I WANT IT I WANT IT I WANT IT I WANT IT
WHY WASNT I BORN AUSTRALIAN
ITS NOT
FUCKING
FAIR
I WANT IT I WANT IT I WANT IT I WANT IT. WHY WASNT I BORN AUSTRALIAN. ITS NOT. FUCKING. FAIR
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Just build an El Camino. Being born in Australia is a fate worse than death
you miss out on its truly horrific handling characteristics
also this, you pretty much have to be a criminal at all times
just import a chevy tornado.
You can have this in America for only slightly more than the cost to buy or run in AUS.
>get wrecked SS
>get wrecked Ute from aussland
*weld*
Your VIN is still the SS with some customizations.
Thank you amerinaggers for not letting us export these which resulted in the death blow to our car industry
You sent us 5 different cars, the only reason you didn’t send these was because your economy was too trash to reasonably price them.
most economically literate american in the universe
Your economy is reliant on the US giving you preferential trade
and your economy is reliant on israelites and asians to continue existing
>coping
You are reliant on a country whose economy is reliant on israelites
This isn’t the dunk you think it is
our economy is actually reliant on mining and construction but i'm sure you already knew that
And who owns the mines? Who pays for the construction/owns the property being developed? Either China or the US. And this isn’t a new development, either. The oldest snd largest mining companies in Australia were formed by joint US-UK business interests during the colonial era and most still exist. Prior to WW2 your country was at the mercy of the British Empire providing for you, and since WW2 the American Empire. Now you’re transitioning to the Chinese Empire. GG no re
Bhp does most which is an Australian company followed by rio tinto which might be spanish and then fortescue, newcreast and south32 which are all australian
>Billiton
Partial Dutch ownership
>Rio Tento
Partial British ownership
>Fortescue
Australian I’ll grant you, but reliant on Chinese customers
>Newcrest
Subsidiary of american Newmont mining company
>south32
Subsidiary of Billiton
>partial
You obviously didn't read the post anyway lol
Cope
They literally had Pontiac sport trucks ready to be shipped when GM scrapped the brand. Holden had to sell them to the aussie public as "limited editions"
You do realize America drives on the other side of the car right? They didn’t literally have sport trucks waiting to go
Commodores were sold out 6 months to a full year in advance lol, buying one new meant being on a waiting list for a long time.
holden died because gm are absolute shits it has nothing to do with anything in australia
>Australian labour demands six figure incomes, three hour lunch breaks, and three months of vacation every year to build a car that isn’t marketable anywhere else in the world
>”wtf why did they cancel production?!!????”
Maybe you shouldn’t have sold all your industry to foreign conglomerates in the hopes their corporate welfare would prop up your nation’s economy,
Fucking sick of australians, practically african-tier in terms of their gibs entitlement mentality
why are you so upset are you THE general motors?
>stop telling the truth, it is harmful to my agenda
Eat my shit
what truth your post is completely unrelated to what i said
>state truth
>”stop defending corporations”
This is all your ilk ever respond with, because you have no actual counterpoint
what the fuck are you even talking about
Sorry your shithole doesn’t have a strong Union culture. General Motors had been wanting to exit the right-hand drive Market for a long time, Aus domestic taste had Changed to SUV’s, GM immediately exited after their obligation to the Australian gov was met. Bob Lutz Liked Holden, but the GFC killed it.
how many times has the US gov given money to GM? Oh… it was 50 billion USD… This isn’t a uniquely Australian problem retard.
And how well has that Union culture served you?
>domestic industrial sector gutted
>what little remains is owned by China and the US
>entire economy is a real estate bubble and services for foreign multinational conglomerates
The fate of all ‘pro-labour’ legislation: dead countries
Why are you homosexuals so anti-union?
Are you really still Believing “muh mafia 20th century violence” propaganda that billionaires promote to keep you indentured to your employer?
Being in a union allows for collective-bargaining, which is what democracy is.
Actual communists Don’t believe in revisionism unlike unions, communists believe in violent revolution.
