Of course it is. If we had a President who came straight out of the gate and said listen we’re in a pandemic help us out and let’s try our best to do some little easy things that scientists say will help it would be a different story. Instead you’ve got dumbass shit like comparing wearing a mask to something something Holocaust.
And in America we wear it like a badge of honor. “No one tells me what to do. I’ll smoke while pumping gas anytime I damn well please! Don’t stop at the same station as me if you don’t want the risk!”
Meanwhile all the adults I worked with got over wearing a mask in about two seconds. Like most people get over wearing pants. The this is the epitome of tyranny people are insufferable.
Most of our country didn’t even enforce mask mandates if they had them. So we have a bunch of anti maskers screaming “can you believe they want us to do this thing we aren’t doing?! Reminds me of the Holocaust!”
Late to the party on this thread, but another factor in Australia to keep in mind is a growing population, with many wanting to be located close to major cities - more demand and limited supply.
Recently with covid, now seeing houses spike in price further, with less interest in apartments/townhouses too.
House prices approaching 7 to 10x a couple’s combined income in eastern cities (Melb/Sydney)…
The other other side is going about your life as usual because nothing is different. Personally, I don’t feel a need to participate in sickness theater just because a new virus has killed the flu.
I’m moving in 2 months from upstate NY to upstate SC. I don’t care at all about weather, I actually enjoy winter and hunting in nasty icy conditions. Im motivated by freedom. I want more freedom for my family. The laws and taxes have gotten to be too much in NY. Coupled with the covid stuff, were leaving. Much like my ancestor, leaving my homeland for what I hope is a brighter more free future.
They’ve got nothing to worry about. I couldn’t be more out of place as a Libertarian Catholic in upstate NY. Well I guess if I were in NYC. I will do my best to vote the government of SC to be small and inconsequential. Ill put it in perspective, I’m 35, ive only ever voted for 1 candidate that has actually won an election. State (R) Sen. Daphne Jordan.
I’m also looking forward to assimilating southern culture. Im already an auburn fan. That could be tough in SC. lol.
Here are two pretty significant ones off the top of my head…
You have no practical right to self defense in the UK. This includes both the means and even the act of defending yourself. I recall a number of instances of clear cut self defense resulting in charges being filed against the victims.
Not a freedom you’ll notice unless you need it.
Uighurs in China seem to take issue with the re-education camps. I can’t imagine why…
I think in my state (MN), the state along with the legal guardians make decisions for many morons (IQ=51-70). I think under 70 IQ, you maybe considered to be too mentally impaired to be independent (I think a court needs to rule you as incompetent).
Stuff like this does raise some questions regarding rights of the mentally impaired. Are we okay with saying not everyone deserves the same freedoms? Does the fact that on average these individuals are much better off with less freedoms justify taking away their freedom?
I’ve never felt like I can’t say the things I want to say, honestly. In what way am I less free to speak than anyone in America?
Could is a really big word there. Technically, I would imagine this could be true anywhere in the UK, it would probably count as a concealed weapon. I don’t know of a single person who’s been caught out by this law though, in 34 years in the UK, and to include myself and many others who regularly carry pocket knives. Maybe I’ve been very lucky and it’s a common problem, but if I wanted or needed to carry a knife around with me regularly, it wouldn’t cross my mind that this might land me in trouble.
A valid point that I hadn’t considered. I’m far from a legal expert, but I’m pretty sure you’re correct. Even if we do technically have the right to self defence, I’m pretty sure it would be almost impossible to prove it to be genuine and avoid charges. Again, not a legal expert. The only people I have a history of getting into situations with are shoplifters who aren’t particularly litigious as a rule.
It doesnt really matter how you feel. Can you hang up a cartoon drawing of Muhammad in public? Not that you’d want to, but what would the police do if you were to do that?
Im not sure either, I just see a lot of “knife control” stuff from london news. A knife isnt a defensive weapon anyway. Firearms however. Well we know how the UK trears those.
We treat firearms in the same way as most of the developed world. Its worth remembering, rightly or wrong, that the American attitude to guns and gun rights is uniquely American. For whatever reason, I don’t feel the restrictions here to be an issue and I think that’s a pretty standard attitude here.
I don’t spend any time in the parts of London in which that would be an issue, so I can’t really comment on the extent of it. All I can say is that, again, this is not something that has ever been an issue in mine, or anyone I knows life.
I don’t know all of the details of the case, but in the USA the government can’t charge you with a hate crime if you post a video of your dog doing a Nazi salute.
Or any crime at all, because freedom.
Don’t your police busy themselves monitoring social media for this stuff?
Have you ever been assaulted by someone with the means and intent to fuck you up in a way that will change your life forever?
I have, and the feeling of being at the mercy of a violent and vicious felon is terrible. I had to wait until he decided he had assaulted me enough. Who knows where or how I’d be if I got even one more kick to the head that day…
I was a gun control supporter when I woke up that morning. I’m not anymore.
Without the means you have no practical right to self defense. Civilized societies trust their fellow citizens with those means. Backwards faux-utopian societies believe that the collective benefit outweighs the individual’s rights to the only effective means of self defense available in modern society.
How much did the UK’s violent crime rate drop after various landmark gun control was passed? How does that compare with trends in the USA during the same time?
Peaceful people remaining peaceful after passing gun control doesn’t speak to the efficacy of the policy or the wisdom of those who passed it. You gave your rights away for little more than appeasing the feelings of people who are unconcerned with facts about violence.