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[-] shirro@aussie.zone 10 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

This is a huge deflection from real issues. Rich cunts got richer, monopolizing our countries abundance of natural wealth and stacking the system in their favour through decades of government lobbying and corruption. Then they pay some fuckwit influencers to push the line that its the immigrant's fault. They have been doing this shit for at least a century and its so fucking obvious if you spend 5 minutes researching shit.

BTW Immigration rates are high, not because of bleeding heart lefties, but because rich people have a pyramid scheme based on population growth pushing up property prices and want us to keep fighting for jobs so we aren't in a position to demand better wages.

Immigration levels are too high because it benefits rich cunts. Join a union or environmental groups and vote on your own self interest and don't be a sucker.

[-] indomara@lemmy.world 19 points 3 days ago

This was really sad. My family and I went to this today in Brisbane, our best friend said their friends were afraid to go out to lunch with them today, because their parents were verbally assaulted in a grocery store on Friday for being immigrants.

My husband stood there in his suit, I stood in my pretty dress with flowers, our daughters held signs that said things like "so bad even the introverts are here".

The March was not peaceful and was definitely racist. We started off to the side, sitting with flags my daughters and I made with hundreds of countries on them, and eventually we were swarmed as the crowd veered to come right past us.

They screamed obscenities at us, pushed into me, pushed my husband, tried to rip the sign from his hands. They ripped down the flags we made. Blew an air horn in our faces.

Many claimed they were not racist but my husband got called a f-ing Jew multiple times??? Maybe it was the beard and the hat, I don't know.

Eventually police came and stood in front of us while we packed our things and left. We would do it again, in a heartbeat.

Before the rowdy crowd came looking for trouble we had immigrants come up and thank us, hug us, and we want them to know that not everyone agrees with this march.

Not wanting immigration is not what this march was about. This march was about fear and racism.

[-] WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.world 6 points 3 days ago

15k was the largest, so just a small bunch of luddites so far... that will grow larger as the US and billionaires continue their fascist culture wars, and our corporate-whore government continue to sow the seeds for fascism through the destruction of the working classes economic and housing security.

[-] eureka@aussie.zone 3 points 3 days ago

15k was the largest,

Adelaide? This number included counterprotesters IIRC.

[-] maniacalmanicmania@aussie.zone 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

There was only about 100 at counter protest. Someone else there says more but I can't be sure. There is no way, none whatsoever that there were 15,000 at the Adelaide rally. The cops are having a laugh, or deliberately overestimated crowd size to boost the number of people at the main march because they support it, or did not factor in the distance between protestors because they were all spread out so as not to hit each other with all the Australian flags they were carrying (there were so many big flags they all had to give each other wide berths).

There were a lot of protestors at the main march, just nowhere near 15,000.

[-] eureka@aussie.zone 2 points 1 day ago

And, let's not forget, certainly nowhere near 300,000

[-] Ilandar@lemmy.today 1 points 2 days ago

Only very small numbers of those, the overwhelming majority of the figure was racists.

[-] Etterra@discuss.online 4 points 3 days ago

Is this more or less ironic than American xenophobia?

[-] TimePencil@infosec.exchange 6 points 3 days ago

@Etterra

It's slightly less ironic.

The seppos have the world famous Statue of Liberty and a plaque with the words, "Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe."

Us Aussies still haven't had the guts to dump the Union Jack from our own flag, let alone establish a bill of rights.

@Davriellelouna

[-] brisk@aussie.zone 2 points 2 days ago

We do have

"For those who've come across the seas, we've boundless plains to share"

[-] TimePencil@infosec.exchange 1 points 2 days ago

@brisk

True. However, that's buried in the 'fine print' of the second verse, and very few people know there is a second verse, let alone the words!

[-] Etterra@discuss.online 1 points 2 days ago

Gotcha, thanks. I love all the down votes I'm getting. It's like a mystery box lol

[-] maniacalmanicmania@aussie.zone 3 points 2 days ago

It's weird because all you did was ask a question.

[-] Rosencrantz23@lemmy.world 4 points 3 days ago

Feel sorry for the ASIO guys that have to update the right-wing nutcase watchlist. That's a lot of Nazis.

[-] Amoxtli@thelemmy.club 1 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

This happens in Mexico too. People are tired of foreigners coming in, and snatching up scarce resources like housing, driving up the costs for everyone else. Australia has some of the highest housing costs in the world. This is liberal policy blowback.

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