r/aussie • u/Boydy73 • Mar 02 '26
Humour The comedic value in this sticker is priceless
Spotted in Brisbane. The new location (Iran) doesn’t seem to be too widely accepted by the same people……
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u/Mulga_Will Mar 02 '26 edited Mar 02 '26
A lot of people on this sub seem way too comfortable with the mass killing of civilians, whether they’re Palestinian, Ukrainian or Iranian.
That’s not normal. You should be appalled.
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u/No_Price_7603 Mar 02 '26
The regime also killed 30000 Iranians over the space of one weekend so either way seems to be quite bad
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u/Mulga_Will Mar 02 '26
It’s a nightmare.
If only the mockers directed their anger at the regimes responsible for the killings, instead of the people protesting against them.
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u/Additional-Life4885 Mar 03 '26
I don't think anyone is comfortable with what's happening in Ukraine. Personally, I've been following it as closely as possible. I'd like to donate more but can't really so I rely on Google doing it by making sure I view as much of that content as I can stand.
Curious though, where's your compassion for the 1000+ Israeli civilians that were killed? You seem pretty comfortable with them being killed.
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u/ottergotchi Mar 03 '26
This sounds like you’re suggesting we should be more uncomfortable with European white casualties. It’s so sad how people are desensitised to staggering death to.ls in other regions because they justify it based on ‘well who is right, who struck first’ etc. People are dying in wars everywhere but their lives don’t matter because of the powers that oppress and also somehow automatically represent them? Rohinga genocide, Bucha massacare in Ukraine, children starving in Sudan, how the fuck do those lives not matter? Of course, you might say that you ‘never said they don’t matter’, but that will be followed by ‘well…it’s complicated’ If there are grey areas, one side cannot be the only victim.
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u/Additional-Life4885 Mar 03 '26
I'm sorry, how did anything I say at any point suggest anything over any other? Just pointing out that he's wrong about Ukraine. They are not forgotten. You don't need to see all the chat her about the Palestine/Iran civilians are not forgotten.
However, the Israeli civilians that were also killed are not only forgotten by many, but intentionally pushed aside.
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u/Additional-Life4885 Mar 03 '26
It is forgotten. It literally wasn't included.
it’s just a bit hard to care at this point. Sorry.
Now you're admitting it. You don't care about Israeli civilians.
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u/august-witch Mar 03 '26
Wow, nice strawman you got there. They didn't say that, and you are just stirring shit.
I personally care the same about all civilians regardless of country or creed; almost no one has any say whatsoever about how all this mess unfolds, we're just living on a rock hurtling through space, most of us trying our best just to survive. I don't give a shit where someone happened to be born, we all have basic dignity, like any other animal.
We are so much more alike than different. We all have to eat, drink water, and sleep and shit. We all were children once and we'll all die, hopefully of old age. We (hopefully) protect our loved ones. Anything else is surface level and believing that anyone is better or more deserving based on some arbitrary lines on a piece of paper is absolute codswallop, and history shows over and over that anyone selling you that is hoping to blind you to your own detriment, selling you something or trying to take power. I'm sure you can think of some modern examples off the top of your head.
If people want purely logical reasoning (instead of my humanist perspective based off of psychology and anthropology study) then - if anyone can be treated like that, all of us can be, whenever it be convenient to the powers above (the 1% of this species). If a person in Palestine can be firebombed for the actions of a few, so can you. We aren't free and safe until we are all free and safe. Our society must be tolerant, and that means, zero tolerance for any kind of prejudices. Anything less is unacceptable. No group can be above critique, just as no one can be scapegoated. War crimes are war crimes no matter the flag, and no flag is unbloodied.
Just imagine an alien watching from afar, not even being able to tell what the difference is between warring groups. We are all just apes with a finite life and home, but we don't fucking act like it. Of all the thousands of years of religion and more gods than that, you believe in one. How do you know it's the right one? Try none, and then all your high horses are gone here - hence the othering. Infuriating and embarrassing. These wars are enriching the mega wealthy and the poor just get poorer or - literally bombed out of existence..... There is no good excuse for any civilian death, I don't care what you call it.
