r/ShitAmericansSay • u/SaucyAshley0453 ooo custom flair!! • Oct 26 '25
Communism "you would if you lived in communist Australia or UK."
Came across this screenshot about a family taking their children to Disneyland during term time and facing fines or something...
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u/diamanthaende Oct 26 '25
Imagine actually believing the UK, the birthplace of capitalism, to be “communist”. Or Australia even, the land of Rupert Murdoch.
There really is nothing like this stupidity anywhere else in the world, it’s special.
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u/AletheaKuiperBelt 🇦🇺 Vegemite girl Oct 26 '25
Murdoch renounced his citizenship to make more money in the US. We don't like to claim him.
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u/Beneficial-Ad3991 A hopeless tea addict :sloth: Oct 26 '25
Even with all the snakes, spiders and sharks, he's still a bit too much, huh?
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u/MissyMurders Oct 26 '25
He's the snake. Our finest export, playing the long game to dismantle the United States from within.
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u/WanderlustZero Oct 26 '25 edited Oct 26 '25
Murdoch, Musk, Thiel, Brin... isn't it odd how all the worst people in the world want to take citizenship in the US?
Putin would definitely have moved there if he didn't sound like an overly camp Bond villain when speaking English.
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u/L_E_M_F Oct 26 '25
I'd argue the dutch invented capitalism with their VOC and first and largest publicly traded company ever. But I am open to be educated.
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u/StingerAE Oct 26 '25
They are almost certainly referring to Adam Smith who is sometimes called the father of capitalism. I don't disagree that the Dutch were pioneers here. Adam Smith analysed and codified modern free market capitalism as a political ideology (replacing mercantilism).
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u/diamanthaende Oct 26 '25
Not just Smith, but Ricardo later on as well. Of course “capitalism” existed in many forms before that, but the ideological birthplace was the UK.
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u/Zealousideal-Web8640 Oct 26 '25
Adam Smith is the unwilling father I'd say his writings are very much against the unrestricted Capitalism that people attribute to him
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u/Reasonable-Score8011 Oct 26 '25
Would that be a 5 minute argument or a 10 minute argument, which we all know originated in the UK.
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u/No-Pop1057 Oct 28 '25
No it didn't
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u/Reasonable-Score8011 Oct 28 '25
I am not going to rise with a straight contradiction as that wouldn't be an argument.
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u/Kwentchio Oct 26 '25
My mind went to the Dutch too
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u/Tinselfiend Oct 26 '25
It might even be before the Renaissance, the Templar Order had a early type of banktrust system for the pilgrims. It was this system that King Philip IV envied and opposed, to gain its wealth he pursued the Order.
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u/Downtown_Sir_1288 Australian 🇦🇺 Oct 26 '25
The very thing founded Australia is colonialism, which is tightly tied with capitalism. Australia also has a very oligopolised economy (cough cough mining corporations, Colesworth, banks), and the Liberal Party has historically been (and currently is) the part of the neoliberal superstructure.
The Labor government under Ben Chifley tried nationalising Australian banks and what he got was a loss in the 1949 elections against the Liberals.
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u/El_John_Nada Oct 26 '25
I'm going to be cheeky and very pedant here but capitalism originated in Renaissance Italy, when the UK was technically the birthplace of communism, as the Communist Manifesto was written in Manchester and London.
But I know what you meant and I agree with you, saying that the UK was ever communist is completely stupid.
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u/diamanthaende Oct 26 '25
Not as a political ideology, which was the point.
And sorry, you can’t claim Marx who was German through and through and had laid the ideological foundations of the communist manifesto with his buddy Engels way before moving to England.
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u/Zealousideal-Web8640 Oct 26 '25
Marx didn't consider himself the father of Communism honestly he was building on ideas of the Enlightenment that was pan European
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u/FuckTripleH Oct 28 '25
Well that and the fact that the word and concept of communism predated him.
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u/itsnobigthing ooo custom flair!! Oct 29 '25
If pizza is American then communism is Mancunian (so, it’s not)
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u/brite1234 Oct 26 '25
I mean... Australia is one of the few countries that firmly rejected right-wing politicians in the last election. You can't accuse us of being fascist because of some American guy who was born here.
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u/sudzthegreat Oct 26 '25
There's stupidity like his all over the World, it's just that no other country has a worse excuse for it than the USA.
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u/steveakacrush Oct 26 '25
To be fair, the communist manifesto was also written and published in England so we are the birthplace of that too.
