Anyone else notice this?
Fairly unsubstantiated post, based on personal experience, and on what I am seeing elsewhere.
As a "not fully vaccinated" person, society is closing in, increasingly. I am barely allowed to participate in goings-on, anymore. My family shuns and shames me. My "friends" have essentially abandoned me. Shit is getting very, very real, now...
Mask mandates are ubiquitous, across 6 or 7 out of the Australian jurisdictions, including the one I am stuck in. Vaccine mandates, too. I'm not allowed to work. I essentially can't "go out". In another state, they want to make mandates apply in supermarkets, too, so you essentially won't be able to buy food...
"Social distancing" is also ubiquitously still in place. Businesses are closing EVERYWHERE, because they can't make money. Governments are constantly threatening "new lockdowns" and curfews, because, duhh, Omicron, means rising case numbers. It's genuinely scary to see where things are going...
Aside from not currently being in lockdown, we are currently the most restricted we have ever been. Ever. Especially if you are "unvaccinated", or, increasingly, unboosted...
Very soon, people like me won't even be able to enter a university campus, or even study online. Can't work, can't study. Logic...
And people ABSOLUTELY lap this up. Media coverage is UNIVERSALLY for more restrictions. Almost everyone I know, and encounter "IRL" is all for it. As is the entirety of local Reddit, aside from, obviously, the "critical" or "skeptical" subs. Worse than that, if you question ANY element of it, you are shamed, ostracised, demonized, treated worse than dirt. Why?
I know this isn't the case everywhere. Not in Red states. Not in Mexico, per se. Not in Japan. Not in parts of Eastern Europe, or Africa, or elsewhere. But it is, here. It IS, in NZ. It IS in Blue states. It IS in the UK, and in France, and in Germany, and in Austria, and in the Netherlands. Some of those places are even more extreme than where I am, despite less compliant populations, and lower vaxx rates...
When, and how does this end?? Next year will almost certainly be worse. In fact, for me personally, I 100% guarantee it will be.
When will people wake up? Will they ever?? What the fuck are we going to do?? How do we actually push back? I'm genuinely beginning to think that this WON'T end, because people simply do not want it to, so... Where do we go from here??
Find like minded individuals in you community and gather supplies.
The masses don't wake up for it is not of their nature. The People want to be told what to do. It ends when the current elites are completely removed from power and replaced with a new set of elites.
The good news is that a strong regime doesn't need to excercise power so openly and aggresively, that is a sign of weakness, and revolutions only succeed against weak regimes. The bad news is the globohomo regime could still last another 100 years or more, because any potential replacement set of elites are not yet sufficiently organized. On the other hand, it could also collapse under its own weight tomorrow. Due to their global domination and hyper-centralization, they must be attacked suddenly and everywhere simultaneously.
Fortunately, the centralization means the Eye of Sauron can't see everywhere at once and is blind to most on-the-ground happenings. Become as self-reliant as possible and build what relationships you can locally. The propaganda machine wants you to feel like the situation is hopeless and the walls are closing in. Do not get demoralized. Do not bend the knee.
Bread and circuses. People will continue to let Globohomo fuck them in the ass until their distractions and sources of comfort are disrupted, and by the time we get there there probably won’t be much left to save.
You tell me.
I'm in a red state, you're the one in Australia.
You're the one who has to tell yourself: "I don't want to die, but I refuse to live like this."
You tell me when you're ready to say that.
Ok, sure. What then? What can I do?
Go out on my own? Make a fuss? Get myself arrested? Great, how productive. Now I can't even fight back.
Build an online community? Try and "redpill" other people? Try to get other people to "wake up" IRL..?
I'm already doing that. I'm VERY actively involved in that movement, here. Could I do more? Sure. Is it ACTUALLY doing anything, or having any real effect? Fucking barely, clearly.
So what? I can't really fucking DO much, if my fellow citizens love all this, lap it up, and call for EVEN MORE restrictions on people like me.
I AM trying, but the momentum just... Doesn't seem to be there. People want this, and they are such a supermajority that I am realistically not sure what to do except get out, as soon as I can. Because what is there left, here?
Of course, without being doubly vaccinated, I cannot even leave the country, or cross state borders, so there's that, too...
Do you understand why the American government must tread on eggshells?
Because in this country there are a hundred million gun owners and only five million armed public servants.
You can gamble your life to make the government fear you, or you can fear your government. This is the choice the Founders made. This is the choice your ancestors refused to make.
That the price is higher today does not change the nature of it.
You can curse your ancestors all you want for being shortsighted and lazy but that does not change your situation.