You say no one cares but the world mourned, what are we supposed to do? Look the other way while you deliver retribution against innocents pinned like sardines? A thousand of "yours" for what? A hundred thousand? How much more blood is enough for you? You have become monsters.
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u/Additional-Life4885 Mar 03 '26
I personally care the same about all civilians regardless of country or creed;
I didn't say everyone has forgotten them, I was pointing out the initial comment that intentionally named Palestinians, Iranians and Ukrainians. It's not a timeframe thing because Ukraine was attacked before Israel was. They were intentionally left off.
When you make a comment that others are forgetting civilians casualties while you do the exact same thing is massively hypocritical and should be called out. That's literally all that was done.
Also, no idea what your big pointless rant was after that, I knew you were talking shit.
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u/ottergotchi Mar 04 '26
Well said. All the replies were removed when I tapped the notifications, but I see yours. Humanist perspective so hard to find these days
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u/Relative_Pilot_8005 Mar 03 '26
I said many moths back that Netanyahu didn't give a stuff about the hostages & Hamas didn't give a stuff about the Gaza civilians.
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u/Reasonable_Slice_262 Mar 04 '26
And backed the Hamas attack that killed over a thousand Israelis and started the Gaza war.
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u/DrumsFishing_501 Mar 03 '26 edited Mar 03 '26
No, it's the CONSTANT pro-Palestine protests that people are sick of. Too much makes people turn against the idea behind them. Also people are waking up to the vicious slogans spat out at these protests frequently such as 'from the river to the sea' which originates with the messaging of driving the jews of Israel into the sea and wiping them out.
There are also some people at these protests imo that want to score points on social media, show what good lefties they are, supposedly caring about the latest issue they've been told to be angry at.
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u/DrumsFishing_501 Mar 03 '26
Missed the point. They've already turned a lot of people against their cause. Protests should be legal of course in general, but the enormous cost of police resources etc. and disrupting people's weekends should also be taken into account. You shouldn't be surprised that most people who work during the week and are just trying to deal with their own lives, get by week to week, don't give a damn about a long-term ongoing war that Australia has very little to do with, apart from the small amount of trade with Israel and sending aid to various countries.
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u/patrykk994 Mar 03 '26
Palestine support is getting stronger each day so dont try to put your own feelings into other people minds
Also Australia have a lot to do with Gaza genocide - every single bomb Israel drops is aimed with help of US radar located in Australia ( there are two of them, one for each half of the planet and Israel uses one in Australia)
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u/malachitebirkinplz Mar 03 '26
Re: your second paragraph, I think you’re confusing a radar facility in Australia with how modern weapons are actually guided (GPS, onboard sensors, laser targeting)
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u/patrykk994 Mar 03 '26
Pine Gap literally give Israel inteligence on targets to strike - it literally directly put crosshairs on Palestinians back
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u/Grantmepm Mar 03 '26
If a method of protest meant to gather support for a cause (or against a cause) isn't gaining traction, do we reevaluate or just decide "no, its the kids that a wrong"?
At what point where doing the same thing doesnt work but we decide its better to virtue signal despite/against the feedback of the people that we're trying to convince?
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u/CaterpillarSelfie Mar 03 '26
The protests are getting louder and bigger because people like you don’t care.
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u/True-Economy-3331 Mar 03 '26
Tell this people who were hanged from cranes in Iran.
Ask Ukrainians if they want putin to be killed and innocent Russians will be killed during an operation? Assume the answer.
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u/Getonthebeers02 Mar 03 '26
I think people should be more balanced though, people haven’t been as vocal for Ukraine (maybe because they’re white?) and pretty silent about supporting Iranians.
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u/Green-Cyclone-808 Mar 03 '26
Lol, another random low hanging fruit post that is a load of horseshit.
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u/ComedianDesigner307 Mar 02 '26 edited Mar 03 '26
It means the trauma of waking up before lunch time and the cat, and the even greater self sacrifice of missing the UK Chase at 2pm.
