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  • eureka@aussie.zonetoAustralia@aussie.zone•As One Nation surges in the polls, why are the Greens being left behind?English
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    2 天前

    Thanks for explaining, sorry that I was rude, I just assumed it was a comment replying to a headline.

    And you’re absolutely right that most of the news stations are promoting ONP. They also manufacture outrage events like “Pauline talks to [controversial person] in a podcast”. There is institutional media bias and the article barely even mentioned it: “The review pointed to “minimal media oxygen” and a fragmented audience as barriers to getting their message across.”, that’s the only time they even glanced at the mass media situation.

    What can people do to counter this? It seems to me like the most effective approach is to bring people away from Murdoch/Silicon Valley/etc. mass media, or at least to inoculate them against the ads and bleaching that ultraweathy-owned media will push. It might be easier for centrists with progressive interests (e.g. queer folk might be interested in queer publications, environmentalists might be interested in pro-environmental media outlets) but for the bulk of people, it seems ABC and The Guardian might be the most acceptable mainstream publications.

    Perhaps it could be useful to have some infographic resources to illustrate just how biased each of the right-leaning resources are. Not just some ‘biaschecker.com’ thing, but specific examples and statistics showing those advertisments. I wonder if the ABC Media Watch has done something like that…

  • eureka@aussie.zonetoAustralia@aussie.zone•As One Nation surges in the polls, why are the Greens being left behind?English
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    2 天前

    Thorpe said exactly what I’ve thought and heard:

    The outspoken Victorian said while she was grateful for time with the party, she sometimes found the experience alienating, as she felt the messaging targeted educated, privileged voters.

    “They’re preaching to the converted, and they’ll always stay at that 10% because they just talk to themselves,” Thorpe said.

    I’ve seen barely any Greens interaction beyond flyers so I might be wrong on this, but the Greens seem to be mobilising people who are already aligned, like doorknocking in progressive areas, more than any kind of deep organising of communities. I think that’s something Chandler-Mather may have the intention and drive to change, but I don’t know if the Greens rank-and-file, at large, will be capable of it. Quite frankly, I think a couple of socialist groups near me have fallen into the same trap of primarily appealing to the stereotypical young tertiary-educated urban progressivist crowd who already agrees with 90% of their policies, rather than actually listening to the rest of their greater city, engaging with them and working to build a broader movement alongside them.

  • eureka@aussie.zoneMtoOverseas News@aussie.zone•It’s A Race Between Revolutionary Consciousness And The Implementation Of Police RobotsEnglish
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    3 天前

    First up, killer robots are already here. Drones in Ukraine have already killed troops acting autonomously.

    And there’s a real difference between weapons being used in international warfare, and being normalised in local police forces. Police purchase weapons with intent for [potential] use against civilians of their own region, and history consistently shows weapons intended for (e.g.) hostage situations eventually making their way into regular use against the most basic resistance, like tear gas and riot control ammunition being used and abused in Australian protests. I mention ‘abused’, an example of this abuse would be using a round designed for long range hits to the chest being deployed at close range to the head.

    So when I see police forces doing PR on these robotic weapons, I am threatened. I fully expect these to be deployed against citizen protests, even if they don’t fire metal ammunition.

    [robots vs. masses]

    I’m getting an impression that you’re picturing an all-out human revolution against the billionaire oligarchs - a world in which the “revolutionary consciousness” Johnstone mentioned is already universal. But I don’t believe oligarchs need to directly suppress 10 billion people. They already have a position of dominance over much of our existing political state, through political donation and mass media influence and institutional pull of essential businesses and more, their power over the state is not just limited to the Liberal Party and One Nation. And that state includes the police force who are more-or-less governed by the laws our politicians enact.

    The biggest individual marches Australia has seen would be around 100,000 to 300,000 people, such as the 2025 March for Humanity, the 2003 anti-war protests and the Corroboree 2000 Walk for Reconciliation, all in Sydney. The March for Humanity had a helicopter and mounted units present, and there was at least one drone, although I’m not certain whether or not it was police-operated. But I don’t believe it’s the kind of event where robot weapons would be deployed for crowdwork.

