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.

  • LoudMuffin [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    Also, I sometimes think I need to take a break from "leftism" or just the internet and general because I read shit like this and I unironically feel just bleak, unending despair. Like, it's pretty much just us who think like this. Basically no one else gives an absolute fuck about anything lmao, even "progressives" tend to lose the plot....

    like at least 900,000+ (if excess mortality is to believed) Americans have died and literally NOBODY FUCKING CARES

    i don't even fucking like other Americans (America Moment) but like what the fuck man that's just not right

    we're never getting universal healthcare rents will keep going up until half the planet is friggin underwater the boston dynamics manhacks will come and chop your legs off if you even think "woah other people exist?" we're getting fucking Cyborg Mussolini before wages go up again China (which is not communist) will be overrun by Proud Boys in T34 Anticommunist power armor We're getting Chobani™ neuralink ElonMusk®®™©™©©®®®™™ Tesla™™™®™ ads directed straight into our brains through our Doritos Lokos™ Chicken Chalupa subcranial interfaces by Alphabet©

    someone give me something to latch on to

    • aqwxcvbnji [none/use name]
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      3 years ago

      someone give me something to latch on to

      Join an organisation. Engaging in campaigns will make you see the progress that can be made.

      https://frso.org/join/

      https://www.pslweb.org/join

      https://www.socialistalternative.org/join/

    • PapaEmeritusIII [any]
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      3 years ago

      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HBxn56l9WcU
      hey check out this frog

    • crime [she/her, any]
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      3 years ago

      I don't know what age group or demography you're in but pretty much everyone I know is at least a radlib when you start talking politics, people I've known casually turn out to be hardline MLs more often than I ever expect. Hell even my token chud friend from high school has called me up to ask about what Marxism actually is in the last year.

      the comrade that said join an org is right, and even if there aren't any parties active in your area I bet you there are orgs like tenant unions or food not bombs which are great ways to make material impacts on your community and stop feeling quite so burnt out on america in general.