Luxury cars spray-painted with graffiti in inner Sydney as police launch strike force
www.abc.net.au
A new strike force has been created to target a number of cases of luxury cars being painted in Sydney's inner suburbs.

I thought maybe someone was marking cars that had been highlighted on Dashcam Owners Australia, but apparently not…

Thank God resources have been allocated for a strike force! One poor victim got the paint off with WD40, but the trauma will last forever!

  • NaevaTheRat [she/her]@vegantheoryclub.orgEnglish
    6·
    3 months ago

    Not really actually. I think tolerance of trans people is actually going backwards, we have never been understood but until recently we were ignored.

    Now there is the moral panic about trans kids and sports empowering bigots and normalising shitty opinions. Basically nobody has (at least knowingly) met a trans person but increasingly they have opinions on us.

    Most of the bad stuff is institutional though: police violence, healthcare not funded, discrimination protections withheld, and de facto steralisation to get any degree of protection.

    • Gorgritch_Umie_Killa@aussie.zone
      3·
      3 months ago

      Ugh, thats a laundry list of shit and institutional changes that, best case scenario, will take time and a lot of understanding to wade through.

      The moral panic has definitely been put in the spotlight. But i felt it was losing its salience in a political sense. These people have continued spewing their same hatred filled alternate reality, and more people, i felt, were just seeing these unjust attacks for what they always were.

      But i’m on Lemmy now, and hardly go on anything else, so i might have cauterised that hateful side of the population online. I suppose my offline life is very insulated from that as well, so probably not in the best position to judge.