I’m still impressed by how many times it’s happened.

FWIW, I’m not deadset against this as a concept (because honestly, who needs fucking 50 different kinds of toothpaste or toilet paper), but there’s no way in hell this is about customers. This is about exerting power over suppliers.

Came here to say the same. On one hand, the mass overproduction and waste is atrocious (an atrocity) and the false perception of choice and the choice paralysis is just a waste of our time on top of that, so if I still shopped there it would have been refreshing to see. On the other hand, let’s not pretend Coles cares.

You’d have to be mad to

Yes, but at the same time, an astounding amount of people are mad when it comes to tech.

My mate in IT says just this month someone in their corpo office used their work email to sign up to a malicious fake copy of a piracy website. If they were reusing the same password, that could let a hacker into the company account, let alone any other things that employee signed up to on that work email.

That doesn’t even cover the people posting things they shouldn’t on facegram.

Yes, it is.

The USA is a tyrannical regime. Their congress is about as meaningful as North Korea’s at this point. They couldn’t even impeach the corrupt criminal.

In fact, on paper, bloody NK already had better seperation of powers than the USA before this election, but obviously it means little because they’re both tyrannical regimes in reality.

As for their malware, NSA TAO have a reputation to uphold. Private corporations aren’t immune, we’ve known about PRISM for over a decade, for a famous example.

Why choose? Steal from both.

Gotta love that cute lil image the juniors prompted.

I rarely watch fj, so I’m not who they’re talking about, but Manufacturing Consent is the first political theory book I properly read. It’s certainly worth a read and clearly still relevant today (but if you know you never will read it, at least read the wikipedia summary). The book can be easily downloaded online for free.

Reminder for the newer crowd: “This is extremely dangerous to our democracy.”

There are chapters in this video labelled “corporatism”, and I think this is one of the few times I’ve seen that poor term used correctly.

The word “corporatism” is so often misunderstood and misused instead of “corporatocracy”, a system where business corporations have strong influence in politics (which is effectively just describing capitalism…).

But corporatism isn’t even referring to these corporations, it’s derived from the word ‘corpus’; body, to refer to a system where economic interest groups like guilds and labour associations, collectively bargain on the basis of their common interests. Notably, it advocates for class collaboration rather than class struggle, an idea which sounds pretty nice in a speech but has repeatedly resulted in domination of labour by either the owning class or the state, and the suffering of the worker class, who has been disempowered by being forced into collaborating at a rigged table. Obviously, when the ruling class is threatened by the worker class, class collaboration such as corporatism is an appealing compromise (trap) for them to support.

While corporatism has a long and varied history, and I don’t mean to oversimplify it, corporatism is especially well-known as a core aspect in Fascist ideology [wikipedia]. It’s no coincidence that the video author is drawing comparisons to Mussolini’s face on the Palazzo Braschi. The fascists said a lot of contradictory, arrogant and garbage things in speeches, but one can’t ignore this quote of ᴉuᴉʅossnW in the book The Doctrine of Fascism:

“Fascism should more properly be called corporatism because it is the merger of state and corporate power.”

If you haven’t seen it yet, their collaboration about casinos is especially fun.

How Much Money Can We Launder In A Day?

At some point you have to leave the past in the past and build a more equitable world for all, today.

Yep.

Unfortunately, some people confuse equity with “just treat everyone the same, I don’t need to do anything about the things my ancestors stole”. That leaving the past in the past means ignoring its continuing impacts. As long as systematic disadvantage from stolen land and oppression is ongoing, it’s not the past - it’s the present.

While unwritten, I have been relaxed when it comes to Aussie users posting these particularly notable examples and there haven’t been any complaints from locals. As long as they don’t flood the place like they did before.

For what it’s worth, dont fall into any resignation that we mirror the US. Yes, we do in far too many ways, but take Clive Palmer as a simple counter example. Dutton doesnt have the (for lack of the correct word) presense and charisma of Trump either.

Furthermore, parties outside of the Coalition and Labor are on a sharp rise. We don’t have the US FPTP system where the only viable choices of president are (frankly) another two bad candidates, evidenced by the lower US voter turnout for both parties. Here, the crossbench is a real option, growing year on year.

