What gets me is how they called it a racial slur.

Yeah, that site looks terrible, ‘imperialism’ isn’t the only doozy, but the seppo-centrism on that page is ridiculous and ignorant.

Plenty of Aussies will use it with no ill intent

We’re pretty famous for using strong language with no ill intent.

Do people say it?

I’ve only said and seen it online, but it’s definitely in our vocabulary. Similar to some other slang like ‘crikey’ and ‘strewth’, I wouldn’t be surprised if there’s a regional or generational factor.

The origin is supposedly Australian.

I’m not an expert, Wikipedia might have the answer, but like Greyghoster said it’s rhyming slang, which is usually associated with Cockney culture in Britain, so I wouldn’t be surprised if it started there first.

I’m mostly just checking it doesn’t have a racial element or some other dark history that Deepseek didn’t mention.

No, in fact historical anti-American sentiment had an element of anti-racism at times. Now, Australia has an atrocious history of oppressing indigenous people (some towns even had segregation in living memory^[1]) but there have been anti-American riots in the UK, Australia and New Zealand during WWII partially caused by US military segregation: see Battle of Brisbane.

I was asking an AI for suggestions for how to refer to the impending sovereignty threat that is the dying empire of American plutocracy.

I know some corners of the internet have been calling it the Burgerreich since at least BLM. ‘Burger’ has been used online a lot as a term for USA citizens, although I’m not sure if that was a reaction to the Islamophobic (etc.) slur ‘kebab’ which became popular online almost 20 years ago.

It is interesting because cats (a common pet) are a huge problem for native wildlife. But I don’t know why, beyond it being normal and people often having the means to provide for a pet.

Recently I’ve seen lots of people adopting former racing dogs after a lot of news came out about ethical concerns in the greyhound racing industry.

Exactly. Luckily it tends to get fixed up once it reaches the clouds.

It might be easier to use the save button (star)

Then simply go to your profile page to see your saved posts:

The water here is flipped upside down too. That’s why you sometimes see it written as H²O instead of H₂O. In year 9 chemistry class, we had some joker combine water the wrong way and it just splashed down to the ceiling until it evaporated.

It doesn’t help that the original comic says that exact word as the punchline.