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Edit: Wow! Front page. Here’s some more from this satirical site (yes the article is satire for those asking questions about quotes etc). Most of the articles are very Aussie-centric, but still funny. Enjoy! https://www.theshovel.com.au.
Noob3rts
Ah yes, the ol' "shifting blame" technique.
ourari
r/murderedbywords
kanemano
There is a bigger change of the Australian actually reading 1984
kanemano
chance
KamikazeGerbil101
PickleQueef
Joe Rogan is far right? I don't listen to him really.
CaldariBob
I think he falls under the willfully ignorant dumbass category that's adjacent to the far right...
NKato
We need to start blacklisting these people from the international financial system.
acetothermus
The USA & the GQP, they're a hell of a drug.
GutsTheStruggler
Hi yes I'd like to talk about changing my dosage please?
acetothermus
Sorry your health "care" plan doesn't cover that.
GutsTheStruggler
What about if I offer my firstborn as collateral?
acetothermus
Sorry, we require more than a human body for tribute. What else have you got?
GutsTheStruggler
Crippling depression and anxiety?
Fyreworx
We have enough problems with out government monitoring us, but if anything our covid strat was far too slapdash from the fed.
Clayman8
A "police state" yes, not a "shootings are a national passtime state". They jealous i guess
300Hectares1TankofKerosene
I cant wait for the day people realize Joe Rogan is just a boring fucking idiot. He’s the Dane Cook of podcasts.
PickleRiiiiiiiiiiiiick
He's just a fat, louder, drugged out Dane Cook.
homoerection
I use to like his podcasts but ever since he’s turned into an antivax conspiracy theorist right wing nut job I just can’t
kibateo
well obviously that's because america isn't a police state, it's a murder state. Big difference.
MrFancyPanzer
They also like attacking Scandinavian countries.
darkstarmc
And Canada. Christ the "we can't believe it could happen here" bs on fox about Canada.
Bonchoman
The Nordic Model's free market w social benefits is THE WORST https://www.lifeinnorway.net/scandinavian-socialism/
Bonchoman
I live in socialist Norway where hellish incarceration forces re-education aiming to conform back into society, ie brainwashing
MarkoffChaney
Yeah it's horrible here in Finland. Can't even be homeless because our socialist goverment keeps paying my bills and giving me money.
NuthinButts
Yeah! With our communist socialism! And affordable healthcare! And HOLY JESUS THE TAXES! /s from a swede.
ButteredNoodleDriver
Orwell did famously describe Sweden as a totalitarian hellscape. Followed shortly by long, loud chortling session.
userfriendly19777
I live in this gunless Danish hellhole with a communist lack of murdering policemen.
RootMeanSqr
My sympathies for your lack of freedoms. /s
stlouiscardinalsfan7
Can we join you? My wife and I have been looking to leave the states.. seriously.. help.
ElusiveThing
While technically not Scandinavian, Finland would be happy to accept escaping Americans. Heavens know we have the space!
stlouiscardinalsfan7
For real? I assumed sweden, Norway and Finland would want nothing to do with us.
VraedenHughes
Wait really?
FarenDin
Yeah here in norway its just awfull...Juuuust awfull. Dont come here! We are all commies and socialists somehow. And thats like the worst.
FarenDin
/s
MrFancyPanzer
Far?
FarenDin
Gå å legg deg!
zaewin
Pappa?
MrFancyPanzer
Nei, vil ikke.
Headcase444
GOP Joe is at it again.
Autittuderp
I mean if the 'American Dream' isn't the biggest case of bait and switch in the world, Im not sure what is.
gimpymcgillicutty
Sounds like something a loser would say.
Autittuderp
Lastcentura
No ones even in lockdown any more most of Australia are also vaccinated
RandomQuack
Rogan has certainly gone off the deep end.
DavedandConfused
Can’t Americans just keep their crazy in their own country? They don’t have any moral high ground to talk about any other country
The701
Get your scrolling thumb ready... https://mkorostoff.github.io/incarceration-in-real-numbers/
Crowlands
Possibly the highest incarceration rate per capita in the world, too. Maybe less than North Korea. Which is a bar so low it's buried.
Crowlands
(Reports from NK are, obviously, suspicious as hell. But estimates seem around the same level as the US.)
Evilpercy
57% vaccinated. 46th in life expectancy. 17th in the world in freedom (Australia was 5th)
DangerTrain
Joe Rogan sure is busily picking up the dumbest fucking takes available. He is poison.
