This seems to have massively taken off in Aus in the last few months, particularly after Dan Andrews one the Victorian election on a platform of “These people are the enemy, and I will make their lives hell”…
The sheeple/NPCs here call them “cookers”.
Essentially, not just SovCits, but anyone who doesn’t conform to/tow the party line…
To most of them, if they knew that I didn’t play along with their bullshit (acknowledgements of country, vaxx, not questioning stupid government/institutional decisions, etc), they would class me as a “cooker” and try to have me “cancelled”, too…
But yeah, the media campaign demonizing such people here is REALLY ramping up, and they’re no longer even bothering with facts - it’s just rumors and pulling unrelated things (opposition to the Covid bullshit, number plates, conspiracy theories, taxes) together to claim what “the enemy” believes…
I feel like they’re laying the groundwork for something much worse, but who knows, could just be a distraction, I guess…
The number of references in Australia to Waco, lately, and to Trump as some sort of “enemy figure” who will lead the breakup of the US/lead to another Civil War, is rather alarming…
TDS-by-proxy all over again…
What does Cookers stand for? I'm guessing it has something to do with Captain Cook who explored a ton of the Pacific, Americas, and bits of Australia. He died by pissing off Hawaiians.
In Florida there is the term Cracker and it's used openly and proudly by some. It weirds me out because the only real term I get is that I'm German and must be a Nazi.
You're living through what it was like being artsy and in Seattle. I kept my head down, and never mentioned my politics. The arts scene in Florida has some of the same lunatics, but I can also talk fairly openly with most friends without fear of reprisal.
These people made a whole wiki of us https://cookerpedia.org/wiki/Cooker
That's messed up