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Terrorist attack against the Hanukkah celebrants.
Fuck these Nazis: attacking defenseless people on a beach. I dont want to hear one fucking word about a rationale for this or any sentence which contains a but in discussing motive. We know what the motives are and have been since time immemorial: to eradicate Jews everywhere. Period. Thats their game plan.
horrible
Coldwater
(1,221 posts)One of the gunmen identified as 24-year-old Naveed Akram
Authorities have identified one of the shooters who targeted civilians on Sunday at Sydneys Bondi Beach. Police confirmed the suspect is 24-year-old Naveed Akram from Bonnyrigg in Sydneys southwest, as reported by Daily Mail.
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https://www.firstpost.com/world/bondi-beach-shooting-one-of-the-gunmen-identified-as-24-year-old-naveed-akram-13959660.html
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PCIntern
(28,192 posts)Lets rationalize and parse words. . Fuck all these Nazis who want Jews dead. Thats my statement. I stand by it
Why do you think Israel all but annihilated Gaza? 10/7. Thats why. Its enough of the we are better than they are -look what that did for us Democrats.
malaise
(295,020 posts)These were not Nazis
This is another horrific act of violence
You dont know that actually and as far as Im concerned, the philosophy which pertains to the extermination of any race, creed, or color is Nazism. I have lived among these people. I know them all too well.
See, they dont parse words: they dont care if a Jew is reform, Conservative, or Orthodox: we are all the same. They also look to eradicate gays and lesbians and people of color if that were possible. Outrageous behavior needs to be met with same.
AloeVera
(4,137 posts)It seems that way to me.
Nothing justifies the murder of innocent people. Jews or Muslims or anybody. Descending to the laws of the jungle and indiscriminate killing of children and civilians in an eye for an eye (or worse, 100 eyes for an eye) is not where we should be heading - October 7th notwithstanding. This is where that will always lead to.
Just my opinion of course. But I haven't stayed silent for over two years on the slaughter of innocents, killed for who they are. Now that more innocents are murdered, though of another creed and ethnicity, I can condemn that too without appearing hypocritical, tribal or lacking self-awareness.
I felt this needed to be said.
ColoringFool
(548 posts)Yeah, Germany was mistreated at Versailles ...
Nazis did not commit this horrific act.
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malaise
(295,020 posts)and Nazis
That is all
PCIntern
(28,192 posts)That the movement that these terrorists belong to has acknowledged that they derived much of their rationale and belief system concerning Jews and Jewry from when the Nazis occupied this region. Their religious ideology which is another thing entirely has adopted the propaganda dissemination favored by those such as David Duke and those who preceded him and his ilk and the reason is: THE REASON IS
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That it is effective.
Never again. Every attack against us will be met with hundred-fold response.
muriel_volestrangler
(105,987 posts)If there were 100 attackers who killed 1 initial victim, then you might perhaps see it as justified. But if, as in this case, 2 (or 3?) attackers killed 11 people (current figures), where are you finding the 1,100 people to kill in response?
PCIntern
(28,192 posts)With all due respect: you dont have to kill 1100 people, you can make the perpetrators and their supporters miserable for the rest of their lives, instead of just one Sunday morning.
I would remind you that not too many years ago. We would often awaken on Sunday morning and hear about bombing in Tel Aviv at cafés post-Shabbat . I didnt see a whole lot of posted outrage in those days from the left
It is obvious we have to take care of ourselves. And we will do so.
muriel_volestrangler
(105,987 posts)but perhaps you're a dual citizen.
Was there ever a time when more Israeli citizens were being killed than West Bank inhabitants?
The fatality brings the total number of Palestinian killed by ISF and settlers since 7 October 2023 in the West Bank, including East Jerusalem, to 1001. One in five of the victims is a child including 206 boys and 7 girls. The number also includes 20 women and at least 7 persons with disabilities. This does not include Palestinians who died in Israeli detention during the same period.
The figure represents 43 per cent of all Palestinians killed in the occupied West Bank in the past 20 years.