Fair enough if your a political nihilist and you think corruption is universal regardless of who is in charge.
i wish the unions really were muh mafia then they probably would have leaned on their politician friends to stop immigration
Because we’ve seen what happens when unions control a country, retard. Australia is a prime example
>unions are for collective bargaining, it’s called democracy
Business is not government, dipshit. ‘Employees voting on business matters’ is functionally identical to your neighbours voting on what colour you can paint your house. Ever heard of an HOA? That’s what they do. You as an employee shouldn’t have a say in how the owner of the business runs his business, because it’s HIS property, not yours. The idea that you “deserve a say because you work there” originates in marxist anti-property rhetoric. Which is fitting, because unions in general originate as a marxist tool to destabilise economies and disrupt the means of production so they can be primed for communist revolution.
Your level of naiveté is a textbook example of decades of bolshevik subversion in your education system
>I’m not bolshevised!!!!
What’s your opinion on the Vietnam War?
Explain the origins of medieval social democracy in Denmark, a tradition of the "folketing" which pre-dates Marx by 300 years.
The fight for Vietnamese independence has been ongoing for hundreds of years, from the Mongols, Chinese, and Japanese to the French and Americans. The Americans actually had sympathies with Hồ Chí Minh before hostilities. The title of "communism" was nothing but a unifying label for a nationalist uprising.
Conservatives will never be as innovative culturally and technologically as more open minded people. You are unimaginative and dull.
Protip: Marxism is a secular materialist rebranding of feudalism, which is why there are so many parallels
I asked for your opinion on the Vietnam War, specifically the American part of it from 1964-1973, not a cliff notes on the origins of the uprising.
>unsolicited seething about conservatives
I’m not even a conservative, lmao
No, I don’t think the US Should’ve intervened in Vietnam regardless how much the south Vietnamese seethed about it.
So as I said, bolshevised education. Thanks for proving my point.
What actually happens is your economy collapses and China moves in for military occupation
thats when the saxon wakes
And does what? Pokes em with sticks? You gave all your guns away because “we don’t want to be like those evil gun-obsessed americans who shoot everybody”, remember? You couldn’t even win a war against a pack of braindead birds
Difference is, you don’t own 50% of Apple because you bought one share. The Dutch conglomerate owns a controlling stake. ‘Publicly traded’ does not mean every single share is up for sale. Most of the time they only put a minority of their stock up specifically to prevent rivals from just buying a majority of their company and performing a hostile takeover.
>australians cant own guns
lol
were also not technically allowed to defend ourselves in a home invasion
>muzzle loaders (black powder is illegal to own and make, though)
>double barrel shotguns (only allowed X amount of shells at any one time)
>single shot rifles (same ammo limitation as shotguns)
>rimfire rifles of less than 6-round magazines (ammo ditto)
I’m sure the chinks are quaking in their boots about the prospect of facing the thirty aussies who still have a .22lr plinking gun and a single box of ammo between them
you have some strange delusions
Literally reading australian gun laws as we speak, sunshine
https://www.guncontrolaustralia.org/how_do_you_obtain_a_firearm
We can, it's just that nobody bothers to. My friends dad loved them though, he had a pretty big collection.
No group owns close to 50% of bhp though friendo? Pls continue flailing
>controlling stake
Work on your literacy, mate
>therefore they aren't Australian
Lol
>foreign power has major say in company
>d-doesn’t count
Reminder: your original claim was that it was wholly Australian-owned. You have been btfo, and are now shifting the goalposts, and the reason you are dying on this hill is because this is the best argument you have (the absolute state of Australian industry is even worse outside of mining)
Idk the company that you're referring to but they aren't state owned so not a foreign power
>major say
Lol
>your claim
I said an Australian company. Go jump on their website, Wikipedia ect and see what it says
It says it’s a company formed from a wholly dutch-owned mining company merging with a wholly australian-owned one. Dutch partial ownership
>n-not state owned
And it’s not owned by the australian state either. Deflection
You literally said foreign power lmao
>reee dutch
And what percentage is considered to be dutch?
