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Green-Blue's avatar

To me this was nowhere more shockingly apparent when during lockdown I went back to the bad bar where not much previously I had quaffed many a pint and shared many a toke in the seedy back alley among the self-declared radicals and rock-n-roll rebels who sang War Pigs from their cradles ffs.

In fact I had left because I wanted to cling on not to respectability, I admit (and look at me now, ha ha) but also physical health

I thought for sure these rebel angels would be the loudest denouncers of the mask of death, of anti-social distancing, of the lockdowns that had already by then put so many other music venues, cafes, pubs and restaurants in jeopardy, never, as it turned out, to return.

AND YET. Going in I was accosted immediately not only with a demand I wear a mask, but also I give up my ID. (I wonder now whether proximity tracking was completely accomplished, or whether they've shelved that for now?)

I pointed out to the fierce-looking, denim and leather-clad, pierced and tattooed, scowling maitre d'/bouncer that the mandates weren't binding, that lockdowns weren't lawful, that the newsmedia were owned and manipulated, that small businesses should have been the biggest opponents of the typrannical power play against them... but he was adamant, hostile, defensive, irrational - which he had always been to be truthful, but at least previously he had at least talked the talk of resistance.

All this to say the metalheads and rockers and other "rebels" turned out to be the saddest flimsy pack of pansy-assed pussies of them all. Cowards come in all stripes.

It was such a disappointment, so disillusioning, such a downer. Apocalypse has been something of a drag so far, gotta say.

Although on the flipside I've hardly been to a bar again since that day in 2020.

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Proton's avatar

It’s really no mystery. It’s immature adults who are afraid of the world and lack confidence to make it on their own, so they want a helicopter mommy government to protect them.

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