GerbilHereReportingLiveFromRichardGeresAss
He's a textbook definition of 'So open minded his brain fell out'
ministryofpeace
As an Australian, the majority of us are happy with our healthcare and corona strategies to date. Pollies are cunts to be sure, but doing ok
Empathau225
Majority of cops are pretty okay people, at least in QLD. You still get the occasional cunt, but most are stand up
fingobaggins
Same in country Vic
ministryofpeace
Glad we don't live in a third world country conditions in some states like Texas or Florida in the USA.
AManisNotACamel
Yep; we’re far from perfect. And way too many politicians are bought, paid for and corrupt arseholes. But….at least we’re not America.
TH3xR34P3R
We just need to sort all the corrupt BS when it comes to how everything is built and sold out.
ministryofpeace
Thanks for the downvotes Texans/Floridians/Republicans!
FunTimes8226
As someone in a third world country. What the hell are you talking about?!?
ministryofpeace
So where are you? let's do some comparison
ministryofpeace
Texan literacy rates are lower than Nicaragua. Only 2 percentage points off the Congo, and 4 percent off cambodia
ministryofpeace
Infant mortality in some Texas counties are as high as places like Nicaragua
ministryofpeace
Ok, specifics... Places like la presa, TX, have no potable water, no sewage, get flooded in and have to run generators
ministryofpeace
As they have no power. Even if they did, the grid is unstable in heat or cold.
Bmxrider70763
To be fair, we in the US are constantly having to filter out propaganda. Its everywhere and its been drilled into us since we were kids.
IAmDrBanner
If that is true one would expect you guys to be better at it.
Bmxrider70763
Only the ones who accidentally learn critical thinking skills. They sure don't teach about it in school. Or credit scores. Or actual history
TheMellowMoron
Only 17? Would've thought that number would've been higher than that
jamsplodge
It's not 17. Australia has had the grand total of 0 police killings this year. USA averages just over a thousand a year.
GaySocialistLiberalMuslimCommieAtheist
Well, when the american gov only recognizes a far lower than actually happened... statistics get odd to say the least. Officially we 1/2
GaySocialistLiberalMuslimCommieAtheist
Don't admit to many of the police forces crimes. 2/2
jamsplodge
I don't think this is police murders specifically. It includes that but also criminals shot and killed while doing crimes.
SquirtleSquad420
Depends on the time span they used. Was it 2020 numbers? The last 10 years? They probably didn't use the current year.
StanielRonathan
Remember, this has nothing to with the Aussies in the slightest, it's GOP chest beating to play to their base that they're freedom fighters
TheCoachAdair
Yep. They certainly fight freedom. ?
StanielRonathan
while deflecting from being the tyrannical authoritarians themselves. 100% domestic stunt, the redcapped morons don't ever see the replies
txchief11
This is the comment I came to find. The American GOP could not possibly care less about Australians, and neither could their constituency.
txchief11
Rudimentary straw man distraction from kleptocracy and oppression.
Lulabel73
My state, Victoria, is over 90% first dose of the vaccine and our hospitals are busy but not overrun. I’m fine here thanks.
MrKomisiripala
Author forgot to include where cops can rape suspects they arrested w/o any consequences
RoninOni
It’s not good satire, because they’ve actually said practically the very same thing multiple times. Satire is supposed to be ridiculous
RoninOni
There’s no way to be ridiculous enough
badasschemist
Jesus! I didn't even think about this happening. Unfortunately it doesn't surprise me
GravityVT
And then if the woman gets pregnant, she might not be allowed to abort the baby
CityYeti
There was a study about that. People would often hear, "Jesus Christ, another 14 year old!"
NoQuestionMarksInDeclarativeSentences
What? Link?
CityYeti
https://www.cnn.com/2018/10/19/us/police-sexual-assaults-maryland-scope/index.html
CityYeti
Second paragraph under the section that says "Victims include suspects and those police are supposed to protect"
InfinitusEquitas
AND shoot their dogs.
JackalopeElope
OperationRustysBlanket
Oklahoma is just lying than
Pclynn
Wow, for once I'm proud to live in Indiana.
smallfry513
What does such a law say
Capnrory
wait, what?
Ltjohnmcclane
This map is idiotic. Do you think there is a specific law that prohibits cops from sleeping with somebody in custody? Of course not.
TheCoachAdair
Read the Snopes piece on it. Makes a lot more sense.
Ltjohnmcclane
I did. The map is intentionally misleading. Ludicrous!
TheCoachAdair
The map is not misleading at all. The words, however…
Adsma2002
There is in Georgia
Ltjohnmcclane
Laws are usually written in blood so I'd love to hear how that one happened.
Adsma2002
Its been on the books for 20+ years.
