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Terror attacks are always seen as an opportunity to slam through more surveillance state.
Never let a good tragedy go to waste!
What does protest have to do with the Bondi attack? Without peaceful protest we will have more violence more often. What a moron.
Never let a good crisis go to waste.
Oh good. I didn't need Minnesota added to the already too-long list of places I could never stand to move.
At the risk of missing a joke, the Minns in the article is a person, premier of New South Wales in Australia.
And there are already a lot of good reasons to never go there.
To clarify: I mostly mean wildlife.
Congratulations on being the second to spot the part of the lame joke that was self-deprecating and ultimately, yes, the only reason I looked at the post body/content. You too, get a cookie.
As I've said already, I recognised NSW and didn't read the article as a result, before I commented.
Congratulations on being the first to spot the part of the lame joke that was self-deprecating and ultimately, yes, the only reason I looked at the post body/content. You get a cookie.
As I've said already, I recognised NSW and didn't read the article as a result, before I commented.
The media's obsession with naming people whose names don't matter to most without context front-and-center is the joke. Even just including his job-title would have helped. I recognized the New South Whales abbreviation in the byline, or I would have had to read the article to get it 100%.
My own fascist-moron-in-office is already using the attack as an excuse for travel-bans, so why do I suddenly need to recognise a name I've never seen before and likely never will again, just because his excuse is slightly "better"?
EDIT: added the first two paragraphs, since the rest was apparently as unclear to y'all as grandma's article in UFO magazine that wasn't even meant for human eyes.
Well, it's an Australian politician in a post made on an Australian instance.
Quoting a title from the Australian Financial Review
You can read anything more than "Financial" in that thumbnail? Good on ya, mate.
No, but I like to read the article before making uninformed comments online.
You honestly expect that I was unaware of the attack before seeing this headline? Or the common abbreviations for the state of Minnesota? Should you be quized on the spellings of US states?
Minns is an elected official. On the whim of the Elected Assembly, his name could be irrelavent to NSW tomorrow; It's far from essential knowlege to anyone outside of New South Whales, and contributes nothing to putting the headline in-context.
Headlines aren't supposed to spoil the entire story, I'll give you that, but they should include enough information for one to decide if its relavent to them.
In this case, I gathered the irrelavence of the article to me personally from the byline, and then I made a joke at my own expense and at the expense of the name of a fascist moron who wants to suppress peaceful protests. If anyone should feel bad here, its you for stanning him like his name belongs anywhere besides toilet-paper.
Keep digging
Wut?
In the world news community, by someone named Aussieiuszko.
And Minnesota hasn't had any terror attacks recently that I can think of. In fact I can't think of any at all.
Not to mention, nobody abbreviates it "Minns".
Congratulations on being the second to spot the part of the lame joke that was self-deprecating and ultimately, yes, the only reason I looked at the post body/content. You too, get a cookie.
As I’ve said already, I recognised NSW in the byline and didn’t read the article as a result, before I commented.
... in a World News community that happens to be hosted on an Aussie instance. Hi, I'm an American who came to Lemmy via a .de instance because that's where the most-active Machinists communities decided to move/mirror/whatever from Reddit.
Maybe you're right that trans-bashing would be a bad idea on blahaj, but is getting possessive/territorial about an international problem really the best look?
That said, did I call this an Australian-media problem? It's worst on British media. Honestly, Australian media seems a little better about the headline name thing than some of His Majesty's territories to me, or I wouldn't even implicitly make a joke of it re: an admittedly, eventually-discernable-as, Australian article.
You do understand American news does this all the time too, right?
Do you think everyone in the world knows who Ted Cruz or AOC is?
Dunno if you’ve ever heard the term “American Defaultism”? But this is a good example of it.
Again, did I call this a uniquely Australian problem? Did I even mention Australia in my initial comment? Claim Brittain had a monopoly on it? In all honesty, I don't even follow any (national)US News communities - I have no need to, because even the unimportant US shit is all-but-unavoidable across almost every community or outlet.
Okay, admit it. Emulating tabloids is just tre highbrow and suffering complaints about it from such as myself is below your station.
Here, something of mine for you to chew-on, pick-apart, stab me with, whatever, since I besmirched your beautifully sincere and authentic local media outlet that isn’t ape-ing a behavior that pervades western-media in-general to your detriment and mine, at all.
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