Look, I get it. I can be pretty extreme, and pretty inflammatory, on some issues, at times. Which is odd, really, when you consider that I'm probably fairly close to a political "moderate", as compared to some of you.
I care far too much about certain things. Perhaps I value individual freedom more than you do. Fine. Perhaps I have less to lose than you do. Fine. Perhaps I trust the government less than you, and trust the cops, and courts, less than you do. Also fine.
But, with all that in mind, I must say that I'm finding some of the comments and posts, from some of you here, in recent days and the last couple of weeks, really do come across like some sort of... Controlled demoralisation, or something.
"Obey the law, bruh". "Think of your family, bruh". "Your job is more important than your freedom!". "They mean well!". "The pendulum always swings. It'll all be ok in the long term!". "Think of the collective good, dude!" "At least you're safe!" "You don't want a criminal record, bruh!"
I see all of this shit, and more, all over posts on this "community", now. And I really never thought I would see that, from here. Just the... Sheer amount of fear porn, and of "We should obey the government" is really quite... Disconcerting. And some of it is even coming from those of you who I normally find myself agreeing with, at least partly...
So here's my request: this isn't Reddit. Stop being so damn afraid of your respective governments. Stop being afraid to step on official toes, and to work outside the fucking law, in particular the emergency powers that these megalomaniacs have given themselves. Stop telling others to be afraid, or "You really don't wanna do that, bro". Sure, call out violence. Do not do that shit. But telling people to comply, and to just... Suck it up, and play along? You're better than that, or at least, you should be.
Sure, we need to be smart about this, and disobey in ways that are effective, and necessary. But to think the law will protect you, or that you should just play along, to keep the status quo, because you "value your job" so much? Well, I'm sorry, but that just ain't gonna cut it for some of us, anymore.
Part of what you wrote sounded a bit glowie-ish, but then you qualified it in such a way that it didn't sound that way. You do sound way too sincere to be a glowie. Normally, glowies post 5-word incitements to violence.
That said, resistance needs a strategy. You need collective action. There is no point to you, on your own, deciding to bring great trouble on yourself if it gains nothing. Especially if you can use the money, since you would lose your job. As you say, you are angry and broken. But that may not be the best place to take irreversible decisions.
I am not opposed to anything in principle. But if there is a cost, any action needs to have a benefit that is worth the cost.
Yeah, yeah, I know it did. I just find it amusing, because I'm just some fucking angry internet loser on the other side of the world. I would fucking LOVE to be getting paid to promote this shit. Because then maybe, just maybe, they would let me leave this fucking country, before shit completely falls apart...
Anyway, thanks. I'm just... Fucking over it. I'm not expecting to do shit, because literally nothing I do, involving "violence" or whatever, will have any impact, anyway.
Mandatory vaccinations are being proposed, here, now. Not just mandates. Literally forcing people to take the jab.
In NSW, the plan is that single people, in isolation, will be forced into hotel quarantine. Not travellers. Locals. So they will lose the right to remain in their own home. "For their own health".
So I apologize for... The anger, and the rhetoric. But when I say things are getting worse here, every day, and no one is doing anything at all to fight back, I mean it.
If this isn't a literal police state, I do not know what is. So yeah. :-/
Australia? Considering the terror regime there imposed, with great acclamation from the idiot population, this seems less of a good idea.
Before you do something, you have to be aware of what the costs are, and what the potential benefits are.
That one has to resist.
There is not always something that one can definitely do. But do what you can in every circumstance. You can begin with persuasion of people. See if you can pierce the propaganda.