Antipodal Gray on Twitter: "@eigenrobot Us Australians don’t have a notion of fighting for our rights in our national psyche. We copy/pasted a liberalism onto a resource rich continent and rode the luck and comfort right into a reality-wall that refused to take “she’ll be right” as a substitute for state capacity" / Twitter

i hate this for a number of reasons, among them the notion that government can "give freedoms" that it previously "took away" i mean i guess it is demonstrably correct in this case but this is pretty far removed from standard liberal notions of the origin of freedom

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Aug 26, 2021

#BREAKING: From September 13, NSW residents that are fully vaccinated against COVID-19 will be given new freedoms. Residents of hotspots can leave home for an hour of recreation on top of their exercise hour, while people in other areas can meet five others outdoors. #9News

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Antipodal Gray

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Us Australians don’t have a notion of fighting for our rights in our national psyche. We copy/pasted a liberalism onto a resource rich continent and rode the luck and comfort right into a reality-wall that refused to take “she’ll be right” as a substitute for state capacity

2:03 PM · Aug 26, 2021

also the whole penal colony thing...didn't get off to a great start

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