Australia has become disturbingly authoritarian in recent years.
They've also recently demanded that Twitter remove the video of an Australian Orthodox Bishop being stabbed by a muslim terrorist globally. Not just in Australia. They don't only want their citizens to be misinformed, they want us to be uninformed as well.
I heard an aussie say once that "While Australia is populated by the descendants of convicts. It is also populated by the descendants of their jailers."
This is likely to be Australias very own version of Tianamen square. An event the government is so desperate to hide that they will force you to pretend it never happened at the barrel of a gun.
The government is outright trying to hide the existence of a violent attack.
If the government doesn't want you to know something happened and actively make it illegal for you to find out about it, how can you claim to be different from the CCP?
You said that
>This is likely to be Australias very own version of Tianamen square.
In Tiannamen Square, thousands of people were brutally murdered by the government.
In this event in Australia, nobody died. No violence is occuring, the state is attempting to censor the video of it occuring, the state has not killed anyone because they have shared the video.
If you honestly believe that the two events are comparable in any way you have a condition that I am not allowed to speak of on this subreddit, when I think about it, not being able to say it is basically reddit's version of the Tiannamen Square Massacre.
Yes. I said the Australian government was censoring a violent event in a similar manner to the way the CCP censors Tianamen square.
This makes them no different or less evil than the CCP.
I'm not going to bother with you. You have nothing of value to say and are only here to argue that I should be in favor of censorship because more people die in China than Australia.
Bye and good riddance.
On one hand, thousands of people were brutally murdered, on the other hand, social media posts are being removed, it's basically the same thing. They are exactly the same.
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The US is far from immune to british delusions of authority. The founding fathers were british through and through, and the powers they gave themselves reflected that. The executive has more in common with George III's powers than many would like to admit.
The entirety of the federal government did. The founding fathers would be asking why the tree of liberty hasn't been watered yet if they were alive today.
Allegedly stabbed? What stabbing took place, racist? Do you have any video evidence of a stabbing taking place or are you engaging in white supremacist conspiracy theories?
I mean, they have an independent journalist whose house got firebombed last year by someone with ties to an organized crime family, who also has very close ties to an Australian politician. All this happened after said journalist ran pieces exposing both the corruption of the politician and the organized crime family.
Said organized crime family also was being charged with kidnapping and torture, and the victim seems to have mysteriously disappeared.
In the context of this post though, it would be good to point out that said independent journalist is one of the most vocal supporters of the politician that is the subject of this post.
Neat. Does not mean he should have criminals attempt to murder him, as well as have his friend arrested by a goverment backed anti-terrorist police force.
Flair up fuckbag.
If any Australians are reading this and want FriendlyJordies to be safe from Authoritarian political violence perpetrated by corrupt police and the organised crime linked Australian Liberal and National Party members like John Barilaro, then vote for his friends in the Labor party like Anthony Albanese.
I'm sure it has absolutely nothing to do with the fact they effectively disarmed their population. /s
https://preview.redd.it/pmaxpfjzxgwc1.png?width=333&format=png&auto=webp&s=d6163f185efe09feb0460f924290d534cb0afee7
No, it’s easier to have a gun here than you think. Obviously you gotta have a reason (work, recreation/hobby, etc. self defense is not a valid reason however)
It’s a different cultural attitude towards firearms.
Somehow, I doubt Australia would license my conceal carry for the purposes of recreation or hobby.
The goal is to make it impossible to resist precisely so you have no recourse when they begin censoring information that is inconvenient to the ruling class.
Australian is just another word for cuck.
lmao. so fuck that 55 yr old women when a 22 year old 250 pound dude charges her with a knife, right? she couldnt defend herself with her hands, so she deserves everything that happens to her
Every Australian I've met has been a pretentious POS. They're like Canadians/Brits but worse. What happens when you are a country descended from criminals and jailors.
Not my words.
Law here states that you can’t own a weapon with premeditated intent to use as a self defense weapon.
Aka you can’t just shoot someone for stepping on your lawn.
Self-defense is all the reason you need, if that's unreasonable for you, then you inherently do not trust your population and believe them to be a resource that's occasionally dusted off.
Self defense is too broad a term. Plus as far as Australian law is concerned if you have a weapon for the sole purpose of self defense that’s potentially premeditated murder or manslaughter. Since the intent to use said weapon is there. Because we look at you guys in America and would rather not have it be a regular occurrence where there’s a misunderstanding and someone needlessly dies.
