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[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 hours ago

Yep, article is well meaning but dumb.

Idealism is great, but politics requires pragmatism. Which is why people like AOC and Bernie (who are well left of Kamala politically) still told voters to vote for Kamala in the election - she was the only way to avoid Trump, she was the pragmatic choice.

But apparently we'll be discussing why it's a dumb idea to be a protest voter in a very close election for the next four years non-stop.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 21 hours ago

I'm Australia's regard, what the bully is doing is hurting himself more that his victim.

If the bully punches himself in the face I'm not gonna punch myself in the face to prevent him being emboldened.

As an aside, I don't know why people think that a market capitalism solution is what will stop Trump. The whole world won't just stop buying US-made products in unison and the NASDAQ drops precipitously and Trump announces "oh dear, i will stop doing a fascism and be a good boy from now on". This is a fantasy that does not map to the real world.

Look at how tarrifs have affected Putin or Kim Jong Il: barely at all. Yes, their people suffer, but the leaders make new trade deals with different counties so their personal wealth in largely unaffected. Meanwhile they have big propaganda wins as it feeds right into their party narrative that the 'rest of the world is against us', 'the elites are conspiring at the WTO'. And those countries have been heavily targeted by tariff schemes for decades, how long you guys want Trump? Historically the only way authoritarian regimes are brought down is via internal conflict or war.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (5 children)

Why do most people here seem to agree that Trump's tarrifs are stupid and brash, yet Australia's leadership deeming retaliatory tarrifs would be the same is 'gutless and weak'?

This is just smart leadership on Australia's part. We are a trade surplus partner with USA - meaning we import more from the US than we export, and importantly the targets of the tarriffs are only a small fraction of our exports to the US.

So, to create knee-jerk retaliatory tarrifs on the US for the sake of assisting a very small sliver of our exports would be truly shooting ourselves in the foot.

Have a look at our iron ore export leading markets and look for the USA to see how much we need them: https://www.statista.com/statistics/1149300/australia-leading-iron-ore-export-destinations/ 1000042876

Now add up ALL iron, steel aluminium, and 'ores' from this list of all Aus -> US exports: https://tradingeconomics.com/australia/exports/united-states

Sum total: ~$550mil of our $14.7billion exports to the US in 2024 were aluminium or steel or their ores. So a 25% tarrif on 3.7% of our exports? To a country we have a trade surplus with?

Its not worth us tariffing them, would hurt us far more than we gain, and our top economists agree - saying "retaliatory tarrifs would be an act of self-sabotage" https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-03-02/treasury-came-armed-with-a-warning-politicians-dragged-them-mud/104995418

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 days ago

Most plastic melts at between 200°C and 320°C. So... Uh. Let's fire up those ovens, baby.

I suggest we start with Dupont and 3M executives to field test the removal process - since they're cool with testing their products on us.

Additional suggestions encouraged. Coke-Amatil? Tyre manufacturers?

[–] [email protected] 18 points 3 days ago

There's a whole ocean between 'a single (biased) source claims Signal have stopped responding to requests for cybercrime assistance' and 'Signal is a pro-Kremlin app'.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

But it can make custom emoji! 🫨 That alone is worth the hundreds of millions Apple spent.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 days ago

Probably the same as we have now, "be neat if and when it eventually arrives".

[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Must be nice to live in this fantasy world of yours where there are no real problems.

No Russian war of aggression in Ukraine, no Palestinian genocide, no billionaire capitalists causing climate change and wealth inequality hitting levels not seen since the 1920 market crash - just happy feels with head in the Murdoch sand.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago

Nah it's all good - it's confusing because federal-level hate crime and Anti-Nazi laws came in recently also (last month). Those are all mandatory minimum prison sentences though, no fines.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 days ago

I cordially invite Elon to come to Melbourne Australia and flip his favourite salute.

Its a significantly more painful $23,000 fine there, and if he does it repeatedly there's a good chance of a 12 month prison term.

https://www.vic.gov.au/fact-sheet-nazi-symbol-prohibition

P. S. If my maths is right he can do it almost 15 million times before he runs out of money, I might have to email Vic gov to ask them to review the fine to be wealth-adjusted.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 days ago

Do you know how you stop 'edgy teens' from becoming actual Nazis?

You show them consequences for their incredibly disrespectful and obscene behavior.

This kid obviously hasn't has enough consequences in his life, and will now get to experience some.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Only in one state of Australia, Victoria. Worth mentioning.

 

Hi all.

First, thanks for reading. I'm not exactly sure if this is the correct location to raise a concern about a ban/deletion, but I guess it's as good as any.

So:

  1. I dont know which mod it was. Log is redacted?
  2. post deleted & banned from the [email protected] community
  3. screenshot of modlog attached
  4. screenshot of comment attached.
  5. It was an appreciated post with 106 upvotes 26 downvotes at deletion and several positive responses yesterday. When I came back today (I'm in Australia so timezones..) the comment was deleted and I was banned - and several negative comments have appeared which I would have liked to respond to.

Original post: a news article about Proton Mail.

My post: Essentially I took the time to read the article and included the quotes of what was written by the CEO that was being discussed in the article - as many in the comments had surprised me by jumping straight to him being a literal Nazi. As not a single other commenter had included the quotes to discuss the source, I thought that would be a valuable contribution. I also gave my opinions which you can see in the comment on the modlog, the formatting is messed up so I included a screenshot of the (recreated) comment. https://lemmy.world/modlog/1347

What I didn't notice was that the article writer had omitted the first part of the Twitter post from the CEO in her quotation of him - so I quoted her, and in doing so missed the context that the CEO had actually started "Great pick by @realDonaldTrump" at the start - which does of course change the context of his Twitter post to praise. This was clarified for me in the angry responses. I would have edited my comment and owned my mistake, however stood by the rest of the comment regarding Proton's official follow-up.

So, is that deletion and ban fair?

Update 10 hours later: contacted a mod directly to see if i can find out more about the ban or perhaps get it remedied.

Update 48 hours later: contacted the entire mod team, and got back feedback from several of them - all helpful. My post has now been undeleted, and my account unbanned from the News community 👍

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