RIGHTO

So let me explain something to our American friends, because I think there's been a bit of a cultural misunderstanding about what's running the Pentagon right now.

In Australia, we have a word. It's one of our most important words. It's a word that carries the weight of a thousand disappointed fathers, a million eye rolls from every tradie, brickie, sparkie and truckie who ever had to deal with a bloke who was all hat and no cattle.

The word is wanker.

Now for the uninitiated, a wanker is not just an insult. It's a diagnosis. A wanker is a bloke who is so profoundly, catastrophically up himself that he has lost all contact with the observable universe. A wanker looks in the mirror and sees a god. Everyone else looks at him and sees a bloke who'd cry if his coffee order was wrong. A wanker is the guy who revs his rented Lambo at the lights. The guy who name drops at barbecues nobody invited him to. The guy who calls himself an alpha while needing three people to help him pick a shirt.

A wanker is, in the most medically precise Australian sense, a man who is furiously pleasuring his own ego in public and expecting the rest of us to clap.

Which brings us to Pete Hegseth. Secretary of Defense. The most powerful military position on the planet outside the Oval Office. The bloke with his finger near the button. Mister Warrior Ethos. Mister we're bringing back the fighting spirit. Mister no more woke bullshit, we're here to kill.

Big tough guy.

This bloke looked at photos of himself giving a press conference and went, nah, take those down, I look weird in that one, my chin's doing a thing, ban the cameras.

BAN. THE. CAMERAS.

Not because of a national security leak. Not because somebody photographed classified documents on the podium. Because his feelings got hurt. By a photo. Of his own face. That his parents made. A face that apparently is fine for Fox News hits from his taxpayer funded makeup studio complete with a director's chair and vanity mirror and professional lighting, but is far too precious and delicate to be captured by the Associated bloody Press doing their job at a press briefing about a war.

Let me say that again for the cheap seats. This man is running a war. American service members are dead. Six killed in a drone strike in Kuwait. More than 30 hospitalised with burns and shrapnel wounds and brain trauma, some so badly hurt they had to airlift 25 of them to Germany on a C-17 with injuries classified as urgent. A girls school in Iran got hit by two Tomahawk missiles and 175 people were killed, most of them children, and the Pentagon's own preliminary investigation found that it was the United States that did it.

And this bloke's priority? His photo angle.

That's not a Defense Secretary. That's a wanker.

In any RSL in Australia, in any pub from Cairns to Kalgoorlie, if a bloke walked in and said yeah I'm a big tough war hero, I talk about warrior culture all day, but I had to ban the cameras because the pictures made my neck look fat, he would be laughed out of the building. He would not be able to buy a beer in this country. Blokes who actually served, blokes who actually went to places where people were trying to kill them, would look at this precious little petal and just shake their heads.

Because that's the thing about wankers. Real tough blokes don't care what they look like. Real tough blokes are too busy doing the job to worry about whether the lighting is flattering. You know who worries about their angles? Influencers. Instagram models. Reality TV contestants.

And former Fox News morning show hosts who had a makeup studio installed in the Pentagon.

This bloke talks about restoring warrior ethos while getting his foundation right before a Fox hit. He talks about lethality while banning the AP because a photo made him look like he was mid sneeze. He talks about no more woke bullshit while having his wife, a former Fox producer, approve the renovations to his vanity room.

There are families in America right now who just got a knock on the door telling them their kid isn't coming home from Kuwait. There are parents in Iran pulling their children out of rubble. And this bloke is worried about looking ugly in a Reuters photo.

In Australia we'd tell him to harden up. Actually no. In Australia we wouldn't even bother. We'd just call him what he is.

A weapons grade, industrial strength, fair dinkum, ocean going wanker.

And then we'd move on. Because unlike Pete, we don't have time to stand in front of a mirror all day.

LOVE IT!!!!!!!!!!

What about Albo? -

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/3/10/australia-to-send-missiles-to-uae-surveillance-plane-to-help-gulf-defence



how would Albo like to fly in that Wedgetail around the Gulf with anti-aircraft missiles aimed at him? -

putting his life on the line?

Even friendly fire is a risk -
three F15 fighter jets were shot down over Kuwait by friendly fire.

Archaic Westernism:

German Rednecks
French Gays
Italian Wankers
Greek Yobbos


Note that Great Britain isn't included. Those four stole America from the British long ago. As you can see, despite the failure of Germany (Confederacy Rednecks in America) in Europe and the current failing of France (Democracy Gays in America) in Europe. There are still Politicians who prefer to play Media (Italia/Greco) rather than play politics.


