If you aren't willing to risk a minimal fine to defend your rights, you can't claim to be ready for the real fight that is coming.
This is an escalation process. We don't just go from silent majority to 1776. We must progress through the steps and inspire the will to fight in those around us before they will wake up.
Might I suggest a fund created to help pay fines for violations?
Edit: to be clear, I'm not anti-mask. I'm anti-mandate. If you are symptomatic then you should be wearing a mask to prevent transmission.
I didn’t for a long time. But if a owner of a business wants me to, I guess it’s their business and they make the rules. I have to respect that. I also have the choice to not go there if I want. If we are going respect a guy for who he wants to bake a cake for, ill respect a guy who wants me to wear a mask even if it’s for a fairy tale.
Unfortunately, in San Antonio- there's not much of a choice. Again, I only give a shit about the penalties to the businesses and that's what these sick fucks (mostly elected) counted on. If the mandates were personal fines- I wouldn't give a fuck.
I say make em pay and then they might get on the backs of their politician buddies to end this bs.
I agree. My problem is government making the rules for citizens and business owners alike. It’s a clear over reach. In my area lots of businesses were making their own rules before the mandates, and they were reasonable. If left up to the people, for the most part people will do the right thing. Reasonable precautions that would make sense in any cold/ flu season.
I understand the sentiment.
But I do want to ask this question:
How is this different than the stores that used to have signs at their entrance that said "whites only"? Would you use your same logic in that case?
I mean I suppose so. The signs were a product of the times. Once society shifted, so did the signage. I see your point. It’s a dynamic situation I guess.
I'm just so sick of the brainwashing and the damage this is doing to my children.
I couldn’t agree more with that. It’s pathetic.
To the same point, it took people protesting the signs for society to make the change. I don’t see enough people openly protesting masks via non compliance like we read in history books about segregation. It would also require at least some businesses to be “non mask friendly” for it to all work, much like the civil rights era too. I don’t see any businesses with the balls to risk fines or losing their licenses here in west Michigan.