Yeah, that's actually quite an interesting and enlightening take on it all (though I haven't read the full thing yet, just what you quoted). So thanks for that.
I don't know where exactly we are headed, but I don't like it. I don't like it at all.
Watch this space, those of you outside the Aus/NZ bubble. We're going down a very dark path, and I promise you, whether you think they are or not, YOUR government is watching what is going on down here, seeing how far it can be pushed without real resistance, and then planning how they can potentially implement it on their own citizens in the future. At least in the Anglosphere and around it. I guarantee you that much.
The US population isn't too far off from Australians these days. Outside of the "WAIT UNTIL THEY TRY TO VIOLATE MY RIGHTS!" rhetoric on social media, nobody will bother fighting against Tyranny. The US is too divided (thanks to decades of illegal immigration among other things) and corporations have too much economic and financial control over the lives of citizens.
That’s the plan, but it will not happen here. We’re still too rebellious in America. I would say this was shocking, but I was already aware the culture is different in Aus/NZ. More compliant for some reason.
Do you know why? And are people in Aus generally religious, or not?
I hate to say it, but this is... Not as unusual in Aus as you might think.
We don't have the protections you guys have (presuming you're American). On anything. We don't even have a Bill of Rights. There is no requirement, in this country, that the Prime Minister consult Parliament before declaring war. Even in the US, that situation isn't possible.
So... I fear that this may have been inevitable. That we were always heading this way. Certainly, from where I sit, this has been the path we've been headed down since waaaaayyyy before the pandemic started. We've been going this way since... I'm gonna say at least 2013. This is just the inevitable point we have reached.
But culture plays a role, too. Imagine an almost completely unarmed populace, with a strong (for its size), highly technologically-advanced military, militarised police (yes, like in America), but also with the oddly collectivist, "do as you're told", dobber mentality and surveillance state of the UK (notably, their police do not carry guns. Ours do.), and then you might get a bit of an idea of how this has come to pass...
Something is rotten in the state of Ausmark. Something has been for quite some time.
Sorry, I didn't realise that this is a slang word, but in Australian (yes, I'm serious), to dob means to snitch, essentially.
So a "dobber" is a snitch, or like, a scab I guess. A rat. The kind of person who would report you to the literal Gestapo, and sell you out...
Theoretically, dobbers, or snitches, used to get stitches, here (as in we fucking hated them), but for some bizarre reason, in the last 20 years, that changed, and we have become a "nation of dobbers". Even the very worst of the mainstream media admits that one...
Ya poor Bernie sanders. Totally an enemy of globohomo.
Its not capitalism. It's authoritarianism. Massive government created and protected corporations staffed by the same bureaucrats that govern them shutting small business and the middle class down. Stop associating government tyranny with "capitalism"
Capitalism and the free market wouldn't tolerate these abject failures of corporations that are forever subsidized by taxes and given preferential treatment by the government
Yeah, that's actually quite an interesting and enlightening take on it all (though I haven't read the full thing yet, just what you quoted). So thanks for that.
I don't know where exactly we are headed, but I don't like it. I don't like it at all.
Watch this space, those of you outside the Aus/NZ bubble. We're going down a very dark path, and I promise you, whether you think they are or not, YOUR government is watching what is going on down here, seeing how far it can be pushed without real resistance, and then planning how they can potentially implement it on their own citizens in the future. At least in the Anglosphere and around it. I guarantee you that much.
All i can say is I'm glad the US hasn't given up our guns.
Shitbags can get fucked.
The US population isn't too far off from Australians these days. Outside of the "WAIT UNTIL THEY TRY TO VIOLATE MY RIGHTS!" rhetoric on social media, nobody will bother fighting against Tyranny. The US is too divided (thanks to decades of illegal immigration among other things) and corporations have too much economic and financial control over the lives of citizens.
That’s the plan, but it will not happen here. We’re still too rebellious in America. I would say this was shocking, but I was already aware the culture is different in Aus/NZ. More compliant for some reason.
Do you know why? And are people in Aus generally religious, or not?
I hate to say it, but this is... Not as unusual in Aus as you might think.
We don't have the protections you guys have (presuming you're American). On anything. We don't even have a Bill of Rights. There is no requirement, in this country, that the Prime Minister consult Parliament before declaring war. Even in the US, that situation isn't possible.
So... I fear that this may have been inevitable. That we were always heading this way. Certainly, from where I sit, this has been the path we've been headed down since waaaaayyyy before the pandemic started. We've been going this way since... I'm gonna say at least 2013. This is just the inevitable point we have reached.
But culture plays a role, too. Imagine an almost completely unarmed populace, with a strong (for its size), highly technologically-advanced military, militarised police (yes, like in America), but also with the oddly collectivist, "do as you're told", dobber mentality and surveillance state of the UK (notably, their police do not carry guns. Ours do.), and then you might get a bit of an idea of how this has come to pass...
Something is rotten in the state of Ausmark. Something has been for quite some time.
Sorry, I didn't realise that this is a slang word, but in Australian (yes, I'm serious), to dob means to snitch, essentially.
So a "dobber" is a snitch, or like, a scab I guess. A rat. The kind of person who would report you to the literal Gestapo, and sell you out...
Theoretically, dobbers, or snitches, used to get stitches, here (as in we fucking hated them), but for some bizarre reason, in the last 20 years, that changed, and we have become a "nation of dobbers". Even the very worst of the mainstream media admits that one...
Being the lucky country has made us intolerably weak. We've always had a tall poppy cut people down culture.
Meaning anyone who stands out has to be cut down? Morally or in what way?
Good article. We call it Globehomo here in the States but the point still stands.
Ya poor Bernie sanders. Totally an enemy of globohomo.
Its not capitalism. It's authoritarianism. Massive government created and protected corporations staffed by the same bureaucrats that govern them shutting small business and the middle class down. Stop associating government tyranny with "capitalism"
Capitalism and the free market wouldn't tolerate these abject failures of corporations that are forever subsidized by taxes and given preferential treatment by the government