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Kloe_Rinz
10/05/21 5:10:14 AM
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https://www.news.com.au/world/coronavirus/global/save-australia-teacher protest in-new-york-city-gathers-at-the-australian-consulate/news story/c4393b3522f61f061e8f7ed7833a7522
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Australia has become a focal point in American right wing nutjob commentary. Apparently police force us from our homes and into concentration camps, mandate facial recognition apps on all our phones to track us, and we all want to fight back but gave up our guns.
The guns is a big one, they're really pushing the idea that if we had guns we'd somehow be fighting back against the government.

who the hell are these morons
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ColdOne666
10/05/21 5:24:43 AM
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What does boot leather taste like TC?

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Kloe_Rinz
10/05/21 5:25:17 AM
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what
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spikethedevil
10/05/21 5:43:07 AM
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The last thing any country needs is the US to world police on it.

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scamatoru
10/05/21 5:45:14 AM
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you need us bro

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spikethedevil
10/05/21 5:53:00 AM
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scamatoru posted...
you need us bro

No they dont.

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Fluttershy
10/05/21 5:53:23 AM
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lol you guys tried guns and all it did was piss off the dropbears

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ModLogic
10/05/21 5:54:44 AM
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we need to roll out the military to deal with these parasites in melbourne

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Southernfatman
10/05/21 5:59:34 AM
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We whooped Australia's ass before and we'll do it again!

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MedeaLysistrata
10/05/21 6:00:04 AM
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lol how wild can this get

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scamatoru
10/05/21 6:02:54 AM
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spikethedevil posted...
No they dont.
yea cuz they can totally solo china
aint u british? tbh u need us too bro

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RiKuToTheMiGhtY
10/05/21 6:30:59 AM
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They need to be left alone, Australia made this choice no one forced them, this is something the USA needs to leave be.

If the people there are not happy they can deal with it themselves as this is an Australia internal matter.

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UnfairRepresent
10/05/21 6:35:42 AM
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scamatoru posted...
yea cuz they can totally solo china
aint u british? tbh u need us too bro
Spike has a weird bias against Americans


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MrMallard
10/05/21 6:49:51 AM
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Middle-aged folks who haven't been brainwashed by Sky News - a far-right tabloid channel run by Rupert Murdoch, the same cocksucker who runs Fox News - and the United Australia Party - an independent political party funded by a mining billionaire that pedals anti-vax conspiracy theories, sends illegal texts to unsuspecting phone numbers and buys campaign ads on the front page of a nationally syndicated newspaper - are convinced that "Australia will never get that bad". But as evidenced by the aforementioned news channel and political party, we are seeing an upswing in far-right activity including anti-lockdown rallies that serve as super-spreader events.

We also had Trump-esque rallies pre-COVID set up by the One Nation Party, which was started by a woman who wore a full burqa to parliament and who denies that the Stolen Generation happened/was as bad as the indigenous population say it is.

Our prime minister is a man who once pulled a parliamentary stunt to oppose a Labor party (center-left) bill regarding renewable energy by bringing a lump of coal into parliament. Our secretary of defence was promoted to that position last year, before that he handled immigration - where he was vehemently anti-asylum seeker, but where he fast-tracked visas for au pairs and the like for his rich friends. Same guy was one of three politicians to walk out of the government's apology to the indigenous population for the Stolen Generation.

The Liberal-National party (the Liberals are center-right, the Nationals are far-right and they make up a coalition government) are in power nationally, but they only hold majority government in three of Australia's six states. One of those states is New South Wales, which means that the Premier and Deputy Premier are both right wing.

Our premier, Gladys Berejiklian, had to resign this past weekend because of corruption charges brought against her by the Independent Commission Against Corruption. The leader of the Nationals, John Barilaro, resigned right after her - his reputation has been sullied after siccing the Fixated Persons Unit on a pair of YouTubers who were taking the piss out of him, broadcasting a history of hypocrisy on his part and exposing multiple instances of him and his party engaging in corruption and John taking pride in it. He's actually suing the YouTuber in question for defamation.

Let's get something straight: Australia is falling apart. I do agree that we as citizens need to keep an eye on surveillance laws, I don't trust facial recognition apps when other states use a QR system that - while abusable - seems to be getting the job done.