Continue to seethe about bhp
>China moves in for military occupation
Lol what a fucking retard, China is already showing cracks from internal unrest and all of their billionaires are fleeing the country. You have no idea what you’re talking about.
>2 weeks
Also, for the record, conflating aristocratic-exclusive property-proportional voting with ‘democracy’ is blatant historical revisionism. Denmark had no system of national elections until the 1840s when they formed their British-style parliament, and it didn’t become the ‘folketing’ until after WW2. And funfact, it became the folketing because the old Upper House was dominated by conservative-minded politicians who were “standing in the way of social/labour/leftist progress”. Abolishing the opposition, how democratic.
Because the old upper house was abolished for standing in the way* I meant
kill yourself pinko
Also
GM is a shit because of the subsidies (leftist) used to make up for the UAW (huge fucking union) pricing american labour out of the market. Sound familiar?
>Australian labour demands six figure incomes, three hour lunch breaks, and three months of vacation every year
Based
>Australian labour demands six figure incomes
you just know it's because of the ponzi scheme that is australia. taxes go to nothing but their pockets and the worst thing is nobody will do a thing about it except grumble and complain, and probably cry for more government regulation.
just import one and take the dash and steering linkage out of the american sedan equivalent
you say that like it is so easy,
GM selling the Commodore as the Chevelle and marketing it as a direct competitor to the Charger was a no brainer. It was even on the same platform as the fifth gen Camaro just like the Charger and Challenger were which also came out around the same time as they were selling the G8. You could’ve called the Ute the El Camino and everyone would’ve bought one.
Speaking of the Camaro everything was in place to sell the Monaro as the replacement for the catfish Camaro down to it being sold as the GTO almost immediately after it fourth gen was discontinued. How GM fucked both of these things up is beyond me. Pontiac destroyed GM.
Ford could’ve also imported the Falcon at the same time. It wasn’t on the same platform as the Mustang but the nameplate did have some recognition in America down to the Crown Victoria and Ranchero nameplates originally being used for cars on the same platform. American car companies couldn’t get anything right
Lol the Camaro WAS the VE Monaro, GM stole it off Holden and gave it to Chevy because the VE Commodore already cost 1 billion dollars to put into production through holden.
>GM stole
Holden is a GM subsidiary. Who do you think paid Holden to develop shit?
Why don't you just lower a Silverado?
Australia:
Pros:
* High standard of living with excellent healthcare, education, and social services
* Beautiful natural scenery, including beaches, mountains, and the Outback
* Relatively safe with low crime rates
* Strong economy with low unemployment rates
* Multicultural society with a welcoming attitude towards immigrants
* Access to affordable and high-quality food and wine
* More generous vacation and sick leave policies compared to the US
Cons:
* High cost of living, particularly in major cities like Sydney and Melbourne
* Limited job opportunities in certain industries, leading to brain drain and talent loss
* Isolation from the rest of the world due to its remote location
* Limited consumer choices and higher prices for certain goods due to import taxes and tariffs
* High taxes, including a Goods and Services Tax (GST) of 10%
* Strict gun laws, which can be a pro or con depending on one's personal views
* Limited freedom of speech compared to the US
America:
Pros:
* Wide range of job opportunities in many industries
* High levels of innovation and entrepreneurship
* Diverse and multicultural society with a strong emphasis on individual freedoms
* Access to affordable consumer goods and services due to a highly competitive market
* No national consumption tax, although state and local taxes can vary widely
* Strong military and global influence
* Robust protections for freedom of speech
Cons:
* High healthcare costs and a lack of universal healthcare
* High levels of gun violence and crime in certain areas
* Income inequality and a shrinking middle class
* Limited vacation and sick leave policies compared to other developed countries
* A political climate that can be polarized and divisive
* A lack of affordable housing in certain areas, particularly major cities
* A declining infrastructure that has not kept pace with growth and development.
Personally, I would only ever go to the US for business, with the exception of Washington state.
