I'd be amiss if I didn't mention that "us vs. them" and "not like us" are phrases used universally by bigots against the Other, the Different. But, if shooting, better aim at the generals, not at the foot soldiers.
Aren't we Europeans better at that, yet?
4/4
The #WannseeConference was held in 1942 on #ThisDayInHistory, at which senior #Nazi officials discussed #deportations & #DeathCamps, formalizing plans to implement the "#FinalSolution to the #JewishQuestion". This kind of #genocidal fear & #bigotry continues to infect our world.
strayan houses do not typically have basements, so i'm curious as to exactly where all these vile man-babies will be skulking back [in their parent/s' house, obvs].
news.com.au/national/politics/…
Neo-Nazi Thomas Sewell says Labor’s hate group laws mean it’s ‘game over’ for the National Socialist Network, which disbanded on Sunday as members seek to avoid jail.
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Former National Socialist Network leader Thomas Sewell has urged his followers to “make new friends” and avoid socialising with more than one ex-member at a time or risk going to jail, as the neo-Nazi group scatters ahead of the expected passage of Labor’s sweeping new hate crime laws.The NSN, Australia’s most prominent white nationalist organisation, announced last Tuesday via its Telegram account it would be “fully disbanded” by 11.59pm on Sunday, citing the federal government’s planned crackdown on extremist groups unveiled by Prime Minister Anthony Albanese a day earlier.
“The disbandment includes not only the National Socialist Network, but its co-projects White Australia, the European Australian Movement and the White Australia Party,” the statement said.
Federal MPs are currently in Canberra after being recalled to parliament for an extraordinary two-day sitting to designed to pass the new laws, which also include a national gun buyback and a crackdown on hate crime in response to the December 14 Bondi terror attack by alleged Islamic extremists.
The Coalition, facing concerns from some MPs that the expansive new racial vilification laws could curtail free speech, was continuing discussions over the legislation on Monday as a potential deal loomed that would strip out the more contentious elements while keeping the ban on hate groups including the NSN and Islamist organisation Hizb ut-Tahrir.
In a lengthy interview with American white nationalist channel Red Ice on Thursday, Sewell said the NSN was admitting defeat and throwing in the towel while also claiming “our mission has actually been accomplished”.
“My morale and the morale of the men is at an all-time high, which is bizarre,” he said.
“We were playing a game with the state. We always said this would happen. We always said that we weren’t living in a democracy. We always said that one of our goals was to heighten the contradictions and expose the system for being a multicultural police state … so our mission has actually been accomplished in a lot of ways.
“It’s sort of a Pyrrhic victory … in the sense that this is the closing act of the chapter. It’s not the closing act of the whole opera, but we’re going into an intermission and the curtains are coming to a close and we’re bowing out with a smile on our face.”
Formed in 2020, the NSN had staged increasingly provocative stunts in recent years, including a march through the Melbourne CBD last August with around 150 black-clad members holding a banner that read “White Man Fight Back” — sparking calls from Jewish leaders to formally ban the group.
A number of NSN members, including Sewell, have been charged over violent brawls at anti-immigration protests.
High-ranking NSN member Joel Davis remains behind bars in NSW facing charges of using a carriage service to harass, after he allegedly encouraged his followers to “rhetorically rape” federal MP Allegra Spender.
Last week, Mr Davis told a bail hearing at the Downing Centre Local Court via video link that he is “no longer” and will “never” be a member of the NSN.
Sewell claimed the NSN, which he said had around 350 formal members and “thousands” of supporters, had “won the game”.
Asked if former members would still continue to meet up in an unofficial or decentralised way, Sewell pointed to the experience of National Action in the UK.
The British neo-Nazi group, established in 2013, was proscribed as a terrorist organisation in 2016, becoming the first extreme right wing group banned by the UK government.
A number of its members, including co-founder Benjamin Raymond, were subsequently jailed for various offences including plotting to murder an MP.
“Some guys went, ‘Well we’re going to rebrand as Scottish Dawn,’” Sewell said.
“That did not work and that was a really dumb idea and some of them went to jail. Some of them went, ‘We’re not going to rebrand as any specific group but we’re still going to meet up at the pub together and talk sh*t.’ And some of those guys are in jail, that was really dumb.
“[Others] kept just going to the gym together, doing MMA, doing fighting drills, and some of them are in jail. Then there were other guys that did other things, and some of them are in jail.
“So the lesson here is, you can have friends, no one’s stopping you from having friends, but what I’ve said is I highly recommend that you don’t associate with more than one former member at a time.
“If you want to meet up with 10 of your mates and go to the pub together and you just so happen to all be former NSN members, and the police raid your house and you’ve still got flags and memorabilia and your wristband and your patches and your stickers … well, they’re going to make a case in court that these are all NSN members, NSN never disbanded, they just said that they did, they’re all still meeting up, they’ve all still got their uniforms at home.”
