Look i don’t think he knew about the pedo stuff, but him and Jeffrey both had a penchant for intellectuals. I think it’s a coincidence
A right winger? Being violent towards women? It can’t be true!
From the advice I’ve heard, earplugs or earmuffs (ideally both) will protect you somewhat from long term hearing damage, but don’t do much to protect you from the immediate effects.
I’ve heard that a concave surface (something like the inside of a riot shield) can be used to reflect the “beam” back at the user.
www.anticop.com.au is a good resource on some of the weapons and tactics pigs use against us.
Totally understandable to be scared, comrade. There’s a difference between bravery and recklessness. All the more important to try and do what we can to keep each other safe while standing up to these thugs.
They had an LRAD at sydney town hall, I was surprised they didn’t deploy it tbh. Although they apparently threatened to (I haven’t had that stood up just social media chatter). They probably couldn’t use it because they had so many cops surrounding us, would’ve been heaps of friendly fire.
Correct headline: “israelis begin process of turning their concentration camps into extermination camps”
I hit the photo upload limit yesterday 😅 sorry if some of these are a little blurry, some are still frames of videos I took
Captured the start of one of the combined mounted/infantry charges the cops subjected us to.
Aftermath of that advance - we had held our ground reasonably well, you can see some people being treated for pepper spray.
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Honestly, this much support for the greens in a sub like r/sydney is a pretty radical change from a couple of years ago. It’s filled with inner suburb yuppie types who usually don’t care as long as their commuter train runs on time (not that they do lol).
I’ll start editing this comment with links to other media.
Good coverage - https://michaelwest.com.au/this-was-planned-and-chris-minns-owns-it/
Live thread for a mix of protest footage and gaslighting from the government defending their actions - https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-02-10/federal-politics-estimates-ley-albanese-taylor/106323538
I’m loathe to link to reddit, but r/sydney has actually been incredibly based around this whole thing and has some spectacular footage - https://www.reddit.com/r/sydney/
I’d also recommend people try to scope out some australian based palestine movement social media stuff on isntagram or whatever, there is so much crazy footage - and that doesn’t even capture 10% of the violence the cops enacted.
~~Ok I guess I lied, hexbear isn’t letting me upload any more photos for some reason or is borked - if people are interested I could try and host them somewhere (anyone know a good place for that?).~~ nevermind refreshing the page worked i am not good with computer. Ok that is not working again, whatever, I’ll upload if I can. If people would like me to host the photos and videos I have somewhere I will try, I’m currently prepping for the rally tonight so might not be able to rn.
Mounted pigs and foothogs prepare to advance on the crowd (this is on a footpath btw, not blocking any road or tram line).
Not sure if this has made international news, there were protests around Australia because our government invited the sick genocidal fuck Isaac Herzog here at the behest of the zionist lobby. I was at the Sydney one (where Herzog is currently) and it basically turned into a cop riot.
Within minutes of the rally’s official start time, the cops blocked all entrances to the square with railings and cordons of pigs - this rally was in a totally legal place to assemble.
Pig drone operators on a rooftop overlooking the crowd. There were also cop snipers in camo and masked up on the rooftops.
The usual story, peaceful protest, tens of thousands, kops kettle people, refuse to let them march, then start fucking on people. I know people who broke bones, almost everyone I know including myself got pepper sprayed, the fascist blackshirts went absolute hog wild (pun intended). There’s footage of elderly people being beaten, completely restrained protesters face down on the ground being punched in the head and kidneys dozens of times.
This is the crowd, which had spilled onto the surrounding streets and tram line due to thousands being stopped from entering the square, trying to leave the area. About 20 metres ahead of this was the pig cordon, stopping people from going anywhere.
Horses and foothogs charged the crowd many times, spraying and spraying their chemical weapons. 27 people were arrested, including a friend of mine, dozens at least must be injured. There was a young woman who was pepper sprayed and went into a seizure. I was lucky and only got it on my skin which burned for six hours. A comrade of mine copped it full in the face, he was blinded and burning long afterwards.
The crowd was full of young and old, which didn’t hinder the cop riot. As you can see behind the gentleman with the pram (who is attempting to make his way back away from the line of cops fucking up the frontline), there is an older man covering his mouth as pepper spray had already been deployed on protestors at the front a few metres away.
Even after the crowd fled to adjacent streets, clearly attempting to disperse, cops pursued them hundreds of metres and pepper sprayed and tackled them. I heard of tear gas cans being deployed in one of these side streets, but I didn’t see it with my own eyes or on any social media. The cops also had an LRAD they threatened to deploy, and had choppers flying overhead for hours before and after the rally.
Meanwhile, 5 minutes down the road, as the protestors were being brutalised by jackbooted rabid thugs, the state premier (like a governor) was wining and dining with a couple of thousand Zionists at an event put on for their distinguished guest. He has since come out this morning, alongside the police commissioner, and done classic DARVO gaslighting bullshit, blaming the protesters, “the cops were in danger”, “they tried their best to control the situation, but the crowd just wouldn’t listen” smol bean fucking routine, etc etc.
I’ll come back and edit more of my personal pics and links to stuff I see online for international comrades to see and share. Not much happens here in Australia and we don’t make the news much, but I want people to know hundreds of thousands of people get out in the streets here for Palestine, tens of thousands confronted the armed thugs of the state last night, and there’s another snap protest tonight in response to this brutality.