>High healthcare costs and a lack of universal healthcare
>* High levels of gun violence and crime in certain areas
>* Income inequality and a shrinking middle class
>* Limited vacation and sick leave policies compared to other developed countries
>* A political climate that can be polarized and divisive
>* A lack of affordable housing in certain areas, particularly major cities
>* A declining infrastructure that has not kept pace with growth and development.
Where did you get this write up? Your local news media? Hate to hurt your feelings but this dystopian society you describe is really condensed to 5 cities. The rest of us sleep with our doors unlocked have nearly free healthcare through work or through government funded healthcare, idk what kind of woke shit income inequality is, I have a month and a half of vacation, political polarization is again confined to 5 cities,I can buy a starter house in a desirable area for 2x my yearly salary - In my opinion that’s very affordable. Have to be more specific on infrastructure issues?
>infrastructure issues
Unsecured electrical grid, atrocious railway practices, water mismanagement.
Sure, some states have higher standards of living but the southeast/midwest seems like a shithole wasteland. Smaller countries like Australia tend to be faster at implementing change than the giant bureaucracy of the US.
I believe Australia could be a Global superpower if we play our cards right.
Delusional
You’ve been an independent nation for roughly as long as the US had been in 1905, and you don’t have even a fraction of the economic might the US had at the turn of the century
we have 25 million people mate
america had 85 million people in 1905
You're a moron. Obviously, the US has ten times the population, but what you don't understand is that Australia has a stranglehold on raw materials that China and the rest of Asia needs. Also, consider the strategic location between the Indian Ocean and Pacific for trade. We are already collaborating with Singapore on a 22 billion USD mega solar power plant, which will be the largest in the world.
Australia Already hits above it’s weight in technology/innovation, and we’re importing Thousands of highly educated Asian immigrants which do not want to go back home because of the Quality of life they gain in Aus.
The vast majority of the US population in 1905 also qualified as poor and were subsistence farmers who contributed nothing meaningful to the economy. Even in spite of this, the US had gone to war with MULTIPLE european colonial powers by then and had defeated every single one. My point was the US had established itself as both an economic and military powerhouse with zero foreign influence, Australia has not managed the same despite the fact it has only gotten easier to do so. In the post-colonial era, America locked her doors, rolled up her sleeves, and went to work for 10, 12, 14 hours a day in the fields to catch up with the top flight of Europe without having to rely on others. Australia meanwhile just sold everything out to the highest bidder, cashed the cheque, and called it a day. You sold your soul for quick profit, and it’s why you have no industry anymore and if your trade with foreign powers were cut off Mad Max would become a documentary within a month.
>we have raw resources
You’ve sold the mining rights to China, a country that could crush you because your army has fewer servicemen than a small town.
>but America will protect—
And there it is.
Yet here you are seething. I'm mining rn actually if you're interested in purchasing some quality Australian ore
Cope
Didn’t say you did. My point was australia is not “gonna be a superpower by 2030”, and the reason you have the QoL you have now is because of continued foreign (chiefly american) investment in your economy.
Sounds like you're coping after seeing that amerifats have very little to do with Australian mining. I will continue to be comfy thx
>s-so what if nearly every one is foreign owned? It’s not american!!
This isn’t the dunk you think it is. My point was that nearly all of your industry is foreign-owned, which it is. You deflecting over which specific country owns you is a cope.
But they aren't foreign owned lol? Who is unironically going to argue that bhp isn't australia?
honestly sounds like a pretty sweet deal, everyone else are our paypigs
>cuts off trust fund
Now what?
The fact it’s partially owned by a Dutch conglomerate?
>b-but I THINK of it as Australian!!!
Fucking retard
>>Now what?
all the darkies fuck off and it becomes even better
Everything publicly listed can be partially owned. Brb I'm holding apple shares therefore Apple is partially australia owned.