When a Yobbo & Wanker want a girl.
The Wanker guy will get her.
Both of them are equally ugly.
But the Wanker hides it better.
--TISM

A Wanker is a beta male that looks Gay, but acts like a Redneck.
A Yobbo is a beta male who looks like a Redneck, but acts like a Gay.

Vic wrote on Mar 12^th, 2026 at 6:41pm:

RIGHTO So let me explain something to our American friends, because I think there's been a bit of a cultural misunderstanding about what's running the Pentagon right now. In Australia, we have a word. It's one of our most important words. It's a word that carries the weight of a thousand disappointed fathers, a million eye rolls from every tradie, brickie, sparkie and truckie who ever had to deal with a bloke who was all hat and no cattle. The word is wanker. Now for the uninitiated, a wanker is not just an insult. It's a diagnosis. A wanker is a bloke who is so profoundly, catastrophically up himself that he has lost all contact with the observable universe. A wanker looks in the mirror and sees a god. Everyone else looks at him and sees a bloke who'd cry if his coffee order was wrong. A wanker is the guy who revs his rented Lambo at the lights. The guy who name drops at barbecues nobody invited him to. The guy who calls himself an alpha while needing three people to help him pick a shirt. A wanker is, in the most medically precise Australian sense, a man who is furiously pleasuring his own ego in public and expecting the rest of us to clap. Which brings us to Pete Hegseth. Secretary of Defense. The most powerful military position on the planet outside the Oval Office. The bloke with his finger near the button. Mister Warrior Ethos. Mister we're bringing back the fighting spirit. Mister no more woke bullshit, we're here to kill. Big tough guy. This bloke looked at photos of himself giving a press conference and went, nah, take those down, I look weird in that one, my chin's doing a thing, ban the cameras. BAN. THE. CAMERAS. Not because of a national security leak. Not because somebody photographed classified documents on the podium. Because his feelings got hurt. By a photo. Of his own face. That his parents made. A face that apparently is fine for Fox News hits from his taxpayer funded makeup studio complete with a director's chair and vanity mirror and professional lighting, but is far too precious and delicate to be captured by the Associated bloody Press doing their job at a press briefing about a war. Let me say that again for the cheap seats. This man is running a war. American service members are dead. Six killed in a drone strike in Kuwait. More than 30 hospitalised with burns and shrapnel wounds and brain trauma, some so badly hurt they had to airlift 25 of them to Germany on a C-17 with injuries classified as urgent. A girls school in Iran got hit by two Tomahawk missiles and 175 people were killed, most of them children, and the Pentagon's own preliminary investigation found that it was the United States that did it. And this bloke's priority? His photo angle. That's not a Defense Secretary. That's a wanker. In any RSL in Australia, in any pub from Cairns to Kalgoorlie, if a bloke walked in and said yeah I'm a big tough war hero, I talk about warrior culture all day, but I had to ban the cameras because the pictures made my neck look fat, he would be laughed out of the building. He would not be able to buy a beer in this country. Blokes who actually served, blokes who actually went to places where people were trying to kill them, would look at this precious little petal and just shake their heads. Because that's the thing about wankers. Real tough blokes don't care what they look like. Real tough blokes are too busy doing the job to worry about whether the lighting is flattering. You know who worries about their angles? Influencers. Instagram models. Reality TV contestants. And former Fox News morning show hosts who had a makeup studio installed in the Pentagon. This bloke talks about restoring warrior ethos while getting his foundation right before a Fox hit. He talks about lethality while banning the AP because a photo made him look like he was mid sneeze. He talks about no more woke bullshit while having his wife, a former Fox producer, approve the renovations to his vanity room. There are families in America right now who just got a knock on the door telling them their kid isn't coming home from Kuwait. There are parents in Iran pulling their children out of rubble. And this bloke is worried about looking ugly in a Reuters photo. In Australia we'd tell him to harden up. Actually no. In Australia we wouldn't even bother. We'd just call him what he is. A weapons grade, industrial strength, fair dinkum, ocean going wanker. And then we'd move on. Because unlike Pete, we don't have time to stand in front of a mirror all day. LOVE IT!!!!!!!!!!

That's a pretty long dry wank in front of the mirror by somonee who's 'moved on'.

Stuck on wank, more like it. And a Mod, no less.


(can I say that??)

