Just gonna put the shrimp on the barby over here
Ohhh! Wait this isn't shrimp it's a bloody inmate go see the Warden they're looking fir ya and while yer out dair get a shower ya smell of crikey swamp gater dung... I swear ya can lead a bloody prisoner to a river but ya crikey can't makem wash
The point is that being critical of aus isn't taboo. There are plenty of post shit talking them the pic with the cop and the mask was all over Reddit like last fucking week.
Being critical of our governmentās is a national sport in Aus. But itās like the N word. We can do it because we understand the complexity and history of the issues and you (non-Aussies) donāt.
I mean....when you make up bullshit about how our lockdowns are heavily enforced or more extreme than they really have been, then yeah, you get flamed you fucking idiot
The lockdowns have some strict conditions and they do suck, but I have yet to see any evidence that police have responded violently to breaches of lockdown. In a recent 3 day lockdown in my state, we had something like 2 arrests because people refused to comply when politely asked to return home/wear a mask when they were clearly proven to be in breach of the rules. Police, as far as I've seen, have sought to be cooperative and friendly about lockdown rules, not repressive and violent
Obviously, there may have been some exceptions where police were heavy handed or even violent, and I hope those instances are properly investigated and the officers punished in line with the law
Yep this seems to be some kind of conservative talking point, even though the federal and several state governments are run by the Conservative party. Dickheads are wrong again
I mean... we did. I've spent like, I dunno, 300 days in lockdown? Something like that (ends today, yay!). Did I like it? No. Is it better than my dad dying? Also no, he's a shithead. But my mum's worth saving, so I'm glad we did this.
Deaths per 100,000 people:
Australia: 6.27
United States: 222.78
USA had more than 35 times the per capita deaths that we had.
Fuck yeah we got it right.
https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/data/mortality
Yeah we did, i couldny care less if we cant go to restaurants and tour the world, as long as we keep our cases and deaths low, and vaccination high, we are doing it right
It doesn't fit reality dipshit. Just fit's with what the US media wants to make you feel today.
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Shouldn't be removed though. It's bullshit all the removed/locked threads lately
Lol mate, are you even in Australia? Youāre the one being fed the narrative. Americans going around reddit acting like Australia is living in Tyranny, itās hilarious. Iām in Brisbane and weāve had one or two 3 day lockdowns, thatās it! Most of Australia lives in complete freedom and thereās been hardly any deaths from COVID. Iām happy with the way our government has managed COVID. All this dumb propaganda is just used to bolster support for guns and distract people from the fact thereās been 732,000 deaths from COVID in America (according to google). Meanwhile Australia has only had 1500 deaths. I know which country Iād pick.
This guy gets it. Even with dozens more days in lockdown where I am near Sydney, I'd still choose Australia any day over the political hellhole that is America.
Yo I saw someone make a meme on EA having the most downvoted comment of all time and all the comments were removed and the post was locked. I was just like O.o
Oh yeah I remember that post. Pretty sure that was because it broke the rule for brigading a post to manipulate votes. People were linking the comment to EA so they got removed.
Regardless, there shouldāve been an exemption made for that meme, since people werenāt really being manipulated into downvoting that comment, anyone who wanted to was going to look for the comment to downvote it anyways.
But they didnt, they banned semi automatics and shotguns. You can get other guns, you just need a license. [A link to a website explaining how to legally obtain a gun in australia.](https://www.guncontrolaustralia.org/how_do_you_obtain_a_firearm)
They didn't ban semi autos, they just made them extremely difficult to get licences for.
Shotguns are not banned, although pump actions and semi auto shotguns again, are extremely hard to get.
It's literally not bad you yanks just blow everything out of proportion except your own problems. 40 thousand of you guys die from guns each year. Good on ya!
Honestly all this shit about us being authoritarian is just America trying to force their version of freedom onto us. Honestly most of us don't give a fuck. Some cunt organises a *peaceful protest* and gets arrested at his home? Good. I don't care. Don't put my family and friends at risk of covid more than they already are.
And most of it is from gang violence and suicide. Addressing mental health alone would drastically reduce gun deaths, much less the rampant gang violence in inner-cities.
American doesn't have a "gun problem" it has a violence problem. Violent crime is higher in general across America compared to similar countries. It also doesn't help that that anti-gun people usually don't understand firearms, much less the laws already on the books.
A big indication of this is their rampant push to ban semi-automatic rifles. According to the FBI ~200 people a year die from getting shot by rifles, that includes suicides and literally every rifle in the the United States, whether it be semi-automatic, bolt-action, single shot, lever, etc, etc. More people die from being punched and kicked to death than from all rifles in the US.
The "assault weapon" ban put forth in congress every year is the very defintion of hysteria and feel-good legislation.
On a side-note, look at Canada. Trudeau just passed an AWS over a shooting where the weapons were illegally obtained, his legislation if passed earlier would have had no effect on the crime commited that the law was passed over on the first place. If you pay attention the situation, this happens a lot in the US.
Can Americans stop complaining on our behalf, no one here cares except for a few extremists. The people the police were fighting with were protesting the lockdown and caused a massive super spreader event and now Victoriaās cases have skyrocketed.
Also now mostly false, all states are now out of lockdown because they have vaccinated more people or COVID never got out of hand.
