[know.your.why]

It took a pandemic for me to become aware of how UNfree the people of Australia are. Before 2020 I always looked to AUS as a place I’d want to live someday. Now I know that the AUS gov’t is closer to a fascist style of rule than capitalist.

[SaveFerris]

[Before 2020 I always looked to AUS as a place I’d want to live someday. Now I know that the AUS gov’t is closer to a fascist style of rule than capitalist]

I thought pretty much the same thing - don’t remember what year, though, I came to the same conclusion. Always thought it was a good backup plan.

I still would have been driving on the wrong (right) side of the road...

[CFW]

“It took a pandemic for me to become aware of how UNfree the people of Australia are. Before 2020 I always looked to AUS as a place I’d want to live someday. Now I know that the AUS gov’t is closer to a fascist style of rule than capitalist.”

Remember Australia was established as a penal colony by the British. And, it wasn’t the inmates who lived, and reproduced, to eventually become the government officials. It was the prison guards. Fascism is in their blood.

[naturalman1975]

You've been deliberately spoon fed an utterly warped and misleading idea about Australia and you've just swallowed it whole. Somebody - I suspect it is most likely linked to China - has done its best over the last few years to try and split the US from one of its closest long term allies and they've used a lot of false information to do it.

There have been some problems in some specific parts of Australia - most notably the state of Victoria, which is the most far left state in the entire country (and it's where I live). But judging all of Australia on the basis of what happens in Victoria is like judging all of America based on what happens in California. It's not most of the country. It's one unusual part of the country.

And while there were some real problems in Victoria, there was also a lot of completely made up misinformation layered on top of that. Claims of police squads forcibly people, supposed concentration camps that never existed... there was just enough truth to make people believe a lot of lies.