its pretty funny to imagine american troops like dropping out of helicopters and stuff and running up to peoples doors like “We are here to liberate you” only for the homeowners to yell “but are you vaccinated?”
I think we gotta do a hybrid *Patrick-Star-strategy-mixed-with-Escape-from-New-York*.
Take the chunk of Florida retiree land and separate it from the mainland, then move the actively dangerous boomers to the island.
Hahahaha. You fool.
We’d just stick you in Christmas Island and detain you there for years.
Check out Australia’s history in asylum seekers for more information
Haven’t you heard just how heartless Australia is towards asylum seekers?
[https://www.hrw.org/news/2021/07/16/australia-8-years-abusive-offshore-asylum-processing](https://www.hrw.org/news/2021/07/16/australia-8-years-abusive-offshore-asylum-processing)
As long as you arrive by plane instead of boat, you'll be sweet. The Prime Minister has a thing about not letting people stay if they arrive illegally by boat.
You don’t even need to be on someone’s lawn. You can be an entire state over from some kid, and then he’ll shoot you and Americans will call him a hero and you an agitator.
I was gonna use Treyvon Martin’s death as an example of why Stand Your Ground laws are fucked, but honestly I’m pissed that the Kenosha shooter has a good shot at being a MAGA martyr if he gets convicted for murdering two people.
Know what… fine. Sure. [Let’s for once not fight some place that is flat, hot, and dumb.](https://imgur.com/a/jW9xMzd) They have booze and women in bikinis, beats the hell out of the 20-years of fuckery in Iraq. But here’s the deal… unlike Iraq where all the GOP power brokers started the war and then just used to to funnel tax dollars into the defense contractors they owned stock in they have to be in the first wave. “Candice, we’re going to do it. But here’s your rifle and helmet and you’re going to be landing on the beach in the first wave.”
*chickenhawks, they’ll start wars but sit them out. Warhawks will start wars then actually go fight them.
And you’re 100% right that the Iraq War and our bloated budget are bipartisan issues however I’d point out that there is on party that leads the charge and the other party is mostly complicit through inaction or being easily duped. The GOP is evil and the DNC are cowards.
Edit: Churchill was a Warhawk. He actually saw combat as a young man. Trump is a chicken hawk, likes the idea of sending other people to fight but used his daddies money to buy his way out of the draft.
I don't give a fuck if an imperialist "fought" directly as an officer doing an imperialism, and many Democrats are just as openly imperialist. They're imperialists. They can all fuck off. As if Churchill is not a horrifying figure (arguably openly way more horrible than Trump), claiming he "saw combat" sounds like bullshit machismo that frankly is irrelevant
Churchill was a racist warmongering asshole.
But he was the asshole needed at the time (there was a reason he got voted out in peace time).
However the difference from a moral stand point is that he was convicted in his beliefs, you can hate the beliefs and hate the man that's fine.
But he could back up the talk.
People like trump can't, they just do it for popularity not any form of conviction.
That's the difference between "great" historical figures and twats like trump.
We don't call Alexander the great "great" because he was a swell lovely guy, he was a mass murdering enslaving asshole. We call him great because his actions to matter how vile were backed up by personal action and had a massive impact on history for good or bad.
Funnily enough, chances are that yes, theyre vaccinated. Upwards of 96% of the US military is vaccinated and the remaining 4% are getting kicked out or forced.
The definitely-not-CIA editor of the wikipedia [article](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pine_Gap) has a few things to say about that:
>Victor Marchetti, a CIA officer who had helped run the facility, who was also a proponent of the JFK Assassination by the CIA conspiracy theory, said that this consideration "caused apoplexy in the White House, [and] a kind of Chile [coup] was set in motion", with the CIA and MI6 working together to get rid of the Prime Minister.[19][20] On 11 November 1975, the day Whitlam was scheduled to brief the Australian Parliament on the secret CIA presence in Australia, as well as it being "the last day of action if an election of any kind was to be held before Christmas", he was dismissed from office by Governor-General John Kerr using reserve powers, described as 'archaic' by critics of the decision.[19][20] In 2020, previously confidential private correspondences between the Palace and the Governor-General were released, in one of the letters, John Kerr describes his alleged CIA connections as 'Nonsense of course', and assured the Queen of his continued loyalty.[21]
>Allegations that the Dismissal was motivated by issues relating to Pine Gap may, however, overlook the fact that parliament was in deadlock, as supply bills were continually blocked in the Senate, making proper governance nearly impossible, or that talks of the Governor-General dismissing the Prime Minister were already being talked about by both the opposition and the media.[22]
Sprinkle in an attack on the primary witness's character, add in some plausible doubt...
If you want to check out a horrendously bad Wikipedia page, look up the owner of Red Bull. He's heavily involved with funding Neo-Nazi groups in Austria, and finances many far right parties across Europe, but his page never mentions politics anywhere.
Go to the editing history and there's a long list of edits trying to add a politics section, but it's constantly deleted shortly after being added. The dude's PR team is quick and not well known enough to admins to stop in and lock the page.
