@DanielAndrewsMP
You won’t show a photo because it will prove Victoria Police facilitated their hateful March and protected them as they chanted and performed Roman salutes on the steps of parliament
Yesterday in Australia, two police officers and a neighbour were killed in an ambush by far-right conspiracy theorists who had well and truly followed the 🐰. These are the real-world repercussions of your rhetoric
Protesters are just waking up, they’re separated into top camp and bottom camp. One at the parliament lawn, and the other at Questacon car park.
A drone hovers above us, a woman informed me they’re “spliced with insect DNA”
If you’re a 22 year old (maybe northside) guy with inoperable cancer on your leg, the girl you’re seeing has the ick because apparently the way you’re dealing with the diagnosis is “too depressing”. Don’t shoot me, I just overheard it on the tram
Bout to drop our video on the Convoy to Canberra, it's probably the best thing I've ever created in my life.
Like all our stuff, it'll feature music created entirely by us, to me the soundscape is just as important as the footage. Hopefully by Sunday
@therealrukshan
Hey man, do you remember before 2020 - when cardiac arrest was the leading cause of death for both men and women everywhere in the world. Do you remember that?
Two hooded individuals jumped out of a stationary car, in the dead of night, smashed through the window of the Palestinian owned restaurant Burgertory, before dousing it in fuel and setting it alight.
But Victoria Police remain confident it’s not politically motivated..
The hiphop journalists that benefitted from Spanian's story have opted to stay silent, and while I'm unsure their contribution to the discourse would've altered the trajectory of events - their lack of solidarity towards queer members of the hiphop community is disappointing
The protest has simmered down a bit, few speeches but most people are seeking shade on the periphery. No one has sunscreen, that wasn’t budgeted in the $150k raised on gofundme
For all the talk of fringe conspiratorial politics becoming mainstream, last night proves every protest I’ve covered over the last two years has been utterly meaningless and irrelevant to the majority of Australians. Fringe far-right protesters are an insignificant minority.
Spanian, who was once a self-described "annoying athiest", converted to Christianity after seeing ghosts in his jail cell. He is one of the most popular influencers among millennial men in Australia, and his hateful rhetoric is at the centre of this latest spate of violence.
In saying that, there are some incredible promoters, journalists, artists and managers out there that are fighting back against a culture of complicity within the hiphop community. My thoughts are with them.
Just thinking about the ex-greens TERF I interviewed on the weekend that kept telling me it’s the media’s fault the far-right keep turning up at her protests
Conservatives will Install a third-party security system inside their own home, which can be accessed by both the multinational corporation that manufactures it, and the police on request, and then whinge to their followers that the world is becoming 1984
Did any of the journalists at the Dan Andrews presser ask him about whether or not there is an ongoing investigation into the officer that kneed a protester in the back of the head?
When I was barely 18, me and my friends had our names and faces published by the Daily Telegraph under the headline “the banned soccer hooligans of Australia”. Allan Jones compared us to ISIS terrorists. I was a child.
DailyTele listing the names, home suburbs and faces of 21 and 22yo women is inviting their harassment and intimidation.
They even make a point of revealing where one of them works.
There’s already been two seperate crashes today attributed to the Convoy to Canberra, one serious involving the lead car - a fully kitted out Land Rover which has been written off. Police and ambulances are on site near the Hawkesbury river.
This may seem bizarre to some, but there is a trend amongst some far-right figures to convert to Islam because (in their eyes) it provides the strongest ideological framework to oppose ‘wokeness’ and ‘western degeneracy’
As a researcher of far-right conspiracy theories, it’s only natural that my attention is now focused on pro-Israel supporters in Melbourne spreading disinformation about hate crimes
@kwardenclyffe
Is it a bit fishy that Burgertory deleted their caulfield branch off their social media just prior to this happening? Also that this branch had not customers anyway and was going under? I’ll give him props because it’s a clever way to get out of lease for an underperforming shop
While I've got all these fleshy mouth breathers abusing me in my dm's for calling out Spanian's homophobia, hip hop journalists that made a bag on the back of his success are dead silent. Damn I used to respect you guys, now I'm dealing with the toxic nightmare you created
Potentially more than 100 vehicles stretching several kilometres are in convoy from Melbourne to Canberra. They just pulled into the dog on the tuckerbox. Today is shaping up to be a big one, I’ll be posting live updates all day
Park Towers in South Melbourne was the first of the public housing towers to be built. The building has been unliveable for years. A third of the apartments lay empty, with sewerage leaking down the walls.. 🧵
Spanian's unhinged attack on LGBTQIA+ people, where he conflates an entire community with paedophilia, has been shared and endorsed by every far-right manosphere gronk I follow, and yet the silence from his managers is DEAFENING
What I posted today barely even scratches the surface, I’ll be editing together another creative piece of all the wacky interviews I got. If you’ve never seen our stuff before go check our linktree
While gallows were being driven outside parliament steps, Bernie Finn purposefully manipulated paranoid protesters in order to fuel panic and radicalism. How did it take the Libs this long?
The subtext here is that you can’t be masculine and a leftist, and we wonder why young men are falling down the far-right vortex. Traditionally, masculine figureheads like Che were central to mobilising young masc men, today a leftist streamer who’s buff is controversial..
Could be 500 vehicles from various convoys will converge on Canberra over the next few hours. Most convoys are running late. Police have blocked entrance to the parliament roundabout. I suspect sleepy Canberra is unprepared for how loud and obnoxious things are about to become.
Sorry if our video ruined your day, just remember that amongst the nasties there’s a lot of kind, empathetic people at these protests trapped in misinformation cycles. They might say stupid and harmful things but they don’t deserved to be disproportionately abused and ridiculed.
Garry Ablett Snr was one of the first public figures to spread pandemic conspiracies through a series of rants in 2020. The fact he has brain damage is a reminder that many of the more radicalised members of our community are themselves victims of a failing mental health system
I work with kids who do this shit all the time and I guarantee you none of them have ever considered the penalties. If you want to stop kids stealing cars, stop leaving your keys in the gym pigeon hole
BREAKING: Violent juvenile car thieves will face more jail time and sentencing will be strengthened as part of a suite of increased penalties to keep the community safe.
#qldpol
Protesters are demanding a representative from the govt come out and address them. I would imagine not one politician is in Canberra right now, so we might be waiting a while.
The OneFour documentary is so damn good. Raptor squad is a violent political arm of the NSW state used to muzzle culture and suppress political expression. The success of OneFour, literally against all odds, was Australia’s most important cultural moment in decades.
It's 2023 and it seems the pandemic is over! Let's get back to other street activist causes.
Ah yes, I recognise you! You're the ex-enviro activist who has just spent a few years organising One Nation rallies & enabling neo-Nazis. Why, of course you can join me! Take a placard!