Thanks for the answer. I disagree with the opinion regarding "sacrifices", "way of life" and so on, but it's one shared by the majority of Australians I talked to, so I can't really debate it. I do respect it however. It's something you consider culturally important. I hope you understand I see it in a different way as someone who came from a foreign country that could as well be invaded and have the same rethoric.
guismo
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Since I just made an account, I've been wanting to give my opinion on this for a while.
I agree that the usual reddit people would destroy a nice community like aussie.zone. But I wanted to mention that the bad kind of people from reddit would not try to find an alternative. They are happy there. There are decent people who want out, but don't know where to or how. I am very confused with lemmy (not that I am a decent person, that remains to be judged), and I would have appreciated more help. So helping people dissatisfied with reddit might be helpful as they are unlikely to be bad (or at least not belonging to the normal reddit bad) and wouldn't harm the community.
I have some other opinions as well but that was the main point I wanted to bring every time I see this kind of comment.
Ah yes, many of the ones I went to didn't have military history. Yet they made worship monuments just for the war in general. As a kind of obligation or something. I see RSL as just a place where people can go to gamble, so I don't even really associate it with military. It was much later that I learned that it's not just a gambling and drinking club, but something related to military which was a very weird mix to me.
ANZAC... yes... I dislike that a lot, but you can just avoid any event, unlike monuments everywhere.
Did your city not have any monument?