>>563977I tried looking for Dutton's policies. Couldn't find anything official so this seems best:
https://theyvoteforyou.org.au/people/representatives/dickson/peter_duttonSome highlights:
>certified cuckold<Voted consistently for>Banning mobiles and other devices in immigration detention>Deregulating undergraduate university fees>Drug testing welfare recipients>Increasing eligibility requirements for Australian citizenship>Increasing the cost of humanities degrees>Increasing the price of subsidised medicine>Privatising certain government services/assets>stop da boats>Allowing companies to mine coal seam (CSG), tight and shale gas<Voted almost always against>Letting all MPs or Senators speak in Parliament<Voted consistently against>A fast transition from fossil fuels to renewable energy>A Royal Commission into Violence and Abuse against People with Disability>Considering legislation to create a federal anti-corruption commission>Doctor-initiated medical transfers for asylum seekers >Federal government action on animal & plant extinctions>Increasing consumer protections>Increasing political transparency>Increasing trade unions' powers in the workplace>Increasing support for the Australian film and TV industry>Increasing the diversity of media ownership>Restricting foreign ownership>Stopping tax avoidance or aggressive tax minimisation Spoke to my mum again, she ended up voting for UAP and One Nation. Didn't know who the other left parties were, preferenced the Greens low because Bandt is a twat and global warming is fake.
Mid-way through the conversation she began telling me about nuclear weapons being controlled by aliens, the Pentagon admitting hundreds of UFO contacts, Lionel Munford, something about the Miracle of Fatima, and how they predicted the Ukraine-Russia conflict.
Coincidentally also saw this article in Crikey today
https://www.crikey.com.au/2022/05/20/labor-failure-ufos-national-security-weakness/>>564001Well it's not
just charitable, it's aid with a political branding attached. It brings good reputation, sympathy and attention to the cause. Think of Breakfast for Children (considered by the FBI as one of the reasons the Black Panthers were the 'biggest threat to domestic security').
It also normalizes the party and makes it a thing people will resist getting rid of. If it was seen as just a front for recruiting, I think it would be more likely seen as nefarious than good.
>>564002while i agree that getting on live tv and saying that the street kitchens are largely for recruiting people into the communist party would be counter-intuitive, at the same time you cannot build a party simply by being nice to people. A key component of the BPP's breakfast for children programme was politically educating the families which utilised the services. A key aim of any communist party is to equip working people with revolutionary knowledge and to educate people on how the problems that affect them are a part of a united system called capitalism. It's good to have fans and to be liked, but to get revolutionaries that engage in class struggle at the cost of their own personal interests requires more work and a different approach.
This article touches on it better than I can:
https://kites-journal.org/2020/12/22/malcolm-x-didnt-dish-out-free-bean-pies/The ACP seems like a young party that has agility to make the necessary changes, and for all our sakes I hope that they do.
>>564001They leave out the fact that the Christian charities don't feed the homeless on Sunday mornings because they're at church. That's why the ACP steps in and feeds them on Sunday mornings because homeless people need to eat regardless of your need to pray.
>>564005There are stickers around the square asking people to join the party.
>>564010<The Albanese supporters wereknown as … ‘Bolsheviks’
based
Whenever I see developments or news articles about development it makes my fucking blood boil. I see pretty pictures of the same shitty fucking cardboard building and the nicely mixed 3d renders of people playing in the park. Each as horrifyingly uncanny as the next.
How green the grass will grow,
How well contruction goes,
How exciting for investors and how honoured you are to know!
How much will be spent on this?
How much will be then wasted,
On the perfect type of plaster box with stupid fucking placement?
All the time we hear of "sustainability", "affordability" and how many millions of dollars are being put into the centrepiece of a rotting suburban hell.
How about I list off all the buzzwords?
Exciting, Elegant, Sustainable, Affordable, Social Housing, Investment, Prime Location, Townhouse, Complex
And worst of all, "development".
DEVELOPING FUCKING WHAT?
I see the same fuckhead drinking on the newly painted curb. I can smell the same fucking pollution beside the newly planted 7m^2 garden bed. I still see trash piling up behind the renovated road that leads to the industrial estate. I still find no shade beneath the withering and weed ridden nature reserve. All this and we wonder why stable living is a pipe dream for my generation?
I HATE IT I HATE IT I HATE IT I HATE IT I HATE IT I HATE IT
>>564022SO WHEN I DIE IN THE BLISTERING HEAT OF THE BUSH, MADE BARE AND DRY BY THE RELENTLESS TIDE OF INDUSTRIAL DECAY, THEY CAN GENTRIFY MY CORPSE?No. I cannot run, there is nowhere to run to. I cannot hide, there will be no stone left unturned. The only option is to harden my heart and confront the beast head on, to make revolutionaries of my peers who I know suffer as I do. My hatred of the capitalist machine is tempered by my love for my fellows and I
WILL NOT abandon them.
>>564021Look the discourse of real estate developments is all kinds of hellish and there's all sorts of green-washing bullshit but always be mindful of knee-jerk anti-development notions, because that leads down the dark path of reactionary NIMBY-ism - and no one wants to sound like a hypocritical Greens councillor.
Australia can't solve many of our housing and infrastructure issues, without sustainable and transit-oriented development.
