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submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

Got this in the mail. Not sure why the LNP is telling me all the great policies the Greens stand for. You'd think they'd want to portray the Greens in a bad light.


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A dark green letter, with "What do the Greens really stand for?" in large letters. Under that, three separate article headlines and sources:

  • Stop the Stage 3 Tax Cuts—www.greens.org.au, 16/01/23
  • Greens Back Defunding Police—The Daily Telegraph, June 2020
  • Abolish the Private Health Insurance Rebate—www.greens.org.au, 16/01/23
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[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Don't threaten me with a good time.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Haha, we posted the same thing at the same time. Good times all round.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Why are the Greens threatening us with a good time? They are good time extremists.

[-] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

Interesting, what are Aussie cops like then? Is it a similar situation to the US where people actually want them roving and replacing?

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

They're not nearly as bad here as they seem to be in America, but they do cause a lot of harm, especially to minorities. Things like punching peaceful protestors, sedating and inappropriately touching an indigenous child, saying that a domestic violence victim is "too ugly to be raped", a widespread culture of casually racist joking, and strip searching children as young as 13.

And speaking for my own personal interactions with them, when you do find yourself a victim, they often don't actually seem to care about enforcing the law, even if you can provide them with clear-cut evidence of what was done and who did it. At least if the reason you were a victim has to do with being part of some form of vulnerable group.

But you're far less likely to hear about them actually killing someone who didn't even appear violent.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

You forgot tasering 92 year old women in nursing homes.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

And killing her.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Yeah I also left off the one I usually like to bring up, the Pinkenba Six.

There are a lot of cases of quite blatant police abuse, and even more cases of highly questionable practices in terms of the value what they're doing provides to community safety.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I honestly think the only reason we don’t see more violence from Australian police (read police shooting people) is because Australia doesn’t have a strong gun culture. But I could be wrong

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