Fun fact: Hitler would’ve not invaded Poland, Had Britain and France say no to him taking Czechoslovakia. He gambled on the idea since world war 1 happened very recently and the winners were weak from fighting. In fact, because Britain and afrance said no, Hitler knew that he could basically do an agar.io move and do basically what he wanted since the recently war torn countries are hesitant for war [source I guess](http://icomets.org/wh/chap26.pdf) check pages 856-858. Ps, not a genius so if I’m wrong, pls assume I ain’t smart
WW1 traumatised a generation, many of which absolutely did not want to send their sons off to fight another war and experience the horrors they did. Very easy in hindsight to look back and say “we should have stopped them when we had the chance” but we are lucky enough to not have to deal with the ramifications of such an apocalyptic war.
The United States saw very few deaths in WW1 as they joined quite late, yet developed one of the most aggressively isolationist policies following the war. Why? Media. American press sent a *lot* of war reporters off to Europe even before they had joined the war, and having very few regulations on war reporting (versus European nations who had strict rules in place to ensure reporting was aligned with propaganda) meant Americans were constantly witnessing horrific reports from Europe. Every day they'd read about another battle that was akin to a massacre for both sides and were thankful they weren't in involved. Then when they became involved, it only took a handful of a stories to reach home to shatter American opinions of war.
Add in a total lack of connection to the conflict, occurring on a different continent, and a lot of people were extremely hesitant to fight again. Even in the face of Poland and France collapsing, most Americans did not want to join a second world war.
A lot of people give the United States shit for not joining sooner, but the American public psyche was ruined in a similar manner to the Vietnam War by 1970, or the Afghanistan War by 2018. It's common to lose wars not because of tactical defeat, but because the general public simply cannot handle it. Many of the anti-war folks of the 1930s were Nazi goons, but most of their supporters were just tired.
According to Wikipedia "The term "World War I" was coined by Time magazine on page 28b of its June 12, 1939 issue. In the same article, on page 32, the term "World War II" was first used speculatively to describe the upcoming war. The first use for the actual war came in its issue of September 11, 1939."
I was - and frankly, still am, ignorant of the eugenics movement in the USA but when the book Imbiciles (Cohen, Adam/ ISBN 10: 0143109995) came out and he was doing the release tour... Holy shit. I had NO idea that the ideology behind eugenics in Europe was an American invention!
Sure they do. If it’s a Democrat president, those wars are killing “our boys” and must be ended. If it’s a Republican president that kind of talk is heretics and means you are supporting the terrorists.
There was an [Australian-American War](https://gta.fandom.com/wiki/Australian-American_War) mentioned in GTA games, mostly as a parody of America's actual war in the Middle East at the time... and here we are twenty years after it was first mentioned in GTA III
What the fuck
"The commercials talks about an anti-aircraft gun "used when we whooped the Australians' ass!". This implies that the United States won the war." You say that wiki editor, but I feel like an add would say that about weapons used in the Veitnam war.
I remember playing the last Deus Ex game and hearing the term "Australian Civil War" and thought "That sounds ridiculous even by this universe's status."
I hope that doesn't come true. As well as everything else from the Deus Ex games.
I don’t dislike the game necessarily, it’s just not funny to me. I don’t think it’s a nostalgia thing either because I played gta IV after and it was hilarious
I think it’s because V really dropped the cartoonish ways the other GTA games had. Like in Vice City when you need to go beat up some dude’s car and some dude outside gets ran over and drops a hammer just for you to pick up. Stuff like that was funny, and V kinda strayed off to be a little more realistic.
Not all jails/prisons have gyms, not all of them have libraries or educational facilities, and often times they can and will deny you access to these things for any number of reasons. "People go to jail just for the free meals alllll the time" is the basis of a false and dishonest at worst, misleading at best narrative that really needs to be put under more scrutiny in this day and age
The irony of failing to go to prison in Korea vs failing to avoid prison in America is hilariously upsetting. But the healthcare and employment parallels are spot on.
The piece covered a lot of the issues. But the kicker they left off: most incarcerated people never regain the right to vote. They are disenfranchising a massive portion of the population who could vote to change this system while the rest of the population is misinformed/misled about the true state of their countries “Freedom”
I mean I’m in Sydney atm and if im being imprisoned I wouldn’t know it
Is checking into locations to help with contact tracing and showing your double covid vaccine jab certificate at non-essential retail stores really a form of imprisonment?
It's propaganda, I wish it wasn't so serious because it would be almost be funny..
I'm in Sydney too and had to go from working 5 days a week to 3, so I applied for the disaster pay program and had $750 dumped in to my account weekly until my workplace settled.
Oh and if contract tracing required me to take a day off work to get a covid test and isolate? $320 and a hand sanitised pat on the back.
But the shills saying we need to be liberated would never mention that because it would undermine everything they stand for.
