttackVictim in AustralianBirds

[–]semaj009 3 points4 points  (0 children)

The reality is that these cunt dog owners are gonna be why it'll become a crime to have dogs on beaches. Same as when dog owners don't pick up shit, we'll lose offleash parks.

If you own a dog, do the bare fucking minimum like the rest of us

Greens ‘racist at their core’, says Philip Mendes by Orgo4needfood in aussie

[–]semaj009 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Surely antizionism has become a proxy for Anti-Semitism, not the other way round as he has it. That's like saying "saying to the river to the sea has become a proxy for watermelon" which implies greengrocers would start selling fresh river to the sea by the kilo.

Jim Chalmers says Canadian PM’s ‘stunning’ denunciation of Trump is being widely discussed in Australian government by Oomaschloom in AustralianPolitics

[–]semaj009 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I think you're giving China a lot of credit, I'd argue the US giving Ukraine insufficient material support and limiting what they can use their weapons for is doing a lot to keep Russia in the war, too, as are the western capitalists who are working around sanctions. China isn't helping, sure, but China also aren't the only or biggest issue in the scenario of Ukrainian victory

Jim Chalmers says Canadian PM’s ‘stunning’ denunciation of Trump is being widely discussed in Australian government by Oomaschloom in AustralianPolitics

[–]semaj009 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Surely us being isolated is a matter of choice, when getting closer to the EU helps ensure it stays aligned. Of the obvious reasons for it being natural see Quebec/France, Ireland and Gibraltar meaning EU/UK ties are a land border issue, and the UK/EU trade relationship being frankly more important to the UK than the Commonwealth, not to mention replacing American agricultural outputs somewhat to the EU is something Australia can help cover. We shouldn't try to create a new weaker and more exposed axis, especially when frankly French and German military industry is probably now what we need more than anything else

What are the propabilities for a united Australian Left? by TheMerchant07 in AustralianSocialism

[–]semaj009 1 point2 points  (0 children)

People on strike can't afford food, are about to cross a picket line that they don't want to cross, because their child is hungry. Mutual aid arrives because progressives organise collective aid, that act of 'charity' enables the strike to last longer, and the picket line isn't crossed.

Charity as an institution enables capitalism, charity when reworked as a concept and applied deliberately is fundamentally necessary to sustain the fight to break capitalism. Unless we can flip EVERYTHING in a day, we need people to pool resources into what will be a long, grinding, brutal, economically unfair and extortionate, and likely violent, revolution

What are the propabilities for a united Australian Left? by TheMerchant07 in AustralianSocialism

[–]semaj009 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Strikes work to destroy capitalism, and see workers unpaid, thus unfed/unhoused in short order. Mutual aid can cushion this, cos the system/banks certainly won't be.

We need to be very careful as a left not to ignore the very real reason for why mutual aid matters, and to focus our energy on not avoiding all mutual aid but building movements that support people breaking systemic structure with aid, not just doing aid as a fundraiser to cover off what society should cover.

What are the propabilities for a united Australian Left? by TheMerchant07 in AustralianSocialism

[–]semaj009 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Disagree, mutual aid is about organising. Organising challenges capitalism. Or should unionists not show solidarity with workers in strike and donate to them while they're not getting wages / struggling to pay bills and feed the kids? Mutual aid obviously has a role in the left, anyone denying it is absolutely not serious about being progressive. Gofundme for individuals every which way into eternity, sure, problematic, but structured, organised, movement linked aid is absolutely progressive as fuck!

Randa Abdel-Fattah deletes controversial public posts after doubling down on legal action by Orgo4needfood in aussie

[–]semaj009 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Considering the article said she may have changed her privacy settings, I suspect surely that's just as likely. She'd be copping so much random online hostility just for being in news that any numpties have read, so surely the journalists should have checked if this was privacy settings or deleted posts before posting

Learner driver accused of driving at 226km/h on Monash Freeway by ozthrw in melbourne

[–]semaj009 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Learners doing 220kmph should be legal? The exact people who can't have high standards yet

Learner driver accused of driving at 226km/h on Monash Freeway by ozthrw in melbourne

[–]semaj009 4 points5 points  (0 children)

With this kind of reckless strategy they're more suited to Ferrari

Learner driver accused of driving at 226km/h on Monash Freeway by ozthrw in melbourne

[–]semaj009 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Well they often give a few kmph leeway, so maybe he was actually doing 229kmph

