One man was arrested in Melbourne, with police deploying crowd control measures including OC (or pepper) spray, flash-bangs and rubber bullets during a tense stand-off with counter protesters.
One man was arrested in Melbourne, with police deploying crowd control measures including OC (or pepper) spray, flash-bangs and rubber bullets during a tense stand-off with counter protesters.
Authoritarians always hold counter protests, always.
expect more nazis
also, I noticed youtube is becoming infested with “Nativist” channels. They push an agenda, push “fact” based vidoes while not explaining which argument they are supporting.
Question everything. Do not accept any facts as presented, no matter who.
It’s strange that this comment is demanding skepticism while declaring “Authoritarians always hold counter protests, always.”
To contradict that assertion: The flash bang video in that article clearly shows many flags front and centre of the Melbourne counter-protest are anarcho-socialist flags. Out of all political currents, it’s tough to get any more anti-authoritarian than them.
And, as we’ve seen, the March for Australia protests that these people are counter-protesting is organised and led by neo-Nazis, Nazism being infamously and proudly authoritarian.
Looking at history, I don’t think “authoritarian/anti-authoritarian” is a useful lens for analysing state politics [further reading], but if we’re using it, we can tell that the counter protest is not the authoritarian side. I mean, some of them are literally throwing things at the authority, how could they be any clearer.
This could be an astroturfing account from a troll farm.
or I could be a long time poster
Fucking useless advice.
why should I believe you that it’s useless advice?
Skepticism and careful questioning has served humankind very well. Without it you’d be an antivaxxer, eh