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 who are going the be the most affected by climate change fronting this anti-renewables rally.
There’s having legimitate concerns then there’s just being a reactive idiot
Example: ok, you hear from this that there’s concerns over the power transmission corridors. Duxo’s website will go on and on about them
But do you know what those concerns are? They’re actually pretty fucking valid when we’re talking about things like land access, restrictions about equipment they can use around them etc. i mean if somone said “we’re gonna stick a tower in your back yard and pay you fiddy a month but you’re not allowed to do basically 90% of your normal backyard things around them for an exclusion zone” i’d be pretty pissed too.
But they don’t actually list any of that. They just go straight for the emotive bullshit and how it’s like “raaar we’re makin’ a stand against the nazis!!!” “Lookit me i’m in a cage!!!” Without actually saying why.
And I suspect that’s largely because their concerns - if they stopped listening to their fucking lizard brain for thirty damned seconds - would actually be addressed and allayed for the most part. But they’re wedded to the battler mythos, the feeling of being a Brave Victim Under Harsh Treatment and that’s their own damned problem.
They don’t want their legitimate concerns taken away from them, because then they’d still be angry but wouldn’t be able to justify it.