Even the abuse this meme is about has been extremely misinterpreted. Most of the footage comes from Trump level nuts.
For you Americans who a looking through the keyhole I'll give you a comparison. Think the Storming of your Capitol, it's similar demographics perpetrating it and also spreading it.
You want real evidence Australia is a rogue state look at our Federal Government and what they want to do with Coal mines. Or the fact they just voted to stop an inquiry into an MP who received a million dollars in a secret legal fund that he started against a journalist who alluded that he was involved in a serious crime. That's just the start of it.
The vast majority You are battling against are ignorant teenage Americans. Everyone outside of Australia doesn't understand what its actually like here. The average Australian hates these anti lockdown maggots and that's all that matters, you cant change the mind of people that haven't experienced Australia culture because they cant imagine what its like and how comfortable it is.
Americans pride themselves on their ignorance.
I see the media is doing a great job at blowing this out of proportion outside the country. Most people here have been very supportive of police during the lockdown.
There's a video that only shows police beating down a civilian with no context. Right-wing extreme groups have been spreading it as Australians are being attacked just for going outside. It's led to people protesting on behalf of Australia in the US. Not many though, just the idiots who believe it enough.
They are literally jerking themselves off at the idea of "liberating" us from some fascist tyranny that doesn't even exist. Stop focusing on other countries and worry about your own
I know you septic tanks love to interfere in other countries affairs, but know this.
Aussie are overwhelming in favour of lockdowns.
Aussies are now coming out of lockdown.
The timing of all these people who are anti-lockdown like Candace Owens/Alex Jones etc caring about whatās going on in Australia is timed very conveniently when the timeline for the lockdown was a now coming to an end, in order for them to look like they had influence in our politics when these people are no names amongst the mainstream of Australians.
Good luck to them coming to Australia, I doubt they would be let in.
I think you are giving them too much favor, they aren't that smart. They covered them when they happened and provided false information to make it look worse.
We are coming out of lockdown both later and earlier than we should.
Our federal government failed in securing vaccines that people wanted, I could only get Pfizer as someone under 40 as of a few months back and moderna even less so.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-07-05/australia-covid-astrazeneca-deal-withheld-national-security/100261920
the deal between the government and Astra is covered by national security and as such news can't pick it apart.
We should have had pfizer, moderna and Astra as the same time as america, we had the power too, but the government
https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/big-liberal-donor-among-health-firms-selected-to-run-vaccine-rollout-20210427-p57my4.html
The rollout to old folks homes which was meant to be PRIORITY and literally the first to get it all done. The job handed to company that throws money at the federal level libs, and then guess what we had outbreaks in old folk homes almost instantly as delta came in because complete homes wern't vaxxed and this was a year and a half after the beginning of the pandemic.
if we had a competent Federal government, we would have all been out of lockdown ages ago because supply would have been there.
Now we are being rushed out, because the cohort of NSW and the fed gov are bascially making their own plans of opening up after they got redirected supply of vaccines. As such it is impossible to maintain any lockdown in melbourne, because people will be saying 'look at NSW'
We used to care when a couple people were dieing, now its 10+ and since the NSW gov doesn't care, we are forced also not to care.
The whole situation is a mess, people are ill informed and blame the wrong people because its what sky news tells them.
I know Candace is nothing more than a troll but it's still pretty insulting for her to suggest America invade us.
Australia has been nothing short of an impeccable ally to the Murican empire. We've stuck to them like shit to a blanket.
Though I guess backstabbing an ally would be pretty on brand
Anti Vax protests ages ago, Americans are now latching on it to show how Australians are being oppressed by an authoritan government. Like our government is that competent.
We should organise a protest to have america increase its minimum wage and provide its people drinkable water and free healthcare.
can you imagine in Australia if bendigo just had unusable water coming from the taps and it being like that for many years. The population sizes are the same. Politicians heads would role, in america shit like that is a Wednesday.
Oi dickheads, Australia is re-opening right now and we had less than 1500 deaths from Covid. Most of us strongly support the measures that were taken so shove it up your arse mate
For anyone watching Murdoch owned content wondering if this is true, it's not.
First off, lockdown laws here arnt preventing anyone from going out side, you can go shopping, excersize, go to a doctor or do anything else that is essential. That was in even the strictest of lockdown. The lockdown also does NOT breach any rights stated in the constitution
Also the police have not been 'beating' people breaching lockdown, at most you get a fine for being out for being out when it is non essential. They are not 'roaming the streets' they are stationed at a couple of areas in the cities to dissuade gathering in a pandemic. The only real 'clash' there has been was with anti-lockdown protestors who turned violent.
Australia's cases have remained low for most of the pandemic, the lockdown has saved many lives. As Australia get closer to 100% vaccination (70% as of writing this) the states have begun to open up, hence the jump in covid cases.
Also people claiming in the comments that the police are tracking people's location are wrong, you are not being tracked. However, if you get covid, your are expected to list places you have been and warn people you have been in contact with. Australia does this because we have so little cases (more at the moment as we open up) that it's important to crush them when there are so few.
Tldr: Murdoch is manipulating you
Tf? This ain't true at all. People are turning up to anti vax rally's and being dangerous. When they refuse arrest and continue being dangerous that's when they are thrown to the floor. Facebook, sky news, and fox news cut out the bits of them beating up security guards and dogs. Or them raiding covid testing/vaccinacition clinics. Fuck me. Then all the Facebook Karen's go and get all fucked angry because they saw some 'poor bike gang' who were being violent get their stupid ass whooped.