Since 7 October 2023, 59 Israelis have been killed in Palestinian attacks or armed clashes in the West Bank and Israel, including 16 women and 5 children. Twenty-two of the Israeli fatalities were members of the Israeli security forces.
https://www.un.org/unispal/document/ohchr-press-release-17oct25/
"make the perpetrators and their supporters miserable for the rest of their lives" is quite different from "hundred-fold response"; maybe it's your communication that makes everyone else "miss the point".
Mossfern
(4,685 posts)a "what about" response?
muriel_volestrangler
(105,987 posts)If PCIntern wants to talk about killings in Tel Aviv (after invoking a "hundred-fold" response), when the subject is killings in Australia, then killings by the IDF become relevant. It's less of a jump, literally, than Sydney to Tel Aviv.
Srkdqltr
(9,648 posts)muriel_volestrangler
(105,987 posts)ClaudetteCC
(171 posts)PCIntern
(28,192 posts)Well, they are now. And theyre everywhere.
ClaudetteCC
(171 posts)A temporal bias to a group that showed up about a hundred years ago isn't very inclusive of a long history of jew hatred, oppression, and killing. Why was a nazi flag not left on the hood?
Mossfern
(4,685 posts)The word "Nazi" had taken on a broader meaning than just the Nazi party.
You know that. Why pick at details and not respond to actual act and intention?
Would you prefer he use the word "Muslilm?"
After all the perpetrator does seem to have an Islamic name - at least Middle Eastern.
Anything to distract from the real issue ......
NickB79
(20,298 posts)And a lot of prominent Arab leaders embraced their message, becoming at the very least Nazi adjacent.
https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/film/hajj-amin-al-husayni-meets-hitler
Justice
(7,254 posts)Suggesting their opposition to what Israel did in Gaza as if that justifies killing innocent Jewish people half a world away?
malaise
(295,020 posts)I called it what it is - a horrific act of violence.
I merely pointed out that the act was not committed by Nazis.
DFW
(60,009 posts)The chances that a 24 year old in Australia named Naveed Akram was a National Socialist are pretty much zero.
boston bean
(36,919 posts)onenote
(46,099 posts)Maybe I missed it. But if not, I would expect in the future you will be be consistent.
Sympthsical
(10,935 posts)There's a very thin veil to the game being played.
It's not about vocabulary at all. It's about getting those licks in, but just under the radar enough (so they think) to avoid sanction.
It's been years of this. I'm shocked it continues to be homed here.
speak easy
(12,595 posts)
Mossfern
(4,685 posts)had gotten rid of Isis.
No?
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c9d9vpxjp2go
Mossfern
(4,685 posts)I considered it, but thought that it would be obvious.
Igel
(37,483 posts)It's in North Africa and West Africa, as well.
US troops have been in Syria straight along. When a politician a few years back declared we had no troops in active theaters of operations, that politician was completely in error as far as the truth was concerned. Perhaps knowingly, perhaps out of ignorance.
Danmel
(5,753 posts)There is no place on Earth that is safe for Jews. No place on Earth. I'm just so tired of this. Just leave us the fuck alone already. We're less that one half of one percent of the world's population. Leave us the fuck alone.
WhiskeyGrinder
(26,799 posts)JI7
(93,454 posts)that have a history of invading, colonizing, forceful conversions and just spreading their violence across the world. But they are always blaming the Jews for everything. Always spreading conspiracy.
These 2 groups also play victim the most .
speak easy
(12,595 posts)but the Nazi certainly did.
Nanjeanne
(6,550 posts)Ahmed al Ahmed, a Lebanese Muslim who owns a Sydney fruit shop, who risked his life to disarm one of the Bondi Beach shooters. Such courage.
Srkdqltr
(9,648 posts)ITS MURDER.....THERE SHOULD NOT BE JUSTIFICATION. no rationale. IT'S MURDER.
MURDER
Call it Nazi or whichever 'ism . It's MURDER.
