I very recently moved from one part of Australia to another, and, while it was still apparent where I was before, it is much, much more apparent in the new city just how successful "Covid" was at transferring wealth from the bottom end to the top end.
Almost everything here is cashless, including fucking vending machines (so you can't get change) and public transport (which must now always be prepaid). The suburb I am in has lost the majority of its small businesses, which either sold up and flogged off their assets, or are in the process of doing so. These "vacant" sites are then being replaced by towers. Expensive, shiny, poorly-built towers, financed almost solely by Chinese money.
I also just had someone overcharge me massively for what the products she was on-selling are worth, only to say "Covid" as the justification (in reality, lack of competition in the immediate area is the real reason). She also justified "Covid" for why I can't get a fucking electrician to come fix something in my apartment (a fridge - long story)...
Covid, Covid, fucking Covid. Or if it's not that, it's "security" or "sustainability". Like my University cutting back on services, staff, facilities, and even teaching (I study and work in Science, right. They've cut field trips, because the lecturers can't be effed. Meaning one of the only really useful areas of my courses are now gone)... You now even need to apply for "special permission" to use the library after hours, which you have to "justify" by carrying the "permission" around with you on a brand new, specialised app...
I realise Australia may be a fairly extreme outlier, on certain things (never mind that the building I am staying in is owned by a Hong Kong shell company, and all the writing on signs is in Chinese. And never mind the fact that the University is utterly compliant to the Chinese, too), but still, this all feels very... Off. Most of my friends seem able to see it, too, to some extent (though some of them blame it on everything from "racism" to "teh patriarchay!" to "capitalism"), and even the local subreddits seem to be waking up to it...
So yeah, while "Agenda 2030" may not be a reality yet, I really do think that "our leaders" are 100% committed to it, as is much of the business community... It's happening, and unless people really do start to push back, I do think that's where we're headed. We shouldn't bury our heads in the sand about that fact.
/endrant
Anyone who looks around and doesn’t see mostly collapse and defeat is delusional. Leftists control almost everything, demographic time bombs are rapidly exploding throughout the west, fiat currencies are imploding, and anyone sounding the alarm is being systematically destroyed by “the individuals”. It’s really, really bad out there.
It is "funny" (if a tad disconcerting) the number of people who somehow think things are getting "better" or that we are now "freer", or that never leaving their homes, doing everything online, and generally being antisocial, terminally online weirdos is "good"...
I know a lot of people like that. Pretty much all of them younger.
We've raised at least a generation and a half of completely nonfunctional "adults" (or late teenagers), and this is now their world. And they seem to think it is "great"...
shivers We are so fucked...
The fucking apps for everything and the push for "paperless billing" make me want to punch the people that invented computers and cell phones in the throat.
No, I don't want to download your bloatware on my phone that will steal a bunch of my personal data and send it to you simply to get in the gym. And, no thank you, I don't want you to be able to reach into my bank account directly without my express written consent and take money out.
These things aren't a "convenience" to me, and they always get way more out of the deal than you do even if you did find them convenient.
Yeah, this ^^. There are hotel chains now that force you to download an app, to check in, which then has access to your data... Even before Covid, I experienced that a couple of times. It's insane...
My University currently requires us to have two apps downloaded on our phones, to do anything from accessing email, to enrolling, to doing fucking any of the course...
To access government services (healthcare, tax, et al.), I currently require 4 (!!) different phone apps.
And that's just for those very basic things.
It's ludicrous.
Throw that intrusive piece of trash out and get an old flip phone.
Mygov doesn't need you to access it with your phone, and anyone who puts it on there has just opened themselves up to spying.
They swore they wouldn't spy using the covid tracing apps, its only for health they said. Bullshit it was, they spied using it. If they spied with medical apps they are 100% spying with non medical apps. Throw that shit out and just use a throwaway laptop for that stuff.
Get off commie island/east coast shit hole lib cities. It's not the case out here. Flee while you can.
I got kicked off my old phone when 3G sunset, good luck.
Invest in a phone that cannot have apps.
