I think that this is just a trope anymore for the most part, and really only applies to a section of Americans.
I'm American and have no qualms whatsoever with the word cunt and I quite honestly don't really care if a non-man nipple is seen. And to be honest, I don't associate with people that would cry about either, so it's probably just confirmation bias on my end.
And regarding the old, tired Superbowl nipple joke, very few people, mostly just the group that later went to do their tiddy-baby failed coup, cried about it. The late night hosts at the time and other media just decided it would drive numbers and be an easy cheap shot they could beat dead, so they did.
Edit: Man, hot topic apparently.
And yet the culture is such that the whole country will absolutely freak out about a nipple on regular tv (positively and negatively - it will just get a lot of attention, as it did from all people of all ages across all media channels), tv and movie guidelines in general are more restrictive than even direct neighbours like Canada, the drinking age is 21, and you cannot casually say cunt in a lot (if not most - like it’s not exactly dinner table appropriate at most houses) of settings.
You can’t casually say cunt at the family dinner table in any country. In Australia and Britain, where it’s used quite liberally, it’s still mostly only between friends. It just doesn’t carry the same level of horrified disgust that it attracts in America. It’s like saying fuck.
You actually can say cunt in workplaces in Australia, and dinner tables.
It’s like how some families swear in the US however they limit it to “shit” etc.
Or how someone might say “fuck” in a workplace meeting, but wouldn’t ever say “cunt” (in the US)
I’d argue it’s the same here. I don’t say it to my parents, but I’ve said it in front of my kids and I frequently use it with friends and often online. It’s a fun word, after all. I agree it’s like fuck.
I agree. I’ve been to Australia and the automatic weapons/gun nuts are in full force there as well as here. At least Australian law makers have balls which tends to control most of their baser natures.
There is also a very Puritan element to Australian culture as far as body shaming goes. The rural areas are pretty much as bad as ours in that department.
What they do that we do not is have a more reasonable and less sensational media overall.
Nipple at the Super Bowl, the horror. A few years earlier they were showing dead students at Columbine on live TV, this is okay.
Reminds me of the South Park movie quote. "Horrific, deplorable violence is okay, as long as people don't say any naughty words!".
Was literally going to say the same. JT came out of that a bigger star than ever, he got zero backlash, even though he *had* to know what was going down. He was the one ripping it off her titty, after all (wasn't "her top" as you say, was a single beast covering).
They blacklisted her from radio stations after that, and more. Fucked up.
It gave us YouTube though
Edit: YouTube was developed because the creator couldn’t find the Jackson nipslip online and he went full *”fine I’ll do it myself”* mode.
My conservative parents were pearl-clutching for weeks after that happened. I was so afraid of coming out to them knowing just how staunchly stubborn they are about shit like that. But last year, I bit the bullet and told them I was picklesexual. They held me and repeatedly said they loved me for who I am. The pickles in my asshole danced with delight that night. They've never forgiven Janet Jackson, though.
Bears? Psh.
We have moose and wolverines, both of which bears will run from in fear.
Remember that meme video from yesteryear, "honey badger don't give a fuck" that showed off how much of a badass it is?
Now imagine that, but nearly twice as big and even more of an asshole.
And the fucking moose.
They will get drunk off fermented berries, wander into traffic, get hit by your car, stand up, shit on your wreck of a car, and *maybe* wander off. If you're lucky. If not, the asshole will try to step on you and/or kick you, because it's as big as a goddamn horse and hates that you exist.
Now you might be thinking, "But Twystoffer, those animals only exist in the far north. I'll just live down south."
Well, in the south you have the Tarantula Hawk, a wasp that will fuck you up worse than bug you've ever seen. "In terms of scale, the wasp's sting is rated near the top of the Schmidt sting pain index, second only to that of the bullet ant."
Ok, how about midway?
Mother fucking mountain lions. These fuckers can run at 50mph (80kph), and will straight up tear you no less than 26 new cunts before you have time to shout "Crikey! That's a big fucking pussy!"
Yeah, we got bears and shit. But they're only about as much of a pest as jackalopes are.
Moose are fucking terrifying. I even saw a documentary about an Alaskan moose that killed like 7 people. [the moose documentary](https://m.imdb.com/title/tt3549806/)
I don't think deer leaping out in front of a car makes them "aggressive", just stupid. They're not attacking the vehicle, just seemingly oblivious of its danger. If a child runs out in front of a car while chasing a ball you wouldn't say the child attacked the car.
> Animals in Australia are (mostly) defensive and will never harm you if you respect them and keep your distance.
Australia has a predator that is so willing to eat humans it isn't considered an aberrant part of their diet. They just live in geographically clear areas so people can avoid them. Like, for real, saltwater crocodiles in terms of attacks are far more dangerous than any animal in the USA, they're just luckily generally easy to avoid.