Skittles
(170,774 posts)IT'S JUST CRIME!
Srkdqltr
(9,648 posts)Skittles
(170,774 posts)over and OUT
jfz9580m
(16,810 posts)Last edited Mon Mar 2, 2026, 02:00 AM - Edit history (5)
I do feel we misanthropic Green animal rights types are the most neutral when it comes to human wars.
Yes we are never very popular having no culture or group and mostly secretly only sympathising with the planet. We are also not particularly unpopular since we support whoever is getting clobbered more or clobbered in a specific instance. We just exist outside human war that way.
My sympathy was with Palestine in the war, because as horrific as Oct 7 was, that was in no way a proportionate response. And Palestine has been on the receiving end of unfair treatment for a long time. It wasnt even good for Jewish people or Israel. Otoh it isnt a reason to imply that every antisemitic attack for ever more is because of that. Nick Fuentes and MTG etc are not antiwar for any reason but antisemitism. Nor are various theocrats of any religion any good.
The dynamics of all these intragroup wars are making this accelerating nightmare worse and a gimme to these Trumpy grifters. I considered whether to shut up or not. But this is a dynamic destroying everything where its emotion driven for non malicious people and exploited by the war and terror machine. The war machine is controlled by various elites and the worst type of pushback is mob violence and stochastic terror like this. This fits the description of stochastic terror at any rate.
I have equal sympathy for all groups and equal lack of sympathy as well wrt violence. Really I do..its because I prefer animals yes but still ;-/.
King Lear comes to mind wrt the kinds of friends who support anything you do whichever group you belong to. Beware false friends. An eye for an eye leaves the whole world blind..
And acts of violence should not be somehow justified and the math and numbers of this is tiresome. How about shooting for an amnesty re all intragroup hostilities at least on the left over backlash after backlash after backlash into eternity dredging up more and more history over current priorities like climate change?
No? War is better? Oh well..
I have reason to get how the internet and similar technologies manipulate emotions in the worst ways possible. Even Yasha Levine, a staunchly anti-war voice and one I respect a lot, has started focusing more on how the internet ends up stoking war rather than the reverse even when your are taking the left view. Or at least thats how I interpreted it and it fit a thesis I had along the same lines that the disempowered persons seemingly left internet use can sometimes help the same war machine.
The point is not that having a position is bad but seeing how it manipulates reality should be understood with more sophistication than this in a web built by Palantir, Google and a bunch of defense contractors where the last thing they want is an end to any war.
Edit: And I have some sympathy with Jewish community from my Vantage point as the daughter of an Indian military vet who is barely Hindu except privately inside his head and then just something personal tied to his village god, but
I am fond and proud of both my parents. I am an atheist, but I dont really talk about it except if someone pushes Intelligent Design/Creationism+Market Forces and Economics as superior to Evolutionary Biology+Democracy+Humanism.
And this one wretched conflict aside so much of the left-leaning Jewish community is saner than a large number of people driven by various cultures and frivolous rot. Actually so is the left leaning Muslim or Christian communities..cant you all stop fighting enough to see reality as it is? We are dealing with a dispersed threat worse than Nazis and it is not super intelligent ai. It is buggy technology disseminated by corrupt creeps embedded so as to
Jesus Fucking Christ.
And I keep getting sent to the loony bin or spam folders when I am not at all an oracular prophet type or ..which is the type of person who enjoys this rot. I still remember.
I am having to inadvertently behave very atypically and that is not a good sign..
This is making me whiny, angry, sad and dysfunctional. Ai in the wild is a terrible idea.
And it will be full of serious male on female sexual harassment that cannot even proven.
I am appealing to the sanest muscle in India and the US to not keep discounting me. I avoid people because I cannot often find a cohesive worldview.
I am not obviously a complexity or systems scientist, but I have too much on the line wrt people I do care about and wrt my home/data and life which I want decoupled from the lazy garbage I have seen probably going back to 2009.