An Afghani goat herder understands freedom more than you do. We occupied their country for twenty years and they drove us out.
I will say one thing, at least: It wasn't my ancestors, per se. I was two, when they bought back the guns, and banned most of them. Two.
So in fact, it was my parents' and grandparents' generations, if we want to count them as "ancestors", who voted for the government that did that...
There was no referendum. No "plebiscite". The government just went out and made it law, and people complied...
So... Sure. But there's plenty of other shit that I would more readily blame them for than just that.
Yes. And you ask us when it will end.
To which we ask you, when are you willing to storm the Bastille?
Americans understand this. Next week the Supreme Court WILL strike down the vaccine mandate. But we intuitively know what would happen if they did not. What would happen if ALL civil means of disagreeing with the policy were exhausted. That all would be left would be uncivil means, and people would start dying. And when a whole third of the country is saying "fuck no", it would get messy fast.
The only reason America isn't already torn apart in civil war is the belief that the system still works despite an incompetent executive and an absentee legislature.
A lot of people think the most important person to stand up is the first person.
It's not. It's the second person. The simple fact is that people are fucking cowards and will only do things if they know that their peers will back them up.
This. Often I've been the only person in the building standing up, it's when there's a second also doing it that then a third finds their spine and then a fourth and so on.
Your parents and grandparents were sheep. Now you are being sheered.
Guess what would happen in the US if the gov't.just said, "Oh yeah, we signed it into law that you have to turn in your guns?"
The answer is, the people involved in trying to pull that kind of shit would be shot to death. And then revolution. So the US gov't ain't never gonna try that...
They don't attempt outright confiscation because they know every Fed would be dead within weeks. They instead try to slow-boil with most restrictions and taxes to make it too expensive for new people to get into it but that's not working now as 2020 led to the biggest increase in first time owners in history.
3d printer or I could build a shot gun with 10 bucks and a trip to Home Depot. It won't be great, but use it the way the FP-45 Liberator was intended. Get close, use, take the enemies obviously better weapons.
Hell, in some states, you could straight up openly steal enough material to arm an entire neighborhood. Might as well grab a few sledge hammers and axe handles while you are at it.
Getting arrested is fighting back.
One of the reasons why BLM idiots aren't arrested even in moderate areas is because these towns don't want to spend the money to jail them. There's too many of them. They can make an example of a few, but if it's not a red state they know more idiots will swarm in to 'protest' with firebombs.
Of course the first thing AU will do if you get jailed is to hold you down and jab you, but if you're more troubled by your country's rapid descent into fascism than the jab it's a price worth paying. Although with mandatory voting you're pretty much fucked, just a matter of time before your country falls to mob rule.
Well also those Soros-backed DAs told them to just release the rioters.
Get reactive. That's all there is left.
Dude. I understand, but at the same time... you keep writing the same things here again and again. It feels like we are being used as hostages to keep reading your extended suicide note, or captive therapist.
You are not helping yourself by going around and around in circles, ruminating on the same things and feeling sorry for yourself.
This is what it's like living in a reality closing in on you.
You don't get it yet because it hasn't happened to you.
He's writing here because -- as he's mentioned time and time over again -- his family is pro-vaxx, pro-authoritarianism and he can't talk to them about how he feels because they don't care.
He's going "around in circles" because it's his life being directly affected by draconian mandates and authoritarian power plays. There are literally videos posted here regularly of the police in places like Germany and Australian beating up and arresting people for not wearing masks or for protesting the clot shots.
He's trying to explain that the walls are closing in on him and it's happening in real-time, in his life. Think of each of his posts as live journals of the impending end. You don't have to read his posts; and yes, he is using this board as a forum of therapy and suggestions.
Maybe one day when a similar reality comes knocking at your door and you have no one to turn to or talk to, you may find solace in venting on anonymously on boards like this.
Okay, explain to me how going on and on and on is solving it. I am not saying his family is not retarded or whatever.
But doing this is not helping him. Everyone just going "AHHHHHHHHHHHHHH" and him talking in circles here is NOT helping. Not a single positive step or idea is fucking happening, just collective moaning and panicking and everyone spiralling into depression.
He is not doing anything to better his own health (mental or otherwise), nor is he doing anything about the situation. Nothing done personally, nothing done politically.
Okay, panic if you want. You do you. But turning yourself even more miserable than the shitty situation necessitates is not helping, you will just make yourself sick and insane. No progress was made, you ruined yourself. Congrats.
Repeating the SAME FUCKING THINGS about his parents and girlfriend or whatever and whomever and whatever did not make him take a single step forward.
