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??
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.