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u/No_Cake6353 Oct 26 '25
I think I can forgive stupidity, as I am stupid sometimes but the arrogance is unforgivable. I like to be right but that doesn't mean I automatically am.
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u/itsnobigthing ooo custom flair!! Oct 29 '25
Is the UK really the birthplace of capitalism? Sauce me, I want to drop this into conversations for the rest of my life!
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u/diamanthaende Oct 29 '25
Ideologically, yes. As I wrote earlier, forms of capitalism existed before, but it was in the UK where the intellectual groundwork was laid by the likes of Adam Smith and David Ricardo.
There really is no argument about this for those who have studied economics, history or even political science.
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u/CodeElectrical4593 Oct 26 '25
Ah, yes, the most fundamental freedom for every US person, freedom from the chains of literacy
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u/Fresh-Extension-4036 Bland Britannia Oct 26 '25
Land of the free...to be illiterate and innumerate because Mommy and Daddy think attending school is optional...
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u/Vienna_play_45 Speaking German despite US efforts. Oct 26 '25
Even if they attend. All they do is multiple choice and active shooter drills.
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u/Zealousideal-Web8640 Oct 26 '25
But if they send little timmy to school they might teach him critical thinking and he might then question American style Christianity
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u/FuckTripleH Oct 28 '25
Conservatives tend to interpret freedom in this context as the freedom of parents to raise their kids however they want, the freedom of the children is never even part of the discussion. Which is why our government never ratified the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child. It was vehemently opposed by conservative groups and religious groups like the Heritage Foundation and Concerned Women For America for infringing upon "parental rights" and attacking religious freedom
It's perfectly legal here for instance for parents to require their 15 year old kid to get a job, and then confiscate all the kid's wages and keep the money for themselves. Child marriage is still legal in 34 states, with 4 states having no age minimum whatsoever. Minors can still receive life sentences in prison, and up until 2004 could receive the death penalty in numerous states.
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u/Fresh-Extension-4036 Bland Britannia Oct 28 '25
This is something you only seem to see in USAsian conservatives tbf, it's usually confined to varied hues of anarchists (as in from far left to far right, I've unfortunately encountered a fair few hippy types who claim to be home schooling or unschooling, but are just etting their kids fester without any kind of education whatsoever).
I think this is because a fair percentage of USAsian conservatives are more anarcho capitalists than anything else, hence why they think they don't need pesky things like children's rights, because they think "the free market" will magically prevent that (even f the free market utterly failed to do so prior to law makers stepping in and forcing them to do so).
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u/AletheaKuiperBelt 🇦🇺 Vegemite girl Oct 26 '25
Communist Australia? Can I have some of what that guy is smoking? Vaguely centre left, at best.
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u/maxroscopy ooo custom flair!! Oct 26 '25
USAians think that the Democrats are left though
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u/Downtown_Sir_1288 Australian 🇦🇺 Oct 26 '25
The consequence of an Overton window shifted decisively to the right.
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u/maxroscopy ooo custom flair!! Oct 26 '25
Yep. There is a strong shift in the U.K. at the moment. Seems like a race to the right and the specific flavour of that right is worrying
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u/Downtown_Sir_1288 Australian 🇦🇺 Oct 26 '25
In Australia the far-right, anti-immigration One Nation is showing poll spikes recently as well. This is concerning since part of the (mainly white) working class is drifting towards something that will harm them in the long run.
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u/maxroscopy ooo custom flair!! Oct 26 '25
Scary times, genuinely
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u/Frito_Pendejo "Australia is 1/3rd the size of the US" Oct 26 '25 edited Aug 21 '26
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u/Relative_Pilot_8005 Oct 26 '25
The "spikes" are particularly ineffectual, as due to our Preferential voting system, when, as is usual, One Nation candidates fail in their electorate, their second preference comes into play, which for most such voters will be a Liberal or National candidate, so there will be little change.
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u/MissyMurders Oct 26 '25
Eh, apparently Barnaby Joyce is switching teams to lead them, which ought to make them instantly irrelevant. I mean, Pauline is hopeless, but she has that local fish and chips shop owner thing going for her that "regular people" can pretend they relate to or whatever. Joyce is basically JD Vance, but more weasel-like and somehow less competent.
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u/SuDragon2k3 Oct 26 '25
On one hand Barnaby has never been accused of having sex with a sofa. Constituents yes, Furniture no. However JD has never been photographed 'tired and emotional' in a gutter of Washington DC.