We just can't have a "Merry Christmas y'all cunts here" post without suicidenote-ing.
And the thing is, I have been there. I have successfully managed to make my mental health deteriorate to the level of having panic attacks every couple hours.
I don't want to sound like an asshole, because I can really empathise as I have been there before.
But I am starting to feel like some people like rolling around in misery and depression and right now they are amplifying that in a dude who is unwell, because he has the same political views.
This is eerily close to feminists and LGBTQBBQFBI+-* activists taking people who have real issues and traumas and going "yeeees, yes, this will be forever, the universal experience, just internalise it".
Also, the dude who snapped at me told the dude to "escape" the country by becoming an illegal immigrant somewhere else!!!!! Fucking what? Take someone sounding downright suicidal, which is not addressed whatsoever and make him become an illegal immigrant somewhere else, so he for sure will get tangled in crime, become a victim of criminal and get in an even worse situation.
Fucking aye.
It's not.
As I said. It's his way to vent. If you don't have family or friends to turn to, who else do you turn to?
Realistically the only thing he can do is [Fed Post] but that's not really allowed here and people can't really help him with that here. Doesn't mean he still can't vent and talk it out because he doesn't have any other options.
Not really sure there's anything he can do unless people offer him ways to resolve his situation, which is sort of what his post is asking for, and some people did offer him some advice. So maybe it will or won't help... it's better than brooding in a corner quietly doing nothing.
Plus, his posts are for posterity. You can chronicle the decline of Aussieland and its effects on the mental well-being (or otherwise) on its inhabitants.
Never said he should. Just that his options of communicating with sane people is limited due to the government's divide, conquer, and isolate routines. So he's expressing his frustrations and fears here.
Well, it's his way of coping. Would you simply prefer he not? You could always downvote and move on.
I get it. But as I said, if you were in the exact same situation with the government goons closing in on you to either get jabbed or [Fed Post] your response might look a little different when you also have no one to turn to. Maybe you'll just go quietly into the night, maybe you vent-post on here. We'll only find out when the time comes.
When you're divided, seemingly conquered, and isolated, people oftentimes don't act terribly rational.
This is exposing the fact that most human beings are essentially human bots who outsource all important thinking. All that's different now is the instructions in the programming.
Amazingly, I think the last 24 - 48 hours may have been enough to truly make me stop complying. I'm done playing along. I'm done with my "minimal compliance". I'm done putting up with this shit. I'm done allowing my family to kick me around, and treat me like "unvaccinated dirt". I'm fucking done with the medical profession, and all of the lies and bullshit they have thrown at us, in the last two years. And I'm done with the fucking disgraceful double-standard that allows Abo protesters to burn fucking Parliament House, but if I so much as WALK ONTO A BUS without a mask, or my smartphone, I will be fined, at minimum, hundreds of dollars.
Done. I'm not putting up with it any longer. No more of this.
"or my smartphone" wut? You mean carrying a goddamn smrtphone is legally mandatory? For ... covid tracing?
I'd be asking the gov't, well, if you want to force me to have a phone, are you going to help pay the bill for it?
... as for getting groceries, can you get stuff delivered?
I mean, it's pretty gross that they're restricting grocery trips. Be prepared to eat a Paki and tell them it's because you couldn't get food at the store. Yes, a Paki, not a non-human. Hey, people feel so sowwy for the cannibal Wheegrrr.
Literally yes, in my state at least...
The ONLY exception is if you order, and pay for (yourself) a "personal QR code" card, that you must then carry on you at all times, as another "form of ID"...
I wish I was making this up, I really do. But I'm not, very sadly... :-(
So yes, failing that, you MUST (legally) carry your app-enabled (so, must therefore be updated), charged (i.e. cannot be flat) smartphone on you at all times. No joke...
That's how fucked things have become, here... :-/
The current situation is the culmination of 50 years of feminist indoctrination that has all but obliterated western Enlightment values.
Instead of thinking, everyone have a right to determine for themselves what they want to do medically. Now it's you have to abrogate your rights for ME. This narcisstic and selfish thinking have been brought to you by the acceptence of society that feminism is sound and sane instead of an insane religion.
This is never going to end until western society collapse into a Venuzuelan or Zimbabwean dystopia. When the feminist cancers in power become prostitutes then we might have a chance at recovery. Unfortunately I don't think I will live long enough to see it.
Sad to say your freedoms are going to be ever more eroded and the "vaccines" will never end. There will be booster number 5,6,7,8,9 etc etc. I tried to make light of the situation and say we should just switch to monthly boosters, all I got was feminist resting bitch face.