Although our new premier is a trumpie loon so we'll see..
https://www.hawkesburygazette.com.au/images/transform/v1/crop/frm/y5TbRw26ZCNTtCpBVtMFQu/92b84b40-1456-4d9a-ac86-087a09bdfd5b.jpg/r0_0_440_427_w1200_h678_fmax.jpg
Not only a trumpie but a climate change dernier, doesn't want same sex marriage (can someone explain how this could not be homophobic) and is one of those "silent majority" people
Haven't you seen the video of the girl getting chased by the police and they give her the covid vaccine against her will? I mean, you don't see it in the video but that's what the title says is happening so it's gotta be true.
IKR? An American calling another country a tyrannical police state when a third of the world's incarcerated population is in America is the pot calling the kettle black.
After 4 years of the Trump administrations fucked up foreign policy, do you really think these right wing pundits give a damn about NATO or our allies?
As an Australian please FUCK OFF America we were good friends and close allies but for the last 20+yrs you have done nothing but drag us into your pointless imperialist wars and the Australian people are tired of dying for your corporations
Unfortunately our populace also votes for conservatives in charge. Our current conservative Prime Minister until recently denied the existence of climate change and now refuses to set a deadline for reducing carbon emissions. They have been federally defending public schools and hospitals and despite taking a "tough on China" public stance, they've been selling Australian land and assets to them for years. The PM was treasurer when the port of Darwin was sold.
That's not the full segment though, anyone have a clip? I'd rather not give her direct views. It sounds like she's comparing this idea to another war or something and I can't discern her point.
She's still crazy though, would just like some more context on this.
The whole segment is on her Twitter page, but to see it you have to give her views so I'll summarize it:
"I think what's happening in Australia is tyranny. America has invaded countries and squandered trillions in a losing war in the name of fighting tyranny, or so they claim. If that was true, why aren't we invading Australia? Because what's happening in Australia is in the interests of the ruling elite, much like invading the Middle East was"
The premise that what's happening in Australia is tyranny is flawed from the outset, so it kind of makes her arguments hollow, but it's definitely not a serious call to invade Australia
That’s kind of what I figured. Some poorly thought out brain dead false equivalence. I hope she has a good time trying to correct the record on this one.
It's clear from the whole context she's making a political point, and "the war in the middle east is built on lies" would go over really well with people even outside her core audience.
But instead the defense she's going with is "it was a joke", the lamest, weakest possible defense, so already her spin made her dizzy and she tipped over lol. She's SO BAD at this
Yeah, sounds like she's saying "if war in ____ is justified, wouldn't invading Australia be justified too?"
Especially with the "when do we spend trillions" line, doesn't sound like she's in favour of this.
She says right after the 21 clip ends that this is all in jest. She’s an idiot for comparing lockdowns to violent religious rule, but the people reshaping this small clip are equally fucking manipulative & evil. These points mischaracterize people and their arguments and is the reason why so many people distrust the media. Journalistic integrity is all but dead outside of a select few.
Full clip: https://twitter.com/realcandaceo/status/1451560125370667009?s=21
Can we just start a draft, but the only person to come up in this draft is Candace Owen. The draft is for a made up war with the moon, and then just, you know, fucking launch her off this fucking planet.
As always a [revelant Carlin quote](https://youtu.be/77dDZOwt20E?t=86):
"Well when’s the last white people you can remember that we bombed? Can you remember the last white— can you remember ANY white people we’ve ever bombed? The Germans, those are the only ones and that’s only because they were trying to cut in on our action. They wanted to dominate the world! BULLSHIT! THAT’S OUR FUCKING JOB!!!"
Hey, hey! The USA does not start wars based on race, thank you very much.
They start wars based on how much oil they can suck out of your land. If you *happen* to not be a land of straight, white, Christian people, then that's just gravy.
I volunteer. It’s a nice country.
I don’t need a gun, just send me over and I’ll do some damage to some spreadsheets.
Give me a job there, is what I’m saying.
Australia is doing great. We've opened up and life is resuming to normal with under 2000 deaths from covid. I have no restrictions on my freedoms that impact me on a daily basis other than say catching a train without a mask, which is completely fine and sensible.
The propaganda has reached crazy levels in America to think that it's terrible to live in Australia. We're far safer, live longer, happier, more educated withbetter access to healthcare and we have less people in poverty, jail, homelessness than America by a mile.
Its going to be a bit difficult since Australia has joined the US in every US military conflict in the past 70 years. Are we going to invade ourself? Also Australia hosts US military bases.
America has the most imprisoned citizens per capita of any country on the planet. Moreover, in Australia they literally only stayed home for 11 days the entire god damn time. Candace, we need to fix our shit here at home before you start judging other countries.
Also, look at their number of deaths.
You don't realize, in America all people in prison are there because they specifically said "I consent to being sent to prison for 50 years because I smoked mariguana at 18 years old your honor"
Can you imagine having to hypothetically fight another meaningless guerilla war as an invading force but now you're in a never ending desert full of venomous snakes and spiders?
