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John Goddard
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Fast fiction writer. Freedom maximalist. Trying to avoid being crushed under the hammer of censorship. ₿, obviously.
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johngoddard 1 year ago
Don’t use their fake money. Don’t eat their fake food. Don’t vote in their fake elections. Don’t watch their fake news. Unplug now, anon 🫡
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johngoddard 1 year ago
Control the money, control the world. That’s why banks freeze your account if you send to much to an exchange. They know they’re losing their grip.
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johngoddard 1 year ago
Communism is cool now. But I just want unbridled capitalism and all my freedoms back. Something like America in the 1800s - with oil and rail dynasties. People making things and taking risks and being wild. I want to start a business without needing permission from a parasite. And a thousand acres of farmland with a home built by hand. There’s a world that could exist. But it’s suffocated by fear and an obsession with safety. We’ve become sad and pathetic. But I feel a revolution coming.
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johngoddard 1 year ago
I feel concerned for my country. For some reason my government's more concerned with censoring me than serving me. All the neighbourhoods have changed and I think I’ll be renting forever. I wonder what it would be like to own a home with no mortgage… Those tax cuts came in, but they were quickly eaten up by inflation. I keep getting told that inflation is caused by greedy businesses, but I’m old enough to remember when they doubled the money supply during COVID. And I have a brain so I don’t fall for their obfuscations. They used to say the internet would make us free. But each day there’s more devices tracking me. And every transaction gets poured over by my bank. They froze my account when I bought bitcoin. They said it was to stop scams, but I think it’s because they’re afraid of money they don’t control. And people who aren’t controlled by their money. I feel concerned that the future will be worse than the past. What world will our kids grow up to? Barcoded, censored, fed fake food until their heart fails. The funny thing is we pay tax to overlords, funding their control over us. I wonder what would happen if we all pushed back?
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johngoddard 2 years ago
Australia is a sad, pathetic country. There are no companies, just real estate agents and public servants. Where is the innovation, creativity, entrepreneurship? It’s been crushed by taxation and regulation. Everyone is too afraid to do anything because they don’t even know what they’re allowed to do anymore. So they just clock into their government job and watch footy on the weekend. Who is creating anything? We have abundant natural resources, a beautiful and inspirational country-side. We live on a massive, isolated island. Australia should be world leading in every field. It should be a utopia of free thought, free enterprise, and innovation. But instead everyone is spiritually crushed by the nanny state. You can’t fish or hunt or start a business or speak or build without seeking permission from some goblin in the public service. A leech. A parasite. Who only exists to suck the life out of you. We need libertas. Freedom. Remove the shackles and people will do amazing, awe-inspiring things in this beautiful land. But they can’t. They’re locked into 30-year mortgages that take away the majority of their take home pay. Slaves to Commonwealth Bank just to own 200 square metres of land in Preston. They have nothing left at the end of each month to experiment with. So they’re forced to be a wage slave at one of the 8 companies that exist in this country. Because it’s impossible to run anything apart from a large company in Australia. The small ones can’t afford the compliance costs. Nobody understands the thousands of pages of legislation they need to comply with the run a company. We had this amazing opportunity and we fumbled it because everyone voted away their freedoms in exchange for some fake safety. The penal colony never ended. We asked for it to continue and it did.
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johngoddard 2 years ago
Australia is a sad, pathetic country. There are no companies, just real estate agents and public servants. Where is the innovation, creativity, entrepreneurship? It’s been crushed by taxation and regulation. Everyone is too afraid to do anything because they don’t even know what they’re allowed to do anymore. So they just clock into their government job and watch footy on the weekend. Who is creating anything? We have abundant natural resources, a beautiful and inspirational country-side. We live on a massive, isolated island. Australia should be world leading in every field. It should be a utopia of free thought, free enterprise, and innovation. But instead everyone is spiritually crushed by the nanny state. You can’t fish or hunt or start a business or speak or build without seeking permission from some goblin in the public service. A leech. A parasite. Who only exists to suck the life out of you. We need libertas. Freedom. Remove the shackles and people will do amazing, awe-inspiring things in this beautiful land. But they can’t. They’re locked into 30-year mortgages that take away the majority of their take home pay. Slaves to Commonwealth Bank just to own 200 square metres of land in Preston. They have nothing left at the end of each month to experiment with. So they’re forced to be a wage slave at one of the 8 companies that exist in this country. Because it’s impossible to run anything apart from a large company in Australia. The small ones can’t afford the compliance costs. Nobody understands the thousands of pages of legislation they need to comply with the run a company. We had this amazing opportunity and we fumbled it because everyone voted away their freedoms in exchange for some fake safety. The penal colony never ended. We asked for it to continue and it did.