The current situation is the culmination of 50 years of jewish indoctrination that has all but obliterated western Enlightment values.
Instead of thinking, everyone have a right to determine for themselves what they want to do medically. Now it's you have to abrogate your rights for ME, THE JEW. This narcisstic and selfish thinking have been brought to you by the acceptence of society that judaism is sound and sane instead of an insane religion.
This is never going to end until western society collapse into a Venuzuelan or Zimbabwean dystopia. When the jewish cancers in power become prostitutes then we might have a chance at recovery. Unfortunately I don't think I will live long enough to see it.
Sad to say your freedoms are going to be ever more eroded and the "vaccines" will never end. There will be booster number 5,6,7,8,9 etc etc. I tried to make light of the situation and say we should just switch to monthly boosters, all I got was jewish resting bitch face.
And how well are those boosters doing for Israel. The sad thing is it's not the Jews in general, it's the specific families who pull the strings and they sacrifice their own who are dumb enough to act as human shields for the evil ones among them.
We are watching how dictatorships work, with full documentation on how and why.
May seem like a ridiculous suggestion, but have you looked into smuggling yourself out of the country?
Yes, you would be an illegal immigrant somewhere, but your choices are narrowing down where you'll either be fighting for your life (literally), or getting jabbed and potentially losing your life.
Honestly, your options aren't pretty, but if you can find a way off the Devil's island, it's a better plan of attack than sitting and waiting for the inevitable to happen.
Become ungovernable
What is your primary goal: to oppose the insanity where you are? To be able to buy food without the vaxx? To live a normal life without all this insanity?
Any answer is valid, but the way in which you potentially accomplish the goal is different for each one.
All of the above would be ideal... shrug
Honestly though, mainly to fight this, and stop shit from getting worse, before they actually really do start rounding people like me up, and throwing us in the camps that they've commissioned and built...
Because we are unironically headed exactly that way. It's no longer even funny. It's a-coming... :-/
Here's what I'm getting at, and I'm taking what you say about being in the extreme minority at face value.
If your goal is to oppose the insanity, you're probably going to get arrested or killed in the process. At the very least you need to be prepared for that. Sad but true.
If your goal is to buy food without the vaxx, then your solution is to get the pass without getting the vaxx. Or find some sympathetic shopkeepers and/or employers.
If your goal is to live a normal life, then your solution is to find a way to leave the country and find a more hospitable one. Sad but true.
I guess, depressing and honestly mortifying as this is to write...
"It's better to die on your feet than live on your knees". - Midnight Oil, The Power and the Passion. Yes, yes, I know they didn't come up with that, but it's what comes to mind.
Ironic, given that the singer of that is almost certainly a vehement supporter of all this, and literally became a government minister, going against all that he espoused. Just like fucking Al Franken. But actually worse... :-/
Honestly, fuck Australia, at this point. What is there even left of it, that's worth saving?
The entire fucking country has gone completely insane. Just like Canada. Just like Germany. But at least the Germans fought back, for a while.
Australians? "Yeah nah, fuck you, just do what the government says, ey! She'll be right! I'm sure they know what's best!"
crying...
Yes they do. Watch the videos.
You're looking at it wrong OP.
You think things are doomed and already decided, thus there's no reason to fight for things worth saving, and good things are destroyed. You think the people are perpetually ignorant, thus you don't speak out against the lies, and the people remain ignorant. You think you're alone, thus you don't seek out anyone that thinks like you, and you remain alone. You think you can't do anything to stop evil, thus you don't do anything to stop it, and the evil remains.
The world is what is, and what we create. The world becomes what we tolerate, and thus through our inaction or action we deserve it. We're not just sponges that soak up the circumstance of the world around us. We have the power to shape it and change it. You may be partially right on what's going on, but you're wrong on your assessment of what can be done to stop it, and what you can do to change it. You're half right in the worst way possible. You've convinced yourself that everything is lost, that you can't do anything, that you're alone, and thus you've already decided your future actions, succumbed to doom, and acquiesced to the very evil you claim to hate. You've fallen victim to the propaganda just as much as the faceless public you condemn. The cabal wants us feeling exactly the way you do, so we never fight back against them. You've defeated yourself with your own thoughts. You've already lost without fighting a single battle.
In the worst times is the best time for good men to prove themselves, to seek out the other good people among us, to care for and defend each other, to realize we're not alone, to lift each other up, to realize all good isn't lost, to fight for it, to be outspoken against evil and lies, to fight against evil and lies. Your ancestors have achieved far more with far less against far greater odds. Even in that way, you're not alone. We were not put on this earth to lead easy comfortable lives. We're meant to be tested. The harder the test, the better the man that can overcome them. Why do you think the hero's journey has remained virtually unchanged in stories for millennia?
