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So when thousands of women (and children) were being duplicated--including in non-consensual AI porn--it was no big deal. But it took "only a 15-sec clip" of these two famous white men to draw outrage and fear. Gotcha. Cool cool.

Australian federal politics is going to be increasingly unrestrained racism all the way to the next election, no point pretending otherwise

When they say the immigration policies of the 1950s, 60s and 70s, you know they mean the White Australia policy.

Just say what you really mean — it's Muslims you want to target.

Look I already have one aneurysm

Ok listen. I know there’s some wacky evolutionary reason behind it, but it makes zero modern sense for my entire nervous system to go OH NO THREAT IT’S COMING TO EAT ME every time some bastard starts a lawnmower, power tool, or fucking motor vehicle.

A painting of a ma in a white hospital gown with a nurse. He says “this escape room sucks” and the nurse says “once again sir, this is earth.” The meme normally says the psychiatric hospital

mood

Over on threads someone just use ai;dr and we all need to adopt that right quick

Single frame. Chris Minns stands beside a massive tonne weight marked NSW POLICE being lowered by a crane. Visible sticking out from under the weight are hands, legs, a woman’s face, a keffiyeh and placards saying “NO TO GENOCIDE”, “FREE PALESTINE”, “HERZOG OUT”, “NO TO VIOLENCE” Minns says, “Thst should socially cohere them nicely.”

Cohesion.
My @smh cartoon.

Four Corners on Monday night Minns was forced to admit the NSW Police rejected a request by the Jewish community for extra security at the Hanukkah celebrations - clearly exposing NSW Govt negligence.

Seems then Minns fired up the police on the same night to distract headlines from his culpability.

Fucking hell

Nothing says cohesion like a punch in the head: Violence of Minns' goons exposes the lie of 'social cohesion' NSW Police's actions against protesters in in Sydney was about the powerful dictating the terms of free speech — through state-sanctioned violence if necessary.

"Social cohesion is a scam, a strategy employed by the powerful to delegitimise and suppress the voices of the less powerful... If you are othered by powerful groups, you become the victim of cohesion, not the beneficiary; what you get from social cohesion is a punch from an armed official."

NSW cop tells harrowing story of getting a bit of pepper spray in his eye while spraying a child

The NSW government claims everyone 'lacks context', so we spoke to an officer hear his story. chaser.com.au/general-news...

This was planned. And Chris Minns owns it. - Michael West NSW Police have assaulted dozens of peace protestors who gathered to protest the visit by Israeli president Isaac Herzog to Australia.

The rally ended peacefully.

Speakers finished.

People began to leave.

That should have been the end of the day.
Instead, it was the beginning of a deliberate escalation.

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When police lie to cover their acts of repeated violence - it means the police are not there protecting Australians. A Royal Commission into Police Conduct. They must act in the public's interest. There is NO ROOM FOR POLICE VIOLENCE. Every minority group has already suffered from police violence.

Oh, ripper! So now the ALP are going to establish guidelines for "legitimate prayer"? WTAF is legitimate prayer? And how can we make sure prayer is legitimate to avoid being picked up and thrown on the footpath? I'm not loving the ALP social cohesion model.

NSW Greens MP Abigail Boyd was injured and briefly hospitalized after being assaulted by police during a protest against the Israeli president’s visit to Sydney on Monday night, according to an Instagram post on her account. Boyd said police kettled demonstrators and then “started assaulting people,” claiming an officer pushed a fist into her chin, the Guardian reported. She posted a photo in a neck brace, saying later her body was “battered and sore.” Boyd expressed shock at the police's actions, even after identifying herself as a member of state parliament. She blamed Premier Chris Minns, who defended police’s actions.

NSW Greens MP Abigail Boyd was injured & briefly hospitalized after being assaulted by police during a protest against the Israeli pres.'s visit to Sydney on Mon. night, according to an Instagram post on her account. Boyd said police kettled demonstrators & then “started assaulting people,”...

Video shows a man pinned to the ground as Australian police strike him repeatedly during an arrest. The man appears already subdued as blows continue. The incident occurred at protests in Sydney against Israeli President Isaac Herzog.

Video: Jared Kimpton via X (@jared_kimpton)

It can be difficult sometimes to distinguish between social cohesion and common assault

What message did the government think they were sending today and what do they think the result is going to be?

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We knew from the moment we heard it that “social cohesion” would be one of those Orwellian terms which would be used to cover all manner of state sanctioned abuse and deprivation of civic freedoms.
It fuels the very unrest it pretends to seek to quell.

Shared with us from Sydney happening now. He had his hands up.

YouTube video by Alan Baxter Reading the opening of each story in The Rise

I just posted a new video where I read the opening of each novella in THE RISE. Please help me spread the word, good friends. Out on Friday 13th!
#WelcomeToTheGulp #Booksky
youtu.be/42m5CC7ojOk

This sign makes me think of how the Melbourne’s Royal children’s hospital cancelled a panel discussing the effects of war on children’s health bcos of a letter saying it would "pose a risk to Jewish staff and patients".

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Blak Caucus now #TalkStraight about #Genocide in #Palestine and #Australia - #auspol