We're sitting on a knife's edge of another World War, one that the West is pushing since it gives them something to blame for the "sticky" inflation other than the gibs they vomited on the gibsmedats during COVID. Hell, it gives them an opportunity to print more money AND enact more fascistic "emergency powers".
But look on the bright side: The Boomers lived a privileged life to a ripe old age, and that's what really matters.
Can't see how any rational person would figure that.
Everything's still primed for it, because the people trying to lie and defraud us into a totalitarian state have suffered no repercussions for their actions. The only issue is that they have to try again so they will
That's what happened in Seattle and Portland. The buildings are Chinese, and everything is online. Then they blame capitalism, because another country taking over doesn't make sense in their minds.
Would be equally true of Canada.
Agenda 2030 is right on schedule from what I can tell.
As a counter point... You're in Australia, which has been cucked for decades.
Yeah, they’re one of the worst off countries with regard to globohomo.
This is nitpicking, but if you are paying that woman the price she asked for, she isn't overcharging. That's the market price that you were willing to pay.
Apart from that, start using cash as much as you can. Most shops still take cash and you will actually get some human contact from interacting with the cashier. Top up your public transport card with cash and don't register it. If anyone asks, you can always tell them it helps with budgeting if you are concerned about being seen as a "conspiracy theorist".
You are right though, nothing was been averted. Instead, it's up to you and me to do something about it. Leaders can't do squat if enough people oppose them.
Perhaps. But the only data point we have is that the OP paid for it at that price. And from that I'm presuming he wasn't the only one that paid for it at that price. It's like when I see canned drinks for $5 at a cafe. I won't pay that much for a can because I can buy the same thing in a grocery store for $1, but plenty of others do. Is the cafe overcharging or simply charging what people are willing to pay?
It was $10 for something that should have cost, at most, $5. And all the products were like that.
In the scheme of things, I decided I would pay it, because I didn’t have time to walk around this suburban food desert (yeah, they exist here, too)…
Without getting into semantics, it was just a bit absurd…
Especially when she justified it with “Covid”, like that somehow made sense…
I was in Helsinki once, legit robbery prices everywhere, all digital no cash transactions. Take it or leave it.
That's just sad... :-(
Then again, Nordic countries!
Some people's idea of "paradise", apparently...
No wonder those of a certain... "Totalitarian persuasion" love it up there so much!
And no wonder the Finns I have met wanted to get out, lol...
I always interact with the cashier whenever I can. And I do use cash wherever possible.
It's nearly impossible to top up with cash anymore, though, that's the thing... Which is nuts.
If you originally buy the transport card in-store, or over the counter, rather than from a machine, you are literally left with no choice but to register it...
This applies in each Australian state. Oddly...
But if you buy it from a machine, you don't. V strange...
I won't nitpick re "market price", but a 50% markup on products is absurd...
I should have just told her where to go, but oh well. Most people just tap and go, and don't think about the cost, now. That's the problem...
Invasive species must be eliminated in order for the native population to survive.
You know what a weed is? Its just a plant like any other. Still, we call them weeds due to their behavior. They are plants that cause gross imbalances which threaten the entire habitat. From water consumption to the disruption of the root systems and overgrowth which chokes out light — mortal threats to the well being of native species.
Tolerance of weeds does not help. Understanding them does not change anything. Total eradication at the root is the only solution.
Never give up your guns.
You get to be an object lesson, now.
I don't think it's been 'prevented', I just feel like given the current situations and facts, it's going to fail hard and cause what could've been a collapse and restructure into and even worse collapse.
That's cool and worthy, what kind of science?
Tell us about the cash use situation; how restrictive is it? In your daily life do you make an effort to use cash wherever possible? When they are able to eradicate the use of cash your cage becomes inescapable.
If you remember about 2010 in Greece the European Central Bank turned off cash in Greece for months which created payment chaos as many people and businesses were still predominately dependent on cash transactions, forcing them into digital money or no money. A barter economy also sprung up pretty fast but Greece still had a healthy agricultural and artisan factor in which to barter.
