• FumpyAer [any, comrade/them]
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        2 months ago

        I mean there's that, but also it's well known to Australians that their government has sold them out to be a client state of the US. On trade, allowing American military bases on the continent, and more.

    • DamarcusArt@lemmygrad.ml
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      2 months ago

      We are a US puppet state that constantly tanks our economy to please our American overlords. Some people pick up on that, despite the constant right wing propaganda shoveled down our throats.

      Others hate the US because like most Anglo countries, we compare our how hideously incompetent government and cruel, callous society to them. It's a societal get out of self improvement free card. "We might not be perfect, but at least we aren't as bad as America!"

      • DragonBallZinn [he/him]
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        2 months ago

        Can that be a thing whenever chuds in politics propose anything remotely fashy? In any non-US Anglo country, just call them ‘Americans’.

        Some TERF is running their mouth in the UK about how trans people are bad? Just exclaim “what are we a bunch of yanks?” instantly destroyed.

        • DamarcusArt@lemmygrad.ml
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          2 months ago

          Sadly, it's usually used in the opposite way, the TERF will go "at least we're not as bad as the yanks" to justify their own shitty behaviour.

    • bigbrowncommie69 [any]
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      2 months ago

      Nah there's a lot of hatred for the US in all the other anglophone nations.

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    • PointAndClique [they/them]
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      2 months ago

      We generally don't like Americans as a group, but will bend over backwards to say how our individual yankee mate from uni is actually a decent person if you get used to them. It's more from a sense of cultural inadequacy than actually having any cogent objections to the American empire (for the average person it's posited that America may be a big bully but they're our big bully against the inscrutable *rientals)

    • CloutAtlas [he/him]
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      2 months ago

      A lot of Australians "patriots" oppose the yankification of Australia