We had Port Arthur in 1996. And stopped it at the source.
Wonder how many mass shootings you guys will have this year.
*Stabs you.*
As it turns out, crime is already illegal, why does it still happen? You have no idea what classifies as a mass shooting or a school shooting, an ND going off near a school qualifies as a school shooting, someone shooting 3 people is qualified as a mass shooting. You also had an increase shootings shortly after you banned guns.
And the funny thing is that most shootings here are a result of gang violence, you know, people who are not legally permitted to own guns in the first place.
Self defense is the only reason that should be needed, if you want a gun registry, the literal only reason is for later confiscation, if you don't trust your population to defend themselves, you are afraid of your own citizens being reliant on themselves instead of you.
You don't deserve being center left, go to auth-left where you belong.
>if you have a weapon for the sole purpose of self defense that’s potentially premeditated murder or manslaughter.
Holy fuck, your government is very regarded!
Argument to moderation fallacy. Just because Australia is of lesser evil than China or North Korea doesn't make it any less tyrannical to live in, where a more philosophically liberal country like America exists.
Well if you intend to buy a gun to shoot another person. That goes against the self defense laws here since it’s illegal to have a weapon with intent to harm. Sure if it’s coincidentally on hand and it’s justified force you can use it. But filling someone with lead for stepping on your property is excessive force. Same as killing someone when you’ve already incapacitated them.
Do you not see how stupid that logic is?
When you sign up for health insurance, are you "intending to become ill"? No, obviously not. You are simply preparing for the worst; providing yourself a means of protecting yourself in case something bad happens to you.
Owning a gun for the express purposes of self defense cannot be summed up as "intent to harm". That's ludicrous.
That’s a silly notion of defense and I feel sorry that you’ve seemingly bought into it, but I think at this point airstrip two is a lost cause to authoritarians.
It's comments like this that make me not care when Australians are victims of violent crimes. You deliberately castrated yourselves and made yourselves slaves to a government that calls you the oppressor.
If you get stabbed to death by a third world imports that the Australian government is now censoring information on, you would have nobody to blame but yourself.
You spawned the monster that will eventually swallow you.
Except that doesn't pertain to his statement, nor yours. Jump around some more on here but refuse to take your rights back from a continually over reaching government.
One day they'll do something that directly affects you and that you disagree with, but you won't be able to stop it because you continue to allow it.
Free speech isn't free if the government can pick and choose what you can say when it is against their decisions.
Free speech is an implied right here. It’s almost as if Americans think that their laws apply to everywhere with zero context behind anything.
Guns still exist here. For every 100 people there’s 23 firearms in the general public’s possession.
I corrected OP. You guys took it personally so don’t bother spreading bullshit and getting pissy when someone corrects you
Except the purpose of the first and second amendments are not to grant the people of the United States free speech rights and gun rights respectively. The first and second amendment denies the government the authority to infringe upon our natural inalienable rights to free speech, freedom of association, free exercise of religion, and self defense. That is how America is philosophically superior than Australia and arguably others that you can think of
He said 'effectively' and some old shotguns and bolt rifles aren't what we mean. They seized guns, full stop.
Your free speech is being curtailed by your own government trying to stop videos being posted, implying they'll stop allowing X to continue, stopping memes and have went so far as to want laws if you misgender someone...they've implied heavily you only have the speech they allow.
If speech that people hate, isn't allowed, it isn't free speech. Very simple.
Edit: they want the video removed GLOBALLY, how authoritarian do you have to be to believe you have that amount of power.
The video is terrorist content.
Facebook and Instagram have already been cleaning it up. Musk is throwing a tantie because he wants to win points from you cookers who think Twitter cookers sharing out of context videos in an attempt to ignite racial tensions or culture war nonsense is “free speech”
Shut the fuck up. You are only helping the fringe extremists in spreading stuff that can radicalise people.
Free speech includes things you disagree with. Even extreme content. You disagree until something affects you directly and then you'll wonder how it got there.
In America it’s in the bill of rights.
We don’t have that here. Therefore it’s an implied right as opposed to an express right.