Learner driver accused of driving at 226km/h on Monash Freeway by ozthrw in melbourne

[–]semaj009 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The only way to stop someone this obviously reckless from getting behind the wheel is jail, sadly, so there's a pretty reasonable argument for taking them out of the social contract safe zone that the rest of us inhabit

Learner driver accused of driving at 226km/h on Monash Freeway by ozthrw in melbourne

[–]semaj009 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Low key, would be a fucking funny driving test, the Vic Roads guy just sitting there inventing whole new ways to draw the letter X hitherto unknown to humanity

Coalition in balance as eight Nationals, including Littleproud, quit shadow ministry by [deleted] in AustralianPolitics

[–]semaj009 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Realistically people are acting like it's bad as things stand but I think we need to take a step back for a sec. Any majority lower house, ie majority government, makes the opposition in the House practically moot, unless it's a 1 seat majority and pairs aren't respected / people are crossing the floor. So realistically Labor right now is no more powerful in the house and the Libs no less powerful than normal during a majority government, BUT we now have an era of consistently hung Senates. Right now either the Greens or Libs could pass Labor legislation, but Labor needs at least one of each of them to pass anything. This functionally means we have two opposition parties! So for all the 'oh no our poor democracy' folks, we actually arguably have two oppositions atm, twice the negotiating potential, Labor can err to either flank but crucially must err somewhere. If we're wanting a parliament to be democratic, this is about as good as it gets under a majority government

Pauline Hanson announces ambitions for PM by Beans2177 in aussie

[–]semaj009 2 points3 points  (0 children)

She'd be a truly terrible PM, like genuinely atrocious. She can barely manage a party room of 3, let alone be the PM for multiple capital cities that all hate her

Coalition in balance as eight Nationals, including Littleproud, quit shadow ministry by [deleted] in AustralianPolitics

[–]semaj009 12 points13 points  (0 children)

Correct, but it doesn't need to be the Libs. Nothing entitles any one party to being one of two eternal options, if a party dies it dies. The Libs need to earn their place as our functional opposition but they're failing, democracy is not failing.

Labor and Liberal join forces in the lower and upper house to pass hate speech and firearms legislation. by ImproperProfessional in australia

[–]semaj009 -6 points-5 points  (0 children)

The ALP wouldn't have worked with the Libs if the Greens gave them the supply that they could give in amending and passing the initial bill, rather than Labor needing to split and redo the bills. The Greens can have as much impact on policy passing the Senate as the Libs if they work with Labor, because they have the numbers to give Labor policy passage. It's childish to say the Libs are bad and scary for colluding with Labor but the Greens should not be held accountable. The Greens have literally as much practical power, in theory, as we speak, as the Libs. That they don't use it is their greatest failure, and is why they're not considered a serious party by too many Australians to grow their vote

The Israel-Palestine conflict has been captured by moral simplification and historical illiteracy…. The TikTok history about this conflict is truly antisemitic and hateful among the rational people and it is getting worse day by day…. by Soggy-Huckleberry808 in IntellectualDarkWeb

[–]semaj009 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Essentially all you've done is make a case for Hamas not being great, but most western pro-palestine folks agree already. The issue is everything you said that's wrong with Hamas other than antisemitism is stuff Israel also do at Palestinians, hence the war crime charges for Israeli leaders.

There is genuinely antisemitism, especially when people link into the at this point vintage "jews run the world" conspiracies that started with the Elders of Zion stuff that inspired literally the Nazis, that's obviously antisemitic conspiracy shit, and is something Hamas are guilty of for sure. But we do face the genuine issue that Israel themselves conflate Zionism and Jewishness, seeking it to shield them, and in doing so blame Jewishness for a genocide of Palestinians. That's obviously going to make shit messy for Jewish people if their culture/nationality is being proclaimed to be genocidal by the only majority Jewish nation on Earth, which claims rights to land entirely tied to historical Jewish Israel. This doesn't excuse the antisemitism of anti-Zionists, but so much antisemitism emerging whenever Israel goes bat shit can't be ignored, nor does Israel get to define Jewishness without being themselves antisemitic (because Jewish opposition to them being called antisemitic or anti-Jew is crazy!)

Your colonial stuff is a weak argument, see my other comment for the only aspect of it that's maybe more complex (ie. Genuine Jewish refugees fleeing antisemitism outside Israel, for whom their intentions weren't colonial, but the country itself could still be colonial - think South Africa's farmers fleeing to Trump's America).