Such a rich vein of horseshit here to be mined. Most obviously ‘balance’ and ‘proportionate’ as weasel words…

Such a rich vein of horseshit here to be mined. Most obviously ‘balance’ and ‘proportionate’ as weasel words again, where nothing is being balanced, and the only proportional weighing is just how sick workers can get before they collapse on the job. /1 #covid19aus #nswpol https://t.co/RaMrzHMtUn

But ‘we need society to remain open’ deserves special treatment. Libertarians DON’T BELIEVE IN SOCIETY. Their arch-priestess, Maggie Thatcher, said those actual words, explicitly: “who is society? There is no such thing!” This is the gobsmacking gall of libertarians,…/2

…whose precious individual freedom is created and sustained BY SOCIETY. Discovering that dumping responsibility for a pandemic back on individuals causes the collapse of their comfortable lives, libertarians enact draconian anti-individual laws to force individuals to work…/3

…while infected, so that the delusional bullshit of them living their free, individual lives can be maintained. Libertarianism is a philosophy of privilege, of aristocrats with their servants. Society being ‘open’ to a libertarian translates literally as ‘the working poor…/4

…must continue to work, so that we here upstairs can continue to hunt, eat, fuck the nanny and travel to exotic destinations.’ They don’t want society open, they don’t believe it even exists. They pillage all collective equity for their individual benefit, privatising…/5

…collective effort for (their) individual gain. And they get away with it because they’ve skilfully reframed the lives of us, their servants, as ‘aspirational’ to their nanny-fucking example. The American Dream, the great ‘levelling up’, as the UK Tories laughably say. ‘You…/6

…too can be a parasitical fuckwit, just like us’. But you can’t be, of course. They don’t intend to ever let you join. /end