It's honestly difficult not to deeply hate the people who govern us
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I do not even try.
I have freed myself from the burden of making excuses for them.
I let the hate flow out of me.
Its not ideal to be a hateful person. Even though they deserve it. But it also can't be helped. And it least we are fired up to do something about it
Do you have a license for that hate?
No. But I still have my paper permit that gave me a work exemption to leave my house and pass through the police checks during the complete lockdown and curfew in covid.
In my books that counts as a valid reason for some state hate.
I had a slave work permit during the lockup's too, we're not so differn't you and I.
It is a good reminder of the madness we lived through and that it was all real. It already feels so surreal.
I recall cycling through the countryside when there was a travel ban in place.
I could the road for miles ahead of me.
Every time I seen a car, I concealed myself and my bicycle behind the brush until the car passed.
I'll never forget how surreal that felt.
It is important to remember.
The fact that riding a bike can become a crime highlights nothing is guaranteed and we have to fight to preserve whatever rights we do have.
It was definitely a strange time.
My most surreal moment in the lockdowns was driving home from work one night, stopped at a set of traffic lights in the cbd, with no one else on the road and me wondering why I bothered stopping. Just as that thought passed through my head, a kangaroo hopped its way through the intersection. It felt weirdly apocalyptic, that nature reclaimed such a human space within 2 weeks. It reminded me that humanity is just a speck and nature would move on without us very quickly and easily.
It certainly showed the fragility of what we consider “normal”
and now vic premier now pushing mandatory wfh on employers. you never need to leave home again. yay.