Pregnant and terrified, Tailah is moving into a tent with her young familyTheir Bundaberg rental is being sold and for six months, Tailah and her partner Daniel have been looking for a new house for their family of five.
Daniel earns a decent wage as a traffic controller and the pair thought they would have no trouble finding a three-bedroom home within their price range of $300 to $450 per week. But as time wore on, they became increasingly panicked.
>"Unfortunately there are literally hundreds of applications for every single rental — there's just not enough to go around.">"They always say when you've got a job, it's security and you're financially better off, but at the moment it doesn't make much of a difference at all."https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-05-26/bundaberg-rents-record-highs-family-moves-into-tent/101098910 >>564050Now you've made me aware that I just said "children for me, not for thee"
thanks ):
>>564055No
Show some solidarity with your education providing comrades
>>564064 (me)
I know youse canberra mob are reading this and this means you
When the current mob said the pacific island nations was the worst foreign policy debacle they were being kind
It's as bad as they claimed, but the last mob made an even bigger ooopsie
They cancelled a admittedly pork barrelled but nevertheless real deal with the french that would have improved our own technological capacity and allowed us to properly service the collins classes battery systems, but they even offered us their nuclear reactor 'technology' when the deal was scuttled
In exchange we got entrance into a bloc AUKUS that is only worth it as a binary barometer of USA interest in australia
and an unreliable one at thatPlay the cards right here and we could get technology transfer from Russia, China, USA and Europe by acting as a ckd kit middle man
And we'd be able to actually build our own cars and tractors shit maybe even eventually from scratch with the knowhow we'd get from working on that kit
Don't fuck it up you dumb cunts in Canberra
>>564065>>564064They're going to fuck it up.
Australia will always be a US colony.
>>564074I mean that didn't even exist back then, now it's 4.07%
Greens haven't grown anywhere near that rate and are still only ~11%, but the 'teal' ex-Liberal greenies have shot up (all Independents shot up 2.00% in this election, and a bunch of them have seats. UAP & One Nation btfo lmao zero seats)
Stay tuned I'm calculating the socialism trend………
>>564076Yep.
Current count is 80% but it's pretty much settled. Only 2 seats in doubt, both Liberal vs. Labor.
>OtherKatter got one, Center Alliance got one, rest are independents, most of which are those new 'teals'.
>>564075The lesson is people like "independents" even when they are funded by a group of porkies that behave like a party. This could change the electoral strategy for socialists. Instead of running as Victorian Socialists or whatever, we could have "crimson independents" that don't use the S or C words.
Going in as independents is also good at containing blowback. There are 151 lower house seats and the chances of us choosing 151 people that don't fuck up campaigning are low. For example, if one "crimson independent" says something stupid, then it doesn't affect the other "crimson independents" that much, unlike parties where everyone is supposed to be representing the party.
The upper house is still better to run as a party because it allows voters to vote above the line.
>>564079>Instead of running as Victorian Socialists or whatever, we could have "crimson independents" that don't use the S or C words.I am in support of this(….. is it basically just entryism?), but they really do need the media exposure to go with it. They aren't suddenly voting for independents
despite their funding but
because of that funding, or more specifically, how it was used.
>The lesson is people like "independents">2004: 3 independents (one was Bob Katter)>2007: 2 independents (Katter and one of the other incumbents)>2010: 4 independents (Katter and the incumbent, an ex-Greens candidate, and a by-election incumbent from 2008 formerly a Nationals candidate)>2013: 2 independents (the ex-Greens incumbent and a new independent)>2016: 2 independents (same 2)>2019: 3 independents (ex-Green incumbent, the other incumbent's recommended successor in the same seat, and Zali Steggall)>2022: 10 independents (7 'teal independents' incl. Zali, the two other incumbents and new Dai Le)< +6 teals, +1 non-tealsSo by naïve numbers, independents historically work better than open socialists and is potentially tactically advantageous because of the buzzwords like green and socialism but I wouldn't say it's a magic key to winning because
people like "independents". If I counted correctly, there were 97 independents running for House of Reps. 10 got elected.
>>564079>>564080I wouldn't discount the significance of the specific issues in this election, primarily that green tory women were sick of Morrison's shit.
And keep in mind, these well funded independents did actually engage with their communities - it's not as simple as just slipping in some outsiders and hoping no one notices. The socialist parties are actually doing this and are making small gains in certain areas.
Socialist parties, even if they hate each other, need to not run against each other in lower house seats. Socialist Alliance ran 5 lower house candidates, Victorian Socialists ran 11. There are 151 seats, so why did they both run in Wills?
This matters because you don't get election funding from the AEC unless you get over 4% of the vote. In Wills, Socialist Alliance got 3.63% and Victorian Socialists got 3.11%, so they both blew their money.
>>564079Also, only run female "crimson independent" candidates that are ex-sportswomen or doctors.
>>564080Buzzwords are all the teals had and it worked. Keep your plans vague and your plans can be socialist.
>>564094insane person
Where does he get his funding?
>>564103I hate Anglos so much it's unreal.
>>564106I sure hope nothing bad happens to the local businesses. :^)
>>564101If they stopped at things like Systems Engineer, there would be nothing wrong with that post.
