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Teen charged after passenger tackled him on Jetstar plane

A 17-year-old boy who allegedly pushed through a hole in the fence at Avalon Airport and got on a plane armed with a gun was overpowered by at least three passengers who spotted his weapon. The teenager, who was dressed as a maintenance worker in hi-vis and wearing a tool belt, was wrestled to the floor of Sydney-bound flight JQ610, which had about 160 passengers on board, just before 3pm on Thursday.

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Police Superintendent Michael Reid described it as a terrifying incident for passengers but said it was too early to establish if it would be treated as a terrorism incident.

https://archive.md/YE0r4 | https://www.theage.com.au/national/victoria/man-with-gun-detained-while-trying-to-board-jetstar-flight-20250306-p5lhk9.html

Emphasis my own

us-foreign-policy

YT teenager boards a plane with 160 people, brandishing a shotgun, saying he had a bomb in his bag: terrifying, but not terrorism. Makes you think.

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    [1971] El Derecho de Vivir en Paz - Victor Jara (www.youtube.com)
     

    I've been reading Vincent Bevin's If We Burn (it's online as a pdf if you search for it), and this song was mentioned in a chapter about Chilean protests in 2019, though they updated the lyrics to make them "more relevant" or some cringe shit, this original song is so beautiful, here's a rough english translation of the lyrics:

    The right to live
    poet Ho Chi Minh,
    who struck from Vietnam
    all of humanity.
    No cannon will wipe out
    the furrow of your rice paddy.
    The right to live in peace.

    Indochina is the place
    beyond the wide sea,
    where they ruin the flower
    with genocide and napalm.
    The moon is an explosion
    that blows out all the clamor.
    The right to live in peace.

    Uncle Ho, our song
    is fire of pure love,
    it's a dovecote dove,
    olive from an olive grove.
    It is the universal song
    chain that will triumph,
    the right to live in peace.

    The internet says this music is "Nueva canción" but this song is really tickling my brain with the 1960s psychedelic folk rock vibes. I feel a bit silly sitting here listening music I can't understand the lyrics to, but gosh it's pretty.

    Hope you're all well, I am on hiatus, and tied up with irl organising (gosh what a mess).

    ARE TANKIES CONSPIRING TO MAKE SURE YOU HAVE A BAD TIME ON LEMMY.ML? in c/chapotraphouse@hexbear.net
    ARE TANKIES CONSPIRING TO MAKE SURE YOU HAVE A BAD TIME ON LEMMY.ML? in c/chapotraphouse@hexbear.net
    ARE TANKIES CONSPIRING TO MAKE SURE YOU HAVE A BAD TIME ON LEMMY.ML? in c/chapotraphouse@hexbear.net
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    ARE TANKIES CONSPIRING TO MAKE SURE YOU HAVE A BAD TIME ON LEMMY.ML? (hexbear.net)
     

    !asklemmy@lemmy.ml - ARE YOU A TANKIE? - informal poll results ~

    😱A ridiculous question. “Tankie” isn’t a term anyone self-identifies with, it’s mostly a term used by liberals to hurl at anyone to the left of them or anyone who agrees with western foreign policy. The survey results will be as meaningless as the term “tankie” itself.

    Image description: A5 page, with various pie charts and text, indicating the results of an informal poll from lemmy.ml, full image text in spoiler

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    ARE TANKIES TAKING CONSPIRING TO MAKE SURE YOU HAVE A BAD TIME ON LEMMY.ML ??

    HEXBEAR.NET

    DOES THE WORK FOR YOU!!

    WE ASKED !asklemmy@lemmy.ml ARE YOU A TANKIE?

    First stack of pie charts shows the yes / no split, highlights that the lemmy.ml yes responses made up less than half of the yes votes, hexbear.net and lemmygrad.ml only made up a small portion, some hexbear-ians even vote no
    second and third pie charts show the yes votes, and no votes by instance respectively
    third stacked pie chart shows the yes / no split by instance, overlay-ed with the total yes / no votes

    only top level comments were counted
    tankies are closer than they appear
    Deeply unserious
    NDTS

    full results / data

    COUNTA of yes
@lemmy.ml = 10
@lemmygrad.ml = 5
@lemmy.world = 3
@lemmy.zip = 1
@hexbear.net = 3
@lemmy.sdf.org = 1
@lemmy.one = 1
Grand Total  = 24

COUNTA of no
@lemmy.ml = 2
@lemm.ee = 2
@lemmy.world = 8
@lemmy.blahaj.zone = 1
@reddthat.com = 1
@ttrpg.network = 1
@hexbear.net = 4
@lemmy.jhjacobs.nl = 1
Grand Total = 20

taken from archived post https://archive.md/AAY1L

    this was fun, thanks for the polling idea, Kristina (I spent too long on these charts because yours looked so spiffy, I hope you specifically are impressed lol), solidarity cleaning that data up, and general reminder people only half read anything before launching into a diatribe

    tl:dr yes, tankies are totally conspiring to make sure you have a bad time on lemmy.ml

    specter

    When is this gonna happen to this website in c/askchapo@hexbear.net
    unironically the least problematic Hasidic community activity in c/memes@hexbear.net
    Wishing unlimited commie posting on Blahaj zone to cleanse it of right wing cringe shit like this in c/the_dunk_tank@hexbear.net
    She got dunked on heavily for this, but itd bad framing of a good argument at worst. in c/chapotraphouse@hexbear.net
    I am just wondering how far this will go. in c/palestine@lemmygrad.ml
    [–] 4 points 2 years ago

    that's really terrible comrade, I'm so sorry for you and your family. I'm sure those experiences and memories have left deep intergenerational scars that linger within you and your family... I hope you can find it within yourself, to use those feelings to motivate in our work changing the world.

    Sorry if I came across like a shithead, I understand how easy it is to fall into a defencive mode, arguments online with faceless users are so easy to get out of hand. This felt like a small miscommunication that was leading to upset among people who would otherwise be close allies.

    It's so hard to judge tone through text, and I could feel myself starting to bitter towards you. I might have said something curt and defensive myself, if I hadn't run to catch a bus. We're all pretty fragile, it's a lot of practice remaing calm and to realise when we're starting to lash out.

    I hope you have a good day friend :)

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