Saw this thread, and it really hit a chord with me, as these similar fears tend to constantly weigh on me (for various reasons- being trans, ethnic Chinese, commie, etc).
I think we all (leftists, but also just most minorities) know, shit is bad and will get worse, it's just a question of how bad it will get. People mention it offhand without usually going further into the details, and similarly in other spaces - non-leftist ones as well, for instance Asian diasporic and LGBT spaces in my experience, these fears come up, but ultimately we keep the bulk of our concerns to ourselves. What are our expectations here, for the west? Not just for the US, but the Anglosphere and Europe?
people in here really trying to be like “you are defeatist and wrong” and “I have hope” who also don’t wear a mask anymore lol
listen. say whatever you want. I do not want to hear from anyone who isn’t taking Covid seriously anymore. I just don’t. If you are not considering both your community’s Covid response and its climate response as things at the top of your mind in all of your praxis you are naive and you are not prepared to do what needs to be done for any cause with the urgency it requires. And that’s 9/10 people in this thread. That’s 9/10 people in the country. 9/10 people in the world.
There are almost 100 replies to this thread and not a single one mentions disability or anything at all about the consequences of unchecked Covid spread and mutation — except in the past tense, of course…! Nothing anyone says which is like this is a serious analysis of things. You are — willfully or otherwise — neglecting a massive piece of the puzzle then showing me a picture with a hole in it and telling me I just dont get it. I am so exhausted by it.
So no I don’t have a whole lot of hope for this place, or indeed many places anymore, and no amount of Lenin or Mao or any other esteemed thought leaders are going to change that in this current moment.
negl I wish we had like. A Shinigami Eyes plugin, or a Lemmy Enhancement Suite plugin that allowed for tagging of Lemmy users; I'd actually be able to keep track of who to disregard based on certain subjects that shouldn't be hard to maintain a coherent and actually-progressive line on.
This is maybe some terminally online freak shit but I remember who’s who when I see em. The rest of the time is me waiting for the other shoe to drop for everyone else; haven’t been wrong yet…
I miss when my memory was that good
People who can't even consistently put cloth over their faces think they have what it takes to make it through Long March 2.0.