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Feb 21, 2026 2:45 AM
chukyrlaw
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frecklesaremyfetish
a succulent anti fascist meal is gonna be my new go to line.....
blindSniper9000
Where can we download those pics?
karlfrack
So I guess these images need to be posted everywhere.
L0rdinquisit0r
The owners are just doing the best they can to battle nazi crap
kurvarVillain
Every live music venu is vital to new talent.
This is some bullshit.
Fuck those cops.
jgjgjgjgjgjgjg
Nazis don't like being called Nazis.
jmschappel
I live in Canberra. My understanding is that the bar isn't actually shut down, but the posters have been taken away.
There are laws about displaying Nazi iconography here, and I assume that's the reason for the police action. I think it's misguided, but I guess it makes some sense.
Awomdy
So people are aware, Australia does not have a bill of rights guaranteeing free speech. The closest we have is a constitutional right to freedom of political communication. However, that freedom generally does not allow someone to avoid hate speech and anti discrimination laws. If the images didn't have specific symbols on the uniform, there likely wouldnt have been an issue.
FreePalestineAndTheWorldFromIsrael
Australia assaulted and arrested people protesting against genocidal war criminals. Australia welcomed the war criminal Israel's President with open arms.
jetact12
Canberra?? Australia? Open them up. They can say what they want about child rapists.
TheFastpaws
Israel like Russia is a cancer upon this planet.
unannouncedguest
Fuck Bibi the mass murderer
magicpasta
The issue are the swastika, SS runes and nazi era uniforms are all banned images under hate speech laws.
So basically the hatred by the anti-fash have made them become the fash.
ThatGuyFromJustSouthOfTheMiddleOfNowhere
Fidregore
It is so cursed. I love it.
DeepThought42
CatEyebrows
Isreal is the most evil country that ever existed
SlavaUkrainisaysSteveBuscemi
Fidregore
The Raelians? Sorry, no, I know what it is, but still... Raelians?
karlfrack
Start of a major campaign.
Causeitsmadeofmeat
Australians seem cool, but the fucks they elected are giant dicks. Inviting genocidal war criminal as honoured guests is vile
BigRobbo
Huh im sure there was this thing call the First Ammendment?
HaikuSorrow
Not in Australia.
BigRobbo
Wow... I am genuinely a dumbass I completely ignored that this was in Aus and just thought "haha fucking dumbass Trump loving cops".
KatLuvr54
I'm surprised to hear that. I thought Australia was far more liberal.
HaikuSorrow
We are. We also have laws against displaying Nazi anything.
FortifiedWhine
Australian politicians are nothing if not spineless where our Israeli supporting community is concerned. We kowtow to their every whim, and give them a disproportionate voice in our anti-protest laws. And while I do acknowledge genuine anti-semitic attacks are rising, and the horror of the Bondi massacre has really swayed public opinion, this doesn't mean Labor needs to be silent on Israel's genocide.
ramblingsofanemptymind
Genuinely Canberra? C'mon Australia let's not take the right wing american path. Fuck all those fascist bastatds
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The tried so hard to make JD Vances helm to not look like furniture but now I can't unsee him fucking a british tea kettle.
SackTheRipper
andexer
JD would *never* cheat on his lawfully upholstered sofa! Unless... was the kettle recently widowed?
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I mean were drawing conclusions from a screenshot of a poster but yes, looks a bit banged up. Someone could have died in there.
Ardback
I thought that freedom of expression existed in Australia...
WhoToldYouLifeWasFair
George Orwell was just a few years off...
Lovingimpaler
1984 was the year of Reagan's reelection. I think we can look back now, and see that Orwell was actually pretty spot on.
ImmaCatImmaSexyCat
Nah, he wasn't. This shit just keeps happening.
This is definitely worse, though.
LordListerofSmeg
This will forever be hilarious. The best arrest quote ever! #australia
akodorokku
In fucking Australia? Really?
FreePalestineAndTheWorldFromIsrael
There's right wing white supremacists extremists in Australia too. One of them went over to New Zealand and murdered 50 people in cold blood.
pirogoth7
Then before the blood dried, Australia drop his dual citizenship and said not our citizens nor our problem.
FreePalestineAndTheWorldFromIsrael
Which is basically what theyve been doing a lot recently. Deporting "kiwi" (some who havent been in NZ since they were children) criminals from Australia and making them New Zealand's problem.
Newdonster
Are your police trying to get jobs as ICE agents?
TsubakiTragic
well, there was a 'riot' by police on some 'peaceful' demonstrators who were on Palestine's side of the Gaza argument. The NSW premier defended the cops and brushed off the criticism.
nobodyspecial995
This is in Australia
SalmonTheWise
Sorry, Esky agents then. Or should it be ICEos?
IlIIII
Ice coming to a country near you soon
Newdonster
Trump sent them to other countries via his facist cabinet
Hatlled
"Can't emigrate here, mate"
MapleSyrupMafia
You can if you're an emu!
PostalHeathen
#1 So, what's the crime?