It is not any one person who is wrong. But I refuse to give up my sole piece of muscle - I did not sign up for this and in spite of every intelligent human in it, my instinct has always been No. Too little real oversight. Too much cultural confusion and I am going to the authorities, but slowly. Not like a playboy with a machete. Or whatever..
This Frankensteins monster is not all bad, but it needs so much work to not be a menace that except Prof Yan Lecun, Prof John Hennessy(who really should pitch in imo) and Prof Emily Bender and Dr Timnit Gebru and Prof. Ryan Williams, I have seen no scientists in CS I would think could handle this and I see stuff that is either inside my head or theft that is clever or genuinely honestly good.
I am not fool ebough to permit theft. I am also not violent, but I get very angry when a fresh horde of all sided morons (but you know who you are re getting away with stuff and do not) pile on and continue to fail to get it.
I wasnt planning on filing complaints and only planning to extricate myself. But now I am and I can work with anyone sane and honest (even whiny up to a point..men! Yes! But if you are creep - no. Read the room man..I try so hard to talk you down if you are not a creep or a fool but ..You think I do not get annoyed by this media culture as a lefty womens libber.
But you need to work with reality and no Bah bah bah..I am always right about everything!
Lol..
And TikTok, Twitter, Threads, Instagram etc unambiguously suck. This is on the web on DU. Virality etc will come back to bite you in the ass.
You dont have to listen to a woman like me. Here..you all like whatever memes are (I think this is called hitting rock bottom..it is either this or agreeing off and on with Josh Hawley..I cannot tell which is worse sometimes and that is a sign of rock bottom and why I am heading for the exit asap). But seriously universities, hospitals and private residences are not good places for ai in the wild.
I have misgivings about this. I watched this a little before my mom died, but it did resonate with me as I thought of years as a scientist and later a caregiver for my mom. I have always liked Christian Bale..It must be hell to have to accept those idiotic celebrity cultures.
This isnt really funny, but an attempt to communicate in male or something:
It is a joke. It is a joke. I am not mocking anyone honest. I dont get how politics is all Bad Bunny and Taylor Swift Mark Cuban and Vinod Khosla versus Peter Thiel, Elon Musk, Bill Ackman, Larry Ellison, Bari Weiss, Hulk Hogan either. But that is not the fault of the 70,000 immigrants languishing in jail.
These Mitt Romneys and David Frums and David Brooks who do mediocre and easy work and jump ship are bad people.
But this needs to end without making life hell for me and those I care about most all the time. And if there was an leftover patience or tolerance it should help out humans reeling under this catastrophe. Private equity and hedge funds are the villains not publicly funded scientists, doctors, anonymous citizen scientists who will never be science influencers.
There is no real expertise and no common sense.
I am not a very good scientist, but I am cursed with a worldview that cannot process things in a shallow way and I hate lumbering into areas outside my field. I agree with Prof Lecun and on intelligence being specialized not general.
I absolutely disapprove of the lobbying groups making immigration a race to the bottom irresponsibly and angering and confusing every one. Please..
I am not the type of person who posts rubbish memes etc. I post rambling diatribes I now worry are libellous and so I must go take them all down.
It is just a joke. You know me..a friendly naive young woman who likes memes. I dedicate Christian Bales rant and that clip to the following humans and corporations..just a friendly little joke..memes!!!! If it is taken as an insult, take a joke bro:
Vinod Khosla (its a joke! I was so inspired to see people like you just go around making imperious statements. Oh btw I support decent Cisco employees who are not creeps over whatever startup bullies who only meet sycophants back..its a joke! I do like the TRAI very much though. They were correct to stop Free Basics and they should stop Musk or Thiel as well as this guy); Blackstone Inc (this sleazy private equity that is taking over hospitals in my state); Byju Raveendran (this sleazy edtech creep); Ragy Thomas (a corrupt businessman who had some shady dealings with this sleazy and corrupt communist Pinarayi Vijayan during the pandemic, Sprnklr scandal); Ajith PT (a serial sexual harasser and defense contracter with a Lockheed martin contract) with a firm Light Logics Holography; I have some close ties to this state called Kerala and left or right it is a creep haven-Bobbie Chemmanur, Alencier (anti-imperialist and a pervert), Mollywood which is full of sexual harassment. Only a complete idiot or a creep would roll shit like this out in places like Kerala, West Bengal, Assam etc; I am going to the Indian Govt. My doctors and colleagues should not he endangered as my mom and I were by this. This is not a joke. And politics as usual rather than coming together is hell. And it cannot be a transient coalition. It has to last the test of time because till now it was other peoples rears and mine. And I am kicking out anyone whose rear I dont give a shit about as they are sleazy and dishonest. And this is not the time for stupidity, callousness or carelessness.
