Lai Ching-te has been sworn in as Taiwan’s new president, urging China to “cease their political and military intimidation against Taiwan” and to keep the world free from the fear of more war....
A group of billionaires and business titans working to shape U.S. public opinion of the war in Gaza privately pressed New York City’s mayor last month to send police to disperse pro-Palestinian protests at Columbia University, according to communications obtained by The Washington Post and people familiar with the group....
The internet has made a lot of people armchair experts happy to offer their perspective with a degree of certainty, without doing the work to identify gaps in their knowledge. Often the mark of genuine expertise is knowing the limitations of your knowledge....
Because manipulation is a very sinister thing. You’re deliberately using music to influence and control how another person feels to get a response that benefits you.
Yeah, nah. Punk is resisting the state and it’s ridiculous rules. If a rule is good, we can follow it without an oppressive regime to tell us what we can and can’t do.
Outreach: Make connections with local people, get them aware of you and what you’re wanting to do, get their input on what they would like to see.
Planning: Come up with things you want to see your community doing, maybe start with a small street party each year.
For example you might live in an apartment, so you knock on some doors and meet with your neighbours and they say they’d love a garden. Now you’ve gotta plan how to get it started, maybe a local council or vacant property could be converted. Once you’ve got an activity or place, you can get people to start using it and spending time together. Maybe your first harvest comes in and you all have a large picnic which you can advertise around to get more awareness and engagement, etc.
The welfare state was invented by Bismarck to crush leftism, it’s not leftism itself.
And unions and unionism are fucking atrocious in this country.
Look at the SDA it’s an entirely industry bought and ran right wing union, which has actually fought for worse deals for its members.
Furthermore we only allow government approved unions, meaning tough luck if you want a real union that will fight for you. It’s the entire reason the IWW is not operating in Australia despite its presence across the world.
The closest thing we have to a left wing party outside of the fringe socialist groups is the Greens who run on a proper union supporting platform.
Good, soon to be another dead war criminal who shares responsibility for the genocide of the East Timorese.
American propaganda and indoctrination is so strong that they look back fondly on this guy. Fucking pathetic really.
Edit: Americans really love their genociders eh. Does this guy building a few houses for Americans absolve the torture, rape, and murder of hundreds of thousands of foreigners? Get your bloody heads out of your arses and stop worshiping your leaders.
This community just upvoted a guy saying he wanted to physically assault me and wishes he could.
Yet calling ignorance and supporting genocide as fucking pathetic is attacking people worthy of downvotes?
Please, the downvotes and combativeness are because Americans are trained their whole life to believe a narrative and support their party. I with my foreign perspective challenged their identity and they rallied in defense of all they know.
If you don’t believe go make a top level post explaining Carter’s crimes and see how well they receive it.
I haven't been posting Council threads since the election because to be honest it's been so exhausting after the disastrous result of the election. But the last couple of weeks I've popped it on for a few minutes here and there, including right now....
I’m not ashamed to be Australian. I’m ashamed to be under a “democracy” that relies on corrupt representatives and a legal system around enabling them.
The country needs a revolution, it’s the head that’s the problem.
“He was sitting on a rock and everybody told him, ‘It’s a rock, it’s not going to hatch,’” Griffard tells the Post. “And all of a sudden, in his mind, it hatched and he has a chick.”
Taiwan’s new president takes office and calls on China to cease its hostile actions ( www.theguardian.com )
Lai Ching-te has been sworn in as Taiwan’s new president, urging China to “cease their political and military intimidation against Taiwan” and to keep the world free from the fear of more war....
Trump’s promises to oil executives ought to be illegal ( wapo.st )
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Business titans privately urged NYC mayor to use police on Columbia protesters, chats show ( www.washingtonpost.com )
A group of billionaires and business titans working to shape U.S. public opinion of the war in Gaza privately pressed New York City’s mayor last month to send police to disperse pro-Palestinian protests at Columbia University, according to communications obtained by The Washington Post and people familiar with the group....
Is This the End of Plastic? Visa's New Technology Could Replace Physical Cards ( www.cnet.com )
Qualified experts of Lemmy, do people believe you when you answer questions in your field?
The internet has made a lot of people armchair experts happy to offer their perspective with a degree of certainty, without doing the work to identify gaps in their knowledge. Often the mark of genuine expertise is knowing the limitations of your knowledge....
Unmasking counterprotesters who attacked UCLA’s pro-Palestine encampment ( www.cnn.com )
Another World is Possible ( lemmy.dbzer0.com )
Just found a screenshot on my phone ( lemmy.world )
Can you see it 👀
Dark Side of the Moon rule. ( lemmy.world )
Coming right to your doorstep ( lemmy.dbzer0.com )
Not sure if antique or prehistoric ( i.giphy.com )
"Don't Be Weak and Gay," a Missouri GOP Candidate Tells Voters in a New Campaign Ad ( www.them.us )
community is punk ( slrpnk.net )
Chinese doctors treated an end-stage type 2 diabetic patient by implanting islet tissue derived in vitro from his own endoderm stem cells. The patient has been insulin-independent for 33 months. ( www.nature.com )
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/15676759...
Single Issue Voters will save the world! ( lemmy.world )
Army whistleblower who exposed alleged Australian war crimes in Afghanistan is sentenced to prison ( apnews.com )
Stellaris gets a DLC about AI that features AI-created voices, director insists it's 'ethical' and 'we're pretty good at exploring dystopian sci-fi and don't want to end up there ourselves' ( www.pcgamer.com )
Jimmy Carter: Grandson says former president is ‘coming to the end’ ( www.cnn.com )
Holy shit the LNP is now peddling conspiracy theories about ECQ and how the election was run
I haven't been posting Council threads since the election because to be honest it's been so exhausting after the disastrous result of the election. But the last couple of weeks I've popped it on for a few minutes here and there, including right now....
Don't worry, I'm sure you'll be privileged and safe ( lemmy.world )
JK Rowling slammed for asking if she can be Black if she likes “Motown & fancy myself in cornrows” ( www.lgbtqnation.com )
xkcd #2932: Driving PSA ( imgs.xkcd.com )
https://xkcd.com/2932...
🎉 1000 Subscribers 🎉 ( files.catbox.moe )
David McBride: Australian army whistleblower jailed for leaking documents ( www.bbc.co.uk )
David McBride is the first Australian to be jailed over the war crimes allegations his disclosure helped expose....
Murphy being Murphy ( lemmy.world )
Migrants aren't pushing down wages. It's your boss. ( sh.itjust.works )
https://mastodon.social/@peterjriley2024/112436295100404451
Anon looks up Danish cuisine ( sh.itjust.works )