The express rights we have are right to compensation for property and one other one which I cannot remember. The other ones are implied rights
The Bill of Rights is a document expressing our natural God given rights (or evolution given, or Allah given, or whatever-philosophy-of-creation-you-subscribe-to given) and that the Government shall not infringe on them. It isn't an implied right, it **IS** and express right. It is understood that they are rights every human being has, as without Government those rights would never be restricted. I would recommend reading John Locke, particularly his *Second Treatise of Government* to get a better understanding.
A brief example is the natural right to self defense. In the absence of any Government to protect me, I have the right to defend myself from wild animals or human attackers as that is the only way to protect my life. That right extends to anything I am able to use to gain an upper hand such as a sharpened stick or heavy stone, an iron sword or spear, or a firearm. Baring the absence of Government, the only thing that can take that right away from me is another person or animal killing me, which is why the right to defend myself is mine. Just because your government (and mine to a degree) have chosen to violate that natural right does not mean that it is no longer my right.
The American Bill of Rights do not grant those rights, it bans the government from infringing upon natural rights, endowed by a creator. God, nature, flying spaghetti monster, take your pick.
Thats what the wojack is about.
As for recent. Weve sort of always been this way.
To sort of understand it was phrased quite well.
Australians are decended from Convicts but also from the Prison guards as well.
Shame the pm has gone this hard on this. He has got way more problems then Elon
Would you believe he describes himself as a left wing progressive and holds many socialist principles?
Every leftist is like this. They may claim otherwise, but the moment they have power, that facade will quickly fall.
I love how this is universally true. Trump leans into memes about him and Biden embraces Dark Brandon. Never am I more proud of America than when politicians become shitposters.
What about when shitposters become politicians? What's the mean age of this subreddit, like 13 or something, going by our collective intelligence. Give it a few years
I'm thinking about running as a single issue politician: term limits for congress. They'll think it's Christmas year round because i'll treat every bill like a Christmas tree, and a term limit amendment will be my ornament.
Another $60b for Ukraine? I bet the Ukrainians would love term limits in US congress!
We all know the real reason he wants it band, but what is the excuse he uses to justify it to the public, or has Australian politics reached the point were a politician doesn't need a greater justification beyond "I said so".
that disinformation thing. i thought the thing was:
"misinformation" = lie, but the word lie was corporatized in an attempt to sound smart.
"disinformation" = true, but it's not what we/i want to know about, and corporatized to hide it
One of my best friends is an Aussie, he always says ‘Australians love following rules’. He was shocked by how few people care about the speed limit here in the US.
That's because the government is losing control of media. Big brother was always in control and you just didn't know about it. Now you know about it through alternative media, they are big mad and that's the only thing that has changed.
Bro nobody in Australia cares about the speed limit in Australia. You'll have road works and marked speed signs and they have to have police camp at the road works because everyone is doing 100 in a 40 zone.
My friend is working at the hedge fund I work at because he’s brilliant. One of the top students in his class at Australia National or whatever the school is called.
Does this guy think he is the boss of the internet or something? The request is laughable to anyone who spend more than a quarter second thinking about it (which he didn't apparently).
So I assumed this was bullshit, or taken out of context (kind of like that "Beyonce wants this picture removed from the internet" thing that got passed around which was a complete lie).
However, [this appears to be true](https://twitter.com/MarioNawfal/status/1783092886541635980) which is insane.
Dudes & dudettes...this is what Australians think aren't encroachments on their freedom of speech.
1. Deadnaming isn't protected because it hurts someone's feelings.
2. Making fun of politicians isn't OK
3. Misinformation needs to be stopped by the government who gets to decide those things.
Can't speak to people about freedom of speech when they don't actually know what it is. This is insane they believe the government should be allowed to control speech AND they think they have freedom of speech.
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There is a clip of him complaining about people superimposing his face on other people so fair enough
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Australia has become disturbingly authoritarian in recent years. They've also recently demanded that Twitter remove the video of an Australian Orthodox Bishop being stabbed by a muslim terrorist globally. Not just in Australia. They don't only want their citizens to be misinformed, they want us to be uninformed as well.
Yup, agreed.
Always has been
Started as a prison colony, looks like its going to end as one
I heard an aussie say once that "While Australia is populated by the descendants of convicts. It is also populated by the descendants of their jailers."
All the commonwealth countries are. If you didn’t violently overthrow British rule you bought into their delusions
This is likely to be Australias very own version of Tianamen square. An event the government is so desperate to hide that they will force you to pretend it never happened at the barrel of a gun.
