Sydney celebrates end of 107-day lockdown

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I look forward to the day when Australia celebrates the end of shooting and beating its own people.

You can't make a horse drink. From what I've seen on Australian subreddits, their populace is very authoritarian and craves even more control over their lives and beating down of anyone who resists (e.g. mass celebration of police brutality against lockdown protesters).

With that and the phone spying, gun bans, crazy COL, etc. I'd absolutely never want to live there. It's unpopular to say on the internet but I'm thankful I was born in the US above anywhere else.

>from what I have seen on Australian subreddits

What else do you expect on nu-reddit? All the anti-authoritarian deplorables were banished long ago. Just because the silent majority have been silenced does not mean that we do not exist.

Please don't take HN threads into nationalistic flamewar. It's not what this site is for.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Its such a shame that the new premier for NSW (state governor equivalent?) Has brought his rosaries and prayer beads to the table and is now in the business of openly appointing other ministers who are also catholic. His main criteria for the new police minister is that they are catholic. The outlook is very texas-like, where women wanting abortions may lose access to them, etc.

So, call this Freedom Day as Sydneysiders do, but watch the freedom fritter away under the new regime.

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