They're Marching for Australia again. We're countering again.
Counter rallies countrywide are being held on October 19th. Share the word. Bring as many friends as you can. Numbers are our strength.
Journalist Tom Tanuki gives an outline of the fallout following the "March for Australia" in August, reiterates that the protest is primarily organized by self-professed neo-Nazis and white nationalists, discusses a couple of the state organizers, and notes that the NSN are falsely claiming they won't be attending this one, which in reality simply means they won't be in uniform, just like last rally when they claimed they would come in uniform and most members were privately instructed instead to come in plain clothes.
Here's Tom's reupload of their copyright-striken video summarising the NSNs tactics, including having members as official marshals and having members work as plainclothes confederates to feign regular support, as well as highlighting some of the resistance to the NSN by duped M4A speakers and attendees, and by antifascists.
I had a big difference of opinion with my landlord about this... He is convinced that the racists are just rocking up in good faith to express that they want immigration policy reviewed, I pointed out that the Nazi wannabes are the ones doing the planning and logistics but keeping the invites mild to draw numbers. He thinks that the Nazi wannabes are just a fringe group who turned up to try to recruit but they weren't really involved.
We went round and round in circles for ages.
Funnily enough he broadly agrees with Labor policies and social stances, and agrees Dutton would have been disastrous for the country, but the taxes on his property and business have gone up under Albanese so he hates Labor now.
The kicker is that he is the child of German immigrants with a grandfather that was press ganged into the Nazi support apparatus as the Nazis were after competent photographers, you would think with that sort of family history he would be a bit wiser to the kinds of tactics fascists employ to foster a sense of acceptance and complacency in the general population for their batshit crazy movement.
You'd think that, but Germany has a Neo-Nazi scene that's probably even bigger than the one in Australia...
Throughout school, history teachers almost exclusively taught us about the atrocities committed by nazi Germany and yet there's still people who view that period as some kind of ideal situation. It's a sad reality we live in.
I don't know anyone else's inner world obviously, but reading between the lines of what he said it sounds like that era of German history disrupted his family enough that there is no romanticisation going on.
Plus he told me about an occasion where he confronted some stupid teenager who decided to go to a nearby shopping centre in a reproduction Waffen SS uniform and rather forcefully told him to leave when the police said it was distasteful but they couldn't do anything about it (before the bans on publicly showing Nazi iconography).
I think he is a standard Lib Nats voter that has the usual amount of mindrot from watching a bit too much SkyNews (more than 15 seconds qualifies as far as I am concerned).
I know someone like that, too, I think. He's a decent guy and great to be around as long as he doesn't get started on politics...
It's a ritual that we have a whiskey when I go to pay my rent. Couldn't be nicer. It's just hard to reconcile with some of the more irrational beliefs. Honestly my dad is worse in some ways, my dad would have been much happier if he was born 40 years earlier. Australian Society in the 50s would have been a lot more his pace.
I don't like my dad for very different reasons other than his political views to be fair, but that's a whole other story...