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GeofrontTmP
Thought crime
ButtscratchMcPherson
Eating a meal, a succulent anti-fascist meal.
bullestock
Dissent, obviously.
torbtom
Displaying swastikas is illegal.
chukyrlaw
As I said on top....Trump, Vance and Putin dressed as Nazis - perfectly fine. But Bibi....thats antisemitic and illegal and now youre fucked
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JesaraB
My response was deleted, and I was given a warning, likely due to mass false reporting by people trying to silence criticism of Likud.
HighSorcerer
Violation of the first amendment by the police who raided and shut down the cafe.
PostalHeathen
Well, it's Australia, so the First Amendment doesn't apply.
HighSorcerer
Oh that'll teach me for reading and commenting on stuff before I've given time for the coffee to wake my brain up haha. Thanks for the correction.
RhinocerosLipGloss
More info here: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-02-19/canberra-bar-declared-crime-scene-displaying-posters/106361644?utm_source=abc_news_app&utm_medium=content_shared&utm_campaign=abc_news_app&utm_content=link
LordHelmetTheThird
I recommend removing all the tracking BS from the links before sharing. For those who don't know, everything from ? onward in the URL is just passing tracking info to the site. Sometimes it can be nefarious, sometimes just basic tracking (as here).
Here's the clean URL:
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-02-19/canberra-bar-declared-crime-scene-displaying-posters/106361644
RhinocerosLipGloss
Good to know, thanks!
LordHelmetTheThird
It's good info to know as, for example, in some cases this can expose who you are and can be used to link your anonymous accounts to you as a person.
Exyr
Australia has passed some laws that equate anti zionism with antisemitism making it illegal. Australia and the UK both have. They do not have free speach laws that the US is supposedly supposed to have.
mjperk
Where do they say anything about antizionism? Seems like the fascists were the ones to make that assumption. All I see is antifascist pictures. I suppose they wouldn't like being called out either though, would they.
cptunderpants
While there is supposed to be an exemption for art and satire, the law this was covered by was use of prohibited symbols. The uniforms had Insignia from Nazi Germany.
mjperk
Yes, I see that. Perhaps I'm being too literal or am simply just being ignorant. What I mean is that, when I see a swastika I think of two things. 1st but not foremost, I think about how it was a symbol of other cultures beliefs before Nazis. 2nd but foremost, I think about how Nazis stole it and made it a symbol of hate. Against Jews, yes, but also many other ethnicities and groups as well. Nazis are necessarily antisemitic. But I don't think Nazis/swastikas were necessarily antizionist? (1/2
mjperk
I get that many Nazis may have also been antizionist. There is large potential for overlap between semitism and zionism but they aren't the same. I thought Nazis largely wanted to eliminate jews specifically from Europe. But maybe that was just just the narrative early during the war and things shifted later on? My original comment was somewhat sarcastically pointing out the authoritarian suppression of free speech and drawing parallels between Musk et al. and Nazis (also fascist authoritarians)
MrsHowVeryDareYou
That’s what makes putting them in Nazi uniforms particularly clever, making it very clear that it’s not anti-Jewish. At least to anyone with two braincells to rub together.
yamsonyamsonyams
Having special rules for a specific group is prejudice.
dbox
Okay, got it. Keep everything same except show Netanyahu as he presents normally.
Grimlinnan
Australian politicians have been paid off by Israeli’s just like the Americans. Bribery.
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TakeAChillPill16
Ok, honest question: is Israel (an advanced, but very tiny country) really that insanely wealthy and influential? That they can simultaneously have a death grip on policy in the USA, UK, and Australia? A quick Google search puts Israel as the world's 27th largest economy, with the aforementioned countries ranked #1, 6, and 14. Even considering the Jewish diaspora (which doesn't uniformly support Israel), Jews account for 0.2% of the global population. The numbers just don't add up.
cptunderpants
Update: the art has been returned and no charges laid: https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/feb/25/no-charges-laid-as-police-return-art-posters-of-trump-and-netanyahu-in-nazi-uniforms-to-canberra-venue-ntwnfb
cptunderpants
The actual crime is the use of prohibited symbols from nazi Germany. The uniforms had some of those.
agonarch
Yep this is it here- there's both good free speech laws but there's also a bunch of nazi symbols you're not allowed to use (which is usually used to stop fascist rallies to be fair, not antifascist propaganda, but they probably would've turned a blind eye if not for Netanyahu IMO because they're very sensitive about that right now, same with the UK).
agonarch
I should add those symbols aren't as restricted as say Germany where it's -really- restricted, you can use them in historical or educational contexts freely and in entertainment in some cases but that's a lot more case-by-case.
cptunderpants
Here in Australia there is supposed to be an exemption for satire, art, education etc. I suspect this was ignored to take down the posters but like so many other similar cases it causes the streisand effect.
I'm pretty sure they'll have posters up again and a lawyer representing their rights quite quickly.
Smashaga
The US doesn’t have the free speech laws the US supposedly has.
chansuke
I wish this was bullshit, but I have seen my local PD back down from fights over the first amendment several times because the person they were bullying was open carrying and didn't give in to their demands. It's a situation that probably only works if you're white, and it's problematic that it works at all, but I've seen it in Dallas more than once, all by the same dude.
Xenarion
Well, they have the laws, they just aren't applied.
fireclanninja1337
Functionally the same as not having them.
Xenarion
Yes.