Lebensraum is a relatively infamous policy, and one which neo-Nazis like the NSN explicitly invoke.
Sorry. While I readily acknowledge that I don’t hang out in those circles, nor really scrutinise their rhetoric, I have honestly never heard that phrase before. In English or German. This does paint the comment in a brighter light, and I probably would have been more inclined to remove it had I been familiar with the term.
We’re missing a bit of information here. I got your report, went to the thread to get the context.
Firstly, I saw that you had literally screen-capped the comment in question and included it in a new reply. So, removing the comment would have achieved nothing - it would have still been there.
Secondly, the comment was Zionistic in nature, which while especially unpopular in nature is not against instance rules.
Thirdly, I wasn’t aware that the comment in question was similar to something Nazis said. I don’t even know if the user who made the comment knew that. So, leaving it there and letting downvotes do their thing allowed for education as well.
Lastly, the comment was in the Australian Politics community - which is intentionally the lightest-touch moderated community because there’s a difference between political discussion where parties disagree quite vehemently and an outright echo-chamber. If you delete all the users from your politics community that you don’t agree with, what is the point of the community?
To answer your question: No, we don’t allow Nazis here. It is literally one of the questions we ask on the application screen. “Nazi talking points” is not on its own a good metric of what is acceptable today. We basically have a whole community in support of Reichsnaturschutzgesetz. I don’t especially take issue with Tierschutz, either. One of the reasons the Third Reich gained actual popular support was some of their early policies were in fact in the best interest of the German people. There is still a Kindergeld today, though giving full credit to the Nazis to that one wouldn’t really be genuine. It is fair to say they supported this policy. So I guess our stance on “literal Nazi talking points” will boil down to other factors and get taken on a case-by-case basis.
Finally: If there’s a user you genuinely don’t wish to see around here any longer, you can hit the little down arrow on any of their comments and block them.
We’re usually pretty immune to these sorts of shortages, because WA grows so much of its foods locally.
I noticed Aldi had no yoghurt for a bit, but there has been plenty of local supplier stocks.
A little nostalgia for you.
So far as I know, nothing (legally). She wasn’t on trial. Something may have happened to her later, but I don’t think so. I think I’d have heard if it had.
Of course: everyone who knew her knew about the whole case and its outcome. It would be an inaccurate statement to say she faced no consequences at all. Everyone - male and female alike, was furious with her. And I expect the story follows her around 20 years later whenever anyone Googles her.
The full paper would give better context of that statement. It’s quite accessible and worth reading. The thing that is consistent across all studies, nations and decades is that false accusations are rare.
It turns out this is actually a fairly difficult topic to accurately measure if for no other reason that a lot of cases (Particularly earlier ones) boil down to ‘he said, she said’. Then there is the matter that lots of sexual assault cases go unreported - or are dropped for assorted reasons. Unreported assaults are a huge factor among certain cultural groups.
I usually hate when mods delete popular threads, but this post does break Rule 1.4: “Not United States Internal News”.
Holy engagement bait, Batman! What a terrible headline.
Yes, it is a fact that women lie about domestic and sexual violence. I’ve seen first-hand a family seriously impacted by a false accusation. The son was detained in prison for a year, the parents took out a mortgage on their home to defend the case and finally the girl admitted in court that she fabricated the whole thing. The son was acquitted. These cases happen. Here’s a fairly broad paper on the matter discussing several deeper studies spanning several countries including Australia, Canada and the UK.
Among the seven studies that attempted some degree of scrutiny of police classifications and/or applied a definition of false reporting at least similar to that of the IACP, the rate of false reporting, given the many sources of potential variation in findings, is relatively consistent:
- 2.1% (Heenan & Murray, 2006)
- 2.5% (Kelly et al., 2005)
- 3.0% (McCahill et al., 1979)
- 5.9% (the present study)
- 6.8% (Lonsway & Archambault, 2008)
- 8.3% (Grace et al., 1992)
- 10.3% (Clark & Lewis, 1977)
- 10.9% (Harris & Grace, 1999)
With that out of the way, let’s move on to the elephant in the room:
IN OVER 90% OF CASES, THE RAPES WERE CREDIBLE! FALSE ACCUSATIONS ARE THE EXCEPTION!!