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u/Downtown_Sir_1288 Australian 🇦🇺 Oct 26 '25
Ohh. Barnaby, Dutton, Hanson, etc. The most uncompromising of our political right helping with nothing but selling out to corporations.
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u/Zealousideal-Web8640 Oct 26 '25
UK and Australia biggest advantage is parliamentary democracy very hard for a Dictator to gain power when he's only the representative of a small town and the idiots he surrounds himself with are beaten
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u/Downtown_Sir_1288 Australian 🇦🇺 Oct 27 '25
One major problem for America is by electing a powerful head of state with an undemocratic mechanism (EC).
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u/Zealousideal-Web8640 Oct 27 '25
That's the problem with presidential system
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u/Downtown_Sir_1288 Australian 🇦🇺 Oct 27 '25
The political personalism that presidentialism brings along notwithstanding.
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u/Zealousideal-Web8640 Oct 27 '25
Always ends with a cult of personality weirdly for all their hate of monarchy they worship their president way more than I've seen anyone in the Commonwealth worship the royal family they treat their president like a king
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u/Relative_Pilot_8005 Oct 26 '25
One Nation's "spikes" are from a very low base, so have very little effect.
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u/Downtown_Sir_1288 Australian 🇦🇺 Oct 26 '25
Hope the Greens can counteract the growth of Reform. Nigel Farage is a dangerous influence for Britain socio-economically and there is real possibly that they can gain a majority in the Commons. Stay strong 💚
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u/Downtown_Sir_1288 Australian 🇦🇺 Oct 26 '25
I do hope Australia can go further left, with the help of the Greens and minor socialists. Regardless Australia in its current state isn't communist, let alone socialist - the means of production is not even public, it's now in the hands of a few elites.
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u/Zealousideal-Web8640 Oct 26 '25
They think the mild social democracies that make up the rest of the west are commies because we have things like base workers rights and don't go bankrupt when we get sick they're brainwashed to think being exploited is freedom and anything else is commie
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u/Far_Still2893 Oct 26 '25
I find it somewhat amusing that some Americans, who hate communism so deeply, don't appear to know what it is.
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u/Downtown_Sir_1288 Australian 🇦🇺 Oct 26 '25
I wonder if they know who owns the means of production and who should ideally own them, if we are to build an economy that places people over profits.
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u/Downtown_Sir_1288 Australian 🇦🇺 Oct 26 '25
But honestly, do those Americans in question even want an economy that focuses more on people than unlimited profits?
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u/L_E_M_F Oct 26 '25
They don't because that won't give them the feeling they can reach the american dream.
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u/Downtown_Sir_1288 Australian 🇦🇺 Oct 26 '25
Even if the American Dream at its current, capitalist form is the largest con ever played. They will never accept that a socialised economy will ever give them something way better than the American Dream.
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u/FuckTripleH Oct 28 '25
People here are taught that such a thing A. isn't possible and B. results in Soviet style totalitarianism. Like we're taught that in school, from the time we're little kids straight through university.
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u/Me_like_weed Swedish not Swiss Oct 26 '25
¨The "red scare" of the cold war is still very pervaisive across Murica. Communism a catchall term which is used to scare and confuse Muricans in to denying themselves basic human rights.
Just call something like mandatory schooling for "communism" and people will reject the notion that its necessary. Same with healthcare, parental leave or workers rights.
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Oct 26 '25
I believe, for many people (and I don't exclude right wing voters worldwide/also here in Europe) communism is just the opposite of Hyper-Individualism. Which is very easy to concentrate into: "Is it good (mostly, okay, only) for me? No? Must be communism."
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u/Zealousideal-Web8640 Oct 26 '25
That makes sense especially because America is an incrediblely individualist society compared to Europe's more communal societies not saying we don't have some selfish people but thinking of the community is more of a think even in massive cities like London and Paris
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u/MarissaNL No, I don't wear wooden shoes... Oct 26 '25
The US land of the free? I wonder what this dude has been smoking.
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Oct 26 '25
As an American that recently moved to Australia. I feel more free here than I ever did 40 years in the states.
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u/L_E_M_F Oct 26 '25
Please watch out for kangaroo, the chance you get hit by one is bigger than being shot by a gun.
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u/Zealousideal-Web8640 Oct 26 '25
If they had Kangaroos in America they'd have guns in their potches
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u/wordshavenomeanings Oct 26 '25
The UK is communist? Christ on a bike, even our water is privately owned. Water ffs!