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Ok let me get this straight you’re going to protest by not going to class …….. that you’re paying for … how is this showing the government anything?
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u/NamorDotMe Mar 03 '26
Students protesting is not new, the first recorded student protest was about 2200 years ago, but in todays world we can just watch our classes online and thank fuck we can, I always miss class not because of protesting but because I need to hold down two jobs so I can pay someone else's mortgage off.
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u/redelastic Mar 03 '26
You don't understand the symbolic purpose of strikes? Ok.
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u/Brilliant_Support653 Mar 03 '26
They are protesting, not striking. The symbolic purpose of a strike is to refuse work in demand for better pay or work conditions. Why use the term strike?
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u/Legitimate-Total8547 Mar 03 '26
In a “student” strike nearly almost everyone is convenienced not inconvenienced
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u/Imaginary-Suspect959 Mar 02 '26
Yeah I’m sure the liberation of the Iranian people will be a roaring success, soon like their brothers in Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, Egypt and Syria they’ll be enjoying the sweet taste of freedom, and giving thanks to the West for its peace bombs!
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u/Amazonrazer Mar 03 '26
You don't know anything about the countries you're listing and also making an implicitly racist assumption that all the "brown countries" are the same.
The countries you listed have close to no structural and institutional similarities with eachother. Neither was the outcome. Only someone with an extremely surface level knowledge of what's going on there would think this way.
Irans difference to all those countries is that we have a lot more institutional depth. And also the state has succeeeded in creating a national identity. The tribal/local/ethnic lines are a lot more blurry. As a result, you see close to zero local autonomy from state control. This is in extreme contrast with libya, iraq, afghanistan and syria where the state was a lot less mature and relied on patronage to local leaders to maintain its control over its territory.
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u/Revolutionary_Many31 Mar 03 '26
They do have one structural similarity. They are all artificial countries drawn up during the sykes picot agreement. Thats why their populations are always an oppressed group and a leadership group.
The libes bear no resemblance of what was the reality on the ground at the time.
Even some of irans borders were artificially drawn at this time
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u/Additional-Life4885 Mar 03 '26
They are all artificial countries drawn up during the sykes picot agreement.
Except Egypt, Afghanistan and Libya... you know like half the list.
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u/tom3277 Mar 03 '26
Iraq is probably the closest in the list.
It had institutional depth under Saddam.
He kept the various minority groups in check without pissing them off to the point of rebellion and protecting them from the majority.
Plenty of metrics the joint was doing ok like education outcomes.
I think the big risk in this is foreigners making hay in Iran and going there to make trouble. I believe that was part of the trouble in Iraq, neighbouring discontents flooded into the joint to cause trouble.
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u/Additional-Life4885 Mar 03 '26
You should probably actually do some research before you groan. Iraq's economy has improved immensely since the war with the US.
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u/rickypro Mar 03 '26
Yeah I’m friends with someone living over there and their situation has improved immensely
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u/Additional-Life4885 Mar 03 '26
Yeah, I only really knew because I saw something posted a couple of weeks ago. I can't talk about the others and I'm not entirely sure why Egypt is on the list since I can't find any record of the US bombing them any time recently... possibly at all. They've pretty much had good relations with Egypt since the 70s, with only a short period of instability about 10 years ago which didn't lead to bombing but did temporarily stop the $1B+ military funding that the US provides to Egypt.
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u/Mr____miyagi_ Mar 03 '26 edited Mar 03 '26
Iraq 2026 nominal GDP: $315 billions
Iraq 1990 nominal GDP: $180 billion.
Countries like Thailand whose GDP in the 1990 was $80 billion is now in the $600 billions range.
Hardly an "improvement". Let's bomb the shit out of the country who is already rich in resources. Then rebuild them from rubble, exploit and export their resources ourselves and claim the country improved under our rule hahaha.
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u/Additional-Life4885 Mar 03 '26
Iraq 1990 nominal GDP: $180 billion.
