1.5km? Coulda been worse.

The police, notoriously, did not handle this event. And the bottom line is we can’t rely on police alone to protect our communities. Look at the NSN’s attempted knife attack on a fundraiser at Cafe Gummo a few years ago. Look at the their recent attack on Camp Soverignity. Police just don’t have the coverage for us to just leave things to them, they’re human beings with professional limits - many times they’ve been legally obliged to protect the NSN and prolong their platform.

Many confirmed members have been fired from jobs as a result of their employers learning and confirming that they’ve unknowingly hired a dangerous active Nazi who violates their policies. This puts real financial strain on the neo-Nazi movement. The police can’t legally do that (for good reasons).

People who look the same as those in the images can get unjust attention.

It’s a valid concern, but the White Rose Society don’t just run on vibes. They investigate before publishing information, and provide thorough receipts. I recommend reading a few if their disclosures on known NSN members.

No energy. Maybe they realised how silly they all look.

Luckily for me, I don’t know any of the cunts. But I’ll share it around, thanks.

Definitely worth skimming the article, even if many of the interview statements included are pointless or counterproductive.

On one hand, there’s a silver lining that they’re impatient and tactless enough to explicitly target their rally towards Jewish peoples, instead of something more broadly acceptable to nationalists like that whole “immigration/housing/social cohesion” façade. First the NSN in Victoria were dumb enough to alienate their less-convinced sympathisers by attacking a peaceful indigenous camp immediately after supposed anti-immigration rally, and now while Australia’s Special Envoy to Combat Antisemitism and Jillian Segal seemingly haven’t given notice to the neo-Nazi orgs inciting thousands of people into racial conflict, the NSN in NSW have done a flash-mob protest for the sole purpose of inciting antisemitism. Either now the Envoy get up of their arses and put institutional heat on these horrible antisemitic wankers, or reveal themselves to the general public as a fraud. Obviously it’s horrible that it happened and we must stand in solidarity with Jewish people against this scum, but it is good to see that the NSN are still mediocre strategists shooting themselves in the food in their prideful publicity stunts.

This isn’t to trivialise this group and their threat. We can’t be complacent with their own mistakes, and we need every one of you to participate in the ongoing antifascist activities to protect our community ASAP while it’s still in its infancy. If those counterprotests last month were bigger, they would probably have stayed there for only 5 minutes instead of 10.

Good to hear, and good to see FOGO has already diverted a lot of organic waste out of landfill.

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.

Mate I get the flex but def restart them occasionally unless you understand the security risk you’re taking on.

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.

I’ve seen Food Not Bombs do food for some of these types of events, was it them or another crew here?

Absolutely. Too ill to celebrate this year but next time I should bring everyone over for pumpkin soup and carrot cake by candlelight then let the kids loose on the neighbourhood. No need for buying lazy decorations.

My wider family never bought much more factory-junk than fairy lights and bon bons for xmas, treating it a little closer to a small harvest feast, and it’s much better that way.

Thanks for the details :)

try to pretend you’re someone who likes money 😝

Haha, I just can’t stand that the people with the capital get to stop society from fixing so many things.

the idea of the gov taking over the whole thing is you run the risk of getting a tony abbott who immediately halts all renewables, gotta remember we went nearly 30 years with coalition in power majority of the time and they’re still not happy with renewables at all

Yeah that’s a good point. Nationalising is unstable in our current two-major-party flip-flopping.