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Den Yellek 7 months ago
The Victorian government has purchased 45 safe machete disposal bins for $13 MILLION! That is $288,888 per bin. I love government corruption. image Due to an increase in knife crime all large knives are illegal to own (2 years in prison, no excuses slave). Thankfully we have these $288k bins to keep us safe.

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Den Yellek 7 months ago
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.
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Den Yellek 7 months ago
It is no ideal. I do not live in hate. But I do not try to avoid the disgust I feel for the people who oppress us. Best to focus our energy on what is in our control rather than what is not and try to create the better future you wish for the world.
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Den Yellek 7 months ago
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.
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Den Yellek 7 months ago
It is a good reminder of the madness we lived through and that it was all real. It already feels so surreal.
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Séimí Mac Síomón seimi@nostrplebs.com 7 months ago
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.
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Den Yellek 7 months ago
I finally fees safe walking the streets. This is why anarchy would never work because without the state “who would build the machete bins?”
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B 7 months ago
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.
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plebeian 7 months ago
It’s not about machetes nor security. It’s all about how to grab 13M by selling simple metal bins Endless corruption that is killing human freedom always ends up killing the corrupt system itself but the road is long and on the way innocent people always get hurt View quoted note →
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Den Yellek 6 months ago
It certainly showed the fragility of what we consider “normal”
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Den Yellek 6 months ago
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.
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Den Yellek 6 months ago
They are just looking at the rise in homelessness and thinking it would be nice for people to actually spend some time in their homes before they eventually fall behind on their ATO payment plans and live on the streets.
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Den Yellek 6 months ago
🫡 “the tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.”
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