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Free speech or cancel culture? Randa Abdel-Fattah disinvited from writers festival

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Queensland man to be charged with murder after carer’s body found
http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/national/queensland/queensland-man-to-be-charged-with-murder-after-carer-s-body-found-20260114-p5nu3l.html

>>A warrant for a Queensland man has been issued over the alleged murder of his carer at a home in Buccan, south of Brisbane, earlier this week.
Brisbane artist Velvet Pesu, 46, was found dead at Wael Abdallah Saleem Alfar’s home on Waterford Tamborine Road in Buccan, Logan, about 2.30am on Monday.<<
Posted by Armchair Critic, Thursday, 15 January 2026 9:11:33 PM
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Its interesting how the usual suspects, ttbn and the Trumpster, support the Neo-Nazis, but condemn those on the left who support free speech. In 1938 that arch conservative Pig Iron Bob, the founder of the Liberal Party, returned from Germany singing the praises of Nazi leader Adolf Hitler. I believe Pig Iron had visions of one day leading a Nazi style party in Australia, seeing himself as the future Fuhrer Of Australia.
Posted by Paul1405, Thursday, 15 January 2026 9:48:36 PM
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Hi Paul,
Yes it's kind of funny isn't it.
The left used to be the cancel culture mob.
Now the right are screaming 'Don't let those Palestinians have a say! Shut all those people criticising Israel up!
Meanwhile Jewish people scream about hate, while Jews kill Muslims en masse and expect there to be no blowback and Christians just stand there stupified thinking 'Must support Israel'.

A few years ago the left looked batshite crazy, now everything has turned on it's head and they're the ones looking like they don't know whether they're Arthur or Martha.

I think I'm more of a policy person than a party person.
I just WILL NOT support sanctions and overthrows.

Does any one else feel like I do?
That the while entire world is just a total load of bullcrap.
I know not many people see the world as I do.

I could show you all just one thing that if they looked into it would prove how full of it the world really is.

Jeffrey Sachs: “Our mainstream media are so lame or so bought that they report that the Iranian government has lost control of the economy without saying that the United States has CRUSHED the Iranian economy..”

They'd rather gobble up the news-slop they're spoonfed.
Posted by Armchair Critic, Friday, 16 January 2026 8:44:14 AM
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t makes me sad you know, I wonder how Australians would react if we we're the subject of sanctions and regime change.

Half the country would be screaming appeasement and to remove our own elected leaders, and another half of the country would be screaming about soverignty and that the U.S. is the enemy.

Sanctions work, it uses economic coercion to divide the whole nation and make conditions ripe for revolution.

And guaranteed, that while the sanctions crash and devalue the currency other rich bastards are shorting the currency and making money off the mess they caused or are in on.
More money, to pay for more insurrection.

Social media can be easily manipulated.
Pay an army of people from a less developed country $10 a day and they'll post whatever propaganda is required.

The foreign provocateurs in Iran were there waiting to act since the 12 day war, but the strikes on the Iranian leadership failed, so they held them back, Trumps either a party to all of it, or either so dumb he has no idea what he'd doing.

What do you think happened when Trump said 'If there are more killings by the Iranian regime, we will have to act'?
Israeli Mossad provocatuers started killing other protesters.

http://x.com/mehranha/status/2010849930990981622
If you think this is a “domestic matter” and no foreign power should intervene, remember this: in just days, hundreds of protesters have been shot, many in the head, some from behind, simply for chanting anti-regime slogans.

* Emphasis: People being shot in the back of the head, from close range.
Posted by Armchair Critic, Friday, 16 January 2026 8:44:38 AM
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Paul 1405 makes ridiculous and ignorant statements to get the attention he craves - and he is getting less attention as more posters ignore him for the idiot he is - but to say that I and mhaze support Nazis is an outrageous, slanderous lie, which would have have him in court if I could identify him as a real person.

But, like his beloved Greens, he has slipped into irrelevance, and that is welcome and satisfying on its own.

Even this post will make him puff out his little chest, because to him and the relatively few sadsacks like like him, any attention is better than none.
Posted by ttbn, Friday, 16 January 2026 9:04:06 AM
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As for you, Armchair Critic and your comment on the 'left"; the Leftiest of the left, the Greens, are also against Albanese's rushed and ridiculous Bill.

The Albanese government alone thinks it is a good idea. Everyone else is against it.

Apart from Palestinians having no standing in Australia, and Australia having no skin at all in foreign conflicts, nobody is “screaming” that Palestinians should have no say. Nor do they want critics of Israel ‘shutup’.

People are entitled to criticise Israel. They are not entitled to preach hate against Israel or Jews. They are not entitled to misuse language and the meanings of words to lie about Israel and Jews.

Free speech, the right to hold an opinion, has nothing to do with hate speech. And, hate speech is what the Albanese government has tolerated, and will continue to tolerate if their vile Bill is passed.

Even the Greens see that.
Posted by ttbn, Friday, 16 January 2026 9:23:45 AM
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