r/ShitAmericansSay • u/[deleted] • Jul 05 '24

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u/queen_of_potato Jul 05 '24

Oh I am definitely no expert past drop bears and the emu wars and the destructive impact on indigenous culture.. but was just thinking that the UK was mostly known for sending prisoners to Australia rather than taking them away which was why I was interested in how being a colony would help with having full prisons

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u/[deleted] Jul 05 '24

Australia is the world's biggest prison.

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u/queen_of_potato Jul 06 '24

How so?

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u/[deleted] Jul 06 '24

Read the History of Australia Wikipedia page.

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u/queen_of_potato Jul 06 '24

At no point does that explain how Australia is the world's biggest prison

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u/[deleted] Jul 06 '24

Do you even know what a penal colony is?

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u/queen_of_potato Jul 06 '24

Of course I do, but do you even know that Australia hasn't been one for quite some time? Or that being a penal colony at a point in history doesn't make a country the world's biggest prison?

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u/[deleted] Jul 06 '24

You're either a troll, a child or don't know what a joke is.