Brickbat: Don't Let the Sun Go Down on You

In Australia, Victoria Premier Daniel Andrews isn't happy with those who violate the state's COVID-19 restrictions by watching the sunset on Rye Beach. "I'm sure it was a beautiful sunset," he said. "But that's not in the spirit or in the letter of these rules. We need people to follow the rules and genuinely stay at home means stay at home. It's not about looking for every loophole, every exemption, every blind corner where people can't see you to do the wrong thing."

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[Inigo Montoya]

No doubt he said these words just before leaving for a gathering with his aides and several key supporters at some otherwise closed restaurant or something. That’s how these people operate. “Rules for thee but not for me” is the motto politicians live by.

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[Jerryskids]

You might wonder why these people haven't been killed yet, but the real question is how the hell they came to power in the first place. Answer that and you might begin to understand why Nancy Pelosi and Joe Biden haven't been dragged out into the streets by their tits and stomped to death yet either.

[Lord of Strazele]

Just imagine if you had grown up a black man in the Jim Crow south. The conservatives of that day would have shot you dead the way you run that mouth.

[Earth Skeptic]

So submission to the Man is now justified by some sort of racist pay-back?

[Agammamon]

You mean the Democrats?

[jimc5499]

You have that exactly backwards.

[Chuck P. (The Artist formerly known as CTSP)]

That is by far one of the most racist comments I have seen on Reason. It may be constructed to seem like it is not the viewpoint of the author, but that is just so Stroozle can walk it back if called out.

The irony is that the "conservative" he claims would shoot you would have incontrovertibly been a Democrat.

[Mickey Rat]

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Robert A. Heinlein

[mad.casual]

"War is an ugly thing but not the ugliest of things; the decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feelings which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse. A man who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself."

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[Jerry B.]

Well, actually, Professor Bernardo de la Paz, as written by Heinlein in "The Moon is a Harsh Mistress".

Now that's a book I'd love to see as a movie, except for fear that it might end up like "Starship Troopers".

[Earth Skeptic]

Not likely to come from Hollywood, with their love of socialist ideals and distaste for independence, i.e. libertarian ethics.

[Cal Cetín]

So, Mel Gibson then?

[D-Pizzle]

Instead they've made "Foundation," the ultimate paean to top-down control.

[CharlesWT]

Australia must be taking seriously becoming a Chinese province...

[Earth Skeptic]

But with caring, British nanny overtones.

[Fist of Etiquette]

The science says you must be in a closed environment with little to no air flow during this time of airborne transmission.

[GroundTruth]

Sounds like a coffin to me.

[Cal Cetín]

They can have a little breathing pipe which connects the coffin to the surface.

[GroundTruth]

So, it is a coffin, right?

[buckleup]

Sounds like Australia needs new government. Get to work.

[cgr2727]

Gonna be tough without guns. There’s plenty of rope but only so many lamp posts.

[Earth Skeptic]

And without spines.

[The Encogitationer]

Nowadays, Crocodile Dundee would pull out an orange peeler and say:
"Now that's a knife!"

[Isaac Bartram]

The State of Victoria certainly does.

[Isaac Bartram]

At SkyNews Australia they call Premier Dan Andrews "Chairman Dan of the Peoples Republic of Victoria".

[Brandybuck]

OMG! Beaches are superspreader locations! So dangerous! There could be viruses in the sea and when the waves lap on your toes you die!

[In Canis Credimus]

They would rather people be home clutching their pearls.

[Quo Usque Tandem]

"But that's not in the spirit or in the letter of these rules."

Doesn't matter if it is safe, or not; when I say follow the rules I mean follow the rules, damnit.

My question is how many here in the US see this as reasonable.

[The Jeffersonian]

Australia --- Land of the Walking Sheep.

[Chumby]

Oz needs to sunset it’s current government.

[The Encogitationer]

This is a total eclipse of freedom in Australia.

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[tlapp]

Outdoors in the open air is the safest place to be. Closed in is the worst for spread of an airborne virus.
Expect a swarm of police to get in physical contact with them and close them in a squad car then a police station and spread the virus.

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