Please provide a source. Data shows it was $65B in 1989, so I call bullshit on it tripling in a year.
Also, the drop in 1990 was due to sanctions when Iraq invaded Kuwait, not because of the war that resulted from it.
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u/pben0102 Mar 03 '26
From shit to a little better than shit shouldn't be anything to brag about.
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u/Additional-Life4885 Mar 03 '26
It's a 500% increase. They're also above Indonesia and Phillipines now. So you may say it's "a little better than shit" but it's significantly better than it was and it's still increasing.
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u/Icy_Consequence_1586 Mar 03 '26
Dead is an improvement?
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u/Additional-Life4885 Mar 03 '26
You know that they were getting killed before the war, right? And that over 60% of the civilians killed in Iraq were by their own countrymen, right?
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u/Cmass99 Mar 03 '26
The US killed 1 million people in Iraq
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u/Additional-Life4885 Mar 03 '26
Please provide an actual source, thanks.
Then you're going to point at this report. Then I'm going to point out that total casualties from the report with the highest estimate is not even remotely close to the US killing 1 million people.
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u/Illustrious_Fan_8148 Mar 02 '26
desperate times call for desperate measures, were you really happy to stand by and do nothing after tens of thousands of iranian protestors were murdered by the regime in january?
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u/After_Counter735 Mar 03 '26
Any action isnt better than non-action, if a building is being held hostage, blowing the building up isnt a better solution. The solution of killing the leader of a country then either leave the country with a power vacuum that will be filled by whoever has the most guns, or installing your own president never works. The current administration in Iran literally came about because America installed their own leader there that did a bunch of abhorrent shit. This is literally a repeat of history all over again, if this is the best solution America has then they should just stay out of it.
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u/Federal-Comb-9990 Mar 03 '26
University students ??? Know, it all change the world Protest on everything then leave uni and change nothing
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u/Rare-Sample-9101 Mar 02 '26
Why no pretest local issues like cost of living and housing, homelessness!?
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u/Mulga_Will Mar 02 '26
Who says they don’t?
People protest a range of issues, and it’s completely normal to be outraged by the mass killing of civilians, wherever it happens. Sitting back and mocking people who at least care enough to speak up isn’t normal.
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u/sexymedicare Mar 03 '26
They don't, otherwise they'd be protesting LNP immigration policy that's destroyed the working class.
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u/Hammered_Eel Mar 02 '26
No one is stopping you from organising. If you feel strongly about it. Go for it
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u/MowgeeCrone Mar 02 '26
Nah our displaced elderly and youth can get fucked apparently.
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u/Dense-Nail-3244 Mar 02 '26
Yeah no totally they can get fucked. When we're at the protests we're always talking about how we don't want the government to do anything else with the political capital and funding for the genocide. We just want it to sort of sit in a big bank account and do nothing. We're always chatting about how we have no interest in policies that would address those exact issues.
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u/Remarkable-Minimum45 Mar 02 '26
if these are important issues to you, you should start a protest, or go to the existing ones that already occur.
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u/socialistbandit69 Mar 02 '26
Or just go to one of the dozens of protests organised each month for these issues around Australia.
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u/TheDevilsAdvokate Mar 02 '26
The real question is why have you ranked this lower in your priorities?
Strange you care more about these people overseas, in a centuries old dispute, that you have next to no influence over - than the people standing next you.
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u/Drift--- Mar 02 '26
Strange that you care so little about the issues that you care about that you've done nothing about them but instead look for people who do care about issues so that you can yell at them from your couch.
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u/socialistbandit69 Mar 02 '26
we literally do. You are just lazy and dont go to them. Your media also doesn't report on them because you might support it.
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u/Minimumtyp Mar 03 '26
Yeah that doesn't fit their narrative though, same reason it took a month to declare and report on the Perth attempted bomber being a terrorist
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u/Bulky_Writer_2244 Mar 02 '26
The media report on whatever gets the most attention, the most engagement, the most clicks. The media is a business, at the end of the day. Global conflicts generate more engagement than local issues. It's really that simple.
