Which of these has your government done to you recently?

[saxitoxin]

"15 Signs You May Be In An Abusive Relationship" from the Mental Health Institute

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[riskllama]

pretty uninspired thread you got here, saxi - i give it a 2/10...

[saxitoxin]

pretty uninspired thread you got here, saxi - i give it a 2/10...

I give you a 1/10

[Evil Semp]

I think this was supposed to be an anti democrat thread.

You do realize your 10m month time limit would include about a month of Trump as president. When you were making this list you must have been thinking of Trump.

Play the victim - if things go wrong, it's all your fault.

Gaslight you, challenge your memory of events, make you doubt yourself.

Call you names or shame you for being selfish

Tell you you're crazy, and no one agrees with you

Don't allow you to question it

[riskllama]

in other, more interesting news...NEW WES ANDERSON FILM!!!



*no need to thank me for reviving this shitty thread, saxi...

[Dukasaur]

Really, on that big long list of 15, there's only 2 that I can see as having been done to me.

Tell you it is for your own good and that they know better

That's pretty much the default value for government, since the dawn of time. Nothing really new.

Monitor everything you do

Yeah, governments spy incessantly. That too is pretty much default. At least when the government monitors what I do, they do it so they can decide if I need a new highway exit built near my house or whatever. There's tons of corporations out there that monitor everything I do and don't give me anything in return.

A lot of the other things on your list are just nonsense. "Don't let you question it?" WTF? I live in a democracy, we question everything all the time. No matter what the government proposes, I can point to 30 different published opinions about how it should be doing something different. Naturally, there is a social flow and ebb which makes some opinions popular and others unpopular, but that's just a normal part of our tribalist Home sapiens psychology. The government may try to influence it, but it doesn't have nearly as much influence as it thinks it does.

[bigtoughralf]

Every government controls what you read, watch and say.

[saxitoxin]

There are six aspects of my relationship with the Regime of His Fraudulency Geriatric Joe that constitute an abusive relationship.

Won't let you go out without permission

Not as bad as Australia but "honor system" lockdowns

Call you names or shame you for being selfish:
Biden's 9/9 speech to the Resistance ("We've been patient. But our patience is wearing thin, and your refusal has cost us!")
Random insane screaming, ranting and fist pounding -


Gaslight you, challenge your memory of events, make you doubt yourself
May: U.S. Government claims it never funded gain-of-function research at Wuhan
October: U.S. Government claims it funded gain-of-function research at Wuhan
(https://komonews.com/news/coronavirus/n ... -wuhan-lab)

Punish you for breaking the rules, but the rules keep changing!
April 2019: my state imposed a mask mandate
August 2019: my state rescinded the mask mandate
August 2020: my state created a voluntary mask mandate
April 2020: my state rescinded voluntary mask mandate
August 2021: my state imposed a mask mandate
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February 2021: mixing vaccines not recommended due to safety consideration
October 2021: mixing vaccines A-OK! just jab whatever in there! doesn't matter, just inject as much as possible as fast as possible and as soon as possible! quick! don't stop to think, do it! we already thought about it for you!
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March 2019-September 2021: Scientists and science must be trusted during the pandemic
September 2021: FDA panel of outside scientists recommends against booster shots for under 60s
October 2021: Biden-appointed FDA commissioner unilaterally overrules outside scientists and orders booster shots for under 60s
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March 2019-September 2021: Scientists and science must be trusted during the pandemic; the whole world must be vaccinated to defeat the pandemic
September 2021: Science shows prior infection confers greater immunity than vaccination [https://www.science.org/content/article/having-sars-cov-2-once-confers-much-greater-immunity-vaccine-vaccination-remains-vital]; vaccine doses should be saved for the third world and not used on the prior infected
October 2021: Biden orders vaccination doses for Americans who were prior infected instead of allocating those doses to the unvaccinated developing world
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October 2020: Kamala Harris - "I won't take a vaccine developed during the Trump administration"
April 2021: Kamala Harris - "Anyone who doesn't take a vaccine developed during the Trump administration is selfish."

Tell you what to wear
Mask mandates

Play the victim - if things go wrong, it's all your fault
If the unvaccinated die, it's the fault of the vaccinated.
If the vaccinated die, it's the fault of the unvaccinated.
If the vaccines don't work, it's the fault of the unvaccinated.
Bad data is the fault of the unvaccinated.
Climate change is the fault of the unvaccinated.
Racism is the fault of the unvaccinated.
Earthquakes are caused by the unvaccinated.

Control what you read, watch, and say
Government pressuring private companies to limit any discussion that criticizes it if it unilaterally decrees it to be "misinformation." [https://apnews.com/article/technology-joe-biden-business-health-government-and-politics-0432165e772bd60e8acafc217c086d7f]

[saxitoxin]

I think this was supposed to be an anti democrat thread.

You do realize your 10m month time limit would include about a month of Trump as president. When you were making this list you must have been thinking of Trump.

Tell you you're crazy, and no one agrees with you

Trump didn't tell you that, I did.

[saxitoxin]

Gaslighting you

[riskllama]

wtf does any of this have to do w/Wes Anderson?

[riskllama]

i'm a bit concerned, saxi - GBH set the bar so high, i feel it might be difficult for Wes to match it, much less surpass it. do you have any advice for me? i don't want to be disappointed...

[Funkyterrance]

I personally have no particular affiliation with any political party and vote strictly based on my current self-interests. This brings me great joy, freedom, and incidentally, loads of sex-appeal. However, I find Saxi's big, albeit sagging, balls refreshing. Being basically poor and old (I'm assuming based on anecdotal evidence), Saxi has every reason to lean to the left, so to speak, but he chooses to bite the hand that might feed him. I tip my hat to Saxi for sticking to his ideals and acting courageously and defiantly in the face of perceived tyranny.

[therozza]

The government has prevented psychopaths roaming the streets, kept the lights on, kept hospitals running, kept civilization going, prevented us from living in mud huts etc
But yeah, what have the bloody Romans ever done for us?

[mookiemcgee]

Fucking Romans. I mean they killed Jesus of course their empire collapsed

Now if Hitred was sentenced to death by the USG for things he 'allegedly' did on Jan 6... being that he 'has a special connection' to GOD, I could perhaps start to understand the comparison.

[saxitoxin]

The government has prevented psychopaths roaming the streets, kept the lights on, kept hospitals running, kept civilization going, prevented us from living in mud huts

Translation: "My husband is just stressed after work. He provides food and shelter for my kids and me. He doesn't really mean it. The bruises are visible signs of his love."