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johngoddard 2 years ago
LEST WE FORGET Those who died so Albo could censor us. Lest we forget, That we live on stolen land. Lest we forget, That housing is a luxury. They shall not access true information, As those who are free access it. Wealth shall not burden them, Only high taxes will. At the going down of the sun and in the morning, They will remain locked down due to COVID restrictions. Lest we forget 🌹
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johngoddard 2 years ago
I think eKaren will have me jailed for this 😟 image
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johngoddard 2 years ago
CHINESE AIRSTRIKE I see the bomb get dropped from my balcony in Brunswick. A Chinese air strike on Australian shores. The very next day there’s a march down Collins Street in opposition of the Government’s decision to deport Chinese nationals. The ABC says that it’s only a modest infraction and not an act of war like the conspiracy theorists believe. The army took a week to respond because it was waiting for the new gender neutral uniforms to arrive. Then it refused to engage with the Chinese soldiers on our shores because their battalions didn’t comply with the DEI criteria. Our electric tanks took 6 hours to reach full charge. Then for the next week the wind didn’t blow and the tanks just sat there useless in the red dust of the Simpson Desert. Penny Wong sent foreign aid to China. Lidia Thorpe celebrated the death of colonisers then got taken hostage. The academics at the University of Naarm kept arguing that their studies showed China would never invade, right up until the point a cluster bomb fell on them. All the Marxists celebrated being invaded by a dictator. But then they realised they didn’t get oat milk lattes in the hard labour camps. They learned the hard way that the communist utopia is fake. Joe Biden sent American troops to Austria by accident. Albanese was on holiday in Fiji. Dan Andrews was a general in the Chinese army. And I got jailed for posting a video of the invasion on Facebook. Apparently I was enforcing dangerous stereotypes. image
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johngoddard 2 years ago
It’s another fine day to overdose on caffeine and sit staring at an Excel spreadsheet. Under these fluorescent lights you’re getting neutered by the HR department. Don’t have an opinion. Don’t make a sound. Just do some work that’ll probably get scrapped anyway. Do you think that it’s strange to have to ask permission to go on holiday? Do you think that it’s normal to eat tinned cat food for lunch? Do you ever wonder why wages haven’t gone up since 1970? You’re a fully grown adult, but your lifestyle has given you a beer gut and turned you into a coward. No wonder your wife doesn’t love you and your kids can’t stand you. “Oh no I can’t do that, I have to follow the policy!” Shut up you nerd. Grow a pair and do what needs to be done. The evidence is right in front of you. They’re taxing and inflating you into poverty and it’s obvious that it’s all a ploy to satiate you to the point where you’re not inspired to rise up but you have to because living like this is not an option you were built for more you were made for more and you know that which is why you’re depressed and on pills drinking red wine just to fall asleep. You’ve lived a life characterised by lost dreams and failures. You’re a disappointment to everyone who believed in you. You’re running out of time you must take action urgently.
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johngoddard 2 years ago
One thing that I didn’t anticipate when I started publishing my writing was the support I’d receive from the ₿itcoin community. But I suppose in hindsight it makes sense. Because they’ve been calling out the government scam since the 80s (shout out to Tim May et al). And now they’ve innovated a way to escape the fake money system using technology. There's no question that ₿itcoin is a bulwark against the totalitarianism inherent in giving control of your money to banks and governments. You don’t own your money. You can’t withdraw it as cash. You pay fees on every transaction. You're taxed every time it changes hands. And they'll freeze your account if you buy the wrong thing, or speak out online. It’s all fake. And it’s all a control mechanism. It’s a system designed to benefit the people who create the money we use. All of this seems obvious to me. So I spoke about the intersection of dystopian fiction and ₿itcoin with Carri Cee. It was a thought provoking discussion. She asks the big questions! I’m grateful to have received the opportunity to come on.
