No, they are not Live-Action Role Players (well, not primarily). They are violent chauvinists with large amounts of funding and increasing connection with the electoral right-wing, intentionally organising to harm whoever they consider to be undesirable (non-Europeans, progressives, etc.). They’re pathetic outcasts, you’re absolutely right, but they cannot be trivialised as just roleplaying.

Many of them are recruited by the NSN targeting vulnerable, alienated young men. They have even been discovered trying to get jobs in the NDIS with the open intention of working only with young men diagnosed with autism.

edit: more info - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jo2xBrImsg4

Yeah. Unfortunately I see a lot of people just writing platitudes like “money makes people corrupt” or “corrupt people make money” without any thoughts on how or why that’s a trend. Engelhorn starts of with an insightful point - a typical wealthy life alienates one from most of society, “They’re disconnected idiots”. This is the kind of wealth where you can pay other people to do any daily work and chores, they have as much understanding of the typical person as most of us do to a Roman citizen - sure we can read some historical facts about them (or gleam a few bits from fictional films), and can try and empathise with what we know about them, but it’s ultimately an alien life to us and we’d sure sound ignorant if we tried to write a newspaper for them.

And a reminder, this is only ~44m AUD - at least a lifetime worth of money to us, but as close to one billion as a five dollar note is to a hundred note. And some of the people who own media companies control tens and hundreds of billions - Gina is estimated at $38 billion net worth. These people have strong political power, yet no understanding of the people they rule over.

A friend sent me a casual lecture/talk a few years ago, and I remember that in one section the speaker talks about getting lens surgery and discovering they unknowingly had a similar-sounding condition, which the lenses had fixed.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=VHzX6juGyLQ @ 17:36

The good news is we only hear about the ones who got greed enough to get caught (/s?)

Using science to fund science!

Not wholesome but also interesting: I recall a Russian mafia managed to acquire an Australian slot machine, and reverse engineer it to discover the psuedo-random number generator was effectively a huge but finite list of random numbers, in order, that would just loop back around to the start once it reached the end of the list. So they developed a simple phone app to put in operatives’ pockets, and record the spins (e.g. a cherry-cherry-apple spin might be swiping up-up-left). After a few of these, the app would figure out where in the list the machine was currently at, and the app would vibrate whenever the next one was going to be a winning spin, so they could bet higher amounts on them.

It’s likely companies will use profiling to estimate users’ age, and many people will simply not need to do anything to keep using it

I wonder if I can preemptively add some activity to my profile to feign this, like add ‘married’ as a status and subscribe to insurance companies.

How about I prove I’m old by not taking a selfie.

When it comes to the cybersecurity threats presented by our largest traditional adversaries, there are broad differences in their goals. For example, DPRK (North Korea) have heavy sanctions and frequently prefer profit/ransom attacks. The PRC (China) generally seems to prefer long-term access, rather than immediate sabotage, exfiltrating information or profiteering. Which matches up with what Burgess is discussing, I’m just surprised to see this framed in the article as a new strategy.

I definitely agree with the article that the upcoming safety/censoring measures are a dangerous overextension, and have mixed feeling about them being framed as state security measures.

However I disagree with the author over their general concern of state security blurring into private business, especially in a country where much of critical national infrastructure is privatived. When it comes to digital security, rather than social and political aspects like censorship and safety, that interference is generally beneficial, I don’t believe in companies’ freedom to leave a big hole in their fence.

Yep, this. We can’t blame the local racism on others. At its core, it’s Australian, and it’s up to us to keep making it unAustralian.

or offer some […] training

That would be the Azov Battalion, and US neo-Nazis. The Russian gov are likely more into informational campaigns, like giving digital megaphones to the Nazis inside the house.

Yep. And I was in a hurry so in case it needs to be made clear: fuck the Russian Federation, fuck it’s governments, especially Putin. My issue isn’t with who they’re critisising.

You’ll have to ask the admins, I don’t know how/if tagging works.

Account has been identified as a likely State actor

To be honest, I’m not ready to conclude they’re specifically a state actor. They certainly could be, although there are other reasons people post think tank political propaganda.

So, i don’t think blocking them would help, just a game really of whack’a’mole

We’ve already seen one go through a bunch of names (Lucky8 was one of them), clearly the same user. A local warning seems to be a good approach as they might not even notice and therefore are less likely to try and evade.

Russia to some extent is a scapegoat for our own failings and highlighting their involvement an attempt to de-legitimize these movements by association. I think these groups are de-legitimized by their existence. I don’t need Russian involvement to hate a bunch of Nazis.

Absolutely.

This OP account (randomname) along with a couple of others are foreign accounts which only post here to agitate against Russia, China and others. So when they come along to our instance every week to stir up a fuss about foreign interference, it’s clearly insincere. They’re not here to help us.

Neo-Nazis are the base problem here, foreign state actors (including both non-West states and Western mass media like Sky and Fox) are inflaming them. Propaganda accounts like OP are just opportunistically pushing a campist perspective, trivialising our local problems, the root problems.

Organised by neo-Nazis.

• first M4A - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GLRoFdeI_5Y
• second M4A - “smaller, whiter” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vt7cT_lWpQw

Australia’s spy chief warns anti-immigration rallies are being exploited by neo-Nazi groups

They’re being run by neo-Nazi groups. We’ve been talking about that for months in this comm. The second M4A was a mask-off white supremacy rally.

In Australia, like most liberalist countries, the ‘right wing’ of government and mass media has consistently been pro-privatisation and anti-nationalisation. Their ruling ideas are often echoed by their support base, the ‘right wingers’.

The centre Labor Party have also privatised major assets, including Commonwealth Bank of Australia, Telstra and Qantas, however “the difference between privatization under Hawke-Keating and Howard governments, is argued to be one of ideology”, the right-wing Liberal Party’s economic liberalisation.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Privatisation_in_Australia

Which never happens and it doesn’t matter if the mines are owned by Chinese or as is more often the case US/UK.

Or by Australians. Gina isn’t sharing.

The problem isn’t which nationality the shareholders are in, it’s that the mines are run as a business for shareholder profit, shareholders who have enough capital to throw their weight around parliament and avoid having to use Australia’s resources to benefit Australia.

Given that we live in Australia, it’s not strange at all that we’re concerned with how profits from these mines affect Australians.

I have twitter blocked at a DNS level

Nice.

I sometimes use alternate frontends to get to places like that and instagram if necessary, such as xcancel.com (Nitter) to view twitter.

It’s important to find shared mutual interest across traditional political lines, and I’m glad these two parties have.

Counter rallies countrywide are being held on October 19th. Share the word. Bring as many friends as you can. Numbers are our strength.

Oath. That Nazi press announcement says they’re worried this second rally won’t get enough support. Obviously they’re going to show up anyway, just as cowards hiding in the crowd. But it’s a clear signal to us: they believe these racist rallies are not in a strong position. The NSN’s own crowd manipulation, open violence and frustration split the support for their rally and now we have a chance to come out in numbers and push them further into hiding.