It’s the little things, honestly.
I’m at the cricket. Atmosphere is… Very “controlled”, let’s say.
This is Australia, right, and it’s cricket, so… Masks (but no vaxx mandate, otherwise I wouldn’t be here, obviously!), security fucking everywhere, literal propaganda messaging coming over the big screen every break, and every few “overs” (“Stay safe! Wear your mask! Behave or we will throw you out! Report anti-social behaviour to this text line”, etc)…
I’ve seen people arrested, and beach balls confiscated, amongst so many other “warnings”, and fuckery by security, and I’ve only been here a few hours…
I no longer give a fuck. Especially post-#Djokergate, and so I have stopped complying…
Mask off, and I fuck with these authoritarian tyrants at every last opportunity. Booing, swearing, I give them as much shit as I can, without being arrested, especially when they come for people near me (including a kid, for trying to rescue a beach ball before the security guard popped it). And when the woke ads, or “safety messages” come over, I boo as loud as I can, to drown it out. “Wear your mask or we’ll evict you!” - Yeah, get fucked, cunt!
People fucking LOVE it. Some have taken off their masks, because I have. Others have them down. Whenever I fuck with the authorities, others cheer and join in. Or laugh.
Oh, and my father is so disappointed it is genuinely hilarious. Makes me happy. I live to see him “disappointed” in me. 🥲
It’s the little things, honestly.
Do your best to be an example to others, and let’s fucking end this… 🤷🏻♂️
Yeah, yeah, “muh blog post”, but seriously, myself and A LOT of others, in the LDSAU Reddit community are thinking about getting out, before things in Aus get much worse.
Some already have. I know they went to Thailand, Bali and the Middle East. Those places aren’t for me, though.
So I’ve been thinking about Poland or Latin America, mostly. It’s fairly straightforward (in normal times) for an Australian of my age group to move to certain other countries on a Working Holiday Visa, at least for a year. If “my country” even LETS me leave, at least…
So… Hypothetically, I know that I can go to Ecuador, Chile, Argentina, Uruguay, Poland, Hungary, Greece, Cyprus, Slovakia, Slovenia, the Czech Republic, or a couple of the Baltic states…
Some of those are obviously more appealing than others. I’m still thinking Poland or Slovakia, quite honestly. But if other people have thoughts on this… Fire away!
Obvious this isn’t, initially at least, a long term move, but if Australia actually collapses while I am/we are all gone, then I’m sure I can probably apply for asylum or whatever, lol…
No degree, to clarify. Unfortunately…
Which… Doesn’t help me, I know. 😑
Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron’s cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience. They may be more likely to go to Heaven yet at the same time likelier to make a Hell of earth. This very kindness stings with intolerable insult. To be “cured” against one’s will and cured of states which we may not regard as disease is to be put on a level of those who have not yet reached the age of reason or those who never will; to be classed with infants, imbeciles, and domestic animals.
- Lewis, God in the Dock: Essays on Theology, 1948
I've tried twice, today, with a song. Two different videos, from two different ShitTube sources.
I can watch them fine, but when I try to post, it says, and shows "video unavailable" in the post...
Anyone got a possible explanation there??