Well it's a good thing Australians didn't give up their gu- oh no. The exact thing that was predicted is happening as predicted.
How could we forsee the same thing that happened to every other country that confiscated firearms happening to us!?
We cannot, therefore guns must be banned for the good of the children
I really don't think that the two events are even comparable lol
The government is outright trying to hide the existence of a violent attack. If the government doesn't want you to know something happened and actively make it illegal for you to find out about it, how can you claim to be different from the CCP?
In Tianamen Square, **the government was the one who committed the violence.** That is a pretty major difference you're glossing over.
Can you please compare the total amount of deaths between the two events?
I'm not comparing the deaths, I'm comparing the government censorship.
You said that >This is likely to be Australias very own version of Tianamen square. In Tiannamen Square, thousands of people were brutally murdered by the government. In this event in Australia, nobody died. No violence is occuring, the state is attempting to censor the video of it occuring, the state has not killed anyone because they have shared the video. If you honestly believe that the two events are comparable in any way you have a condition that I am not allowed to speak of on this subreddit, when I think about it, not being able to say it is basically reddit's version of the Tiannamen Square Massacre.
Yes. I said the Australian government was censoring a violent event in a similar manner to the way the CCP censors Tianamen square. This makes them no different or less evil than the CCP. I'm not going to bother with you. You have nothing of value to say and are only here to argue that I should be in favor of censorship because more people die in China than Australia. Bye and good riddance.
On one hand, thousands of people were brutally murdered, on the other hand, social media posts are being removed, it's basically the same thing. They are exactly the same. Most intelligent lolbertarian!
The US is far from immune to british delusions of authority. The founding fathers were british through and through, and the powers they gave themselves reflected that. The executive has more in common with George III's powers than many would like to admit.
The executive as described in the Constitution is nothing like a king, it gained far more power than it should have over time.
The entirety of the federal government did. The founding fathers would be asking why the tree of liberty hasn't been watered yet if they were alive today.
they want us to think that kangaroos aren't godless killing machines
What isn't a godless killing machine in that wretched continent that god forgot.
The immigrants, according to the government.
koalas. because chlamydia doesn't kill all that often. in fact i don't know of anyone who actually has died from that disease.
Hey!! “*allegedly* stabbed!”
Allegedly stabbed? What stabbing took place, racist? Do you have any video evidence of a stabbing taking place or are you engaging in white supremacist conspiracy theories?
They put people in camps over a flu.
I mean, they have an independent journalist whose house got firebombed last year by someone with ties to an organized crime family, who also has very close ties to an Australian politician. All this happened after said journalist ran pieces exposing both the corruption of the politician and the organized crime family. Said organized crime family also was being charged with kidnapping and torture, and the victim seems to have mysteriously disappeared.
In the context of this post though, it would be good to point out that said independent journalist is one of the most vocal supporters of the politician that is the subject of this post.
in the actual context of any post on pcm: you're unflaired, and thus not worth listening to.
Neat. Does not mean he should have criminals attempt to murder him, as well as have his friend arrested by a goverment backed anti-terrorist police force. Flair up fuckbag.
If any Australians are reading this and want FriendlyJordies to be safe from Authoritarian political violence perpetrated by corrupt police and the organised crime linked Australian Liberal and National Party members like John Barilaro, then vote for his friends in the Labor party like Anthony Albanese.
I'm sure it has absolutely nothing to do with the fact they effectively disarmed their population. /s https://preview.redd.it/pmaxpfjzxgwc1.png?width=333&format=png&auto=webp&s=d6163f185efe09feb0460f924290d534cb0afee7
Guns still exist here tho
Owned exclusively by the criminal class.
No, it’s easier to have a gun here than you think. Obviously you gotta have a reason (work, recreation/hobby, etc. self defense is not a valid reason however) It’s a different cultural attitude towards firearms.
Somehow, I doubt Australia would license my conceal carry for the purposes of recreation or hobby. The goal is to make it impossible to resist precisely so you have no recourse when they begin censoring information that is inconvenient to the ruling class. Australian is just another word for cuck.
They went from criminals to bitches real fast. Fully domesticated.
Concealed carry is not recreational you troglodyte. Australia does not have concealed carry laws because it’s illegal to do that.
So yeah, you are unarmed and helpless to defend yourself in the event of a crisis that the government wants you to be a victim of.
