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  • Though to be fair, Dutton was never going to be a better option.

    Luckily we're not trapped in a two-party dichotomy, Liberal's opinions are slowly mattering less and less and minor candidates are getting more of the pie.

  • Lemmy's web UI formats it as a footnote[1], I didn't realise other apps might not read that formatting:

  • Wow, that's surprising. It's got less than a dozen users posting cute fox photos. Maybe they're automatically blocking booru software, since plenty of others have porn.

  • For those unfamiliar with Prime Minister Albanese:

    • Founding member and secretary of Parliamentary Friends of Palestine around 2000^[https://www.crikey.com.au/2024/05/29/protester-prime-minister-anthony-albanese-israel-palestine/]
    • Complicit in the zionist regime's recent invasions and ongoing genocide in Gaza
    • Australia trades with the regime, and arrested port protesters and members of the Maritime Union of Australia, including the leader of the Sydney branch
    • Australia is the sole exporter of the F-35 bomber fuselage
    • Australia repeatedly supported the invasion through UN voting
  • You do realize Australians can't vote in the US election, right? Why the hell is she wasting time over here? We don't want her.

  • Why do you hate Bill Gates now?

    Always have. This isn't a new concept, and their reputation laundering philanthorpism does not come close to countering the harm they and their foundation are still doing.

    Hasn’t he been redistributing wealth properly?

    For starters, holding around a hundred billion is hardly redistributing. That's still hoarding.

    I don't have time right now to find that short-list of critiques @davel@lemmy.ml has, but in the mean time, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philanthrocapitalism is a good diving board, combined with https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gates_Foundation#Criticism

  • Exactly. There is a world of difference between millions and billions, has horrible and deluded as many of the mega-millionaires are.

  • “I was hoping for either Big Macs or [fast food] pizza. That would have been better than the food that we were served,” said Nicholas Pinto.

    This is a depressing statement. Especially the first half.

  • Yeah, I had a quick check of their post history after replying. They're like that on all topics, not just politics, every post calling someone else a 'dumbass' etc.. They're banned from this comm now for consistent lack of civility, props to the mods for that.

  • Not to disagree with the claim, but it's important to incidentally point out that historically speaking, this kind of strategy is ineffective, at least without an organised mass movement to resist the reactionary clampdown. It's not sustainable. If it were, the US would have solved their healthcare problem already.

  • I don't see how "globalize the intifada" jumps over to adventurist shootings. In practice, it means actions like writing off weapons factories (e.g. Palestine Action in the UK), strike and blockade actions (e.g. maritime unions, port actions), pressuring governments and organisations into withdrawing support for the zionist regime (e.g. boycotts, BDS movement, university protests) and other mass movement. We saw similar mobilisation with apartheid South Africa and the Vietnam War, so this isn't some imaginary claim, it's based on actual history of similar international solidarity movements.

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

  • The Houthis, financed and supplied by Iran, a known terrorist group sponsoring nation, who is fighting a proxy war with Israel?

    ... you do notice the fallacies here, right?

  • It’s the thing I said would start happening to Jewish folks and Israelis.

    Are you conflating Israel and Zionism with being Jewish? Or are you simply suggesting Jewish people might receive collateral damage from Zionism, similarly to Muslims (and Arabs and Sihks and ....) after the 2001 WTC attacks?

  • Are you implying anyone thought it would?

  • "Economics" isn't a useful answer.

  • Yeah I assumed "high seas" just meant the waves were big, not "high" as in hundreds of kilometres upwards. Well we'd better be careful where we shine laser pointers if this all decides to happen.

  • Related to tests and skills, What if we just didn't mark students?, a short talk from a university course runner and educator in general.

    It makes some points that are already familiar or easy to notice, but it's also an interesting exploration of academia, tests and skills. I know some students who learn under that lecturer and what they're taling about clearly comes through in the course structure. One notable part is that one tutorial class is responsible for making notes for each week of lectures, and the whole cohort is allowed to bring those collaborative notes into the exam, like a semi-open book test. I heard they just decided one class to have a lesson on rhetoric instead of cybersecurity because it's a pretty nerdy industry and one involving invisible risks, and there's no point being an expert if you can't convince your boss to let you fix the problems.