The Australian totalitarian megathread - She won't be right mate.

Nate Higgs said:
Truckers in Melbourne blocking roads in protest, only 6 so far but look out if this grows.

www.9news.com.au

Fines issued after Melbourne truck drivers block freeway in protest action

www.9news.com.au www.9news.com.au

Pallachook just mandated the jab for truckies coming into Queensland

www.9news.com.au

Queensland 'not headed for lockdown' despite four new cases

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Australia going to have our own supply chain crisis soon?
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Thanks for sharing that. I'm confused - so, masks weren't mandatory before today? Then why the hell is everyone in Brissy wearing them (before today) this is getting so ridiculous - people are batshit crazy. The Control is palpable...

I've heard this mentioned before about supply chain crises...but, nothing seems to eventuate from it. The spotlight seems to be more on truck drivers though.
 
Richardface said:
Proper strategy would probably buy old 1 or 2 ton trucks at the end of their life for a few hundred bucks and park them across the freemasonry. Understand its asking a lot of people for them to risk a half million dollar prime mover. I'll start the wiki
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Put a truck on your truck then use your truck to put trucks all over the place.
 
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ShoFuKan said:
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>Masks will be mandatory in Tasmania at large events from next Saturday, Premier Peter Gutwein has announced.
>Mr Gutwein said the order would apply to both indoor and outdoor events with 1,000 or more attendees.
>"I think it's a very sensible decision to make face masks compulsory. It reduces the risk of COVID-19 under the current circumstances of those settings and I think it's just something that we're going to need to get used to," Mr Gutwien said.

No new cases in 18 months, that spike at the beginning of the year was a transfer from Vic but still need to wear masks. I got family down there and they love it, being able to drive around and QR codes arn't being enforced.
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This right here is proof that no matter how well you follow the government's orders, this only ends when either politicians feel like it or you vote the politicians out.
Puff said:
The crisis is global. If America can't export food, everyone is hurt. Australia less than most though because you actually have farmland.
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China IIRC imports a lot of food from Australia so that'll be great, although I think a lot of it is just beef and wine.
 
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Gimmick Account said:
Put a truck on your truck then use your truck to put trucks all over the place.
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Puff said:
The crisis is global. If America can't export food, everyone is hurt. Australia less than most though because you actually have farmland.
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Australia has more than enough food production to be self sufficient. We might take a hit on the variety available though.
 
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Save the Loli said:
This right here is proof that no matter how well you follow the government's orders, this only ends when either politicians feel like it or you vote the politicians out.
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Yeah but who do we vote in when we vote them out
Australia has exactly the same issue as the US with both sides of an artificial, virtual (because it's not really supposed to be, right?) two-party system being essentially the exact same shit with trivial differences magnified out of proportion to give the illusion of choice. The thing about Aus being a test market for the rest of the world is that the conditions need to be similar, so I doubt this is a coincidence.

With the amazing success of the "pretend to be clowns" model praying on Australians' arrogance so that they never have to be accountable for anything, does it even matter if they're forced to play musical chairs every few years? In a kleptocracy the people behind the figureheads don't change when that happens. The politicians themselves don't even seem to profit that much personally, relatively speaking, to the massive irreversible damage they reap on the economy, culture and ecology habitually so it doesn't make much sense on that level, and surely there's more of them in whatever fucking underground amphibian cloning lab they all come from.
 
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Apologies for the source, but it seems Health Minister and Police Commissioner can't agree on who is or isn't doing what.

The New South Wales health minister Brad Hazzard insists police will be responsible for enforcing entry restrictions on unvaccinated people – a position at odds with the state’s police commissioner who said officers would “not be walking through restaurants, cafes and pubs checking if people are double vaccinated”.
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NSW police commissioner Mick Fuller told Sydney radio on Tuesday morning that his officers would not be patrolling venues to enforce vaccines status.
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Gimmick Account said:
Yeah but who do we vote in when we vote them out
Australia has exactly the same issue as the US with both sides of an artificial, virtual (because it's not really supposed to be, right?) two-party system being essentially the exact same shit with trivial differences magnified out of proportion to give the illusion of choice. The thing about Aus being a test market for the rest of the world is that the conditions need to be similar, so I doubt this is a coincidence.