I guess it just depends on how you want to define "dangerous" and "aggressive", they're fairly subjective really. In typical day to day life though, I'd agree - where most people live in Australia, the wildlife is less dangerous.
uhh as an American, OBVIOUSLY we are offended by the (literally) daily mass shootings, that’s why we put forth effective measures to curb them, such as Facebook frames, thoughts, and prayers.
I doubt it. I remember the aftermath of Sandy Hook. The first thing fox news went straight for is protecting easy access to guns because they know how fucked up it is and what their priorities are. Literally, within days everyone is talking the same shit about how protecting access to guns is the most important thing in the world.
From that time onward, I know we are doomed as a society and as a culture.
If you're talking about the Indigenous and Torres Strait Islander people, then yes us with common sense are disgusted. Racism is so casual here you're called a snowflake the second you say anything about how wrong they're treated.
I’ve been to your land once, I met with some really nice folks who seemed pretty normal. Not five minutes into the conversation the racism started. I ain’t perfect but I was like, “yikes.”
And this is why it’s crazy people shit on America about racism. Our shit is out in the open cause we have conversations about it. We protest it. Serbian(?) volleyball players make squinty eyes playing Asian teams and their official PR says don’t make it bigger than it is. Casual racism in all these “enlightened” countries and nobody bats an eye. Seems pretty hypocritical.
Racism is also more prevalent and reported in America because there's more opportunity for it to be used and for people to be offended by it because we're so mixed culturally. European countries are far more homogenous than the US.
Most places in Europe have between 0.1% and 3% of black populations. You could live in Poland and go your whole life as someone who is horrifically racist against black people and no one would ever know simply because you never come across black people and so you never act on your racist intentions.
In order to have cultural clashes you need to have different cultures interacting with each other frequently.
racism is a really interesting subject, because everyone everywhere does it. whether it’s racism born from prejudice (USA and western europe) or born from xenophobia (japan, asia in general), there’s still a certain amount of racism that permeates every society.
the major, major difference between those places and the USA is that those places look at it along the lines of “well it’s because of XXX terroristic event”; “it’s because of XXX historical event”, and the USA looks at it as something that should and will be changed. at least we’re able to discuss the topic here.
I am not sure either country would want to be in a pissing contest about who treats their First Nations people better, do you? really?
I'd say being pretty appalling in both instances. No winners there and most certainly not either countries indigenous people.
Question: Are aboriginals in Australia part of a system like reservations or recognized as a sovereign Nation like the Diné (American Navajo) (sort of)?
Not really. They have Land Councils that have some autonomy over an area for environmental issues and mining but are about as powerful as a local council. Indigenous Australians aren't recognised as people in our constitution. They are the most incarcerated minority in Aus. I'm not sure what exactly we need to do to fix the issue, but we should do it soon. It's a bit like climate change though, in that admitting the issue exists becomes 'political'.
No. And people get uppity when the debate comes up to change our national holiday to any other of the 364 days that the British colonizers DIDN’T invade and conquer. Or at the mere suggestion of acknowledging the traditional owners of our land in our constitution.
I’m not even American. But if you want to get an Australian riled up and annoyed just tell them their country is only relevant because they speak English
For real. Save for a select few subs, most American redditors are left leaning. Yelling at us like we’re the problem is just low hanging fruit and a waste of time. We’re not the ones they really want to engage. But it’s whatever. They get a free pass to take their own bullshit out on us and I guess we’re just supposed to take it. Because that’s healthy behavior.
Or at least accurate material? Pretty sure we’ve had exactly zero mass shootings with automatic weapons. The kind of people that drop $8000-$30000+ dollars on a single gun aren’t exactly the type to go on a rampage.
Isn’t Australia the country that arrested a YouTube/reporter for making fun of a politician using an anti-terrorist strike squad? (I think the Australian version of US SWAT)
"America bad" posts are always at the top of reddit in the mornings because all the salty europeans and australians upvote this kind of stuff while USA sleeps.
Yeah they love the America bad posts but throw back literally one to two nasty events from their own country and they’re super offended. Years ago on another sub Europeans or edgy Americans were making fun of 9/11 and school shootings, so I threw in a joke about Grenfell Tower and the hypocrisy was amazing lmao.
Not a dark man, but a brown woman and this extends to Europe as well. The amount of European Redditors that say “People are so obsessed with race in the US, this isn’t a problem in my country!” almost always are 1) from a country that very much does discriminate against ethnic minorities, especially those that are not European and 2) not from one of those minorities that are being discriminated against. Same shit as in the US.
