To any Australians, Europe is in total anarchy, expats are out pricing natives on the housing market and gentrifying cities while living in their own expat shadow society. They don’t even integrate, they don’t respect the local culture and you can’t even speak the native language in many yuppie neighborhoods anymore. smh.
I’ll just leave this here…
Since when are expats refugees?
The point i was making but it doesn’t need explaining if you (want to) think about it.
This is what made me reply:expats are out pricing natives on the housing market
Have a nice day.
Okay fine even if the housing market problem isn’t the fault of expats, that they don’t want to be part of the local community and don’t even learn the local language is just straight up disrespectful. Why move abroad then? And I’m not asking them to speak the local language at a high level. They even refuse to learn the basics. I know many expats who live here in the Netherlands for more than half a decade and they can’t even string a basic sentence together. And these are people who pride themselves for being educated and having master degrees. It’s just elitism, they don’t see themselves as immigrants so they feel like integrating is beneath them since that’s what immigrants do. If these were brown working class immigrants people would call them out immediately for their lack of effort, yet because these are white high educated expats it’s somehow okay. And before you say “but their kids will learn the language” Nope these elites even feel the public education system is beneath them so they send them to private international schools where they barely learn Dutch. So even their kids can’t speak Dutch. I’m a son of immigrants and my parents had to work hard to integrate and learn the language and fight for respect and their place in the community. That these expats don’t give a shit about it all and everyone thinks that it’s fine is just a slap in the face of immigrants like my parents.
On that we agree.
On society’s perception: if you’re rich you’re an investor (or educated expat), if you’re poor you’re an immigrant.
So… not sure if that’s where the picture comes from, but what seems to be happening in Europe right now is roaming gangs of nazis causing violence.
I’m impressed by the dilligence seeding the lie, just in case the news pierces the veil.
Europe = One town in Spain.
There are plenty of right wing extremist groups all across Europe. I’d not call them ‘roaming’ but they’re here, and they’re visible.
It’ll only get worse.
I’ll take care of it.
I can imagine an Auzzie tabloid running that story if that happened England, in part for funsies, but what’s the beef with Europe?
I imagine it’s far right propoganda to distance their viewers from considering views coming from France/Spain to be reasonable, and wanting them to listen to views coming from elsewhere that agree more with their rhetoric. The only real article Ive seen from them was about criticizing their own ambassador because “Trump doesn’t like him.”
More like “pooppaganda”.
It’s Rupert Murdoch (and his bastard spawn Lachlan), owner of Fox News, The Sun, Sky News Australia, and more. The master of misinformation, sensationalism, and ragebait. He’s been doing this everywhere for such a long time now.
The master of misinformation, sensationalism, and ragebait.
It’s not even really that good. It’s just everywhere. Flip on your TV, turn on the radio, pop open a browser, and you’re hit with a legion of professional reactionaries screaming “Whitetopia Has Fallen! Brown Menace End Times Are Upon Us!”
There is no longer anything resembling “normal” news. It’s just wall-to-wall cop worship, racism, and crime hysteria.
They should ask any dog/cat/horse breeder what happens if you don’t mix the genes outside of the same group.
Or an Hapsburg, sure. Doesn’t keep eugenicists from trying.
Racism.
australias border policies are even more draconian then those of europe, the aim is to claim moral legitimacy by making a (racist obv) self defense argument. Most racism is rooted in self defense about some paranoid story
We did our immigrant hysteria 20 years ago. Nobody is talking about it now, and it would not be beneficial for the right to start, so no its not that because no party gives a fuck.
I just looked out of the window and I can confirm: we’ve not fallen ( Luxemburg).
Moïen!
here in Austria we have fallen (below 30°C)
Same in Sweden, and thank fuck for that. I can’t handle 28C+, it’s just uncomfortable. The past 4 days have been over 30C but today it’s been 23C at most with several short bursts of rain with thunder. A few were right over my apartment so I’ve really enjoyed opening a window and sitting by it with a cup of tea just listening to the rain and thunder, and then when it fades away the birds start singing, so damn cosy!
Lucky you. We’re tomorrow at 41C.
I am atheist but just yesterday I prayed to god for not pushing us above 30° for the next 2 weeks in eastern Germany. I am melting over here and did not sign up for 38°C temperatures, so the siberian winds are a godsent for me. I wish you all the strength to get through this heat my friend!
Yeah can’t wait for autumn…
Congrats!
i am ready to fall asap
Sky News Australia is complete batshit, as opposed to Sky News in the UK which is more “normal” mainstream news.
Curious, is this a joke? I’m not familiar with their broadcasts in Europe or Australia
Took me a while to find this, sorry, but here is a bias fact check for Sky and for Sky Australia
Nope, it’s serious. Sky News Australia is owned by Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp, which explains the far-right lunacy that it is known for.
Sky News UK is owned by Comcast, and is generally considered to be a much more professional and respectable news outlet. Not perfect, but more BBC than Fox News.
I was more familiar with the UK one and thought I came across a fake account when I first saw the Australian one. It felt like an over exaggerated caricature of far-right rage bait
Ah that makes sense, so Sky News UK is basically NBC in the U.S. (Also owned by Comcast)
Yes but only because Comcast bought UK Sky a few years ago off of Murdoch.
