personal anecdote that anzac day always reminds me of: used to write for a yearly "satire" paper based in WA (quality is extremely questionable), whose main purpose most years was just pissing people off. We'd started going on a very left-leaning tilt around 2012, and I remember in 2015 we ran an article conflating ANZAC day with Participation Trophies

we got a number of calls that day calling us unaustralian, calling for us to be expelled, threatening us and all sorts lmao

ofc nothing came of it, all empty threats in the end but still it doesn't take much to poke the aussie patriotism bear

Fuck North Vietnam

are you sure about that one?

I call it biscuit day and long for a day when we can just celebrate baking and biscuits with no relation to the armed forces whatsoever.

In this part of the parade is the people that killed Koreans for no reason, and in this part of the parade is the people that killed Vietnamese for no reason, and in this part of the parade is the people that killed Afghans for no reason, and in this....

Likewise Australians also looked down upon the fighting qualities of Americans; most considered the Americans an inferior fighting force who seemed all glitz and brashness. Even MacArthur was upset and humiliated by reports that during an earlier attack against the perimeter's eastern flank at Buna, American soldiers had dropped their weapons and ran from the Japanese. This feeling towards the Americans would be furthered during the Battle of Buna, where Australian troops bore the brunt of the fighting due to American "inactivity". Buna, the fourth major Allied victory in New Guinea, was presented not only as the first major victory but an American one. Sanananda, an Australian victory, was presented as merely a mopping-up operation. The Americans would not acknowledge that Australians won the critical battles of Milne Bay, Kokoda and Gona, were largely responsible for the victory at Buna, and were "overwhelmingly" responsible for victory at Sanananda.

In our remembrance day is on armistice day for WW1 (Nov 11)

When I was a kid I felt like all the assemblies we had in school or other propaganda thing around it were around WW1, because it was a war that Canada conscripted for and the first time Canada sent its own army somewhere (instead of just being under the British).

Because everyone in WW1 is definitely dead, and the WW2 people are dying off, I feel like it's shifted towards all the wars we were clearly bad in (Korea, supporting Vietnam, modern Afghanistan).

I hate this "fighting for our freedom" shit, it's much like America's version of army support, except more lib and smug because we usually say "we were peacekeeping everywhere". Even though we supported the invasion of Vietnam, and mostly go along with whatever the USA does

I'm sure australia's masters will thank them for pine gap and being a nuclear waste dumping ground. How are those submarines coming along by the way

the only war in which we were the good guys for once

I think East Timor in the 90s might count as a second good one (after Kissinger helped Indonesia invade in the 70s and Australia - at best - looked the other way)

Probably more about the gas fields though

Serial killer convention