"We're building an army:" Angry anti-renewable groups take to city streets ahead of state election

Submitted ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨budget_biochemist@slrpnk.net⁩ to ⁨melbourne@aussie.zone⁩

https://reneweconomy.com.au/a-war-without-weapons-anti-renewables-groups-whip-up-fresh-transmission-tension-ahead-of-state-vote/

The protest, organised by Across Victoria Alliance, brought around 300 CFA volunteers, farmers, One Nation and National party supporters, and a variety of renewable energy opponents into Melbourne on the sunny Friday morning.

Speakers, mainly men standing inside a large delivery truck, used Trumpian language to play up city-country divisions and went hard on militaristic calls for a war on transmission lines, renewable energy and data centres.

I’m disappointed that so many farmers and CFA who are going the be the most affected by climate change fronting this anti-renewables rally.

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pHr34kY@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
We are on the dumbest timeline.

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- j_elgato@leminal.space ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  I mean, not for much longer - if that’s any consolation…
  
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  - imoldgreeeg@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    I laughed out loud at that…now I am sad
    
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- DarkCloud@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  Take a lot of money to organize something like this.
  
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  - budget_biochemist@slrpnk.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    One Nation and the National Party were present at the rally, so I’m assuming it traces back to Gina and the Minerals Council / Australian Energy Producers. They fund other pro-fossil-fuel astroturfing groups like “Hands off our Fuel”
    
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Cherry@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
I had to read that headline 3 times as I didn’t believe my brain was reading correctly.

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Taleya@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
Imagine being this huge of a fucking muppet

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- kablez@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
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  - Taleya@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    I’d go a long way before i’d call them “average”.
    
    These people feel unheard sure, but i get the distinct feeling that’s because they’re largely full of shit. Undereducated and over internetted.
    
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shads@leminal.space ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
Not to mention a lot of the farmers who are most up in Arms could be making a tidy profit off setting up shop on their land. Plenty of studies find that solar panels create useful micro climates under them that can yield some super positive results. I’d link to some of the articles but I am lazy and a hack, so I won’t.

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PedroMaldonado@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
Anti RENEWABLES. WTF?

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NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
Sorry, they’re anti what now?

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shirro@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
A small group of useful idiots fighting someone else’s battles instead of their own.

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Rothe@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
So they are building an army of brownshirts then.

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No1@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
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jaycifer@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
Look at all the attention these 300 people are getting!

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briongloid@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
As someone who grew up in a remote rural Victorian town, only coming to Melbourne as an adult, this to me is the strongest domestic indicator of what the current UK Prime Minister Andy Burnham recently announced regarding the 2016 UK Brexit Vote.

Growing up around and knowing varying types of personality traits from that region, consistently there was a greater understanding for the environment and how to manage it in order to benefit from it.

This was prevalent and consistent to those on farms and the many that rarely stepped foot on a farm. The inner town people weren’t much different from Melbourne suburbans, but most had a Greens leaning when it came specifically to environmental matters.

It was the more complicated social issues that were seen as a ‘city issue’, and a consensus that the Nationals were the only way to have a rural voting block, even if they aligned with what was strongly seen as a city party.

Personally I always felt that rural voters would be greater represented by a block of independents, rather than trading most of their votes to a city party for minimal concessions and the odd pork barreling, but that’s neither here nor there.

To see rural people, who exist and live in the very environment that they themselves often have a conscientious understanding of responsibility for, fall into emotional misinformation and manipulation, really brings home just how significant an issue of political manipulation farms are from outside each of our democracies.

We need to consider what political free speech means for Australians in Australia and how it relates to people from outside of Australian IP addresses, whilst avoiding the loss of the inherent right to privacy that is mutually necessary in a democracy.

Australians don’t have a right to free speech, but we do have the right to political free speech, I don’t see how people commenting or posting from an IP address outside of the Australian geolocation would fall under our right to that.

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decolo@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
Okay, how do you wind up anti power transmission line? I am pretty sure these people are pro oil. How’s that supposed to work?

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