Also I forgot to tell my local rep to do shit on behalf of the train workers union (TWU?)
>>564107I sure hope nothing bad happen to multi-national franchises :)
yes i am mad that Subway and McDonalds got to use the Dine and Discover vouchers >>564100Mossad / CIA (See: Yemeni)
>>564087>We're living in the Labor-(DLP) + Greens + Slimy petty boug Fascism ending.>>564090The German Labour Front and / or Mussolini's Grand Council where the most yellow unions in the country are put on a committee 50/50 with porkies to decide what % wage rises are
>>564094broken clock, but truth be told, who gives a fuck what this guy has to say? The guy goes out of his way to deliberately provoke Chinese communities by shit talking China in front of them.
Lord knows I'm not a fan of China as it exists now, but even I find there's little point in saber rattling against them.
>>564128Barilaro
Eat shit wog
>>564128Barillaro, though his political career's dead anyway.
>>564129Hey, Jordies is part itallian too.
t. wog.
>>564133I saw Grover Furr at a grocery store in Los Angeles yesterday. I told him how cool it was to meet him in person, but I didn’t want to be a douche and bother him and ask him for photos or anything. He said, “Oh, like you’re doing now?” I was taken aback, and all I could say was “Huh?” but he kept cutting me off and going “huh? huh? huh?” and closing his hand shut in front of my face. I walked away and continued with my shopping, and I heard him chuckle as I walked off. When I came to pay for my stuff up front I saw him trying to walk out the doors with like fifteen Milky Ways in his hands without paying. The girl at the counter was very nice about it and professional, and was like “Sir, you need to pay for those first.” At first he kept pretending to be tired and not hear her, but eventually turned back around and brought them to the counter. When she took one of the bars and started scanning it multiple times, he stopped her and told her to scan them each individually “to prevent any trotskyite infetterence,” and then turned around and winked at me. I don’t even think that’s a word. After she scanned each bar and put them in a bag and started to say the price, he kept interrupting her by yawning really loudly.
>>564135Kek
I want to believe this is true.
>>564131It won't be easy under Albanese.
>>564132Stock up on toilet paper NOW!
>>564144>Is bartending a good way to let me overhear shit and spread consciousness?ofc it is.
Be among the people.
Also you will learn to understand lumpen and why they come to be as they are.
https://www.bnnbloomberg.ca/superworms-can-digest-styrofoam-australian-scientists-find-1.1776681Hey cunts post ecological disaster we can make proteins from plastic
Eath the bugs hunh
Yeah ok in those circumstances
>>564147Unions have had a "fuck you, got mine" mentality since Bob Hawke. Unlike Canada (or the USA), unions will not help you find work, unless you're already well connected in the union. If you've already got a good job, unions might help you keep it. Unions only work for privileged people in Australia.
See how Labor governments refuses to do anything about unemployment. They don't give a fuck about lumpenproles because they're not already successful. Labor actively wants lumpenproles to suffer so they can show union insiders what will happen to them if they don't support Labor and the ACTU.
>>564164the camera may have infrared camera also so place bits of foil or whatever in strategic places
the cameras are probably in the self checkouts which should be avoided since that betrays retail workers
>>564168well fuck
guess I'll just.. idk anymore :(
Now that your electricity rates are much cheaper than what it costs generators to make power, if we all consume power, it will send them broke. Run your heaters as much as you can!
>>564168Just wear a balaclava.
>>564170you should litterally just show them what's currently happening in France when they started "privatizing",the electric firms are litterally bleeding money and have to be propped up by the state so they don't accidentaly get nationalized back.
the reality is that a "free" electric market would get dunked on by a singular country with nuclear reactors because they would be the cheapest,and if every country does it,there is no longer any needs to sell electricity,only raw materials,so the firms would die anyway.
>>564195>The handing over to the aborigines of large tracts of watered and fertile country, with towns, seaports, railways, roads, etc., to become one or more independent aboriginal states or republics. The handing back to the aborigines of all Central, Northern, and North West Australia to enable the aborigines to develop their native pursuits. These aboriginal republics to be independent of Australian or other foreign powers. To have the right to make treaties with foreign powers, including Austeralia, establish their own army, governments, industries, and in every way be independent of imperialism
HOLY BASED >>564196And yet there's not a single commie in there communities.
Why?
>>564193I'm tempted to come and chill, but there's a family event I can't miss plus an hour travel because I'm out of town. Unfortunate timing.
Is that pic martin pl.?
>>564204What the fuck is east turkestan?
Does she mean Xing Jiang?
What a loon
>>564205Neither are great names for exclusive use. Xinjiang makes sense from the Chinese perspective because it's a relatively accurate description of its status to China (New Frontier). East Turkestan makes sense if you're instead looking to emphasise it's cultural and linguistic ties to Central Asia.
There isn't really a neutral term for it since historically it's not been one region. The south was Altishahr and the north was Dzungaria.
>>564209Fucking. Facebook.
Seriously, so much "organising" and shit is done via facebook and I fucking hate it.
>>564211Fuck anyone using facebook as a main organization platform.
When I start joining orgs (movin in2 melbourne at the end of the year) I will vocally criticize them for centralizing around any antagonistic hostile pro-capitalist platform, rather than trying to export its users or merely advertise there for an off-site organization page.