Frank wrote on Mar 12^th, 2026 at 8:59pm:

Vic wrote on Mar 12th, 2026 at 6:41pm: RIGHTO So let me explain something to our American friends, because I think there's been a bit of a cultural misunderstanding about what's running the Pentagon right now. In Australia, we have a word. It's one of our most important words. It's a word that carries the weight of a thousand disappointed fathers, a million eye rolls from every tradie, brickie, sparkie and truckie who ever had to deal with a bloke who was all hat and no cattle. The word is wanker. Now for the uninitiated, a wanker is not just an insult. It's a diagnosis. A wanker is a bloke who is so profoundly, catastrophically up himself that he has lost all contact with the observable universe. A wanker looks in the mirror and sees a god. Everyone else looks at him and sees a bloke who'd cry if his coffee order was wrong. A wanker is the guy who revs his rented Lambo at the lights. The guy who name drops at barbecues nobody invited him to. The guy who calls himself an alpha while needing three people to help him pick a shirt. A wanker is, in the most medically precise Australian sense, a man who is furiously pleasuring his own ego in public and expecting the rest of us to clap. Which brings us to Pete Hegseth. Secretary of Defense. The most powerful military position on the planet outside the Oval Office. The bloke with his finger near the button. Mister Warrior Ethos. Mister we're bringing back the fighting spirit. Mister no more woke bullshit, we're here to kill. Big tough guy. This bloke looked at photos of himself giving a press conference and went, nah, take those down, I look weird in that one, my chin's doing a thing, ban the cameras. BAN. THE. CAMERAS. Not because of a national security leak. Not because somebody photographed classified documents on the podium. Because his feelings got hurt. By a photo. Of his own face. That his parents made. A face that apparently is fine for Fox News hits from his taxpayer funded makeup studio complete with a director's chair and vanity mirror and professional lighting, but is far too precious and delicate to be captured by the Associated bloody Press doing their job at a press briefing about a war. Let me say that again for the cheap seats. This man is running a war. American service members are dead. Six killed in a drone strike in Kuwait. More than 30 hospitalised with burns and shrapnel wounds and brain trauma, some so badly hurt they had to airlift 25 of them to Germany on a C-17 with injuries classified as urgent. A girls school in Iran got hit by two Tomahawk missiles and 175 people were killed, most of them children, and the Pentagon's own preliminary investigation found that it was the United States that did it. And this bloke's priority? His photo angle. That's not a Defense Secretary. That's a wanker. In any RSL in Australia, in any pub from Cairns to Kalgoorlie, if a bloke walked in and said yeah I'm a big tough war hero, I talk about warrior culture all day, but I had to ban the cameras because the pictures made my neck look fat, he would be laughed out of the building. He would not be able to buy a beer in this country. Blokes who actually served, blokes who actually went to places where people were trying to kill them, would look at this precious little petal and just shake their heads. Because that's the thing about wankers. Real tough blokes don't care what they look like. Real tough blokes are too busy doing the job to worry about whether the lighting is flattering. You know who worries about their angles? Influencers. Instagram models. Reality TV contestants. And former Fox News morning show hosts who had a makeup studio installed in the Pentagon. This bloke talks about restoring warrior ethos while getting his foundation right before a Fox hit. He talks about lethality while banning the AP because a photo made him look like he was mid sneeze. He talks about no more woke bullshit while having his wife, a former Fox producer, approve the renovations to his vanity room. There are families in America right now who just got a knock on the door telling them their kid isn't coming home from Kuwait. There are parents in Iran pulling their children out of rubble. And this bloke is worried about looking ugly in a Reuters photo. In Australia we'd tell him to harden up. Actually no. In Australia we wouldn't even bother. We'd just call him what he is. A weapons grade, industrial strength, fair dinkum, ocean going wanker. And then we'd move on. Because unlike Pete, we don't have time to stand in front of a mirror all day. LOVE IT!!!!!!!!!! That's a pretty long dry wank in front of the mirror by somonee who's 'moved on'. Stuck on wank, more like it. And a Mod, no less. (can I say that??)

The old boy flew here, Vic. He has to be forced out of his seat during the Ode to Remembrance. 

