@basedbagel people can be brainwashed into nearly anything over a long enough period just needs to be widespread enough and mass disseminated and you can convince alot of people quite easily

@VooDooMedic Spot on but hats off to the elites for pulling a 9-11 style fear to get people to turn their brains off.

9-11 actually made sense to be scared of since we had no internet and real death. Covid had a 98% survival rate and still had people in a frenzy. It's insane

@basedbagel 99.998 % actually

@VooDooMedic

@basedbagel 0.002% literally less than 1% of 1%

@VooDooMedic So that means everyone's vaxxed except you, the Aussie elites, and the aboriginals...

Once you get old you'll be like Victor Frankel of Australia telling stories of what Austraila was like before it went extinct

@basedbagel almost everyone i know at work is double vaxxed with a mirage of them being boosted 1-2 times some of them only got 1 booster then said fuck it others hqve just gotten the vax but no boosters but still they aren't free thinkers

@VooDooMedic No disrespect but FUCK Australia.

I don't know how the hell you get on over there without losing your mind. (Concentration camps like wtf?!)

Most of my normies are boosted too but they're harmless as long as you keep the conversations surface level.

@basedbagel pretty sure the concentration camps have been decommissioned i havent heard anyone talking about them nor any movement about them

@VooDooMedic That's a relief.

Your stoicism must be on point because I would be losing my shit over this.

@basedbagel I'm mad as hell but yeah you're right maybe I've tricked myself into hiding the rage i feel i dunno everytime i get worked up about it my thoughts just fade away and i dont quite remember why i was so mad and just move on dunno there's probably something wrong with my brain at this point

@VooDooMedic Nah you're fine it's just a sick environment.

I was depressed as fuck on ADD meds but as soon as I left University I'm medication free and happier than I've ever been.

@basedbagel yeah tryna thrive here is so fucking hard man gotta walk on eggs shells constantly plus the taxation is like... 36.82% tax rate for every paycheck

@VooDooMedic 36.82%?! How did it get this bad?

IT's no wonder you haven't left yet how the hell can you save any money witth a tax rate like that like that.

Due to the Laffer curve after 30% tax revenue goes down since people aren't incentivized to work hard.

@basedbagel ill see if i can crop a pay check so it doesnt dox me

@VooDooMedic PLEASE don't. I'll toke your word for it.

Remember rule #1

@basedbagel yeah it's all good ain't doxing myself I made sure and triple checked

@basedbagel PAYG + HELP are both taxes and the super is basically a 401k

@VooDooMedic I just did the math... Idk how you guys haven't revolted yet.

@basedbagel me either our populace is super beaten down

@basedbagel but everytime you near me start ranting its just frothing at the mouth rage

@VooDooMedic I feel you but I'm working my plan.

It's a real shame because America was one of a kind.

I like the east but they're too conformist for my taste (Japaneses vax rate despite no mandate).

I'm working like a crackhead so I can get my ass out of here before the next plandemic

@basedbagel same I'm thinking of going south east Asia maybe middle east if I get a good network

@VooDooMedic I'm glad you mention that because if you know the right people you can thrive anywhere.

That's been my biggest hangup as well because I couldn't network how I wanted due to this vax nonsense.

@basedbagel im just bad at putting myself in tbe right circles

@VooDooMedic Same here.

I spent too much time in this rabbit hole and I don't keep up with pop culture so it's hard for me to relate to people.

But I won't let that stop me since my freedoms on the line.

#MGTOWIGETSHITDONE

@basedbagel @VooDooMedic

Where to go, which country??

I often think about this. Looking at vax rates is a useful proxy on how conformist a country's population is. Or how repressive it is.

e.g, Singapore is great for all the reasons TFM says, but dogshit when it comes to the vax rate. High social conformity + small island + slightly repressive = high vax rate.

Here's a chart where I selected data that shows the English-speaking West vs BRICS. Just press play.

https://ourworldindata.org/explorers/coronavirus-data-explorer?zoomToSelection=true&time=2022-09-24&facet=none&pickerSort=desc&pickerMetric=total_vaccinations_per_hundred&hideControls=true&Metric=People+vaccinated+%28by+dose%29&Interval=Cumulative&Relative+to+Population=true&Color+by+test+positivity=false&country=BRA~IND~GBR~USA~RUS~OWID_WRL~AUS~CHN~ZAF~CAN~NZL

@basedbagel @VooDooMedic

You can play around with different charts and country selections on that site. Gives you an idea of what to expect when the next pandemic hits.

That data is a good proxy for conformity, but not for repression. For that you would need charts on which countries had mandates.

So Australia has high conformity and I'd argue high repression, but not like Bharain.

Tell me what you think about this - more patriarchal countries have lower vax rates.

Hard to prove.

@UncleIroh @basedbagel the problem is that pretty much only the middle east is pro non vax

@VooDooMedic @basedbagel

I looked at that too and turns out that small islands are the worst, but Middle Eastern countries are not great either and have some of the highest rates. Look at UAE, Bharain etc...

For small islands I think it's high conformity (Gibraltar, Cuba, Singapore), but for some Middle Eastern countries it's "fucking do it or else."

@basedbagel @VooDooMedic

Just realized that Mastodon truncated the link to the chart. That's annoying.

Just tack this onto the link after the word "explorer":

?zoomToSelection=true&time=2022-09-24&facet=none&pickerSort=desc&pickerMetric=total_vaccinations_per_hundred&hideControls=true&Metric=People+vaccinated+%28by+dose%29&Interval=Cumulative&Relative+to+Population=true&Color+by+test+positivity=false&country=BRA~IND~GBR~USA~RUS~OWID_WRL~AUS~CHN~ZAF~CAN~NZL

@basedbagel but ultimately its the same here surface level conversations only