>>564216Did you not read post 2? Advertise there, don't organize there.
>>564213Dedicated webpage (open to all) or fediverse social media (no closed-garden or deanonymizing) for public organizing.
Advertising? Sky is the limit. If someone in my area can put up stickers for 'autism rum that makes you cum like a horse', then a socialist org should have no trouble.
>The ASIO Director-General, Mike Burgess, notes in the annual threat assessment for 2022 that during the past 12 months this threat emanates more from a potential lone actor than groups. In a previous threat assessment the Director-General observed that right-wing extremists are generally motivated by some perceived notion of social or economic hardship, are much harder to identify and tend to be middle class and educated rather than the stereotype of poor and uneducated.https://www.aph.gov.au/About_Parliament/Parliamentary_Departments/Parliamentary_Library/pubs/BriefingBook47p/RightWingExtremismAustralia (has links in that paragraph)
Sounds about right?
>>564260I'm not :(
Also anyone got their tax return yet?
>you better of claimed your union dues and donations >>564094Ive spoken to this guy a few times personally actually, when he first started making a racket about China.
But I dont want to be too involved in anything political in this country, I’m pretty schizo about how much of a nanny state we really are. But fuck man does he get annoying, he’s right that neoliberalism has produced the most annoying cunts to ever “grace” this planet, but shut the fuck up cunt, we get it.
He’s also like 40k in debt because of his senate run so he’s just going to tennis matches screaming for some chinese athlete to be free.
>>564263I think the UK and US will coup you in a second if you even write about becoming closer to china in your dream journal, anon.
Wongs public statements are probably seething them.
Have you not been following this story in aus, anons?
>>564261Australia is going to be very important geographically for America in this century
>>564262Absolutely if you don't support the threat of war when the time comes
>>564285Something something because he fought against bankers and nationalised the economy.
If these guys had balls, they'd put Ned Kelly on their banner.
>>564284Are you implying we have troops in the east of germany?
fuckkin ell yanks
>>564306Actually I guess she was saying the opposite of what I thought, but another gem from the article
>We fear for our children’s future in a region, a world, dominated by China and its AI totalitarianism. We have no idea where their future prosperity will come from now that Australia’s near four-decades-long China boom is ebbing. WTF Sci Fi novel is she living in? The Chinese robots are coming for our children!
>>564298Is this a joke?
What's leftypol's take on Sally McManus?
>>1078467She's the head of the Australian council of trade unions, not exactly a twitch streamer
>>564308She's a laborist shill that accepts SDA cheque, she's not helping anybody
>>564310Better yet, put the zoomers into work battalions so they can contribute, learn how to live like a normal person and socialize, get laid, etc.
And the nation can benefit from their work, especially rebuilding after a revolution/civil war.
>>564304If it was something like what neutral euro (for now) cunts do, or even with what was historically did with the concept of 'civil defence' i have no """""""""""""""""""real"""""""""""""""""""" issue with it.
The issue is that the only people that propose this intend the service to be some sort of 2 year long NeoCon brainwashing - Which is why instead of talking about it in terms of general preparedness for war, they talk about it in terms of 'MANNING UP THOSE DAMN LIBTARD!!!1!!!1!!'.
>>564321A little Aussie history/theory every week.
I like the idea. Good one.
>>564250>Boomers like Burgess:"I bought my first home with only three years of median salary"
>Average Aussie Zoomer:"I need at least 25 years of every cent I'll ever earn to own a home"
>Burgess to Zoomer:"If you complain about the fact you need to pay 8 times as much as myself, often for the same house, I'm branding you a domestic terrorist and will target you for disenfranchisement, because your political advoacy is hurting my net worth"
Interesting how the "Conflict of Interest" is never spoken about in regards to "perceived threats" by Gaysio. I wonder how many investment properties Mikey boi has, will he disclose that? Probably not.
It looks like there will be a referendum this electoral cycle to create an indigenous representative group in parliament. I recall the Liberals had vaguely similar plans.
Can someone give me the rundown on what the establishment hopes to achieve with this?
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-07-29/pm-anthony-albanese-promises-referendum-on-indigenous-voice-/101284404>>564347>Can someone give me the rundown on what the establishment hopes to achieve with this?State stability through "appeasement". I.E thinking that representative politics/ democracy is what will save us and having an advisory role, but offering no legitimate and political reformation/ policy change will actually aid indigenous people. This isn't getting into the fact that mining companies also support the "indigenous voice". It's another example of decolonisation being co-opted by libs and the state to serve its own ends, as opposed to giving indigenous people autonomy.
All in all, it's just a way for the Australian state to create an illusion of progress but doing nothing other than change the appearence of their government, thinking that if we have indigenous representation this will help indigenous people as a whole.
>>564349>It is an exhibition that charts the history of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer people in Australia's armed forces.Again, ties into the whole "if we represent opressed people in state institutions, we'll move forward as a country." Being Bisexual myself, I could give a fuck about gay soldiers, unless they're vets who've been fucked over by capitalism and are seeking to right past wrongs. Does it suck that homophobic abuse was levelled? Of course. Does this mean that we should champion LGBTQ people because they served our government? By this logic, let's invite cops to pride! Never mind that it was the Australian government which nearly passed the Religious Freedoms bill! Nah, it's alright, cos we got gays in the gov. Fucking unbelievable.
