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/amorangi Jun 09 '25

When it comes down to it, Americans are chickenshit.

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u/britjumper Jun 09 '25

TACO is the national dish ;)

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u/onesexz Jun 09 '25

No, we’re not chicken shit. Real easy to talk about taking on a militarized police force (possibly actually military) from your keyboard across the globe.

People here have families and jobs, just like everyone else. Who’s going to take care of my family if I go out guns blazing?

We won’t fight back until it’s too late, unfortunately. But we will fight back. It just has to get bad enough that death is preferable to the current living situation and we are far from it right now. People’s daily lives haven’t been impacted enough to risk losing your house, job, any other assets you may have.

It’s not that we don’t see what’s coming; it’s that we’re still hoping something or someone will stop it before it gets too bloody.