A MELBOURNE WIN, A MELBOURNE LOSS: Melbourne AFL Team Wins Premiership and Supporters are Permitted to March

PANDEMIC WRITINGS, Melbourne, Australia (2020-2022): piece originally published September 27, 2021

Melbourne Demon supporters are permitted to celebrate their team’s Premiership by gathering and marching around The Tan, in South Yarra. Days earlier, large public gatherings were heavily policed, and protestors were dispersed by rubber bullets and mass arrests

A Melbourne win, a Melbourne loss

When the Biomedical Police State regime provides the masses with the time-proven distraction of "bread and circuses" ("crisis bribe payments" and the AFL circus) the people are permitted to gather to celebrate the harmless winning of a football game of no consequence to the Tyrant; as long as the people do not gather to protest losing the only rigged-game of consequence (the incremental theft of their livelihoods and freedoms) that is currently being waged upon them — where Melbourne has clearly lost.

The Demons win (Premiers), a Demon wins (Premier).