I hate this law. Not because I think people should be saluting like Nazis, but because it was actually needed. We should be better than that. Have we learned nothing from 80-90 years ago?
The systematic dismantling of humanities education hasn’t helped this either. That’s why we needs arts / humanities just as much as science. The nazis had science but they didn’t have any humanity.
Their science was in many respects also questionable. Sure, they engineered alright but they also based sweeping policy on ridiculous race science and their astrophysics never would have panned out with their rejection of Relativity as “Jewish Physics”
Am autistic and can confirm that many aspects of their science are bullshit. Still deal with the impacts of this every day as many in my community are willfully ignorant about Hans Asperger and how concepts like ‘high’ and ‘low’ functioning are based in nazi ideology not science.
It’s exactly why I don’t participate in most communities for autistic people and instead look for those that brand themselves as neurodivergent-focused. There’s a lot of “I had it bad so everyone else should have it bad too” as well as conditioned acceptance of societal issues in communities that label themselves as autism communities in my experience.
Yep I’m right there with you. I find the push back against the neurodiversity movement in some of these autism communities really problematic as well. It’s often based on a significant misinterpretation of what the ND movement is.
Not that I support their ideology at all, but the Nazis gave the world some really cool shit. Jets, rockets and the ballistic missile, the modern highway system/overpasses, and advancement in nuclear fission. Just goes to show how much war seems to advance our technology tree.
Also…Fuck Nazis
I’d argue that the technological advancement was from spending a lot on that rather than societal goods, and the general removal of freedoms to trade for efficiency. This usually happens during war, but a society can’t maintain that, people get sick of it. If they didn’t run out of oil, they would have run out of the will to fight.
My theory: there is basically no-one left who remembers WW2 first-hand, and a lot of people only know that the atrocities were commited by “evil monsters”. And we’re not evil monsters, right? We’re sophisticated modern humans, not evil monsters, right? We are, therefore, incapable of atrocity or even mistake and it cannot happen here, right?
It’s super frustrating for people like me who are nerds for history and are extremely aware of exactly how fascism progressed last time it got popular.
Australia did at one point but then the US did a coup.
Australia is a settler colonial project built on the genocide of indigenous populations, its in the bones of your country like it is in the US, and like we inspired Nazi Germany to be
In the best of cases overcoming this history would be difficult, but we live in a world where this is not the best of cases, and where for most of history the ruling class has gone the other direction and misinformation and lies are more common than learning real history
Nazis literally came back solely for, as the kids say, “having rizz”.
Normies just suck.
Why be like this? No, it wasn’t the fucking uniforms, it was the assemblage of white supremacist states that recruited Nazis and promoted aspects of their ideology all over the anglosphere.
This was rumoured to have come about because everyone was saying Dictator Dan, and throwing nazi salutes at him, though, right?
This was more about Dan not being upset, and being able to have protesters arrested if he got upset. This has been years in the making.
And now he’s resigned.
That’s how I understood it when it was first announced back in the day anyway.
Fitting name.
(note: this post is now intended for the grandparent poster, after my initial assumption that the post above was agreeing with them)
Yes, a fitting name for an elected official who took the advice of both government and public service and used laws that had been available for a century to stop the spread of a virulent disease that actually, measurably, saved hundreds-to-thousands of lives. Laws that notably took power away from him and shunted it to the state’s chief medical officer, a public service, non-elected position.
And then in a classic dictator move, a few years after releasing that extraordinary use of power and bringing things back to normal, he had the absolute gall to resign and not continue his despotic reign, talk about cheek.
“Dictator Dan”, indeed.
The problem with names like that is that they use emotions to mask facts. “Dictator Dan” is as catchy as hell, don’t get me wrong. But it focuses entirely on the man, not the methods. If you want to actually change the methods, then go right ahead and and use all the democratic processes we’ve got in place to do so, and we’ve got plenty compared to actual dictatorships.
Having the media rant against Dan Andrews in this manner only sows discontent and strife. That on its own does nothing to improve the situation, in fact, it makes it much worse.
Mate, I meant the guy I replied too, “Making(Up)StuffffForFun”.
Then I apologise for my confusion.
I’ve just heard that phrase bandied around far too often, and phrases like that are the thin end of the wedge of stupidity that blocks rational debate.
We’re still blaming Dan for everything?
Thanks Obama
Love to, but the fucker up and resigned. HOW COULD DANDREWS DO THIS
^/s /s for chrissake^
No.
