I am from Australia. It is much stricter than the US and has been for a while. They can detain and exile you to a detention island indefinitely, with much more undefined laws than the US has. The US is worse now than before, but it is no where near Nazi levels, and it’s not even the worst country, like try protesting in Japan or something lol.
I only mention this because comparing the US to the Nazi regime takes away from just how evil and authoritarian the Nazis were.
Fair enough. It was just an expression of my feelings, not something meant to be at all factually accurate. I’m aware that the ability to even express my true thoughts is a luxury many others are not permitted. I can’t imagine living in such a place.
I’d say I’ll try to be less insensitive to those facts (and to a point I will), but I’m getting older and have basically reached the point in life of just not giving much of a flying fsck what anybody else thinks (since most others also tend to also be hypocritically incorrect about things, but far too often less self-aware about that fact than I try to be). As such, I’m kinda set in my ways, and would just be lying if I claimed I wouldn’t do it again. Sorry if that hurts anybody’s sensibilities, but please understand that I just have reached my limit in trying to be a perfect human in a world dominated by those who most definitely aren’t.
For starters: Australia requires all unauthorized asylum seekers, whether arriving by boat or overstaying visas, to be detained, often without a fixed time limit, in onshore or offshore facilities. Average detention has been over 500 days; some cases extend to years. Facilities on Nauru and Manus have drawn international condemnatio, including UN findings of “inhumane” conditions, rights violations, and long-term psychological harm, especially for children. Reports document abuse, selfharm, sexual violence, deaths, and restricted access to basic services and legal recourse.
The Australian system is problematic because of apathy, the American system is problematic because of straight malice. And in Australia the supreme court recently ruled that indefinite detention without the prospect of release is illegal, in America the supreme court ruled Trump can sell immigrants into slavery.
I am from Australia. It is much stricter than the US and has been for a while. They can detain and exile you to a detention island indefinitely, with much more undefined laws than the US has. The US is worse now than before, but it is no where near Nazi levels, and it’s not even the worst country, like try protesting in Japan or something lol.
I only mention this because comparing the US to the Nazi regime takes away from just how evil and authoritarian the Nazis were.
Fair enough. It was just an expression of my feelings, not something meant to be at all factually accurate. I’m aware that the ability to even express my true thoughts is a luxury many others are not permitted. I can’t imagine living in such a place.
I’d say I’ll try to be less insensitive to those facts (and to a point I will), but I’m getting older and have basically reached the point in life of just not giving much of a flying fsck what anybody else thinks (since most others also tend to also be hypocritically incorrect about things, but far too often less self-aware about that fact than I try to be). As such, I’m kinda set in my ways, and would just be lying if I claimed I wouldn’t do it again. Sorry if that hurts anybody’s sensibilities, but please understand that I just have reached my limit in trying to be a perfect human in a world dominated by those who most definitely aren’t.
Well said
Australia is nowhere near as bad as the US. I don’t even know where to start correcting you.
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC5809830
For starters: Australia requires all unauthorized asylum seekers, whether arriving by boat or overstaying visas, to be detained, often without a fixed time limit, in onshore or offshore facilities. Average detention has been over 500 days; some cases extend to years. Facilities on Nauru and Manus have drawn international condemnatio, including UN findings of “inhumane” conditions, rights violations, and long-term psychological harm, especially for children. Reports document abuse, selfharm, sexual violence, deaths, and restricted access to basic services and legal recourse.
The Australian system is problematic because of apathy, the American system is problematic because of straight malice. And in Australia the supreme court recently ruled that indefinite detention without the prospect of release is illegal, in America the supreme court ruled Trump can sell immigrants into slavery.