>You sold your soul
i was never asked
>The vast majority of the US population in 1905 also qualified as poor and were subsistence farmers who contributed nothing meaningful to the economy
the same is true of every nation in the world during that time, numbnuts
Reread my comments. My point was in 2023, Australia is as old as the US was in 1905. Now compare what the US had accomplished economically in 1905 to what Australia has in 2023. The US of 1905 was a genuine world power not far behind the British Empire, whereas the Australia of 2023 barely qualifies as a regional power; lagging behind countries like Japan that have a fraction of the natural resources. In fact, on a pure numbers basis, Australia lags behind second world countries like Brazil and India
>Reread my comments
lol no
Concession accepted, poof
What makes a country a world power or not? Australia has been involved in every major conflict since before ww1.
They did more than anyone else during Vietnam/Iraq (except for America ofc).
May not have a super size fleet of aircraft carriers but judging by military contributions at least it's certainly a world power.
that is what we call a vassal state 🙂
>a 22 billion USD mega solar power plant, which will be the largest in the world.
>Country gets involved in a money losing boondoggle.
>This is something to be proud of
Glad to know Australians are okay with their money being wasted on things that don’t help them. I’m sure China appreciates the money.
>nearly free healthcare
I don't have it atm becaues when I applied for government healthcare my monthly fees were 350 a month and the deductible was 8,000 USD before healthcare covered anything. I'm just trying to get it through a job atm.
Desirable starter house for 2x my yearly salary?
that my friends is true freedom,
My grandfather made the inflation adjusted equivalent of $170k a year at my age and his house was 3x his yearly salary.
I think we’re doing fine. If some retard wants to spend $1,000/month on rent then let them.
Every time we have a major news story about the US such as a hurricane or something there are always comments or it could just in the story itself saying how the freedom the US has is just absolutely horrible and they should learn from us and let the government control everything because it would be so much better.
I don't see why you can't import one, its probably a lot easier to import one to your country than it is for us to get something like a Charger from your country to ours. In Australia they sold the Chevy suburban but used the blazer dashboard to convert to right hand drive.
Australia is cucked by basically 2 cities too, outback areas have to cuck to what the cityfags want. They wanted to ban bullbars on commodores because cityfags were offended. Having to take the vax even if people in the country are at a very low risk. They get rid of the unlimited speed limit in the Northern Territory because people hundreds of km away in Sydney got offended.
I like those old falcon utes these days, they have a utilitarian look to them compared to the more flamboyant holden.
Those political problems are solved by federalism, and it’s how australia was originally set up (original Australian constitution of 1901 directly copied the US constitution and structure in many places). Unfortunately you became independent during the rise of ‘progressive’ politics so much of it was discarded in favour of unitary centralism almost immediately because it “stood in the way of social progress”, and you hadn’t had the chance to build a generational culture of deference to federalism yet. Same reason why you have statewide police forces who handle day-to-day law enforcement.
Shut up Damo, go eat your shithouse Fish & chip shop hamburger and play in the dirt.
commit fucking suicide immigrant
here's one for u
Falcon ute also retained its live rear axle right through to the end of production in 2016. A proper Aussie workhorse. The Commodore ute went independent suspension all around with the VU in 2000 and lost a heap of payload capacity in the process.
I actually didn’t know this. Big respect to Ford for not cucking out to IRS
>* Multicultural society with a welcoming attitude towards immigrants
This only harbors thoughts of genocide within me, and incites value proposition analyses of whether disposal of carcasses via immolation or straight burial is better in the case of mass graves. Ashes store better than dead flesh. Also prevents the rotting smell of mass graves haunting the area for 70 years. History tends to recall that stuff rather poorly.
>Multicultural society
>listed under pros
Good one
>wah waH I CAN'T LIVE NEXT TO EVERY MAYOR METROPOLITAN AREA!!!
you can get a mansion for the price of one city apartment, why would you ever willingly live next to lots of traffic, noise, tourist, negros instead of just living anywhere else
>b-but I love city!!!
then literally just buy house 30m to 2h away, prices are much more reasonable and you don't have to deal with the shit part of living in a city
I pay $600 per week for a brand-new 2-bedroom, 2-bathroom apartment with one car park, located 10 minutes from the city. I have left my car at my family's property in Queensland. I work remotely from my home office, get groceries delivered, and fuck about on an E-Scooter to get to the gym. If I want to explore wider VIC, I hire a car on Turo or use Uber carshare, which means I can rent a new car every weekend, such as a GT-Mustang, MX5, Hilux, and so on.
