Australian here - we have this: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian_of_the_Year
Sincerely hope he’s awarded the next one.
too soon?
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duncan_bayne@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
Seditious_Delicious@lemmy.world 16 hours ago
Legend! This guy should be given a HERO status and have free everything for life.
slothrop@lemmy.ca 16 hours ago
Shot twice by the other cunt, to boot.
Atelopus-zeteki@fedia.io 15 hours ago
I guess once you head on that path, you don't stop until you have stopped the assailant, or they've stopped you.
Atelopus-zeteki@fedia.io 15 hours ago
Presidential Medal of Freedom, I mean he should get one, maybe when we have an actual president again.
chiliedogg@lemmy.world 14 hours ago
The US President doesn’t typically give out medals to Australians.
reallykindasorta@slrpnk.net 15 hours ago
I always picture myself heroically charging the gunman with a few people I made eye contact with right before, but this guy actually went and did it. Solo to boot.
shalafi@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
You might be surprised what you’ll do when the shit hits the fan. I’ve saved my own life twice, arguably three times. I think most people can summon more courage than they think when confronted with life-or-death decisions.
It’s just that most have been scared shitless, not “I’m going to fucking die if I don’t act in the next 3-seconds” kinda scared shitless. Time crawls, our brain starts sorting solutions, picks one, acts.
This man was extra though. His life wasn’t immediately in danger, he could have frozen or run backwards. But sometimes our monkey brain says, “attack the threat to the tribe” and we just go.
PunnyName@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
I saved a man’s life once (AFAIK, I’m unaware if he actually survived after first responders took over).
I almost killed myself later that day, overdosing on meds. Not everyone is equipped to deal with that kind of stress.
theneverfox@pawb.social 11 hours ago
You really never know until the moment comes. If you’re that kind of person, your mind just blanks and you’re suddenly doing things
glitch1985@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
Somebody give him a fifa peace prize.
sarcasticsunrise@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
On Sky News (of course), there was a “Member of local Jewish community” who immediately blamed the shooting on Pro-Palestinian rallies. Also espousing “from the river to the sea” is KILL ALL JEWS. Can’t make this shit up
Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 hour ago
Mate, I’m in Portugal and of all the countries and people who made statements about this attack, the only one the news TV station I was watching actually played was the one from the Israeli government.
These fucking assholes are very purposefully feeding the very “Israel and Jewish People are the same thing” that makes people thing that the sociopathic genocidal mass murdering of chidren done by Israel is a Jewish Thing, which in turn feed the real anti-semitism.
To support a modern day white colonialist ethno-Fascist project (and the local Fascists who support it) these people are activelly fostering an environment were innocents are killed because they’re Jewish.
lemmydividebyzero@reddthat.com 6 hours ago
The architects of AI did not even include those who did the science, right?.. Only those who try to make money based on that…
breezeblock@lemmy.ca 15 hours ago
Absolute legend! Certified badass.
neidu3@sh.itjust.works 15 hours ago
Yet another example of immigrants coming here and disrupting the plans of hones white mass murderers. How dare they.
lugal@lemmy.dbzer0.com 14 hours ago
But that’s the difference between well integrated Muslims (who shoot at Jewish people as a white supremacist would) and not integrated people who reject racism and stop any killing of people. All this peace and love is not compatible with Western values.
PearOfJudes@lemmy.ml 6 hours ago
wtf does this mean? well integrated Muslims are terrorists?
howl2@lemmy.zip 6 hours ago
The gentleman is 43? What the hell do i look like? Cuz i know I am not aging gracefully
Silar@lemmy.ml 14 hours ago
More balls than the entire Uvalde police department.
neukenindekeuken@sh.itjust.works 13 hours ago
A single ball has more balls than the entire uvalde police dept.
SiblingNoah@piefed.social 13 hours ago
My neutered dog has more balls than the entire Uvalde police department.
shalafi@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
Not defending those guys, but it was a clusterfuck of Biblical proportions more than a lack of courage or will. PBS has an awesome documentary on it. I can’t watch it twice.
BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 46 minutes ago
I don’t need a documentary to tell me what I saw. I remember a cop in the hallway, so scared to peek around the corner, I’m honestly surprised he didn’t pee his pants. The only time he ever dared to peek around the corner, and down the hall to where the guy was still killing little kids one by one, was when another guy peeked around the corner, and he’d hide behind the other guy. After that disgusting display of cowardice, I’m sure nobody he knows will ever look at him the same again.
The only performance I’ve ever seen that was as cowardly was the Parkland cop who not only stayed outside and listened to all those students get murdered, but when other cops showed up, he told them not to go in either.
SkyezOpen@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
I appreciate a bureaucratic fuck up as much as the next guy, but when the hard math is 300 armed dudes outside and 1 armed dude shooting kids in a school for the entire runtime of Shrek, I have no benefit of the doubt left to give. Maybe if it was a dog with a gun they would’ve shot it 30 seconds after arriving on scene.
PapaStevesy@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
Well, certainly not “more than a lack of courage or will”, more like “in addition to a lack of courage or will”. Otherwise someone would have had the courage and the will, regardless of organizational miscommunication.
Cethin@lemmy.zip 6 hours ago
If I were one of them I think my communication gear would malfunction and I wouldn’t get the orders to do nothing, if that is what happened.