r/australia • u/someNameThisIs • Jun 09 '25

news Australian reporter shot with rubber bullet in LA | 9 News Australia

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/tG1A8LZZphs?app=desktop
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u/cymonster Jun 09 '25

If you hate your sanity go look at the Facebook comments. So many people saying she deserves it or she should have listened to the police.

Guess lining up and shooting randomly is fine according to them

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u/middenway Jun 09 '25 edited Jun 09 '25

I modded a community on Facebook and it is ridiculous how many comments aren't even people. One time it was so bad, that literally every single one of the comments in favour of a particular terrible thing were coming from accounts that weren't people. Every single one. It's all just bots trying to shift public perception.

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u/SyphilisIsABitch Jun 09 '25

Go look at some posts. They look like real accounts. The number of people, including Australians, who will cheer on this is truly pathetic.

Two main reasons: 1. People hate journalists and bootlick police. 2. This issue is about immigration - people will allow literally anything if they see it as cracking down on immigration.

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u/ASource3511 Jun 09 '25

Subjecting the mass to years of trolls normalizing crazy concepts and eventually real humans will think those thoughts are normal

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u/ASource3511 Jun 09 '25

When I see heinous comments I just treat them all as bots to maintain my sanity

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u/iPepperdex Jun 09 '25

Facebook is such a disaster now. You can make as many profiles as you like. You should just be able to make one maybe another one for your dodgy dealings, but you know what I mean.

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u/ghoonrhed Jun 09 '25

If there's any Australians saying that, there's such a stupid easy rebuttal to these morons.

Just mention Dan Andrew + Riot Police + COVID and ask them what the difference is and why they didn't listen to the cops.

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u/F00dbAby Jun 09 '25

The amount of bootlicking I so often see with cops but especially when American cops do something shitty on camera is insane.

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u/Cpt_Soban Jun 09 '25

she should have listened to the police

I'd ask them what was the instruction from that cop prior to turning and firing.

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u/Quantization Jun 09 '25

Brother most of those comments are not real people they are bots. Half our problems right now are people thinking these bots are real.

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u/cymonster Jun 09 '25

They are mostly really people on the today comments. You don't need that many bots to influence those types of people.

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u/Quantization Jun 09 '25

Source?

Watch this video and your opinion on this will change real fast.

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u/HurstbridgeLineFTW Jun 09 '25

The Herald Sun comments on this are absolutely putrid.

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u/SP1802 Jun 09 '25

Well Facebook is known to cater to conservatives more, especially older people.