I carry it, and apart from a couple of specific, non-essential places, I’ve never been denied when using it. Businesses are often happy to have it.
One place I visit only accepts cash and has an ATM inside their store. Another (cafe) is like 5% off for cash (not much given the scale but adds up) so I bring exact change.
If they have publicly verifiable evidence for their assertions, they can point us to that. They didn’t.
If we assume Lutze ended their life, I don’t know what publicly verifiable evidence there would be for anyone to point at. The NSN is a secretive cult outside of their media stunts, and they’re obviously not going to brag about this.
If they have publicly verifiable reporting that makes those assertions, they can point us to that. They didn’t.
If we assume Lutze ended their life, antifascists are the only likely group with potential access to that information who would be inclined to report on it. Undercover state agents wouldn’t. Family members of someone this high up the chain wouldn’t. Rival groups, perhaps, but I don’t see any who would.
My point is; what publicly-verifiable evidence do you expect to be available?
If you take this hyperskeptical approach, can you trust anything beyond your own senses? What makes, say, the government or the ABC or any other news any more trustworthy - keeping in mind that antifascists are SMEs on fascist groups like the NSN, with some like White Rose Society being considered experts by institutions such as the ABC.
That’s exactly the kind of conspiratorial red-yarn kookery that the NSN engages in.
No, it’s not at all equivalent.
In fact, this isn’t conspiratorial at all - speculative at worst case (and based on their access to information, I personally trust that they aren’t speculating) but there’s no alleged conspiracy here. Cui bono?
yet couldn’t bring themselves to link to a reliable source for the fact.
I consider RB161 to be reliable for this topic. What source (that you’d consider reliable) would discover and report on it? ABC News didn’t report on the previous NSN suicide, I don’t expect mainstream media to report it.
I completely understand why you’re skeptical, and that’s a healthy approach to have, especially if you aren’t already familiar with these antifascist alert channels. You’re correct to not take their word alone as fact.
There is some observable evidence supporting the claim, like their Telegram uncharacteristically stopped posting about a week ago. But ultimately there isn’t a transparent or mainstream source given, perhaps to avoid the risk of exposing a leak, maybe because it’s difficult to prove a negative, or simply they didn’t feel the need to prove it to their audience. Most antifascist groups value the importance of giving consistently accurate information, to build and maintain a reliable reputation and avoid harmful mistakes (false doxes, for example, could lead to innocent people being harassed), so that’s one reason I value this feed more than just any old online site.
Sure, and that’s only one of the many necessary parts of solving this problem.
Bumping this. As fun as the snarky junkposts are, this is an actual, authoritative answer.
Since OP is asking what’s “allowed”, they’re probably asking what the Government’s laws or guidelines are. Here is a more detailed guide, which answers more of OP’s questions: https://www.pmc.gov.au/honours-and-symbols/australian-national-symbols/australian-national-flag/australian-national-flag-protocols @animemann80@feddit.online
Fun fact, the vertically-inverted flag (“upside-down”) is not a recognised symbol in Australia. It’s a US-culture import, and it makes it easy to spot possible brainworms from the US circus. “Do not fly the flag upside down, even as a signal of distress.”
Alright, now where do we put the boring happy people who have explored enough and just want one that works out of the box?
My preferred method of electoral discrimination is a neutral, consensus-driven basic competency test, with answers pre-published in an AEC pamphlet. If one can’t review a basic factsheet ahead of time and answer basic facts about the election, their vote surely isn’t adequately informed.
As for this article, age seems like an arbitrary factor to standardise. Why not the same with other relevant demographics? Out of all the problems our political system has, this surely isn’t the way to solve them.
Devastating.
I did too. I forget the other recent example I came across, but it always impresses me how incorrectly people just adopt a blatantly bastardised version of a name (people in general, not just Aussies, English-speakers, … )
Wikipedia has not changed their article name (same with Türkiye) but it has pronunciation guides. I think it’s like “Naw-eh-roo” with a rolled r, but that’s just me trying to decode IPA.