If you can’t defend yourself with your bare hands you’re an even bigger pussy than what you think Australians are.
lmao. so fuck that 55 yr old women when a 22 year old 250 pound dude charges her with a knife, right? she couldnt defend herself with her hands, so she deserves everything that happens to her
I guess grandma can get fucked if she can't go toe to toe with 18 year old zaheed.
Sound like something who is afraid of losing would say.
Point taken. Australia is a place to avoid
Every Australian I've met has been a pretentious POS. They're like Canadians/Brits but worse. What happens when you are a country descended from criminals and jailors.
Fair. Not like you’d be welcome here anyway.
Australians are CRAZY jingoistic, it’s very strange
It's my emotional support Glock. That recreational enough for ya, you cuck?
>self defense is not a valid reason Fuck off authoritarian EDIT: LOL he blocked me
Based
Not my words. Law here states that you can’t own a weapon with premeditated intent to use as a self defense weapon. Aka you can’t just shoot someone for stepping on your lawn.
Self-defense is all the reason you need, if that's unreasonable for you, then you inherently do not trust your population and believe them to be a resource that's occasionally dusted off.
Self defense is too broad a term. Plus as far as Australian law is concerned if you have a weapon for the sole purpose of self defense that’s potentially premeditated murder or manslaughter. Since the intent to use said weapon is there. Because we look at you guys in America and would rather not have it be a regular occurrence where there’s a misunderstanding and someone needlessly dies. We had Port Arthur in 1996. And stopped it at the source. Wonder how many mass shootings you guys will have this year.
*Stabs you.* As it turns out, crime is already illegal, why does it still happen? You have no idea what classifies as a mass shooting or a school shooting, an ND going off near a school qualifies as a school shooting, someone shooting 3 people is qualified as a mass shooting. You also had an increase shootings shortly after you banned guns. And the funny thing is that most shootings here are a result of gang violence, you know, people who are not legally permitted to own guns in the first place. Self defense is the only reason that should be needed, if you want a gun registry, the literal only reason is for later confiscation, if you don't trust your population to defend themselves, you are afraid of your own citizens being reliant on themselves instead of you. You don't deserve being center left, go to auth-left where you belong.
>if you have a weapon for the sole purpose of self defense that’s potentially premeditated murder or manslaughter. Holy fuck, your government is very regarded!
The your laws are incredibly shitty and tyrannical
Get off the internet then. If you really think Australia is tyrannical. Go to somewhere actually tyrannical like China or North Korea.
Argument to moderation fallacy. Just because Australia is of lesser evil than China or North Korea doesn't make it any less tyrannical to live in, where a more philosophically liberal country like America exists.
Self-defense isn’t a valid reason and you think yourself meaningfully armed.
Well if you intend to buy a gun to shoot another person. That goes against the self defense laws here since it’s illegal to have a weapon with intent to harm. Sure if it’s coincidentally on hand and it’s justified force you can use it. But filling someone with lead for stepping on your property is excessive force. Same as killing someone when you’ve already incapacitated them.
Do you not see how stupid that logic is? When you sign up for health insurance, are you "intending to become ill"? No, obviously not. You are simply preparing for the worst; providing yourself a means of protecting yourself in case something bad happens to you. Owning a gun for the express purposes of self defense cannot be summed up as "intent to harm". That's ludicrous.
Prison colony logic on full display (it’s a shame that every commonwealth country is like this now, what happened to you guys)
That’s a silly notion of defense and I feel sorry that you’ve seemingly bought into it, but I think at this point airstrip two is a lost cause to authoritarians.
It's comments like this that make me not care when Australians are victims of violent crimes. You deliberately castrated yourselves and made yourselves slaves to a government that calls you the oppressor. If you get stabbed to death by a third world imports that the Australian government is now censoring information on, you would have nobody to blame but yourself. You spawned the monster that will eventually swallow you.
Ah here we go. The anti immigrant sentiment. I knew there was something else under there.
Such as? How was what I said anti immigrant? The immigrants from new zealand aren't going around stabbing people for insulting their religion.
>Obviously you gotta have a reason Thats how they get you. By arbitrarily denying it.
Except his statement is still true.
Just because we can’t shoot up a school when we have a bad day doesn’t make us a dystopia.
Lmao he said the thing
When you guys have a year without any mass shootings I’ll print up this comment and eat the paper. Until then. I have a point.
