An Aside (General)
Two things stick out for me as battlefronts: Freedom of Speech, Right to Privacy.
What percentage of the population do you need to get herd immunity to that? To then institute an Orwellian model of governance? From which there's almost no coming back.
70%? Then lockdown the rest? That's doable - we know that coz it's doneable. (Russia, China)
70% popularity rating in a democracy is insanely good - if you can get that level of public support (even as you open a portal to dictatorship), you're all set. That’s what our man Dan Andrews has been persistently posting. Much to my 'horror'. (Was that Kurtz's final realization? The 70% equation?)
I'm sure Andrews won't go on to become Australia's Xi Jinping, but he's laying down a trail to that place, a 'precedent' for 'unprecedented times'.
So why is he so popular? Part of the trouble is that it's a buy-now-pay-later scheme in Australia. All businesses are getting paid to be closed or to make up the gap.
That's nice. Until we have to pay it back - with two of Australia's top three main earners (both non-essentials for the customers) - foreign students and tourism - smashed for the foreseeable future.
Right now, economic hardship is still an abstract concept in Australia - but it will be measured in human misery down the track. To those foisting this regime onto society: if you wanted to start a class war - you're going exactly the right way about it.
Complete thread:
- Victoria's New Normal -
dulan drift,
2020-09-10, 10:02
- State of Disaster -
dulan drift,
2020-09-10, 11:15
- Dan Andrews riding high -
dulan drift,
2020-09-15, 20:00
- Security Guard Sex Scandal -
dulan drift,
2020-09-16, 18:04
- An Aside -
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2020-09-22, 17:52
- An Aside -
dan,
2020-09-22, 18:50
- An Aside -
dulan drift,
2020-09-23, 17:14
- The Hotel Quarantine Investigation - dulan drift, 2020-09-23, 17:31
- An Aside -
dulan drift,
2020-09-23, 17:14
- An Aside -
dan,
2020-09-22, 18:50
- An Aside -
dulan drift,
2020-09-22, 17:52
- Security Guard Sex Scandal -
dulan drift,
2020-09-16, 18:04
- State of Disaster - dan, 2020-09-22, 18:37
- Dan Andrews riding high -
dulan drift,
2020-09-15, 20:00
- Victoria's New Normal -
dan,
2020-09-22, 18:34
- Victoria's New Normal -
dulan drift,
2020-09-24, 17:36
- Breaking News -
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2020-09-24, 17:39
- Refusal of ADF help -
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2020-09-25, 17:24
- Cool Health Minister quote -
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2020-09-25, 17:42
- CCP Cooperation - Belt and Road -
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2020-09-29, 18:29
- CCP Daniel Andrews Contract - what he signed Vic up for -
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2020-10-01, 17:52
- BRI Contract - extract -
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2020-10-03, 17:37
- BRI Contract - extract -
dan,
2020-10-03, 20:24
- BRI Contract - extract -
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2020-10-05, 17:12
- 2019 Trip to China - dulan drift, 2020-10-05, 17:28
- BRI Contract - extract -
dan,
2020-10-05, 18:47
- When in China - do what the CCP tell you to do... -
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2020-10-08, 18:40
- Motivation - Big Infrastructure guy -
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2020-10-20, 17:17
- Transurban -
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2020-10-26, 16:47
- Transurban 2 - West Gate Tunnel -
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2020-10-29, 20:42
- Transurban 3 - China influence? -
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2020-11-01, 13:35
- John Holland - WG Tunnel construction company -
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2020-11-01, 14:27
- John Holland - A Bright New Future -
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2020-11-03, 18:33
- Deng Xiao-ping and The Party Vision -
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2020-11-28, 14:57
- Deng Party Vision 2: Bitterness -
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2020-12-06, 10:15
- Party Vision 3: The Treaty of Versailles - May 4 Movement -
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2020-12-06, 11:46
- Party Vision 4: Xi Jinping Thought - dulan drift, 2020-12-16, 08:23
- Party Vision 3: The Treaty of Versailles - May 4 Movement -
dulan drift,
2020-12-06, 11:46
- Deng Party Vision 2: Bitterness -
dulan drift,
2020-12-06, 10:15
- Deng Xiao-ping and The Party Vision -
dulan drift,
2020-11-28, 14:57
- John Holland - A Bright New Future -
dulan drift,
2020-11-03, 18:33
- John Holland - WG Tunnel construction company -
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2020-11-01, 14:27
- Transurban 3 - China influence? -
dulan drift,
2020-11-01, 13:35
- Transurban 2 - West Gate Tunnel -
dulan drift,
2020-10-29, 20:42
- Transurban -
dulan drift,
2020-10-26, 16:47
- Motivation - Big Infrastructure guy -
dulan drift,
2020-10-20, 17:17
- When in China - do what the CCP tell you to do... -
dulan drift,
2020-10-08, 18:40
- BRI Contract - extract -
dulan drift,
2020-10-05, 17:12
- BRI Contract - extract -
dan,
2020-10-03, 20:24
- BRI Contract - extract -
dulan drift,
2020-10-03, 17:37
- CCP Daniel Andrews Contract - what he signed Vic up for -
dulan drift,
2020-10-01, 17:52
- CCP Cooperation - Belt and Road -
dulan drift,
2020-09-29, 18:29
- Cool Health Minister quote -
dulan drift,
2020-09-25, 17:42
- Refusal of ADF help -
dulan drift,
2020-09-25, 17:24
- Breaking News -
dulan drift,
2020-09-24, 17:39
- Victoria's New Normal -
dulan drift,
2020-09-24, 17:36
- State of Disaster -
dulan drift,
2020-09-10, 11:15