That’s not a contradiction. Eating poison leads to death, but you can’t eat poison while you are dead. Liberalism tends to fascism, but you can’t have liberal fascism.

Fascism is inherently an anti-liberal ideology. That’s a core component of their belief set, just as much as anti-Marxism is. However liberals, especially the middle and upper classes of liberals, have often abandoned their liberal beliefs once their way of life is threatened, and historically they’ve consistently handed power to fascists rather than socialists. But that doesn’t make fascism and liberalism comparable, that’s a misinterpretation of their relationship.

And the country is permitting the filth to be in charge.

Obviously it’s not an easy thing to stop, but we must.

Fair correction, thanks. Lots of it is illegal (hence some of those legal tactics mentioned on the shell casings), it’s simply just not punished justly by the legal system. It’s a distinction worth making, even if the material end result is similar.

That doesn’t excuse violence however.

That alone, in isolation, may not excuse violence. But it didn’t happen in a vacuum. Their messages on the bullets are an explicit reference to systematic antisocial techniques used by these companies to unjustly deny coverage. Which has knowingly resulted in pushing families into poverty and deaths on a scale of millions, far more harm than any act of direct physical violence has.

That kind of mass slaughter is certainly excusing of defense, physical or otherwise, and the legal system is clearly not a viable option looking at history. Even just looking at the exaggerated police response this assassination had compared to most other killings in the city is a hint that the legal system is rigged in the favour of the owning class of society. Violence becomes the only effective act of resistance remaining to protest this systematic mass killing which doesn’t involve slow and lengthy mass collective organisation requiring the co-ordination of many thousands. And, quite frankly, a handgun execution is far more humane than the kinds of slow deaths many people have suffered from at the hands of this company, so I don’t understand why this killing should be considered exceptional or disproportionate simply because it’s direct physical violence, as opposed to legalised denial of health service.

An Australian perspective will happen in AZ comms just by manner of most members are from straya.

That’s a reasonable theory, although unfortunately it’s not playing out that way in this comm. One of the most active post makers does not bring (nor care about) an Australian perspective, so half the posts are just China news&opinions from Taiwan news sites, or Europe-centric topics unrelated to us at all. Most AZ members aren’t making new posts every day, nor do I suspect we’d bother posting fluff daily for the sake of matching their pace, so most members being strayan isn’t enough to make it happen.

Anyway you just turn the phone upside down to get our perspective dontcha 😜

The bloody thing keeps rotating! Such is life.

It’s unfortunate that the article didn’t add some more detail about the long-standing use of the Eureka flag by the labour movement as a symbol of worker’s rights. I’ve seen it a few times among the pro-Palestinian/Lebanese protests and in the CFMEU anti-administration protests.

That slogan doesn’t hold true.

Stability, in the real world, requires some limitations on liberty. The mere concept of imprisonment is a HUGE violation of autonomy, freedom and liberty. Even basic foundations of civilisation like “don’t dump industrial waste and personal rubbish wherever you want”, “don’t kill people if you don’t like them” impose on liberty, and further restrictions for the sake of public safety and stability are clearly against liberty - “don’t drive vehicles when impaired by drugs”, “don’t yell FIRE in crowded venues”, “don’t employ workers without taking basic operational health and safety precautions”. None of these governmental dictations are tyranny, unjust or oppressive. They’re limiting liberties for the sake of stability.

And that also extends further. There is a general balance in governance between giving citizens, state forces and corporations the freedoms they need or want, and of keeping society from dissolving. If we let people with lots of money use it on whatever they want, we get environmental havoc, like that fucker who cleared koala habitats for a private runway and industries destroying the Great Barrier Reef. I don’t think restricting their use of their power (money) is tyrannical, but they certainly claim it is.

(As for China, I personally agree they lean too far into restricting some liberties of regular citizens. To a lesser degree, I even think the same thing about Australia too. However, I also believe Australia grossly under-restricts the freedoms of megacorporations and billionaires to destroy our wildlife, climate, living standards and practical rights to resist their dictatorial demands as employees, while the CPC is increasingly punishing the owner class for the sake of citizen empowerment, stability and their environment. This balancing act of the rights of the worker class vs the rights of the owner class vs the rights of the state create interesting differences which goes beyond simple concepts like freedom and tyranny. Politics and governance is complex and abstract ideals like ‘liberty’ as a general idea just can’t adequately explain it)

I think the issue is more that we get people in the community who assume everyone reading it are from the USA.

