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I hate immigrants so much bros. Coming here and appropriating our culture. YWNBAA 
Filthy English coloniser and schizo rightoid shows up, 
about woke mind virus
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Young? People have been on this land since before it was even an Australian continent. It's old, old as can be.
Regardless of whether the lyrics are right or not, in the grand scheme of things our country is young.
Mate, the Australian grand scheme goes back 50,000 years. This is archaeologically and scientifically proven, why pretend otherwise? Be proud.
White people think everything started with them stealing it.
Those are two completely separate things. Australia being an internationally recognised country happened in 1901, colonisation happened 130 years earlier. There were people on this land before colonisation and there were things here before people even arrived but the country of Australia did not exist until 1901.
Hence "young" in the lyrics.
I am not pretending otherwise I am just saying that out of all the internationally recognised countries, Australia is one of the youngest. I am proud of the ancient history of this land however that history was not during the time that this country existed as a country.
It's both. But if you believe our national identity should focus on just one heritage rather than embracing ALL Australians, then go ahead and sing "young"—no one cares.
Wasn't Australia then though.
There wasn't an Australia in 1788 either, but that doesn't stop you from celebrating Australia Day. Funny about that.
That's when it was colonised and it became the country of Australia in 1901 when federation happened. Not sure why you mentioned Australia Day.
We are one and free
Nope and we never will be. Never forgot the people who built and died for this country sang "young and free"
Oh please. Go learn your history. That version of the National Anthem started in the mid 1980s. What people who "built and died for this country" are you talking about?
Woke PM Scott Morrison changed the word from young to one in 2021
These comments show that people just make up scenarios in their head then get mad at it.
Yeah, the Lefties.
They live rent-free in your head, don't they?
Absolutely they do. They've been tearing the Western world apart before our very eyes for the last decade and a half. In fact, if they don't live rent free in your head, I'm more worried about you than anything. Do you just simply enjoy casually watching the West burn at the hands of radical socialist nutters?
Average day for me
6:00 I wake up and remind myself to stay woke for the day
6:15 I make a fair trade oat milk latte and read Jacobin
6:30 Check my Centrelink (I have BPD and dysphoria)
8:00 Go to gender studies school
10:00 Smoke-o (actually, i vape, thanks)
10:15 Critical race theory class
12:00 Lunch (vegan) and a sit-in for Palestine in the cafe
1:30 Marxism lessons
2:00 Go home (I ride a bike, 3 abreast in the right lane)
2:30 Relax with some impossible nuggets and watch my favorite streamers
10:00 Bed time with my 2 transmasc boyfriends (we are a gay polycule)
This is the future all of us leftists want for Australia and you will be forced to assimilate
!nonchuds what have you done today to destabilise western nations?
It's funny how bang on you are, yet you're trying to be facetious. This is precisely what these nutjobs want. Watch a few of these ffs: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLm4SIfXIAyzWD-R2yOQPmDtsvoBTtfzxz
I opened the link and then saw it was that right wing nutjob from Sky News and closed it. If you're going to try and prove an ideology is insane, Sky News isn't a good source
Yeah you're right, we didn't have major corporations at all trying to not even promote Australia Day. What a made up scenario, am I right?!
You think major corporations should be forced to promote public holidays?
The supermarkets stopped selling tacky Australia Day merchandise made in China because it wasn't profitable. That's the reason.
This exactly! If there was even a small profit still in the practice they would bleed it dry. Didn't one of the supermarkets even say that they had been throwing out thousands of dollars worth of Aus Day stock that no one was buying?
I'll only assume that if you drape it over your fricking shoulders like a cape.
I love seeing Asian-descent Aussies with the Aussie flag draped over their shoulders with Aussie Tatts on their faces having a barbie in the park etc Beautiful!
I went to a food factory a few weeks ago was sold frozen meat pies by the most bogan Asian I've ever met. Puts the whites to shame.
Who thinks that?
Lefties.
Maybe they assume that about you because you are a right wing nutjob?
I'm not right wing in the slightest. Also not a nut job. I subscribe to common sense, logic, and reasoning, of which the Left is barren.
We can see your comment history bro.
And? You're a complete nobody.
Here's what I think and where they align:
• Closed borders and strong border security (Centre)
• No uterus, no opinion. All life is an inconsequential accident of nature and abortion is not murder (moderate Left)
• No one should have access to firearms except trained professionals such as police and military (moderate Left)
• All religion should be officially abolished and should no longer be able to influence anything real (moderate Left)
• Free speech must be protected at all costs and covers ALL speech. "Hate speech" included (Right-leaning)
• LGBTQIA2+LMNOP nonsense has gone way too far and needs to be dialled back and restricted so that people with zero understanding of how the world works are not longer able to influence it (Right-leaning)
• Everyone should be able to shag whoever they'd like (Left-leaning)
• Promiscuity is not a negative thing whatsoever (moderate Left)
• male feminists, libertarians, and certain murderers should be hanged and made an example of (I have no idea where this fits on the political spectrum)
I don't see a whole lot of Right-wing nutjob there.