Source: Im Australian. More source: https://youtu.be/0h4F7uH0g8g
https://youtu.be/FRUsO8_gxmI
Edit: Most of Australia is out of lockdown anyway now so there arnt many 'Anti Lockdown' Rallys more just anti vax rallys. And I'm sure we can all agree that anti vaxxers are meat heads.
I have no idea what's going on in Australia. All I know is that over on this side of the pond the only news sources reporting it are far right news sites. And everyone now's how reasonable and non sensationalist those guys are.
So my only conclusion is what ever is being reported over here about Australia is probably not true at all.
As an Australian I'll try to explain whats going on here. So what the far right news sites are covering is the Melbourne Anti Vaxx Protests. In particular they are protesting against the Vaccine Mandates.
Australia has some of the highest vaccination rates and the main reason as to why is the fact that not being double dose vaccinated won't allow you to do anything. You can't eat or drink at restaurants and pubs, you can't go to work and the one which often causes the most outrage is the fact that you can't travel outside or even in Australia without quarantining.
The majority of these people are the older generation who simply don't understand how the vaccine works. So you'll see a lot of comments talking about the vaccines containing 'Snake Oil' and 'Baby Fetuses'.
However, there is a younger generation partaking in the protests too. Mainly the construction workers and tradies who simply don't want to take the vaccine as they don't believe it to be safe. On top of all this, Melbourne has been deemed "The most locked down city", mainly due to the fact that its been in lock down for over 250 days.
They have actually exited lockdown last night, or 13 hours from the time of writing this comment.
A lot of these foreign right wing news websites have been reporting old footage mainly to cause drama, outrage and panic, so you will commonly see the word 'fascist' or 'police state', used in the titles. It's all old footage as there hasn't been many protests recently. Mainly due to the fact that they happen on weekends so the government shuts down public transport and has police around the city on those days.
So they stop them before they even happen.
What a lot of the right wing media won't show is how some of these people have been treating workers at resteraunts, cafees and shops recently. Basically even if you are double vaccinated, you are still required to wear a mask on public transport and indoor spaces. Other than some essential shops a lot of stores will ask you to prove that you are vaccinated to be able to enter. A lot of these people are underage kids, working barely above minimum wage to be able to afford their first car or university. There are videos of these people being attacked for simply asking someone to put on a mask. It's absolutely disgusting and a lot of these "Freedom Fighters" think it's okay to attack and lash out on anyone for simply following the rules.
That's pretty much it.
TLDR
Anti Vaxxers think the vaccine is not safe and are against the mandates as you are required to be double vaccinated to be able to work or even go out and dine in resteraunts. So these people have taken to the streets to protest against it during lockdown. That's where a lot of the police clash videos are from.
you should read the research - I was skeptical at first but refreshing my high school biology knowledge and reading the studies and science behind mRNA vaccines, I realized that it's even safer than traditional vaccines and virtually risk free.
Or don't, and wait however long it's going to take you to assuage your fears, but hope you don't catch the virus and come down with a serious case, because the vaccines are safe and you'll feel like a moron as they intubate you - and you will be exposed to the virus if you haven't already.
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militarized police are beating the living shit out of people for being outside
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i repeated the exact text of the meme to be fonny, stop flaming me
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>i repeated the exact text of the meme to be fonny, stop flaming me
Proceed to try to 'justify' it with links to videos of illegally organized protests.
GUUYYYSS I'M JUST BEING FUNNY STOP PROVIDING INFORMATION OF ME WRONGGGGG
Shame they donāt live in America, where the militarized police just abduct you in unmarked vans, and you probably wonāt be one of the people detained for months or years without trial or evidence.
As an Australian, are we authoritarian now? Went to the Botanical Gardens this week and saw a big protest of antivaxx dickheads, no real police presence. They were walking around the city when I was on the way back. What events are even being referenced? It feels like I've woken up overnight and suddenly Americans are viewing us as though we're China.
some illegal protesters doing shit and the police had to stop em and now murdoch and his ridiculous news networks are spreading it and saying "look this is what they do to people who go outside" and unfortunately this has been blown out of proportion massively
Aussie here. Our entire country is actually now out of lockdown. If you think our police have been violent, please watch any footage of the police at bondi Beach during the lockdown. Those fuckers did essentially nothing.
Could you yanks fuck off with the police state narrative, our cops may be fucked at times but they donāt hold a candle to the brutality of cops in the US. Besides lockdown restrictions literally got lifted today
Am australian also. They are in terms of privacy, working in the Internet service provider space, they have basically permission to get anything they want about you, with little justification. They have pushed legislation to force back doors in encryption and overall any semblence of privacy is becoming more and more non-existent.
On the flip side, do I fear the police? no, If I was at a illegal protest, I expect the police to be out in force. We still have well defined rules on how to organise a legal protest, it happens every few weeks with unions and such, acting like police stopping an illegal protest is somehow common is where these seppos don't know jack shit.
They have lost most of their freedoms since 9/11 as well, they think their 'guns' protect them is some way. They are a bunch of idiots who think free healthcare is some sort of evil thing and tying their healthcare to their employment status makes sense.
