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Jan 24 4 tweets 1 min read
A short true story.

There was this guy a few years back who raided a prison, took a whole heap of the prisoners hostage and shoved them into some trucks. None of the prisoners wanted to go, but he had guns and shoved them into the trucks anyway and bashed the ones who refused.
He drove them all across country about, god knows how far, but they ended up on somebody’s property in the middle of the night. He didn’t know the property owners at all but he had his guns and his prisoners and he threatened violence, so he rammed his trucks through anyway
to get on to the place. The owners had no idea who the hell he was, they’d never seen the guy before. But, he didn't care, he dumped the prisoners out of the trucks, and when the owners objected he told them all to piss off. Then he shot them for complaining.
Thousands of people died as a result of the whole illegal prisoner dump, but the guy’s descendants thought the whole thing was so fantastic they wanted a national holiday named after it all. The politicians agreed and so they called it ... Australia Day.

The end.

#InvasionDay

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