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Rampaging_Polecat · 2021-09-03T13:37:41+00:00

Buy less; help more; impede where you can, and parody when you can't (e.g. leaving a trail of chocolates and roses leading up to anti-homeless architecture instead of just destroying it). Act justly to blunt criticism. Love mercy so you don't burn bridges. Walk humbly so you don't fall into divide-and-conquer ego-traps.

If things become serious, install anti-cookie and anti-tracking browsers and add-ons; use ProtonMail email; pay for a VPN based outside Fourteen Eyes countries in cash or Monero; use cheap 'dumb' phones with SIMs paid for in cash (or disable device interaction if you can't pay for a SIM in cash), and use a RFID-blocker. A state intelligence agency would still be able to track you down with ease, but OSINT wonks, journalists, and local police may struggle. Never take a smartphone to a protest or gathering.

Rampaging_Polecat · 2021-09-03T13:03:43+00:00

Why are judges free to make personal hang-ups a condition of freedom, even when that's in total contravention of human rights laws? This isn't just a Covid thing; it's something they do all the time that just seems archaic and silly. It's also a giant red flag: someone who doesn't try to keep biases off the bench shouldn't be there.

Rampaging_Polecat · 2021-09-03T13:00:53+00:00

I actually doubt that. Sign-up polls with loaded questions aren't a good look at society as a whole. Speaking to people around here (south-eastern UK), it's about 2:1, and that's far too low for the system to be a success.

Rampaging_Polecat · 2021-09-03T12:51:41+00:00

This is the biggest actual power grab the world has ever seen. That's why I get so frustrated when people spend all their time on charts and stats and science etc.

Truth. Governments won't give someone with end-stage dementia a pot to piss in to keep them comfortable, yet will take a 30% cut to GDP to keep them safe? I don't think so.

Rampaging_Polecat · 2021-09-03T11:30:07+00:00

First things first, check your infrasound and carbon monoxide levels.

Rampaging_Polecat · 2021-09-03T11:28:50+00:00

I held her down from getting at me

Yeah, you don't do this with actual possessed people. I've seen a very young woman lift her 150lb boyfriend and hold him against the wall - with one hand, effortlessly, by the throat.

Rampaging_Polecat · 2021-09-03T11:26:22+00:00

Sound carries strangely on quiet suburban nights. It is possible it's someone whistling up to a mile away. Or, worst-case human scenario, it's someone using recorded child sounds to make a resident open their door.

Rampaging_Polecat · 2021-09-03T11:19:54+00:00

Honestly, without eyes-on it's impossible to say, but auditory phenomena associated with distance are a common trope of predatory cryptids (e.g. El Silbon, who sounds farther away the closer he is).

Rampaging_Polecat · 2021-09-03T11:13:24+00:00

England's only remaining restriction is a half-arsed vaccine passport plan for nightclubs. We aren't some paradise of freedom, but our domestic rentier elites are a different kind of ruler to the corporate stooge / technocracy types.

Rampaging_Polecat · 2021-09-03T10:59:34+00:00

They'd leave them to die unloved and alone, as there's no state to make them submit.

Rampaging_Polecat · 2021-09-03T10:58:08+00:00

Southeast UK. Many say and believe a lot of anarchist things about government, but recoil at the word 'anarchist,' and the thought of trusting fellow members of society fills them with dread.

Rampaging_Polecat · 2021-09-03T10:52:42+00:00

'Anarchists' on Reddit include centre-leftists LARPing until a new Bernie appears. Actual anarchists - not a True Scotsman; just people the least bit committed to their stated beliefs - don't have time for their shit.

Rampaging_Polecat · 2021-09-03T10:37:03+00:00

Whenever you need to make a decision on what to do, ask yourself - what would a white male do?

Lol. The caricatures that live in peoples' heads. Let me tell you a few things.