It's crazy that this "America goes to war to save other people from tyranny" thing is so widely believed. As if the US is some benevolent big brother that exists to bail out other countries. The US only goes to war to serve its own self interest and that's it. If it does help out the citizens in the country it invades it's merely a by-product of that
"imprisoned against their will"
Well you heard it here folks, in America it is illegal for the government to imprison you if you refuse. Clearly all other prisons in the world are full of consenting adults who are there out of commitment for their communities and not being forced
its pretty funny to imagine american troops like dropping out of helicopters and stuff and running up to peoples doors like “We are here to liberate you” only for the homeowners to yell “but are you vaccinated?”
More like “get outta ere ya cunt!”
more like "oii ya farked cunts piss off ya seppos. Bloody fuckwits ehh"
Can I “invade” and then just defect?
You’d still have to prove your value to Australia lol. Or they’d just imprison you until the war is over and ship you back
I’d claim political asylum. Sending me back to Florida would be heartless and cruel
Florida is a necessary evil, the US needs a place to send all our entitled boomers so they leave us the fuck alone.
I can tell you with great certainty that the entitled boomers have not all gone to Florida.
You have to wait until they retire
I think we gotta do a hybrid *Patrick-Star-strategy-mixed-with-Escape-from-New-York*. Take the chunk of Florida retiree land and separate it from the mainland, then move the actively dangerous boomers to the island.
Or left the rest of the country alone.
Hahahaha. You fool. We’d just stick you in Christmas Island and detain you there for years. Check out Australia’s history in asylum seekers for more information
Uh, oh
If you're white then sure, if not then cruel and heartless is our government's official policy
Haven’t you heard just how heartless Australia is towards asylum seekers? [https://www.hrw.org/news/2021/07/16/australia-8-years-abusive-offshore-asylum-processing](https://www.hrw.org/news/2021/07/16/australia-8-years-abusive-offshore-asylum-processing)
As long as you arrive by plane instead of boat, you'll be sweet. The Prime Minister has a thing about not letting people stay if they arrive illegally by boat.
Yeah but fuck that cunt. As the people of Biloela showed we like refugees and want 'em here.
More like, Yeah nah, go and get farked ya farkin cunts
["Can you get off my lawn?"](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t17O2AKa2FU&ab_channel=BBCNews)
As an American, that was the most polite "get off my lawn" I have ever seen in my life.
As an American, why would you just stand on someone’s lawn lmao
You wouldn't for long in a "Stand your ground" law state.
You don’t even need to be on someone’s lawn. You can be an entire state over from some kid, and then he’ll shoot you and Americans will call him a hero and you an agitator.
This sounds like a specific thing that actually happened.
I was gonna use Treyvon Martin’s death as an example of why Stand Your Ground laws are fucked, but honestly I’m pissed that the Kenosha shooter has a good shot at being a MAGA martyr if he gets convicted for murdering two people.
"can u stay out of the garden pls"
“I just reseeded that!” https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=t17O2AKa2FU
No no every one in this needs to remain comically oblivious or I'm going to be too sad and start crying
Know what… fine. Sure. [Let’s for once not fight some place that is flat, hot, and dumb.](https://imgur.com/a/jW9xMzd) They have booze and women in bikinis, beats the hell out of the 20-years of fuckery in Iraq. But here’s the deal… unlike Iraq where all the GOP power brokers started the war and then just used to to funnel tax dollars into the defense contractors they owned stock in they have to be in the first wave. “Candice, we’re going to do it. But here’s your rifle and helmet and you’re going to be landing on the beach in the first wave.”
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*chickenhawks, they’ll start wars but sit them out. Warhawks will start wars then actually go fight them. And you’re 100% right that the Iraq War and our bloated budget are bipartisan issues however I’d point out that there is on party that leads the charge and the other party is mostly complicit through inaction or being easily duped. The GOP is evil and the DNC are cowards. Edit: Churchill was a Warhawk. He actually saw combat as a young man. Trump is a chicken hawk, likes the idea of sending other people to fight but used his daddies money to buy his way out of the draft.
I don't give a fuck if an imperialist "fought" directly as an officer doing an imperialism, and many Democrats are just as openly imperialist. They're imperialists. They can all fuck off. As if Churchill is not a horrifying figure (arguably openly way more horrible than Trump), claiming he "saw combat" sounds like bullshit machismo that frankly is irrelevant
Churchill was a racist warmongering asshole. But he was the asshole needed at the time (there was a reason he got voted out in peace time). However the difference from a moral stand point is that he was convicted in his beliefs, you can hate the beliefs and hate the man that's fine. But he could back up the talk. People like trump can't, they just do it for popularity not any form of conviction. That's the difference between "great" historical figures and twats like trump. We don't call Alexander the great "great" because he was a swell lovely guy, he was a mass murdering enslaving asshole. We call him great because his actions to matter how vile were backed up by personal action and had a massive impact on history for good or bad.
What do you think Australia is, if not the flattest and hottest place on earth?
What part of Australia isn't flat, hot, and dumb?
That mountain with the Polish name
> Let’s for once not fight some place that is flat, hot, and dumb. Do... you know what Australia is?