I have noticed a few men in the area where I live using nazi and satanist symbols on their clothes, phones etc.
That’s terrible to hear. There are different cases where basic satanic and Nazi symbolism are used thoughtlessly to be edgy, like drawing a penis graffiti or unserious Satanism as a crude protest against Christianity (e.g. Satanic Temple), but Nazism on clothes and phones is a serious issue. I’m lucky enough to have never seen that crap in person, just some low-grade stickering by an NSN geek (only someone in the know would recognise it) and some old run-down idiot I saw once with a tattoo. I hope it’s not being normalised in your area.
As to claiming pedophilia is a left-wing problem [snip]
Yeah, there’s layers to this rot.
I can point to multiple cases of those shouting “queer pedos!” getting busted for CSAM. Charles Sutherland, for example, or James C. Burford (head of a branch of the American Nazi Party in Chicago).
Then one can trace back the history of “the Epstein class” a long way through US history, this isn’t a new phenomenon. [edit: at around 21:46, they start talking about post-slavery era]
And there’s this summary infographic of neo-nazi leaders being convicted of such offenses. (CW - swasi)
I wouldn’t have much/any that the author doesn’t.
I don’t know as much about CVLT/764, there’s better info about them on Wikipedia than I can give offhand, but Order of Nine Angles is an influence on them. It’s… strange. It’s essentially an antisocial (as in, misanthropic) “Satanist Nazism” occult network that actively encourages the worst kind of crimes against people (no need to list them). They’re notably more political than the other sadist/extortion groups mentioned, but still not primarily political. They also encourage members to infiltrate organisations, I forget what they call this, so there are a lot of them infiltrating neo-nazi orgs who absolutely hate O9A for proliferating accelerationism and CSAM in their networks.
More info on 764 and related; obvious trigger warnings: https://unicornriot.ninja/2024/sextortion-coms-inside-a-vile-child-exploitation-cult-run-by-nazi-linked-teens/
Selected quotes:
The group [764] became so notorious that the white supremacist group White Lives Matter started utilizing a Telegram bot on their channels to automatically prevent any user associated with the Com from joining their chats.
Some of the Com members have now tried to start legitimate national socialist groups or have joined existing ones to varied degrees. Some have taken to spamming national socialist chats with both gore and CSAM. In one Telegram channel, for instance, they openly argue that it’s ok to extort and abuse young girls if they are not white. […] All of this is very inconvenient for many traditional National Socialists given how fond they are of claiming pedophilia is a left-wing problem, or related to what they view as homosexual degeneracy. And although there is a well documented history of some neo-Nazis being charged with sex crimes, such as James Mason, the Com movement may be a bridge too far for many of them.
It’s important to emphasise that the notably strong connection between neo-Nazi groups and child abuse still exists even when disregarding O9A/764/etc., but those groups being so common among the far-right political sphere is telling.
Ah that’s fair enough, Australian English is a strange blend sometimes.
Important stuff. It’s nice to see the unmasking and prosecution of 764, O9A and other related network members, but ultimately this is whack-a-mole and people need to be aware of, and aware of how to protect against, sadistic predators online.
It seems Pauline doesn’t care much about domestic violence, but you’re here proposing international violence!
This post in the /c/australia community is about an Australian politician.
There was an opinion article I glanced at which talks about this, Hanson is in touch with some, such as “Men’s Rights Activists” (a manosphere phenomenon, not to be confused with gender liberationists who fight for the rights of men)
Which then reminds me of that fire drill in school where a teacher left the stove on, leading to an actual fire alarm (no damage)
Oh, right, safe phones for situations such as domestic abuse. I wasn’t sure what they meant, and in the confusion I started wondering about whether the alert would trigger those phone-detonated bombs you see in spy films.
That’s a good idea, do you think “Overseas News for Oz 🦘” is clear enough for the title? It’s less exact, so that it can be shorter.
And also, I’ve had to wait for a teller just to divide into smaller notes for exact change, much quicker and more respectful, especially in businesses which aren’t retail