With the amazing success of the "pretend to be clowns" model praying on Australians' arrogance so that they never have to be accountable for anything, does it even matter if they're forced to play musical chairs every few years? In a kleptocracy the people behind the figureheads don't change when that happens. The politicians themselves don't even seem to profit that much personally, relatively speaking, to the massive irreversible damage they reap on the economy, culture and ecology habitually so it doesn't make much sense on that level, and surely there's more of them in whatever fucking underground amphibian cloning lab they all come from.
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oh, they profit, trust me - they are set up for life verrry comfortably - that is why they all want the top job. Not to make change; not out of love for the country or the people; not to help Straya prosper. The biggest joke is the 'leap frogging' when a party votes out the prime minister from the same party and puts someone else in their place ie gillard overthrowing Rudd. Australian politics are a joke. The general consensus is 'why bother voting?'. Interesting about being a testing ground though...
 
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wildhoney said:
oh, they profit, trust me - they are set up for life verrry comfortably
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For a toadie. To be very clear, I was referring to how well they individually profit relative to the damage they cause. One shit deal might buy them a nice couch, probably not a house to put it in, certainly not a yacht. They're small-time. Meanwhile the mining company they're circlejerking under the table is printing a dollar for every wombat they just got a permit to throw in the woodchipper: real money.
The point is they're political creatures, not masterminds, but they also aren't the idiots they pretend to be to skirt responsibility. They are scum.

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What about the One Nation or United Australia parties?
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Those aren't "the Opposition" though. See, even the language that's printed sets it up as though it's a two-party system. I'm not that strong on Australian politics but don't they even give themselves LARP "shadow" titles so they can roleplay in front of a mic even when they aren't elected to the exclusion of all others?
I mean yeah over a long enough period of time, like really long, another party might become the new opposition and Australia does have some occasional third-party stuff going on, but the money running the show moves a lot faster and it's not a genuinely representative system by design.

Full disclosure my impressions of this stuff are entirely against my will and if not for these troubling times I would be far the fuck away again where I could be entirely rather than mostly ignorant
 
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Been watching this Develop for the past few months and I have to say, I'm not surprised. Every Aussie I've met, nice or not, has largely been an empty vessel for govt propaganda, even pre-covid. Its like Europeans on steriods.

The thing that really cemented this for me, was when these more recent lockdowns went into effect I sent a message to an Aussie friend, along the lines of "hey, heard whats going on, be safe".

She replied with "theres no lockdown here, thats all bullshit." Next day she posted those riot squad trucks rolling down her street on snapchat. The level of ignorance is astounding.
 
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wildhoney said:
yeah cos it is illegal to not vote

yeah cos it is illegal to not vote. you get fined
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You get fined $50 for not turning up to get your named marked off on the register. You don't have to put a ballot in to the box you can just walk off. Despite the small fine and the fact you don't have to complete the vast majority do turn up and do complete it. I know everyone theatrically complains about the uselessness of politicians here but in the end youse all fucken vote for the dogs ay cunt
 
Ford4.7 said:
Been watching this Develop for the past few months and I have to say, I'm not surprised. Every Aussie I've met, nice or not, has largely been an empty vessel for govt propaganda, even pre-covid. Its like Europeans on steriods.

The thing that really cemented this for me, was when these more recent lockdowns went into effect I sent a message to an Aussie friend, along the lines of "hey, heard whats going on, be safe".

She replied with "theres no lockdown here, thats all bullshit." Next day she posted those riot squad trucks rolling down her street on snapchat. The level of ignorance is astounding.
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Depends which state... Things vary even on a day-to-day basis. There is no lockdown here in Queensland, But in Victoria (where the riots were) there was. We can wake up tomorrow and the Govt will say "from 4pm today, we're back in lockdown (including closing borders) " .. just like that, based on 2 (two) people testing positive from a state with 5 million people.

They are waiting for an 80% vax rate before abandoning lockdowns. They now have walk-in jab stalls set up on the steets. Free of course.
 
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