My point being, our material and legal circumstances are different. Education can actually make enough of a difference to at least move forward, even if it’s another shit Labor reign.

Yeah, you’ve gotten the idea.

I haven’t tested, but I believe it’s also a pathway to allow us to use our Lemmy accounts to leave comments on PeerTube videos, to up/downvote them and to subscribe, on ways that make sense to us as Lemmy users and which make sense to the PeerTube users seeing our comments on their videos.

What’s the point of blaming dead generations? That doesn’t achieve anything for society. Guilt doesn’t fix things.

If my dad stole your car five years ago and I inherited it, I wasn’t involved at all, but you still had your car stolen. Would it be fine for me to say “I’m not a thief, you should blame my dad” and keep driving it around?

Of course, a car is a trivial example. Seizing entire communities’ land, kidnapping and massacring them, for starters, is obviously a bit harder to forget about after a few generations, because the consequences still impact people today.

Sometimes it’s not even about denial of what happened, but rather a mindset that the past doesn’t affect the present anymore.

I often-enough hear people saying things along the line of, well, past generations took the land but society is better and less racist now, we collectively apologised, and my family weren’t even here at the time, so we have no obligation to do anything now. Almost like if my dad stole your car ten years ago, died after, and I say well I’ve never stolen anything in my life, it was my dad’s car, this car is mine, stop complaining about the past. It doesn’t make sense to start acting like equal treatment is fair after so much is stolen and so little is given back. But I know people who believe morality is that own individual behaviour, whether they are doing hurtful acts, and disregard their own position in society, how they got there and who suffered to allow that to happen.

Guilt isn’t what people are asking for, guilt actually doesn’t do anything useful, but rather we need people to realise that it doesn’t matter that we personally didn’t commit massacres and seize land, because the consequences of those acts still disadvantage current generations of the victims, and it’s not resolved if we dismiss the consequences as someone else’s sins.

My guess (I don’t know for sure) is that Mastodon is interpreting all posts in “/c/perth” as a thread with #perth added to it, and for example, all the /c/asklemmy’s will be seen by them as #asklemmy (regardless of which instance’s /c/asklemmy it is). So if they follow #perth, they’d get all our /c/perth posts.

I haven’t looked into inter-format federation much but as we’ve seen, it can get funky. Consider this (pseudo-)community: https://aussie.zone/c/thelinuxexperiment_channel@tilvids.com

It’s really Lemmy reading this PeerTube video channel as a community, so we can basically subscribe to and comment on a video channel from here!

Thanks, luckily there are also a few in Aus too, including https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewish_Council_of_Australia who have been important in providing a voice to mainstream media which isn’t just a Zionist mouthpiece.

pretty arrogant if you ask me.

Consider our perspective: we’re on https://aussie.zone/ (a Lemmy site) making normal posts to https://aussie.zone/c/perth .

aus.social has decided to federate this community and interpret this post as a Mastodon post that you’re seeing. We didn’t choose for that to happen, most of us didn’t even know that was happening, and for us, it’s not nice to see someone coming over and blaming us for what Mastodon has done and threatening to mute or block us.

Your concern is real and valid, but we’re not the ones causing it and we can’t fix it. It’s a Mastodon problem.

Rare /r/sydney win:

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Yeah, I knew this one was coming - x.com has been on the blacklist since December 2023. We’re not taking it off.

Zionists pretend to speak on behalf of all Jews, but never have [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-Zionism#Early_Jewish_anti-Zionism] and certainly don’t now - all the Palestinian rallies I’ve seen have a notable contingent of anti-Zionist Jews protesting alongside them. For an extreme example, you can find plenty of cases of Orthodox Jews burning flags of the Zionist State even decades before this conflict.

It’s important not to confuse the Zionist Regime with the Jewish peoples of the world, just as one doesn’t conflate neo-Nazis with all Europeans. Both the Zionist movement and anti-semites (esp. Nazis) intentionally try to push this false narrative for their own separatist goals, and it’s important we recognise and counter it.

That article is worth a post of its own for awareness, I reckon. That’s not trivial.