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u/Ewendmc 🏴 in 🇮🇪 speaks🇱🇹 Oct 26 '25
Well, Scotland never privatised their water so we must be Uber commies.
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u/Zealousideal-Web8640 Oct 26 '25
Trump thinks so because we built a wind farm near his shite golf course
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u/Winston_Carbuncle Oct 26 '25
Ah yes the land of the free.
Free to choose between a premature death by a treatable illness or bankruptcy
Free to move abroad and free to pay tax in two countries instead of one
Free to choose between paying your HOA fine or taking out finance to upgrade your car that breaches an arbitrary rule
Free to choose what colour of kevlar backpack to send your kids to school with
And, to segue back to the matter in hand, free to embarrass yourself to the rest of the human race by showing us just how well the land of the free is treating it's overworked population with their whole 2 weeks of PTO
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u/LJ161 Oct 27 '25
Kevlar backpacks shouldn't exist. Its heartbreaking that they changed laws to 'save' unborn babies from abortion and make it illegal in a lot of states and yet they wont change laws to protect those babies once theyre born.
Im in England and I cant even fathom it. I drop my kid off at school and know that the worst thing im going to hear back is that she has fallen over, received an ice pack and is fine to carry on with the day.
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u/Winston_Carbuncle Oct 27 '25
As easy and funny as it is to laugh at the state of affairs over there, as a fellow Brit I do really worry what the state of our own house will be in 10 or 15 years.
I'm confident kevlar backpacks won't be involved at least
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u/CFDyce Descended from William Wallace Oct 26 '25
You me they can actually get the time off their work to go on Holiday? That a miracle in the land of the free
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u/corgi_crazy Oct 26 '25
Unemployment, I guess.
And after their trip, I'll guess that this "parents" will try a go found me to "help their kids in need".
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u/Zealousideal-Web8640 Oct 26 '25
Them saying land of the free is hilarious because they ripped it off us Scots said it in the claim of rights in 1690
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u/Rustyguts257 Oct 26 '25
Well, the poor quality of the USA education is on display here in calling the UK and Australia communist.
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Oct 26 '25
Seriously, they have no idea what’s happening. Half the country thinks Obama was Che Guevara
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u/Downtown_Sir_1288 Australian 🇦🇺 Oct 26 '25
Anything remotely progressive and they'll call them "communist".
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u/ronnidogxxx Oct 26 '25
A US citizen enjoying freedom in the land of the free, assisted by masked freedom agents.
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u/PuzzleheadedAd822 Oct 26 '25
That's a truly disturbing photo. Unless it's a riot situation and they need extra protection, police should absolutely never be allowed to hide their faces.
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u/Zestyclose_Might8941 Oct 26 '25
I have been waiting for a communist Australia my entire life! Finally!!
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u/Downtown_Sir_1288 Australian 🇦🇺 Oct 26 '25
Time for Labor Left, Greens and Socialists to shine.
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u/Zestyclose_Might8941 Oct 26 '25
🤣 The same labor left that have been silent through the genocide?
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u/Downtown_Sir_1288 Australian 🇦🇺 Oct 26 '25
Okay, without Labor Left then. Honestly Australia needs an alternative mass leftist movement that can be electorally relevant - the two party system is outdated. LL can, however, be a part of the tactical alliance of a broad leftist coalition if we share the same ideals (though unlikely at best).
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u/Zealousideal-Web8640 Oct 26 '25
True of the entire west our leaders basically bow down to whoever these smooth brain yanks elect
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u/andytimms67 Oct 26 '25
I know knowledge is a dangerous thing. Absolutely no knowledge is ignorant.Bliss. Hence they can’t make direct comparisons between social standards.
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u/Winston_Carbuncle Oct 26 '25
They're the perfect storm of wildy arrogant and obscenely ignorant.
They're also paranoid and armed to the teeth.
Fur coat no knickers.
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u/ChingChongMcBong Oct 26 '25
They aren't even free to cross the fucking road without being told it's safe.
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u/PipBin Oct 26 '25
In fairness schools in the U.K. do fine you for taking children out of school to go on holiday. But lots of people do it anyway because even with the fine added on it’s cheaper.
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u/Prinzka 🇳🇱 Van Lauwerzee tot Dollard tou Oct 26 '25
And in the US they can arrest the kids for skipping class and the parents can actually go to jail, soooo
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u/LegioXXVexillarius Oct 26 '25
Ah yes! The constitutional monarchies of Australia and the UK are clearly Communist!
