Do you think people "just following orders" are sick of it?

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[–]JasonCarswell 5 insightful - 2 fun5 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

Some are. The cops are diverse.

Some rolled down their window with a raised fist to say, "Hold the line."

Some are there for the fat paycheck.

Some are there to thump some hippies.

Some are there to bruise anyone.

Some are just mindless meatheads there to intimidate.

Some can be steered at political opponents, "Do not attack that influencer over there. I mean it do not do it. There won't be any ramifications if you do. But don't do it to that one." Wink wink, plausible deniability.

[–]jet199 3 insightful - 3 fun3 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 3 fun -  (0 children)

Judging by what the cops have been saying they are loving every minute of it.

It's like when American kids ask their German grandmother if it was really terrible living under Nazi oppression and she says "No, it was the best time of my life."

This stuff only work because the majority get some benefit out of it. It remains to be seen if the Canadian government have been smoking their own stash and misjudged the country. Until then most of the people enforcing seem elated in their self righteousness.

[–]Markimus 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (10 children)

Nope, police and media have been collaborating to cover up pakistanis raping children in England for 40+ years and they're continuing to do so even after the lid was blown off of it. They hate white people, particularly working class white people, and they do not give a shit.

This is like asking if the IDF are tired of following orders, the answer is no and will always be no. The people who join the IDF do so specifically because they want to abuse, torture, terrorise, and genocide Palestinians. The same is true for anyone who joins the police, media, NGOs, governments etc.

They might not join specifically because they hate white working class people, moreso because they're general psychopaths that want power over anyone. But they will specifically come to hate us because these institutions are run by people specifically targeting us and we are the people they have license to do whatever they want to. They've even recently gave this license to literally anyone who isn't white, just go attack a white lady in the street then record her while calling her Karen and you instantly gain 10s of thousands of dollars from gofundme while ruining someone's life.

[–]johnjdoe 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (9 children)

you are in the process of being enslaved.

enjoy.

[–]jet199 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (5 children)

I'd say the opposite.

2 million children have been pulled out of state education in the US.

We are seeing a new mass division in society of those who opt in to further state control and those who opt out.

Those who keep or strengthen their independence will win it because they will be needed for the oppressed society to keep working.

This is why the russian mafia are so strong, the soviet system actually needed a strong black market to keep everything moving so the state ends up enabling them.

[–]johnjdoe 0 insightful - 1 fun0 insightful - 0 fun1 insightful - 1 fun -  (4 children)

you now live under state control.

enjoy.

[–]jet199 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

Try making an argument.

[–]johnjdoe 0 insightful - 1 fun0 insightful - 0 fun1 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

we now live under state control. voting is a thing of the past. you have the right to be silenced. you are the property of the state.

[–]jet199 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Oh, but voting is continuing.

They are voting for emergency powers to remover rights.

Taking away voting is not the problem here.

[–]johnjdoe 0 insightful - 1 fun0 insightful - 0 fun1 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

there is no voting.. it is all an act to allow you to think they are voting.. they already decided..

[–]Markimus 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

England has been enslaved since Cromwell, we're well used to it by now

[–]johnjdoe 0 insightful - 1 fun0 insightful - 0 fun1 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

i find it interesting that people joke about being enslaved.

[–]Markimus 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

not a joke

[–][deleted] 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

Particularly the kinds of orders that harm innocent people

[–]JoeyJoeJoe 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

I'm sick of it, and there are millions of people like me.

This current trajectory only changes if we decide that it does.

Apathy & despair are luxuries that can wait.

Rage. Against. The. Machine.

[–]johnjdoe 0 insightful - 1 fun0 insightful - 0 fun1 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

deciding does not stop a tornado.

[–]StillLessons 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

The reason our current events are playing out is that "history" as taught by centralized powers always erases the true past. The true past (20th century version) shows us that while authoritarian systems start by going after easy low-hanging fruit (people smart enough to avoid the crowd obsession with forced medicine, in our current iteration), they never end with this. They end boomeranging back and mowing down the same people who a few years before were their supporters. Look at Jack Ma in China currently, look at the history of the Soviet Union for thousands of examples. But because the "history" is sanitized to erase this universal truth, the people "just following orders" are never shown that they are next on the chopping block, guaranteed. This is why the truckers' situation in Canada has been a victory. The naked brutality of the Trudeau regime has broken through and is visible to ALL. Even the ones following orders are shaken by what they are seeing. We need to capture this doubt and capitalize on it. This event is not an anomaly. This is the day-to-day operation of an authoritarian regime. And this is the message to keep hitting on when you see people who think what is happening is necessary for a "better future": the present IS the future. The ends ARE the means. If you don't want this to be our permanent reality, it's time to start getting loud about the evil present in these means.

[–][deleted] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Some people live for the taste of boot leather.

[–]fschmidt 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

No, what else are morons capable of?

[–]IkeConn 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I got sick of high school dropout post Vietnam McNamara's Morons NCO's telling me what to do so I left the US Army after one tour.

[–]yabbit 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

People would rather jump off a cliff if an authority figure told them to than thi for themselves. Look up plato's allegory of the cave

[–]Cornfed 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

The thing is the scum have been psychometrically tested and selected for occasions like this for years, so they really don't know any better.