Frank wrote on Mar 12^th, 2026 at 8:59pm:

Vic wrote on Mar 12th, 2026 at 6:41pm: RIGHTO So let me explain something to our American friends, because I think there's been a bit of a cultural misunderstanding about what's running the Pentagon right now. In Australia, we have a word. It's one of our most important words. It's a word that carries the weight of a thousand disappointed fathers, a million eye rolls from every tradie, brickie, sparkie and truckie who ever had to deal with a bloke who was all hat and no cattle. The word is wanker. Now for the uninitiated, a wanker is not just an insult. It's a diagnosis. A wanker is a bloke who is so profoundly, catastrophically up himself that he has lost all contact with the observable universe. A wanker looks in the mirror and sees a god. Everyone else looks at him and sees a bloke who'd cry if his coffee order was wrong. A wanker is the guy who revs his rented Lambo at the lights. The guy who name drops at barbecues nobody invited him to. The guy who calls himself an alpha while needing three people to help him pick a shirt. A wanker is, in the most medically precise Australian sense, a man who is furiously pleasuring his own ego in public and expecting the rest of us to clap. Which brings us to Pete Hegseth. Secretary of Defense. The most powerful military position on the planet outside the Oval Office. The bloke with his finger near the button. Mister Warrior Ethos. Mister we're bringing back the fighting spirit. Mister no more woke bullshit, we're here to kill. Big tough guy. This bloke looked at photos of himself giving a press conference and went, nah, take those down, I look weird in that one, my chin's doing a thing, ban the cameras. BAN. THE. CAMERAS. Not because of a national security leak. Not because somebody photographed classified documents on the podium. Because his feelings got hurt. By a photo. Of his own face. That his parents made. A face that apparently is fine for Fox News hits from his taxpayer funded makeup studio complete with a director's chair and vanity mirror and professional lighting, but is far too precious and delicate to be captured by the Associated bloody Press doing their job at a press briefing about a war. Let me say that again for the cheap seats. This man is running a war. American service members are dead. Six killed in a drone strike in Kuwait. More than 30 hospitalised with burns and shrapnel wounds and brain trauma, some so badly hurt they had to airlift 25 of them to Germany on a C-17 with injuries classified as urgent. A girls school in Iran got hit by two Tomahawk missiles and 175 people were killed, most of them children, and the Pentagon's own preliminary investigation found that it was the United States that did it. And this bloke's priority? His photo angle. That's not a Defense Secretary. That's a wanker. In any RSL in Australia, in any pub from Cairns to Kalgoorlie, if a bloke walked in and said yeah I'm a big tough war hero, I talk about warrior culture all day, but I had to ban the cameras because the pictures made my neck look fat, he would be laughed out of the building. He would not be able to buy a beer in this country. Blokes who actually served, blokes who actually went to places where people were trying to kill them, would look at this precious little petal and just shake their heads. Because that's the thing about wankers. Real tough blokes don't care what they look like. Real tough blokes are too busy doing the job to worry about whether the lighting is flattering. You know who worries about their angles? Influencers. Instagram models. Reality TV contestants. And former Fox News morning show hosts who had a makeup studio installed in the Pentagon. This bloke talks about restoring warrior ethos while getting his foundation right before a Fox hit. He talks about lethality while banning the AP because a photo made him look like he was mid sneeze. He talks about no more woke bullshit while having his wife, a former Fox producer, approve the renovations to his vanity room. There are families in America right now who just got a knock on the door telling them their kid isn't coming home from Kuwait. There are parents in Iran pulling their children out of rubble. And this bloke is worried about looking ugly in a Reuters photo. In Australia we'd tell him to harden up. Actually no. In Australia we wouldn't even bother. We'd just call him what he is. A weapons grade, industrial strength, fair dinkum, ocean going wanker. And then we'd move on. Because unlike Pete, we don't have time to stand in front of a mirror all day. LOVE IT!!!!!!!!!! That's a pretty long dry wank in front of the mirror by somonee who's 'moved on'. Stuck on wank, more like it. And a Mod, no less. (can I say that??)

Stop bombarding my inbox with photos of your sweaty torso, Frank. I am not interested  :-/

Emerging Chinese Lesbian wrote on Mar 12^th, 2026 at 11:11pm:

Stop bombarding my inbox with photos of your sweaty torso, Frank. I am not interested  :-/

;D

Frank wrote on Mar 12^th, 2026 at 8:59pm:

That's a pretty long dry wank in front of the mirror by somonee who's 'moved on'. Stuck on wank, more like it. And a Mod, no less. (can I say that??)

The truth hurts huh Frank?

Hegseth exemplifies the dangers of vanity masquerading as leadership. It's why he and Trump vibe so much.

Here is a man entrusted with the gravest responsibilities imaginable, deciding military actions that risk lives, yet his priorities are consumed by self-image and performative toughness.

