The exception here being teal independents who vote with the Libs, as the colour name suggests, they're not for workers. The only difference is that they believe in climate change and are not as socially conservative.

Handy tool: https://theyvoteforyou.org.au/

Even under our current capitalist model, I think there are practically no benefits for privatisation of necessities. (Management of each being equal, that is. People pointing to "government inefficiency" are naive to think there aren't just as many private orgs who run very inefficiently.)

What's the point of having energy transmission private? I can't well plug in a different network. I'm stuck with one, and then have to do a stupid dance with the retailers who "compete".

What's the point of having the airport be privately owned? It's not like we have much of a choice of which airport to fly out of.

What's the point of paying private schools with government money? That's just money that could have been spent on public schools.

All of which we have to pay cost + profit. Instead of just cost.

The list goes on.

Privatisation is stupid.

This is shockingly low. I would have thought more like 60%

40??

My lordy we're so screwed haha

Edit: turns out you've accidentally swapped the numbers

Not one, not every, not anywhere.

You have lowered my bar for success, challenge accepted (should I remember the next time I encounter one in the wild).

And jeez, sorry for apologising, I guess?

I don't think it's a straw man to say there are many people out there who look at countries that hold or held the banner of communism or socialism through extremely rose tinted glasses, and many of them are on Lemmy.ml

Annoys me because I'm a socialist (in my eyes) and think these people detrimental to convincing others of socialism's merits.

Anyway, challeng accepted, mr grumpy pants.

Typo, was supposed to be lapdog*

This is a weird take.

Even many-roomed apartments take way less space than any-roomed single family detached homes.

I'm still really unsure why some socialists have decided that because China carries the flag of socialism, that it means they're automatically good at everything, ever. And everything bad about it is western propaganda.

I'm a socialist, hell, I even like China in many regards, much more than many of my fellow Australians.

But damn, why so many people on Lemmy.ml stanning for them? Makes no sense.

That being said, much of the infrastructure they have, is indeed nice (all the massive amounts of coal we sell them, notwithstanding).

But there are a bunch of inefficiencies and issues.

Ya know, like any other country.

China isn't a utopia, it's a place, with good and bad points.

I ate the onion on this one

It's not hard (this isn't legal advice). If you find there has been an error (intentional or otherwise), document it, send it to them in writing.

They're now fucked if they are in the wrong because now they know, and if they continue to not pay you, or threaten you job over it, they're risking a lot more than before.

Ah heck, thanks for the tip. That's not terribly convenient 😅

On the internet whoever you're conversing with is male unless explicitly stated

"OH mY gOd, aRE yoU a GiRL???" In a game lobby.

Same vibes.

Just reiterating, that the original poster was German as I suspected, and pointing it out might spare them being misunderstood in the future. I have no regrets.

Can you blanket block comments from other instances users?

I am not a fan of Beehaw's decision, but I can't a setting where you can actually do this.