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Today is Australia and New Zealand's war remembering day (ANZAC Day). Here's to mostly being a meat shield for the US imperial machine. (hexbear.net)

submitted 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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.

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 6 months ago (3 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 12 points 6 months ago

Lmao imagine being proud to be a colonial Australian.

Based paper, props for pissing off chuds

[–] [email protected] 10 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Prosh? Fucking loved that shit back in the day.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

might've been prosh ;) stalin-heart

[–] [email protected] 9 points 6 months ago

that's very funny

[–] [email protected] 13 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Fuck North Vietnam

are you sure about that one?

[–] [email protected] 14 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 20 points 6 months ago (1 children)

North Vietnam was, in fact, the based one (which was victorious)

[–] [email protected] 16 points 6 months ago

Thank you for making me slightly less ignorant

[–] [email protected] 13 points 6 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 months ago (1 children)

chewy or crunchy

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

I like burnt chewy so best of both worlds

Edit: but, gun to my head, I'd say chewy.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 6 months ago (1 children)

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....

[–] [email protected] 11 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Oh hoho don't be silly, there was a reason.

Profit.

Can't have communism spreading, that threatens our bottom line!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago

"We support our troops dying violently to make line go up!"

[–] [email protected] 10 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

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

[–] [email protected] 10 points 6 months ago (1 children)

In kkkanada 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

[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 months ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago

Serial killer convention