@shlee "Sydney has beaten us at something related to food"
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I Regret to inform you that there is no cheese to steal in the Melbourne office. -
I keep seeing ppl talking about "dogging" Tim Walz and damn my international knowledge of slang.I keep seeing ppl talking about "dogging" Tim Walz and damn my international knowledge of slang.
Also my total lack of maturity.
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Saw a link to Eric Andre's Instagram yesterday cause I made the mistake of lookin at the r/Melbourne page on Reddit(and no I ain't linking that shit, but feel free to look if you wanna see what this city is *really* like, cause the fuckin replies. Fuck...@Sharksonaplane @skinnylatte And you'll get ppl in Australia all "We're not like the US"
Me: (watchin the regional variations of Anglocentric bigotry, big Ford and GM cars go past, lots of money spent on sport and nothing else) "Orly? In what respect, exactly?" -
Saw a link to Eric Andre's Instagram yesterday cause I made the mistake of lookin at the r/Melbourne page on Reddit(and no I ain't linking that shit, but feel free to look if you wanna see what this city is *really* like, cause the fuckin replies. Fuck...@skinnylatte @Sharksonaplane Yeah, they act like the only racists are like, 20 people in a pub in Bundaberg or something.
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Saw a link to Eric Andre's Instagram yesterday cause I made the mistake of lookin at the r/Melbourne page on Reddit(and no I ain't linking that shit, but feel free to look if you wanna see what this city is *really* like, cause the fuckin replies. Fuck...@skinnylatte @Sharksonaplane The accuracy of this is just 100%
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Saw a link to Eric Andre's Instagram yesterday cause I made the mistake of lookin at the r/Melbourne page on Reddit(and no I ain't linking that shit, but feel free to look if you wanna see what this city is *really* like, cause the fuckin replies. Fuck...Saw a link to Eric Andre's Instagram yesterday cause I made the mistake of lookin at the r/Melbourne page on Reddit
(and no I ain't linking that shit, but feel free to look if you wanna see what this city is *really* like, cause the fuckin replies. Fuck me.)And in the Instagram post
linked here https://www.instagram.com/reel/C-1jYpaMlZF/He talks on his experience.
And, if you look at pretty much any set of replies, o look. It's yt Australians in denial. Yt Australians bein racist. Yt Australians...
Ya get the idea, right?
And this is the thing.
Australia, as it turns out is pretty fuckin racist.
No. Really? A system built on ws colonial evil which didn't even repeal its white australia policy until '75 by having to bring in a law explicitly banning racial discrimination which also didn't get put into practice until the 1980s (Koowarta v Bjelke-Petersen, 1st case of Mabo v Queensland, 1982 and 1988 respectively)
Tho by that time the person who brought in the '75 act, Whitlam, was booted out by the representative of the British monarch. And voted against. Twice.
Cause it's a colonial fuckin hellscape down here.
Longest serving Australian PM was pro-Hitler Menzies, remember?
But thats' the thing here.
The racism is loud and obvious.
The racism is also casual as fuck.
Why?
Cause Australia is fuckin *painfully* yt.
Like, don't even get me started on demographics here.
Shit, man, for decades, they were restrictive even of which *type* of European was allowed here.
Ben Chifley, PM from '45 to '49 of the "we're totally nice, no really" Australian Labor Party, was such a staunch advocate for the White Australia Policy, that he went off on how much he hated letting in anybody from Southern Europe. And after that lil invective, his party got a 6.2 swing *towards* him in the election that got his position in in the first place. And I ain't even gonna link to what he said, cause it's fuckin disgusting.
Turbo fuckin bigotry down here.
And, of course, these systems from their outset are set up to primarily commit genocide on Indigenous peoples here.
Fuck, they held an Indigenous man in detention for 3 fuckin years, rendering him stateless and calling for deportation.
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2023/feb/19/all-i-know-is-australia-indigenous-man-left-in-immigration-detention-for-more-than-three-yearsAnd that's just the tip of the iceberg.
Cause this loud racism goes on, while also, fuck-all attempts to even *address* profiling happens here.
See here, which also brings us back to Eric Andre's statement.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-08-20/eric-andre-alleged-racial-profiling-melbourne-airport/104246072Now, you ask anybody who's been here what it's like, and the word 'racist' is bound to come up.
For good fuckin reason.
The ytness is fuckin *stifling*. The degree of racism is incredible.
Now, racism ain't a competition. There's plenty of it about.
But it's heavy as fuck here.
And this colony, maaaaan, fuck all is done to even accept the broader problem.
Let alone fuckin *do* something about it.
And 'Melbourne'? The 'multicultural' city? It's here too.
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"this is a common password."@shlee This is the first thing I say when I wake up.