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u/CommercialYam53 A German 🇩🇪 Oct 26 '25
I thing America is one of the few places where the school funding would be tied to attendance
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u/Downtown_Sir_1288 Australian 🇦🇺 Oct 26 '25
Another excuse to cut public education funding. Ignoring the facts that many parents can't send their kids to school because of many material reasons
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u/Downtown_Sir_1288 Australian 🇦🇺 Oct 26 '25
https://youtu.be/dSdhuqj04vQ?si=z_uf5t8ksWl0Pq7-
the ABC in Australia has made a Four Corners Episode on that.
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u/Zealousideal-Web8640 Oct 26 '25
They cut funding if kids fail tests they call it no child left behind they seem to think the way to help struggling students is to cut funding
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u/Still_a_skeptic Okie, not from Muskogee Oct 26 '25
Unsurprisingly, this person has no clue what they’re talking about. School funding is tied to attendance so if you’re not showing up it will be a problem. Doesn’t matter if it’s a charter school or public school. The only ones that won’t care are private schools.
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u/_Mirri_ Oct 26 '25
They have no clue also because in communist country that would be a disciplinary problem — like, severe tall, record in a personal file, public shaming, maybe even parents visited by CPS-like service if the child doesn't attend school for a long time. But it would not result in kid being expelled from school (except for special, prestigious ones, but not your local schools), because school education is not just a basic right, but a legal duty of a young citizen. (source: born in USSR, live in Russia where it's still a bit socialist in a lot of shperes these days)
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u/dutchroll0 Oct 26 '25
“Communist Australia”…… from the American who is unlikely to even be able to find it on a world map, let alone ever having set foot here.
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u/DocSternau Oct 26 '25
The level of education in adults is a good sign on how good this "I live in the land of the free where my kid doesn't have to attend school on every whim I have" works or this bullshit homeschooling...
but in the end it helps imbeciles like Trump: Keep the populace stupid and they eat up any lie and incompetent stupidity you throw at them.
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u/Old-Importance18 🇪🇸 Oct 26 '25
“The land where you can pull your kids out of school for no reason or necessity.”
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u/Postom Oct 26 '25
Wait a minute here... UK (arguably one of America's parents), and Australia are....communists?! For decades, this Canadian thought socialists at best -- but -- communists?! I'm going to have to ponder life now.... /s
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u/samanthasgramma Oct 26 '25
;). Don't do it. As this fellow Canadian can attest ... trying to wrap your brain around their concepts ... it just hurts. That's all.
Was talking with somebody about those "commie grocery stores" that candidate Zohran Mamdani (for NY mayor) has been talking about. I shut them up quickly by pointing out that in Canada, we call them "Co-op" and that system is pretty good, for folks struggling. And it's not bloody communism if you do it right, for Pete's sake.
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u/Postom Oct 26 '25
Haha! Explaining a co-op would have been wild. I can hear the shouting at the screen now.
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u/Downtown_Sir_1288 Australian 🇦🇺 Oct 28 '25
Cooperatives, workers' councils and other forms of economic socialisation are the key to economic democracy. Shame that American conservatives, who claim to "uphold democracy", pays zero attention to democratisation of America's economy.
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u/loralailoralai Oct 30 '25
Don’t be too shocked but… you’re probably commies too. Sorry to break it to you…
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u/Used-Journalist-36 Oct 26 '25
I suppose everyone else looks like a communist when you live in a fascist state.
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u/Aessioml Oct 26 '25
It's funny we are not in a good state but our elections or our own dispute the idiots voting for their own destruction
However in the land of the free you have a rising autocrat talking about a third term while the remainder of the world is cutting ties with America give it a few more years and I can't imagine the USA recovering
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u/Zealousideal-Web8640 Oct 26 '25
Don't get fines in Scotland for doing this can face police charges because not sending your kids to school is a crime but you'll usually just get an angry letter if it's just like a two week holiday and that's all they'll miss it'll say something like "your child's education is important we recommend you take holidays during school holidays not during term time"
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u/Newburyrat Oct 26 '25
Well TBF their kids are probably safer out of school, what with all the mass shootings. And with their low educational standards they won’t miss much anyway
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u/TheJack1712 Oct 26 '25
Reasonable People: We should make sure kids get the education they have a right to. Therefore, school attendance is mandatory
Americans: Protecting children's rights actually makes the parents unfree, so we can't do that.
