• @gmtom@lemmy.world
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    25 days ago

    And I’m sure you personally have made moves to execute your worst politicians right? And have no ancestors that have done anything wrong in the past?

    • Norah (pup/it/she)
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      65 days ago

      Oh no, I absolutely have ancestors in my past that have done horrendous things. And I’m Australian, so they were also British subjects ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

      As for the executions, well I’d love to get my hands on Charles! #NotMyKing

      • @javiwhite@feddit.uk
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        75 days ago

        You don’t need to look that far back in all honesty. The Australian treatment of aboriginals has been abhorrent; and continues to this day.

        Time to get your guillotine out.

        • Norah (pup/it/she)
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          25 days ago

          Australians were considered British subjects right up until the ‘Australia Act’ of 1986. I still very much blame Britain for much of the way Indigenous Australians have been treated. In the same way that I put a lot of blame on Britain for the current war in Gaza. Or the escalating conflict between Pakistan and India.

          • @javiwhite@feddit.uk
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            5 days ago

            Well yeah, it’s an easy cop out to blame a country the other side of the world for your fellow countryman’s treatment of aboriginals.

            Introspection is hard; but deflecting the blame will do nothing to resolve the issue.

            Edit: Australia gained Responsible government (IE: making their own rules independent of the UK; though subject to higher laws like taxes etc) between 1855-1890… with full autonomy granted in the 1930s.

            So you lot have had around 100 years; and the treatment hasn’t budged… Let me guess; still not the Aussies fault eh?

            • Norah (pup/it/she)
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              5 days ago

              I never said it wasn’t Australians fault as well. This is a really reductive take that shifts the blame for colonisation. Fluffing hilarious that you’re a feddit.uk user. Cope much for your country destroying the world?

              Edit: Also, no, the Westminster Act was not full autonomy, it was the dual Australia Acts in both countries parliaments in 1986 that granted that.

              • @javiwhite@feddit.uk
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                25 days ago

                “as well”.

                You’re still deflecting. The current treatment of aboriginals is wholly down to your country. I ask again, why haven’t you got your guillotine out yet?

                  • @javiwhite@feddit.uk
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                    25 days ago

                    Exactly. And your inaction during the ongoing issues in your country aligns you with our common ancestors who did nothing way back when; so when’s the guillotine coming out?