It’s complicated.

Unfortunately, the Wikipedia articles I found lack citations, so they probably aren’t a good source. They claim that the ROC (Taiwan) claims all of the mainland.

This reddit thread refers to the ROC constitution and interprets it as:

In the Act Governing Relations between the People of the Taiwan area and the Mainland area, the following is stated:

“Taiwan Area” refers to Taiwan, Penghu, Kinmen, Matsu, and any other area under the effective control of the Government.

“Mainland Area” refers to the territory of the Republic of China outside the Taiwan Area.

“People of the Taiwan Area” refers to the people who have household registrations in the Taiwan Area.

“People of the Mainland Area” refers to the people who have household registrations in the Mainland Area.

The implication is that wherever this law applies, is what the ROC government considers to be “territory of the ROC outside of the Taiwan Area”. Currently the application of this law overlaps the entirety of the PRC, minus HK and Macau.

This the fun part. If you look at the ROC constitution, it makes […] mention to Mongolia and Tibet.

I don’t know how much of this applies beyond the KMT.

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:

For those unfamiliar with Prime Minister Albanese:

• Founding member and secretary of Parliamentary Friends of Palestine around 2000^[1]
• 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?

Yes, the Labor Party have demonstrated they’re inadequate to solve our ongoing crises. The Greens appear to have kept their strong crossbench position in the senate so I can’t be too disappointed.

An Australian anti-fascist perspective: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SZ2KvtlLJyQ

Nazis aren’t “people you disagree with”. They’re anti-social violence-worshippers, and in this Australian context, terrorists grooming children. The main Australian neo-Nazi group literally had leadership get caught applying for a job in disability services when they said they only wanted to work cases for young boys[1]. ASIO have emphasised the decreasing age of NSNs membership. Their strategy, like many neo-Nazi orgs, is to indoctrinate and recruit disaffected and alienated teenagers.

Yes.

It’s kinda weird to sort of start rolling back to where some type of conservatism is actually a good thing.

For what it’s worth, politics is more complex than conservation and change. The status quo is what got us here, so we must to better than merely conserve.

Apples and oranges. A nazi salute is not a racial comment. It’s a signal of allegiance to extermination (which, by the way, extermination is physically violent).

The idealistic fantasy that we should permit the intentional organisation of Nazism is not an effective way to preserve liberty of speech. Australia has no intention of becoming the failing pseudo-liberalist state that the USA is. So if the law doesn’t stop them, our communities will continue to step up and silence them ourselves.