This happened after a bunch of nazis inserting themselves into everything imaginable (and yes, they did co-opt a lot of the dissatisfaction over lockdowns) pissing more and more people off until we literally ended with a situation where they got a protective cop ring around them and started flinging seig heils and there was no legal way to get them on the harm they were doing.
Fuck that noise.
Also fuckin’ dan couldn’t give a shit what nutballs chant in the street when the voters kept putting him back in the seat. Don’t be such a five year old
I heard it was because everyone was throwing Nazi salutes in public spaces in support of the current liberal candidate but maybe whoever said that was making it the fuck up
edit for raptor squad this is entirely sarcastic but Christ you’re dense mate
I don’t think it had anything to do with that. During lockdown people were drawing swastikas and such in my area, and for the past few years, there have been Nazis stickers going up (even before covid).
It has been increasingly escalating to worse nazi nonsense
I’d say if it were happening during lockdown, and given the percentage of the population that were outraged and felt like they were living in an Orwellian nightmare, it makes sense they’re not actual Nazism supporters, but the opposite, and were sending a message to Dan.
Bullshit and fuck off.
Some people went fucking nuts - and I mean full on clinically time cube level batshit - during covid and a cohort went deep into the air fryer. We call them cookers because they’re bloody cooked. They do not reflect the general opinion and if you side with nazis to piss off an elected official YOU CAN JUST VOTE OUT you’re a goddamn idiot.
There were also stickers being stuck up before then at random spots (there was one at the footbridge here in Seaford)
The nazi’s were simply opportunistic and took advantage of the situation. It’s just inexcusable in any regard
As German, I approve of this 👍
As a person, this is agreeable.
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As a Vulcan, I do not believe your message was logical 🖖
Good. There should be no room for hate, let Nazis rot in the bins of history where they belong.
Good. Fuck the Nazis
I hate those guys !
All I really have to say about this is fucking good
Edit: typo
Nazism should be illegal not just the salute.
Swede here, I completely agree!
Let’s just hope the nazis never learn about the Olympic salute…
This is the way.
Also a quick reminder that swastikas drawn in permanent marker can be wiped off some surfaces with a solvent, such as by using alcohol based hand sanitizer on a tissue. Both come in travel sizes.
As for ones that cannot be cleaned off, well there’s absolutely nothing you can do about that. It cannot be helped. You wouldn’t want to get caught undoing a hate symbol by drawing over it in a hilarious but completely illegal way.
Such vandalism is reserved for your own belongings because graffiti of public property is a crime. ☝️
Report it in the Snap send solve app. It will alert the council and they’ll remove it within a day usually.
I forgot the /s tag
But yeah that also works
I feel like this is a pointless and totally useless crime for anyone to tackle. Like if someone drew a dick on my face with permanent marker, or spraypainted my house, I would be more concerned about why they didn’t have a job rather than the actual act of spray painting to begin with. My personal take at least is that there’s worse crimes out there
Except when it’s other cops.
Excellent law. This should be adopted worldwide.
Liberal fascists: “Let me tell you why this is scary”
I’m assuming your down votes are coming from people who don’t realise that the “Liberals” are Australia’s more conservative party.
Yeah pretty much. It’s like that where I live too. It’s just Americans have a choice between the fascist liberal party and the pedo neo-nazi party so they think liberalism is a progressive camp when it’s anything but.
Soon: “Victoria police completely imprisons itself”
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Don’t think I’ve ever seen someone go bald from the side before
I’m going to enjoy the tears of the masses.
The Nazis are not the masses and shouldn’t be conflate with them. The libs crying over “free speech” for Nazis are also a minority.
Why would anyone (except nazis) weep about this ?
Funny how hexbear is against Nazis, except if it is russian or chinese Nazis
Australia casually imports right extremist scum from other countries for decades. Also Australia ^^^
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Deputy Commissioner Neil Paterson said the update to the Summary Offences Act received royal assent on Friday, meaning that as of Saturday, it had come into effect.
A small group of about 25 members of the National Socialist Network performed Nazi salutes and displayed an anti-Semitic sign.
“If any member of public, including the National Socialist Network attend any of those rallies and undertake a Nazi salute then police will be pursuing those individuals to ensure that we enforce the new law … hold them to account, charge them and bring them before a court of law,” Deputy Commissioner Paterson said.
There have been other instances of neo-Nazis demonstrating in the centre of Melbourne this year, which prompted the Victorian government to move towards outlawing the display of hate symbols.
“In terms of our Jewish community here in Victoria, we know that they have concerns at the present time due to the conflict in the Middle East,” Deputy Commissioner Paterson said.
“I’ve personally met with a number of senior Jewish community members to give them assurance about the police activities in the state of Victoria.”
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