Why is Australia such a nanny state? You can't even watch

wtf?

>>72649315
You can't purchase fireworks either

>>72649545
at least you have RODE

prisoner mentality

You sure you mean Australia and not Austria?

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>no right to free speech, hate speech laws out the ass
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hate_speech_laws_in_Australia
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2011-09-28/bolt-found-guilty-of-breaching-discrimination-act/3025918
>downright draconian gun laws

Self-explanatory. Most types of firearms are banned. Most guns people own are shitty .22lr bolt actions.
>need a license for fucking air rifles
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_gun_laws#Australia
>need a fucking license for paintball guns
http://www.paintballaustralia.com.au/shooters_licence.htm
>need a license for crossbows
http://www.ballisticfirearms.com.au/QPS/Crossbow%20Legislation.html
>airsoft is banned
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legal_issues_in_airsoft#Australia
>LASER pointers over 1mw are banned (effectively banning the vast majority)
http://www.ozlasers.com/australian-laser-laws
>fucking YO YO WATERBALLS are banned
https://www.productsafety.gov.au/bans/yo-yo-water-balls
>novelty toy-like lighters are banned
https://www.productsafety.gov.au/bans/novelty-cigarette-lighters
>smokeless tobacco is banned
https://www.productsafety.gov.au/bans/smokeless-tobacco-products

>toys containing beads are banned

https://www.productsafety.gov.au/bans/toys-containing-beads

>need a helmet to ride a fucking bicycle

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bicycle_helmets_in_Australia

>plain packaging on cigarettes
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cigarette_packets_in_Australia
>absurdly high taxation on alcohol and cigarettes
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2016/may/03/smokers-to-pay-more-than-45-for-a-packet-of-cigarettes-from-2020
http://www.news.com.au/finance/money/why-do-we-pay-so-much-for-alcohol/news-story/1647c23acc476553ade5d77774b8fa7d
>many violent games and movies banned or censored even after the R18 was introduced
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_films_banned_in_Australia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_banned_video_games_in_Australia
>video games are expensive as shit

why was no mans sky such a train wreck

wtf i hate australia now

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>>72649681
>"Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience." -CS Lewis

Ausfailia is one of the biggest NANNY STATES IN THE WORLD.

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-34048497

http://www.traveller.com.au/australia-the-land-of-the-idiot-gi36oy

https://next.ft.com/content/1853648c-cbc3-11e5-84df-70594b99fc47

http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/rendezview/welcome-to-australia-the-worlds-most-overregulated-nanny-state/news-story/49aa0a414ae87b9ef54e85b40af36b47?nk=12acd4a5120fa9509bd8513af6075c5d-1466651873

>"h-heh at least w-we don't ban k-kinder eggs sharter" typed the increasingly nervous and embarassed australian man on his 1 kb/s internet as he remained locked up in a padded room forced to wear a helmet, with his body bubble wrapped under constant harm supervision by his government let he cut himself on a piece of paper

>>72649681
I think I first saw you post this pasta about 5 years ago, give it a rest mate

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>be australian
>illegal to celebrate new years
>illegal to celebrate guy fawkes

>>72649715
stay rekt m8

Unironicly bought the game bought the DLC and gave money to the devs out of charity

>>72649927
i made a very upset review on steam some months after buying it

felt like a total tool afterwards

>>72649681
I could defend 80% of these. Get some new pasta you fat fucking burger

>>72650403
Because you suck the nanny states dick and are the unfreest developed country.

>>72649545
That's understandable though since a sparkler would ignite half your country.

>>72649681
>muh bang sticks

>>72650504
And thus I will always make fun of your fucking police state and how your government treats you like retarded children unable to take responsibility or make their own decisions in life.

Now wear a helmet you retarded Autistralian.

>>72649681
>>need a helmet to ride a fucking bicycle
Good idea
Anybody who doesn't do this should be told to
dont need society's dumbest members losing IQ points to the pavement

>>72650584
Don't you have a school to shoot up or a kinder surprise to smuggle into the country?

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>>72650584
>t.

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>>72650538
Hmm.

>>72649315
Something something baby boomers. It started in the late 90s after the Pot Arthur massacre and gradually got worse

>>72650620
>says as he lives in the biggest padded room of a country

I'd rather live somewhere a bit more dangerous and enjoy far greater freedom than a suffocating Orwellian state where the government treats you equivalent to that one fucking child you knew during elementary school who had parents that put covers on the wall sockets because he kept sticking forks in them.

>>72650592
No not really retard. It should be a matter of personal decision. It's simply a risk I take.

