Thank you! Is there an android client for it? It looks neat!

Wow that’s an amazing write up!

Aww that’s a very sweet and sad story, I want to know what happens with the changeling girl. ❤️

Aah, ok. Sad. ❤️

Gross

Really?? Christ, people need to advertise it there, Imgur has been imploding and the community has no idea where to go. It’s been sad.

What is cat box?

Beautiful!

Exactly. We hope more every day Aussie families will join next time. The standard you walk by is the standard you accept.

What was really sad is they held this march on the last day of the multicultural festival, and in Brisbane they started and ended it in the same areas that festival events were being held. It was designed to install fear.

Honestly, the response we got about counter protesting from most people in our lives that agreed the March was bad was “Oh, but isn’t that unsafe?”.

We are a normal middle class white family and we refuse to look the other way while this happens.

I haven’t been to a protest since I was like 17, but this isn’t Australian. This is not what I want for my country. You can want immigration reform without being a bully.

I hope more people will show up.

This was really sad. My family and I went to this today in Brisbane, our best friend said their friends were afraid to go out to lunch with them today, because their parents were verbally assaulted in a grocery store on Friday for being immigrants.

My husband stood there in his suit, I stood in my pretty dress with flowers, our daughters held signs that said things like “so bad even the introverts are here”.

The March was not peaceful and was definitely racist. We started off to the side, sitting with flags my daughters and I made with hundreds of countries on them, and eventually we were swarmed as the crowd veered to come right past us.

They screamed obscenities at us, pushed into me, pushed my husband, tried to rip the sign from his hands. They ripped down the flags we made. Blew an air horn in our faces.

Many claimed they were not racist but my husband got called a f-ing Jew multiple times??? Maybe it was the beard and the hat, I don’t know.

Eventually police came and stood in front of us while we packed our things and left. We would do it again, in a heartbeat.

Before the rowdy crowd came looking for trouble we had immigrants come up and thank us, hug us, and we want them to know that not everyone agrees with this march.

Not wanting immigration is not what this march was about. This march was about fear and racism.

Sigh. This was really sad. My family and I went to this today in Brisbane, our best friend said their friends were afraid to go out to lunch with them today, because their parents were verbally assaulted in a grocery store on Friday for being immigrants.

My husband stood there in his suit, I stood in my pretty dress with flowers, our daughters held signs that said things like “so bad even the introverts are here”.

The March was not peaceful and was definitely racist. We started off to the side, sitting with flags my daughters and I made with hundreds of countries on them, and eventually we were swarmed as the crowd veered to come right past us.

They screamed obscenities at us, pushed into me, pushed my husband, tried to rip the sign from his hands. They ripped down the flags we made. Blew an air horn in our faces.

Many claimed they were not racist but my husband got called a f-ing Jew multiple times??? Maybe it was the beard and the hat, I don’t know.

Eventually police came and stood in front of us while we packed our things and left. We would do it again, in a heartbeat.

Before the rowdy crowd came looking for trouble we had immigrants come up and thank us, hug us, and we want them to know that not everyone agrees with this march.

Not wanting immigration is not what this march was about. This march was about fear and racism.

Edit: Our friend said that family that was harassed at the grocery store had people come to their house and bang on their door screaming after the protest last night.

Very sad to hear this, it sounds like he was a great person. <3

It’s not even the direct to consumer stuff that is the worst offender… Ever been to a cotton on when they are putting out new shipments?

Every single pair of underwear comes in an individual plastic bag and on a plastic hanger. The tables of folded undies? Each one was wrapped and hangered and the employees spend ages removing and disposing of layers of plastic.

Every shirt, etc. immediately removed from the plastic bag and either hung on it’s plastic hanger or hanger removed and folded on a table.

It’s disgusting. Multiply this by the thousands of fast fashion clothing stores and you can see how massive this problem is.

Absolutely this. I live in Brisbane, where Gympie Rd is also the major North/South highway. In order to drive from Gold Coast to Sunshine Coast, you end up taking Gympie Rd or pay to take the detour across the toll bridge to the East.

If you want to go from the city to the Northern Suburbs you pay the toll or take Gympie Rd. (Some suburbs have no choice of a toll road and simply must take Gympie.)

This road was never designed to be a major highway. It has schools on it, it has houses that face it. People die because this one road takes all the traffic.

On a smaller scale, take the large roundabout near my house at the intersection of Webster Rd and Hamilton Rd in Chermside. Just 350m West of that roundabout is Craigslea Primary School, and just past that, the high school.

The cachement for these schools extends East across that roundabout into the neighbourhood on the East side of Webster Rd. Every morning and afternoon on schooldays I see children lining up to try to cross the roundabout during rush hour.

This roundabout is right in front of a major hospital and right next to the fire and ambulance stations. It is very unsafe, and there is no safe way for children to cross. Lots of parents drive their kids, or the kids will take longer routes home to walk to a street with a crossing light.

Here is a snapshot of a kid crossing the roundabout on google maps: https://maps.app.goo.gl/5AW57JS8KDgvS4RS6

Gympie Rd magically turns from a highway into a proper freeway just 4.5km North of that roundabout, no on ramps or off ramps, you just cross the final light at Beams Rd and you are on a freeway North to Sunshine Coast.

I don’t follow.

I was simply replying to the statement:

Are these Russian and Chinese agents who want to divide “us” (who do you mean with “us”?) In the room with us right now?

With some facts about that sort of thing happening, since many people seem to be unaware and take a similar tone implying it’s crazy.

Scarily enough, Eastern European bot farms with strong ties to Russia have been all over the internet for ages.

https://www.technologyreview.com/2021/09/16/1035851/facebook-troll-farms-report-us-2020-election/

Also, Microsoft releases reports on foreign influence ahead of US elections:

https://msblogs.thesourcemediaassets.com/sites/5/2023/11/MTAC-Report-2024-Election-Threat-Assessment-11082023-2-1.pdf

https://msblogs.thesourcemediaassets.com/sites/5/2024/04/MTAC-Report-Elections-Report-Nation-states-engage-in-US-focused-influence-operations-ahead-of-US-presidential-election-04172024.pdf

These influences now have moved overseas to the UK and Australia.

It’s pretty universally accepted by anyone who cares enough to look that there are Eastern European (Russian) bot farms manipulating social media to divide and weaken Western countries.

The homeless were some of the first in the camps, as well as the disabled. Then the gays, other minorities, and the Jews.

Absolutely. There is a movie about a housekeeper during the holocaust who hid Jews in the basement of the commander’s house she worked in. When he eventually found out, she bargained with him, said she would be his mistress if he would say nothing and let them live.

After the war, when the dust settled, the commander was turned away by his wife and children for sheltering the Jews, and it was the Jews themselves he had allowed to live who took him in.

There were many people living everyday lives that had drank the coolaid and saw the extermination of the Jews as absolutely necessary and considered anyone who disagreed a traitor. Those people went on to raise children and teach them that sick way of thinking.