Comments by "Titanium Rain" (@ChucksSEADnDEAD) on "Michael Malice’s Response To Mindless People" video.

  1.  @Belleville197  The issue is that everyone kinda thinks the rules are BS, and even breaks the rules when they see fit, but then turn around and follow them simply because everyone else is. Everyone has the balls to disobey, but not the balls to get together and perform mass disobedience to send a clear message. You break the rules to feel like an outlaw, rather than to change the law. The quintessential Portuguese anarchist experience is that everyone hates the government and hates paying taxes, but if you actually suggest scaling back/dissolving government and eliminating the income tax everyone goes "whoa whoa whoa you're an extremist".
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  2. @sdrawkcabUK I don't know that much about Australia so I'll talk about what I know. For whatever reason, airsoft is banned. There's a 15 min video of a guy from the Liberal party grilling some government dork over why exactly airsoft is banned, it's not banned, but you can't import, so it's banned, it's a complete flustercluck. Australians say "fine we can't play airsoft so we'll play with these gel balls". Government bans the gel blasters. I think there's still a state where its not banned but the details are irrelevant. Not content with controlling real guns, which is beside the point right now, they also have to come after toy guns. And when people find an alternative, the Australian government (or at least state governments) gets absolutely assblasted that people DARED to have fun with gun-looking toys. Now I'm obviously into airsoft so this doesn't resonate with most people but one or two years ago they also wanted to ban cash transactions over 10,000 Australian dollars. Whatever, this doesn't affect most people. But that's the thing. It doesn't affect most people. So next time they'll ban 5,000 dollar transactions. By that time people are less reliant on cash so most people aren't affected. This goes on and on. Meanwhile the real white collar criminals are swindling MILLIONS through electronic means while Joe Public won't even get a 6 pack of beer without having the transaction logged by the bank. Sorry for the rant but even my surface level knowledge of Australia allows me to see the same hysterical over-reaction to everything. It's a thousand-pronged attack on every freedom a citizen can have but it starts off with things that don't affect most people, like toy guns or large cash transactions.
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