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What a bunch of mouth breathers
‘Don’t mention Hitler and you’re sweet’: The great March for Australia deception
Submitted 6 months ago by Ilandar@lemmy.today to australia@aussie.zone
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Lodespawn@aussie.zone 6 months ago
Eyekaytee@aussie.zone 6 months ago
[deleted]KaChilde@sh.itjust.works 6 months ago
“Well intending people”?
No one that went to those marches was ‘well intentioned’. The people who went to these marches didn’t go because of any reason based in fact. They went because things are shit for the middle and lower class, but it’s easier to blame foreigners than to hold corporations and the rich to account. The people who marched are doughy brained racists, who were stupid enough to go to a rally that fascists attended, and then cheer them on.
Immigration numbers have been on the decline for the last 18 months after the expected post-Covid jump. This is coming from the Australian Bureau of Staristics: www.abs.gov.au/statistics/people/…/mar-2025 Immigration is a boost to our economy, and restrictions on the type of workers who are immigrating already exist to boost the workforces that white Australians are leaving fallow.
My aunt went to the local march. My aunt who is married to my uncle, the first generation immigrant. But he obviously doesn’t count because he was born in Ireland. The fascists may have put some things in her head that day, but she went to the march of her own volition.
ImgurRefugee114@reddthat.com 6 months ago
We’re not Nazis we’re Nazis its completely different and only a little exactly the same
eureka@aussie.zone 6 months ago
Michael Rosen - Facsism: (video reading)
I sometimes fear that people think that fascism arrives in fancy dress worn by grotesques and monsters as played out in endless re-runs of the Nazis. Fascism arrives as your friend. It will restore your honour, make you feel proud, protect your house, give you a job, clean up the neighbourhood, remind you of how great you once were, clear out the venal and the corrupt, remove anything you feel is unlike you... It doesn't walk in saying, "Our programme means militias, mass imprisonments, transportations, war and persecution."
eureka@aussie.zone 6 months ago
It will be interesting to see how this con pans out. Even fellow NSN neo-Nazis like JoeI Davis have cried on podcast about how the attack on Camp Sovereignty “made them look like” unhinged violent thugs. There were various degrees of rejection like booing and leaving when open Nazis took the microphone at various March for Australia rallies and spouted their junk (among others supporting them). The (former) Adelaide March for Australia organiser is openly calling out the NSN. The Freedom cookers’ “Australia Unites” rallies last weekend explicitly stated on their website: “NEO NAZIS ARE NOT WELCOME -NO RACISM OR ANY ACTS OF HATE OR VIOLENCE WILL BE TOLERATED IN ANY CAPACITY.” It’s clear that lots of attendees felt like their movement was “hijacked” by Nazis. Now, the truth is that it was Nazis running it the whole time, but nonetheless they made their target audience feel cheated with their subversive tactics and their shameless tactlessness. They’ve alienated the broader “patriotic” nationalist movement by conning them.
As said in the article, “Jordan McSwiney says the marches drew crowds only because most people hadn’t realised who was really involved,” and it seems like they no longer have that plausible deniability outside of the few groups in certain news filter bubbles.
Also, what the heck is up with this bit:
I’ve seen screencaps of the social media account of that “Bender” account where they have an avatar profile picture of a black sun Sonnenrad, a well-known neo-Nazi symbol. So I’m surprised to see them being bullied by the cult. I forgot how much these idiots love infighting.