The clip is also dedicated to: Shalab Kumar, Suhail Doshi (idiot..damn pinhead..joke bro!); Mitesh Bohra (people who treat their employees like shit are a security and health risk and the science would suck..and an NYT piece made me see this man for what he is); Reliance Industries (not individual techies..if you are not a creep or jerk, I have your back. Also you dont really know many feminists. Those are celebrities..Beyonce etc. But creeps will get zero quarter. Honest women have problems enough); Sebastian Thrun (🖕..total jackass..shove your edtech you arse); Alexandr Wang (grow up and listen to Prof Lecun you brainless twerp 20 years old and thinking you know everything); Vincent Palathingal (nice instincts! lol..a Perilaus candidate if ever I saw one..his ai will suck as much as he does is my gut instinct and a joke..not libel! Joke! Free speech! I am a bro! I am one of the boys! I mean I go to the police and file complaints etc but that aside).
Last but not least this is dedicated to every creep or sleazebag on his or her bike or other vehicle who knowingly flooded my street between 2021 and the present as I was mourning my mom. This is too dangerous and I am heading out but not panicking and ..jeez.
A shameless collection of narcissists.
Srkdqltr
(9,648 posts)lostincalifornia
(5,287 posts)jfz9580m
(16,810 posts)I find it tiresome to see an unspoken they had it coming dynamic in these types of events.
An implicit Yes it is unfortunate, but you can understand why.. No..its stochastic terror.
And I dont mean it the muscular national security war mongering ad way. I mean that machine thrives on all this while pretending to condemn it.
There is nothing left about stochastic terror. I am well to the left but that is about thinking critically. The web polarizes the world towards war. Totally makes sense that it was built by defence contracting.
Nathan Robinson (who is well to the left) recently wrote about how alarming it is that outright nazis like Fuentes are getting normalised. And way too much real antisemitism is rising thanks to that wretched war. The worst possible reaction and then
I cant stand Larry Ellison and object to hatred of Jewish people being coupled to attacks on Ellison.
I have felt sympathetic toward both the (left) Jewish community and the (left) Muslim community and all the people getting clobbered in war zones as we comment about it safely from our homes.
But this is a cancer on society and its dynamics are a nightmare and I dont trust researchers of the net in bed with the security state to call it out and feel compelled to. It will kill us all-this eye for an eye crap.
H2O Man
(78,915 posts)Somehow the madness must stop.
Behind the Aegis
(56,080 posts)Perhaps the shooters were "triggered", y'know by this...

Maybe they were triggered by this:

I mean, how triggering to see a group of Jews together, celebrating!
Also, expect the Hypercacher response too.
Of course, we are reminded how some are "horrified" by this when in fact, like Trump, it is nothing more than a means to an end.
When "Hannukah anti-Semitism" morphs into "Purim anti-Semitism"!!!
Boo1
(268 posts)argue about this particular ideology was responsible for any particular act of killing Jews, especially when there are close ties between the factions.
https://gnet-research.org/2021/08/24/connecting-the-fringes-neo-nazi-glorification-of-salafi-jihadi-representations-online/
They are both far-right religous extreemists with anti-sematism as a central pillar of their belief. I find defending one the same as defending the other.
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