The biggest bicycle users (Netherlands and Denmark) the vast majority of bicyclists in those countries don't wear helmets.

>>72650622
Has nothing to do with negative liberties retard. The police don't arrest you for posting mean comments offending Muslims and Leftists on Twitter.

Almost all police shootings are by niggers and spics chimping out and trying to commit violent crime against the officers, or whites suiciding by cop. The police don't give a fuck if you simply follow their instructions and don't try to be an ebin badass.

>>72649315
never understood why the term nanny state is negative

>>72650766
Put simply I'd rather deal with the problems that come with far greater freedom than far too little any day. An extreme example would be either living in Somalia or North Korea. I'd pick the former in a heartbeat.

>>72650766
>the vast majority of bicyclists in those countries don't wear helmets.
Unfailing American ignorance
Americans are weakness embodied.
http://www.treehugger.com/bikes/why-dutch-dont-wear-helmets.html

>>72650766
You really are the walking stereotype of a pig ignorant American.
Good luck with that.

>>72650839
Your article has nothing to do with what I said you fucking moron. Bicycling here in the US is much safer than driving a car too.

You implied that only retards don't wear helmets and were categorically wrong. Go plow a dog you cretin.

>>72650891
Nice argument, piss-gulping fuck.

>>72650903
There's a reason why the vast majority of countries (and the vast majority of developed countries) don't have mandatory helmet laws.

>>72650839
>>72650933
In addition

>It's also Dutch policy not to encourage helmets because overall it is counterproductive; if you could somehow preserve the bicycle use we see today AND also wear helmets, yes, a few deaths would be avoided. But in practice you can't promote helmets without discouraging cycling – where helmets have been made mandatory, cycling levels drop. That has a public health cost -- lack of exercise is far more dangerous than biking without a helmet. The exact value of "far more dangerous" depends on the local risk of cycling – in England the estimate is that per cyclist the risk:reward ratio is about 1:10; here in the US (with our riskier roads) it is about 1:5, but in the Netherlands it is 1:25. That is, for each year of life lost to bicycle crashes in the Netherlands, 25 years are gained from better health because of the exercise.

This why helmet laws are even shit in terms of saving lives. By mandating helmets, less people bike as a result and because cycling is such a good source of exercise, you end up having a lower life expectancy from that lack of exercise had more people biked.

Make like a leaf and get blown the fuck out.

>My province makes bike helmets mandatory for everyone under 18
ops
>No one follows it and the cops don't enforce it

fuck the government tBh

>>72650766
>live under a massive and unprecedented surveillance state and small town PDs get fucking APCs and military gear out the ass
>"i--its only for niggers!"
The government could do literally anything as long as they do it mostly to blacks and you tards wouldn't care. Have fun with your bull shit meme rights while our country is becoming a fucking orwellian nightmare

>>72650798
Neither one of those countries is free.
They're both ruled by warlords.
If you truly want freedom go live in the woods.
Fucking illiterate Americans.

>>72650978
Just because it's legal NOT to wear a helmet doesn't mean it's not a good idea to wear a helmet anyway.
JFC how are you even able to operate a computer

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>>72650989
>white guy gets murdered in front of entire country
>cop walks free

>>72650620
Haven't you got a firecracker to smuggle into Aus?

>>72650989
>live in a massive and unprecedented surveillance state

Warantless NSA spying expired in 2015. Trump could bring it back but we don't know: http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/nsa-domestic-surveillance-program-expire-senate-fails-reach/story?id=31430492

>small towns have APCs

Nigger, I don't care. My small city has APCs too, but has never used them. Why? Because I don't live around fucking niggers and spics who chimp out and cause crime. My heavily white area is very safe and law abiding. Violent crime is extremely low. It has no impact on my freedom.

Outside of California and New York, the US has some of the most negative liberties of any developed country. Alaska alone is probably one of the freest places on Earth.

>>72651027
>neither one of those countries are free

I never said North Korea is free retarded cunt, Somalia has many areas with no warlord rule by the way. It was meant to illustrate a point. I'd rather live in an AnCap society than a heavily authoritarian one. Total freedom > total tyranny (but you're safe)

>just because it isn't legal to wear a helmet doesn't mean you shouldn't wear one

No. I don't wear one because cycling is already very safe compared to other means of transportation. I don't want to strap shit on my head every time I get on my bike. I enjoy having the freedom to make that choice.

Ask yourself why the vast majority of Canadian bicyclists don't wear helmets. Because it's unnecessary. Mandatory helmet laws are shit.

