I mean this in complete seriousness. You all know what's been happening here in the last eighteen months or so, but I think, perhaps, at least, that some of you might not know or understand exactly how we got to this point. Even Sydney Watson, who is Australian, doesn't seem to get it...
Sure, you've got the "muh guns" thing, but there's far more than just that. We've always been more feminist than the US. Literally since Federation. We're more feminist than Britain. I would say we're about 20 years further down that pipeline than you. This is important.
Aboriginals, which are our "Native Americans" are... Not treated in the same way you treat your "injuns". Not for the most part. No, Aboriginals here are very much like Blacks in the US. They behave similarly. They have many of the same issues. And they are fucking WORSHIPPED by leftists, academia, and civil society. Like, as some sort of "ubermensch", who cannot ever be wrong, and who we should bow down before. It's utterly, utterly bizarre, and cannot come from anything other than white guilt.
You know what's worse, though? The one drop rule but woke. It's not full-blooded Aboriginals who we tend to lionize, and treat as our superiors, who we have to change our whole society to fit, it's the white, urban, Aboriginal middle class, who, FFS, are far more privileged than I will ever be. They're the ones who are utterly worshipped by the left, and they are the ones trying to break society apart from within. And guess what? They don't have to PROVE in any way that they are actually "Aboriginal". Just a claim is enough. So it's the perfect grift, really, with all the free money, affirmative action and easy passes that come along with that. It's a fucking rort.
Now, the nanny state: guns, obviously. No protections for free speech. None whatsoever. A culture of state censorship, corporate censorship, "cancel culture" (rife), false accusations, and, perhaps worst of all, "self censorship".
Then there's the bike helmets. The absurd drink driving, bike riding or even fucking "drink walking" laws (0.0 is being pushed). Smoking. Vaping. Anime. Manga. Insane advertising rules. Insane food laws. Ivermectin is now banned. You're literally not allowed to swim at beaches in Summer, below a certain latitude, "just in case". Absurd pet ownership laws. Absurd business restrictions. The whole nefarious shit that is "Responsible Service of Alcohol and Gambling", which EVERYONE in that industry has to go through. Restrictions on CAR ownership, and on disallowing any sort of "car mods", out of the ordinary, never mind the capacity limits on that, too. Oh, and that's without mentioning "social credit systems", "QR code check ins", vaccine passports, control of the internet, and increasingly arbitrary porn bans.
It's so incredibly expensive to live here, too. There is fuck all decent work, and we import vast numbers of foreigners, all the time, to fill the jobs that DO exist, so fat luck getting a job, in most industries, as an Aussie who knows your rights.
Everything is incredibly centralised. The cities are bursting, while everywhere else is falling apart. And that's if you can AFFORD to live in a capital, with the most expensive real estate in the world, but where the only decent jobs are. Best of luck with that, when you're competing against people who own three homes, and foreign (mostly Chinese) investors...
I could go on and on, but you know what I find most alarming, apart from how utterly compliant and quiescent everyone here is (tall poppy syndrome plays a big part in that. Also "fuck you, got mine".)..?
The fact that no one here has the capacity to really fight back. That's one major difference in America - ordinary people can actually have their voices somewhat represented, politically, or they can run for office themselves. Here, if you're not a woke, highly compliant, doubly vaxxed idiot? You won't even get on a local council. Hell, you won't even get IN to the council building. So fat luck in running for state parliament, or federal. It WILL NOT HAPPEN. Which means that when a terrible government or council decision is made, that you know is wrong - can you actually do anything effective to stop it? Lol, fuck no. Of course you can't. "Shut up, citizen. Don't you know that we're doing this for the betterment of society/your own good/the fyoootcha!"
We're not a democracy. I'm not sure we ever were. So please, don't think that Covid "broke us". We've been broken for at least a fucking decade. And I've known that for a long fucking time. However no one here ever admitted to it, and, even now... It's nigh impossible to wake them up from their utterly ridiculous "media stupor". :-(
All true. Australia has been taking the worst bits of American culture and forgetting the best bits about old English culture. Australians have begged the govt at every slight mishap to "think about the children and do something" which has made the entire country absurdly over-regulated. Over-regulated when it comes to trying to buy a third beer at the pub or being at the beach without a mask on, but not when it comes to chinks buying utilities and property, and certainly not when it comes to them sending ship after ship full of their garbage products to swamp our markets and kill any industries we might like to grow ourselves.
And the media has gotten way too many people way too comfortable with multiculturalism. There's way too many NPCs going around pontificating about how good it is, even when they live in the posh parts of Sydney and wouldn't dream or even dare to go in Lakemba or Bankstown. They sit around in Milsons Point talking about how wonderful it is that the western suburbs are increasingly diverse. Fuckers.
Very sorry fucking state of affairs.
Brit here who has been to Oz a couple of times. That was my observation re taking the worst things from the US. I wondered if they did that in their rush to distance themselves from the UK post independence.
