I'm looking at posts on a hobby forum I also post on and there's some serious furor being caused by the news of the vaccine mandate. Someone referred to Biden as a "Feckless Fuck of a leader" and another person advocated for balkanization for the 20% of the country that doesn't approve of vaccine mandates.
I get that some people have concerns about authoritarianism and expansion of state powers (I mean they kinda don't because if they really did we'd have been done with this government a long time ago) but I'm really, genuinely struggling to understand why this is making so many people irrationally mad. These aren't even open fascists either, it's like liberals and Hank Hill type conservatives. What is it about this sort of governance that so frustrates them? They won't be materially affected in any way, and a lot of them have expressed the desire to be "left alone".
I have to wonder if there is some sort of deeper meaning to "left alone", because throughout a lot of the pandemic it seems that most people have been trying to pretend it's not happening. Is it the fact that the USA is facing a humiliation on it's own soil that it can't shoot at or nuke? I'm really confused by thought process behind this sort of rage.
privileged diaper babies who've never been actually oppressed in their lives are desperate for someone to validate their feelings of oppression, because they have generally been more and more impoverished in a class society sense, yet they can't articulate it because they don't understand themselves in class terms, so they use cultural signifiers to beg for validated oppression feelings.
i wish they could all spend a week in jail just to understand what real oppression actually feels like. i can't wait until they all die.
Don’t forget that Christianity commonly teaches it’s adherents that their beliefs are under constant attack