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>>72651147
>why the vast majority of Canadian bicyclists don't wear helmets
> Because it's unnecessary
No, it's because they're poor and stupid.
Cycling is a shit method of travel in Canada.
It takes way too long and is a huge bitch 6-9 months of the year.
I saw a guy on a bike last night. Still a bit of snow here. Guy was black and not wearing a helmet with no lights at 10PM.
When people who aren't homeless or poor ride bikes, guess what, helmets everywhere.

This pic was taken in the downtown area where bike traffic goes slow and there's demarcated bike lanes.
In more spread out areas helmets are a lot more common.

>>72651247
>no it's because they are poor and stupid

I already proved to you that helmets don't offer a major benefit when biking. In fact you'd get much more protection wearing a helmet while driving a car in combination with a seatbelt. When are you going to strap on a helmet when you drive?

You are pulling shit out of your ass and claiming that bicyclists are mainly "poor and stupid people" in Canada and thus that's why they don't wear helmets. In fact you can go to any rich area and you'd see the great majority of bicyclists not wearing a helmet as well.

So really, at this point we are deviating from the topic greatly. For the record, I never argued against helmet laws on safety (even then I proved to you how mandatory helmet laws negatively impact the number of cyclists and thus have a more deleterious effect on public health than the lives saved by mandatory helmets.)

I argued against it in terms of freedom. Cyclists should be able to make their own decisions and take their own risk. I can see the argument for mandating that young children who are still learning how to ride a bicycle required to wear a helmet. But for everyone else, they should have the freedom to decide themselves.

>>72651429
>In fact you can go to any rich area and you'd see the great majority of bicyclists not wearing a helmet as well.
First off, Americans are stupid, rich and poor.
Second off, depends on the speed of the cycling

Meandering over to neighbours house at 10kmh isn't dangerous but if you're going 20-30kmh it's stupid not to.

>>72651560
>hurr le dumb amerisharts xD

I fucking guarantee you that the great majority of rich Canadian areas don't wear helmets as well. I was born in Canada in the GTA in the 1980s and have a Canadian passport I can post for proofs. So tell me my faggot friend, why is it when I was visting family in Oakville last year the vast majority of cyclists weren't wearing helmets? Are you going to pull a shitty no true scotsman again?

Again, it has fundamentally to do with freedom. Cycling is far safer compared to other means of transportation. To the point where the comfort of not strapping an object to your head personally outweighs the quite small increase in safety you get to the vast majority of people.

Freedom above all. Fuck yourself.

canashit on suicide watch

>>72650403
>defending being treated like children by other adults because they know what's best for you. This is pretty much the definition of cucked.

>>72649315
why do you post an image that is not related to the topic in any way?

>>72649828
>soon to be illegal to celebrate Australia day

>>72652667
Fack uff European burger.

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>>72649681
>no right to free speech, hate speech laws out the ass
Charges with these laws are rare

>downright draconian gun laws
Own plenty of guns on our farm: 2x lever action shotgun, pump action shotgun, .243 bolt action, semi auto .22 etc etc. No problem unless you're a criminal

>need a license for fucking air rifles
Who cares? see #1

>need a fucking license for paintball guns
Hell easy to get

>need a license for crossbows
Who cares? See #1

>airsoft is banned
Who cares? See #1

>LASER pointers over 1mw are banned
I've easily bought many through customs. This is never enforced

>fucking YO YO WATERBALLS are banned
Who cares?

>novelty toy-like lighters are banned
Who cares?

>smokeless tobacco is banned
Ok this makes no sense. But it's still legal to import.

>toys containing beads are banned
I'm not a child idgaf

>need a helmet to ride a fucking bicycle
Common sense, also rarely enforced

>plain packaging on cigarettes
I smoke idgaf. It's been shown to reduce smoking uptake by teenagers, which is objectively a good thing

>absurdly high taxation on alcohol and cigarettes
Annoying but somewhat understandable given the huge cost and strain on the healthcare system

>many violent games and movies banned or censored
What is torrenting

>video games are expensive as shit
What is torrenting

>>72652926
Dammit meant #2

>>72652926
>charges with these laws are rare

You're dumb.
http://www.adelaidenow.com.au/news/south-australia/why-police-booked-cyclists-22000-times-in-the-last-four-years/news-story/b59ffe39b4ba60f2eabb53cf2e2a2c53?nk=616347182a8943635e8a6a4a8f152b10-1477626228

These laws are enforced in cities and towns. The police might turn a blind eye in rural as fuck areas but it isn't the point. You can say the same with every country in that regards.

>>72652926
>>72653109
And furthermore, what's even more sad is that your rest of your shitty justifications are basically "who cares" or "lol it doesn't matter" or "hey I can own some bolt action and lever action guns even though most guns are banned and the laws are extrenely onerous"

Absolutely sad because your mentality is why you're such a huge nanny state.

