Admittedly I’ve only been in Melbourne, so far, as I just got back (unfortunately things have worked out that way, and dragged me back here…), but this is now, on a technicality, Australia’s largest city, and it feels awful… Like, I cannot for the life of me understand what possesses over five million people to want to move to/live in this shithole. But I’ve never liked Melbourne, so maybe I’m just jaded…
However it honestly feels like things are on the brink of collapse, or implosion, here. I see that the city has, in many contexts (official and otherwise), *been given the dual name of “Narrm”, which is meaningless, made up, Abo shit. I see that the “activists” spent most of the last couple of months tearing down and defacing statues, and yelling and screaming about “tearing down the colony” and similar bullshit. And they’ve gained so much “institutional power” that councils are now scared to put those same statues back up, or just flat out refuse to do so…
I see that endless woke immigration has turned this place into little more than a Chinese vassal state, where fucking Mandarin is becoming almost as common as English (on signs and the like), and I see that sheer entitlement, an over-generous welfare state, and a failing education system has turned this place into essentially a country of entitled brats.
So yeah, much though I hate to admit it, Sweden clearly has its problems, but at least it feels like a vaguely functioning society still, where people still want to work and contribute to society (at least native Swedes, that is). It really doesn’t feel like that here, so much, anymore… Sadly.
Not that I would ever live in Melbourne anyway, but I don’t really see myself “repatriating” here, long-term. I just don’t like it enough to stay.
Though the weather is much better than almost anything I experienced in Sweden, and nature here is nice (I love the smell of eucalyptus, for one. I guess that’s in my blood) - I admit that much.
But fuck, as a society, “we’re” becoming just like much of Canada, or Blue States in the US, now. And that’s rather sad.
Yeah, but India is far too dysfunctional/fucked up to actually take over “our” country, thank fuck, lol…
China, on the other hand…
But yeah, I agree, on a lot of counts. Subcontinentals are… Something.
Although at least I get less of a feeling of “I want to kill you and your entire family” (as in, what they’re thinking) from them, compared to the Arabs and Africans here, lol…
You might be lucky in that China is approaching an impending implosion.
From a huge housing bubble built on inadequate construction materials and fraudulent accounting
A military that's more glass than cannon
To a population having less kids per capita than Japan and unwilling to join up.
They're not doing as well as they'd like to let on. Although Taiwan is still in danger, there's evidence to suggest if they can at least repel a first invasion attempt that they'd essentially win a war against China as they'd implode after any military failure.
I wouldnt put it past the chinese government to try some drastic as a distraction once shit hits the fan there.
Sure but thanks to authoritarian rule, they might be so interested in self preservation that they submit to anyone who looks best for their survival so my end up like the warlord era again.
You mean like releasing a manufactured plague from a biolab?
three gorges cannot burst fast enough