Counter-terror police have raided the homes of a swathe of Australian environmental activists.
  • Aurenkin@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    311·
    1 year ago

    I’m so glad we have all these new anti terrorism powers to stop all the terrorists like checks notes the ones who don’t want us all to burn and die for the sake of temporary corporate profits. Wait that doesn’t sound right, oh well at least we’re also using the against other terrorists like checks notes again YouTubers exposing government corruption… wait no what about checks notes whistleblowers exposing government corruption… for fucks sake there must be better examples… frantically checks notes …the lawyers of whistleblowers exposing corruption… Fucking hell I give up this is totally fucked

    • billytheid@aussie.zoneEnglish
      3·
      1 year ago

      And Australians, being the spiteful stupid cunts we are, lap it up. This country will be better off when the Chinese take over.

    • hopelessbyanxiety@lemmy.worldEnglish
      22·
      1 year ago

      Alternatively “The asteroid is coming, but we have still time to take measures against it” “Oh my, its faster than expected, we’ll move swiftly!” They, in fact, did move swiftly their houses in remote islands. On top of mountains or other natural shelters

  • swnt@feddit.deEnglish
    18·
    1 year ago

    Be a fossile fuel company and lobby the government: Police protects you despite all the climate genocide.

    Be a citizen paying taxes and protesting harmlessly to bring the government to action: “OMG U r dangerous! We need to protect the companies your fellow citizens from you!!11”

    And before someone says, that the protests are ineffective Check this out.

    https://academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/article/1/3/pgac110/6633666

    Further, it is the use of radical tactics, such as property destruction or violence, rather than a radical agenda, that drives this effect. Results indicate the effect owes to a contrast effect: Use of radical tactics by one flank led the more moderate faction to appear less radical, even though all characteristics of the moderate faction were held constant

    • hopelessbyanxiety@lemmy.worldEnglish
      22·
      1 year ago

      i’m starting to think they’re not interested in permanent suppression, they’re just buying time. After all, they’re always been interested in short term profit. At this point they’re just reproducing the system until we die by extinction