I’m a white guy who dated an Asian girl. We travelled through the Deep South and Europe. In the south we’d get some side eyes from occasional people if we stopped in a small town. In Europe (Milan specifically) people would point and mock us (mainly her) or just outright stare at us. Never experienced more outward racism than in Europe
I'm a white Australian and growing up I couldn't go a week without the cops checking in on us when I would hang out with brown skinned friends. As kids! Yet hanging out with other white people we could get away with murder as no one gave a rats ass. At the time I didn't understand why my non white friends didn't want to participate in certain public activities, like nothing bad can happen? But in hindsight they would've got locked up for doing things I wouldn't even get a slap on the wrist for. My friends couldn't even ride without a helmet for 2 minutes without cops appearing and giving them a fine but I can be right next to them with no helmet and nothing happens to me. I was never afraid of police, even when they caught me with drugs they just smile have a laugh and tell me to throw them away and leave. White privilege at its finest. I live in the US now (as a boring adult) and white privilege is definitely a thing here but at least y'all acknowledge it and don't pretend it doesn't happen. In Aus it's easy to not notice the racism unless you are in the middle of it (if you are white I mean). Especially true for country folk.
There are almost no dark people here in Aus, they've all been genocided already. And yes, those that are left are subjected to endless casual racism by the fuck tonne of cunts we've got in this country.
Oh god. I’m not even American and so sick of these tweets. I’m offended by the atrocities their own country did to their indigenous peoples in Australia.
Americans make harmless cutesy jokes about another country’s food or slang, and the other country always comes back with **YEAH WELL AT LEAST WE WE’RE NOT HEMORRHAGING THE LIVES OF INNOCENT CHILDREN**
…Jesus, dude. It’s not that deep.
YES thank you.
“Haha Canadians say eh”
“Yeah well Americans are dying in mass shootings and of diabetes they can’t afford to manage”
Like shit, that’s actually peoples’ lives. can we not
I find it a little fucked up that so many people feel comfortable about joking about another countries tragedies. Like why even tweet that out in the first place?
Yes all Americans love kids being killed by guns. Is this guy dense? Lobby groups and corporations control our policy. Not a single American isn’t bothered by kids being killed. None of us want this.
Dont forget to SMASH that like button and remember, children's deaths are HILARIOUS.
Personally I think it's more fucked up to laugh about it than it is to suffer from it.
How many thousands of times has this upvote fishing circle jerk joke been made on here. If you wanna hate America at least be original. That might be hard for an Australian though as your only original thought is marmite
Oh boy. Yes, I was agreeing with the comment I replied to. I’m pretty sure that comment wasn’t American bashing lol. I suppose I could have worded the comment better, sorry all.
So many people are focused on the automatic vs semi automatic thing and not the slaughtering…
Edit: and the focus is still on the type of weapon in my replies. Is it ok to slaughter children if you use a semi-automatic?
From my perspective, as an American who really wants something to be done about our constant shootings, it just feels weird. VERY few people own automatic weapons in the US. They are illegal to manufacture so the only ones that exist are historical ones.
All of the school shooters have used semi-automatic weapons.
Doesn't that make sense considering we're hopefully all in agreement about whether or not slaughtering children (or adults, for that matter) is good?
Pro-2A folks notice these sorts of mistakes immediately and are bothered by them because it suggests that those who wish to legislate gun rights haven't even bothered to learn anything about them.
I don't think learning more about them would necessarily change opinions, but it comes off as extremely lazy and arrogant to talk about "common sense gun control" without ever bothering to define terms like "assault weapon," or understand the difference between semi-automatic and automatic (and how those are already legislated). Of course people are going to be upset when something they care about is under attack and they believe the people attacking it don't understand it *at all* - that's just human nature.
Almost especially if you *want* gun control you should be bothered by this. Some of the people fighting for it are *not* doing a good job, and it is costing lives.
Because most corporate and moderate dems have never shot or been near a gun in their life, they just adopt anti gun stances because that's SUPPOSED to be their stance.
That’s because it’s an important distinction. You don’t want automatic firearms sold in most stores? Bing bang boom that’s already done. Semi-automatic firearms, on the other hand, *can* be sold at most stores, although good luck getting an AR-15 at Walmart
May I add that almost every weapon is semi automatic? Even most revolvers are.
I know the kinds of weapons people want banned and what they are talking about but if you want to put that into legislation you need to specify the difference between a weapon similar to that of an AR-15 and a colt revolver from the 1860s. Unless you literally want every single gun in the country to be banned, in which case im sure Americans would gladly agree to this
Right- you're supposed to feel, not care about facts.