But whoever these stupid doorknob-licking morons think are ruining the country? I guarantee you that they're dead wrong. Because the shitheads fucking my country in the ass are the Liberal-National party - a coalition between the center-right and the far-right party of my nation. And I guarantee you that if any of these dickheads were familiar with Australia even remotely, they'd be licking the boots of our conservative government and taking the center-left party to task, because that's the exact brand of ideological poison that Rupert "Fox News" Murdoch is pushing with the print media in this country as well as Sky News.

Kevin Rudd is a Labor prime minister from ten years ago. For the past two or three years, he's been balancing his job as the head of a New York-based thinktank with a campaign to promote media diversity and highlight the chokehold Rupert Murdoch has on this country. He's been opposed every step of the way from media outlets staffed with both Newscorp alumni and former Liberal Party staffers - Nine-Fairfax, the other top media empire in this country, is run by a man named Joe Hockey who was the treasurer of the Liberal party (including when they were in power) for over a decade.

FriendlyJordies, the man being sued by the leader of the Nationals - whose employee was arrested at his home by an anti-terror unit for seeing John Barilaro in public and attempting to hand him erroneous legal documents for him to correct - is bashed and lambasted by the Liberal-National party for being "Labor-aligned" - which he is, because he recognises what the Labor party are trying to do to unfuck the country and promote it because Nine-Fairfax and Newscorp refuse to. It's to the point that he was getting more headlines than Jodi McKay, the leader of the opposition (the Labor equivalent of premier, who was in charge of Labor's activities in New South Wales and who would have taken Gladys Berejiklian's job if the LNP were voted out of power).

Guess who are lambasted the most by the growing far-right movement, headed by the Daily Telegraph, the Sunday Morning Herald and Sky News? Guess who are two of the most prominent Labor-aligned activists trying to hold a biased media and governmental corruption to account?

Kevin Rudd and FriendlyJordies.

It is absolutely rich to hear that the American right are chanting "save Australia", because it's their ilk who are ruining this country in the first place. Whatever boogeyman they have in mind, they would bend over backwards for.

Because when you hear "censorship in Australia" or "gun laws in Australia" or any of that crap, I would bet money that the average far-right mouthbreather attributes that to a crazy left-wing mob who've gone crazy wokifying the country.

And yet the reason we didn't have an 18+ rating for video games despite having the rating available for movies? That was due to a conservative government.

The sweeping gun reform passed in the aftermath of the Port Arthur massacre? Passed by perhaps the most principled Liberal prime minister in the past 50 years, John Howard.

Australia is in deep shit. But the people who are ruining the country are the exact bullshit artists these morons would worship.

Mark my words - if they knew that the party who are fucking the country sideways:

  • voted in a prime minister whose campaign slogan was "stop the boats"
  • gave excessive tax cuts to corporations in line with American tax rates
  • vehemently opposed renewable energy for over a decade, despite Australia being uniquely adaptable to green energy
  • is instead pushing for a "transition fuel" of gas which is expensive and useless, so that BP can continue to make money off fossil fuels until the bitter end
  • allies itself with far-right candidates who wore burqas into parliament, brought coal onto the senate floor, walked out of a government apology to the indigenous community and who blamed the Christchurch mosque shootings on the Muslim population for their "failure to assimilate"
They would change their tune so fast, they'd probably fuck up their vocal cords.

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MrMallard
10/05/21 6:57:22 AM
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Oh, and to cap things off:

I said earlier in my first post that the Liberal party only hold majority government in three of Australia's six states. Queensland, Victoria and Western Australia are Labor, while NSW, South Australia and Tasmania are Liberal.

The state that rolled out the facial recognition COVID app is South Australia.

So once again - one of the biggest reasons American mouthbreathers are so worked up about Australia is due to the conservative government. And I maintain that if any of these stupid assholes understood that the bad shit they're talking about is mandated by a conservative government, they would turn right around and polish our government's boots with kisses. Not even with tongue, just pecking off the dirt and dogshit with little goldfish kisses.

Who wants to bet that the reason they don't realise any of this is because the conservatives are called the Liberal party?

