Good point Mark. I have felt this with the mandates as well. To work for local government in Victoria, Australia (council workers) you still need to have had the first two vaccinations to get a job even though those vax are for the original strains. It's just a matter of being a compliant worker. I worked for a council for 14 years and already knew that they hate people who don't comply. The mandates were the perfect excuse for them to expel these people. They didn't do it in any civilised way, more like crusaders or zealots. This rabid behaviour echoes the behaviour of the censors, stern and ignorant and self satisfied
Mark - FYI.. When I hit the hotlink in the email for this story Microsoft Defender has labeled the substack website as unsafe and would not let me proceed. I had to manually navigate here. Not sure if its all of substack or just select sub-domains. I have grabbed a screenshot of it and saved it if you need a copy of it for any reason.
This is the essence of authoritarianism: the daily work of the power structure becomes not in utilizing power to pursue a policy but to protect and maintain power itself. As this approaches 100% of a power structure's daily workload, the system collapses.
And this is why it doesn't matter whether you're dissenting against something that is factually accurate or false: because the dissent is in itself the problem.
Good point Mark. I have felt this with the mandates as well. To work for local government in Victoria, Australia (council workers) you still need to have had the first two vaccinations to get a job even though those vax are for the original strains. It's just a matter of being a compliant worker. I worked for a council for 14 years and already knew that they hate people who don't comply. The mandates were the perfect excuse for them to expel these people. They didn't do it in any civilised way, more like crusaders or zealots. This rabid behaviour echoes the behaviour of the censors, stern and ignorant and self satisfied
Mark - FYI.. When I hit the hotlink in the email for this story Microsoft Defender has labeled the substack website as unsafe and would not let me proceed. I had to manually navigate here. Not sure if its all of substack or just select sub-domains. I have grabbed a screenshot of it and saved it if you need a copy of it for any reason.
Why'd the covidian=Iranian religious laws post go down?
This is the essence of authoritarianism: the daily work of the power structure becomes not in utilizing power to pursue a policy but to protect and maintain power itself. As this approaches 100% of a power structure's daily workload, the system collapses.
And this is why it doesn't matter whether you're dissenting against something that is factually accurate or false: because the dissent is in itself the problem.
Good question Mark! Suggest you ask Twitter, FB, YT, MSM et al....