the 4 types of national anthems:
- Gosh, This Sure is an Attractive Piece of Land We've Got Here
- That One War in Particular was a Doozy
- We Only Sing Parts of This Song Now Because the Other Verses are Racist
- We Speak French and We Will Fucking Kill You
Australia’s sounds like a funeral dirge,
and the most commonly sung lyrics are :
“mumble mumble mumble um er mumble mumble bum”
it has been amended at various times to correct
- gender bias
- brit /anglo/ white-centrism
- and most recently, complete erasure of Indigenous peoples
still contains a lie about having boundless plains to share
despite blatant government brutality towards asylum seekers,
and RW slogans like “Eff Off We’re Full”
anthems are relics of a time when cannon fodder was required for aristocratic family squabbles, and lumpen-proles were needed for primary/ secondary industry (tho’ now they do come in handy for neo-lib crapitalist businesses like prisons, & policing the administration of government contracted social services
@resuna @Janko @maudenificent @VeryBadLlama @pharaohkatt
"I'm starving, I've found food. A member of the bunyip aristocracy has set his minions on me, I'd rather die than let them touch me. This land holds ghosts."
Actually yes, it's quite apt.
Janel Comeau
Jan Brachat
Maude Nificent
PharaohKatt
Resuna
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