This shit reeks of American culture war bullshit, and I hate that it's found its way to this country.
>>564356sorry mate, took off the name.
tl;dr representation politics means sweet fuck all and provides little to no change.
>>564361>>564362There needs to be an alternative to the ACTU because there are unions that don't like it. There are two international trade union federations: ITUC (run by the CIA) and WFTU (formerly run by the KGB, now run by the Greek Communist Party). Of course the ACTU is affiliated with the ITUC, but there is one ACTU member union (the CFMEU) that's affiliated with the WFTU.
There needs to be a WFTU affiliated federation of Australian trade unions. As well as the CFMEU, the Retail and Fast Food Workers Union would probably be interested in joining.
>>564370It's full of liberals
Since you're thinking that way anyway you probably have a liberal inclination so you'll be able to slip under the radar
Want to do some smooth entryist sigma grindset and report back to us what the fuck this fuckwits are up to?
Please put this video in the OP for the next thread.
>>564370If you want electoralism, Socialist Alliance is better than the Greens.
>>564372>Socialist AllianceYeah, join a literally WHO "party".
Might as well just join SALT or VicSocs because at least then you'll get some bussy fr fr no cap
>>564377Automated production of videos
Remind me of how pre WWII the radical core of the KPD was high technology workers
>>564382I know exactly what your talking about
who you are anon, because i recognise the
FilenameSorry about your current troubles anon, always tragic when something like that happens in the family.
>>564393if you want to understand the ideological mindset of the current ALP then sure, but the guy seems like a social fascist par-excellence.
>He has worked as a policy adviser and speechwriter on the staff of Kim Beazley, Simon Crean, Mark Latham, Julia Gillard and Wayne Swan, and has written speeches for many other ministers and opposition leaders at the federal and state levels. His current clients include senior political, business, community, public sector and academic leaders.>His debut novel The Last Man in Europe (Black Inc. July 2017) tells the story of how George Orwell wrote Nineteen Eighty-Four.>While at King's he worked as a conservator of the private book collection of John Maynard Keynes.Here's albo's thoughts on him:
https://anthonyalbanese.com.au/launch-of-dennis-glovers-an-economy-is-not-a-society >>564393Depends on whether you can relate to working-class boomer nostalgia. I'd still say it's worth a read though.
>>564394>Dennis was a founding fellow of the think tank Per Capita.You forgot this one.
>>564384Ironically granting the indigenous voice and allowing a constitution of idigenous nations for the Australian state would actually allow for one or two options.
1. The building of dual power, in which indigenous people's can find build institutions that exist in spite of the state.
Or
2. Serve the interest of the state, as this will make the Australian commonwealth look better. Western countries can give themselves a good 'ol pat on the back and see how "TRULY progressive" we are- provided we don't get coup'd by the US because now indigenous nations have an element of control over their land.
>DEFEAT, OF THE LOONY LEFT CRT DIVISIVE REFERENDUM' This just goes to show that the right wing media pundits of Australia just more or less goes around shrieking whatever their leash holders in America tell them to. They're completely out of touch with our politics- fucking hell even Paulin Hanson is more in touch with the people of Australia and she's an absolute ass. I think this nation is smart enough not only to not trust our journos, but our politicians come very close.
The far right here has as much appeal as my hairy Greek nuts.
>>564402The only thing they're notable for in the Australian left is being a bunch of loud mouth opportunists who hijack shit. Don't get me wrong, they're becoming a lot more self-aware and seeking to do better but for the most part they've got a long way to go.
I've seen more cooperation with Solidarity and Socialist Alliance than I have with SALT. That's not even getting into the fact that they had a conference where they threw sex-workers under the bus,
and were repaid by having used condoms flung on their cars.>>564370The IWW is growing in NSW and VIC and are actually helping nurses organise. They're still small, but keep an eye out for them.
>>564403>This just goes to show that the right wing media pundits of Australia just more or less goes around shrieking whatever their leash holders in America tell them to. They're completely out of touch with our politics-Exactly, No on (Obviously there may be someone, but lets be real - not very many) in Australia cares about the 'ANTIFA TRANSHUMANISTS GOING INTO YOUR DAUGHTERS BATHROOM AND TEACHING THEM NEO-MARXIST C.R.T RACE THEORY', People just DONT talk about that kinda shit in the crib room at work when politics come up, 99% of the time, its muh debt or muh interest rates or muh Lebanese back welfare cheats - and fuckwit youtubers like Yemeni screaming that shit at Uni students on street corners shows just how Golemised by America our 'Right-Wing' is.
I'd genuinely argue that the Liberals approach of essentially turning us into the most politically illiterate but more importantly
apathetic anglophone state on earth to create a smooth machine politics, instead of going the American route of in-school political propaganda and intentional
miseducation has ironically made any attempts by the right to rile people up about gays or muslims or trans's or vaccines significantly harder for them.