Leadership in a role of this magnitude demands clarity, courage, and accountability.  Worrying about photo angles or personal appearance is not just trivial, it is grotesquely inappropriate.

When soldiers are dying and civilians are being harmed, a Defence Secretary preoccupied with his reflection is a profound failure of judgement. This is not leadership.

This is ego dressed up as authority.

Do I expect you to understand or even acknowledge this?  Of course not.  I'm more wondering what insults you'll use to side-step having to accept the truth.

SadKangaroo wrote on Mar 13^th, 2026 at 9:35am:

Frank wrote on Mar 12th, 2026 at 8:59pm: That's a pretty long dry wank in front of the mirror by somonee who's 'moved on'. Stuck on wank, more like it. And a Mod, no less. (can I say that??) The truth hurts huh Frank? Hegseth exemplifies the dangers of vanity masquerading as leadership. It's why he and Trump vibe so much. Here is a man entrusted with the gravest responsibilities imaginable, deciding military actions that risk lives, yet his priorities are consumed by self-image and performative toughness. Leadership in a role of this magnitude demands clarity, courage, and accountability.  Worrying about photo angles or personal appearance is not just trivial, it is grotesquely inappropriate. When soldiers are dying and civilians are being harmed, a Defence Secretary preoccupied with his reflection is a profound failure of judgement. This is not leadership. This is ego dressed up as authority. Do I expect you to understand or even acknowledge this?  Of course not.  I'm more wondering what insults you'll use to side-step having to accept the truth.

https://media.tenor.com/3U1aV2mc52QAAAAM/drop-the-mic-obama-mic-drop.gif

I've got a better word to describe Hegseth.

Emerging Chinese Lesbian wrote on Mar 12^th, 2026 at 11:11pm:

Stop bombarding my inbox with photos of your sweaty torso, Frank. I am not interested  :-/

Fap to this, bimbo:



The belief that Australia is among the world’s most peaceful multicultural societies has taken a series of blows in recent years. Recent news that gay teenagers in Sydney have been violently assaulted by Islamist bigots, who gleefully filmed the attacks, has delivered a knockout punch to this comforting illusion.


The latest investigation by the ABC, Australia’s state broadcaster, lays bare the diseased state of Australian civil society. Young men from western Sydney, supporters of ISIS-backing imams, have filmed themselves violently assaulting young homosexuals. They have carried out these attacks by luring their victims – some as young as 16 – on dating apps such as Wizz and Grindr, before ambushing them in dark, isolated isolated locations. The attacks have been occurring for at least two years.

The videos uncovered by the ABC aren’t for the faint of heart. One of them shows a 16-year-old being forced into a toilet block where he is repeatedly punched on the ground. His attackers verbally abuse him throughout the assault, calling him a ‘faggot’ and a ‘kafir’ – someone who doesn’t believe in Islam. Another video shows a boy lying on the grass, where he is repeatedly stomped and called a ‘gay dog’. ‘You wanna be gay? You wanna be gay?’, attackers goadingly say to a victim in a separate video. It’s harrowing footage.
...

The attackers were motivated by one of Australia’s burgeoning Islamist sects. Indeed, the five convicted were reportedly linked to a ‘network’ that included Naveed and Sajid Akram – the father and son duo who carried out the anti-Semitic Bondi massacre in December – and another young man who stabbed a Sydney bishop in April 2024. The influence of Wisam Haddad – a vocal supporter of Islamic State, and one of Australia’s most hardline Islamic leaders — is notable in each of these cases. Haddad, a long-time preacher at Sydney’s Al Medinah Dawah Centre, was found last year to have breached racial-hatred laws over a series of anti-Semitic sermons titled the ‘Jews of Al Madina’, in which he described Jews as ‘vile’ and ‘treacherous’. He has also said that homosexuality should be ‘punishable by death’ in an Islamic society. The Al Medinah Dawah Centre was closed in December after it was revealed that Naveed Akram worshipped there.

Australia now finds itself in a very bleak situation. Sydney is a city where gays and Jews have been hunted down by men united under the banner of Islamism – a force that arrived late to Australia compared to the UK and Europe, but which is now making its presence known. The starkest example of this was the anti-Semitic massacre on Bondi, in which 14 Jews – including a young girl and a Holocaust survivor – were killed at a Hanukkah celebration.

Hovering at the periphery of this story is that most inexplicable of movements: Queers for Palestine. Despite the intense hatred Hamas harbours towards homosexuals, many of Australia’s ‘queer’ activists – reflecting a pattern across the West – tacitly supported the Islamic militants in their war against Israel. This cognitive dissonance only deepens in light of the fact that Israel is the only country in the Middle East that supports, indeed celebrates, the rights of gays and lesbians.