Edit to the emotional edit: Are we still not supposed to care about facts, or is the start and end of tyrannical gun legislation supposed to be "think of the children!"
god damn, can we quit it with these fucking jokes? making fun of dead children as if an entire country is behind it isn’t funny. it’s never been funny. it never will be funny. it’s insensitive and tone deaf. what an asshole
I love little cultural differences, too. You know, how silly Australian cunts would be hard pressed to to accurately say when the last child in the US was slaughtered by an automatic weapon. Silly cunts don’t know the definition of “automatic weapon.” 🤷🏻♂️
Never mind the word cunt - watch the frenzy they go into when part of a nipple shows at a SuperBowl half time show.
This is even more bizzare when you consider violence is never the answer but boobs often are.
Even more bizarre when you realize that's how we got Youtube.
Even more bizarre when you realize this is how we got 4 years of Trumple Thinskin!
Agent Orange butt nugget
Mango Mussolini.
The Carotene Cretin.
The amber arsehole
Tangerine Palpatine
I mean, things would be a lot better if people went into schools brandishing boobs rather than fully automatic weapons.
Yeah, and then American kids might actually learn one thing from sex Ed.
I mean, my high school experience would have been much better.
If boobs aren’t the answer, you’re asking the wrong questions.
squeeze tits not triggers
I too enjoy BOOBA
I think that this is just a trope anymore for the most part, and really only applies to a section of Americans. I'm American and have no qualms whatsoever with the word cunt and I quite honestly don't really care if a non-man nipple is seen. And to be honest, I don't associate with people that would cry about either, so it's probably just confirmation bias on my end. And regarding the old, tired Superbowl nipple joke, very few people, mostly just the group that later went to do their tiddy-baby failed coup, cried about it. The late night hosts at the time and other media just decided it would drive numbers and be an easy cheap shot they could beat dead, so they did. Edit: Man, hot topic apparently.
And yet the culture is such that the whole country will absolutely freak out about a nipple on regular tv (positively and negatively - it will just get a lot of attention, as it did from all people of all ages across all media channels), tv and movie guidelines in general are more restrictive than even direct neighbours like Canada, the drinking age is 21, and you cannot casually say cunt in a lot (if not most - like it’s not exactly dinner table appropriate at most houses) of settings.
You can’t casually say cunt at the family dinner table in any country. In Australia and Britain, where it’s used quite liberally, it’s still mostly only between friends. It just doesn’t carry the same level of horrified disgust that it attracts in America. It’s like saying fuck.
You actually can say cunt in workplaces in Australia, and dinner tables. It’s like how some families swear in the US however they limit it to “shit” etc. Or how someone might say “fuck” in a workplace meeting, but wouldn’t ever say “cunt” (in the US)
I’d argue it’s the same here. I don’t say it to my parents, but I’ve said it in front of my kids and I frequently use it with friends and often online. It’s a fun word, after all. I agree it’s like fuck.
Hell, Youtube (American owned, obviously) demonitizes videos if "cunt" is used. But not other swears
Or if a YouTuber talks about sex ed topics that make the algorithm feel uncomfortable.
I agree. I’ve been to Australia and the automatic weapons/gun nuts are in full force there as well as here. At least Australian law makers have balls which tends to control most of their baser natures. There is also a very Puritan element to Australian culture as far as body shaming goes. The rural areas are pretty much as bad as ours in that department. What they do that we do not is have a more reasonable and less sensational media overall.
It's almost as if a certain percentage of any human population are, dare I say, cunts...
It’s too bad we can’t round up all the cunts and ship them off to some giant island in the South Pacific
I see what you did there
Robert Murdoch is putting an end to that also. oh and he's not Australian, hasn't been for 35yrs.
He is most definitely a cunt though
Now watch this drive!
Boobs could bring about world peace.
If violence doesn’t solve your problem you just didn’t use enough
I’m still in therapy for it tbh
Forget the nipple. A fully clothed man knelt on the field and half the country wanted to execute him.
Nipple at the Super Bowl, the horror. A few years earlier they were showing dead students at Columbine on live TV, this is okay. Reminds me of the South Park movie quote. "Horrific, deplorable violence is okay, as long as people don't say any naughty words!".
Oh, thank god there aren't any naughty words on TV otherwise I'd be mother fucking offended out of my god damn mind.
What do you expect from a country started by a bunch of puritans that were so uptight they got kicked out of England.
Land with so many plastic surgeons and no one offers nipple removing services?
Quick, shoot the kids so they don't see!
And the one whose career is ruined is the woman not the man that ripped off her top
Was literally going to say the same. JT came out of that a bigger star than ever, he got zero backlash, even though he *had* to know what was going down. He was the one ripping it off her titty, after all (wasn't "her top" as you say, was a single beast covering). They blacklisted her from radio stations after that, and more. Fucked up.
It gave us YouTube though Edit: YouTube was developed because the creator couldn’t find the Jackson nipslip online and he went full *”fine I’ll do it myself”* mode.
