The water here is flipped upside down too. That’s why you sometimes see it written as H2O instead of H2O. In year 9 chemistry class, we had some joker combine water the wrong way and it just splashed down to the ceiling until it evaporated.
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.
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.
A Nazi salute is a form of hate crime against Jewish people, would it also be illegal to use Racial Slurs?
Why would it? One does not imply the other.
Also, a Nazi salute isn’t just a slur. It’s (at least) signaling that you want a bunch of groups exterminated (Jews are one of those many groups).
Why not execute them?
Pragmatic constraints.
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The majority of the world has always been in a bad mood because 90% of planet has always been poor, struggling, doesn’t have enough, live in poverty, are hungry and are generally not happy.
On one hand, there is absolutely harsh struggle around the world for the vast majority of the world.
On the other hand, it’s not as if most people are never in a good mood. Australia’s state broadcaster (ABC) had a show where people in small or disadvantaged groups answer anonymous questions, and when it came to Sudanese Australian refugees, a few were saying that life in Sudan was often happier despite their material struggles. IIRC a main part was that they had a collective culture, in some places outside of the cities even a communal village culture, and where good fortune was cause for celebration. Some contrasted that with our largely individualist, money-centric culture here.
All that to say, money doesn’t buy happiness, poverty doesn’t guarantee sadness. Money and other resources really really help, but it’s far from the whole picture.
For what it’s worth, a lot of mainstream culture in Australia comes from the British colony and European immigration so they might be on to something.
In Australia, depending on the state you live in, footie/football is assumed to be either rugby league or Australian rules football, unless the context makes it obvious that you’re talking about soccer (association football) or rugby union.
Yep, had to ask teacher for permission. Some would say ‘you should have gone during the break’ but I can’t remember if anyone was denied (and I don’t know if that would be illegal).
but open to other rabbit holes
If you like satirical comedy or entertaining educational shows, there’s a lot on Australian television (particularly shows from the national Australian Broadcasting Corporation). Also, for people who enjoyed The Office (at least, the UK version, I haven’t seen the US variant), I recommend Utopia - it’s far from a clone but has a lot of similar themes of workplace life mixed with poking fun at bureaucracy and government.
but I don’t live in australia, or have a VPN to access ABC iView!
Visit the sidebar resources of !piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com, or even just YouTube will get you a lot of them.
Exactly. Luckily it tends to get fixed up once it reaches the clouds.