This site is wearing me down this past week.

edit: I am more worn down. Shouldn't have posted this thread. Feeling awful about my future.

  • booty [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    Yeah I honestly had no idea a significant number of our users became straight up covid deniers over the last year. literally just hearing them parrot all the chud bullshit 3 years late. :agony-4horsemen:

    • ButtBidet [he/him]M
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      2 years ago

      I did notice that some of them have new accounts. So maybe there's bullshit afloat.

        • gick_lover [they/them,she/her]
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          2 years ago

          I would not be that surprised if we are being brigaded. Tbh Hexbear, while not perfect, is probably one of the best non-COVID specific digital spaces I encountered online when it comes to this virus. Like with the exception for the past few days it has honestly been better than like a lot of other leftist spaces I know.

    • Fartster [comrade/them]
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      2 years ago

      I think younger people in general are "over it". From what I've seen in communities I used to be part of, especially when there is eating, drinking, music, dancing involved. I think once people get past the "oh I went to a huge music festival and didn't immediately die, I guess this is okay", then all bets are off it seems.

      • ButtBidet [he/him]M
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        2 years ago

        I do sorta feel for young people. In my teens and twenties, I took enough drugs and went to enough clubs to kill a large family. Now that I'm in my early 40s, I'm just over all that stuff.

        My opinion is: you're welcome (albeit not advised) to go to a music festival, just please mask when you're in front of me as I didn't ask for the risk.

        • ClimateChangeAnxiety [he/him, they/them]
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          2 years ago

          This is where I’m at. I do really stupid shit sometimes like going to clubs and bars without a mask in sight. But when I’m in the grocery store I wear my fucking mask because the people in the store didn’t sign up to go to a club, and it’s one extra chance to catch it I can cut out.

          • ButtBidet [he/him]M
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            2 years ago

            Honestly, thank you sincerely. This is exactly how I'd like people to act, and it's better than 99% of people now.

            • ClimateChangeAnxiety [he/him, they/them]
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              2 years ago

              Also wearing it in places like the grocery store is so easy. All day at work is annoying. At a club is impossible. But the well air conditioned grocery store where I’ll only be for like 15 minutes? Easy.

              • Frank [he/him, he/him]
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                2 years ago

                At a club is impossible

                Generations of cybergoths did not collapse on the dance floor so you could dishonor their memory like this.

        • Fartster [comrade/them]
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          2 years ago

          Yeah I guess, but when I see pictures of people I used to run with in a mosh pit in the middle of winter it kind of sucks. It's also silly to see the few people wearing masks in said mosh pit.