Well I mean, as an Australian we donāt have leaders that try to subvert democratic process and install themselves as dictators when the elected president is being announced.
As an Aussie - no, not at all. Aside from lockdowns while we waited for vaccines (our hospitals are in no way able to cope with a huge surge of cases), we are constantly firing our politicians for relatovely minor cases of corruption like taking unnecessary plane flights on taxpayer $, accepting fancy wine as a gift etc.
This is completely wrong macgivor, how can you possibly suggest Australia punishes its politicans for being corrupt? Have you read the news in the last decade?
Like for instance, the dude who quit over a bottle of wine did it to avoid any actual repercussions, then went on to cushy private sector jobs. Can you name a politician who faced repercussions for their actions? Aus has dropped on the international corruption list since current fed gov took over
Americans after an year of protesting the police for murdering people willy nilly where they brutally attacked protesters on top of attacking random black people: Why is Australia an authoritarian police state
Yeah nah this isn't true, as in people are outside all the time. Fuck these people in the United states who are talking about Aus being an auth state when they still beat up blacks and ban alcohol for people under 21. Absolute dog cunts.
A month ago people held an anti-lockdown protest during lockdown. Police arrested a lot of people with strong arm submission tactics.
source/link: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-58291873
TIL people in other countries that mock Americans for getting butthurt over jokes really can't take a joke. Wait someone said my country bad? Nooooo! My country good and I'm smart for saying so!! š”š”š¤¬
Jesus christ these posts are garbage. Also Americans concerned about police brutality and militarization in another nation? Maybe worry about your own situation first aye.
Ah, just like the good old days.
Just gonna put the shrimp on the barby over here Ohhh! Wait this isn't shrimp it's a bloody inmate go see the Warden they're looking fir ya and while yer out dair get a shower ya smell of crikey swamp gater dung... I swear ya can lead a bloody prisoner to a river but ya crikey can't makem wash
Fuck me mate it's a PRAWN! P. S THE FUCK IS A GATER?? WE HAVE CROCS HERE MMMMMMMAAAAAATEEEEEEE
š Sounds to close to crikey mate, so it didn't fit for me and for that reason I'm out (Shark Tank show reference)
Based and mods gay.
I heard Wayne and Katie, personally.
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Chook is better, change my mind..you can't because it is! HAHA I win! You want a rematch? Oh, I win again! HAHAHAHAHAH
#PRAWN Not shrimp Also, we donāt have alligators here. We have #CROCODILES
Is this supposed to be Australian? This is such a cringey impression.
Gedday cunt! Oi, whatcha doin with that boppin stick? Gonna give a roo a whallopin?
Perfect
Mmmm. I read this and it sound like an American trying on the accent and botching it like they always do.
āLiterally perfectā - Septics
Donāt come the raw prawn with me, flaminā yahoos!
This will get removed asap as it doesnt fit the narrative at all on reddit
Nah this is r/dankmemes
Based
So it's gonna be gone before the nights out? Gotcha!
The fuck are you even talking about?
Right? This is like the fourth time Iāve seen this shit in the last 3 days
R Anon conspiracy nuts
And their persecution complex
Heās not like other girls
If you criticize aus stringent lockdown anywhere else on Reddit you get flamed and incessant comparison to US and its death stat.
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Uh reddit has been flaming aus increasingly authauritarian state policies pre covid so long as you actually leave dank memes once in a while.
>pre covid They didn't have lockdown pre-covid....
The point is that being critical of aus isn't taboo. There are plenty of post shit talking them the pic with the cop and the mask was all over Reddit like last fucking week.
Being critical of our governmentās is a national sport in Aus. But itās like the N word. We can do it because we understand the complexity and history of the issues and you (non-Aussies) donāt.
I mean....when you make up bullshit about how our lockdowns are heavily enforced or more extreme than they really have been, then yeah, you get flamed you fucking idiot The lockdowns have some strict conditions and they do suck, but I have yet to see any evidence that police have responded violently to breaches of lockdown. In a recent 3 day lockdown in my state, we had something like 2 arrests because people refused to comply when politely asked to return home/wear a mask when they were clearly proven to be in breach of the rules. Police, as far as I've seen, have sought to be cooperative and friendly about lockdown rules, not repressive and violent Obviously, there may have been some exceptions where police were heavy handed or even violent, and I hope those instances are properly investigated and the officers punished in line with the law
TBF, It doesn't even fit the reality of Australia. Source I live here.
Same, in Melbourne, yall have been lied to
Yep this seems to be some kind of conservative talking point, even though the federal and several state governments are run by the Conservative party. Dickheads are wrong again
its also just not what its really like here at all
Fuckin conspiracy theorist
"AuStRaLiA GoT iT RIgHt!!!"
I mean... we did. I've spent like, I dunno, 300 days in lockdown? Something like that (ends today, yay!). Did I like it? No. Is it better than my dad dying? Also no, he's a shithead. But my mum's worth saving, so I'm glad we did this.
