I never paid attention to the newspapers, so I don’t know if it’s always like this.
All defending maximum murder or suffering (through genocide or global warming). What the hell is wrong with this country?
If these are the sources of information of a population it’s not hard to imagine the result. I am really hoping it’s just the rich playing with their toys (the newspapers) the way they like, but that it is not really effective in brainwashing the population. That they question what is fed to them.
Anyway, I just thought it amazing and to share my depression with more people. Maybe that’s just every day news and nothing unusual. I imagine it’s probably all owned by the same zionist or super villain or something.
Since the image can’t be read, the one on the left says that if Australia doesn’t support the international court on netanyahuhaha the country becomes terrorist. The second is the typical “people are not supporting my genocide, I’m being holocausted”. The third is asking for harsher punishment for those “fools” destroying the economy and wasting people’s time with imaginary environment issues that could lead to human extinction.
edit. I posted to lemmy.world by mistake. Lemmy is so confusing... edit2. Is the image showing? It didn't show the first try.
"Activists expect leniency"
Fuck that I was prepared for the $22k fine, I wasn't keen on the prison time but it was a risk I was willing to take. Everyone who was arrested yesterday feels the same way.
Fossil fuel billionaires do not contribute to the economy, they rape the earth stealing natural resources and rake in profits with next to no taxation. We stood in solidarity with workers this last week, we're the ones fighting for a better economy for Australia. Chants in support of the Maritime Workers Union could be heard across the channel, Rising Tide wants their future careers to be secure. They are not just tools for profit to be discarded when the earth is destroyed.
And finally I'll always stand up for Palestine, I'm pretty damn proud to have been out there on the water wearing my keffiyeh. Fuck the news media, they've destroyed the nation I once loved and are essentially what radicalized me.
22k? Holy shit. I would be so crazy angry. You're being force to financially reward the people destroying your future. That would eat me up inside even if that amount didn't hurt.
So they get rich destroying your future and you have to give them more money for it.
You guys are heroes. I couldn't take that. I'm glad there are people not like me. I would think non stop about a justice I can't make happen. Like some people's heads on a guillotine.
I'm not hero, but that means a lot. I'm just some punk who had enough of lying around depressed and mourning the future I once thought I had. You don't need to be like me to help a ton, just talking to people and sharing news is a huge thing. So many ways you can help from the comfort of your own home, calling/emailing MPs or even just telling your more conservative friends and families how important this is.
A couple of points about the $22k and 2 years in prison, those sentences are 1: Draconian and part of anti-protestor laws and 2: Extremely hard to actually get as it's the maximum, even with priors.
Also we don't reward the cops! The money is collected by revenue NSW and goes towards community programs, so I'm actually pretty happy to pay into that. My fine will be a maximum of $330 because I was charged under a different thing, but some of the 170 arrestees on Sunday are falling under that $22k maximum one.
We are all giving money to those fossil fuel billionaires, tax payers are subsiding ~$14B towards fossil fuels and those fuckers do not pay much if any tax.
You have such a positive point of view. It's interesting seeing how different people can be. I would focus obsessively on the part of that money that goes to those fossil fuel billionaires. You are focusing on the part where it goes to community programs.
Though I don't know where it goes. I just assumed it goes to them, like a big part of my taxes that also go to fund the military.
About activism, I've done a fair bit and it affected my life a lot. I'm an old pessimist guy. I just try not to help to make the problem worse now (making sure I don't fund them as much as I can). These things affect me too much. If I had to pay a fine for the activism I did in the past I could end up doing something really bad like destroying my life or someone else's. I'm a little too radical and I end up turning people away from my causes because of it. Nowadays I try (and fail) to not even talk about to people because I end up making them hate the cause.
I posted it here because I think most of the community agrees with it. Circlejerk you could say. If it was on reddit it would just lead to endless meaningless fights and abuses.
Radical power is valid, and being angry is extremely understandable. It takes a lot of courage to be able to step back like you've done, I respect the absolute hell out of that.
Believe me I'm not all positive about things, I have my personal motivations and I've been through enough training to know where and when to focus my energy, that's all.
I've been in fights with people too and I'm easily drawn into them, I've honestly only been able to stop myself because I've been through a ton of therapy after some particularly traumatic experiences. I've spent many a night laying awake furious about what's happening in the world. Those subsidies are a particular point of pain for me and I hope to be able to do something about it one day, but participating in and organizing a campaign are very different things. For now, I'm on regen as I take some time to process the last week and spend time with my family.
I do really appreciate your post, it's been a good venting opportunity haha, and amazing to know how many allies there are in this community. ✊