January 26th 2025

[Carringbush2010]

not even Japan in WW2 planned to invade Australia (confirmed by the Japanese PM after the war).

The diggers invading Turkey in 1915 were certainly not fighting for Australian freedom, Nor against the Boers, or in Korea, Vietnam, Iraq and the disgrace that was Afghanistan. Don’t give me the rubbish that the Anzacs were fighting for freedom. They never were and they never have.


The deputy leader of the party who wants to be the new government today said the country was like an uninhabited planet when the first fleet rocked up.

Whatever, not the point.

See post 1449, like I said just an opportunity for you express your outrage. When most don't wanna outrage, they just want a holiday without some ahole calling em racist, bigot whatever.

 

[10571z]

I saw a sign held by what looked to be a youngish white female which said 'i live on stolen land'.

Well **** off somewhere else so you are not living on it!!!

It’s truely bizzare. If you feel that strongly follow your family tree and head back to where you originated from..

 

[Carringbush2010]

not even Japan in WW2 planned to invade Australia (confirmed by the Japanese PM after the war).

The diggers invading Turkey in 1915 were certainly not fighting for Australian freedom, Nor against the Boers, or in Korea, Vietnam, Iraq and the disgrace that was Afghanistan. Don’t give me the rubbish that the Anzacs were fighting for freedom. They never were and they never have.


The deputy leader of the party who wants to be the new government today said the country was like an uninhabited planet when the first fleet rocked up.

Whatever, not the point.

See post 1449

 

[Geelong_Sicko]

Or maybe musk shipping off criminal to mars?

If it was a one-way mission and they'd likely die out there, send the paedos! No internet though.

 

[schneebly111]

What are the demands for the “protestors” because someone of the signage is bizarre.

Again you realise there are multiple posters on this forum who attended the rallies, and are indigenous Australians. So why don’t you hunt back through the thread, find out who they are and ask them directly.

I did see some of the “patriots” bizarrely flying a British flag at night, maybe they thought they were in the UK?

 

[Johnny Bananas]

of course, not sure of the relevance though. It just looks like a solution without a problem to me at the moment in regards to the Australia day date.

Yeah, to you. Can you acknowledge that other people don't find the date appropriate?

 

[Johnny Bananas]

Did they all celebrate the murder and rape of over 1000 innocent Israelis on October 7? 3 cheers for Hamas!!!

Yeah dude, and they also celebrated the Holocaust, the sinking of the Titanic and The Godfather Part III.

 

[Romeoh1]

I saw a sign held by what looked to be a youngish white female which said 'i live on stolen land'.

Well **** off somewhere else so you are not living on it!!!

Well, it’s hard to fathom just what it is about this that makes you so aggressive. Is it because her sign states a simple truth? Or that she’s a female? Or that she is white? Or that she is youngish? Or that she is living here?
Perplexing indeed.

 

[Skeppersap]

Well, it’s hard to fathom just what it is about this that makes you so aggressive. Is it because her sign states a simple truth? Or that she’s a female? Or that she is white? Or that she is youngish? Or that she is living here?
Perplexing indeed.

I would have thought it is quite simple. If you believe you are living on stolen land, then do something about it yourself by no longer living on stolen land!

 

[Gough]

I would have thought it is quite simple. If you believe you are living on stolen land, then do something about it yourself by no longer living on stolen land!

And become one of those immigrants who seem to be responsible for all that ails us? Not sure why you'd want to encourage that sort of behaviour.

 

[SBD Gonzalez]

Point being there's a difference between remembrance (Anzac as most see it) and lament (Aus day as some see it)

I don’t think there’s a difference in actuality though.

They are both remembrance when it comes down to it.

And people are saying why are we being told by some that it’s good to remember what the Anzacs did, three months after them telling us we should forget what the settlers did?

 

[SBD Gonzalez]

I would have thought it is quite simple. If you believe you are living on stolen land, then do something about it yourself by no longer living on stolen land!

So, a technical argument about the supremacy of British property law?

Would it have upset you if she’d phrased it a little less legally ambiguously, and instead more evocatively, like “We have had our land stolen out from under us”?

 

[Carringbush2010]

I don’t think there’s a difference in actuality though.

They are both remembrance when it comes down to it.

And people are saying why are we being told by some that it’s good to remember what the Anzacs did, three months after them telling us we should forget what the settlers did?

Jan and Joe public aren't saying we should forget what the colonials did.

Spud head is, rw media turnips are, the public aren't though.

Yet posters like the op are so outraged and viscous towards every day aussies for having a BBQ and a beer. how bout phuq off and go bark up the right tree. Jan and Joe are not the cause of the hurt!

The public acknowledges what the colonials did, but nah not good enough for the miserable. Have to hate on aus, if you don't you're a racist pig.

And you know what, we should acknowledge the Anzacs, anyone who has a beef with our ex service men and women can GAGF as far as I'm concerned.

