If we’re honest, the people buying stacks of toilet paper aren’t idiots, but a symptom of the underlying ‘fuck you I got mine’ attitude of a lot of Australia that is whipped up by the media, whose sole job it is, apparently, is to peddle fear, not broadcast news
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That is to say, these are not inherently bad people, they have just been lied to over and over again about a nebulous threat; manipulated into buying newspaper subscriptions so they can prevent s o m e t h i n g from happening. They were primed for a trigger and it arrived
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Which kinda backfired on the media’s part, because instead of buying more media to find out What Is Going To Happen Next, they are buying shit tickets. Rolls and rolls and rolls of shit tickets
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THIS is brilliant. Thanks
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