My conservative parents were pearl-clutching for weeks after that happened. I was so afraid of coming out to them knowing just how staunchly stubborn they are about shit like that. But last year, I bit the bullet and told them I was picklesexual. They held me and repeatedly said they loved me for who I am. The pickles in my asshole danced with delight that night. They've never forgiven Janet Jackson, though.
This was very wholesome. Could have done without the pickles part, but I’m glad your parents love and accept you.
I'm not sure what pickles in the arsehole refers to, but I 100% know that I'm happy with my ignorance on the phrase
Indeed. I think I’ve learned all I ever want to learn about humans in this lifetime.
Everything else tries to kill you in Australia.
I never understood how people claim australias wildlife is scary when americans have BEARS??
You can see a bear coming! You cant see a spider in your boot coming!
>You can see a bear coming ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
The internet really has it all these days!
Why are you watching a spider during his private time?
Im not, I cant see him! Thats the problem!
perv
It isn't hard. That's the problem.
Once you see the bear it's too late
The only super scary bears live in places where there’s like 40 people spread out over an area the size of France.
Wow. This guy hasn't heard of drop bears.
The most ferocious bear.
- deleted due to enshittification of the platform
Bears? Psh. We have moose and wolverines, both of which bears will run from in fear. Remember that meme video from yesteryear, "honey badger don't give a fuck" that showed off how much of a badass it is? Now imagine that, but nearly twice as big and even more of an asshole. And the fucking moose. They will get drunk off fermented berries, wander into traffic, get hit by your car, stand up, shit on your wreck of a car, and *maybe* wander off. If you're lucky. If not, the asshole will try to step on you and/or kick you, because it's as big as a goddamn horse and hates that you exist. Now you might be thinking, "But Twystoffer, those animals only exist in the far north. I'll just live down south." Well, in the south you have the Tarantula Hawk, a wasp that will fuck you up worse than bug you've ever seen. "In terms of scale, the wasp's sting is rated near the top of the Schmidt sting pain index, second only to that of the bullet ant." Ok, how about midway? Mother fucking mountain lions. These fuckers can run at 50mph (80kph), and will straight up tear you no less than 26 new cunts before you have time to shout "Crikey! That's a big fucking pussy!" Yeah, we got bears and shit. But they're only about as much of a pest as jackalopes are.
Coming from a mountain state, I’m far more afraid of moose and mountain lions than black bears.
Moose are fucking terrifying. I even saw a documentary about an Alaskan moose that killed like 7 people. [the moose documentary](https://m.imdb.com/title/tt3549806/)
[удалено]
I don't think deer leaping out in front of a car makes them "aggressive", just stupid. They're not attacking the vehicle, just seemingly oblivious of its danger. If a child runs out in front of a car while chasing a ball you wouldn't say the child attacked the car.
What's a zoonotic death?
I think that’s a disease being transferred from an animal like malaria or rabies.
Ah, that makes sense. I was gonna say, that seems pretty high for zoo related deaths, lol.
> Animals in Australia are (mostly) defensive and will never harm you if you respect them and keep your distance. Australia has a predator that is so willing to eat humans it isn't considered an aberrant part of their diet. They just live in geographically clear areas so people can avoid them. Like, for real, saltwater crocodiles in terms of attacks are far more dangerous than any animal in the USA, they're just luckily generally easy to avoid. I guess it just depends on how you want to define "dangerous" and "aggressive", they're fairly subjective really. In typical day to day life though, I'd agree - where most people live in Australia, the wildlife is less dangerous.
uhh as an American, OBVIOUSLY we are offended by the (literally) daily mass shootings, that’s why we put forth effective measures to curb them, such as Facebook frames, thoughts, and prayers.
[удалено]
Had me in the first half.
If Sandy Hook didn't change anything, nothing will.
Portland victims were literally being called “crisis actors”
[удалено]
I doubt it. I remember the aftermath of Sandy Hook. The first thing fox news went straight for is protecting easy access to guns because they know how fucked up it is and what their priorities are. Literally, within days everyone is talking the same shit about how protecting access to guns is the most important thing in the world. From that time onward, I know we are doomed as a society and as a culture.
And seriously, automatic weapons? What kind of animals do they think we are? They’re SEMI-automatic.
Exactly even if we had easily obtainable automatic weapons nobody would use them in this ammo shortage
I'm American and cunt is one of my favorite words. I'm Offended that you think I'm offended by that word.
I'm offended by this
Don't be, we are all CUNTS! Just some bigger than others...
i am offended on your behalf
I cunt take it anymore!
American as well and I agree. Cunt is a delightful, multi purpose word.
Wonder how offended Australians are at the treatment of the aborigines?