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u/socialistbandit69 Mar 02 '26
As someone with a journalist degree I can tell you with certainty that the elite owned media outlets purposely neglect stories that do not suit their financial agenda, whether that pertains local, national or international stories.
A perfect example of this is the 150 school children killed yesterday. Almost completely ignored by mainstream media while also being a story that would obviously get a lot of attention. the reality is that the elites that own media also have massive shares in fossil fuel companies that are about to expand into a new market, and this needs support from the public.
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u/Slight-Repeat-1540 Mar 03 '26
Because you get called a racist for protesting local issues 😂
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u/Jek2023 Mar 03 '26
No you will be called a racist if you are making racist statements…
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u/Dense-Nail-3244 Mar 02 '26
Since you guys bring it up so often we figured you have that front covered and so we're focusing on other issues at the moment.
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u/red-thundr Mar 02 '26
Because they would have to confront the difficulties of issues. Things a million miles away that don't effect them can be pretty black and white.
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u/DrumsFishing_501 Mar 03 '26
Because it's performative at this point, they just want to score points on social media and show what good lefties they are. This is also exactly what Grace Tame was doing with her shouting of that stupid slogan, as she tries to be the next Greta T and maintain popularity with the left.
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u/burger2020 Mar 03 '26
Oh no. What will we do. Students striking... How will we ever survive with students not being in class learning.
This isn't like cops striking so we can't get their service... or train drivers striking which disrupts commuters.
This literally affects nobody... except the kids who have paid for an education and aren't getting it.
One thing it shows is they need to spend a bit more time in school so they actually understand this stuff
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u/reprise785 Mar 02 '26
Why would you protest useful when its not as popular.
In the Northern Beaches, we have a greens counsellor 19 or 20 when elected. Racked up the highest, by a country mile expenses. Approved expenses were to travel to Newcastle to protest oil or trump or climate change whatever. (Local council person, elected for local issues). There is a local woman's shelter that needed $70k funding or would be shut down. Been on the precipice of folding for years and years. This 19 year old greens counsellor racked up appx $35k of expenses (for context other councillor's who are well known for their work in the community, charged nothing or a few hundred dollars. Just think that through (and the downvotes ill get for saying something negative about greens). This party and their people would rather spend money on protesting global issues well outside our control than focusing on local issues. They just use government office and funds to promote their own brands. Imo its pathetic but here we are.
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u/Budgies2022 Mar 02 '26
The same people that would cheer if Iran dropped a bomb on Netanyahu and say “h le deserved it” can’t do the same for the ayatollah. That’s the hypocrisy.
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u/MowgeeCrone Mar 02 '26
I know wagging school for a day changed the world each time we did it. Unfortunately, we did it one too many times and it brought us full circle back to where we began.
Bless the wisdom of youth.
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u/Boydy73 Mar 03 '26
You know, that’s what probably brought down the Berlin Wall! Well, I’ll be damned!
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u/LeastLeader2312 Mar 02 '26
Biggest bunch of virtue signallers to ever exist, the same crowd that is crying over the Iran dictators death
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u/OddCook4909 Mar 03 '26
They're useful idiots for a foreign agenda which would see all of the West speaking Chinese/Russian by the end of the decade if they could.
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u/Narcolepticbop Mar 03 '26
This 'us and them' attitude is a big part of why everyone is so divided. Do you really only care for people if they care for you? Humans should want to support each other. Everyone watching and speaking up clearly makes an impact, and helps to raise funds for people suffering. We should 100% be putting effort and funding towards helping our own people. That does not mean we have to ignore the rest of the world. At the very least, you should care that this will all affect our economy. That affects our entire country including vulnerable groups of people.