>fucking hell even Paulin Hanson is more in touch with the people of Australia and she's an absolute ass.Pauline maintains some legitimacy to a faction of people because she (Pretends, don't think for a second i take her as earnest/genuine in her actions) plays the role of the mythical 'Socially-Conservative Distributist' who puts up a doomed bill to 'BREAK UP / NATIONALISE THE BIG FOUR' or voots against an outrageously retarded Liberal policy even she knows is political rat-poison.
Weird American style 'S.W.E.A.T pledge' kissing your bosses feet and thanking him for giving you a job prosperity-evangelo-zionist open class-cuckoldry will NEVER be popular in Australia, Thus why the LibDems are viewed as such an unbelievable joke.
>>564405> 99% of the time, its muh debt or muh interest rates or muh Lebanese back welfare cheats - and fuckwit youtubers like Yemeni screaming that shit at Uni students on street corners shows just how Golemised by America our 'Right-Wing' is.Pretty much. No one likes the libs for purely idpol reasons- though tbf and I'm going to sound like a broken record for mentioning this, the religious freedom bill was certainly a legitimate criticism- but rather their absolute economic and state mandated corruption.
>I'd genuinely argue that the Liberals approach of essentially turning us into the most politically illiterate but more importantly apathetic anglophone state on earth to create a smooth machine politics, instead of going the American route of in-school political propaganda and intentional miseducation has ironically made any attempts by the right to rile people up about gays or muslims or trans's or vaccines significantly harder for them.Pretty much, given our cuts to education and them getting rid of the curriculum that taught us about indigenous history. Is there homophobia, islamophobia and transphobia in Australia? Absolutely, but it is a completely different beast to that in America, and usually most Aussies would be skeptical about your local kebab store owner being a terrorist, or the gays coming to groom our children or trans people "being everywhere"- don't get me wrong, they'd believe in some bullshit, but not in the sense that "we must kill them all" like a fucking yank would.
>Pauline maintains some legitimacy to a faction of people because she (Pretends, don't think for a second i take her as earnest/genuine in her actions) plays the role of the mythical 'Socially-Conservative Distributist' who puts up a doomed bill to 'BREAK UP / NATIONALISE THE BIG FOUR' or voots against an outrageously retarded Liberal policy even she knows is political rat-poison.I'd argue she maintains her legitimacy through fear mongering about the Asian invasion and "dividing us by race" shite, but the problem is her solutions are fucking whack. Are there lebanese criminal gangs? For sure. Have Sudanese immigrants stolen a car or two? Probably- problem is she think that these problems can be solved via ethnic deportation- and hardly anyone in Australia wants that- again kind of looping us back to your point on the libs goal of making us politically illiterate and apathetic.
>Thus why the LibDems are viewed as such an unbelievable joke.It's why the libs are seen as a joke too, lol.
>>564406I feel like were definitely one of the countries in the wake of covid where an opposite situation to countries like America where the institutional 'left' is withering-on-the-vine while the 'right' is emboldened has emerged where our 'Right' is definitively the one withering on the vine while vaguely 'leftist' ideas become more commonly discussed (I guess other examples would be how the scots and Irish are once more emboldened after the disaster of Johnson, And Macron fading in France while a dark horse coalition of the SocDems and the PCF+100 trot splitter groups cuck him out of parliamentary majority) .
Everyone from Palmer to Yemeni threw EVERYTHING they fucking had at the wall just to try and let the Lib/Nat's eek out one last 'miracle', But it just wasn't fucking enough. Infact it was the exact opposite of the 'Palmer factor' / 'Palmer+Pauline+whoever the fuck else siphons voots to the lib nats' shit they were expecting.
More people vooted for Labor painted green (Once again, Not defending the greens for a second, what matters is the people who voted greens
perception of what they
think the greens are) with a guy who literally looks like a Soyjak leading them then any of these supposed 'freedom candidate ANTI-DEATH VAX LOCKDOWN populists' which was once again, an entirely imported Americanised issue
>>564403>The building of dual power, in which indigenous people's can find build institutions that exist in spite of the state.It's absolute adventurism, but I'd 100% go out there to those communities to help them for at least eight months.
I'd shut my mouth, and just do. If I got asked I'd comment briefly about Sakana, BPP, Zippos, etc. all the classics.
I just want my Abobros to be able to build their own shit bros ;_;
>>564408So more or less the right is fucked unless they can find a way to not suck off american right wing talking points
impossible or they try to get the libs back in power after over a decade of corruption
not likely.
I am certainly glad that fellow Aussies are starting to catch wind of america's bullshit wafting on our shores.
>>564413Now that does look promising.
I think these communities would do well to look to the indigenous people of North and South America to see how they go about autonomously organising and resiting in their respective communities.
I'm reminded of the Five Hundred Peoples idea.
A black flag with five "hand drawn" concentric rings, made of 100 dots each (eventually blending together as one circle in the smaller rings). Basically a confederation of the 500* Aboriginal peoples acting autonomously, insurgently, within the carcass of liberal Australia.
>>564416>Do I Long March into the bureaucracy?Yep. Make as much as you can doing as little as you can, minimise your taxes by every conceivable means, and use the extra money to support local orgs or something.
That or go part-time at an NGO NFP and end up blackpilled.
>>564417>minimise your taxes by every conceivable meansOn this, btw, given you've "done law" and now no longer believe in shiet, consider it financial and economic praxis.
