I never paid attention to the newspapers, so I don’t know if it’s always like this.
All defending maximum murder or suffering (through genocide or global warming). What the hell is wrong with this country?
If these are the sources of information of a population it’s not hard to imagine the result. I am really hoping it’s just the rich playing with their toys (the newspapers) the way they like, but that it is not really effective in brainwashing the population. That they question what is fed to them.
Anyway, I just thought it amazing and to share my depression with more people. Maybe that’s just every day news and nothing unusual. I imagine it’s probably all owned by the same zionist or super villain or something.
Since the image can’t be read, the one on the left says that if Australia doesn’t support the international court on netanyahuhaha the country becomes terrorist. The second is the typical “people are not supporting my genocide, I’m being holocausted”. The third is asking for harsher punishment for those “fools” destroying the economy and wasting people’s time with imaginary environment issues that could lead to human extinction.
edit. I posted to lemmy.world by mistake. Lemmy is so confusing… edit2. Is the image showing? It didn’t show the first try.
“Activists expect leniency”
Fuck that I was prepared for the $22k fine, I wasn’t keen on the prison time but it was a risk I was willing to take. Everyone who was arrested yesterday feels the same way.
Fossil fuel billionaires do not contribute to the economy, they rape the earth stealing natural resources and rake in profits with next to no taxation. We stood in solidarity with workers this last week, we’re the ones fighting for a better economy for Australia. Chants in support of the Maritime Workers Union could be heard across the channel, Rising Tide wants their future careers to be secure. They are not just tools for profit to be discarded when the earth is destroyed.
And finally I’ll always stand up for Palestine, I’m pretty damn proud to have been out there on the water wearing my keffiyeh. Fuck the news media, they’ve destroyed the nation I once loved and are essentially what radicalized me.
22k? Holy shit. I would be so crazy angry. You’re being force to financially reward the people destroying your future. That would eat me up inside even if that amount didn’t hurt.
So they get rich destroying your future and you have to give them more money for it.
You guys are heroes. I couldn’t take that. I’m glad there are people not like me. I would think non stop about a justice I can’t make happen. Like some people’s heads on a guillotine.
I’m not hero, but that means a lot. I’m just some punk who had enough of lying around depressed and mourning the future I once thought I had. You don’t need to be like me to help a ton, just talking to people and sharing news is a huge thing. So many ways you can help from the comfort of your own home, calling/emailing MPs or even just telling your more conservative friends and families how important this is.
A couple of points about the $22k and 2 years in prison, those sentences are 1: Draconian and part of anti-protestor laws and 2: Extremely hard to actually get as it’s the maximum, even with priors.
Also we don’t reward the cops! The money is collected by revenue NSW and goes towards community programs, so I’m actually pretty happy to pay into that. My fine will be a maximum of $330 because I was charged under a different thing, but some of the 170 arrestees on Sunday are falling under that $22k maximum one.
We are all giving money to those fossil fuel billionaires, tax payers are subsiding ~$14B towards fossil fuels and those fuckers do not pay much if any tax.
You are right about the super villain bit although FR is owned by Nine.
So it’s the same channel i see everywhere that makes me want to throw up. I keep changing channel in places i see that on and people change back, like in gyms. People around here actually like to feel their neurons melting. It doesn’t just happen to be the default, it’s what they want to see. They go after it.
I don’t see much hope for this population.
And who’s that guy? He looks like a sad villain. I hope he is very sad. But that might be why he does this. He wants to spread his misery.
I don’t know if changing the channel in the gym is the kind of activism that will give you the best impression about what hope there is. I know what you mean though. When I dropped out of school and picked up some work as a painter my boss told me to stop changing the radio to Triple J on the job because the builders wouldn’t like that kind of music. All I knew was I couldn’t handle listening to advertising all day. Maybe that’s just some people’s jam.
That is Rupert Murdoch. He might be sad. I highly doubt it though.
It’s not activism. It just drives me crazy. I can’t ignore the stuff I’m seeing and i can’t concentrate on anything. If i want to promote some changes that would not be the way to do it. It’s just that’s it’s like someone putting alcohol in my eyes. I have to turn it off or leave. When i can’t i just leave.
I thought that could be him but i didn’t see on wikipedia that he owns channel 9. I heard much about him but I’ve rarely seen his face.
I wouldn’t doubt he is sad. To be that evil you have to have something wrong going on in your brain or life.
Murdoch doesn’t own FR (the newspaper on the left). It is part of Nine. The other’s are Murdoch.
Maybe some noise cancelling headphones can help in the gym. Or maybe buy the Tv-B-Gone and test it everywhere you see a TV. I’ve always wanted to know if it would work on the huge digital video billboards in the Sydney subway.