Ive lived in the sticks and the suburbs of Queensland for most of my life. However, Melbourne is simply better when it comes to food, history, and art. People in the suburbs are fucking slobs, it’s embarrassing.
My lifestyle is comfortable and quiet bros.
You're the antithesis of how I want to live my life.
Because there's no real jobs outside of the city nigga
>Multicultural society with a welcoming attitude towards immigrants
big australia and its consequences have been a disaster for the country
if it doesn't have a fucken foooiiive leeeetah is it even a holden ?
FUCK ME SWINGIN'
sold with only 15k on the clock
Considering that the US was once a rogue colony, which became too expensive to subjugate due to geography and unrest in Europe, the US was able to expand westward with little opposition and take over an entire continent of resources. This position without the need to worry about infrastructure destruction in the cluster of wars in Europe put the US in a favorable position.
The US has its own colonialism in the Pacific, Caribbean, and South America, with even more puppet countries that are used by US businesses. Also, consider the fact that Hollywood is the largest organ of American propaganda in the world. No one else makes entertainment that instills the belief that the US is an infallible force of good more than Hollywood.
Other countries recognize this. In the coming decades, we may see a multinational union between Southeast Asian countries, including Australia, that are united against China without being reliant on the US.
This could only happen in Asia through the process of reconciliation which is the core principle of the European Union.
Asia would never unite against china simply because Asians are exceedingly fucking racist against each other, as much so as they hate China. You will NEVER convince an indonesian muslim to work with a thai buddhist. They despise each other and have waged more than one genocidal war against each other in the not-so-distant past. The rest of the region is not far off Politics in south asia are delineated on purely ethnic grounds. Even the ‘developed’ ones like Japan and South Korea are only on lukewarm terms because the US plays mediator between them.
Yeah sure amongst the Asian boomers but the fact k-pop is almost universally enjoyed throughout Asia amongst youth means the culture is changing.
Singapore is on the right path I believe.
Chinks have iphones and hate america
You overestimate the value of cultural exports. If anything, religious fundamentalism and nationalism is seeing a resurgence in the third and second world youths, because they are losing faith in “neoliberal capitalism”
>WHY WASNT I BORN AUSTRALIAN
>ITS NOT FUCKING FAIR
>IF I COULD DO IT I'D TOTALLY MOVE THERE
>I'D BUY A TICKET TO FLY TO AUSTRALIA
>I'D BUY MY FUCKEN MALOO
>I DON'T CARE
>I LOVE IT
>I DON'T CARE
>americans and american clones are arguing over what is and isn't american
haha wow
was gonna buy a 2 door truck then realised those don't actually exist so gonna get a VE Series II ute
i know the alloykeks aern't great, how bad are they because I don't want to pay the v8 bogan tax
They're S-tier cars and the US got them in the form of the SS, GTO, and G8. They just aren't utes and look more understated.
Too bad the yanks never got any wagons or Supercharged LSA’s models
>S-tier
literally meaningless
And so are you.
>he thinks he's someone because triphomosexualry
kek
kill yourself
it's always team ford starting the ford vs holden dichotomy wankfest
Luv me Holden
Luv me Mum
Luv me Country
Luv me Footy
‘Ate me government
‘Ate me job
‘Ate the commonwealth
‘Ate the immigrants, not racis’ just don’t like ‘em
Simple as
what’s footy? football?
Aussie rules football, the retarded love child of American football, rugby and soccer. It’s the best sport on earth mate
fuckin hell I just want to talk about utes
i dont give a rats ass what you "people" think about politics
sucked in l00ser
https://vt.tiktok.com/ZS8C31QPr/
Honestly its a great money making opportunity for any Australians willing to grab up Utes and sit on them.
nobody likes a bogan
Disagree from the bottom of my heart, most honest people on the planet