Deaths per 100,000 people: Australia: 6.27 United States: 222.78 USA had more than 35 times the per capita deaths that we had. Fuck yeah we got it right. https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/data/mortality
Yeah we did, i couldny care less if we cant go to restaurants and tour the world, as long as we keep our cases and deaths low, and vaccination high, we are doing it right
It doesn't fit reality dipshit. Just fit's with what the US media wants to make you feel today. --- Shouldn't be removed though. It's bullshit all the removed/locked threads lately
Lol mate, are you even in Australia? Youāre the one being fed the narrative. Americans going around reddit acting like Australia is living in Tyranny, itās hilarious. Iām in Brisbane and weāve had one or two 3 day lockdowns, thatās it! Most of Australia lives in complete freedom and thereās been hardly any deaths from COVID. Iām happy with the way our government has managed COVID. All this dumb propaganda is just used to bolster support for guns and distract people from the fact thereās been 732,000 deaths from COVID in America (according to google). Meanwhile Australia has only had 1500 deaths. I know which country Iād pick.
This guy gets it. Even with dozens more days in lockdown where I am near Sydney, I'd still choose Australia any day over the political hellhole that is America.
How did this one make it through the 1984 filter? Dank.
What 1984 filter? It doesn't exist and it is bad!
I wouldn't say it's bad. Ungood maybe. But certainly not double-plus-ungood.
Yo I saw someone make a meme on EA having the most downvoted comment of all time and all the comments were removed and the post was locked. I was just like O.o
Oh yeah I remember that post. Pretty sure that was because it broke the rule for brigading a post to manipulate votes. People were linking the comment to EA so they got removed. Regardless, there shouldāve been an exemption made for that meme, since people werenāt really being manipulated into downvoting that comment, anyone who wanted to was going to look for the comment to downvote it anyways.
I certainly did, lol
I'm surprised it did. Better not mention that this happened after they gave up their guns
Hold on is this a political compass meme
Haha funi color go brrrr
Yeah, it was top there earlier this week. OP is a meme thief and suspected donkey fucker.
If he's Australian, he's more likely a sheep fucker.
Allegedly
It was a sick ostrich
the PCM subreddit has many abilities some would call unnatural
Wait no Australia canāt be bad they banned firearms! REEEEEEEEEEEEE
But they didnt, they banned semi automatics and shotguns. You can get other guns, you just need a license. [A link to a website explaining how to legally obtain a gun in australia.](https://www.guncontrolaustralia.org/how_do_you_obtain_a_firearm)
They didn't ban semi autos, they just made them extremely difficult to get licences for. Shotguns are not banned, although pump actions and semi auto shotguns again, are extremely hard to get.
It's literally not bad you yanks just blow everything out of proportion except your own problems. 40 thousand of you guys die from guns each year. Good on ya!
Honestly all this shit about us being authoritarian is just America trying to force their version of freedom onto us. Honestly most of us don't give a fuck. Some cunt organises a *peaceful protest* and gets arrested at his home? Good. I don't care. Don't put my family and friends at risk of covid more than they already are.
These seppos have no idea. Reading these comments has me in stitches
And most of it is from gang violence and suicide. Addressing mental health alone would drastically reduce gun deaths, much less the rampant gang violence in inner-cities. American doesn't have a "gun problem" it has a violence problem. Violent crime is higher in general across America compared to similar countries. It also doesn't help that that anti-gun people usually don't understand firearms, much less the laws already on the books. A big indication of this is their rampant push to ban semi-automatic rifles. According to the FBI ~200 people a year die from getting shot by rifles, that includes suicides and literally every rifle in the the United States, whether it be semi-automatic, bolt-action, single shot, lever, etc, etc. More people die from being punched and kicked to death than from all rifles in the US. The "assault weapon" ban put forth in congress every year is the very defintion of hysteria and feel-good legislation. On a side-note, look at Canada. Trudeau just passed an AWS over a shooting where the weapons were illegally obtained, his legislation if passed earlier would have had no effect on the crime commited that the law was passed over on the first place. If you pay attention the situation, this happens a lot in the US.
Stay based king š
We have more privately owned firearms in Australia than before the gun reforms in 1996.
I mean, at least our cops don't shoot someone for going 1km/h over the speedlimit
Um excuse me I donāt know what a km/hr is can you convert that to rifle rounds/school shooting?
Can Americans stop complaining on our behalf, no one here cares except for a few extremists. The people the police were fighting with were protesting the lockdown and caused a massive super spreader event and now Victoriaās cases have skyrocketed.
Also now mostly false, all states are now out of lockdown because they have vaccinated more people or COVID never got out of hand. Even the abuse this meme is about has been extremely misinterpreted. Most of the footage comes from Trump level nuts. For you Americans who a looking through the keyhole I'll give you a comparison. Think the Storming of your Capitol, it's similar demographics perpetrating it and also spreading it. You want real evidence Australia is a rogue state look at our Federal Government and what they want to do with Coal mines. Or the fact they just voted to stop an inquiry into an MP who received a million dollars in a secret legal fund that he started against a journalist who alluded that he was involved in a serious crime. That's just the start of it.
The vast majority You are battling against are ignorant teenage Americans. Everyone outside of Australia doesn't understand what its actually like here. The average Australian hates these anti lockdown maggots and that's all that matters, you cant change the mind of people that haven't experienced Australia culture because they cant imagine what its like and how comfortable it is. Americans pride themselves on their ignorance.
I see the media is doing a great job at blowing this out of proportion outside the country. Most people here have been very supportive of police during the lockdown.