True. We also get users like 0x815 who simply consider /c/worldnews as an arbitrary audience for their propagandising. To them, it is just another /c/worldnews to dump a news feed onto. It’s not even US centrism, it’s total apathy, objectification of our community.

On other sites, I’ve done this a few times. Promise to be more active online and then end up doing the opposite. It’s unfortunately common.

Eg: the Music community is called “Rage” - a reference that only an Australian would get. So, when someone searches for “Music” communities, they’ll never find ours.

On the other hand, I just assumed it was specifically about the Rage program and overlooked it. ¯_(ツ)_/¯

I’d consider adding something to the name, like “Rage - Aussie Music”, which it would help discovery for better and worse but at least make it clear we don’t want the whole world promoting junk.

A month ago, the aussie.zone founder said, in reply to a proposal to make an /c/AskLemmy comm here:

Maybe AskAnAussie? Or something like that. Want to keep the communities here Australia focused.

And I agree with this perspective, with respect to federation. This is a themed instance based around Aussies and Aussie topics, there are literally hundreds of other instances which can and do pick up general global topics.

My question is: why should we host a /c/WorldNews at all? What unique value does it have by being “for Aussies”? How would that change the posts in the comm?

Is there any reason why international news (not world news) specifically affecting Australia or Australians should be separated from other local comms like /c/news and /c/AustralianPolitics? e.g., news about a conference between officials from Australia and Pacific islands, or incidents involving Australian tourists. It would be good to hear from /c/news and /c/AustralianPolitics users before assuming, but if so, we can simply dismantle this comm and take the relevant parts to /c/news. Easy solution.

The National Building Industry Group Unions (BIG) — which comprises about 20 union leaders and formed following outrage among some blue-collar unions after the Construction and General Division of the Construction, Forestry and Maritime Employees Union (CFMEU) was placed under administration — said its 80,000 Victorian members were “on notice” to support United Workers Union (UWU) members who are taking industrial action.

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“The BIG Unions support for the UWU’s distribution centre members is unconditional and the combined unions will campaign and support the dispute industrially, politically, and financially until these workers win this dispute,” read a statement from BIG posted on the CFMEU Victoria and Tasmania social media pages on Tuesday afternoon.

“Should Woolworths try to break the picket line, the BIG is putting all our members on notice, if the UWU members require support for the picket we will be there in large numbers at the moment’s notice.”

Good on them. CFMEU (along with some others) have a strong history of supporting other unions whether it’s legal to or not. And I think after the administration fiasco, they’re more than fired up to make these kind of big solidarity acts.

I’m not sure. Are you using any browser content blockers or VPN proxies? They’re usually the two culprits for me.

You really should read more than the headline.

You’re right, and often I do, but I just don’t see the point in putting that effort into the US political spectacle. Thanks for the details.

Lmao the hezbollah and iran are the one fighting ISIS.

Many, many groups and states are fighting ISIS, even the Western alliances. There are thousands of reasons to criticize the zionist regime, so please avoid coming over here and posting weird claims like suggesting only Hezbollah and Iran are combating ISIS - there’s no point in playing out the liberalist ‘good guy’/‘bad guy’ fantasy and ending up with american-level exceptionalism like this. Genocide is genocide, and Hezbollah and Iran are defending themselves against the expanding genocidal zionist regime.

Small difference, ISIS are the most disgusting animals/people on the planet

That’s a similarity, not a difference. The main difference is that the zionist regime does comparable acts of torture and genocide at a systematic state level, enabled by its allies.

Whether one group is muslim or not makes no difference in this context. Australian citizens are being recruited to engage in a genocidal conquest, no point in saying one is better than the other.

I’d try again, there are listed donations still going through.

If Trump hadn’t won the election, I would disapprove of this action.

If this was using presidential dictatorship to pardon someone actually meaningful or forcing through progressive legislation, I would say it’s fine, but this is just run-of-the-mill corruption as far as I can tell (but I don’t follow this celebrity drama closely so maybe there’s more to it).

The only silver lining I see is that it proves Biden is willing to use their presidential powers, and we get to see their true colours once more in how they choose to and choose not to use them. If they don’t use this powers to try and stop Republican terror, then we know they’re complicit.

Weird that he’s been pardoned for buying a gun and evading taxes. I thought those things were supposed to be rights in the USA.

Gun rights and tax evasion are privileges!

Turns out both parties really are the same!