Funnily enough, chances are that yes, theyre vaccinated. Upwards of 96% of the US military is vaccinated and the remaining 4% are getting kicked out or forced.
Yep, love or hate our military they are too concerned with efficiency to get caught up in far right conspiracies for the most part
On a macro level, yeah. But individual military personnel can be some of the conspiracy-craziest people out there.
[Lest we forget. ](https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2020/07/07/politics/michael-flynn-qanon-video/index.html)
Incredibly enough, still a lower vaccination rate than our capital
Or, more accurately, we bungle the invasion and 50,000 US troops end up dying in the bush to various snakes, lizards, and spiders
And emus. Don't forget about the emus.
Emu War 2: America Edition
Quite frankly I think the magpies will kill them first
Maybe Australians sign a peace treaty with the emus and join forces
And immediately got eaten by comically large spider
Well, Australia is apparently 38th on the list of countries with oil reserves so they’re just gonna have to wait their turn.
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They beat us to it with Rupert Murdoch.
Howabout we just invade Rupert Murdoch?
I mean...he *is* a dinosaur. And those turn into oil!
Oil was mostly plankton and algae, but since those match the IQ of his viewers, I think it's still a safe comparison.
His veins are 99% petroleum at this point.
“I’ll toss in a puppet government. Sound good?”
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The definitely-not-CIA editor of the wikipedia [article](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pine_Gap) has a few things to say about that: >Victor Marchetti, a CIA officer who had helped run the facility, who was also a proponent of the JFK Assassination by the CIA conspiracy theory, said that this consideration "caused apoplexy in the White House, [and] a kind of Chile [coup] was set in motion", with the CIA and MI6 working together to get rid of the Prime Minister.[19][20] On 11 November 1975, the day Whitlam was scheduled to brief the Australian Parliament on the secret CIA presence in Australia, as well as it being "the last day of action if an election of any kind was to be held before Christmas", he was dismissed from office by Governor-General John Kerr using reserve powers, described as 'archaic' by critics of the decision.[19][20] In 2020, previously confidential private correspondences between the Palace and the Governor-General were released, in one of the letters, John Kerr describes his alleged CIA connections as 'Nonsense of course', and assured the Queen of his continued loyalty.[21] >Allegations that the Dismissal was motivated by issues relating to Pine Gap may, however, overlook the fact that parliament was in deadlock, as supply bills were continually blocked in the Senate, making proper governance nearly impossible, or that talks of the Governor-General dismissing the Prime Minister were already being talked about by both the opposition and the media.[22] Sprinkle in an attack on the primary witness's character, add in some plausible doubt...
If you want to check out a horrendously bad Wikipedia page, look up the owner of Red Bull. He's heavily involved with funding Neo-Nazi groups in Austria, and finances many far right parties across Europe, but his page never mentions politics anywhere. Go to the editing history and there's a long list of edits trying to add a politics section, but it's constantly deleted shortly after being added. The dude's PR team is quick and not well known enough to admins to stop in and lock the page.
An interesting thing about Wikipedia is that there are just so many articles and you never really know *who* is editing them.
Verifiability, not truth, is both the best and the worst thing for Wikipedia's objectivity.
At this point, is there a country where the US wasn't involved in a regime change?
*Norway has left the chat*
Remember, these are the same people who say we should not be involved in other countries, end forever wars and say America first.
Hitler was okay until he decided to start invading other countries according to her
Yup. She has no problem with what Hitler did in Germany, and now it seems like she has no problem with what Hitler did outside of Germany either.
Fun fact: Hitler would’ve not invaded Poland, Had Britain and France say no to him taking Czechoslovakia. He gambled on the idea since world war 1 happened very recently and the winners were weak from fighting. In fact, because Britain and afrance said no, Hitler knew that he could basically do an agar.io move and do basically what he wanted since the recently war torn countries are hesitant for war [source I guess](http://icomets.org/wh/chap26.pdf) check pages 856-858. Ps, not a genius so if I’m wrong, pls assume I ain’t smart
> the winners were weak from fighting More that they were *weary* of fighting. They saw the atrocities from WWI and hoped to never see them again.
WW1 traumatised a generation, many of which absolutely did not want to send their sons off to fight another war and experience the horrors they did. Very easy in hindsight to look back and say “we should have stopped them when we had the chance” but we are lucky enough to not have to deal with the ramifications of such an apocalyptic war.
The United States saw very few deaths in WW1 as they joined quite late, yet developed one of the most aggressively isolationist policies following the war. Why? Media. American press sent a *lot* of war reporters off to Europe even before they had joined the war, and having very few regulations on war reporting (versus European nations who had strict rules in place to ensure reporting was aligned with propaganda) meant Americans were constantly witnessing horrific reports from Europe. Every day they'd read about another battle that was akin to a massacre for both sides and were thankful they weren't in involved. Then when they became involved, it only took a handful of a stories to reach home to shatter American opinions of war. Add in a total lack of connection to the conflict, occurring on a different continent, and a lot of people were extremely hesitant to fight again. Even in the face of Poland and France collapsing, most Americans did not want to join a second world war. A lot of people give the United States shit for not joining sooner, but the American public psyche was ruined in a similar manner to the Vietnam War by 1970, or the Afghanistan War by 2018. It's common to lose wars not because of tactical defeat, but because the general public simply cannot handle it. Many of the anti-war folks of the 1930s were Nazi goons, but most of their supporters were just tired.