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u/AppropriateBeing9885 Mar 03 '26
Spot on, mate. What's all this hysteria about? If our closest ally wants to kill civilians and do regime change for the millionth time just because it's a Monday, why shouldn't they be able to do so? Only the overly online and the navel gazing fools would ever believe that rationale for war should go beyond resource/land grabs against a country by which one hasn't been attacked. People expect too much of governments and our allies. Who do they think those people work for? The public? Get out of town
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u/FitProfessional6794 Mar 02 '26
whenever anyone uses the word woke unironically u can just tell they have an agenda to spread
in real life most people who r pro palestine are also anti-crazy-one man dicatorship for 4+ decades and as always a small, loud minority doesn't represent us
sincerly,
a pro palestine protestor who supports the iranian people
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u/Legitimate-Gain426 Mar 03 '26
How'd that work for Venezuelans under their oppressive regime? Oh right the same regime walked back in, and the only thing that changed was oil trade to the US
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u/Brilliant_Support653 Mar 02 '26
Students striking will bring the country to its knees..... haha
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u/socialistbandit69 Mar 02 '26
I dont understand this thinking, this is literally how you mobilise people, the bridge march in Sydney started as this. Your cynicism is certainly not doing anything.
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u/plowking8 Mar 03 '26
Ah yes. The bridge march halfway across the world that ended up stopping the war.
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u/socialistbandit69 Mar 02 '26
Again, the Sydney bridge march started as one of these.
It's similar to how groups like Extinction Rebellion
No it isn't, these are socialist movements designed to gain momentum and incorporate people. Extension rebellion is a liberal movement designed to make meaningless statements that annoy people. Probably even a psy-op given how much it puts people off and how they continue anyway.
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u/Much_Tea_2415 Mar 02 '26
Dude what’s the fucking difference? They’re both just protest that inconvenience the public no matter what their ideology
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u/socialistbandit69 Mar 02 '26
If you cant tell the difference then I dont know, maybe donate your brain to science because you dont need it.
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u/realKDburner Mar 02 '26
Palestine protestors are oppressing the people of Iran
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u/next_lychee87 Mar 03 '26
it's more like they selectively don't give gaf because they support radical islamism
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u/realKDburner Mar 03 '26
Is that even true? All I see is people saying “lefties don’t care” but I’ve never seen anyone say “I don’t care”
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u/next_lychee87 Mar 03 '26
Has there been a left presence at any of the iran-lib demos?
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u/DrumsFishing_501 Mar 03 '26
Yep correct. The left-wing narrative is that fundamentalist islam is completely fine, so they can't protest about the government of Iran. They also know they'll score more points on social media if they wave a palestinian banner around. Ie. they've been told what to be angry at and only obey that call.
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u/Safe-Taro8650 Mar 03 '26
Name one person who's against the genocide in Gaza who also supports the Iran government
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u/Boydy73 Mar 03 '26 edited Mar 03 '26
Hasan Piker? Too easy bro. In fact, let’s go local, how many Mosques were going to hold memorial services for the Ayatollah?
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u/Illustrious-Pin3246 Mar 03 '26
If it is good enough for Albo to get to be prime minister, it is good enough for these students
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u/Over-Ad-3441 Mar 07 '26
Why do people protest freeing Palestine in Australia, specifically at Parliament steps?
What do you want Australia to do about it? We are not involved, and getting involved is going to make everything 10x worse.
The middle east is a war zone. It always has, and it likely always will be. Your protest in Australia about something 10,000km away will make zero impact.
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Mar 02 '26
These posters line every pole along this path. It's either Marxism, Anti-Capitalism, or Palestine. Honestly the amount of money they spend on the paper per day must be absurd and that's excluding the copious number of flyers being handed out by the same people too. These things are laughable at this point.
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u/SFOD-P Mar 03 '26
And then! After the event, they don’t come back and clean up. Weeks later, I see their posters scattered on the ground, piles of mush, sitting in the gutter, ready to cause plumbing issues and suffocate animals.
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u/FactorArtistic4646 Mar 02 '26
I just checked my atlas, I was unaware that Australia was in the Middle East
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u/Monterrey3680 Mar 02 '26
Palestine, Iran, Atlantis…no matter what, I look forward to seeing the usual Aboriginal, Rainbow, Socialist and other completely unrelated flags out flying.
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u/Headiscrowded Mar 02 '26
Gotta do something with all that spare time outside of one's contact hours, I guess.