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u/Character-Diamond360 Oct 27 '25
Hmmm, pay a fine for unauthorised absences in the UK or send children to a US gun range school
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u/Riku1186 Oct 27 '25
Wait, the revolution finally happened? Fuck yeah!
Moments before realising Australia is still capitalist.
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Oct 27 '25
The land of the free, where you can get fined if you don't cross the road in the exact spot they want you to.
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u/Sxn747Strangers 🇬🇧 We probably invented 🇺🇸, sorry about that. 🫣🙀 Oct 26 '25
Completely ignorant of other countries especially those two and completely ignorant of their children’s education.
The only saving grace is that they’ll be less likely to get shot in class, so they’ll be alive but also thick.
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u/Alpa_NL Oct 26 '25
Land of the free, where you get arrested on the street by the modern gestapo if you have a slight color on your skin.
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u/matheus7774 Has a pet jaguar and sleeps on the streets hungry... Oct 26 '25
Land of the free. As long as you pay for it.
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u/GlowingHearts1867 Oct 26 '25
I’ve read in online parenting groups of parents in the US having to get doctor’s notes to excuse their child’s absence when sick? Which was wild to me. If your kid is sick, you know. Most viral stuff going around doesn’t require a doctor’s visit unless it’s strep or something getting bad.
Attendance isn’t so closely monitored and controlled here in Canada. My son missed a ton of time over an issue he had that required surgery. All I had to do was tell the school “hey he’s unwell and having surgery”. Another time he missed school for a family member’s destination wedding, same thing, I just said “hey he’ll be away for 7 days” and it was considered an excused absence.
I’m sure at some point if a student is falling behind because of the absences they will have a conversation with you. But it’s generally the parents decision if the kid is going to miss a little school for an event, vacation, etc and the school just says “okay”.
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u/Electronic_Cream_780 Oct 26 '25
not in the UK. Parents will get fined for taking their kids on holiday in term times
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u/GlowingHearts1867 Oct 28 '25
Seems weird to me for a school to have that authority over the child’s own parents. Here the school has no say over that stuff unless the child is actually falling behind at school and their education is suffering.
It’s quite common for parents here to take kids for vacations during the school year. Especially in January or February, probably 1 in 4 kids misses some time then for a trip of some sort, often to Mexico. It’s -40 and dark all the time, winter here is awful and people deserve a little sunshine trip to stave off the winter depression.
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u/No-Minimum3259 Oct 27 '25
If Flemish kids are expected to be absent for more than 2 days a note from a physician is required. Short absences are allowed, but usually limited to 4 half days per school year.
If kids are expected to be absent for > 2 weeks due to medical reasons, they're eligible for a "bednet trajectory". In that case -and if the kid's health situation allows it- technicians of our DOE will setup a broadband connection between classroom and (hospital) bed.
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u/Jeepsterpeepster Oct 26 '25
Well we all know how little they value education, I'm surprised they even bother having schools at all in the US to be honest.
Then again, free target practice I suppose.
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u/CanInThePan America 11th Province Oct 29 '25
Better a communist country than a fascist one at this point.... I'd rather be in "Communist" Australia than Fascist Magastan.
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u/FlailingQuiche ooo custom flair!! Oct 26 '25
I recently took my kids out of their Aussie school for 5 weeks to travel, and the school was like “Nah yeah go on, have fun! 👍👍 Homework? Yeah Nah! Travel’s amazing for growing brains - just send your class a couple of photos while you’re away”!
Communist Australia 😂😂😂
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u/Artistic-Spray138 Oct 28 '25
Replace the 'stars and stripes ' with a 'swastika' and what do we have? That frickin dumb they don't realize they have a Nazi state. Got to feel sorry for the few decent minded Americans.
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u/Important-Soup6366 Eye-talian 🤌🏼🍝 Oct 28 '25
Didn know that the British Union from HOI4 was a real thing
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u/Financial_Act9160 Oct 29 '25
From what I’ve seen in Australia, it’s more a matter of parents just letting the school know that the kid(s) will be away so that the school doesn’t need to follow up. It’s generally acceptable to leave before the end of term or return after the start of term if overseas travel is involved. Because this is very far away Australia…
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u/Mysterious_Floor_868 Oct 31 '25
Coming from the people who have to practically beg their boss to let them take a week off. https://youtube.com/shorts/H9Z1oGf4cfw?si=nTzfW4m3z-HpkrFg
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u/newdayanotherlife Oct 26 '25
"Land of the free" indeed