• Chloé 🥕@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    1 month ago

    I think it’s worth saying that “hahaha australia is a dangerous place that wants to kill you” jokes are (subtle) colonial propaganda

    they depict australia as a wild, unlivable place to be tamed, a common colonial argument (the same was said of the american west), when the reality is it’s been inhabited for millennia

    (not blaming you OP, or anyone else who made those jokes btw, it’s not obvious that they’re colonial in nature)

  • jaybone@lemmy.zip
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    1 month ago

    First read this as dinosaurs in Jurassic park can outwatch humans.

    Sister it’s cool I’m just doing some dishes here. This is a plate, I eat off of it. slowly closes blinds

  • Korhaka@sopuli.xyz
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    1 month ago

    To be fair it would probably have worked better if they let the farmers do it themselves.