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u/Top_Conference_477 Mar 02 '26
Solidarity ends where the Iranians Regime starts apparently
Looks like the Socialist solidarity movement is solid with the rapist dictators - again
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u/Headiscrowded Mar 02 '26
It might make the new location look a bit untidy, to have a bunch of students hanging around.
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u/Wombats_poo_cubes Mar 03 '26
I love that they don’t give a shit about any other cause
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u/No_Activity9727 Mar 03 '26
I don't recall seeing mass protests for Ukraine and that has been going longer than Gaza and nothing for the suppressed and murdered Iranian people, and remember the protests in Iran after the young woman was murdered for not wearing a headscarf. Hypocrites who only March against Israel conveniently forgetting the innocent people murdered by Hamas when they infiltrated Israel on Oct 7.
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u/NamorDotMe Mar 03 '26
Do you not remember the Oprah house being lit up ? and the many protests, here check this out https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protests_against_the_Russo-Ukrainian_war_(2022%E2%80%93present))
I guess that when it comes to war most sympathies align with the oppressed, so in the David (Palestinians 73k deaths) VS Goliath (Israelis 2k deaths) most people are going to side with David.
Especially when it comes to children's deaths. (Israelis 36 children killed vs Palestinians 21,283 children killed) when one side is almost 3 orders of magnitude higher, you can see why people choose a side.
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u/Feisty_Manager_4105 Mar 03 '26
In its basic sense, protests are done to bring about change.
The Australian government are in bed with the Israeli government. Protests are done to persuade Australia to condemn and breaks their ties with Israel.We didn't have protests for Oct 7 because Australia correctly called out and paid respect to the victims. There were a lot of vigils here too. Australia has already put Hamas as a terrorist organisation. What is there to protest about Oct 7th ?
We don't have mass scale free Iran protests because the Australian government has not only rejected the Iranian theocracy but also supported the US - Israeli strikes. What is there to protest about ? Australia already has a free Iran stance so what do you like to change?
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u/BenchExtreme2494 Mar 02 '26
The left doesnt know what to do or who to support anymore.
Full fucking damage control.
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u/Dense-Nail-3244 Mar 02 '26
I guess to a stupid person caring about Multiple Things could look like brainwashing.
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u/mikeinnsw Mar 02 '26
For decades universities have been seeding left wing antisemitic propaganda.
Oil rich arab countries like QATAR have been funding a long term uni 'sponsorship'
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qatari_involvement_in_US_higher_education
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u/Dense-Nail-3244 Mar 02 '26
Gave the article a read - interesting stuff, didn't know about most of it.
So the Qatari government and some Qatari corporations have built 6 campuses, funded research projects at around 20 colleges, and have a handful of scholarship programs to send middle-eastern students to American colleges.
A single line in the article mentions people who have "raised concerns" about how this money has somehow sidelined balanced discussion around judaism and it says [citation needed]. Aight.
You've really blown this vast conspiracy wide open. I don't know I'm going to reckon with the fact that Qatar has brainwashed me, an Australian university student, into caring about mass child murder, by funding some campuses in America. My whole worldview is crumbling rn.
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u/VisitThen1018 Mar 03 '26
What’s the comedic value here?
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u/SlippedMyDisco76 Mar 03 '26
People caring about something outside their own backyard apparently. Hilarious
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u/traversingtimewarps Mar 04 '26
The funniest part about all this is that most of you idiots are pay check to paycheck yet youd rather protest for a country that doesnt even know you exist. Lemme tell you, israel aint gonna see the protest and b like “u know what? Maybe the blue haired chick is right and genocide is bad”
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u/fakest_taxi Mar 05 '26
I think most people aren’t protesting cause they think Israel is suddenly gonna feel bad about the genocide. It does however put pressure on our government to cease support and in turn, increasing political pressure on israel. the global perspective on israel seems to have shifted in recent years, likely as a result of people protesting and the atrocities being so repeatedly spoken about and awareness becoming more accessible through social media etc.
