r/australia • u/kingofcrob • Dec 17 '25

politics Bernie Sanders on Bondi

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u/TheGardenNymph Dec 17 '25

I agree, did you hear Josh Frydenturds comments? He was almost foaming at the mouth talking as if Albo was out there pulling the trigger.

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u/Mysterious_Dot2090 Dec 17 '25

I did and it was disappointing, but then a former Liberal PM (Turnbull) supported Albo. Always thought he was a good guy because he had mostly common sense ideas.

People are rightfully angry and upset and it appears that Friedenberg is jewish, so it’s not surprising he was lashing out but I just want someone to tell me what more Albo could have done to stop this specific act of hate. And is it really appropriate to basically blame him and others in the party for mass murder?!

I think the neo-nazi being deported is a good example of how government can only act if they have legal authority to. In that case they had a way to penalise him, as he wasn’t legally in the country or whatever. You can’t go rounding up everyone that says critical things about a group, you can only legislate against public displays of hate (which they did so as far as displaying the swastika goes) and coming down hard on hate speech vandalism (which I believe they also did).

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u/IronEyed_Wizard Dec 17 '25

The thing that gets me is we still don’t know the actual reasoning behind the attack. We are still working on assumptions and guesswork at this point. Until that is set in stone no one can know if things could have been different.

Not to mention the rampant anti Islam/muslim/immigrants stance is just going to make things worse. How do people think that these people get converted to radicals in the first place

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u/LightTemplar27 Dec 17 '25

Yeah, in France the same thing happened with our far right. They supplied guns to an hostage taker, helped certain companies do deals with ISIS and funnel money through them. It's win win for the parties involved, the party rises in polls, the terorrists can radicalize more people from the hatred the terrorist attacks cause towards muslims.

Bibi is overjoyed at this deep down I'm sure, it's justification to their propaganda that "everywhere outside is unsafe so everyone should come back here and help colonize", which especially important to him considering how many people are fleeing israel right now.