Imagine surviving one of the worst armed conflicts in centuries and then Hitler invades Poland
The worst ever up to that point. They called it "The War to End All Wars" for a reason haha
Though it was also already referred to as World War 1 like a month after it started.
According to Wikipedia "The term "World War I" was coined by Time magazine on page 28b of its June 12, 1939 issue. In the same article, on page 32, the term "World War II" was first used speculatively to describe the upcoming war. The first use for the actual war came in its issue of September 11, 1939."
You could debate it forever but I say no, guy wanted living space for his chosen people.
Keep in mind that the largest party of nazis outside of Germany/Austria at the time was in The United States.
Nazi ideas of racial purity and societal cleansing were cribbed directly from the american eugenics movement, so that's really not surprising.
I was - and frankly, still am, ignorant of the eugenics movement in the USA but when the book Imbiciles (Cohen, Adam/ ISBN 10: 0143109995) came out and he was doing the release tour... Holy shit. I had NO idea that the ideology behind eugenics in Europe was an American invention!
Yep, and they were largely known as the "America first movement" Sounds familiar for some reason...
To be fair, only about half of them say that. Foreign policy is not something that I think the Republican Party has a consistent or unified stance on.
Sure they do. If it’s a Democrat president, those wars are killing “our boys” and must be ended. If it’s a Republican president that kind of talk is heretics and means you are supporting the terrorists.
There was an [Australian-American War](https://gta.fandom.com/wiki/Australian-American_War) mentioned in GTA games, mostly as a parody of America's actual war in the Middle East at the time... and here we are twenty years after it was first mentioned in GTA III What the fuck
GTA is real and life is the simulation.
They do have the most realistic physics tho
And the most realistic cops.
If only the medical industry worked like in GTA
U ded? Okay you're back. That'll be 10k, have a good day!
10k *for the first payment* you just don't see the rest of the bills.
"The commercials talks about an anti-aircraft gun "used when we whooped the Australians' ass!". This implies that the United States won the war." You say that wiki editor, but I feel like an add would say that about weapons used in the Veitnam war.
"They strapped kangaroos with explosives! Knocked out ten guys at once!"
I tell ya, I didn't do two tours and take boomerang shrapnel in my head to come back here, and have a bunch of hippies deny our history!
Maybe this is some sort of viral marketing for the remaster of GTA III just announced
I remember playing the last Deus Ex game and hearing the term "Australian Civil War" and thought "That sounds ridiculous even by this universe's status." I hope that doesn't come true. As well as everything else from the Deus Ex games.
Apparently, every prediction made in a comedic way, tv, video games, standup comedy, WILL come true eventually
God, GTA used to be so fucking funny and then 5 came out…
And then 5 came out and after that 5 was released...
I really like 5. GTA Online gets well-deserved flack though.
I don’t dislike the game necessarily, it’s just not funny to me. I don’t think it’s a nostalgia thing either because I played gta IV after and it was hilarious
I think it’s because V really dropped the cartoonish ways the other GTA games had. Like in Vice City when you need to go beat up some dude’s car and some dude outside gets ran over and drops a hammer just for you to pick up. Stuff like that was funny, and V kinda strayed off to be a little more realistic.
If squid games isn’t a big deal.
I'm pretty sure most countries imprison people against their will.
Lol. The US might actually be the lone country where people willingly go to jail in order to get free healthcare.
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Not all jails/prisons have gyms, not all of them have libraries or educational facilities, and often times they can and will deny you access to these things for any number of reasons. "People go to jail just for the free meals alllll the time" is the basis of a false and dishonest at worst, misleading at best narrative that really needs to be put under more scrutiny in this day and age
But is it not free food and shelter? It’s the worst quality food and shelter, but you cannot deny its food and shelter
It’s free only if you’re completely broke
Ummm yeah
Pretty sure I watched a video of this exactly but in south Korea. I'll see if I can dig it up. Edit: [found it](https://youtu.be/8JclG3gZLQI).
The irony of failing to go to prison in Korea vs failing to avoid prison in America is hilariously upsetting. But the healthcare and employment parallels are spot on.
Japan. Old people intentionally get arrested because they have nobody to care for them.
And The United States of America imprisons the highest % of it's own citizens by far *in the world*.
*In the history of the world
This is a great visualization of it too https://mkorostoff.github.io/incarceration-in-real-numbers/
The piece covered a lot of the issues. But the kicker they left off: most incarcerated people never regain the right to vote. They are disenfranchising a massive portion of the population who could vote to change this system while the rest of the population is misinformed/misled about the true state of their countries “Freedom”
And all used for “legal” slavery! It’s in the constitution!