Not directed at you SBD

 

[SBD Gonzalez]

Jan and Joe public aren't saying we should forget what the colonials did.

Spud head is, rw media turnips are, the public aren't though.

Yet posters like the op are so outraged and viscous towards every day aussies for having a BBQ and a beer. how bout phuq off and go bark up the right tree. Jan and Joe are not the cause of the hurt!

The public acknowledges what the colonials did, but nah not good enough for the miserable. Have to hate on aus, if you don't you're a racist pig.

And you know what, we should acknowledge the Anzacs, anyone who has a beef with our ex service men and women can GAGF as far as I'm concerned.

Not directed at you SBD

Just yesterday people on this very thread absolutely were saying why should we keep dragging up the bad things our ancestors did?

It’s a very common argument. Have to disagree with you on this one mate.

 

[Carringbush2010]

Just yesterday people on this very thread absolutely were saying why should we keep dragging up the bad things our ancestors did?

It’s a very common argument. Have to disagree with you on this one mate.

Yes exactly, the op started the whole thing by bringing up the thread. Click bait.

Just to express outrage.

Agree or disagree, by and large people accept the wrong doings.

So are we supposed just sit here and cop the vitriol?!

Nah sorry not sorry, miserable dhs like schneebly can go bark at the right tree not everyday Aussies.

If the op wants to spit venom at the public, well expect push back.

 

[Rob R]

A quick check shows that the Japanese Navy proposed an invasion of Australia though.

Their PM thought better of it obviously, because of a fear they would be spread to thin rather than any desire otherwise.

They couldn't because they had most of their army fighting the nationalist Chinese (the communists having decided to largely sit out the war) and the Chinese people plus a ton of islands to try and defend.

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[Rob R]

Then again Germany amassed massive troop movements on the Russian border 1941 that went largely unnoticed

They were noticed but Stalin literally had people shot who suggested Germany would attack as that would have meant admitting he was wrong.

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[SBD Gonzalez]

Yes exactly, the op started the whole thing by bringing up the thread. Click bait.

Just to express outrage.

Agree or disagree, by and large people accept the wrong doings.

So are we supposed just sit here and cop the vitriol?!

Nah sorry not sorry, miserable dhs like schneebly can go bark at the right tree not everyday Aussies.

If the op wants to spit venom at the public, we'll expect push back.

Oh well, agree to disagree. My point is specifically about the Anzac Day /Australia Day inconsistency, and we just seem to have very different experiences or perceptions of how that is perceived and responded to in the larger community. Play on.

PS I really don’t see anything in the OP that could be construed as “spitting venom”.

 

[Johnny Bananas]

You're sick

Well, I think saying that everyone attending a rally calls those who aren't attending fascists is sick.

 

[Doc1763]

Well, I think saying that everyone attending a rally calls those who aren't attending fascists is sick.

If yesterday, I'd walked down Flinders Street carrying an Australian flag I would have been abused.
If yesterday, I'd walked down Flinders Street carrying a Hamas flag, I would have been welcomed with open arms.

 

[Deliverance]

Oh well, agree to disagree. My point is specifically about the Anzac Day /Australia Day inconsistency, and we just seem to have very different experiences or perceptions of how that is perceived and responded to in the larger community. Play on.

PS I really don’t see anything in the OP that could be construed as “spitting venom”.

It's all about perception. If a thief punched someone and stole their iphone, they'd feel fine about it because they have a free iphone. The person punched would feel aggrieved. Some people would feel empathy for the person who got punched, others wouldn't. Some would even suggest the person deserved to have their phone stolen because they weren't physically advanced enough to repel the attack. Human psych is weird and fascinating.

 

[Carringbush2010]

Oh well, agree to disagree. My point is specifically about the Anzac Day /Australia Day inconsistency, and we just seem to have very different experiences or perceptions of how that is perceived and responded to in the larger community. Play on.

PS I really don’t see anything in the OP that could be construed as “spitting venom”.

My original point was, some people lament aus day for good reason.

Haven't heard or seen anyone lament Anzac day. Only those that have an axe to grind for no good reason.

Yet, a poster tried to point out hypocrisy that , to paraphrase, 'we're supposed to commemorate Anzac but forget about the bad things of Jan 26' . No one's suggested that, except the few, who aren't the time of moment.

Like I said, if one has a beef, have a bark up the right tree, not at everyday Aussies that aren't even on this forum.

 

[Deliverance]

If yesterday, I'd walked down Flinders Street carrying an Australian flag I would have been abused.
If yesterday, I'd walked down Flinders Street carrying a Hamas flag, I would have been welcomed with open arms.

If you'd walked down the street with a Hamas flag, you'd have been arrested.

 

[Doc1763]

If you'd walked down the street with a Hamas flag, you'd have been arrested.

Nope

 

[Gough]

If you'd walked down the street with a Hamas flag, you'd have been arrested.

MAGA conservatism mostly revolves around being up in arms around things that haven't actually happened.