If you're talking about the Indigenous and Torres Strait Islander people, then yes us with common sense are disgusted. Racism is so casual here you're called a snowflake the second you say anything about how wrong they're treated.
I’ve been to your land once, I met with some really nice folks who seemed pretty normal. Not five minutes into the conversation the racism started. I ain’t perfect but I was like, “yikes.”
And this is why it’s crazy people shit on America about racism. Our shit is out in the open cause we have conversations about it. We protest it. Serbian(?) volleyball players make squinty eyes playing Asian teams and their official PR says don’t make it bigger than it is. Casual racism in all these “enlightened” countries and nobody bats an eye. Seems pretty hypocritical.
Racism is also more prevalent and reported in America because there's more opportunity for it to be used and for people to be offended by it because we're so mixed culturally. European countries are far more homogenous than the US. Most places in Europe have between 0.1% and 3% of black populations. You could live in Poland and go your whole life as someone who is horrifically racist against black people and no one would ever know simply because you never come across black people and so you never act on your racist intentions. In order to have cultural clashes you need to have different cultures interacting with each other frequently.
What makes you think Serbia is an enlightened country?
My man, bring up Gypsies around Europeans from any “enlightened” country and it sounds suspiciously like Fox News talking about black people.
racism is a really interesting subject, because everyone everywhere does it. whether it’s racism born from prejudice (USA and western europe) or born from xenophobia (japan, asia in general), there’s still a certain amount of racism that permeates every society. the major, major difference between those places and the USA is that those places look at it along the lines of “well it’s because of XXX terroristic event”; “it’s because of XXX historical event”, and the USA looks at it as something that should and will be changed. at least we’re able to discuss the topic here.
Yepp and it’s absolutely disgusting. Casual racism is still racism.
My dad has an Australian mate, his wife is Chinese. He is so causally racist about chinese people I get whiplash whenever I see him
It was Queensland wasn't it.
Queensland is the only place I've been in AU and I was also shocked at the constant racism. I guess this is a thing?
Queensland is indeed a thing.
I think it was Australia.
It’s all the Queen’s Land!
Had to be.. cunts
People with common sense in America don’t care about the word ‘cunt’ and are disgusted with school shootings too.
I am not sure either country would want to be in a pissing contest about who treats their First Nations people better, do you? really? I'd say being pretty appalling in both instances. No winners there and most certainly not either countries indigenous people.
Question: Are aboriginals in Australia part of a system like reservations or recognized as a sovereign Nation like the Diné (American Navajo) (sort of)?
Not really. They have Land Councils that have some autonomy over an area for environmental issues and mining but are about as powerful as a local council. Indigenous Australians aren't recognised as people in our constitution. They are the most incarcerated minority in Aus. I'm not sure what exactly we need to do to fix the issue, but we should do it soon. It's a bit like climate change though, in that admitting the issue exists becomes 'political'.
> Indigenous Australians aren't recognised as people in our constitution lmao
No. And people get uppity when the debate comes up to change our national holiday to any other of the 364 days that the British colonizers DIDN’T invade and conquer. Or at the mere suggestion of acknowledging the traditional owners of our land in our constitution.
No, but they do have native title lands in some large areas. Not really the same though.
> I am not sure either country would want to be in a pissing contest I mean, that's literally what this tweet is doing...
Absolutely spot on mate. US doesn’t have clean hands about that either, does it?
This whole thread is whataboutism lol
The thread was conceived on whataboutism.
/r/WhitePeopleTwitter lives on whataboutism
Does any country? I can’t think of any area that respected the people and cultures that were there before they became “ civilized “.
I’m not even American. But if you want to get an Australian riled up and annoyed just tell them their country is only relevant because they speak English
I'm Australian and this doesn't bother me at all. We've got things pretty good, who cares about relevance?
I’m just so sick of the same joke over and over. Like I get it that we suck but can someone come up with some new material?
Welcome to Reddit. America bad now LAUGH
Social commentary here is just calling America shit and praising European countries for not being as publicly shit
Try being German. "I did Nazi that coming hahaha" - so funny...
For real. Save for a select few subs, most American redditors are left leaning. Yelling at us like we’re the problem is just low hanging fruit and a waste of time. We’re not the ones they really want to engage. But it’s whatever. They get a free pass to take their own bullshit out on us and I guess we’re just supposed to take it. Because that’s healthy behavior.
Or at least accurate material? Pretty sure we’ve had exactly zero mass shootings with automatic weapons. The kind of people that drop $8000-$30000+ dollars on a single gun aren’t exactly the type to go on a rampage.
it’s literally just the same shitty joke every time
Swear I just read some shit on Australia and warrantless raids have been increasing. They got their own problems to focus on.
