Hanrahan @ hanrahan @slrpnk.net

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Not defending the OP but his argument is that here in Australia the government is doing the censoring, he's all for platforms delisting it if they wish. As an aside, that's effectively the same thing (as argued by people like Philip Adams here in Australia)

As an Australian, I find government censorship of the arts problematic, this case is glaringly easy to agree with but there are a plethora of edge case issues that leave me feeling uneasy and I'm squarely on the side of Karl Popper with this.

As to everyone "disliking nazis", thats not true. Russia is led by one, as is the US and India, the current Austrian Government is led by a a political party set up by literal Nazis, across the border the AfD is praised by the US.

Look at Hannah Ardent and Albert Einstein's letter to the newspapers about the horror of Israel. So I'd suggest there is broad support for nazis, unless u mean literal nazis from Germany circa WW2, of which there aren't many left but we had one in charge of NATO, another designing rockets for Nasa and on and on, so there is that.

https://archive.org/details/AlbertEinsteinLetterToTheNewYorkTimes.December41948

Among the most disturbing political phenomena of our times is the emergence in the newly created state of Israel of the "Freedom Party" (Tnuat Haherut), a political party closely akin in its organization, methods, political philosophy and social appeal to the Nazi and Fascist parties. It was formed out of the membership and following of the former Irgun Zvai Leumi, a terrorist, right-wing, chauvinist organization in Palestine.

Indeed, Trump ironocally doing more for the enviorment then any owtjer President was not on my bingo card. Recession, people buying less shit, less tourism etc

What a world :)

Bizzare thing, the "kid" is 31, has a previous conviction for 5 yrs, that was reduced to 3.

They said they were told only "criminals" would be deported, did they ignore their sons conviction?

In Australia that would have seen him deported when he was released from jail (anything >2 yrs) if anyone thinks my scumbag country is any better and "both sides" support that.

If you've been an anti-climate-change guy and your house gets destroyed by a freak super hurricane, you might reevaluate

You'd think so but no, none of the reaearch I have seen indicates that. The only thing they do remember is Government response after the fact. Most don't rewards those who would remove or minimise the tradgedy, only how they deal with.

Thinking on that, the insanity seems to be, the path to governerance seems to be to allow shitty things to happen and then deal with them well:) Of course eventually with climate change you'll be overwhelmed but that will be for the next guy to deal with :).

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bread_and_circuses

Juvenal originally used it to decry the "selfishness" of common people and their neglect of wider concerns. The phrase implies a population's erosion or ignorance of civic duty as a priority.

If thats true it just reinforces that people can't think/reason and Cipolla was right about stupidity - A stupid person is someone will harm even themselves, even when trying to harm others (the very definition of this sub I guess)

and if there are so many conservatives like that, then John Stuart-Mill was right in saying stupid people are attracted to being conservative.

That doesn't mean all conservatives are stupid, it just means that if you're are stupid, you're likely to be conservative and as Cipolla also points out there are a lot of stupid people.

As Hannah Ardent opined, she was there to observe and document, changing peoples mind wasn't her objective.

Are we ever goibg to get another Shiekd ? My Pro still works great (used adb and have FLauncher installed) but if it craps itaelf :(

In Australia anyone can ride it, just not legally on any road any where.

I want one :)

What sort of charger? , can i carry it in my pack, pull out of the bush at a local pub, charge up and have a meal, then head off ?

I had been considering the new Varg, road legal.

Ask Trump?

Irs why they want to "drain the swamp" but the inability to recognise a charasmartic grifter from a competent administrator means they repeat the same mistakes.

Thats mostly what happned in Australia back in the day when we tried it. Mu friends wife was a social worker, she said coercion to have babies was endemic and the money taken off the mother by the asshat father when said money arrived. Not really a lack of critical thinking per se, just desperate :(

What a debacle.

Is it fair to not being able to go see your relatives for years/decade+?

The article says no more then once every three months, how is this years/decades ?

I'd be more worried about being detained on the Russian side.

What ? The dental into Medicare thing has long been Greens policy along with a whole other bunch of stuff.

They tried under Gillard to force the issue but had to accept children only in Medicare as a compromise..

The environment policy centrism flows through into everything though, so it should stay front and centre eg public and alternate transport lowers; emissions, pollution, urban sprawl, human misery, heath expenditure, cost of living etc etc Medium density well insulated housing similarly helps lower hosing costs amd that all flows from sound environmental policy.

You seem to be getting confused by media either ignoring them or pillorying them for devades, rather then actual Green ploicy ?

The only real new thing was housing policy re renters based on Max etal actually experiencing housing stress and donating significant portions of thier parliamentary income to homeless charities rather then buying houses and fleecing tax payers ah la ALP/LNP/Teal politicians.

I've been voting Green for15 years, Independents before that for 30 years but alas in that time its seen preferences fall through to shit stain lite, aka ALP.

The whole thing is only going to get worse as Anthony Green quipped on election night, as new funding legislation mostly just supports the ALP and LNP.

I find the actual user ENGAGEMENT significantly worse.

That's the point though?

I don't use Mastodon for engagement but a feed of interesting stuff across a variety of subjects posted by others. Masto is a little bit like an RSS feed, I don't castigate RSS for that either.

Therefore I've come to the clear scientific and educated decision that Lemmy is simply superior

Sarcasm aside, that's like saying a screwdriver is better then a hammer.

For a few seconds I was excited to think Austraia's Shaun Micallef was onside until the different spellings became apparent.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shaun_Micallef

Could have voted Green, voted for shit lite instead, what a debacle.

https://slrpnk.net/post/21579845

https://slrpnk.net/post/21579845

There's widespread support for this amongst voters, just witness the recent Australian election for proof of that. Where >90% of voters voted against any action. I.e didn't Vote Green

Compound that with near zero understanding of climate change, the pervasive view is slightly warmer summers and AC is the answer and not much to worry about vs the seemingly ever more likely exestntial risk

See the link above to an article about increased coal production from Australia and the insanity of the defence of the orthodoxy.

Idw love Australia to join the EU.

The silent majority of voters rejected Dutton

This time, not for the last two decades though.