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Wesley Hoyle's avatar

I for one am very grateful to the Australian government.

They are giving the rest of the industrialized world a sneak peek of what all petty tyrants would and will do in the event they think they can get away with it.

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Rob Jenkins's avatar

When the people are unarmed.

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Andie's avatar

Old fashioned Flip phones may be the wave of the future

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Eric Turner's avatar

Yes, this is crazy. One of a growing number of reasons to throw away your smartphone.

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Fugedaboudit's avatar

I'm sure Apple is lobbying Congress to mandate smartphones.

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Randy's Substack Subscription's avatar

Fugedaboudit - yup. Android too. (aka Google).

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S M AZ's avatar

Yes! Gatito bueno, I hope your Mama and Papa do not allow you to have a smartphone! Too dangerous.

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Webster Whorf's avatar

My Light Phone is on order.

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MLL's avatar

They're also forcibly injecting people which is a criminal act. I don't know why msm in the USA is so silent about their abuses.

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Kenneth Rapoza's avatar

Tucker Carlson isn't. But MSM, in general, doesn't know where Australia is.

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KatLee's avatar

Kinda like Sweden

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Argos's avatar

Because they are rooting for it here.

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BJKarr's avatar

They “should feel pretty proud” that are literal prisoners?!? Was that followed by a maniacal laugh?

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Lorie's avatar

yeah. Bizarro world.

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Katie Andraski's avatar

Is Covid that bad down there? Make Orwell fiction again. Increasingly the mark of the beast is becoming reality.

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Mike Cranny's avatar

No, their goal is COVID zero.

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Randy's Substack Subscription's avatar

Yup. It isn't (yet) the mark, but it certainly inures the frightened little minds to aggressively seek the mark of the beast when it comes - and I believe it will in pretty short order.

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totisviribus@protonmail.com's avatar

Can't verify the source, but I did read that one entire town was quarantined (stay at home1!) when the Covid virus was found in one sample of the town's water.

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Casey's avatar

Coming soon to a techno-feudal dystopia near you!

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Ed's avatar

covid zero is a tool to destroy the rights of man....

read billy budd!

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Kenneth Rapoza's avatar

Theyve out-China'd China. Australia now officially has ZERO place in the Western world and can no longer chastise China on any human rights issues, not gay rights, not the uyghurs, not Hong Kong, nothing. To the CCP, Australia is simply the white trash neighbor with the dirty trailer in the yard (with multiple flat tires and moss stains).

But I will say that I believe this is coming to NYC and surely all of California if Newsom is elected. He will want revenge and there will be no patience for the "anti vaxers, anti maskers and anti lockdown MAGA voters" who caused all of this (will be the narrative).

More people will flee there, if possible, but that will only make matters worse as they will just turn the other states they go to blue. Then you really have an Uniparty, run by the business-stylings of Davos Man.

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Rob Jenkins's avatar

Thanks, Kenneth, for cheering me up.

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Kenneth Rapoza's avatar

okay, consider it a call to arms so to speak. Just to be aware. And, I could be wrong!

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Lucy's avatar

🤣😭

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Argos's avatar

San Francisco, with an 86% vax rate, seems to be striving for this OZ goal: https://fb.watch/7NUWClZDw9/

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TexBat's avatar

I bet people living in Australia wish they had guns

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Alexander Pacheco's avatar

Starting to think we need an updated constitution for the internet age.

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gatito bueno's avatar

excuse me mr llama,

i like your idea, but just who would you trust to write it?

thank you.

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The_Sentinel's avatar

Someone new, not of the old guard, the very mention of whose name provokes democrats into an epileptic fit, like Madison Cawthorn, or Marjorie Taylor Greene, or both.

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Alexander Pacheco's avatar

Haha! Y'all are right for this current system. I believe decentralized law is coming fast on the tail of decentralized communications.

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Randy's Substack Subscription's avatar

yeah, I think you're right BUT ... (if you're speaking of the USA) Pelosi will write the new amendment, Kamala can break the tie, RINO McConnell will approve it and Biden will sign it. I wonder how well that'll work out for us?

