I’ve made the mistake of looking at social media over the past few days…
Some people have demanded that Albanese resign and/or be sacked by the Governor-General.
I can’t help but imagine the following:
Albanese: I have decided to resign.
Social Media: The weak bastard! Resigning at a time when the nation needs leadership. Typical lefty bastard.
Of course, many of the people demanding the Prime Minister’s resignation over the terrible events at Bondi were demanding that he resign over all sorts of other things, so I don’t imagine that he’ll listen, given that he didn’t listen before…
There’s a lot of understandable emotions at this time. Grief, anger, shock… I could go on and list them all but I suspect that you know what emotions are so I’ll move on to what I want to say.
While I have often become angry and expressed that anger in various ways, I’ve generally found that anger is best used when one has had a moment or two to think and worked out a better way to respond to what has happened.
And I can understand people being angry about what’s happened, but I can’t say that I can go along with the idea that we really need to get very, very angry because getting angry at people usually works out well.
Generally speaking, anger makes us do and say all sorts of silly things that we regret later on.
Silly things people have said because they’re angry:
- “Albanese should have done more to stop antisemitism because there’s a lot more of it since Labor came to office and it’s been stopped everywhere else.”
- “If Albanese is responsible for the attacks in Australia, does that mean that Netanyahu is responsible for the October 7th attacks because he didn’t do enough to stop them.”
- “We need to listen to the Nazis on immigration because they got it right.”
- “Why are we listening to John Howard? He’s the one who banned guns and stopped us from protecting ourselves?”
- “Everyone who protested has blood on their hands.”
- “I find any criticism of me, deeply offensive.”
None of these things are likely to improve the situation long term. Although listening to people, acknowledging their anger and asking what they think would help might, sometimes goes some way to turning down the temperature…
Yes, I know. There are lots and lots of people who don’t want to turn it down for a whole range of different reasons.
And that’s one of the biggest problems.
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Roswell, a rare occasion where I think you should have reread before posting.
My anger is directed, like yours, at those who blame Albanese wilfully ignoring that he has been, to my mind, more than willing to accommodate the increasingly hysterical claims of increased anti-semitism since October 7.
There might have been such an increase but I would argue two things: the completely disproportionate racist genocide visited on the Palestinian people following that event drew more attention to the 70 preceding years of Israel’s persecution of Palestinians encouraging greater criticism of Israel, and that greater criticism has been interpreted by the more extreme elements in the Jewish community as anti-semitism, leading these more extreme elements, the Zionists, to try to shut down any expressions of support for Palestinians by trying to conflate that as anti-semitism. It is these crude Zionist interventions into every aspect of Australian political and cultural life which has led us to where we are. Jews apparently hate that they need protection while demanding more and more protection from elements of the community radicalised by their attempts to suppress support for Palestine. As we have seen governments have been only too willing to go along with that suppression.
This is good, because RomeoCharlie has outlined the precis; the first part.
From there I’d ask whether outside and consequential pressure from foreign sources influenced Albanese to be less than honest over the groteque horrors of Gaza.
And the horrora are manifold and manifest: All the pics of desolation, kids mangled, old people being thugged, reports of mass rape and hundreds of surgeons and press wiped out by this modern IDF Gestapo.
Nothing to do with this “anti semitism” rot.
I laugh at the grief/ trauma stuff, after the tales of tens of thousands of others in Palestine suffering far, far worse.
No one of a liberal, egalitarian mind can ever support terrorist violence like we witnessed at Bondi! But before the IS connection was disclosed, I expect many of us were wondering whether these irrational idiots were perhaps retaliating against the loss of Palestinian relatives?
Worse was to come: Not only do these idiots appear unrelated to any Gaza/West Bank atrocities from recent times, they have been utterly revealed as just yet more of those ignorant Jihadists who have no real family to belong to. They are just more of those Terrorist F-Wits.
Mohammed never actually tried to eradicate alternative religions, his policy was always one of tolerance and temperance.
However, what really troubles me now in the wake of the failed Indigenous Voice to Parliament with regards to thousands of massacred victims, still unrecognised; is why do the Jewish/Zionist factions suddenly have so much power over all tiers of our government?
Like Port Arthur, this is a major atrocity! But why are our governments suddenly rushing to be seen as anti-antisemitic, when there have been tribal factional conflicts in this country for many decades before.
Some might say that Israel has behaved abominably since October 7; thousands of innocent Palestinian citizens including hundreds of children have been slaughtered, well over the number of abducted victims by Hamas.
But is it’s totality really anything more than a conflict that resides in millennia of discontent? None of us Australians support this Islamic/Judaist conflict.
I sincerely regret the assassination of our Jewish citizens last Sunday, but I do really wonder why so much political attention is applied to the “Antisemitic” element, when no real concentration on indigenous massacres has recurred.
Forgive me if I’m wrong but it reads to me like the Zionist Lobby Groups have a special VOICE TO PARLIAMENT, that our indigenous forefathers had no right to access!
Antisemitism is nothing more than RACISM; Why is it’s objection suddenly more important than racism elsewhere in our community?
Reading comments on social media (well Facebook anyway)reveals a lot of people really do not have any grasp on how our government works. The cries for Pauline Hanson or Jacinta Price (senators) to become Prime Minister show there is no understanding of how we get a Prine Minister or how elections are decided. The call for the Governor General, or in one case, King Charles, to remove Albanese, likewise show abysmal ignorance.
Poor ol’ FB. Used to be vibrant and well employed, but Zuckerberg has seemed to have himself in a big rut, no knew ideas. Once again, an element of control-iness.
Mark Shields, no doubt the “antisemitism” is a tactic to prevent questioning of the USA and Israel. It is a blame and shame thing and a repulsive, incessant manufactured tactic from them. and Ireally thinkpeople,by now, would wake up to the US’s REAL interests:oil and gas.
Gaza itself is just of a coast repelte with oil and gas reserves and to cut out the midle-man, they have reduced Gaza to rubble.
Cain and Abel stuff.
“Albanese: I have decided to resign.
Social Media: The weak bastard! Resigning at a time when the nation needs leadership. Typical lefty bastard.”
I can’t telll you how much I loved that.
Or I could… for a small fee.
Inner self-hatred & abdication of responsibility is given shelter in inde-effing-vidualism & inde-effing-pendance – a sort of spray-on stench, when interdependence is the beautiful reality of the natural world.
Did you notice that the Kennedy Center for Performing Arts in Washington DC has had a facelift and gained a new name.
The world-renowned performing arts centre is to be rebranded as the Trump-Kennedy Center for Performing Apes – at least I think that’s what they said.
The move follows a vote by its board, which Mr Trump himself hand-picked this year. It was a unanimous vote in the Trump fashion: one Director said she spoke and voted against the motion but her microphone was muted.
The venue was established as a living memorial to the former US president John F Kennedy after his assassination. By adding the name Trump, some are suggesting another presidential assassination is anticipated.
Imminently, the Lincoln Memorial is, I understand, to be renamed the Trump-Lincoln Memorial.
Rossleigh, satire is becoming a redundant art form, Trump has usurped it.