I got the idea from a dead Twitter thread with only two replies...
Disabled lives do not matter to politicians.
Literally no loss of life or well being stops or slows the money machine.
nothing will be done about the climate crisis
i mean i knew, but i guess i didnt know
Me too.
I was pretty damn sure the dems would pass something. Maybe $100 billion or whatever. And then the GOP justices would say "Sorry, you must wait. There are constitutional issues that exist," and the fuckers would eventually void ~25% of the spending because it's "unconstitutional".
It boggles my mind that we are at zero dollars for spending. I assume it'll stay that way until a decade or so from now (or whatever) when we pay for some billionaire's climate engineering solution. Gates (or Musk or Bezos) will assure us that it is in any way disruptive, we can live & act as we always have, and his ClimageMagic solution is nearly certain to work smoothly if not flawlessly. So - of course - the world will soon be permafucked.
Same,
my copium for the time has been "don't worry anon, Xi Jinping will solve climate change!". That, and Lula's likely win in Brazil this year.
If aliens ever invade, the first thing the government will do is lower interest rates
Office buildings are a fucking waste of space, everyone has to be back in the office because landlords are getting nervous
Here's some :bloomer: stuff to counter the impending doomerism. I learned that:
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I'm trans and that's wonderful. for the first time in my life, i can actually see myself as a complete, real person. before, i didn't even begin to realize how much i was missing because i lived in the wrong gender.
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I've gone full communist. i've always been kinda anti-capitalist, against the bourgeoise state, against war & imperialism, but i hadn't gotten rid of all my liberal brainworms. seeing in real time how the west destroys itself really fixed that. Speaking of which ...
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I've realized that the west is completely fucked. Heightening contradictions are real. We can wear them down. the bourgeoisie may be more powerful now, but it lacks the foundation it would need to win a war of attrition. The days of this system are numbered. There's hope, you fuckers.
Congrats on your realising your identity (both gender and political)! We have to take our wins where we can get them. I have become more politically aligned since the start of the pandemic too, and I learned that taking care of myself is quite nice, actually.
Also yeah, the west is fucked. Hopefully the global south will take over and be better stewards than we were, and also hopefully we won't get too hurt in the west's death spasms.
I am happy that you are living your life in a way that's happier and healthier for you.
I'm not sure if it was specificalyl the pandemic, or just my small view of the world, but it seemed like a lot of people were understanding their trans-ness and queerness in new and different ways, which while im sure can be awful, is still beautiful to see.
against the bourgeoise state
Even the state you live under is fem
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That the government's hatred of the poor isn't some strange isolated matter, that actually it's the people who genuinely hate the poor and want them dead and the government is just a reflection of it. So, so, SO many posts by people shrugging their shoulders and saying it's the bottom, worthless, non-contributing millions of people who'll die to covid. Yes, millions, not thousands or hundreds of thousands, but actual millions. No I didn't know people hated them this much, yes I was that naive.
I also learned that pandemics can be a great strategic resource for murdering refugees and illegal immigrants (need to remember to say 'illegal' because wE DoN't cArE AbOuT LeGaL mIgRaNtS, jUsT dO tHe PaPeRwOrK) because just sticking them in gas chambers is bad optics.
That the USA could have a death toll of over 200 times China’s, and still have the western world view China as the human rights violator.
The Democrats will literally send people to their death just to stomp even the most lukewarm change:
https://jacobinmag.com/2020/03/joe-biden-bernie-sanders-coronavirus-primary-voting/
Americans are willing to tolerate an infinite amount of death without rioting
I'm stealing that to share with libs at reddit. I'm certain some of them will become angry. Not at the comment itself but at its messenger: me.
And when they start to lecture me "What are you suggesting? Are you actually suggesting that we break the law?" - I will not say "Yes" because I'll just get banned. But I'll needle them in a way they can't escape. I'll say "If the Russians invaded and some entire states were left to fight on their own - everybody would surrender. Americans aren't Ukrainians."
Nothing but doomerism:
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Truth is a democracy. All of these "conspiracy theories" are just what the masses WANT to believe. "COVID not real because if it was real, then it would make sense to tell me what to do. And NO ONE TELLS ME WHAT TO DO!1!!"
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The world (especially the US) will never organize to deal with jack shit. If WW2 began tomorrow but with the same climate. I'm sure most Americans would either defect to Hitler because they agree with him, or would never plant victory gardens, collect scrap, etc.
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We are going to die because of climate change, we have become Nietzsche's last man. Americans are dead set on amusing themselves to death and will tell you that extinction is WORTH IT for the next treat from McDonalds.
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Racial prejudice is bread and circuses. Most Americans know this and are okay with this, so they demand to indulge in their bread and circuses.
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that i'm extra mentally ill now?
i don't think there's much to add to our analysis from covid, tbh. like we knew the west slaughters people, we knew it does medical aparthied, we knew public health bows to economic productivity. none of this was new. it's more personal and pervasive for some people now.
except that the CPC is fucking awesome. in case anyone was on the fence precovid
Spite is a motivating force in Western politics to a degree that I couldn't have predicted even on my most pessimistic day.
We’re so atomized into our little bubbles that we don’t see the people around us as people anymore.
That reminds me of something I found on the page for the serial killer Ted Bundy.
A significant element of delusion permeated his thinking:
Bundy was always surprised when anyone noticed that one of his victims was missing, because he imagined America to be a place where everyone is invisible except to themselves. And he was always astounded when people testified that they had seen him in incriminating places, because Bundy did not believe people noticed each other.