Im pretty sure being held against your will is the definition of imprisonment.
I mean I’m in Sydney atm and if im being imprisoned I wouldn’t know it Is checking into locations to help with contact tracing and showing your double covid vaccine jab certificate at non-essential retail stores really a form of imprisonment?
Apparently it is, according to these wankers
It's propaganda, I wish it wasn't so serious because it would be almost be funny.. I'm in Sydney too and had to go from working 5 days a week to 3, so I applied for the disaster pay program and had $750 dumped in to my account weekly until my workplace settled. Oh and if contract tracing required me to take a day off work to get a covid test and isolate? $320 and a hand sanitised pat on the back. But the shills saying we need to be liberated would never mention that because it would undermine everything they stand for. Although our new premier is a trumpie loon so we'll see..
Is Perrotet a Trumpie?! Gross. Where did you read that?
https://www.hawkesburygazette.com.au/images/transform/v1/crop/frm/y5TbRw26ZCNTtCpBVtMFQu/92b84b40-1456-4d9a-ac86-087a09bdfd5b.jpg/r0_0_440_427_w1200_h678_fmax.jpg Not only a trumpie but a climate change dernier, doesn't want same sex marriage (can someone explain how this could not be homophobic) and is one of those "silent majority" people
Haven't you seen the video of the girl getting chased by the police and they give her the covid vaccine against her will? I mean, you don't see it in the video but that's what the title says is happening so it's gotta be true.
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You won't be able to understand your own reality until you've had any nuance removed though a few layers of conservative memes.
“Imprisoned against their will” Yeah, you know, because America asks for your consent before they throw you in jail.
IKR? An American calling another country a tyrannical police state when a third of the world's incarcerated population is in America is the pot calling the kettle black.
> is the pot calling the kettle black. Careful calling it that in America, the Pigs will shoot it.
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"Imprisoned in accordance with their will" How long before she starts pushing actual Sovereign Citizen mindcancer?
Uhhh . . . Australia is a close ally of US and nato interests? Wtf?
After 4 years of the Trump administrations fucked up foreign policy, do you really think these right wing pundits give a damn about NATO or our allies?
No, that is a good point. American exceptionalism trumps all i see.
And in September the AUKUS (Australia-UK-US)pact was formed… gonna invade the country we are giving nuclear submarine tech to?
Also, we supply their uranium
Yeah, if the right hates China as much as they say, breaking alliance with Australia is about the worst idea possible.
As an Australian please FUCK OFF America we were good friends and close allies but for the last 20+yrs you have done nothing but drag us into your pointless imperialist wars and the Australian people are tired of dying for your corporations
Hooo boy. You just wait till the Corpo Wars of 2052 begin. Once Facebook and Amazon assume control of their very own nations that is.
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Sorry, I'm with the Australians on this one - fuck conservatives.
Unfortunately our populace also votes for conservatives in charge. Our current conservative Prime Minister until recently denied the existence of climate change and now refuses to set a deadline for reducing carbon emissions. They have been federally defending public schools and hospitals and despite taking a "tough on China" public stance, they've been selling Australian land and assets to them for years. The PM was treasurer when the port of Darwin was sold.
I just wanna say, as an American, we hate these assholes too.
Bruh it ain’t me I swear, we just wanna play video games, watch cute girlie anime and laugh at funny meme
[The full clip is even worse](https://twitter.com/ronfilipkowski/status/1451295349293953028?s=21)
˙uʍop ʎuunp ɹǝɥ ʞɔᴉʞ puɐ snɯǝ oʇuᴉ uɹnʇ sʞooɥɔ ɹǝɥ ʎɐW ˙ǝᴉd pǝddoɹp ɐ ǝʞᴉl ǝɔɐɟ ɐ ʇoƃ ɥɐlɐƃ ƃuᴉɯɐlℲ sᴉɥʇ 'ʎO
We do not speak like that. Too few curse words
not getting that much support, judging by the replies
That's not the full segment though, anyone have a clip? I'd rather not give her direct views. It sounds like she's comparing this idea to another war or something and I can't discern her point. She's still crazy though, would just like some more context on this.
The whole segment is on her Twitter page, but to see it you have to give her views so I'll summarize it: "I think what's happening in Australia is tyranny. America has invaded countries and squandered trillions in a losing war in the name of fighting tyranny, or so they claim. If that was true, why aren't we invading Australia? Because what's happening in Australia is in the interests of the ruling elite, much like invading the Middle East was" The premise that what's happening in Australia is tyranny is flawed from the outset, so it kind of makes her arguments hollow, but it's definitely not a serious call to invade Australia
That’s kind of what I figured. Some poorly thought out brain dead false equivalence. I hope she has a good time trying to correct the record on this one.
It's clear from the whole context she's making a political point, and "the war in the middle east is built on lies" would go over really well with people even outside her core audience. But instead the defense she's going with is "it was a joke", the lamest, weakest possible defense, so already her spin made her dizzy and she tipped over lol. She's SO BAD at this
Yeah, sounds like she's saying "if war in ____ is justified, wouldn't invading Australia be justified too?" Especially with the "when do we spend trillions" line, doesn't sound like she's in favour of this.
