Me too! Those of us deep behind enemy lines need to come up with better ways of identifying each other.

The Australian Gab group has gained more than 15,000 subscribers in the past 3-4 weeks. We're migrating.

There are worse things in the world than for an infirm, elderly person to die a few months before they otherwise would have. I'd wager never leaving their room or seeing their family again is one of them.

90% of our problems would be solved in one fell swoop. Social media is societal cancer.

We're here. We're trying, but our politicians are so stupid I often wonder how they even find their way into Parliament House.

Our politicians are all morons. Nobody competent can stomach that cesspool, and we can't directly elect party leaders like you can in the USA. We're sorry.

Taking "cute" photos of the newborn enveloped in a face shield has become popular where I work. I lose more faith in people every day.

Damn right. I waited 6 days in an Australian hospital for emergency surgery on a major orthopaedic injury. For the first 1.5 days I didn't even have a room - I was in a cubicle in the emergency department. I was in horrific pain for the entire wait and suffered significant complications because of the delay. Taxpayer-funded healthcare isn't a bed of roses.

This is why I'm going to drive my car until it falls apart. That and all the Big Tech BS in new cars.

I'm despondent over this, friends. Life is never going back to normal. There is nothing we can do to fight back. You'll just be arrested and 90+% of the population will support it. Why even bother with anything anymore.

Want to hear the best part? The Australian Open tennis tournament currently occurring has been declared an "essential activity". So the elites can keep playing their game while working people pay the price and have to close their businesses again with less than 12 hours' notice.

His re-election is guaranteed. The Labor core all think he's a hero for "keeping us safe". They're either champagne socialists who can work from home without issue, or they're on welfare. Either way, nothing changes for them.

I had a near-death experience a bit over four years ago. I'm starting to suspect I actually died and entered another reality at that time.

We already did this for 3 months last year. Government has decided on an (idiotic) elimination strategy but they are too incompetent to execute it. Their plans fail in exactly the same way time and time again.

The new "more contagious, more deadly" narrative makes no sense. Viruses don't become more deadly as their infectivity increases: the opposite happens because they can't spread quickly if they're killing all their hosts in short order. Victorian government only knows how to panic and react. It's no wonder - any competent, thinking person couldn't bear to work in that system.

And almost all the minor parties. The Chinese bribery is too good.

It would never occur to 99% of people here that smaller government is even a possibility.

He gets his $440,000+ salary no matter what. Why would he care about ruining ordinary peoples' lives?

Mask mandates are going to be permanent, I'm certain of it. It's too great a talisman and bludgeon for the woke/authoritarian coalition to ever give up.

The unresolved mysteries subreddit was the only place on that site I ever looked at other than TD. I miss it a lot.

If they're determined, they can make it happen, even in enormous, sparsely-populated regions. Here in Australia they use police, military and reserves to set up extensive roadblocks. I had to show my "work permit" to soldiers to prove I was "essential" every work day for nearly three months. And that was within my state - interstate borders here are locked down tight at the slightest provocation, including drone/aircraft patrols etc. They won't hesitate.

Absolutely. The double masking, triple masking nonsense is 100% a test of compliance.

You're entirely correct, and I have had similar experiences. My English is far from perfect but I always strive to express myself accurately and frequently become irritated with the misuse of language by the left to reduce complex issues to simple ones that they can then dismiss with their one-liners. I also now work in a highly "educated" field and it shocks me how few of my colleagues can read aloud fluently.

I always thought that was the classiest way to refer to it, personally.

Most bizarrely, it seems to be a common term in the UK, where the indigenous people are... white. But we can't acknowledge that.