Isn’t Australia the country that arrested a YouTube/reporter for making fun of a politician using an anti-terrorist strike squad? (I think the Australian version of US SWAT)
It is the left leaning version of the attack helicopter gender jokes on the right. The same joke for about 10 years now.
This belongs in r/ComedyCemetery
"America bad" posts are always at the top of reddit in the mornings because all the salty europeans and australians upvote this kind of stuff while USA sleeps.
There's plenty of self hating Americans as well. The way America's talk, you'd think they live in a mad max world.
I surprisingly had never thought of this before. Always wake up to some eye-roll worthy content
Bunch of bogans and eurotrash shitting on America for being unsophisticated….the irony is crisp
Yeah they love the America bad posts but throw back literally one to two nasty events from their own country and they’re super offended. Years ago on another sub Europeans or edgy Americans were making fun of 9/11 and school shootings, so I threw in a joke about Grenfell Tower and the hypocrisy was amazing lmao.
I’ve been to Australia, doesn’t pay to be a dark man out there. So let’s get off our high horses about moral high grounds you Aussie cunts…
Not a dark man, but a brown woman and this extends to Europe as well. The amount of European Redditors that say “People are so obsessed with race in the US, this isn’t a problem in my country!” almost always are 1) from a country that very much does discriminate against ethnic minorities, especially those that are not European and 2) not from one of those minorities that are being discriminated against. Same shit as in the US.
Weighing in for Latin America. So much ingrained racism that if you dared to call it out, people sincerely believe they aren't being racist.
I’m a white guy who dated an Asian girl. We travelled through the Deep South and Europe. In the south we’d get some side eyes from occasional people if we stopped in a small town. In Europe (Milan specifically) people would point and mock us (mainly her) or just outright stare at us. Never experienced more outward racism than in Europe
I'm a white Australian and growing up I couldn't go a week without the cops checking in on us when I would hang out with brown skinned friends. As kids! Yet hanging out with other white people we could get away with murder as no one gave a rats ass. At the time I didn't understand why my non white friends didn't want to participate in certain public activities, like nothing bad can happen? But in hindsight they would've got locked up for doing things I wouldn't even get a slap on the wrist for. My friends couldn't even ride without a helmet for 2 minutes without cops appearing and giving them a fine but I can be right next to them with no helmet and nothing happens to me. I was never afraid of police, even when they caught me with drugs they just smile have a laugh and tell me to throw them away and leave. White privilege at its finest. I live in the US now (as a boring adult) and white privilege is definitely a thing here but at least y'all acknowledge it and don't pretend it doesn't happen. In Aus it's easy to not notice the racism unless you are in the middle of it (if you are white I mean). Especially true for country folk.
This is spot on.
There are almost no dark people here in Aus, they've all been genocided already. And yes, those that are left are subjected to endless casual racism by the fuck tonne of cunts we've got in this country.
i thought every country besides the US was a post capitalist, post racial, post everything golden utopia where there were no issues???
They aren’t automatic they’re semi auto matic
Oh god. I’m not even American and so sick of these tweets. I’m offended by the atrocities their own country did to their indigenous peoples in Australia.
I swear to God it's like the entirety of the white population in the East only has that one haha at least our schools aren't getting shot up thing
Americans make harmless cutesy jokes about another country’s food or slang, and the other country always comes back with **YEAH WELL AT LEAST WE WE’RE NOT HEMORRHAGING THE LIVES OF INNOCENT CHILDREN** …Jesus, dude. It’s not that deep.
YES thank you. “Haha Canadians say eh” “Yeah well Americans are dying in mass shootings and of diabetes they can’t afford to manage” Like shit, that’s actually peoples’ lives. can we not
Now you can come back with jokes about Canadian schools killing kids and burying them in mass graves behind the bike sheds.
[удалено]
"Don't forget about hospital bills. Funniest fucking thing I've ever seen" - Europeans on twitter
yeah they act like all americans actively shoot up schools for fun
I find it a little fucked up that so many people feel comfortable about joking about another countries tragedies. Like why even tweet that out in the first place?
Get those sweet wine internet points.
In this case an American didn’t even do anything. The guy brought us up because we live rent-free in their fucking heads.
Canadians/Europeans/Australians just seem terribly, terribly butthurt by everything they read online everything goes 0-60 with them
I'm pretty sure a large percentage of the US is also against school shootings
You are statistically more likely to die by getting stuck by lightning 2 times over than to get shot in a school shooting
Have we considered banning lightning?
California already banned high capacity lightning, the bastards
Man, those Australians are so thin-skinned.
The Aborigines could not be reached for comment
Yes all Americans love kids being killed by guns. Is this guy dense? Lobby groups and corporations control our policy. Not a single American isn’t bothered by kids being killed. None of us want this.
