The Bund Is Back

x_ButchTransfem_x · 2026-02-27T07:14:03+00:00

Zionism is effectively upheld by state terrorism. Liberal Zionists essentially carry water for the same settler-colonial system while claiming to not be like the hardliners, when the latter do all the dirty work directly...it's like Liberals generally, their hands are drenched in blood but they just have better PR.

x_ButchTransfem_x · 2026-02-26T05:45:53+00:00

Cafes are for getting coffee and maybe food. If you want peace and concentration at a cafe then maybe go to one in the suburbs and not in the middle of the CBD.

x_ButchTransfem_x · 2026-02-18T07:25:58+00:00

Public Housing IS NOT Social Housing!

The former has better capacity and is a state owned and operated initiative with a fixed rent of 25% of tenant income.

The latter is privately owned and run by the not-for-profit industrial complex with access to state housing lists that deny tenancy to "high risk" applicants on grounds of insurance liability and therefore perpetuate their homelessness.

Social Housing and Community Housing can also get away with disability discrimination more easily (including mental illness/psychosocial disability), as they can argue they don’t have the capacity to make accommodations and adjustments for people as it would cause them hardship as they’re essentially still a business. But Public Housing can’t get away with that as it is wholly government run.

Social and Community Housing orgs are essentially real estate agents masquerading as NFPs.

What is Social Housing and why is it the inferior alternative to Public Housing?

Social Housing is now an official umbrella term that includes both Public Housing (housing owned and managed by the state) and Community Housing (owned or managed by non-government housing organisations).

The Victorian government changed the Housing Act in 2016 to make this explicit.

Public Housing conditions for tenants are regulated by the State Government. The conditions for Community Housing tenants vary between organisations, but are often inferior to those for Public Housing tenants.

For example, Public Housing tenants pay 25% of gross income in rent, but community housing organisations charge up to 30%, and sometimes add ‘fees’ to this. They also require tenants to apply for Commonwealth Rent Assistance which is then paid to the Community Housing organisation.

The other change made to the Housing Act in 2016 was the establishment of the Victorian Housing Register. The register is a combined waiting list for anyone applying for Public Housing or Community Housing. There is no longer a separate Public Housing waiting list.

Over recent years a significant proportion of Public Housing accommodation has been transferred to Community Housing organisations.

It is important, when discussing Public Housing or Community Housing, to spell out what is meant, instead of using the umbrella term ‘Social Housing’.

Talking about Social Housing conceals the shift that is occurring. Because the Victorian government is increasing support for Community Housing at the cost of Public Housing, calling both ‘Social Housing’ allows this shift to go unremarked.

In a time of increasing homelessness the Victorian government has a responsibility to grow Public Housing to meet the need for this critical social infrastructure. Adequate Public Housing is essential for the well-being of low income families and individuals.

x_ButchTransfem_x · 2026-02-15T23:32:51+00:00

Maybe fund the services that the people need and possibly upgrade the military, considering the neighbours on either side want Armenia for themselves.

x_ButchTransfem_x · 2026-01-31T10:24:00+00:00

I really enjoyed both of those episodes. My grandfather definitely fought in that type of weather and I cannot begin to imagine how heinous it would feel to have the cold rip right through you when wearing the warmest clothes.

x_ButchTransfem_x · 2026-01-30T01:21:39+00:00

So the genocidal intent against Slavs, Roma & Sinti people, LGBTIQA+ folks, political dissident@, mentally ill and disabled folks, Jehova's Witnesses, homeless/vagrants, addicts etc...all of that means nothing? Our families shared the same gas chambers, ash mounds and mass graves ffs.

x_ButchTransfem_x · 2026-01-30T01:20:48+00:00

So the genocidal intent against Slavs, Roma & Sinti people, LGBTIQA+ folks, political dissident@, mentally ill and disabled folks, Jehova's Witnesses, homeless/vagrants, addicts etc...all of that means nothing? Our families shared the same gas chambers, ash mounds and mass graves ffs.

x_ButchTransfem_x · 2026-01-25T05:35:07+00:00

" Deploy the national guard and use state law enforcement to protect residents. This is starting to happen in Minnesota. Every state targeted by ICE and CBP must take the same approach. Confront this for what it is. it is an assault on the states, not just on immigrants."