And that's relevant because..?
Because you're a nobody trying to tell me what I am or am not. I'm not Right-wing. I'm just not a complete idiot and can see what the Left has done to the Western world.
Dude…. As I said: your comment history is there for all to see. There's two options here:
1 You know you're a right winger but you're trying to pretend you aren't. That'd be pretty stupid given the aforementioned comment history.
2 You genuinely believe you're not a right winger. That would just prove you're stupid because your comment history shows nothing but right (or alt-right) talking points and socio-political leanings.
So which is it? Stupid or really fricking stupid?
You Lefties came out with the 300,000,000 genders bollocks, I'm just the one taking the piss, so you really haven't got a leg to stand on here. Common sense tells us there are only 2 genders. Too easy.
The same common sense that says the earth orbits the sun? Just because you observe it through your biased lense doesn't make it true.
Your first mistake was calling it an "invasion". You're welcome, by the way.
"you're welcome" too Yankee.
I'm English you mong.
Ok, Pommy, just wondering why you were using that typical Americanism "you're welcome" + passive-aggressive posturing. So your people invaded this country and you're experiencing hurt feelings because someone said so? I guess you're one of those who thinks Cecil Rhodes was a hero and the East India Company was the best thing that ever happened to all those brown people?
No one invaded this country. We found a large piece of unclaimed land, colonised it, created an actual civilisation, and even left the natives alive. That's more than can be said for the Spanish. You don't hear the Aztecs or Incas banging on about how their lives are so hard with all this modern technology. Oh yeah… there's none left to b-word & moan. I don't know who Cecil Rhodes is.
The only "East [____] Trading Company" I know of is based in Solitude, Skyrim. So I'll say it again: You're welcome.
It is our country, though. That's precisely my point. As a Brit & and an Australian, this is my country. The indigenous themselves considered themselves "custodians" of the land and specifically not "owners" (considering they had no concept of ownership). That makes it free real estate. Sorry. Them's the facts, and the funny things about facts is… drumroll They don't care about your feelings.
There it is. The very thing you Leftists swear you're against. While it's not technically racism, it's certainly prejudice towards a specific nation. You people are all the same. Proper airheads, the lot of ya.
Shooting fish in a barrel. Can't you make it a bit harder, snowflake?>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Keep yapping, lil bro.
I'm a lefty and I don't care. Even as a lefty I'd proudly display the flag.
Do you believe in 300,000,000 genders and that cis straight white males are the root causes of all problems in the world? Do you absolutely despise Donald Trump and think he's the second coming of Hitler? Do you believe we should be giving children hormone blockers and allowing them to "transition" into make believe nonsense, likely sterilising them in the process? If not, you're not a "Lefty". You're just a left-winger or left-leaning person. "Lefties" are radical socialists hellbent on tearing the Western world apart.
How much time do you spend each day being outraged by the woke mind virus?
Depends on who many stupid posts/comments I come across from dumb Lefties 🤷♂️ And I'm glad you acknowledged the woke mind virus. The infection's running rampant at the moment but it all stops in less than a week.
What's happening in a week? Something with the planetary alignment? It's supposed to peak in a bit more than a week though
Haha funny. You know exactly what happens. At least 4 years of no-nonsense America will have an incredible flow on effect to the rest of the West. People have already started to feel safe & confident enough to speak up again without the threat of being cancelled.
Do you sleep with Fox news on in your bedroom?
I don't have access to American television so I've never seen it.
You don't have access to brain cells, either.
More than you 🤷♂️
You're so terminally online you named an account ApacheGenderCopter to spew culture war shit, touch grass kiddo
Then you're not a Lefty. "Lefty" refers specifically to the socialist radical wokies pushing anti-Western agendas at every opportunity.
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Me for one I don't like it and would never do it but whatever - someone like the OP sounds like his heart is in the right place. Flag waving like this has not always been a thing here and I always associate it with the more rank displays of excessive American patriotism. No offence to the OP at all I'm glad he likes it here and wish him well and I love this place too but there's too much nationalist bullshit going on these days.
There's far too little nationalism going on nowadays. We're taught in our schools to hate our country and that our history is nothing but evil. We are told that there is absolutely nothing special about being Australian and that somebody fresh off the boat that disagrees with everything we stand for as a people is equally as Australian as somebody whose family have been here for generations.
Get real - calm your farm - none of that is true.
It most certainly is true. During my public education I was taught multiple times throughout high school of the evils of the first fleet, the stolen generation, how bad the white man was. Is somebody who has come to Australia and believes the opposite to us but manages to get citizenship an Australian in your eyes? Because they are to many. Is Australian an ethnic group and if not, what is being an Australian?