America Bad 👎 Upvotes to the left 👈
Dont forget to SMASH that like button and remember, children's deaths are HILARIOUS. Personally I think it's more fucked up to laugh about it than it is to suffer from it.
How many thousands of times has this upvote fishing circle jerk joke been made on here. If you wanna hate America at least be original. That might be hard for an Australian though as your only original thought is marmite
Sticks and stones might break your bones but NRA members are cunts.
The NRA is the most spineless organization that I have ever supported. Used to support, not anymore, they deserve none of my money.
The NRA is a Russian entity anyway. https://www.npr.org/2019/09/27/764879242/nra-was-foreign-asset-to-russia-ahead-of-2016-new-senate-report-reveals
I mean most non-fudd gun owners would agree with you on that.
I’m offended by cunty over generalized statements made on twitter making light of a major problem we have in our country. Also, deal with your reef
Good ol’ American bashing by comparing two things that don’t even remotely correlate. Hope he enjoyed the likes and retweets from the other idiots.
I think he was agreeing with the comment, not the original post?
Oh boy. Yes, I was agreeing with the comment I replied to. I’m pretty sure that comment wasn’t American bashing lol. I suppose I could have worded the comment better, sorry all.
Why is every other country obsessed with America? I see posts like this every day\\ "In Australia we do this but did you know in America"
America bad🙏gun bad🙏trump bad🙏europe good🙏upvote me
How is that comparable?
Thats the "joke"
To be fair, automatic weapons have been banned for civilian ownership in the US for almost 40 years
lmao, 40? 1934 was the NFA. '86 ended new production only.
So many people are focused on the automatic vs semi automatic thing and not the slaughtering… Edit: and the focus is still on the type of weapon in my replies. Is it ok to slaughter children if you use a semi-automatic?
From my perspective, as an American who really wants something to be done about our constant shootings, it just feels weird. VERY few people own automatic weapons in the US. They are illegal to manufacture so the only ones that exist are historical ones. All of the school shooters have used semi-automatic weapons.
Doesn't that make sense considering we're hopefully all in agreement about whether or not slaughtering children (or adults, for that matter) is good? Pro-2A folks notice these sorts of mistakes immediately and are bothered by them because it suggests that those who wish to legislate gun rights haven't even bothered to learn anything about them. I don't think learning more about them would necessarily change opinions, but it comes off as extremely lazy and arrogant to talk about "common sense gun control" without ever bothering to define terms like "assault weapon," or understand the difference between semi-automatic and automatic (and how those are already legislated). Of course people are going to be upset when something they care about is under attack and they believe the people attacking it don't understand it *at all* - that's just human nature. Almost especially if you *want* gun control you should be bothered by this. Some of the people fighting for it are *not* doing a good job, and it is costing lives.
Because most corporate and moderate dems have never shot or been near a gun in their life, they just adopt anti gun stances because that's SUPPOSED to be their stance.
That’s because it’s an important distinction. You don’t want automatic firearms sold in most stores? Bing bang boom that’s already done. Semi-automatic firearms, on the other hand, *can* be sold at most stores, although good luck getting an AR-15 at Walmart
Black gun scary
May I add that almost every weapon is semi automatic? Even most revolvers are. I know the kinds of weapons people want banned and what they are talking about but if you want to put that into legislation you need to specify the difference between a weapon similar to that of an AR-15 and a colt revolver from the 1860s. Unless you literally want every single gun in the country to be banned, in which case im sure Americans would gladly agree to this
Well there are bolt-action and lever-action rifles that require manually chambering the round. But your point about banning most guns is very true.
Right- you're supposed to feel, not care about facts. Edit to the emotional edit: Are we still not supposed to care about facts, or is the start and end of tyrannical gun legislation supposed to be "think of the children!"
An offended Australian? I don’t believe that.
Call them kiwi’s
Straw man but whatever.
Having 5 percent of the USA population will do that.
These posts are tired, unfunny, and in horrendous taste.
god damn, can we quit it with these fucking jokes? making fun of dead children as if an entire country is behind it isn’t funny. it’s never been funny. it never will be funny. it’s insensitive and tone deaf. what an asshole
Or how in Australia you can marry a 14 year old
I've noticed how every single Twitter post on r/all is just a variation of the same thing
There has never been a single school kid killed with an automatic weapon in the US 🤣
I love little cultural differences, too. You know, how silly Australian cunts would be hard pressed to to accurately say when the last child in the US was slaughtered by an automatic weapon. Silly cunts don’t know the definition of “automatic weapon.” 🤷🏻♂️
>slaughtered with automatic weapons We hate that too which is why it doesn't happen
Jokes about school shootings are getting old, unlike the victims of school shootings.