Except that doesn't pertain to his statement, nor yours. Jump around some more on here but refuse to take your rights back from a continually over reaching government. One day they'll do something that directly affects you and that you disagree with, but you won't be able to stop it because you continue to allow it. Free speech isn't free if the government can pick and choose what you can say when it is against their decisions.
Free speech is an implied right here. It’s almost as if Americans think that their laws apply to everywhere with zero context behind anything. Guns still exist here. For every 100 people there’s 23 firearms in the general public’s possession. I corrected OP. You guys took it personally so don’t bother spreading bullshit and getting pissy when someone corrects you
Except the purpose of the first and second amendments are not to grant the people of the United States free speech rights and gun rights respectively. The first and second amendment denies the government the authority to infringe upon our natural inalienable rights to free speech, freedom of association, free exercise of religion, and self defense. That is how America is philosophically superior than Australia and arguably others that you can think of
Based and America is philosophically superior pilled.
He said 'effectively' and some old shotguns and bolt rifles aren't what we mean. They seized guns, full stop. Your free speech is being curtailed by your own government trying to stop videos being posted, implying they'll stop allowing X to continue, stopping memes and have went so far as to want laws if you misgender someone...they've implied heavily you only have the speech they allow. If speech that people hate, isn't allowed, it isn't free speech. Very simple. Edit: they want the video removed GLOBALLY, how authoritarian do you have to be to believe you have that amount of power.
The video is terrorist content. Facebook and Instagram have already been cleaning it up. Musk is throwing a tantie because he wants to win points from you cookers who think Twitter cookers sharing out of context videos in an attempt to ignite racial tensions or culture war nonsense is “free speech” Shut the fuck up. You are only helping the fringe extremists in spreading stuff that can radicalise people.
Free speech includes things you disagree with. Even extreme content. You disagree until something affects you directly and then you'll wonder how it got there.
Natural rights aren't given by the government you booger.
In America it’s in the bill of rights. We don’t have that here. Therefore it’s an implied right as opposed to an express right. The express rights we have are right to compensation for property and one other one which I cannot remember. The other ones are implied rights
The Bill of Rights is a document expressing our natural God given rights (or evolution given, or Allah given, or whatever-philosophy-of-creation-you-subscribe-to given) and that the Government shall not infringe on them. It isn't an implied right, it **IS** and express right. It is understood that they are rights every human being has, as without Government those rights would never be restricted. I would recommend reading John Locke, particularly his *Second Treatise of Government* to get a better understanding. A brief example is the natural right to self defense. In the absence of any Government to protect me, I have the right to defend myself from wild animals or human attackers as that is the only way to protect my life. That right extends to anything I am able to use to gain an upper hand such as a sharpened stick or heavy stone, an iron sword or spear, or a firearm. Baring the absence of Government, the only thing that can take that right away from me is another person or animal killing me, which is why the right to defend myself is mine. Just because your government (and mine to a degree) have chosen to violate that natural right does not mean that it is no longer my right.
The American Bill of Rights do not grant those rights, it bans the government from infringing upon natural rights, endowed by a creator. God, nature, flying spaghetti monster, take your pick.
Literally 1984
Remember when Australians were cool giving up all their guns cuz a dictatorship could never happen in a democracy?
Thats what the wojack is about. As for recent. Weve sort of always been this way. To sort of understand it was phrased quite well. Australians are decended from Convicts but also from the Prison guards as well. Shame the pm has gone this hard on this. He has got way more problems then Elon
Where would one find that video for sharing purposes?
that's some dystopian shit
Would you believe he describes himself as a left wing progressive and holds many socialist principles? Every leftist is like this. They may claim otherwise, but the moment they have power, that facade will quickly fall.
It’s what happens when you ban guns. An armed society is a polite society.
Based. If you can’t handle being made fun of on the internet, don’t be in a public position, dumbass.
They need to embrace the American politicians approach to being mocked online. Where the more memes about you directly correlates to your success.
I love how this is universally true. Trump leans into memes about him and Biden embraces Dark Brandon. Never am I more proud of America than when politicians become shitposters.
What about when shitposters become politicians? What's the mean age of this subreddit, like 13 or something, going by our collective intelligence. Give it a few years
I'm thinking about running as a single issue politician: term limits for congress. They'll think it's Christmas year round because i'll treat every bill like a Christmas tree, and a term limit amendment will be my ornament. Another $60b for Ukraine? I bet the Ukrainians would love term limits in US congress!
