The ruling class is PISSED that their Israel narrative was challenged. Thats why they’re going hard against any sort of narrative they don’t have complete and total control over. Even lukewarm shit like TikTok being considered a threat because the genocide of Palestinians got visible.
So here is an event that has given them a fucking gift-wrapped narrative for them. Clunky as it is for them to suddenly condemn all forms of violence while having a history of war and current genocide ties, they will push this “violent extremism is dividing our country” talk in order to excuse state violence against any form of protest of the status quo. It’s going to be the 9/11 “security” increase on steroids. 9/11 was used as an excuse to normalise the end of privacy, since then we saw massive adoption of CCTV and mass servailence.
I dunno exactly what forms of oppression they’re about to try and put forward, but I’m hoping the sheer hypocrisy of the Dems funding genocide and suddenly standing with Trump after calling him a threat to democracy will be enough to light a fire under people’s asses. However history shows that Westerners are very quick to accept whatever their masters give them.
I’m kind of interested if you would care to expand or in another post, how does this kind of thing impact oz policy in general? I’m familiar with the post 9/11 air travel cuckery but how much else is there?
Once something becomes the norm in the US it’s adopted by its vassel states fairly quickly. Not just air security but the use of cameras and civilian monitoring increased here after 9/11, not to mention Australia and the UK entered the “war on terror”.
Hell, during COVID Australia ended it’s COVID lockdowns after a visit from Biden. Our politicians even used the exact same language “We can’t let the cure be worse than the disease.”
We have several US military bases on Australian soil that no one knows what the fuck they do there and only US personal are allowed into.
Recently Australia ended a deal with France to give the US billions of dollars to “build a submarine”. In the interest of “Protecting ourselves from China.”
It’s embarrassing.