batmangrundies

joined 1 year ago
[–] batmangrundies@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Fuck, imagine being this stupid.

Imagine me typing

I'm moving to Canada to be with my friends.

And still typing that dogshit-brained shit.

What a perfect example of why I'm moving. What a perfect example of vapid Aussie exceptionalism.

[–] batmangrundies@lemmy.world 29 points 1 year ago

Sounds like ARMA, walk for an hour and get shot from God knows where. Just like real life!

[–] batmangrundies@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Yeah, usually if I get stuck in my head I'll just go work in the garden. Bit of sunshine and toil usually gets me unstuck.

[–] batmangrundies@lemmy.world 19 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

The rule for all memes like this:

If you're like "yeah I sometimes do that," then you're likely just a normie. If you do stuff like this all the time, every time, well, maybe...

[–] batmangrundies@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

I can't say shit about my full set of motivations without breaking NDAs and doxxing myself unfortunately.

But Australia is worse off environmentally than the public knows. And so many of us that worked in environmental analysis for big engineering firms, which are contracted by government, defence and so on, are gagged.

When people try to blow the whistle, they are put into lengthy court battles which they never win.

I worked on a project a few years ago around water theft, one of the other attached contractors had an analyst go to the media, blowing the lid off the scope of the issue. I have no idea what happened to her exactly, but I know they buried her in court.

I'm moving to Canada, but more to be with friends, and spend the rest of my thirties and onwards enjoying my life. My twenties were brutal, I'm 35 and I've never had a holiday. I've been an activist for twenty years in Aus as well, this referendum and the result are painful.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-07-23/melbourne-water-supply-could-be-under-threat-within-a-decade/8735400

This, for instance, is in actuality a much more pressing issue than this 2017 article portrays.

[–] batmangrundies@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

You never see these pricks on the street. Fucking turn up in Melbourne and let the Sharpies sort 'em out.

I remember filling these cunts in when I was in my twenties. Big ups to the next generation, you have your work cut out. Happy to see ranks growing.

[–] batmangrundies@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Australia is way more racist than the US. And more right-wing.

The US just doesn't have compulsory voting, which means a minority of nutjobs can dictate politics. And even then, Trump lost.

Australia has compulsory voting and voted this way lol.

US is going through a labour organising revolution right now. While unions are left in the cold and experience dwindling power in Aus, even with the Labor party in power.

[–] batmangrundies@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (6 children)

Yeah, I've mentioned to some friends and family that my wife and I are moving overseas. I don't use Facebook or anything, I've purposely not engaged in discussions with them about the Voice.

And some of the hate and vitriol has been astounding. Full mask-off Aussie exceptionalism.

The Voice was just the nail in the coffin for us. We'd been considering moving for a while. I wish Aussies really knew how fucked our work culture is. And how shit our pay is relative to the cost of living.

They're living in a fantastical version of Australia sold to them by a nationalist media.

[–] batmangrundies@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

Yeah, folks are super reasonable compared to other social media sites, for the most part. The occassional nutter isn't propped up by some PR company bot net to drive engagement so they just end up downvoted into oblivion.

It's refreshing.

[–] batmangrundies@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Who is calling you a racist lol?

No voters woke up ready to shadowbox today. They'll do this all the way to the next election, regardless of what anyone says. The vote was done and they were acting like victims on social media immediately.

[–] batmangrundies@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

And I mean if you find yourself frequently susceptible to racist propoganda... Well, maybe....

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