^ Mind the screams. "Dan Andrews, that's on your fuckin' hand, you dog."
This was inevitable.
When tyranny and oppression becomes so unbearably stifling to a population (and protest, speech, and government choice are no longer an option) they will begin to lash out.
This is one of the many ways they may chose to do that, regardless of legal implications.
The Australian government has made it repeatedly clear that the lives of less than fully vaccinated people who have failed to properly register are enemies of the state and it's glorious revolution. They are to be savagely punished until they comply or die. This person, unsurprisingly, chose death. This includes the Internment Camps that I have heard idiot Australians attempting to defend. This includes significant amounts of police violence and harassment. This includes personal violence and harassment. This includes the removal of all available economic activity.
This man, correctly, understood that the law serves no purpose in Australia. The state has made a friend-enemy distinction between it's loyalists and dissenters. As Cicero notes, the law falls silent in times of war. As Clausewitz notes, this is because the law does not apply to your enemy, because the law is a moral force, and they are outside of your moral framework. This is why the statement: "They want you broke, they want you homeless, they want your wife dead, your children raped, and they think it's funny." rings so true. That is how you treat a sworn enemy who is outside your moral framework. The Australian state is at war with it's people, and that is why the law fell silent, and that is why this man chose death.
He will not be the last.
To the slaves and the villeins of petty tyrants: this is your fault. In fact, this is what you wanted. You may celebrate his death at your earliest convenience, you may even write a song about it and post it to TikTok. But please spare the rest of us your lecture about how good of a person you are. You are abominable creatures who have chosen, at every opportunity, an illusion of safety for the real sacrifice of Liberty. You did this under the guise of safety, but your only true reason was the opportunity to exert power over others. Unfortunately for you, this will continue to get worse: that is also your fault.
Yes, you are the baddies.
If you haven't figured that out from the smell of burning flesh yet, then I don't know what else to tell you.
Believe it or not NPR actually broke my brain because I genuinely opposed Trump in 2016. However, there were so many overt lies that they were spewing it was blowing my fucking mind.
"On The Media", a media watchdog program, had their producer come on and explicitly state that objective journalism could not be tolerated any longer because Trump was a despot. This was in October of 2016. ... ... I started yelling at my car radio in the Taco Bell drive through.
"It's Been A Minute" did a story about a border town that was basically entirely Mexican. They interviewed an old white woman who lived there her whole life, and said that she had no choice but to move because all her friends and family had either moved or died. She also cited that no one spoke English, no one wrote in English (so she couldn't even communicate with people to do shopping), and crime was rampant. The lady said several of her remaining friends had been mugged. The interviewer talked to a college professor that said she was just re-iterating racist stereotypes, and that she basically had to learn Spanish and be uncomfortable. The narrator said that there hadn't been any evidence that crime had increased, but other people they interviewed had reported muggings and someone crashed a car into a bank and robbed it. ... ... I started yelling at my car radio in the Burger King drive through.
I think it was "Weekend Edition" that had a panel to discuss the Hollywood Access tapes that had been released. It was the one where Trump talked about pussy grabbing. Now, having listened to the damn thing, I know he said, "When you're rich, they LET you grab them by the pussy." Keyword let, indicating consent. They accused Trump of admitting to rape. ... ... I started yelling at my car radio on a side-street.
Another news show came on and spoke about a recent mass shooting. They mentioned that the NRA said that more efforts needed to be taken in regards to the US's broken mental healthcare system to reduce these types of incidents. In response, NPR put on a political activist for an Autism Awareness organization who claimed that the NRA was trying to blame Autistic people for mass shootings. ... ... I started yelling at my car radio in the farmer's market.
On one of their evening news shows, they had a panel that mentioned that Betsy DeVoss (the Trump cabinet member I've had a perfect 180 turn around on) had entirely rescinded the "Dear Colleague" memo which had effectively ordered schools to construct Title IX Tribunals which were explicitly unconstitutional. I'd actually had to defend someone who was alleged to have sexually harassed me in their tribunal. I was not originally called upon to give any statements, despite being the alleged victim. I was ecstatic to learn that at the very least the impetus for these Cardiassian-style tribunals was finally gone. The panel claimed that DeVoss had legalized rape on campus. ... ... I started yelling at my car radio in a parking lot.
Correlation doesn't equal causation, but for some strange reason I haven't yelled at my car radio since I stopped listening to NPR.
This doesn't even mention the time when years ago, Left-wing liberals were calling into a call-in show during the Bundy Ranch stand-off and were advocating for drone-striking the entire protest and killing everyone there. I remember that at the time, I was writing an argument in my philosophy class on why drone strikes might be necessary against specific terrorists, and how much resistance I had been getting from other Left-wingers. Now, it was weird because the show was like, Science Friday, so that guy had no reason to vent to them about that issue, and they quietly walked him off the air, but they didn't condemn him or anything. Nowadays, I'd expect that attitude to be far more commonplace.