Are you insane? It’s just as biased and rage bait in the Uk and the comments on their YouTube videos are just right wing monsters.
in Germany all public broadcasters have turned off comments because of russian bots and right wing nutjobs. It’s a sad state of affairs everywhere
I’m talking about the actual television channel and news site. They’re very different to the Australian Sky News which is just a soapbox for crazies.
the comments on their YouTube videos are just right wing monsters.
What do you expect? YouTube comments are always a cesspit.
“Anarchy!” screams the caption of a photo of a group of police apprehending a couple of people.
West Norway, it’s falling hard. Serious rainfall that is.
And sun, at the same time, blue skies and pissing rain when going to the shop.
Europe Has Fallen! Gangs Run Rampant!
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We had similar shit years ago when Americans thought Europe is communist. Or years later when Americans thought Sweden became a Muslim state. Or any other bullshit a 12 year old or someone with the mind of a 12 year old believed in the last decades.
And every time the epicentre of stupidity is Rupert Murdoch. No wonder they love Russia. Both are masters of making up insane bullshit.
Maybe Murdoch is the epicentre, but I remember Oprah being very worried on her show because the socialist party came third in the Dutch elections (in the early 2000’s).
Did she ever know that the socialist (well, social-democratic) party ruled Spain from 1982 to 1996 (first part with absolute majority), from 2004 to 2010 and from 2019 up until now?
And here I was thinking I can’t dislike that woman even more.
The Socialist party was first in Portugal… let’s forget it’s barely socialist but ok.
Oh and up until recently the (actual) Communist party was third.
Europe hasn’t fallen, its just as racist as ever.
More deranged far right media tossing smoke grenades at and setting off fireworks in the faces of already deranged right-wingers, calling it WWIII. Earth keeps turning, sun keeps burning.
2025: RIP in peace Europe
EUROPE HAS FALLEN
AH IS OUT OF MY BRAND OF SOY MILK
I live in California.
Do you know how many fearful conservatives have told me the place I live in has collapsed into a wasteland of violent criminal chaos? I can only go outside to check and make sure they’re wrong so many times before I just have to assume they’re fucking idiots.
Reminder that Australia produced the shitstain gutter scum that we call Rupert Murdoch.
Bro I’ve spent some time in South Texas and conservatives don’t know there has been a border wall since mid 00s.
portland here. same issue. i have people who visit that refuse to leave my house because they are terrified of the city. many aren’t even conservative and are liberal. propaganda has done it’s work well. it’s hilarious and sad.
Australia also runs concentration camps for refugees on remote islands with practically no legal oversight. The Aborigines were considered part of the local “fauna” until the 1960s.
Australia gets way to less flak for how deeply deeply racist that country is.
The reality is not better, but the “fauna” thing is a common myth
up until the 1930s Australia had ships that would kidnap indigenous people to enslave them for plantations in a practice called blackbirding
Australia itself was a concentration camp for prisoners just saying ;)
I feel obligated to provide some context here.
Australia certainly is, like most countries, “deeply racist” but exactly what that means and how we compare to other countries is contentious.
Calling immigration detention facilities “concentration camps” is disingenuous and has connotations that dont apply. At last count in 2021 there were 107 residents, all of whom could leave at any time, and were provided multiple resettlement options outside of Australia.
There are criticisms to be made but they are not “concentration camps”.
The fauna thing is an obvious myth that doesn’t withstand a moments critical though. There’s a more comprehensive rebuttal here:
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-03-20/fact-check-flora-and-fauna-1967-referendum/9550650
Australia does have deeply embedded tensions around race. They’re not easily solvable problems. Are more salient example might be the recent rejection of the voice referendum, but that would take more than a few moments to read and understand.
Calling immigration detention facilities “concentration camps” is disingenuous
Someone hasn’t heard of Nauru and the Pacific Solution…
The sentence you quoted links the Wikipedia article about the pacific solution, and the paragraph explains why calling them concentration camps is disingenuous. Well done.
Hey, Kevin said sorry so it’s all good now.
Then we had the voice referendum and all the racists came out of the wood work for that one
I’m aboriginal and I voted no.
The way to solve racism isn’t to create more destinctions between us. I already have a voice in parliment. I voted for them and they were elected.
I’m aboriginal and I voted yes, almost all aboriginals in the Northern Territory wanted the voice to go through.
People out in the communities don’t get any meaningful representation in Australia.
But that is not an issue unique to one race. Pakastanis who live in the northern territory do not have meaningful representation. Should they get a bespoke group of representatives too? What about Sweedes? Or Brazillians? Or white Australians?
This is a problem with our democracy, not a race problem. Why make it one?
Everywhere in Cali must look like the beginning of Predator 2. Frankly it’s amazing that any infants survive to gang member age.
Moved to a countryside far away from any major cities with my family so kids could go to good school without restless folks who don’t want to integrate. Very peaceful, 0 african or middle eastern law breakers here.
Good to know your racism is working out for you.
Just a bigot and their incestuous family.
See I can be hyperbolic too.
Funny as I live in Manchester, a major city and I see great schools and lots of integration. After all it’s the ex-pats who came to live here that clean up after riots and bombs, not us natives.
kinda sounds like you’re the one who doesn’t want to integrate
