2026-10-13 18:49 UTC
"We're building an army:" Angry anti-renewable groups take to city streets ahead of state election
cross-posted from: slrpnk.net/post/43777872
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 (Country Fire Authority volunteers) who are going the be the most affected by climate change fronting this anti-renewables rally.
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@HaraldvonBlauzahn@feddit.org 2026-10-13 18:53
I’d be interested who organizes, agitates, and finances such insanity. I don’t have proof, but I think the Gilet Jaunes in France, which protested against a fuel tax, were an influence campaign. Similar the “Farmers protests” in Germany which blocked motorways because fuel subsidies were planned to be shortened.
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@gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 2026-10-13 20:06
What the actual fuck is this idiocy?
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@Doomsider@lemmy.world 2026-10-14 02:09
Our way of life is being destroyed. We like it that way and we will fight you if you try to fix it!
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@StabbingSky@lemmy.zip 2026-10-14 02:59
I guess Water World was a documentary.
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@betanumerus@lemmy.ca 2026-10-14 14:03
opposing renewable energy = threatening to take your money in exchange for fossil fuels
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@BradleyUffner@lemmy.world 2026-10-15 01:35
This is why we can’t have nice things.