What can one man do? At the very least, he can remain a beacon of light in his own life, an example to those around him. At most, he can do far more. At the center, nothing will change until you change yourself. That choice, however, is yours.
Come to Ohio, I'll hang out with you. We can go to church together.
If that's out of the question, try going to church a lot. I recommend Orthodoxy.
You have to understand: the people shaming you are the same people who were sneering at the Jews in Hitler's Germany. The people yelling at you were the ones calling the Ghestapo. Tge ones going along with everything were the ones going long with it. The victims who survived the Holocaust were the ones who saw the writing on the wall and fled.
In a most of other places I'd say fight it, but Australia sounds like a lost cause. I think you should seriously consider the idea that this will never end. It won't be covid forever, but it will get transitioned to something else, like climate change. People will continue to go along with no resistance.
Can you get out of Oz? Get to the US somehow? I've heard that travel is restricted, but are their any loopholes? Sounds like your whole life is there, but will it be much of a life of you stay? If your family has ostracized you, what good is staying with them?
The good guys are on the ropes here in the US, but we have strongholds, and people willing to fight.
Do we want another free rider?
We already know he'd grumble "Hail Caesar" rather than be nailed to the cross. Is that the sort of person we want?
He's held out from getting jabbed this long in the most hostile territory in the west, against pressure from his whole family. I'd say that makes him better than at least 75% of Americans.
I'd be happy that we take in someone who actually wants to work and be part of society than yet another freeloader walking across the Southern Border.
False binary. How about not taking in anybody.
I live in Canada, many people don't even realize what's happening in Australia at all, not to mention the horrors of other lockdowner countries-- including my own
Once you pin them into a corner to aknowlege its taking place at all, then there's usually a deprogramming of justifications for it.
I hesitate to say but I don't think there are brave western forces on route to liberate any of us. Think we might be on our own
Organize, gorrilize, stay low. No phones.
Dude, hang in there, the sheeple are getting sick, not only from Covid, for every booster there is dropoff, the narrative is collapsing. Stay strong, a few more months is my guess
As a german, irl 90% of people I know are against it.
The Government and officials are big problems, but citizens obeying is another shitty nightmare
I don't know about Australia buy in much of USA nobody wears masks and most think it's bullshit.
Move to USA south. We still have supply chain problems because of other peoples idiocy but thats only a problem for consooming. No one wears a mask outside of a hospital and most people are not vaxxed. No one will stop you from going anywhere except like I say of it involves a cucked megacorp for some reason like a stadium concert
My mother knows it's all bullshit but wears a mask everywhere anyway because "she doesn't want to start anything".
That's all you need to know.
They went from "don't buy masks, they don't work" to "we need them for doctors even thought we said they don't work" to "everyone needs to wear a mask all the time" within the first few weeks of the shitshow.
Society is full of midwits who were trained to be smart enough to operate machinery but not enough to notice the world past their fucking nose.
And now this week the CDC admitted that the masks never worked.
If you're in Australia we are sycophantically subservient to the government. We won't change untill it gets real bad. But it probably wont so we will probably just forget this shit.
Pray about it.
Yeah as you said, it’s not the case where I live. People here are very skeptical of the vax and the government.
Oh that’s easy. People are not Christian for the most part anymore, but they still crave meaning and morality in their life, and this is their pale substitute.
They worship the state, the TV, “science”, and feel morally superior to people like you who dare to question “god”.
Yes you’ve stumbled upon the hard truth there. It won’t end until people make it end by not participating. There is light in the tunnel because people experiencing lockdowns even while they “did everything right” are annoyed, since they only took the shots to go back to normal and that is clearly not happening.
Also many people do not want to keep taking booster after booster, and now they see that two shots isn’t enough.
This will end within a year, at least in the states. If I was in Australia, I’d seek out like minded locals. Form a Telegram group. Support one another and offer advice and assistance.
From my outsider perspective, it doesn’t seem like Aussies are too bothered by government giving them a reach around. It will only end there when they get embarrassed because it’s already over in America and they’re still doing it.
Depends on the blue state, most of Illinois and an increasing amount of the Chicago suburbs have been telling Chicago to 'eff off. You do see a lot of maskers in some suburbs but nobody even bats an eye at me walking around in stores and restaurants maskless and I've had occasions some someone else seeing me and they tear off their own mask as if I'm not being ejected then why should they comply as well?