If by chance any Palestinians read this, we are with you. Free Palestine, fuck the pigs and death to Israel 
Adding more photos in the comments
Ooft, i know ACAB but this is cruel and unusual punishment for the officers involved
Bruh haz infrared american “communist” party style ideology is spreading in my country amongst the terminally online 😭 look what they’ve done to my marxism dawg
Disclaimer: I don’t want this to come across as downplaying the suffering of the victims, or the horrific nature of the crimes.
That being said, I think Epstein is becoming an obsession for people that is pointless, doesn’t advance the left wing movement, and is borderline unhealthy to be honest.
People on this site and beyond are doing borderline Q-Anon level baking, using random scraps from documents and making extremely tenuous connections. This shit is unhealthy, obsessing over it and staring into the abyss of depravity is just going to cause yourself psychic damage, and for what? It’s borne out of the same thing as all conspiracism: a feeling of powerlessness, a feeling that by uncovering the mystery, doing this “investigation”, finding some hidden truth, you are doing something tangible rather than just obsessing and suffering on the internet.
This isn’t to say I don’t think all things are on the table - “he was mossad”, “this or that person was involved”, “what if he’s still alive?”. But ask yourself, what changes? What changes if any of this is true? Are any of us shocked or surprised by 99% of the names dredged up? These are all people that we already consider ontologically evil for numerous other crimes and their class position. We already know that there are 10,000 ultra powerful, ultra wealthy people who control the world, who act with impunity, who are all interconnected and who all have bourgeois class solidarity that the workers can only dream of at this stage.
And what tactical or strategic advantage is offered to working class movements we are involved in by uncovering this hidden truth? We currently have no power to punish the guilty or prevent it from happening again. Epstein himself is likely dead, most of the people mentioned are dead, or ancient and on their way out. Should we be forming pressure groups and protesting our governments to thoroughly investigate and punish the guilty? If half of what is in the files is true, our governments are riddled with people who are complicit if not actively involved.
So what is the route by which the people’s justice can be served? The same as always - the working class needs to win political power. Our time is better served thinking about how we can advance the ball on concrete issues, work with our irl organisations to build working class power. I think driving ourselves mad on the internet and expanding so much mental energy tying red string between random names and events on our mental corkboards is deleterious to this mission.
Now, I’m open to the idea that using the Epstein angle in propaganda to disillusion workers of billionaires and capitalism could be useful, but that doesn’t require more than a cursory knowledge of the situation, knowledge we’ve all had for 6 years at this point.
As marxists we shouldn’t be hyperfixating on Epstein as the keystone of everything “evil” on earth. We have a class analysis and an understanding of the system superseding the role of the individual. Things such as “epstein was working for Mossad” - ok, that may well be true, but does it change our analysis of Israel? Does it affect how we view the settler-colonial relationship? Could it possibly make them any more morally bankrupt than the genocide we’ve been watching for 2.5 years? Than a century of ethnic cleansing?
I get this feeling that doesn’t sit well with me, that this is becoming some grotesque spectacle of “true crime”, motivated by an inability to look away, by the conspiratorial powerlessness I mentioned above, and by the same instincts that make endless podcast series and TV shows about gruesome murders eternally popular. And it is taking up so much oxygen on the left - ffs, the United States is about to try and topple its second government in a month and everyone is too busy combing through the epstein files to see if 
or 
are in there.
Tl;dr: don’t drive yourself insane trying to know the unknowable, focus on the concrete, focus on things you can change, advance the ball!
Fuck me, i know we like to mock the average american, but there really are a lot of stupidly brave, rudderless, “on the right track” people over there who are ending up doing adventurist shit because there’s no party to organise them. Sad to see.
This article is so laughable. Also the “comedian” who “lived in Shanghai for a decade” is from……. Taipei
In 2025 she relocated to the US. When she arrived, she went on a frenzy of “revenge bingeing on democracy”, going to talks, protests and diving into New York’s public library.
after decades of hope in the US that closer ties with China may help the rising power to liberalise, under Trump 2.0, it seems as if the US is being pulled in the Chinese direction, rather than the other way around.
Ever since Trump unleashed the so-called Department for Government Efficiency, or Doge, on the Washington bureaucracy at the start of his term, many in China have viewed US politics through the lens of the Cultural Revolution. Whether it is the mobilisation of the youth to execute the leader’s will, or purging institutions of perceived enemies, Trump as viewed from China has delivered Mao-style chaos to the US, albeit without the same levels of violence.
I very much enjoyed the following moment of clarity from a moronic Chinese “intellectual”:
Chinese liberals, who are often, at least in private, critical of China’s political system, are increasingly finding it less objectionable than America’s, Zhang said. “It’s sort of painful to accept this … but after the pandemic the government seems to be doing the right thing in improving the environment and developing electric cars and investing in hi-tech,” Zhang said, while “the West, as represented by the United States, seems to be declining”.
Isaac Stone Fish, the founder of Strategy Risks, a China-focused advisory firm, said: “The United States could descend into the worst crisis of its history, orders of magnitudes worse than it is now, and it will still be freer, more open, and more liberal than China under Xi.”
Here we see the propaganda term “middle class” stretched to a degree far beyond laughable. What’s next, “middle class” people sleeping under the overpass eating rats?