Yet Sydney’s significant queer community has been more or less silent on the recent attacks. They appear to be unable to grapple with the fact that young men supporting ISIS – an ideology that bares striking parallels with Hamas, notably in its hatred of gays – could carry out such savage beatings. Their hatred of Israel has blinded them to the real nature of their supposed ‘allies’.

Like many Western countries, Australia appears to be a different place altogether since the 7 October attacks. Sydney is the epicentre of this degeneration. A country whose biggest city isn’t safe for Jews and homosexuals is in a very dark place indeed.

Frank wrote on Mar 13^th, 2026 at 10:47am:

Emerging Chinese Lesbian wrote on Mar 12th, 2026 at 11:11pm: Stop bombarding my inbox with photos of your sweaty torso, Frank. I am not interested  :-/ Fap to this, bimbo: The belief that Australia is among the world’s most peaceful multicultural societies has taken a series of blows in recent years. Recent news that gay teenagers in Sydney have been violently assaulted by Islamist bigots, who gleefully filmed the attacks, has delivered a knockout punch to this comforting illusion. The latest investigation by the ABC, Australia’s state broadcaster, lays bare the diseased state of Australian civil society. Young men from western Sydney, supporters of ISIS-backing imams, have filmed themselves violently assaulting young homosexuals. They have carried out these attacks by luring their victims – some as young as 16 – on dating apps such as Wizz and Grindr, before ambushing them in dark, isolated isolated locations. The attacks have been occurring for at least two years. The videos uncovered by the ABC aren’t for the faint of heart. One of them shows a 16-year-old being forced into a toilet block where he is repeatedly punched on the ground. His attackers verbally abuse him throughout the assault, calling him a ‘faggot’ and a ‘kafir’ – someone who doesn’t believe in Islam. Another video shows a boy lying on the grass, where he is repeatedly stomped and called a ‘gay dog’. ‘You wanna be gay? You wanna be gay?’, attackers goadingly say to a victim in a separate video. It’s harrowing footage. ... The attackers were motivated by one of Australia’s burgeoning Islamist sects. Indeed, the five convicted were reportedly linked to a ‘network’ that included Naveed and Sajid Akram – the father and son duo who carried out the anti-Semitic Bondi massacre in December – and another young man who stabbed a Sydney bishop in April 2024. The influence of Wisam Haddad – a vocal supporter of Islamic State, and one of Australia’s most hardline Islamic leaders — is notable in each of these cases. Haddad, a long-time preacher at Sydney’s Al Medinah Dawah Centre, was found last year to have breached racial-hatred laws over a series of anti-Semitic sermons titled the ‘Jews of Al Madina’, in which he described Jews as ‘vile’ and ‘treacherous’. He has also said that homosexuality should be ‘punishable by death’ in an Islamic society. The Al Medinah Dawah Centre was closed in December after it was revealed that Naveed Akram worshipped there. Australia now finds itself in a very bleak situation. Sydney is a city where gays and Jews have been hunted down by men united under the banner of Islamism – a force that arrived late to Australia compared to the UK and Europe, but which is now making its presence known. The starkest example of this was the anti-Semitic massacre on Bondi, in which 14 Jews – including a young girl and a Holocaust survivor – were killed at a Hanukkah celebration. Hovering at the periphery of this story is that most inexplicable of movements: Queers for Palestine. Despite the intense hatred Hamas harbours towards homosexuals, many of Australia’s ‘queer’ activists – reflecting a pattern across the West – tacitly supported the Islamic militants in their war against Israel. This cognitive dissonance only deepens in light of the fact that Israel is the only country in the Middle East that supports, indeed celebrates, the rights of gays and lesbians. Yet Sydney’s significant queer community has been more or less silent on the recent attacks. They appear to be unable to grapple with the fact that young men supporting ISIS – an ideology that bares striking parallels with Hamas, notably in its hatred of gays – could carry out such savage beatings. Their hatred of Israel has blinded them to the real nature of their supposed ‘allies’. Like many Western countries, Australia appears to be a different place altogether since the 7 October attacks. Sydney is the epicentre of this degeneration. A country whose biggest city isn’t safe for Jews and homosexuals is in a very dark place indeed.

In another episode of: I Didn't Think That Lion Would Eat My Face.

Spoken like a loose silent fart.