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Dave Wise (Neoteric Wood Art)'s avatar

What's the harm? I mean, it's worked so well at keeping teenagers from buying beer and cigarettes, right?

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TriTorch's avatar
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Uh..... it's "papers please" shot into the stratosphere...

Australia has just taken a giant leap toward the Digital ID prison. This letter is from spooked a subscriber there two nights ago:

"I have been asked to verify my age and give a photo. I will not do this.

 Very sorry - I wish to unsubscribe. I am sorry this will affect your substack  :(

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Hi Jason, thanks for your personal reply. I am in Australia.

 I was asked to scan a facial photo, which you will understand, is not acceptable.

I am happy to stay subscribed if not for that. i will also be changing my email address but 

will wait until this is resolved. Thanks for your time."

I checked with Substack to resolve this, they referred me to the Australian government... It also turns out the blue-prints for this digital prison rollout were game-theoried to crash subscription based authors (independent free press/free speech) across platforms all over the world via vicious chargeback fees that have, mysteriously, soared to absurdity over the past couple of years—If uses cannot cancel their accounts and yet are still being charged for content they cannot access, the kneejerk recourse will be CC chargebacks. From Agent131711:

"If 300 people file chargebacks against me, just in $15 chargeback fees, that is $4,500 that I must gift to the bank for no legitimate reason. This is in addition to the refund to each individual. Let’s say those 300 people each paid $5 for a monthly membership. That is another $1,500. Just these two amounts come to $6,000 to refund $1,500 because Substack chose to lock people out of their accounts instead of giving them a chance to close the account and deactivate their subscriptions."

(Another "by design" lock-in: By locking them out, users cannot cancel and/or delete their data, which now will surely be weaponized against them as the noose tightens.)

We are running ever closer, ever faster and will soon tumble into this Digital ID, Vaccine Passport, Social Credit, Carbon Footprint, CBDC, 15 Minute open air prison, and should we fail to meaningfully act, we will soon be, like the Australians and Europeans, rendered "dumb and silent and led like sheep to the slaughter":

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The global system fractures that began in earnest on 9/11/2001 - those that eroded the very foundations of freedom in the United States - survived by the ceaseless wars in the middles east, the 2008 economic meltdown, the extended conflicts in both Ukraine and Israel synergized with Epstein, climate change, and the burgeoning threats of hyper-inflation and cyber-security warnings targeting critical infrastructure.

The AI narrative and the emergence of the Digital ID protocol enabling absolute censorship—and the total surveillance such an endeavor demands—and all of this fused with the myriad of contrived problems and “solutions” spawned by the unprecedented world-wide PSYOP known as the COVID-19 pandemic - - - are the combined collective smokescreens and bludgeons being wielded by the powers that should’t be in order to execute a blanket world-wide coup, and if we do not stop this madness we will soon find ourselves locked inside a technological panopticon prison unlike anything seen in history.

The reason we are in this mess running headlong into tyranny is because the majority of people refuse to believe that the controllers would ever do this to us. These eternal optimists appear to be blind to this most fundamental construct of human nature: that power attracts and then corrupts nearly everyone who wields it—and the globalists - those obscure puppetmaster billionaires you never read about in Forbes and who've spent decades away from the disinfectant properties of sunlight - have indeed become quite corrupted.

I’ve tried and failed countless times to open their eyes to the truth of the situation – that the elites are evil incarnate, and that they want most of us dead, and that they want to enslave the rest of us.

And the stunning part about their blindness is that none of this is new: the psychopaths often rise to the top of every power structure over time as the bad drives out the good and as such tyranny has taken control of nations many many times throughout history. This time is no different, and the freedom we take for granted has actually been an aberration from the historical norm.

If people still cannot see this given how obvious what is occurring has become - and if we that do see should fail to act with something impactfulful enought to halt it - I do not see how we have any hope of turning the tide. The normies will just keep on complying and believing what’s being done to them is for the greater good while they drag themselves and the rest of us into totalitarianism.

Solutions can be found at the bottom of this article: https://archive.is/KjznA

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And Still the People Didn't See, by Geoff Buys Cars, January 2023

The first to arrive were the cameras

Installed to protect both you and me

In places where we weren't that threatened

And yet the people didn't see

What followed were traffic restrictions

To keep the roads quiet and clean

The maths didn't add up, or the science

But still the people didn't see

Next came the 15 minute neighbourhoods

Make our lives easier, decreed

To some, it seemed like restrictions

But still the people didn't see

Then came the Digital ID

So convenient, easy and free!

Your life in one chip on a mainframe

And still the people didn't see

The cars they sold were electric

All wired to the government PC

They switched off the driving on Sundays

Yet still the people didn't see

The banks moved their money to digital

The government banned cash the next week

The ability to fly was restricted

Yet still the people didn't see

They linked up your money and profile

To the ID on the government PC

Connected it to social media

Yet still the people didn't see

Then came a new cure, a new virus

Safe and Effective, and free

They linked these j&bs to your profile

And connected the government PC

When the people were locked up in cities

Policed by their digital ID

Unable to visit their loved ones

Now finally the people can see

Restricted and tracked with no money,

To go further a permit you'll need

Contained in your digital city

Oh why did the people not see?!

These steps they sold us a progress

Never looked to be quite what they seemed

If you don't ask the questions and protest

Then your children will never know FREE

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Tardigrade's avatar

I just discovered last night, while meeting a friend for a New Year's drink, a brand new law in Utah says you can't just show your drivers license to prove your age. They have to *scan* it. Most states have licenses that have a digital ID component.

My companion, a left-wing progressive and a lawyer, protested so mightily that our waitress handed us off to another waiter.

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Tardigrade's avatar

After asking around, I'm told the rationale for this new scan-your-ID law (which also happens at liquor stores) is so they can deny you a sale if you have a DUI.

This stinks to high heaven of slippery-slope-ism.

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TriTorch's avatar

Digital id: it took the end of freedom to finally unite the left and right

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la chevalerie vit's avatar

I hope Human enjoys. Does Rat play while Human is away?

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Jimmy's avatar

First they came for….(you know the rest)

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kitten seeking answers's avatar

rats are timeless

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Blessed Warrior Reina's avatar

It's just part of facial recognition programming everywhere- which is why I've refused it everywhere & deleted account after account of any demands to "show my papers"

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Tereza Coraggio's avatar

Schudslingpuss!!!!

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Rat's avatar

https://translate.google.com/?sl=auto&tl=en&text=Sch%C3%A4dlingspass&op=translate

I thought of making it 'Schädlingsausweis', but Google wouldn't understand that

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