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aspirapolvere's avatar

In the US, we could try respecting the constitution we already have... and adding an amendment making term limits of one year and banning campaign contributions.

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William Norton's avatar

"Where they are supposed to be." What if that's at a party? Or soccer match? A crowded grocery aisle? Kneeling at a church altar? A golf foursome? A picnic with other families? Then what? F'ing tyrants.

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Randy's Substack Subscription's avatar

Performing neurosurgery, in the shower, carrying an unconscious body down a fire engine's ladder, ... LOTS of things come to mind don't they. Perhaps we should be glad for the mask mandates, start wearing them all the time, develop an "answering" app for our phones, set those phones up in front of a very lifelike manikin in the living room and then go do our shopping at our leisure. This is insane.

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Randy's Substack Subscription's avatar

Whisk -- lovely. Simply lovely. Cough, cough, gag.

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Randy's Substack Subscription's avatar

lol back at you! The last two years have definitely felt like the effects of a Pan Galactic Gargle Blaster, though I wouldn't mind meeting Trillion.

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Rob Jenkins's avatar

“…as any in the free world.” LOL

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Melisa Idelson's avatar

How long until the USA follows in their footsteps?

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Rob Jenkins's avatar

3…2…1…

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Sophia's avatar

When The Atlantic says it's worried about basic freedoms, we know things have gone beyond the pale. Funny how the Atlantic writer still seems to think vaccines are the solution though.

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SimulationCommander's avatar

Can't wait for the police to go out busting old people who can't figure out technology, or people who simply work graveyard and sleep during the day.

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VeryVer's avatar

Does the state give them phones and computers? That’s nuts.

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cmpalmer75's avatar

What the actual &%$#?

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Fugedaboudit's avatar

This one required me to put some dollars in the cuss jar.

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Jen Young's avatar

Every day I think we’re going to have to find a way to rescue the residents of Gilead

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Randy's Substack Subscription's avatar

Hmm. "the state will text them at random times, and... they'll have 15 minutes to respond."

There are going to be a lot of VERY unhappy people when they get the call in their girlfriend's/boyfriend's home at 2 AM.

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Judy's avatar

I have been using a flip phone for about a year, thanks to AmazingPolly.net. I was contacted by my carrier, Patriot Mobile that my phone will cease to work very soon and needs to be upgraded. After some mild encouragement by the sales rep to go smart phone, regardless I ordered a new Alcatel flip phone.

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BearCub777's avatar

Horrifying - that gives one paws. Uh, Pause. Pause in everything I had once assumed about freedom loving Australia 😒

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JW's avatar

"Sorry, phone's broken."

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Kirt Beckes's avatar

We’ll there goes my plan to retire in Australia…

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Ray Robertson's avatar

Haha raises interesting questions. Like my wife doesnt have a smartphone so she can't get apps. Are Australians legally obligated to own smartphones?

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micah6vs8's avatar

premeir steven marshall, authoritarian of the day

He will be held to account.

https://www.premier.sa.gov.au/the-team/steven-marshall-mp

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George's avatar

Turn the phone off and leave it off.

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el gato malo's avatar

that seems to result in "the police coming to follow up in person."

of course, if everyone did this, this would be logistically impossible.

i'm thinking of creating an app called "photo-mate" that automatically generates photos of you in your home and geotags with pre-specified home coordinates then routes through a phone you left in your house so it hits the correct tower.

anyone want in on the angel round?

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Mike Cranny's avatar

Why would anyone in their right mind comply with this? I guess if you have the vast majority of people complying then they have the time to go after the non-compilers. The question is, how would they get most people to comply?

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VRand's avatar

People comply out of fear. Psychologists figured that out a while ago. Tyrants rely on that.

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Student of Liberty's avatar

For now, it is "only" to enforce quarantine rules according to the article. Presumably, there are not too many people in quarantine and I suspect that once you did not comply and the police came, they would make you understand that you are expected to comply. However, I agree that the only thing to do is to randomly send the picture 10 to 20 minutes late upon each request.

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