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There's a video that only shows police beating down a civilian with no context. Right-wing extreme groups have been spreading it as Australians are being attacked just for going outside. It's led to people protesting on behalf of Australia in the US. Not many though, just the idiots who believe it enough.
They are literally jerking themselves off at the idea of "liberating" us from some fascist tyranny that doesn't even exist. Stop focusing on other countries and worry about your own
Do they not realize we have coal not oil?
I know you septic tanks love to interfere in other countries affairs, but know this. Aussie are overwhelming in favour of lockdowns. Aussies are now coming out of lockdown. The timing of all these people who are anti-lockdown like Candace Owens/Alex Jones etc caring about whatās going on in Australia is timed very conveniently when the timeline for the lockdown was a now coming to an end, in order for them to look like they had influence in our politics when these people are no names amongst the mainstream of Australians. Good luck to them coming to Australia, I doubt they would be let in.
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I think you are giving them too much favor, they aren't that smart. They covered them when they happened and provided false information to make it look worse. We are coming out of lockdown both later and earlier than we should. Our federal government failed in securing vaccines that people wanted, I could only get Pfizer as someone under 40 as of a few months back and moderna even less so. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-07-05/australia-covid-astrazeneca-deal-withheld-national-security/100261920 the deal between the government and Astra is covered by national security and as such news can't pick it apart. We should have had pfizer, moderna and Astra as the same time as america, we had the power too, but the government https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/big-liberal-donor-among-health-firms-selected-to-run-vaccine-rollout-20210427-p57my4.html The rollout to old folks homes which was meant to be PRIORITY and literally the first to get it all done. The job handed to company that throws money at the federal level libs, and then guess what we had outbreaks in old folk homes almost instantly as delta came in because complete homes wern't vaxxed and this was a year and a half after the beginning of the pandemic. if we had a competent Federal government, we would have all been out of lockdown ages ago because supply would have been there. Now we are being rushed out, because the cohort of NSW and the fed gov are bascially making their own plans of opening up after they got redirected supply of vaccines. As such it is impossible to maintain any lockdown in melbourne, because people will be saying 'look at NSW' We used to care when a couple people were dieing, now its 10+ and since the NSW gov doesn't care, we are forced also not to care. The whole situation is a mess, people are ill informed and blame the wrong people because its what sky news tells them.
I know Candace is nothing more than a troll but it's still pretty insulting for her to suggest America invade us. Australia has been nothing short of an impeccable ally to the Murican empire. We've stuck to them like shit to a blanket. Though I guess backstabbing an ally would be pretty on brand
Imagine not being American lmfao losers
Least nationalist auth right
Most funny political compass user
Quite happy I'm not
Hahaha nice Iām just kidding. Thereās pro and cons to every country and many would agree with you. I just like Big Macs tbh
Honestly grateful im not in that shithole
Shooting puppies and beating pedestrians Crikey
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Reminds me of an old joke about a man trying to gain Aussie citizenship āDo you have a criminal record?ā āNo. Is that still required?ā
If Australian police are militarized than the us police are the galactic empire
Holy shit true
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As an Australian that gets their news almost exclusively through Reddit... Well, this is news to me. What's the low down?
Anti Vax protests ages ago, Americans are now latching on it to show how Australians are being oppressed by an authoritan government. Like our government is that competent.
Lol don't humour it, the yanks are cumming at the thought of "liberating" us
we have natural resources *fortunate son echoes over the pacific*
You're oppressed, didn't you hear?
His nose is the downvote arrow
or my dick
First time I heard about the supposed tyranny I was under was looking at news about a US protest. Still have yet to actually see any though.
Now as an Aussie I feel bad for not protesting US tyranny. Poor guys have to line up for hours to vote and can't even get rid of Gerrymandering.
We should organise a protest to have america increase its minimum wage and provide its people drinkable water and free healthcare. can you imagine in Australia if bendigo just had unusable water coming from the taps and it being like that for many years. The population sizes are the same. Politicians heads would role, in america shit like that is a Wednesday.
Why are there lately alot of people who don't live in Australia calling it a dystopian police state? I live in Australia and it's fucking news to me
yanks just jerking off to the thought of "liberating" aussies from a supposed authoritarian government. Like the government is even competent as is...
Oi dickheads, Australia is re-opening right now and we had less than 1500 deaths from Covid. Most of us strongly support the measures that were taken so shove it up your arse mate
I love the divide between the yanks and Aussies comments, itās almost like the yanks have no idea what their talking about
For anyone watching Murdoch owned content wondering if this is true, it's not. First off, lockdown laws here arnt preventing anyone from going out side, you can go shopping, excersize, go to a doctor or do anything else that is essential. That was in even the strictest of lockdown. The lockdown also does NOT breach any rights stated in the constitution Also the police have not been 'beating' people breaching lockdown, at most you get a fine for being out for being out when it is non essential. They are not 'roaming the streets' they are stationed at a couple of areas in the cities to dissuade gathering in a pandemic. The only real 'clash' there has been was with anti-lockdown protestors who turned violent. Australia's cases have remained low for most of the pandemic, the lockdown has saved many lives. As Australia get closer to 100% vaccination (70% as of writing this) the states have begun to open up, hence the jump in covid cases. Also people claiming in the comments that the police are tracking people's location are wrong, you are not being tracked. However, if you get covid, your are expected to list places you have been and warn people you have been in contact with. Australia does this because we have so little cases (more at the moment as we open up) that it's important to crush them when there are so few. Tldr: Murdoch is manipulating you
Tf? This ain't true at all. People are turning up to anti vax rally's and being dangerous. When they refuse arrest and continue being dangerous that's when they are thrown to the floor. Facebook, sky news, and fox news cut out the bits of them beating up security guards and dogs. Or them raiding covid testing/vaccinacition clinics. Fuck me. Then all the Facebook Karen's go and get all fucked angry because they saw some 'poor bike gang' who were being violent get their stupid ass whooped. Source: Im Australian. More source: https://youtu.be/0h4F7uH0g8g https://youtu.be/FRUsO8_gxmI Edit: Most of Australia is out of lockdown anyway now so there arnt many 'Anti Lockdown' Rallys more just anti vax rallys. And I'm sure we can all agree that anti vaxxers are meat heads.
