Everytime i go for a walk i see something new that i haven't noticed before.

Doing what to casual observater seems like the same thing over and over again, can actually be the process of developing a deeper understanding of the subject area than before, (in this case your local neighbourhood).

I've thought a fun promotional tag would be,

Aussie_zone, the socials alternative

Possibly recognisable from a certain media outlet ;)

Its probably better to focus on aussie_zone and any future sister servers rather than lemmy or fediverse as a whole.

Its a broad church out there. Last night i's reading about the Maven AI controversy. People here on Aussie_zone might be cool with promotion, (also might not be), but others on Lemmy might not be, its not practical to check with everyone on every Lemmy server, and it'd not be nice to garner a perception of speaking for them.

Challenge that moderator to 'Street Countdown', i bet they won't even show.

It won't halt all monied influences, lobbyists won't be hit by this it seems, (its complicated to hit the bad lobbyists without hurting the good), corruption will crop up, but its a great reform nonetheless.

What i think it will do best is reset the tone from monied interests walking honourably through the front door, to sneaking guiltily in the metaphorical back. The reputational risk increases the costs for business people being seen to be influencing politics too much.

Bonus the lack of funding might reduce the amount of scare campaigns and political slinging matches due to the campaigns needing to attend to their own platform messages in a campaign rather than their opponents. Of course there'll always be the outlying elections where the opposition can get away with virtually no platform.

Exciting news!

Hmm, gona have to think about a long term solution, but for now put something shiny in the next suburb over.

Sister instances would be my preferred option, it could mean we build the communities, but never have to sacrifice this instances culture by getting too large on a single instance.

Adding another view would be the way to go for sister instances to connect in a deeper way than the rest of the fediverse but still maintain some semblance of separateness.

It puts me in mind of the EU bloc, a supranational organisation, where the culture and way of life of the participating States is maintained, but many benefits of the closer connectedness are granted.

I'd be keen for a more descriptive view label than 'curated'. Maybe it could become an extra field that admins launching sister instances are able to fill in themselves. I guess this is something we'd have to approach lemmy developers about.

Giving them the ability to have a uniquely descriptive name could be fun though. In our case it could be Australasian Allied Instances (AAI), or Australasian Union of Federating Servers (AFUS), or my personal favourite "Warboss Gorgritch's Waargh on the Fediverse".

and, my mind is mush, i'm going to bed...

I think your right about a need for critical mass.

Whether we should consider some kind of promotional campaign is probably a topic that should be discussed at some point. Be it of this instance specifically, or Lemmy in general, or even considering having sister aussie_zone instances and lean into smaller servers to create the whole.

'Eames Silver Chair'

You don't fucking know shit about it

Nor do you.

Its a largely uninvestigated report at the moment. Maybe people who believe her will turn out to have misplaced their trust, maybe theres a more compliacted series of events, maybe she is lying.

Point is none of us know more than whats been said so far; theres no reason to outright disbelieve someone when they make a serious complaint about discrimination. Otherwise, if we do, we've learned nothing from historic discriminatory abuses in all manner of circumstances.

I saw Costa at a gardening show, the man was in his element. Gardening show royalty as well, everybody there knew him. People walking past offering chips, sayin hi, great stuff.

I've heard they use google docs as the communication method at other radio stations as well. Must be because its such a flexible medium.

Tl:dr

1. An xmas hols fill in, made some unrelated post referencing the atrocities happening against palestinians.

2.Whatsapp (i think) group in Aus decided to launch a targetted campaign to remove lettouf from broadcasting.

3. Other people from the same group took screenshots and went public

4. ABC management screwed up, and probably deserve all the punishment they get for having such a wrong headed and knee-jerk response.

Yeah, this is important. In such a small traditional media environment they probably feel like they don't have much choice. They should look for talent in new and independent media if they don't already, theres still plenty of people out there, they just have tiny loudspeakers.

Haha, different interpretations of State i guess.

I'd interpret your example as policies of the Government of the day, which represents the State, (like the managers represent the ABC), for a short tenure of the life of the respective entities.

My interpretation in line with what might come to mind when you talk about a Statesman. Good current examples would be John Kerry, Angela Merkel, or closer to home, Julie Bishop. These people have their political aims, but they also realise the continuation of the State as a living entity has a use in its dependency and therefore importance. Noticeably, they're more internationally focused where its enormously important to take a wider breadth of view in regards your own State and its continuing existence.

Someone call Mr Squiggle, that red line ain't very straight!

To paraphrase the post,

We people have always been ignorant, we just keep the receipts now.

Look random people on the street might find it a fun interlude to their day :) I know you weren’t completely though due to the personal example you referred to a couple comments back.

However, you didn't specify a method, said brother-in-law enters into the political discussions. From an outsider's perspective, (me), there was no indication.

Also,

will also

I used these words in my first reply, not to deny your experience, but to add to it. The general nature of the word,

people,

in that part of your comment followed by an absolute statement spurred my entry. I think it's important to highlight varied reasons people have for doing the same things.

You spoke in one part of the comment generally, the other part specifically. My reply attempted to accept your specific experience, while engaging in the general discussion indicated about 'general people' happening alongside it.

I don't see how what you're saying is related to the above two comments. But I largely agree with what you've said.

Although, i've no reason to wish you such a lengthy, or any jail term, and i believe jail, even 50 years, is too soft a punishment for Putin for all he's done.

Calling someone normal isn't an insult to the rest of us, its an insult to the person in 'power'. They have found themselves in a position to make a real difference in this world and acted on their worst, and boringly common, self interested instincts.

You're right in what you say about the UN, and unfortunately after the military debacles of it's early years, and the unwillingness to participate in its actions by countries in the pursuit of their own self interests, Russia a notable example, it may go the way of the League.

An exceptionally bad loss of what could be an extremely effective institution in this Century, if countries like my own were to redouble their efforts to support it and recognise it's importance.

Good water thrown. I only want to add the assesment of authoritarians is too rigid.

They are people, and therefore, just like all of us are fallible and susceptible to great personalities and presentations, like you stated.

The world shouldn't treat these people as somehow different and apart from the rest of us. It gives them a mystique they don't deserve. The same can often be said for the famous or wealthy.

While i find your derogatory comments about concussed goldfish disappointingly predictable, the point is by saying 'both sides are the same' or 'both are as bad as the other' isn't really a political opinion.

Its a statement that withdraws from engaging in the differences in party positions on specific subject or policy positions by broad brushing them as the same.

For instance, a flounder might say to a butterfly fish, that, goldfish (concussed or not), are all the same, just to stop talking to the butterfly fish and get out of its reef! :)

Sometimes i find people will also use it as a 'discussion shut down' when they don't want to get pulled into a larger conversation about politics.

They have their reasons, like knowing they have little knowledge on the subject, or knowing the person they're talking to and not wishing to engage with them too heavily (i may be guilty of employing this tactic at times).