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Tom the anarchic leftie commie:
maybe it might be a nice LARP to cosplay what half of this lot were like for the past 5 years.
Sitting on their arse watching Channel 7 clips of police roughing up anti-mining activists, environmental activists, anti-animal cruelty activists, anti-racism activists, Indigenous rights activists, union activists and refugee rights activists as they all did their best to protect our freedoms and rights. (Real rights, not 'filming the manager on portrait in Coles' rights.)
"GET A JOB STOP BLOCKING THE AMBULANCE BLOODY WASTING MY BLOODY TAX PAYER DOLLARS BLOODY HIPPIE GREENIES WHO'S FUNDING THEM", they'd yell. At the telly. Remember?
On Saturday we can all LARP for a day. They can role-play as William Wallace, and I can role-play as them for the past 5+ years.
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a rally doesn't affect activist or political change in and of itself. They're just meeting and networking opportunities. You have to continue to build power after rallies. That's particularly important now that the virus means we shouldn't hang out with each other. (Yeah, yeah, I know, it's a hoax. But anyway, it's not, so.) Change takes time and effort.
My point is not to gloat that this lot are gonna cop it and I'm not. Long after they wash the pepper from their faces and I put the popcorn down, long after this lockdown is done, genuine activists will be shouldered with the load of agitating to undo any statist excesses imposed during the pandemic. We'll be out there in the streets for the long haul, again.
Like we were when they used to yell at us on the telly over tea.
maybe it might be a nice LARP to cosplay what half of this lot were like for the past 5 years.
Sitting on their arse watching Channel 7 clips of police roughing up anti-mining activists, environmental activists, anti-animal cruelty activists, anti-racism activists, Indigenous rights activists, union activists and refugee rights activists as they all did their best to protect our freedoms and rights. (Real rights, not 'filming the manager on portrait in Coles' rights.)
"GET A JOB STOP BLOCKING THE AMBULANCE BLOODY WASTING MY BLOODY TAX PAYER DOLLARS BLOODY HIPPIE GREENIES WHO'S FUNDING THEM", they'd yell. At the telly. Remember?
On Saturday we can all LARP for a day. They can role-play as William Wallace, and I can role-play as them for the past 5+ years.
...
a rally doesn't affect activist or political change in and of itself. They're just meeting and networking opportunities. You have to continue to build power after rallies. That's particularly important now that the virus means we shouldn't hang out with each other. (Yeah, yeah, I know, it's a hoax. But anyway, it's not, so.) Change takes time and effort.
My point is not to gloat that this lot are gonna cop it and I'm not. Long after they wash the pepper from their faces and I put the popcorn down, long after this lockdown is done, genuine activists will be shouldered with the load of agitating to undo any statist excesses imposed during the pandemic. We'll be out there in the streets for the long haul, again.
Like we were when they used to yell at us on the telly over tea.
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