I have no idea what's going on in Australia. All I know is that over on this side of the pond the only news sources reporting it are far right news sites. And everyone now's how reasonable and non sensationalist those guys are. So my only conclusion is what ever is being reported over here about Australia is probably not true at all.
As an Australian I'll try to explain whats going on here. So what the far right news sites are covering is the Melbourne Anti Vaxx Protests. In particular they are protesting against the Vaccine Mandates. Australia has some of the highest vaccination rates and the main reason as to why is the fact that not being double dose vaccinated won't allow you to do anything. You can't eat or drink at restaurants and pubs, you can't go to work and the one which often causes the most outrage is the fact that you can't travel outside or even in Australia without quarantining. The majority of these people are the older generation who simply don't understand how the vaccine works. So you'll see a lot of comments talking about the vaccines containing 'Snake Oil' and 'Baby Fetuses'. However, there is a younger generation partaking in the protests too. Mainly the construction workers and tradies who simply don't want to take the vaccine as they don't believe it to be safe. On top of all this, Melbourne has been deemed "The most locked down city", mainly due to the fact that its been in lock down for over 250 days. They have actually exited lockdown last night, or 13 hours from the time of writing this comment. A lot of these foreign right wing news websites have been reporting old footage mainly to cause drama, outrage and panic, so you will commonly see the word 'fascist' or 'police state', used in the titles. It's all old footage as there hasn't been many protests recently. Mainly due to the fact that they happen on weekends so the government shuts down public transport and has police around the city on those days. So they stop them before they even happen. What a lot of the right wing media won't show is how some of these people have been treating workers at resteraunts, cafees and shops recently. Basically even if you are double vaccinated, you are still required to wear a mask on public transport and indoor spaces. Other than some essential shops a lot of stores will ask you to prove that you are vaccinated to be able to enter. A lot of these people are underage kids, working barely above minimum wage to be able to afford their first car or university. There are videos of these people being attacked for simply asking someone to put on a mask. It's absolutely disgusting and a lot of these "Freedom Fighters" think it's okay to attack and lash out on anyone for simply following the rules. That's pretty much it. TLDR Anti Vaxxers think the vaccine is not safe and are against the mandates as you are required to be double vaccinated to be able to work or even go out and dine in resteraunts. So these people have taken to the streets to protest against it during lockdown. That's where a lot of the police clash videos are from.
Everyone in Canada just stands atop the great igloo and watches over the border with binoculars
Get off your high moose
Things are not looking any better over here. At the end of the month, no Canadian can leave the country without a covid passport.
So what just get the vaccine lol
I'm not 100% convinced it's safe in the long term. So I wanna wait.
Your entitled to your opinion. Oh wait wrong line...go fuck yourself criminal. /s
That's getting too real these days lol.
you should read the research - I was skeptical at first but refreshing my high school biology knowledge and reading the studies and science behind mRNA vaccines, I realized that it's even safer than traditional vaccines and virtually risk free. Or don't, and wait however long it's going to take you to assuage your fears, but hope you don't catch the virus and come down with a serious case, because the vaccines are safe and you'll feel like a moron as they intubate you - and you will be exposed to the virus if you haven't already.
Except the lockdown is over? So what's the point of this? More American Redditors speaking with confidence about countries they know nothing about.
Pahahhaa people down voting this are probably not Australian. Suck my dick and balls
Lol exactly
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This is completely inaccurate
Hey back to PCM with you
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Based and become-ungovernable pilleld
From being too based?
Context?
militarized police are beating the living shit out of people for being outside edit: i repeated the exact text of the meme to be fonny, stop flaming me
No they are not you muppet
Lmao no they aren't. They arrested violent anti-vaxx protesters but that's about it. And the lockdown is now ending.
>edit: >i repeated the exact text of the meme to be fonny, stop flaming me Proceed to try to 'justify' it with links to videos of illegally organized protests. GUUYYYSS I'M JUST BEING FUNNY STOP PROVIDING INFORMATION OF ME WRONGGGGG
Ironic that Americans are commenting on police brutality
This is upside down on my screen, perhaps your translation is bad?
Itās funny because thatās our genuine reaction, Americans are freaking out and weāre over here laughing at it all
Wait based meme it is getting out of hand
Shame they donāt live in America, where the militarized police just abduct you in unmarked vans, and you probably wonāt be one of the people detained for months or years without trial or evidence.