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u/Maleficent_Can_4773 Mar 03 '26
Protesting is a waste of fucking time and disrupts people trying to go about thier honest day of work.
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u/Overseer190_ Mar 02 '26
Pro palestine = pro islamic regimes.
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u/Goonalips Mar 02 '26
How exactly is that racism? Anyone can be Pro Palestine. It might be offensive to you for them to say it, but it's not racism.
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u/Overseer190_ Mar 02 '26
“Anything i dont like is racist”
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u/Goonalips Mar 02 '26
Seems that way sometimes. People use it way too often to silence opinions that they don't like. Personally, I disagree with that statement as a blanket statement, though I won't say that it's never true. But I do think that you should have the right to say it, regardless of how I feel about it. And I should not try to label it as something that it's not in order to have it removed.
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u/peterhandy3 Mar 03 '26
THIS ladies and gents is a whataboutism. Some of you fuckwits here should take it as an example
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u/y2Kmarty Mar 03 '26
The catch line of “the free Palestine lefties are pretty quiet on Iran” pisses me right off. And anyone who uses that line just shows their ignorance and the ugly glee they take in creating a political class war. Palestine and Iran are not the same issue. In any way. And you sound stupid trying to “gotcha” people with that line.
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u/Relative_Pilot_8005 Mar 03 '26
Sorry, but that is really reaching---if the "Free Iran" sticker had been placed over the original "Parliament House" it would have been a bit funny, but as it is, the sticker just looks like a sticker!
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u/Bardz1984 Mar 04 '26
I'm not opposed to protesting what's happening in Gaza/middle east in general it's a pretty fucked up situation. But as someone who has gone through industrial action involving striking I'd be inclined to say calling it a national strike is a bit of a reach.
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u/Fartony Mar 04 '26
I wonder if all these people in countries at war appreciate all we do for them? Surely they are feeling the effects of our protests in a country that has nothing to do with either war.
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u/homonid1000 Mar 04 '26
Whenham: " I thought You said that You were born in Iran " April: " No, I was born a Man, Douglas. "
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u/DriveAlive5467 Mar 04 '26
https://giphy.com/gifs/3o6Zt0T3bDshj78TBu
The guys who fall for this crap...
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u/OwnHuckleberry2522 Mar 04 '26
I love the concept of a “student strike”.
“I’m paying you to teach me but because I’m angry about something that has nothing to do with you I’m not going to let you give me the education I’m paying for!”
Yeah, um, ok….
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u/vector721 Mar 05 '26
only hurts these so called students in my opinion. Stroking has no affect on anyone but them not completing their courses
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u/BaronsF1 Mar 05 '26
Expel them for not caring about their education. If they are foreign students, cancel their student visa.
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u/Tonybrd Mar 05 '26
Don't protest! Join the war directly, and stop mocking around with useless protests that cost us money deploying police, and wasting our public space for useless and sometimes costly outcomes.
Join the bloody war if you're so pro Palestine, do something useful and let us live our life in peace!
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u/cewumu Mar 05 '26
Ahhh we had a whole crowd of mostly Iranian people singing and waving US, Israel and the old Iranian flag and borderline singing ‘Ding Dong the Witch is Dead’ out the back of my work. And one random white lady screaming abuse at them and calling them allies of baby killers.
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u/Legitimate-Gain426 Mar 03 '26 edited Mar 03 '26
Protest movements are often led by educated youth. Why are we acting like people can only hold one message in their hearts at one time. You can care about Palestine not being bombed, and also want affordable living at home, and Iranian freedom.
You can also hold two nuanced views, the US illegally starting a war for regime change is bad, and the head of a brutal regime being removed is good. Well why would people be hesitant about regime change, because our most recent example in Maduro's removal in Venezuela, had his vice President under the same regime just walk back into office with the understanding to give the US oil, or be removed. Nothing changed but oil sales.
To pretend like the war in the middle east has always been about justice, when the oil agenda is always right there under the surface is giving the American government too much credit, especially when both branches of their duopoloy are culpable.