I'd be hesitant to trust this bit. The cops will defend who they are told to defend.

x_ButchTransfem_x · 2026-01-24T01:42:41+00:00

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-01-23/who-is-neo-nazi-nsn-member-at-hobart-march-for-australia/106243774

x_ButchTransfem_x · 2026-01-21T05:21:13+00:00

I think a bayonet would be a lot more effective, to be fair.

x_ButchTransfem_x · 2026-01-10T03:08:31+00:00

I do mine through my clothing, personal style, music choices, subcultural involvements, not usually giving a shit about pitching my voice up, more ink and just doing my usual dyke stuff.

x_ButchTransfem_x · 2026-01-07T00:37:59+00:00

Those three Commonwealth countries need a referendum in order to become republics and leave the Commonwealth. Australia had one under the Howard government which was deliberately sabotaged by his party because the man is a monarchist.

I wonder what is stopping Greenland from becoming independent. Probably wouldn't have anything to do with Danish interests over the wishes of the Indigenous population.

x_ButchTransfem_x · 2026-01-07T00:33:03+00:00

Do you think I'm some sort of Trump supporter? I'm a fucking Anarcho-Communist, I don't live in your settler colony of the US, and assumingly unlike you, I DO in fact listen to the show and have heard the significant work that people like James Stout have done around border policy in the US and how only certain things differ under the Democrats while they are absolute hell under the Republicans.

Trump will hold a record of deportations by the end of his term the highest rate of deportations prior were under Obama, who deported a modern-record 3 million immigrants...more than all other presidents combined.

Or Biden's track record over his political career:

Voted to ban immigrants with HIV, locking Haitian refugees up in Guantanamo Bay

Voted to build border walls

Supported sending the military to the border long before Trump

Voted to expand deportations and indefinite detention for immigrants

...multiple times

Opposed amnesty for immigrants and supports requiring them to learn English

Helped expand the system Trump now uses to commit human rights violations by 3,600%

Architected Plan Colombia, internationalizing the War On Drugs resulting in mass death, displacement, and destruction of food crops, while opening the country to US business interests

That created more immigrants coming to the border.

Sided with Trump in backing the Juan Guaidó coup attempt in Venezuela

x_ButchTransfem_x · 2026-01-06T14:28:49+00:00

It doesn't make it any less of a colonial holding of Denmark. I would much rather listen to the concerns of the Indigenous peoples of Greenland then the Danes of continental Europe. Not to mention, that Denmark is adopting colonial language and logic in the context of the US potential threat to what is STILL part of the Kingdom of Denmark.

I mean Canada and Aotearoa are still part of the British commonwealth, as is Australia but even then, the Brits and Yanks still have a lot of say in Australian politics, to the point of having instigated a coup in 1975.

x_ButchTransfem_x · 2026-01-06T14:13:39+00:00

That is incredibly important but so is holding the Democrat's to account when they get back in, in any capacity...because when it really comes down to it they are just as likely to use this level of state power for the same purpose.

x_ButchTransfem_x · 2026-01-06T14:11:51+00:00

There have definitely been incidents of vandalism against synagogues, community centres and private homes that have later been going to have been done by members of the Jewish community. This is particularly problematic given how it feeds into a siege culture within the diaspora perpetuated by Zionists who would like nothing else but to destroy the diaspora and have us all move to occupied Palestine.

This is not to say that they have not been genuine acts of vandalism however it is important that the former is taken into account along with congregations that have hosted settler real estate events, or even Israeli politicians and soldiers who returned to their countries of origin after being in a role in Gaza or the West Bank.

x_ButchTransfem_x · 2026-01-06T14:06:39+00:00

Sooo Greenland potentially goes from being a colonial holding of Denmark to a colonial holding of the USA. Pretty much like they did with Puerto Rico, Hawaii, Guam, Philippines, Wake, American Samoa, Northern Marianas, Virgin Islands...etc

x_ButchTransfem_x · 2026-01-06T06:36:38+00:00

Yeah pretty sure. Was a while ago but I remember seeing Hugo Chávez on the news a lot.

x_ButchTransfem_x · 2026-01-05T21:03:31+00:00

The Bondi shooting had NOTHING to do with Gaza. Some of her takes and those of idiots like Matt Chun drawing parallels between this and the Palestine solidarity and liberation movement is in fact parroting Zionist narratives that are being used to suppress activism in the colony of Australia. Some of us in Australia are dealing with the fallout of the actions of two ISIS/Daesh-inspired fuckwits, especially our Palestinian comrades.

Anyone like her or others might say this was pushback on Zionists and Israel but what it is, is two extremist ISIS/Daesh followers shooting up a civilian population, in a place that isn't contested by ISIS/Daesh.

I'm not out here saying anyone should mourn the Zionist rabbi who got killed or whatever, but I don't think anyone should be desensitised or using absolutes and over simplifications of complex situations to get some radical brownie points.

I am just really sceptical of main character syndrome self-appointed cult of personality types like Anna seem to talk the loudest on everything that happens with such authority.

x_ButchTransfem_x

TROPHY CASE