^this, but two land mines
'economic coercion'
Mates, economic coercion is a daily occurrence for normal people. That's how our entire economic system is built. You're gonna have to come up with a better name than that.
Not sure, but I see articles from the past couple of years saying employees were were going to Fairwork about a 50% RTO mandate.
I've gambled much too often on the "spot test? ynah she'llberight" ride. Luckily nothing's been too bad or lasted too long but it took a few for me to learn how unexpected things can go.
10 senate seats and 12% of the vote is a bit more than a handful mate. My primary vote usually goes to parties around 0.1% before ending up at the Greens. Greens actually have some institutional platform and power, and the two main parties are no longer a majority of primary votes.
The electoral change has been slow, and too slow to have faith in if we want to save the planet (like you said, radical politics is needed), but it's real and indicative.
You're on the ball. In Australia, a member of the current biggest neo-Nazi group (Stuart von Moger IIRC) was tried to join NDIS and got investogated when they asked to be assigned to disaffected young men. This is an established strategy across the Western world and one certainly at play here.
From an interview with Ron H. Barassi (not to be confused with Ron Barassi):
Art Income Dialectic, on the B side of the single, is a delightful soliloquy of yours Ron. May I ask you which Shakespearian character's soliloquy do you feel most comfortable with; that of Hamlet -
"Drown the Stage with tears
And cleave the general ear with horrid speech
Make mad the guilty, and appal the free";
or that of Macbeth?
"I am in blood
steeped in so far that, should I walk no more,
Returning were as tedious as go o'er."
RHB: Blood haunts Macbeth. It becomes synonymous with the gradual flooding of his wife's subconscious sense, or morality, and the destruction of his own. My copy of that play is still marked by the notes I made in my HSC year. I can remember sitting at 11.30pm, when the rest of the family had gone to bed, with the lights just on enough to read and making lists of the references to blood in the play. With growing surprise, as the scent from my father's flower-beds drifted in, I realised blood was a cohesive pervasive symbol throughout the play. It was a warm night because that was only four weeks or so before the exam. I realised that Shakespeare could be read as poetry, with the compression of language that the word poetry implies, as well as a drama. In fact it was this poetic notion of Shakespeare that attracted me the most because I'm yet to see a production of his which doesn't bore the shit out of me.
Honestly, I analyse and satirise literature in my spare time, and I've read a few nonfiction theory texts that are well above high-school level, but I don't think I have ever read an entire assigned text in its entirety. Every addition material I selected for exams was a film.
but perhaps a more general form of mandatory national service could be useful
I'd be fine with mandatory SES training.
Jeez, "we have to meet the people where they are". Basically admitting they're outsiders.
What part of the article is this responding to?
Having been involved in the Palestinian movement, I'm well-aware of how censorship has been abused for political ends (such as attempts to falsely conflate critique of the Zionist Regime and its ongoing genocide project with 'antisemitism'). I also support critiques of all the religions you listed. So I understand how these anti-bigotry laws could theoretically be abused to curb legitimate critique of religions, your concerns about that are reasonable and I agree that these laws are a crappy approach.
However, it's clear that this article is addressing racial bigotry (as opposed to religious critique) and nonsense neo-Nazi conspiracy theories which are not based in evidence. These people don't really care if an Yemeni immigrant is Muslim or not. Nazism doesn't care if a person with Jewish ancestry believes in Judaism. To the neo-Nazi and other racial bigots, these people could be atheist and it would make no difference. But mainstream society still use the words antisemitic and Islamophobia to describe that bigotry, despite neither of those terms being accurate.
Good choice, no point in deleting it. This one doesn't need it, but sometimes I add an edit to my comment if I've been corrected deeper into the replies.
money not to scale
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