Ltjohnmcclane
There's also no law prohibiting doctors from sleeping with patients. Or judges sleeping with prisoners. Context is everything.
gerthzilla
Wouldn't the custody thing here be the goocher though. Doctors aren't holding people against their will... In handcuffs
Ltjohnmcclane
Unless the doctor is doing it on the operating table......
TheLoveGiant
It's probably to make sure some fucking weirdo doctor is raping patients while they out cold, like that dentist in Seinfeld.
DoctorSniffles
Is that a real thing....?
lemmingninja
Rape by a cop is illegal in all states, but in 35 states sex with someone in custody isn’t per se rape. (It should be) this means that 1/
lemmingninja
If someone is in custody and a cop rapes them, the state would need to prove lack of consent in order to allege rape. Which is bananas 2/
JackalopeElope
There might be administrative punishment, but yes. https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/can-police-legally-rape-people-35-states/
ath1337e
The source you linked does not support that police can legally rape detainees. It states that in 35 states there isn't a law that makes...
ath1337e
... all sex between detainees and police rape, but if a police forces sex on a detainee, that's still rape in all states. Realistically...
Chimichanga007
Couple cops in Brooklyn went free after they r*ped a minor in their custody
CityYeti
This isn't surprising at all. The police are just another gang
DoctorSniffles
ACAB
DoctorSniffles
Zzzzz1
Cruz’s lips look like my cats asshole
malliz
Don't insult your cat like that.
CaldariBob
Agreed. Less shit probably comes out of the cat's butthole.
Zzzzz1
True. I am sorry.
Pokegeologist
Lost a good friend who lives near Birsbane because she claims Nazis took over her government. She drank deep of the Qool-Aid.
sjg1711350
Shot man, you're saying that on a site where a lot of people claim everything is Nazism
Pokegeologist
I mean I've got extended family that point to everything done to prevent unchecked spread of COVID as proof of Nazis running the joint. :/
ministryofpeace
WTF, Brisbane has had the pretty close to the least lockdowns of anywhere here....sorry your friend got so delusional
Pokegeologist
I'm American, she's Australian. It's sad she got the taste of Q and didn't back away. It started for her with gamergate.
Pokegeologist
Suddenly she's showing me Tim Pool videos every night and it got impossible to deal with.
Pokegeologist
These last two elections really stretched our friendship beyond the breaking point and made me question reality.
my1rstlaptopwas34inchscreenup
i used to like rogan
DistractedDayDreamer
?
sjg1711350
I still like him, because I've treated every podcast from the start like he's a crazy uncle going off on tangents,thought that was the point
Zemalucoh
Same. Now I glad he's out of YouTube.
NoQuestionMarksInDeclarativeSentences
Did they take down his podcasts, or did he?
BurnieCinders
I stopped somewhere in the episode 500-700 area. I miss duncan trussell talking about psychadelic flu.
PieAndPunch
If you haven't seen it yet you should check out Duncan's show Midnight Gospel
NoQuestionMarksInDeclarativeSentences
I did. I hated it.
PieAndPunch
doobiedoobop
Yeah he got incredibly bitter about covid and cultural war nonsense and won't stop whining about it. The JRE sucked after the RB got deleted
WizardCastingShade
The RB?
backpacker1022
My friend is totally brainwashed by his show. Takes EVERYTHING Rogan says as 100% truths.
my1rstlaptopwas34inchscreenup
yeah. kinda the reason i don't like him. it's a cult of personality
Ialwayslookhungover
THAT'S ROGAN?! Jesus, covid aged him like bad cheese.
AManisNotACamel
Long Covid working it’s magic.
TheActualDonKnotts
Several years of roids too.
PieAndPunch
That and eating nothing but fuckin bison for who knows how long
Bukkhockey
I haven't listened to him since Spotify, is he far right, comparable to Candice Owens? That seem unlikely to me
my1rstlaptopwas34inchscreenup
don't know much either m8. he took ivermectin when he got covid
williagr
I mean... he was PRESCRIBED ivermectin. He didn't just go to the store pick it up.
SquirtleSquad420
He has far right guests in far more often now.
erulabs
No, he’s not far right, like at all. He’s a dumby but he’s not a right winger.
ABillionDucks
He is a right winger.
L3NTON
If he spouts all the same conspiracy garbage as they do does it make a difference what his affiliation is?
BenderBendingRrrrrrodriguez
He platforms Shapiro, Crowder, Peterson, and Alex Jones, among others. Seems like he's right-motivated, or trying to appeal to righties
erulabs
“Platforming”? You mean interviewing? You can interview someone you disagree with… Peterson isn’t a right winger either.