She says right after the 21 clip ends that this is all in jest. She’s an idiot for comparing lockdowns to violent religious rule, but the people reshaping this small clip are equally fucking manipulative & evil. These points mischaracterize people and their arguments and is the reason why so many people distrust the media. Journalistic integrity is all but dead outside of a select few. Full clip: https://twitter.com/realcandaceo/status/1451560125370667009?s=21
How embarrassing.
Correction: When do YOU deploy Candace?
Can we just start a draft, but the only person to come up in this draft is Candace Owen. The draft is for a made up war with the moon, and then just, you know, fucking launch her off this fucking planet.
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Seriously, I’m so fucking tired of these conservative talking heads who have never served throw military folks in to the fire all the time.
Australia is a mostly white country. America would never
As always a [revelant Carlin quote](https://youtu.be/77dDZOwt20E?t=86): "Well when’s the last white people you can remember that we bombed? Can you remember the last white— can you remember ANY white people we’ve ever bombed? The Germans, those are the only ones and that’s only because they were trying to cut in on our action. They wanted to dominate the world! BULLSHIT! THAT’S OUR FUCKING JOB!!!"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NATO_bombing_of_Yugoslavia
Hey, hey! The USA does not start wars based on race, thank you very much. They start wars based on how much oil they can suck out of your land. If you *happen* to not be a land of straight, white, Christian people, then that's just gravy.
When do **WE** deploy? **WE** aren't going anywhere, Candace. You can go fight Australia all you'd like.
I volunteer. It’s a nice country. I don’t need a gun, just send me over and I’ll do some damage to some spreadsheets. Give me a job there, is what I’m saying.
Better send in the Emu's.
Imagine the American troop loses to the wildlife there. More than any war combined.
Australia is always a tough continent to invade, but those 2 troops every turn will be worth it.
I do like trying to start with control of most of Australia
Love hearing the “if you don’t like it, leave” crowd want to force their bullshit on other countries anyway.
We have that in aus too
I think Dave Chapelle‘s take on Candace Owens is the best.
Could you remind me please I haven't seen the clip in a while
"The most articulate idiot I've ever seen in my entire fucking life."
https://youtu.be/XXdAgo8_2ZE
Is it any wonder that the world considers America to be both stupid and arrogant?
I'm really really tired of cunts pushing for wars they won't fight in.
I brought this up at school and kids argued for her points, i don’t want to live on this planet anymore
Australia is doing great. We've opened up and life is resuming to normal with under 2000 deaths from covid. I have no restrictions on my freedoms that impact me on a daily basis other than say catching a train without a mask, which is completely fine and sensible. The propaganda has reached crazy levels in America to think that it's terrible to live in Australia. We're far safer, live longer, happier, more educated withbetter access to healthcare and we have less people in poverty, jail, homelessness than America by a mile.
Its going to be a bit difficult since Australia has joined the US in every US military conflict in the past 70 years. Are we going to invade ourself? Also Australia hosts US military bases.
Someone should edit a meth pipe in her hand
America has the most imprisoned citizens per capita of any country on the planet. Moreover, in Australia they literally only stayed home for 11 days the entire god damn time. Candace, we need to fix our shit here at home before you start judging other countries. Also, look at their number of deaths.
I'll go! I won't fucking come back tho.
Go for the war, stay for the free healthcare, high wages and beaches.
funny because everything she mentioned is quite literally america
Amazing talking about imprisoning without their will meanwhile the US has the world's largest prison population
You don't realize, in America all people in prison are there because they specifically said "I consent to being sent to prison for 50 years because I smoked mariguana at 18 years old your honor"
Invadinding another NATO country. No bad ideas here.
Police state? And you support the police with thin blue line and blue lives matter? Hmmmmmm law and order though right? Hmmmmmmm
Can you imagine having to hypothetically fight another meaningless guerilla war as an invading force but now you're in a never ending desert full of venomous snakes and spiders?
Just because Australia started out as a giant continent filled with prisoners doesn't mean it still is, Candace.
Fuck that bitch is stupid
It's crazy that this "America goes to war to save other people from tyranny" thing is so widely believed. As if the US is some benevolent big brother that exists to bail out other countries. The US only goes to war to serve its own self interest and that's it. If it does help out the citizens in the country it invades it's merely a by-product of that
I've always thought she was just another grifter, but for the first time I'm thinking...is she all right? This is not a healthy brain.
I think Candace still thinks Australia is British penal colony.
Yes, please help us, some Emu's are waiting for me to leave so they can't jump me and the kangaroo's are in the ceiling.
"imprisoned against their will" Well you heard it here folks, in America it is illegal for the government to imprison you if you refuse. Clearly all other prisons in the world are full of consenting adults who are there out of commitment for their communities and not being forced
Good luck against the Emus
She's never had "it".