Lemmyvision 3 /c/rage Nomination Ballot

Place a number inside the box next to ALL songs, ranking them from 1 to 10 in order of preference.

[4]  King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard - Grow Wings and Fly
[3]  Genesis Owusu - DEATH CULT ZOMBIE
[9]  Peach PRC - Miss Erotica
[7]  Ben Gerrans - London Lights
[8]  Ball Park Music - Please Don't Move to Melbourne
[2]  Ecca Vandal - BLEACH
[5]  Tame Impala - Dracula
[1]  PLAYLUNCH - Keith
[6]  The Terrys - Work Out Fine
[10] Tanzer - Maximum Glamour

Once again, hard to rank. Especially with a wide range of structurally dynamic songs, lyrically-focused works and solid bangers. All were good fun.

I should clarify: I am not an M–L nor Stalinist, I disagree with their ideologies, and have never been involved with a CPA. Any posts I make honouring the impact of historical CPAs on our labour movement are critical. You are completely fine to feel this strongly about them, there is no socialism nor communism without democracy.

I am also not affiliated with Socialist Alliance (although I’m much more sympathetic with them), however I do believe GreenLeft’s list of events is a valuable resource and I share it with others.

(Maybe there is more than one org calling itself the a Communist Party of Australia???)

Haha, it’s a messy ol’ thing, this one:

• (1920) The original Communist Party of Australia is formed.
• (1944-1951) Changed its name to Australian Communist Party, before changing it back
• (1964) The Communist Party of Australia (Marxist–Leninist) is formed as a Maoist split, stemming from the Sino-Soviet split.
• (1971) The Socialist Party of Australia splits from the original CPA. “The party was established by former members of the original Communist Party of Australia who resigned or were expelled due to internal disagreements over the Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia and the party’s adoption of Eurocommunism.”
• (1991) The original CPA dissolves itself: “At the party’s 31st Congress […] the Communist Party was dissolved and the New Left Party formed.The New Left Party was intended to be a broader party which would attract a wider range of members, which did not happen, and the New Left Party disbanded in 1992. The assets of the Communist Party were thereafter directed into the SEARCH Foundation”
• (1996) The Socialist Party of Australia, seeing itself as the legitimate successor, changes its name to the Communist Party of Australia. (This is the one who published the article.)
• (2019) The modern CPA’s general secretary came into conflict with their Central Committee, and deleted the party’s socials (I only just learned this lol), then split to form the modern Australian Communist Party, which I believe is pretty dead as a party now, but I don’t know for sure.

So you basically have the historical CPA, the modern CPA, the CPA-ML, and remnants of the modern ACP.

I hope to see some of you there!

A land acknowledgement is relevant to an event held on land. But especially to an event focused on commemoration and respect, of acknowledging war and conflict Australia has been involved in.

Might need to start calling them Child Labor party

My first employer didn’t keep track of my birthday, so I got about a thousand in backpay and never got another shift.

I didn’t realise it went up to 21, I thought it was just 18.

ok

MUDRAT did well last year on aussie.zone, it was a tight vote but they were close to third place out of ten.

Last year, there were a few rallies under the banner of March for Australia, attracting a few thousands including some mainstream right-wing politicians (including PHON, Katter, Libertarian). While it was obvious to anyone paying attention that this was being organised by white supremacists (primarily Hugo ‘auspill’ Lennon, who is the son of a huge property investor, and ‘Bec Freedom’, a white supremacist who poorly tries to downplay it as ‘Aussie values’, both affiliated with the former NSN), it was only after the first rally that most attendees realised it was, in fact, being run to platform self-declared neo-Nazis. The following MFA rallies dropped attendance by 85% - it is now unambiguously a white supremacist organisation with the NSN at its core.

Last year, the NSN pulled a media stunt where they booed at ANZAC dawn services during the Welcome to Country, which as shown by chat logs in the video, is done by the group for explicitly white-supremacist reasons. However, due to recent laws, the NSN have officially disbanded to avoid prosecution, but are obviously still an organised group.