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johngoddard 2 years ago
DROWNING IN LEGISLATION The law is a weapon used by the government to strangle the life out of Australians. The average citizen is suffocated through their perverted obsession with safety. You’re not allowed to go fishing, hunting, buy a weapon, build the type of property you want, take cash out of the bank, smoke where you want, drink where you want, gamble, hike, camp, light a fire, or own an animal. And I notice that the people around me are too scared to do anything for fear of breaching a rule. They’re not sure which rule specifically, but they know that if they simply behave like a human for a long enough period of time they’ll be in breach of some piece of fake legislation. It’s gotten so out of hand that no single lawyer or politician truly understands the patchwork of legislation that’s been put in place. And I think that all these convoluted regulations serve a purpose In this way, if the government ever wants to make your life hell, there will always be some legal avenue available for them to do so. They can just dig through your past and find some obscure regulation that I didn’t adhere to in 1987. And so all that concern about your safety is fake. It's just a guise under which they can pass laws which restrict your freedoms. Obviously. It's the oldest trick in the book, but you fall for it every time. And I think it's obvious that we don't need all these rules Because we already had the laws right thousands of years ago. Moses realised that we only need 10. And in 1946, Radbruch explained to us how a slavish adherence to man-made law is what enabled the Nazi party to take control. And I see the same thing happening in Australia today. Our laws are totalitarian and the people love it. They love the smug sense of self-satisfaction they get when they write to the Council about their neighbour who put a shade sail up without approval. And when I see this, I understand how Nazi Germany happened. I think we’re probably closer to that point than we care to realise. Because human nature is inert. We've always craved power and control. And left unchecked, it runs rampant.
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johngoddard 2 years ago
ECSTACY IN FIAT Constant global war funded by ever-increasing debt. Heavily taxed citizens with ever-diminishing freedoms. You can’t spend your money on just anything. We must approve your purchases. And only those who toe the party line can participate in the economy. Money is controlled by the Government. (As it should be). All transactions go through a State-approved intermediary. Nobody is allowed to transact directly. We print fake money then lend it to you for profit. Every time you use our fake money, we charge you a fee. Every time you earn our fake money, we charge you a tax. If you spend too much of our fake money, we sell your house. But if we’re the ones who spend too much fake money? Well, let’s just say we have options. The house never loses. But the people on the other side of the table do. I print my way out of trouble and you pay the price. Don’t pay attention to the levels of debt. And don’t ask questions when I tell you the debt’s good. How many experts does it take to create a truth? How many repetitions until a lie becomes reality? I paid ten economists to say quantitative easing won’t cause inflation. And now that’s printed in the news as fact. Believe my facts and ignore your own eyes. Technology is lowering the cost of production. Yet you’re running on a treadmill struggling to pay rent. You’re not allowed to notice this. And you have to believe me when I tell you everything’s great. Even though my rate rises will collapse the economy. And then all my friends will buy up your houses. You thought that if you worked hard you’d get ahead. But that’s not true. All that matters in this rigged game is gaining access to the fiat before the peasants. Then convincing the money printer to do its thing. image
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johngoddard 2 years ago
Income tax is theft. Capital gains tax is theft. Stamp duty is theft. Fuel excise is theft. Compulsory acquisition is theft. Payroll tax is theft. GST is theft. Rates are theft. Luxury car tax is theft. Import duties are theft. Rego fees are theft. ☭
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johngoddard 2 years ago
Things Australians love: 1. Big government 2. High taxes 3. Unaffordable homes 4. Lockdowns 5. Different laws for each race What else?