I met him once. He came into the office I was working at sometime around 1996/1997. He was one of the first celebrities I ever spoke more than two words with. I was surprised that he was just this chill dude, there to pick up something for his daughter. I recognised him of course, but yeah - other than the fact that he happened to be mildly famous, you’d never spot the difference between him and any of the other assorted parents who came by.
He has so many iconic lines. You could make the best soundboard from stuff he came out with.
Let’s hear from an actual expert on this topic:
“I think some of the surge in One Nation support is in response to a generic polling question. Many disenchanted voters already have high profile Independent members and candidates in their local seat. It is Independents who are a bigger threat to the Liberal Party, but complex four cornered contests increase the importance of the order candidates finish on primary votes, and affect whose preferences get distributed.”
No, One Nation are in no position to win elections.
No, but I’m closer than I expected to be (within $20k for my age bracket). I can probably make that much up in my remaining work years.
My wife’s super on the other hand is going to suck. She took about a decade off to be a stay at home mother when the kids were little and is going to put her well behind. The system doesn’t treat parents who do this well. Let’s face it: 90% of the time, it’s women who are career hobbled by parenthood and super pauses.
Sorry, I’m missing some context here. Who’s voting at the moment?
Frankly, because Australia has things that the USA does not have and really needs. Australia is a stable and reliable political friend in a region of the globe that is close enough to the antipode of mainland USA. Our proximity and unused land affords our US allies with space and privacy to operate with relative comfort. Their bases in Australia also have much shorter logistic chains to operate compared with other remote locales like islands as well.
The USA would be impacted militarily if they lost Australia as an ally. Not irrevocably, they’d get by. But it would cost them a lot more than the simple civility and respect it takes to maintain their relationship with Australia.
Neither nations really needs the other. Our partnership has been convenient for both of us, and it really would be a shame for both nations if that partnership were to lapse.
Apologies all. That user is not representative of Aussie.Zone users. We’re generally a chill bunch.
Does anyone remember the early 90’s? 17% interest rates. Imagine that on a $1,000,000 mortgage. $170k per year interest. That’d certainly be one way to bring house prices down. It’d destroy the economy and probably cause a pile of social issues as well, but yeah - it’d bring house prices down.
I don’t trust this list. What’s the plot twist in The Truman Show? That the main character is actually in a giant reality tv show? It’s the premise, not a twist.
I can’t think of a single plot twist that had a bigger influence on popular culture than Empire Strikes back. There were two twists in that movie - it was a total phenomenon. We were talking about that film for months. It isn’t mind-bending today because everyone knows who Yoda is, and that Vader is Luke’s father. But in 1980-1981 our brains all short-circuited.
The fact that the original Planet of the Apes is not listed, let alone missing from the top 10-20 is downright criminal.
I can only conclude that whoever made this list is some 30-year-old film fan who thinks they know about movies because they included a Hitchcock film. Frankly, I’d also include 39 Steps and put it higher than loads of these, but I haven’t seen them all and can’t say whether they all deserve to be included.
You need one of these, ikt. Dr Ned is not a man and the surname “Bible” likely means that one of her ancestors liked to drink (imbibe) booze - nothing to do with religion.
Would you dismiss her so flippantly if the article had said she was from Australian Marine Conservation Society?
Yeah fair point. It’s usually around 22 minutes, and I have the luxury of a dedicated cycle path for all but the last kilometer through Perth CBD. I only need to get through 4 sets of lights and it’s rare for more than two of them to be red. Getting through Melbourne CBD was slower, though I had a dedicated cycle path for most of my ride there, also.
I’m struggling to believe there’s such a thing as an “anti-vax doctor”. That’s a classic oxymoron.
I get every report about every community on the instance, even if I’m not listed on the Community. They come as notifications to my phone. It’s pretty rare for any report to take longer than an hour or so to be looked at.