Just use debt as much as you can, minimise your taxes, claim back everything you can, get all the perks that the booj are allowed to access in the pay-2-play pay-2-win system, then use said perks to fight the booj.
I'm organising a local cadre to do exactly this. I'm no good on the streets but I'm a legend in excel sheets.
>>564418>I'm organising a local cadre to do exactly this.Example: One of the gang has a piece of bushblock in some bumfuck location. We're considering putting three goats on it because then it counts not only as "rural/regional" but also as "agriculture" so we can get massive tax breaks against it.
It's actually fucked how easy it is tbqh. Impossible for an individual prolly, but get a few of the gang together and it starts to work okay.
Also going to use the property to do fun stuff and let people squat on it.
I'm at work lmao ok bye
>>1113757"standard" Marxist thought isn't infalliable, and there's been enough changes in society and the economy, as well as discoveries in anthropology that there's stuff that Marx and Engels needed to re-examine especially considering that prostitution is a legal profession in Australia.
>but it's revisionist to re-asses itSo what, Engels views on anthropology shouldn't be criticised given what we know now?
>>564414Sounds based.
>>564415Eeeyup.
>>564423This is the sad case for most party orgs, but I hear good things about the ACP, Solidarity, and IWW. I've been around the Sallies (socialist alliance) and they're not too bad- though they have a lot more faith in electoralism than I do- they're certainly a lot friendlier.
SALT, the people who hosted that conference, yeah they need work.
>>564428Our people have been raped in our Pine Gap.
The whole 'cuck as a verb' thing is stupid but yeah, no shit, we've officially been the yank's bitch for… shit it's been almost 80 years.
>>564436This, but unironically.
Even my Lib-voting-for-life mum hates privatization.
https://www.smh.com.au/national/inside-australia-s-terrorgram-how-neo-nazism-spreads-in-our-cities-20220726-p5b4t5.html>However, despite attempts by these men to remain anonymous, tracing online clues allows us to reveal their true identities.SMH is…
based and antifa pilled?1?!>information redacted because of legal proceedingsoh
>>1120260>Bro if I post moralistic squabble about prostitutions i win the argument. <let's just throw sex workers under the bus.Outdated analysis- considering sex workers are exploited by capitalism. Again, sex work is more than just prostitution.
Prostitution is legal in Australia and they pay taxes- this is hardly "lumpenprole" behaviour you incel-in-denial-bitch-cunt.
https://www.ato.gov.au/Business/GST/In-detail/Your-industry/GST-and-the-sex-industry/
>s-so you support prostitution and sex workI show support and solidarity to the workers. I don't think sex-work will likely exist under socialism, but that doesn't mean we should outlaw it under capitalism and throw sex workers under the bus thinking they "contribute nothing" based on arbitrary moral standards from the 20th century.
Fuckwit.
>>564350some bangers in this banger
>Private James Healy, Argyll and Sutherlands, dragged a bleeding body over the Peronne battlefield in August 1917 after a German stick bomb had ripped flesh from his leg, shattered the bone and torn off a finger. Far away in Melbourne, Australia, ex-Lieutenant Robert Gordon Menzies was building up a profitable legal practice. He had proudly worn two pips, but cast them aside at the first roll of drums.>In World War I Mr Hughes spoke for conscription at Warwick. A patriot of Irish origin hit the Labor renegade with a rotten egg. A Queensland policeman refused Mr Hughes’s querulous demand for the egg-thrower’s arrest. So Mr Hughes founded the Federal Police.>Near the end of the 1861-65 American Civil War, the armed Confederate raider Shenandoah lost a propeller off Australia and put into Melbourne for repairs. The Shenandoah flew the ensign of the Southern slave-owners; she was sinking the shipping of Abraham Lincoln, who had proclaimed emancipation of the Negro slaves. The colonial governor and officials, the wealthy and privileged, showed their sympathy with the slave-owners, gave the Shenandoah repair facilities and, as the Argus of those days reported, threw the doors of the Melbourne Club open to the raider’s officers. Port workers of Melbourne thought differently; they demonstrated against the slavers’ men. At their first opportunity, Australian maritime workers had shown their hatred of the enslavement of man.>In 1871, the people of Paris rose against the treachery of Thiers, the Petain of those days, who was betraying them to the Prussians, and set up the first socialist government in history — the Paris Commune. Among the Commune leaders to escape hanging were the Marquis Henri-Victor de Rochefort-Lucay, a fine writer and democrat, who preferred to be called Henri Rochefort, and Louise Michel, schoolteacher, ambulance driver and nurse in the 1870-71 Seige of Paris, who bore a rifle in the 61st Battalion of the Commune army and, like Rochefort, stood to the barricades until the last. They, with other surviving Communards, were sentenced to convict transportation for life to the prison hell of French New Caledonia, near Australia. Wilfred Burchett (Pacific Treasure Island) says: “Chained in iron cages, treated more like wild beasts than human beings, Louise Michel and Henri Rochefort, together with some thousands of other Communards, were deported to New Caledonia … When one of the transports arrived at Melbourne, more than half the deportees were down with scurvy.” Melbourne wharfies saw the plight of the Communards and organised aid and demonstrations. Quickly, the working people raised £1500 — a fortune in those days — to help the persecuted socialists. The colonial authorities did everything they could to stop the workers helping the Commnunards. >>564465oh for a second I confused him for Jim.
think we can get A Current Affair to harass him?