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johngoddard 2 years ago
THE WAR IS ON OUR SHORES Every city street is flooded with supporters of Palestine. And in the blink of an eye the talking heads on TV morphed from Constitutional law experts into military strategists and historians. I notice that I’m being force-fed a certain narrative by the Australian mainstream media about this war, even though it’s happening on the other side of the world (and should theoretically be of little interest to both them and me). By this stage I’m smart enough to know why this is happening, however. And now Albanese is flying to America to discuss the war with a dementia patient. Part of me thinks that Albanese’s probably grateful the war broke out when it did. It’s a welcome distraction from his numerous failures, of which the $500 million spent on a referendum which was clearly doomed is just one. But he shouldn’t be running off to America to discuss an irrelevant conflict in the middle of the desert. We have real problems at home that he’s been ignoring for the past 18 months. Australians hoped that he would have the time to deal with these once October 14 had passed, but I’m not sure that he knows how to do anything beyond create compelling spectacles. This is evidenced by the fact that everything is more expensive than it’s ever been. Last year a visit to the doctor was free, now it’s $100. Remember when he said that your power bill would go down by $250? And remember how Dan Andrews spent $600 million on not hosting the Commonwealth Games? When you properly think about what the government has done to us since 2020, you realise that these people actively treat you with contempt. They waste all of your money, forcing you to eat beans out of a can to make sure you have enough money to keep the lights on. This situation should make you want to riot in the streets. But they’ve completely neutered you through regulations, oppression, and propaganda. Australians are like the mental patients in One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest – opting to be trapped inside a prison because it’s easier than facing the chaos of freedom. The communists have absolutely wrecked middle class Australia. They should be taking drastic action to fix it, but they don’t care because there’s no negative consequences to failing as a politician. So instead of concentrating on the things that matter to Australians, they’ll keep being distracted by business class flights and fund-raising dinners. But I think we have a bigger issue than our broken economy. Conflict on our shores It looks like every Western nation has been invaded without anybody noticing. I didn’t think I’d ever see the steps of the Opera House desecrated by the blood thirsty chants of barbarians. And I didn’t think I’d ever hear calls for Jihad being chanted in the streets of London. The ABC will probably say that I’m bigoted, but I don’t actually want this third world dispute to erupt here. And I think that recent immigrants should cut ties with the barbaric warlords back home. There’s a reason that Australia is better than the countries that they came from: our culture. So it’s in their best interests to assimilate and learn our way of life. But it doesn’t look like they want to. It looks like they want to riot in the streets and fight in a war. Which is fine: they’re free to go back to whichever backwards desert nation they came from to do that. But don’t do it here. Not on my shores. And as if that wasn’t enough, we now have people calling for violent decolonisation of Australians by equating the aboriginal plight with the Palestinian plight. But I’ve never seen weapons of war directed at aboriginals, only welfare payments. So it’s not really that easy to compare the two. But that doesn’t stop people like Briggs, Mayo, and Langton espousing dangerous rhetoric to raise tensions. It feels to me like we’re inching towards our own civil war moment. People are getting poorer, conflict is erupting overseas, and racial tensions are being stoked by people who should know better. I’ve heard people say that it couldn’t happen in Australia. Their only argument in support of this contention is that this is Australia, and things like that ‘just don’t happen here’. But if you think that we’re immune to civil unrest then you’re naïve and deserve what’s coming. We’re a nation comprised of humans. There is no doubt that we are susceptible to the one thing that has been constant through human history: conflict. We might be able to avoid it if someone steps up into a leadership position. But every politician is more concerned with extracting value out of the populous than they are with actually doing something of value. So we’ll keeping heading towards the abyss. Doomed to repeat the mistakes of those who came before us. image
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johngoddard 2 years ago
They tell me I have white privilege, but I can’t see it. I pay more for concert tickets, and the interest rate on my mortgage is higher. I’m lower down the queue to get surgery. I have to pay my own way through school and university. And nobody’s given me any reparations, even though my ancestors were shipped to the other side of the world as prisoners. Every history book has been rewritten to erase our accomplishments, and our contributions to society are ignored. Somehow people think the Westminster System just spontaneously came into existence. Propaganda paints us as evil. All our monuments are being dismantled. And our presence in society is something that they’re trying to erase. They tell me that I’m guilty by virtue of my skin colour. They tell me that I have to pay rent to live on the land my family’s called their own for 8 generations. They tell me that I shouldn’t speak my mind, that I need to make space for others. But I’m not going to do that. I’m not going to constrain my excellence to give someone else a turn. Because it seems like the only way you can level the playing field is to rig the whole game against me. And I refuse to live in some communist hellscape where equity is the endgame. I want meritocracy.