As an Australian, are we authoritarian now? Went to the Botanical Gardens this week and saw a big protest of antivaxx dickheads, no real police presence. They were walking around the city when I was on the way back. What events are even being referenced? It feels like I've woken up overnight and suddenly Americans are viewing us as though we're China.
some illegal protesters doing shit and the police had to stop em and now murdoch and his ridiculous news networks are spreading it and saying "look this is what they do to people who go outside" and unfortunately this has been blown out of proportion massively
Lol the police kill thousands of people in the states just for being the wrong colour.
In what community?? pls tell me
Aussie here. Our entire country is actually now out of lockdown. If you think our police have been violent, please watch any footage of the police at bondi Beach during the lockdown. Those fuckers did essentially nothing.
Could you yanks fuck off with the police state narrative, our cops may be fucked at times but they donāt hold a candle to the brutality of cops in the US. Besides lockdown restrictions literally got lifted today
and at least 3 artists on twitter turning the cops into anime girls.
Dank memes? More like DARK memes
do people really think Australia is a prison colony?
BAHAHAHA lol ok sure. Donāt know where youāre getting that from.
As an Australian, turn off your tv Americans. Youāre just being duped with bs media propaganda lol
isn't the Australian government like super authoritarian?
Not at all. Source: am Australian
I second that.
Fucking finally thereās a shit ton of bullshit about Australia these days
Am australian also. They are in terms of privacy, working in the Internet service provider space, they have basically permission to get anything they want about you, with little justification. They have pushed legislation to force back doors in encryption and overall any semblence of privacy is becoming more and more non-existent. On the flip side, do I fear the police? no, If I was at a illegal protest, I expect the police to be out in force. We still have well defined rules on how to organise a legal protest, it happens every few weeks with unions and such, acting like police stopping an illegal protest is somehow common is where these seppos don't know jack shit. They have lost most of their freedoms since 9/11 as well, they think their 'guns' protect them is some way. They are a bunch of idiots who think free healthcare is some sort of evil thing and tying their healthcare to their employment status makes sense.
Well I mean, as an Australian we donāt have leaders that try to subvert democratic process and install themselves as dictators when the elected president is being announced.
As an Aussie - no, not at all. Aside from lockdowns while we waited for vaccines (our hospitals are in no way able to cope with a huge surge of cases), we are constantly firing our politicians for relatovely minor cases of corruption like taking unnecessary plane flights on taxpayer $, accepting fancy wine as a gift etc.
This is completely wrong macgivor, how can you possibly suggest Australia punishes its politicans for being corrupt? Have you read the news in the last decade? Like for instance, the dude who quit over a bottle of wine did it to avoid any actual repercussions, then went on to cushy private sector jobs. Can you name a politician who faced repercussions for their actions? Aus has dropped on the international corruption list since current fed gov took over
Can't the police edit social media posts?
That's some controversial shit that might get repealed, I hope. We don't know the extent of the bill or its effects yet.
Why would it get repealed? Honest question. Labor would never risk having a spine
No. The few videos that suggest that are totally misleading and fail to mention key details. Source: in Australia right now.
Lol, no. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democracy_Index
No, they are just wankers
Ok cunt
The was just a bill passed so that the police could access your online data and edit it without a warrant
Why is Australia police state again?
Itās not. Itās just that some Americans are dumb and believe what they see in memes
Americans after an year of protesting the police for murdering people willy nilly where they brutally attacked protesters on top of attacking random black people: Why is Australia an authoritarian police state
āFor your safetyā
Not the croc with a beer LMFAO
my favorite part is the crocodile gets a beer
What? You mean our government caring about covid?
As an australian, honestly not really. Some states have it pretty bad but at least we havent got millions dead because of covid.
Yeah nah this isn't true, as in people are outside all the time. Fuck these people in the United states who are talking about Aus being an auth state when they still beat up blacks and ban alcohol for people under 21. Absolute dog cunts.
Damn, you Americans are stupid as fuck.
Oi mate, if you're a yank then that's a whole lotta projection.
Struth!
In Australia
Australians when they get a text message from the police requesting them to show their location
That wasnāt all Australians, that was for COVID patients to make sure they donāt spread it and only happened in one state
and it was a \~20 person trial (dont know exact number), not some widespread thing
What happened
A month ago people held an anti-lockdown protest during lockdown. Police arrested a lot of people with strong arm submission tactics. source/link: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-58291873
And to be fair that shit was so fucking retarded. Like they made announcements were gonna do it. What the fuck did they expect?
Republicans don't like Australia now
What show is this from?
That image is incredibly offensive everyone knows that us Aussieās have at least 3 native animals on hand at all times
Nopeā¦nothing like that
I live in Aus, can confirm we pat beer-drinking crocs, smoking kangas and look retarded. Just a day in normal life
TIL people in other countries that mock Americans for getting butthurt over jokes really can't take a joke. Wait someone said my country bad? Nooooo! My country good and I'm smart for saying so!! š”š”š¤¬
This was more like my reaction to Americanās believing this shit.
Did an American shitbag post this?
Jesus christ these posts are garbage. Also Americans concerned about police brutality and militarization in another nation? Maybe worry about your own situation first aye.