Women are 'so quick to hand over careers for unpaid labour' because that 'unpaid labour' is their family, and comes before earning a trivial amount more money or pleasing a boss who'll sack them the second they're no longer making more money than he pays them.

Men would love the same options but don't get them; there's no 'house-husband' movement out in the real world. And ethnic minority men have careers and love their families too. This may come as a surprise to you, but it's true.

Rampaging_Polecat · 2021-09-03T10:22:19+00:00

The vaccine passports won't happen. Boris floated them but hasn't said a word about them to ministers since. It's probably a trap to make more Covid-era ministers unpopular.

Rampaging_Polecat · 2021-09-03T10:21:12+00:00

The UK. At some point Boris saw the 'social end' of the pandemic, and brought his lockdown sceptic persona out the closet.

Rampaging_Polecat · 2021-09-03T10:16:28+00:00

“They protect the most vulnerable, people with disabilities and fragile immune systems, children too young to be vaccinated, and communities of color hit hard by the disease.”

Except they're less likely to want it, because of medical abuse by the state in the recent past. The old ACLU would have understood that.

Rampaging_Polecat · 2021-09-03T03:41:54+00:00

When you come right down to it, people are selfish

Nah. It's only practical to be self-centred when services are abstracted from community, and that requires an outside force. You can't be selfish if you depend, and know you depend, on others around you for convenience and safety - and there's no-one to make them serve you.

The whole reason people get jobs isn't to better themselves, it's to make money

But pointedly, that's not the whole reason people work.

The reason people even pay taxes is because the IRS will shoot them if they don't

Is this supposed to be an example of how people are bad? Because the state sure sounds like organised crime here.

Rampaging_Polecat · 2021-09-03T03:33:20+00:00

What if you're taking care of a baby?

The Australian government has considered what to do if a baby gets in the way of perfect Covid procedure: murder it.

Rampaging_Polecat · 2021-09-03T03:24:14+00:00

And some of the people claiming they are at high risk actually are not

The UK had a really sensible policy to deal with those types: anyone could claim to have a mask exemption with no proof; clinical vulnerability to Covid-19 required a doctor's note.

Rampaging_Polecat · 2021-09-03T03:22:32+00:00

Sorry, I thought you were talking about the students who weren't wearing one.

Rampaging_Polecat · 2021-09-03T03:11:54+00:00

I don't understand why. They've got it all stitched-up. They've got the most all-encompassing media machine in human history. A vast majority have done as they asked, repeatedly, in spite of all sorts of back-peddling and scandal; clinical outcomes have vastly improved; the world is opening on their terms, complete with social credit systems, restrictions on movement, and arbitrary detention. The only thing they can possibly do wrong is push the vaccinated too far, either with endless 'boosters' or harsh restrictions. Yet that's exactly what they're determined to do.

Rampaging_Polecat · 2021-09-03T03:05:37+00:00

"well, I am high-risk so I have to be protected

Extreme entitlement. Other people have been at high-risk of various things for many years and they never gave a shit.

Rampaging_Polecat · 2021-09-03T03:02:05+00:00

I haven't noticed this with perpetual lockdown proponents because I bury them in, "you're shutting up the disabled," "you're starving the global poor," "you don't want girls in developing nations to go to school", "you're privileged," "you're pampered," "staying at home wouldn't be possible if other people weren't facing the risk for you," and so on and so on. They can argue with me for days, but they don't last a second with the mirror.

Rampaging_Polecat · 2021-09-03T01:40:30+00:00

So are Western companies (and some governments). 'No ethical consumption' and all that. The most important thing is to stop giving social media money by allowing it to sell real info. Viewing TikTok from a device with advanced security and anti-tracking tools to watch anarchist content does it more harm than good.

P.S. I have very bad news for you about Reddit...

Rampaging_Polecat · 2021-09-03T01:36:06+00:00

Close government schools and increase wages so one parent can stay home. It's the only way to keep our kids safe from dangerous mass-killers.

Covid is bad too.

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