>>564465This beg the question: what's the age of consent down under? Is it the same countrywide or does he need to check with the single states?
>>1122648Australia is an English speaking, western country, yet it is conveniently close to places where he can easily fly in, help himself with the cheap, local prostitution and get back to 'Shtraya in no time.
>>564476This is true, I've lived in America and Europe and it's harder in Australia.
>>564479fuck off chad
First they came for the fascists.
>Intentionally waving a Nazi flag in New South Wales or displaying memorabilia bearing swastikas could now land a person in jail for up to a year, along with a fine of over $100,000.
>The Crimes Amendment (prohibition on display of Nazi symbols) Bill 2022 swiftly and unanimously passed the NSW upper house on Thursday.>In 2020, the Australian Security Intelligence Agency said that far-right violent extremism, with its emphasis on neo-Nazi ideology, makes up around 40% of its counter-terrorism caseload.https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2022/aug/11/nsw-becomes-second-state-to-ban-nazi-flag-and-symbols (two weeks old)
>>564401I just realized they'd try and charge me $90 because I'm not a fucking NEET, and they're sure as fuck not getting my email address (do you think they'll fall for Wayne Kerr?)
I'll probably just go the first night and see if it's social enough to enjoy and just pretend I'm unwaged like
>>564421 did rofl. stay salty.
>>564490Oh cool, saw more posters
they're competing for real estate outside the unis for Red Ant's conference in Newtown this weekend. There's a social event after tomorrow's talks: 7pm at The Gaelic Club (Surry Hills) so hopefully we can get them to belt out some IRA classics.
>>564494Passive support.
We gain nothing from opposing it. Let Aboriginal people find out for themselves that it's pointless, may as well support in solidarity.
>>564509>Fairfax/Costello Endless mind-numbing human interest stories on 4-corners and Current-Affair about some schizo getting violently angry at magpies shitting on his roof + Crying about Unions.
>Sky newsLabor and the Greens are
LITERALLY making Stalin look like an Anarchist.
>Sky news comment sections"And then…George Bush 41' with the help of his aldebaran benefactor [Or as they are known in their human form 'Klaus Scwab'] set off the bombs in the World-Trade-Centre , Starting the chain of events leading to the
GREAT RESET and the
DEATHVAXX EVERY SIX MONTHS REGIME And now microchips??? Do not take the microchips, Do. Not. Comply.
Do not board the motherships when they arrive<Video is about Albanese talking to the press-club >>564513I know someone in real life who says (verbatum) 'leftie communist bastard' even when referring to someone I know who is self-identifies
well they're smart enough to know labels are retarded, but if forced to pick as right-wing (generally pro-green and multicultural but economically conservaLib). They've just alienated themselves from their family and friends by bringing politics up every time we see them, which is bad enough until you realize he's on board the Trump train. A total hyper-reality where he thinks Australians give a fuck.
>>564520There an encapsulation of those Europeans who lurk on spaces filled with American rightoids begging them to come to Europe to
LIBERATE them from the W.E.F, N.W.O, E.U or whatever because they think Trump is more based then their own governments or whatever.
Canadian right-wing media is controlled by that guy Ezra Klein. He's actually the guy who holds the purse-strings for that fuckwit Yemeni and began/raised funds for/promoted the 'Trucker convoy' bullshit as part of his shit.
iirc, Klein is basically the top/a mega donor for the Canadian equivalent of AIPAC LOL >>564501They did quite well in some lower house seats. See
>>563983The swings seem to be driven by the Sallies and VicSoc running in 2022. Why don't the sallies get much love in this forum?
>>564532When people ITT ask "what orgs should I join?" the usual responses are ACP and IWW. Nobody suggests the sallies, even though they must have at least 1500 members (because that's the requirement for registered political parties) and they have been around for a long time.
The sallies I have met IRL are old people, so there is something about them that makes young people uninterested. Nobody has said what it is, hence why I'm bringing up this topic. They're a big org with experience and a bit of money, so they are capable of doing stuff.
>>564535>The sallies I have met IRL are old peopleComplete opposite of my experience. They're usually university students who have never worked a day in their life who "grow out" of socialism and join the ALP and the Greens later on. The ones you're meeting must be the sad sacks who never gave up on that useless organisation.
Also its a trot outfit so fuck em
>>564536The old rank and file are respectable worker oriented communists even if they are trots
The ALP strivers are very embarrassing
Shame really
>>564541Austin Powers' car transformed into a lady
Made in China, of course.
>>564549do i even want to click these…
>LaRoucheWhat makes you say this?
>>564551Thanks, I thought it was just being used as a slur like many here do.
haha there is some dumb shit there
>>564564lol 420 pages
Instead of that, he should learn from Haz and simply debate someone with a PhD and then claim that he has taken the Dr title as a prize
>>564568Will any of you bongs blast
Ding dong, the witch is dead from their window or would that be literal suicide?
>>564571>bongsSure you're in the right thread?
>literalSure you're using the right word?
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