Sewell said the government “can’t ban you from being friends with someone, they can’t ban you from meeting up and having a coffee”.
“Nothing’s stopping you from two former members going to the gym together, but when it becomes three, and four, and five, and six, and 10, and 12, and there’s a group chat and daily meme posting — nope, someone’s going to jail,” he said.
“That’s what they want to happen. So my recommendation to everyone is this is a chance for everyone to focus on their personal lives, this is a chance for people to make new friends, to come up with other cultural and social works and endeavours, to study politics, to read more, to train more. This is an opportunity for everyone.”
He said some members still had not realised “how bad this is”.
“I’ve had 100 people DM me saying like, ‘What’s the plan, what are we doing?’ I’m not going to jail unnecessarily,” he said.
“I’ve obviously gone to jail for punching people in the head, I’ve got no issue doing the time. Do the crime, do the time. That’s the rules. [But] I’m not doing 15 years in jail like Ben Raymond in the UK because I want to keep politically organising with people I’m not allowed to politically organise with. Like, I’m not a f***ing idiot. I have a better use of the next 15 years of my time.”
Sewell, meanwhile, has raised nearly $120,000 via the crowdfunding platform GiveSendGo for a purported “free speech” High Court challenge to the constitutionality of the new laws, as well as previous bans on the swastika and Nazi salute.
“Over the next six to 12 months I can fight these things,” he said.
“[The proposed law] doesn’t ban spokespeople from having opinions on the internet. What it does ban them from doing is organising groups of men into what could vaguely be classed as a hate group. And that could be as simple as a group displaying national pride, or that one nation is better than another nation. So white nationalism is effectively going to be illegal in Australia when this bill passes.”
Sewell claimed “our goal was to stir the hornet’s nest and we’ve succeeded”, adding that the anti-Semitism bill was “our magnum opus”.
“Our actions have forced an over-reaction by a government that hates its own population and we want to show the Australian people the government hates you,” he said.
“Now we’ve succeeded we can’t actually do any more. Now they’ve put the final nail in our coffin and like a magician we’re not in the coffin. Bye bye — I’ll go pick blueberries for 12 months and regroup and figure out what I want to do with my life.”
It comes after ASIO Director-General Mike Burgess, appearing before a parliamentary committee hearing into the new laws last Tuesday, flagged that members of groups like the NSN and Hizb ut-Tahrir would continue to be monitored even after they disband.
Mr Burgess said these groups “know how to stay on the right side of the law” but “the problem with that is that is part of their insidious strategy to have the potential to rise and increase tension in society”.
He said there was a risk the group would “go underground”.
“Of course, the individuals don’t cease to exist,” he said.
“They’re still there in society and obviously, the problematic ones we will continue to watch if they continue to be problematic … but, our job is to find the people who are hiding themselves in society, and we’re good at that.”
Liberal Senator Jonathon Duniam welcomed the NSN’s disbanding last week.
“Groups whose operating model is to espouse racism and anti-Semitism should have no place in Australia,” he said.
“However, we call on the government to make sure that this group won’t simply recreate themselves through another means, whether that is a political party or otherwise, to circumvent these changes and escape prosecution.
“Australians do not want to see people avoid justice simply by tearing down a banner and re-emerging under a different name.”
In recent months, the NSN had intensified its public activity, including an anti-Semitic protest outside NSW parliament that was controversially approved by authorities and later drew widespread condemnation.
Labor’s proposed laws are designed to close longstanding legal loopholes that have allowed extremist groups to operate without being formally listed as terrorist organisations.
Immigration powers are also a key plank of the federal response, with the Home Affairs Minister granted authority to cancel visas on character or public interest grounds.
South African civil engineer Matthew Gruter was detained after attending the NSW parliament rally, with his visa revoked under Section 116 of the Migration Act. He later left Australia voluntarily with his wife and infant child.
British national Ryan Turner, who was living in Western Australia and is believed to have links to the NSN, also had his visa cancelled under Section 501.
Mr Burke cited Turner’s extremist associations, resulting in his detention and pending deportation despite the absence of any criminal conviction.
#hate #bigotry #AusPol #WhyTheFuckIsLabor #HahahahaLiebs #NatsAreNuts #GreensYEAH #VoteGreens #VoteProgIndies
Counterprotesters chase off far-right activists at pro-ICE rally in #Minneapolis. Jake Lang’s anti-Islam, anti-Somali and pro-ICE rally near City Hall outnumbered by hundreds of counterprotesters.
#ICE #resistance #bigotry
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jan/18/minneapolis-counterprotesters-chase-far-right-activist
The wrongs you've suffered for being nonbinary say nothing about you. It says everything about the weakness of your oppressors.
