Helping America abuse the global south and stop the spread of communist democracy. What a joke.
I'm proud that the only war my grandad fought in was the only war in which we were the good guys for once, WWII.
Here's to the brave people who fought against facsism.
Fuck imperial Japan
Fuck Nazi Germany
Fuck Zionist Israel
Fuck South Korea
Fuck the US anti-communist empire
Fun story about my Grandad during WW2. He was stationed on an island shooting down Imperial Japanese planes. Near the end of the war they had next to no supplies. Their clothes were even rotting. Then the Americans swooped in late in the war after the hard work was done, with a ton of supplies and money from war profiteering, and instead of sharing supplies with their allies during a fucking war, they charged huge amounts of money for them. Needless to say, my Grandad came back from the war hating the Americans as much as the Japanese.
personal anecdote that anzac day always reminds me of: used to write for a yearly "satire" paper based in WA (quality is extremely questionable), whose main purpose most years was just pissing people off. We'd started going on a very left-leaning tilt around 2012, and I remember in 2015 we ran an article conflating ANZAC day with Participation Trophies
we got a number of calls that day calling us unaustralian, calling for us to be expelled, threatening us and all sorts lmao
ofc nothing came of it, all empty threats in the end but still it doesn't take much to poke the aussie patriotism bear
Lmao imagine being proud to be a colonial Australian.
Based paper, props for pissing off chuds
I call it biscuit day and long for a day when we can just celebrate baking and biscuits with no relation to the armed forces whatsoever.
I like burnt chewy so best of both worlds
Edit: but, gun to my head, I'd say chewy.
North Vietnam was the anti-communist side, wasn't it? My history isn't the best. I'll remove it if it's wrong
EDIT: removed. Please educate my dumb ass
North Vietnam was, in fact, the based one (which was victorious)
In this part of the parade is the people that killed Koreans for no reason, and in this part of the parade is the people that killed Vietnamese for no reason, and in this part of the parade is the people that killed Afghans for no reason, and in this....
Oh hoho don't be silly, there was a reason.
Profit.
Can't have communism spreading, that threatens our bottom line!
I'm sure australia's masters will thank them for pine gap and being a nuclear waste dumping ground. How are those submarines coming along by the way
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our remembrance day is on armistice day for WW1 (Nov 11)When I was a kid I felt like all the assemblies we had in school or other propaganda thing around it were around WW1, because it was a war that Canada conscripted for and the first time Canada sent its own army somewhere (instead of just being under the British).
Because everyone in WW1 is definitely dead, and the WW2 people are dying off, I feel like it's shifted towards all the wars we were clearly bad in (Korea, supporting Vietnam, modern Afghanistan).
I hate this "fighting for our freedom" shit, it's much like America's version of army support, except more lib and smug because we usually say "we were peacekeeping everywhere". Even though we supported the invasion of Vietnam, and mostly go along with whatever the USA does
remembrance day is on armistice day for WW1 (Nov 11)
We have that too, though it isn't a public holiday. It's the 'somber' counterpart to the jingoistic ANZAC day.
Especially given the whole Witness K business, I don't think we earn all that many point from our handling of East Timur.
I wonder if there was gas off the coast of West Papua if maybe we'd be doing anything there...