Can you turn your science education into something that can be bartered in hard times? Otherwise as an urban Australian you will be eventually forced into their electronic money system and there will be no way out but starvation.
Leave your cell phone at home for a couple of days and try to live without it, just as an experiment.
I leave my cell phone at "home" (currently not really a home, but where I'm living) all the time, but the University has made it so you can't access their systems without it... So I can't go to class without it, or the library, or, well, access anything to do with my studies... :-/
And yes, I do try to use cash whenever possible, which is why being told that you can't top up your travel card with cash (yes, really), and can't even use vending machines was so fucked...
Even three years ago, you could still at least use cash (coins) on buses. No more...
A lot of businesses refuse it, now, too...
But yeah, obviously I do try. Wherever possible, still, lol...
Oh, and re the bartering thing...
Honestly no, my education has not really helped much for that, apart from, I guess, knowing how to use certain natural "products" - animals, plants, etc, for their useful purposes...
But nah, I guess in that sense, knowing how to grow and harvest my own food, and fuck, knowing how to change a tyre and all that basic mechanical shit, will probably be more useful, if we ever got to that point...
But I doubt I would even live that long anyway, lol, so for my own personal survival? Not really worried. Ha.
Do you happen to live in New South Wales, or ever used to live there? Just asking because I've been watching way too much Friendlyjordies because moistcritical did a video about him getting firebombed and he recently released who he thinks it could've been, so I'm wondering.
I used to. 2014 - 16. Not in Sydney though. Yeah, I've watched Jordies stuff in the past, too. Though I didn't know about the firebombing, I must admit! :-/ That's just... Bleak.
But I'm not currently in NSW, no. In some ways where I am now is probably worse. Though perhaps in some ways not.
Labor are in power at both state and federal level (as they will be at state level, in NSW, soon, too, in all likelihood).
The local council is technically "conservative", but they're just a bunch of corrupt property developers. Objectively one of the worst councils in the entire country. So...
I dunno hey.
Tell me more about the firebombing, coz like I said, first I've heard of it...
TL;DR of his video: Jordies basically made every single major player in the NSW Liberal party mad due to them being corrupt, getting sued by John Barilaro over making fun of him in his YT vids for being a corrupt bastard, along with exposing Barilaro’s ties to the Alameddine crime family (probably butchered the spelling but it is what it is), so any of them, John’s allies, ClubsNSW (because he helped exposed that 95% of the clubs don’t uphold the anti-money laundering standards at the pokies), or anyone else he made angry like allies of Peter Dutton, Eddie Kocwa, or again, any major Liberal in New South Wales really.
He is openly pro-Labor, but with all the corruption in the previous NSW Libera government that he talks about, and trying to keep Labor up to account as well, I can see why, especially since he really cares about all the environmental shit.
Edit: the video where Jordan explains everything
This song is about the sleaze of two Australian cities...
I've just moved (back) to one of these. I'll let you figure out which one, lol:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xImwExvyG0o
Song was released in the 80s. Things are worse here now. Go figure...
Never heard of him!
Just looked him up, though...
I don't agree with everything he says, though... On a partial tangent - it was most funny watching a Uni "campus life" staff girl try and explain Drag Queen Bingo to two completely bemused Indian international students...
This is where we're at, now. That's what we are "exporting" culturally, to the students who come here (supposedly to learn)... Like, fuck...
But I have to admit it was funny. I openly mocked her for it as I walked past, because it is so patently absurd for the University to be offering that as a prize for a campus competition...
The fuck is with drag queens at the moment? How the fuck did that happen?
Anyway...
I'm not "defeated", and anyone that thinks I am going to embrace what the deem to be "reality" is psychotic as fuck.
So what then? Something is going to have to be done about the sheep. If you can't think for yourself, if you have a biological need for a leader, then you're a liability. You need your hand held, you're high maintenance, not me. I'm not going to lie, there are times where I see myself as capable of worse than the wef, or mao or whomever your mass murdering boogieman is.
I aim for a greater reset.