    How about events where some people expect police to violently suppress… weapons exhibitions in Melbourne and Sydney. To be clear, this is still not an event where metal ammunition would be expected, but crowd-control weapons and violence are expected, so you might get protesters with the education, preparation and will to disable a robotic weapon. We’re seeing numbers closer to “hundreds”, at best maybe “thousands” but most of that crowd will disperse at the first signs of coordinated police aggression. Even if we assume no guns on the robots, I wouldn’t even put this crowd at 1:1 odds in this scenario, unless they can very effectively use remote vulnerabilities (electronics jamming, paint bombing). I’d expect even a dozen robots deployed, alongside officers, would intimidate most of the crowd, and if you’re allowed to add rubber bullets and tear gas to them, then it’s a bloodbath.

    But maybe I’m pessimistic or thinking too short-term, where most people today are living lives where an uprising isn’t on the table. Let’s assume ten percent of the population is rapidly educated, organised and mobilised against the state after a Bloody Sunday-type incident.

    Firstly, I see no reason that such robots can’t be industrially mass-produced and therefore could be somewhat expendable. A protestor flips the bot over like a tortoise? The operator can just start controlling a reserve bot that was waiting nearby on standby. A bot flips a protestor on their back? That could be days or weeks in a hospital. So it really is asymmetric warfare, even if we could each win 1:1 in a battle.

    Another advantage of those robotic weapons is they can be remotely controlled - if an uprising occurs in Melbourne, teams of trained operators (e.g. some police and military) in all other cities could contribute to controlling the robot weapons. Depending on acceptable lag, they could even be controlled internationally, although maybe that’s not as feasible in Australia if the robots aren’t semi-autonomous. So to divide those resources, there would need to be widespread uprising to strain, or better yet, target the operators in many locations simultaneously.

    My point being, I don’t see a situation where 1,000 oligarchs would need to directly battle 10 billion people. They would need governments to turn against them first.

  • eureka@aussie.zonetopics@lemmy.world•A Black woman sits on the DC metro as white nationalists prepare to march on Fourth of JulyEnglish
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    9 天前

    Reposing from the earlier post in this community:

    In light of the popularity of these images in response to their stunt, I’d like so share this. It discusses the Australian neo-Nazi equivalent org (the totally-for-real disbanded National Socialist Network), but the message is universal.

    https://thewhiterosesociety.writeas.com/9-principles-for-journalists-reporting-on-neo-nazis

    So let’s talk about Patriot Front:

    • Leader is a trust fund kid
    • Their messaging server and other comms were repeatedly hacked
    • They unwittingly hired an antifascist to be their official photographer, which needless to say, allowed activists to gather evidence and resulted in multiple PF members losing their jobs, and attempting to sue as a result (Plaintiffs Paul Gancarz, Daniel Turetchi, Colton Brown, James Johnson, and Amelia Johnson vs. David Alan Capito II)
    • Antifascists have repeatedly ambushed them, including locating their secret car park where they hopped into a U-Haul to go to a rally
    • There are videos of them getting beaten into retreat in Philly when they tried to march
    • There are videos of the Proud Boy fascists attacking up PF-splinter members (‘Rose City Nationalists’) and ripping off their balaclavas
    • There was an incident where a regional leader “spent the money on drugs” [source: a neo-Nazi drama podcast called The Absolute State of White Nationalism]
    • They so poorly planned an action against an antifascist neighborhood, that when retreating, a member almost got hit by a train [same source]
    • They stopped allowing women when two of three woman members snitched (one of them cheating on a member first) [same source]
    • They stopped allowing teenagers to join (still grooming them, they just can’t officially join) due to a ‘homosexual femboy’ incident, whatever that means [same source]
    • Their training videos show such incompetence that they literally can’t turn the correct direction when marching [you can find their training videos on the Patriot Fail leak]
    • At least former one member, when identified as Dillon Oakes, tried to snitch on their org and pretend they were undercover the whole time - “While we do work with former white nationalists who sincerely want to leave the movement, Nazis who pretend to have never been Nazis to escape consequences do not qualify.”

    Plenty more, might add some more in replies. They’re a serious issue, make no mistake, but there are far better jabs to make than “they wear masks and conservatives don’t - gotcha!”

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