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spikethedevil
10/05/21 6:57:43 AM
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UnfairRepresent posted...
Spike has a weird bias against Americans

You have a weird bias against brits so pot meet kettle.

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UnfairRepresent
10/05/21 7:24:48 AM
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I have nothing against brits and have spent years trying to get them to vax and have food so they live long happy lives.

You can't even admit the UK is economically and militarily dependant on the US. Even after Brexit

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ColdOne666
10/05/21 8:01:58 AM
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What a meltdown lol. TLDR

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Alteres
10/05/21 8:03:41 AM
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Save the aussies and the hobbits too!

Free middle earth!!

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UnfairRepresent
10/05/21 8:04:01 AM
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ColdOne666 posted...
What a meltdown lol. TLDR
what did he say that was wrong?

it all seemed totally reasonable

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DeadBankerDream
10/05/21 8:04:20 AM
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What happened to Rika Furude? Australian seems like possibly not the worst place on earth when he's not around.

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Irony
10/05/21 8:45:52 AM
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DeadBankerDream posted...
What happened to Rika Furude? Australian seems like possibly not the worst place on earth when he's not around.
Lol what? He's literally the worst Australian and a deep shame for them.

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ModLogic
10/05/21 11:19:44 AM
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DeadBankerDream posted...
What happened to Rika Furude? Australian seems like possibly not the worst place on earth when he's not around.
he lives in queensland. which is like the equivalent of a usa deep red state. also happens to be quite backwards and rural. the place is perma stuck in the 1950s. his net got cut off when adsl2 went out, given how remote his area is, there are no plans to bring in nbn for him.

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TreyFlowers
10/05/21 2:12:02 PM
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You idiots

We're going to be at 90% fully vaccinated by the end of the year and that's what we WANT

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TheRadiant
10/05/21 2:18:25 PM
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Irony posted...
He's literally the worst Australian
ModLogic exists though

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Alucard188
10/05/21 2:19:03 PM
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TheRadiant posted...
ModLogic exists though

Gavi.

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DeadBankerDream
10/05/21 2:39:36 PM
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Didn't realize ModLogic was Australian.

I still think Rika is the worst by a slim margin, though.

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Machete
10/05/21 3:20:03 PM
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Kloe_Rinz posted...


Australia has become a focal point in American right wing nutjob commentary. Apparently police force us from our homes and into concentration camps, mandate facial recognition apps on all our phones to track us, and we all want to fight back but gave up our guns.
The guns is a big one, they're really pushing the idea that if we had guns we'd somehow be fighting back against the government.


Ah yes. I remember seeing about half a dozen users saying this type of nonsense a few weeks ago
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Irony
10/05/21 3:25:06 PM
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Alucard188 posted...
Gavi.
He's the best because he shows Australia really is a prison colony

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ColdOne666
10/05/21 3:58:48 PM
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ModLogic posted...
he lives in queensland. which is like the equivalent of a usa deep red state. also happens to be quite backwards and rural. the place is perma stuck in the 1950s. his net got cut off when adsl2 went out, given how remote his area is, there are no plans to bring in nbn for him.

Qld currently has a left wing Premier, how many Deep Red States are Democrat lol? Do you ever stop lying about Australia, i don't even think you live here?

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DeadBankerDream
10/05/21 4:01:37 PM
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So ModLogic is the Unfair of Australia?

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Machete
10/05/21 4:03:53 PM
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Queensland does have that reputation though
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ModLogic
10/05/21 4:13:50 PM
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Machete posted...
Queensland does have that reputation though
fake aussies like coldone dont know how bogan qld really is

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Kloe_Rinz
10/05/21 4:15:09 PM
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Qld has bogans!

NSW has scomo
qld is far better off lmao
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BlinxTheSweeper
10/05/21 4:32:29 PM
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Considering NSW just got a new premier that was excited for a 'conservative spring' after Trump and Brexit, voted against gay marriage, doesn't want welfare to be a thing so people have to stay married and have kids to be taken care of in older age and all sorts of other garbage opinions yeah I'm pretty jealous of QLD right now.

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TreyFlowers
10/05/21 4:41:45 PM
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I'm a Victorian who's lived in SEQLD for 7.5 years now, they really should divide the state into North and South Queensland

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