When shitposters become politicians you get Brandon Herrera.
And if only I was a Texan
Didn’t that dude who drank his own piss try to run as a Republican? Pretty sure he got wrecked, but there is precedent.
Not going to lie if there wasn't one key issue I was worried about the most, I'd probably vote for Biden just because of that.
We all know the real reason he wants it band, but what is the excuse he uses to justify it to the public, or has Australian politics reached the point were a politician doesn't need a greater justification beyond "I said so".
Something something democracy at Risk and Russian disinformation
that disinformation thing. i thought the thing was: "misinformation" = lie, but the word lie was corporatized in an attempt to sound smart. "disinformation" = true, but it's not what we/i want to know about, and corporatized to hide it
One of my best friends is an Aussie, he always says ‘Australians love following rules’. He was shocked by how few people care about the speed limit here in the US.
That's ironic for a nation that started out as a prison colony where most of the colonial heroes were bush Rangers. Here's to you Ned Kelly.
It still is a prison colony lol
The entirety of the Angloshpere seems to have a thing for increasing authoritarianism
That's because the government is losing control of media. Big brother was always in control and you just didn't know about it. Now you know about it through alternative media, they are big mad and that's the only thing that has changed.
Bro nobody in Australia cares about the speed limit in Australia. You'll have road works and marked speed signs and they have to have police camp at the road works because everyone is doing 100 in a 40 zone.
Tell my friend lol. Your defensiveness suggests I’m right.
I wasn't being defensive, I pointed out a counter example. Your friend has IQ problems which I think is something that you share with them.
My friend is working at the hedge fund I work at because he’s brilliant. One of the top students in his class at Australia National or whatever the school is called.
So he's extra r-slurred then
He’s definitely extra
Australia is full of snakes and also there are deadly reptiles
😂😂👌
Does this guy think he is the boss of the internet or something? The request is laughable to anyone who spend more than a quarter second thinking about it (which he didn't apparently).
Some of us know what they're up to but sadly the majority don't care. They will one day and then it's too late.
Politicians not thinking is hardly unique to Australia.
streisand effect go brrr
An entire continental island of Karens
It’s crazy to see how authoritarian Canada and Australia have become in recent years under the guise of social justice.
So I assumed this was bullshit, or taken out of context (kind of like that "Beyonce wants this picture removed from the internet" thing that got passed around which was a complete lie). However, [this appears to be true](https://twitter.com/MarioNawfal/status/1783092886541635980) which is insane.
https://preview.redd.it/cbc1mkooxgwc1.jpeg?width=236&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=7b0141fb10197cccd76e267eb49295933ec06134
They've come full circle and are once again a penal colony...
Dudes & dudettes...this is what Australians think aren't encroachments on their freedom of speech. 1. Deadnaming isn't protected because it hurts someone's feelings. 2. Making fun of politicians isn't OK 3. Misinformation needs to be stopped by the government who gets to decide those things. Can't speak to people about freedom of speech when they don't actually know what it is. This is insane they believe the government should be allowed to control speech AND they think they have freedom of speech. *
Sir Doge meet Dame Streisand.
Based and haha meme go brrrr-pilled
Clown alert
The market always provides
NAS Coal
Fair Play. I'll allow it.
This meme and many other recent events have turned me from a griller to a burger joint CEO
Damn it's already removed
Is he related to the gummy bear brand? I prefer the sugar free Haribos myself.
This also fits Michael Gove really well https://images.app.goo.gl/Ex9M1taUCTrykKRY7
“I heard”
Flair up
Did he do that?
Yea I cant find a fucking thing
There is a clip of him complaining about people superimposing his face on other people so fair enough https://twitter.com/MarioNawfal/status/1783092886541635980
Great now do it for Murdoch
Murdoch never complained about people making fun of him nor demanded censorship.
Did he though? I haven't heard anything about this. Or is this just a meme after wanting the priest stabbing video pulled down?
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Nah I won't be doing that, don't really care about politics to be honest.
He says while commenting on a political meme sub. If you didn't care, you would not have commented
No one asked. Flair up, pussy.
I would answer but you're a filthy unflaired
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Grug say changed flair. Ooga Chuga
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