My mate's grandfather used to kidnap indigenous children. He was objectively a very bad man. My mate even tells me how horrible and racist his grandfather was. The people who used to kidnap indigenous children were often bad people.
When I was a child I remember crowds of white people gathering outside the house of an indigenous family on the next street to scream racist abuse at them well into the night.
That's what Australia was actually like in many places. There's no point hiding the truth. Kids need to know different parts of our history. That's very different to teaching them to hate Australia.
Okay, do you believe that we should teach the barbarity and cruelty of aboriginals before colonisation? Should we teach about the prolific infanticide? The cruel punishments of spearing people in the leg, often for them to then starve? Or should we be hiding that truth?
wtf are you on about?! I'm all for teaching the good and the bad.
But we don't teach any of the bad about aboriginals in public education in Australia. It is incredibly sanitised.
You could always leave?
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That's conservative paranoia, bit like thinking someone's out there is banning you from celebrating Australia Day!
City of Greater Geelong 2022-2024 would like a word. Yes, some places have tried to stop people from having an Australia day.
Right wing conservatives aren't a things here we aren't America
There are no rightoids on rDrama. 
The Australian flag is our national flag you fly what you want to fly but don't start this colonial rubbish
"don't start this colonial rubbish" It's literally a British colonial flag. Its primary purpose was to appear British, not Australian. That's why it follows the same standardized template and color scheme as hundreds of other colonial flags throughout history—most of which now sit gathering dust in museums..
Take it to /r/vexillology, flag strags
In a show of true German autism, Germoid shows up and posts enormous dossier on flag protocols or something. Idk I didn't read it. https://old.reddit.com/r/australian/comments/1i1t8me/hanging_flag_off_balcony/m7dyftu/?context=8
im an immigrant but if u hate Australia why dont u leave? this is the best country on earth no doubt
Rule 4 - Racism in any form is prohibited.
Nothing wrong with that! I'm an American and I fly the flag wherever I go. I have an American flag jacket, American flag jeans, and several pairs of American flag undies (those are only for the ladies to see, lmao). I fly a big American flag off my pickup truck. There's no greater country in the world than America, but your country is cool too, so nothing wrong with being proud of it, I guess
That's a bit excessive. Especially off your "pickup truck", it's giving wanker.
I can see why you'd be reluctant to fly your flag everywhere, given your country's history. But America has always been on the right side of history, so you can never have too much flag!
Ah, you're a troll. Shoulda guessed
Not beating the stereotypes with that comment.
Hey now. We're not all stupid. 💪💪🇱🇷🇱🇷
Wrong flag mate. 🇲🇾 Here's what your looking for
It's literally a mix of the two, but ok smarty pants.
You know you can google what the Australian flag looks like right?
I don't trust Google.
It might have saved you some embarrassment in this case.
Just because I have a refined appreciation for privacy doesn't mean I have something to be embarrassed about.
Is it wrong to be proud to be an Aussie? Should we be ashamed?
Nothing wrong with a little pride, keep it healthy and it'll be a pride we all can enjoy, although not a lot has made me proud in recent years. A fair bit of the opposite actually.
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The issue isn't pride in itself, it's how performative nationalism distracts from the real problems we should be confronting. There's so much in our history and present that demands accountability, change, and improvement. Wasting time patting ourselves on the back for some abstract idea of 'being proud' feels hollow when we could use that energy to actually make this country better for everyone.
You sound fun
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Do you feel the same about people who fly the aboriginal flag?
I'm proud of a lot. I also love my country. Perhaps you can go elsewhere if you aren't.
Wont change the fact that I wont ever be mentally colonized by any country to feel proud of a "location" That's not particularly relevant to individuals, only people who lack self worth and try to leech it from things bigger than themselves or dead people's achievements
Yea go ahead and celebrate your colonization. Maybe hike to the top of Uluru to celebrate!
Lol. These comments are stupid.
No, your ignorance is, someone should crack an egg on your head, buddy
Who?
The left
Says who?
Sky news
All the "invasion day" wankers.
I think it might be considered a hate crime in Victoria but everywhere else you should be right.
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Native-born Westerners see hatred of their countries as a mark of sophistication. The only way to save patriotism in the West is to mass import patriotic immigrants !nonchuds !neolibs !neocon
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This is poor peoples fault for being patriotic in such a fat disgusting way that we all cringe when we see our own flags
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There's nothing wrong with displaying patriotism but it's usually displayed by either the biggest troglodytes or mongoloid boomers. The solution is for everyone to embrace it so it becomes a normie thing, then the whore attention displays will diminish.
!macacos falando nisso eu sempre cringiei vendo aquelas camisetas verde-amarelo que os funcionários da Havan usam e com aquela fala "acreditamos no Brasil" na parte de trás. Como se a estátua da liberdade
que eles colocam na frente das lojas não fossem o suficientemente cafonas.
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