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[–] hanrahan@slrpnk.net 3 points 15 hours ago

Australia's hypocrisy is ubiquitous on much of this

Australia has the worst record of any nation for jailing and abusing climate protestors, as one example of perhaps not throwing stones

Australia leads the world in arresting climate and environment protesters

We regually kill people in custody, yet to see any black lies matter protests in Australia becase we give few fucks.

I find the entire thing bemusing as though we aren't sone of the worst arseholes in the world, we send people who legally arrive in Australia to internment camps off shore, were they are treated so badly they suicide. We deport "criminals" overseas Now (like the US is doing) we sieze and copy peoples computers and phones at the border, we have invasive anti privacy laws and when some other country does it we get "oh my god" here.

[–] jjjalljs@ttrpg.network 26 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I read the headline as Australia was arming their journalists and I was confused by the escalation.

[–] joelfromaus@aussie.zone 14 points 1 day ago

That would actual be pretty funny to start with. Rubber bullet stand offs between journos and the American brown shirts. You know, before USA starts “accidentally” hitting journos with $3.5 million dollar missiles a la Israel style.

Then Kelloggs releases a new porridge filled with red dye called “Oops! All journalists!” and taco serves it to foreign ambassadors in what would be a terrifying gesture if he didn’t spend the entire meal dancing on the table with those geriatric “I want to move but not fall over” dance moves.

Whether you like it or not, I had a lot of fun writing this absolute bullshit XD

[–] the_q@lemmy.zip 7 points 2 days ago (6 children)

Isn't Australian society very similar to American conservative crap?

[–] hanrahan@slrpnk.net 1 points 15 hours ago

Yes, alas pretty much

[–] Zagorath@aussie.zone 10 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Not nearly to the same extent as America, but in general, yes. Same direction, just less extreme.

[–] popjam@lemmy.world 12 points 1 day ago

We also voted against the Trump crap last election, I'd imagine if America had preferential and mandatory voting they would have too

[–] Letstakealook@lemm.ee 14 points 1 day ago (1 children)

They are. In fact, we can thank America's largest spewer of hate (fox) on one of their homegrown assholes, Rupert Murdoch.

[–] Zagorath@aussie.zone 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Hey now, he might have been born here, but he's not our arsehole. And he hasn't been for 40 years.

[–] princessnorah@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 1 day ago (2 children)

He doesn't even have Australian citizenship, does he?

[–] Zagorath@aussie.zone 4 points 1 day ago

Yeah exactly. He chose to get rid of it 40 years ago this year.

[–] Ilandar@lemmy.today 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Only because he forfeited it.

I mean yeah, that's what I was getting at. He can't even live here, he's not our problem anymore.

[–] GluWu@lemm.ee 10 points 1 day ago (1 children)

No, Australia is already outright owned by plutocratic mining corperations. In the US they have to go through all the lobbying and buying millions of trumpcoin.

[–] princessnorah@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Riiiight, Australia is the one that's outright owned by lobbyists, and America is a bastion of free speech. Yeah, alright mate.

[–] Wandering@aussie.zone 6 points 1 day ago

Unlike the MAGA movement, most of Australia's right wing are neither Vatnik, nor Fascist. I mean, there are those as well, like Clive Palmer, but he is a spam pest and a joke - most people think he is ridiculous. So no.

[–] DarkCloud@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago

...by entering into a data center agreement with America!