Your strength and wonder will always outshine their cowardice.
It's important to tell your story as a nonbinary person.
In a world choked with lies and misinformation about us, our own words are the only way to clear the air.
Be relentless in your telling, because the truth may travel farther than you'll ever know.
#Racism & #bigotry are not #MentalIllnesses. They're personal #MoralFailings.
There's many people who suffer from mental health issues who aren't racists/bigots.
Please don't feed the eugenicists & mixup medical issues with moral failures.
DHS Expands Immigration Ban, Ensuring The Only Way An African Can Come To The US Is If We Bring Slavery Back
> White Students In Virginia Sue After Their ‘Prank’ Gift of Fried Chicken with a Side of Racial Slurs To Black Friend Gets Them Suspended https://atlantablackstar.com/2026/01/14/white-students-in-virginia-sue-after-their-prank-gift-of-fried-chicken-with-a-side-of-racial-slurs-to-black-friend-gets-them-suspended/
The #racist parents allege "they were unfairly branded as racist bullies and harshly disciplined for what they considered a harmless “prank” among friends."
So they got their fee-fees hurt when they got busted for their #racism and #bigotry.
> ‘America Is a White Nation’: Texas Prosecutor Who Allegedly Runs White Supremacist Social Account Back On the Job, Sparking Outrage https://atlantablackstar.com/2026/01/14/texas-ice-prosecutor-who-allegedly-runs-white-supremacist-social-account-back-on-the-job/
It's Texas, yeehaw. What did you expect?
I always have to smile when I come across this booklet and imagine how some #Americans would be shocked if they knew that this “Sex & Tips – My Rights” booklet is handed out in sex education classes to 9- and 10-year-olds here in Germany. 😂
#Trump added: “I think it was also, at the same time, it accomplished some very wonderful things, but it also hurt a lot of people—people that ✴︎deserve✴︎ to go to a college or ✴︎deserve✴︎ to get a job were unable to get a job. So it was, it was a reverse discrimination.”
✴︎[presumably because they were rich or white or male or hetero or gasp! all of the above!]
#WhitePrivilege #WhiteSupremacy #MaleSupremacy #law #CivilRights #ignorance #bigotry #hate #SpoiledBrat
“White people were very badly treated, where they did extremely well & they were not invited to go into a university to college,” #Trump said, an apparent reference to #AffirmativeAction in college admissions. “So I would say in that way, I think it was unfair in certain cases.”
#WhitePrivilege #WhiteSupremacy #MaleSupremacy #law #ignorance #bigotry #hate #SpoiledBrat
In the onslaught of shit, I somehow missed this outrageous fuckery
#RichWhiteMan says what?
#Trump Says #CivilRights Led to #White People Being ‘Very Badly Treated’
Trump’s comments were a blunt distillation of his admin’s #racist #politics, which rest on the belief that white people have become the “real victims” of #discrimination in the #US.
#WhitePrivilege #WhiteSupremacy #MaleSupremacy #law #ignorance #bigotry #hate #SpoiledBrat
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/11/us/politics/trump-interview-white-people-discrimination.html?unlocked_article_code=1.EVA.ZdtM.TZmH-7cyAfZp&smid=nytcore-ios-share
Translation: If you ain't white, you ain't right for the #AmericanEmpire. Keep your broke colored poor ass back in your shithole country. Money talks, shit walks.
> US suspending immigrant visa processing from 75 countries over public assistance
https://apnews.com/article/trump-immigration-visas-79909bd01e9e1e3dedde144f865a1b9d
Another example of that kind, compassionate, merciful, caring, inclusive #Christian love we keep hearing about.
> Conservative Christians beg Supreme Court to let teachers out trans kids to their parents https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2026/01/conservative-christians-beg-supreme-court-to-let-teachers-out-trans-kids-to-their-parents/
it's actually not okay the extremes it takes for some folks to leave Twitter. O_o
and still, some people (who don't personally agree with the many issues) just *still* linger on there casually, seemingly immovable.
Like, anti-consumer, monolithic, data-harvesty platforms that you submit misused personal info to. That should be bad enough, but instead, the effective standard we have as a global community is wayyy too low.
Given the small number of #transgender athletes who want to compete in school sports, the issue is given ridiculously outsized attention by the #RightWing.
#law #ignorance #bigotry #LGBTQ #PartisanCourt #ActivistCourt #SCOTUS
The #science is still evolving when it comes to whether #transgender women have an any advantage when they compete in the women’s category of sports.
The issue is complex: Individual sports rely on different physical & physiological attributes, & athletes undergo their gender #transition at different times, in different ways.
#law #ignorance #bigotry #LGBTQ #PartisanCourt #ActivistCourt #SCOTUS