This year, the Fight for Australia (Lennon wouldn’t let Bec Freedom have the March for Australia accounts, so they rebranded) tried to create a campaign to do this stunt again.

That should give you enough context to watch the video.

I feel like all the reporting on this is just giving them the publicity they want.

Speaking generally about the mainstream reporting, sure. These stunts, as per their own manuals, are done to use the mainstream media to advertise and legitimise themselves.

But that doesn’t apply to the attached video. I mean no disrespect with this question, but did you watch it? And if so, how do you think it affects these groups?

There are important reasons to report on these groups and their stunts, and there are ethical ways to do it considerately and constructively: https://thewhiterosesociety.writeas.com/9-principles-for-journalists-reporting-on-neo-nazis

I have not read about WMD. I’ll do that now I guess

Sorry for assuming and for my attitude, I guess I’m in a bit of a media bubble and assumed it was still well-known worldwide. It’s a large reason why the Iraq War faced huge counterprotests in my country. Long story short, a main part of the pretense for the Iraq War was the US saying that Iraq was building “Weapons of Mass Destruction”. Before the invasion, the CIA told the US government that the gov’s intel was not reliable, and the UN couldn’t find any evidence of them since the disarmament in the 90s. [wikipedia]

The reason I mention that, is because this isn’t the first time the US has used this pretense of weapons building to justify an invasion, and combined with the fact that Netanyahu has been claiming repeatedly for decades that Iran is close to completing them, the claim doesn’t sound trustworthy.

Well Iran is building nuclear bombs.

And they’ve been very close to finishing for *checks notes* the last 30 years. I’m sure you’re old enough to have heard the “WMDs” and “bringing freedom” excuses before.

Neither of those factors are a rationale for either Israel or the USA, who both possess nuclear weapons, and who have convicted war criminal leaders and anti-democratic leaders respectively, to intervene. Neither have high-ground over any dictatorship. Yes, this war is an adventure of the Zionist Regime in Palestine and the United States of America.

haha, some neo-nazis are pathetically whining at police in Perth for removing them before they could boo, saying they totally weren’t going to interrupt anything. No-one’s buying their bad-faith pleads this time.

There was still some heckling in Perth, but watching the March for Australia fash play the victim like this is just funny. Their own supporters get to watch them cowardly pretend “no mr officer we weren’t going to do anything” instead of moving on with (feigned) dignity.

Video link (warning: white supremacist neo-Nazi account) - https://xcancel.com/BecFreedom/status/2047887963703648571

I do agree, but I also believe that journalists need to be careful in how they do it, because these groups intentionally play to the media as a form of advertisement, legitimisation and image sanitisation, as per their own leaked guides.

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

I’ve found the mobile website (as opposed to apps) fine, although I generally avoid apps unless they’re necessary. Which app are you using? (and who are its developers)

Linking the Boy Boy video reacting to finfluencers, for a laugh.

I wonder how much it costs to pretend to be rich (without taking out huge loans). Things like renting expensive clothes, cars and locations for a few hours, LARPing and then leaving.

I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again and again: the word “influencer” is one of the shadiest things I can think of, and it’s amazing how numb people are to it. "Wow, that’s my favourite manipulator! I watch that deceiver all the time <3 "

Luckily I haven’t been exposed to much of that behaviour on my local instance. Which instances/communities are you finding all these jerks at? (I’ve blocked a couple for unrelated reasons so maybe I’m not seeing them.)

There’s also some element that “alternative sites” tend to accumulate the people banned from the primary site. Luckily the strong left-leaning initial crowd kept most of the bigotry at bay during the formative years, but I really dislike that in general-purpose instances, many have failed to create much original culture distinct from reddit. Lemmy isn’t reddit, and that can be a good thing.

Real-space example: a women’s-only art installation/lounge. It was only a matter of time before it went to court. I think at one point they (perhaps jokingly) proposed converting it to a bathroom to allow legal discrimination. (and that still wouldn’t be the smelliest exhibition in Mona)

https://mona.net.au/stuff-to-do/art/the-ladies-lounge