When I went there, the shops, TV news and ads - all had a very US feel, which I wasn't keen on.
It did feel heavily regulated - heck, for 20m people they have state and federal agencies for everything. Must be such a high % in gov employment.
They have kept everyone happy using all the easy mining money that they basically just dig out of the ground but the wheels do seem to be falling off now
Then you have the thing where everyone is encouraged to have a credit card and everyone is encouraged to just have debt on it all the time. It's a very strange & warped culture in regards to consooming.
Did that have anything to w/ prices being in Australian Dollars vs. British Pounds?
Discriminating against men "for equality" has been legal in Australia since at least 1984, pretty sure since the 70s but I can't find that law that at the moment.
IN 1990 I went to a career day at my uni. Employers were promoting that they were seeking women as diversity hires. Made me sick in my guts even back then.
To give an example (one of oh-so-many) of how "free speech" doesn't exist in Aus, last year, when it became clear to me I wouldn't be able to go without, long-term, I started looking into "offensive face masks"...
I would have to import them from the US, of course, but some of the best I saw said something like "Fuck face masks" or "I fucking hate face masks"...
But then I realised something: in this country, wearing those masks could not only get me kicked out of a venue or event, but arrested and charged, under our "Offend, Harass, Humiliate" legislation...
Same with if you wear an "offensive" t shirt or hat. This is also, naturally, the kind of country where if someone ASSAULTED me, for wearing said offensive clothing, they would probably get off, perhaps even "scot free"...
The clown car has well and truly left the station, in this country, folks... We're absolutely fucked. 🤡🚗😣🔫
The only hope was the accelerationism from COVID starts to break people's passivity. When the government is so corrupt, at that point, all you can hope for is that it collapses like the Soviet Union did. Not pretty of course but neither is living in ever worsening tyranny. The fact that there have been several riots already means you might have a chance.
I hear you OP. My 2 cents is that it stems from our geography which has led to us being the "lucky country"
We've always been geographically isolated, our flora and fauna isn't subject to evolutionary pressure so it's weak. Culturally we're the same.
Look at our history. Eureka stockade, rum rebellion, a couple of air raids in WW2. When has Australia ever bled, as a nation for something that's mattered. We've never developed anything meaningful because we've never had to fight for it.
We are the living embodiment of good times create weak men.
The only saving grace is that our government isn't that good at tyrannising us, because they don't have to be.
You're ranting about a nation built on the concept that the dregs of a global empire should all be rounded up on boats, sailed to the arse-end of the world, and left to fend for themselves in the most hostile landmass on the planet.
It's gonna take a little longer than 200 years for that nation to sort out its issues...
Sure, but we were actually less insane in the past... Notably the 40s through to around 1980, we were a sort of functional country (excluding Qld).
Hell, I would even argue we were better 100 years ago, here, than we are today. So that's not a good enough excuse. We've somehow gone BACKWARDS, into being that prison colony you speak of...
Melbourne was the richest city in the world from like 1880 - 1910 or so, thanks to gold. Hence those great public buildings, almost all built around that time. And just look at it now, lol...
Reading autobiographies from people who remember what Australia was like 100 years ago (I enjoyed Arthur Calwell’s but there are others) life in this country is 1000% better for everyone than it was back then.
Most places even in Melbourne and Sydney took a long time to get things like sewerage or electricity (and home ownership and employment etc were actually worse for most people back then).
It’s bad now but it’s always been bad (aside for a couple of times after WWII when it was good)
No, Marxist globalist feminist subversion destroyed Australia, just like every other Western nation.
Women vote in Australia. Women run Australia. What exactly did you expect?
The leftist worship of aboriginals and tribal people is funny to me. It’s like they believe tribals are innocent children free of the trappings of man. Yet their existence defies their evolution worship. And their push for the ‘Great Society’ maybe they believe if we act like animals we’ve attained enlightenment. George Orwell would agree with the leftists here.
Well it is the home of Hitler....
Eric Bogle and Redgum.
Wrong. That's only where it comes from for the useful idiots. For the intelligentsia, it is a deliberate lie told to destabilize and demoralize. It is explicitly intended to try and get communists into power.
The people at the top don't have any more white guilt than you do. Honestly, I think thye have even less.
wait every aussie ive met hates abbos... like europeans hate gypsies
Your mommy government will fall and the men will take over again. Now is the time to get ready for that, to build infrastructure, learn and master skills, build networks, stockpile resources, build weapon precursors.
I visited for about a month. As American I thought it was a screwed up dystopia with questionable economics and very few people willing to develop the land.
Most supposedly "developed" nations are like that. The West has been thoroughly subverted; the western communist revolution happened in the 1960s and almost nobody noticed. Communism won the cold war; note that I'm not talking about the USSR or Russia, they lost to the same insane ideology as well.
The best thing about Australia right now is watching AFL on the DVR. How did y'all ever invent such an awesome sport?
Plus the trade workers fighting back...