Australia/NZ-specific subreddits, in particular, were always absolutely fucking awful (everything from city subs, to politics, to finance), but this is worse than even during ‘Rona…
For context, this week the Australian Tax Office (ATO) essentially declared war on small (but not big) business, and said that they will use every tool at their disposal to squeeze every unpaid tax dollar out of said businesses, no matter what consequences that has for insolvencies, the economy, and hell, everything that follows that.
I am not kidding when I say that they literally said “Well, if this destroys more businesses than the GFC, that’s too bad.”
In a normal world, such an announcement would have been treated with… At least some degree of disgust, but not on Reddit. On Reddit, people were literally saying they wished that the ATO could employ lynch mobs. In the AusFinance sub (the irony), they were saying they hope small business owners kill themselves over this, because they clearly deserve to…
It’s pretty crazy to me, to see how toxic this discourse has become.
That place is… Well, it’s probably worse than I ever expected it would become, honestly. And that’s just with me lurking, not even wading back in to discussions again…
Ausfinance and the like have been bastions of the braindead for years
You, me and the handful of Aussies on this site I reckon swing between disgust and "just can't help but laugh" at train wreck this country is heading towards
Everything is pozzed, zogged, and whatever else you can think of under the sun. I can't make jokes about faggots or niggers or abos that are completely dry humour but people are allowed to treat the "uninjected" with utter hatred and spite?
People can talk about everything in the lens of Left-Right politics but when I say that it's all bullshit I get crucified? "Nooo it's only liberal vs labour. My side is correct. You are just a stupid, bigoted old-fashioned cooker"
Laugh at people trying to dodge the ATO grift but complain about the cost of living and less opportunities in work, buying a home? Complete retards.
Every day on news.com.au or 7news, 9news, ABC news, SBS news and on all radio stations just either braindead or when they do talk about good things they are years behind. I listened to RN yesterday about how Australians "should" start to get used to end end of the middle class and think of intergenerational wealth.... When the writing's been on the wall for over 20 years and so obvious as recently as 2018-2019
This CUNTry is all about dumbing people down (surprising given how dumbed down most of the population is already) and normalising an idiocracy-style slave colony, where the retarded slobs will mobolise on you for calling out all the bullshit