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>>72653109
>adelaide
Lol.
Also fines are $50, less than the average parking ticket. I've ridden my bike without a helmet at least weekly in Perth for the last 7 years and have never got a fine. Do you actually think that 22000 people is a high percentage of the total amount of people that dont wear helmets?

>>72653258
Well we're doing something right. See previous and current pic related. Especially note the size of the bar entitled 'Freedom to Make Life Choices'. Back in you hole America. My Kinder Surprise tastes amazing, how's yours?

Australia is a shithole. Fellow Australians can disagree all they want. They are wrong.

Shanghai is much much much nicer than any part of Aus

>>72653623
Shanghai is the best city in Australia

>>72652926
>79.37% less chance to be in prison
I didn't realize 179.37% of Americans were in prison

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>>72653444
kek

>>72653969
That's because mexico are sending their unhappiest people. Sad!

>>72653444
>"hey check out my shitty anecdote!"


http://www.news.com.au/technology/innovation/motoring/sydneys-bicycle-laws-are-a-joke-if-we-want-to-be-considered-a-global-city/news-story/6f17b1d5c214a0cd1c35705607c79964

Your police regularly enforce these laws. This is equivalent to me saying I speed 20mph over the limiy on the interstate regularly and have not gotten a ticket for the past 5 years. Therefore the law isn't enforced.

Prove it isn't with actual articles or simply fuck off because are are many news articles about cyclists gettibg fined for not wearing a helmet.

>happiest countries

Not freedom. Irrelevant. In fact read how "freedom" is ranked in that report.

>Freedom to make life choices is the national
average of binary responses to the GWP
question “Are you satisfied or dissatisfied
with your freedom to choose what you do
with your life?”

http://worldhappiness.report/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/03/HR-V1_web.pdf

This isn't measuring negative liberties, but asking a vague as fuck question. It's useless. Enjoy no fireworks or yo yo waterballs kek, taxed to shit alcohol and cigs (smokers die earlier thus saving money in the long run to healthcare) and draconian gun laws. And much more.

You are the biggest nanny state in the world.

>>72654015
Mexico sent its most miserable people to the US and both countries got happier.

>>72654105
>I speed 20mph over the limiy on the interstate regularly
well

that's a not a good idea

for a whole variety of reasons

>>72654159
It's meant to illustrate an example

>"these laws aren't enforced because I've never been fined even though there are a shitton of news articles about multitudes of cyclists getting fined for not wearing a helmet, FAKE NEWS!"

What a cancerous nanny state.

http://www.perthnow.com.au/news/western-australia/easeup-wa-police-fine-19-cyclists-in-perth-cbd-bike-blitz/news-story/21e3579471222cf0f28b0484b8e39e4d
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2016/feb/26/cyclists-fined-393-times-during-new-south-wales-police-blitz-on-thursday

Ahahaha

God what a shitty nanny state

>laser pointer ban is never enforced because I imported some from customs and it wasn't seized

Kek
>AIRLINE passenger safety could be at risk after a surge in the importation of banned laser pointers, Customs and Border Protection warns.

>The federal agency reports the number of outlawed laser pointers being seized at the nation's border has jumped 60 per cent in the past 12 months, to more than 14,000.

>National Manager of Cargo Operations Jagtej Singh says the sheer volume of the importations suggests people don't understand the threat they pose to safety.

>He says risks are posed "particularly to commercial aircraft".

>The warning comes after a 15-year-old boy was arrested in June after a laser beam was shone at a police helicopter on the Gold Coast.

>In May, a 39-year-old man was charged with shining a laser light at a police helicopter while it was on a mission in Sydney's southwest, allegedly disorientating the pilot.

>Customs and Border Protection said importing laser pointers greater than one milliwatt in intensity is prohibited in Australia without a permit.

>Mr Jagtej said anyone found bringing banned laser pointers into the country will have the items seized and could face fines of up to $110,000
http://www.news.com.au/national/breaking-news/laser-pointer-imports-on-the-rise-customs/news-story/42adf5cf60f4027da227426a5ef9ab63

Fucking police state

>>72654210
that's because the fines don't protect the law, the fear of fines do.
unlike Americans we use fines to serve the public rather than generate revenue

>>72654613
cool story my man

anyways im going to bed. love the fact that I can smoke indoors in bars that allow it in my state and legal weed

Is medicine free or not in australia?
if snake or spider will come to your house, what you will do?

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>>72654105
>>72654450
>>72654610
>>72654661
Are you guys cellmates?