Meanwhile I have crippling anxiety due to covid and the impending doom brought on by climate change. Sometimes I miss being a totally oblivious idiot.
But if you were an oblivious idiot you wouldn't do anything about all that's wrong in this world. I'm glad you're not
The problem is its easy to both be anxious about covid/climate change and still not do anything impactful
"Honey, we've always had seasons," I say under a blood-red midday sky as a fire tornado whirls off in the horizon.
"Sweety, the police always was a bit zealous", I say as I am being led to a death camp.
I don't think these are liberals. It tends to be the chuds that deny covid...
Idk, I like to differentiate between the two. Different type of shitty
Depends on context, but in this case yeah I agree specifying chuds is better, because covid denialism has become part of the culture war bullshit that makes up the only major distinction between chuds and their lib counterparts. Calling everyone non-leftist within this context a lib is just confusing.
It always fascinates me just how broken and mangled the American psyche is now. We simply do not trust information unless it fits some prior instinct. There's no social basis for understanding reality. Absolutely everything and anything is fake unless you witness it with your own eyes and even then it could still be a trick. People literally believe covid-19 is some globally coordinated conspiracy to make America look bad based on...absolutely no evidence at all.
Such levels of paranoia and skepticism have to be treated as a public health crisis. It's legitimately frightening. My coworkers and family are so conspiracy oriented that basically nothing can be confirmed to be real outside of what happens in their own head. Covid-19 is killing people? Where'd you hear that? Oh, CNN? Not true. Not real. Fiction.
There's a famine in Yemen? Oh, you saw that in the media? Not happening. Vietnam's policies almost entirely contained the virus outbreak? Yeah, that's what they want you to think. Try thinking for yourself instead of trusting some journalist.
I don't know how to see this other than complete delusion. It's alienation made manifest. Americans have become so detached that they don't even recognize the perceptions of other humans as valid.
I really hate this attitude and there's simply no counter to it. It really does drive me to the point of tears.
I watched the whole clip. Unbelievable. She says the state is losing the population of one small town every day to COVID-19. And patients often would rather believe its CANCER than Covid.
It reminds me of the phrase "its easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism." But for these people, "its easier to imagine the end of the world, than being lied to by Conservatives." Because, thats what this boils down to. They are so uniformly inside the Conservative media bubble, as are the conservative politicians, that they can't imagine an alternate view on any of these issues. And when they see one, like if they went to the BBC news website, they would call it "fake news".
So at what point does it hit critical mass and they just run out of people?
Its a good question. But the survival rate is high, even if everyone in South Dakota gets it. Everyone is going to know someone who has died though. Its going to leave a mark on society.
It's capitalism perfected in the form of social media. Your feed is constantly waiting, like a warm bath of opinions telling you you're right, and anyone who says otherwise is a liar who hates you. It's mind-blowing how effective it's become. And I don't think there's an answer to how to bring back people from it. Maybe someone else does, but to me it's the culmination of all the dystopian predictions - a horrid playground that always rewards your anger and allows you to behave however you want without consequence. How can reality compete with that?
They can die. The beauty of the pandemic is that it rewards cooperation and punishes individualism. So as the months and years go by, the societies that survive are going to be a lot different than the ones going in.
For one, many boomer chuds will die. And second, everyone else will have a lot more respect for healthcare, schools, and essential services. And third, not everyone, but many people will know someone who died and will change their views.
The beauty of the pandemic is that it rewards cooperation and punishes individualism. So as the months and years go by, the societies that survive are going to be a lot different than the ones going in.
Covid isn't lethal enough or targeted enough for this to happen, I think. Enough people would isolate but can't because of capitalism, and plenty of chuds without masks either don't get it or don't die.
Mind-body dualism and its consequences have been a disaster for the human race
But not to Americans.
This story made me sad and I don't like to be sad so I don't want things like this to happen ever again.
This is implying if American government just disappeared tomorrow a not so insignificant portion of the population wouldn't immediately elect and recreate the very systems that caused the whats going on to resurface.
But don't worry it won't be called America?
I hate the government not the people 😤
More seriously I can't hold both the position that the US government is irredeemably untethered from the will and interests of its people and US citizens are the most propagandised people on earth and that most everyone in the US is irredeemable. So I believe that anyone born in the US probably has a harder time cultivating empathy and reasonable opinions than the rest of us but with re-education and a change in material conditions would probably be perfectly fine people living fine lives and not hurting anyone more than anyone else, and the average US citizen can't really be held accountable for the actions of the US state.
you cannot do this, this is literally fucking so dumb... the government is the people.
:10000-com:
Not prioritizing the lives and comfort of US citizens over literally everyone else on the planet: Anti-imperialism, cool and good
Actively wishing death on each and every individual privileged? enough to have been born in the imperial core: not what we're about.
I mean, the US government is like, 10,000 people who can reasonably said to be significantly influenced by another 100,000 people.
You can't both hold that the US State is a dictatorship of the bourgeois that acts for capital regardless of and against the will and interest of its citizens and that all/a majority of US citizens are irredeemable and responsible for the actions of the US state.
They obviously would.
Part of American exceptionalism is thinking these structures are both essential and good.
I find it hilarious and extremely ironic that the whole concept of US Exceptionalism is in and of it's self US Exceptionalism.
Exceptionalism of that sort isn't unique to the US or even to this time period. The Romans did it, the Athenians did it, the Chinese Empire did it, Catholics, Protestants and the European colonial members of the Vienna Conclave did it. Almost everyone with a strong us and them narrative has something similar.
Thinking Americans thinking americans are special is specific to america is, hilariously, a result of americans thinking americans are special.
Thinking Americans thinking americans are special is specific to america is, hilariously, a result of americans thinking americans are special.
That's pretty special indeed though
I think it's funny because it's the only disaster we can joke about that doesn't feel imminently plausible.
I think the please Xi send the nukes/let's sink England beneath the waves style bits started off as ironically mocking the sort of conservative commentator who responds to hearing about the latest islamophobic consent manufacturing by saying we need to glass the middle east, but like any bit that goes on long enough, the irony slowly drained away and we were left with something that was arguably reactionary and if not then at the very least defeatist.
I wrote a longer thing about it here if anyone's interested.
So this is basically proof that we're never gonna learn from this, right? Theres not gonna be a breaking point, people will literally die denying covid
Yeah i just hope the 3rd world can benefit from our failures
Social Security being "drained" is some accounting bullshit they tell you to make you think it isn't a pyramid scheme. It fuckin is. There's no "draining" the shit. Young people pay for the old and it comes back around one day, when you live old enough to cash out.
That isn't even a bad idea. Young people should work to fund the retirement of seniors so they're not out on they ass, incapable of working, with no income. Borrowing money to pay for expenses and paying that back through taxation on Economic activity is GOOD.
Just a reminder that all those anti-mask and 'let us get our hair cuts' protests were astroturfed by the billionaires to manufacture consent for opening everything back up.
Chuds love to talk co-morbidity, but that's stupid we don't treat AIDS that way.
AIDS itself doesn't kill you, whatever you get afterwards kills you, but we don't say OH AIDS DIDNT KILL YOU THE COLD DID.
Wait, so boomers would be like "THOMAS DIED OF THE COLD, NOT THE AIDS?"
it doesnt matter, sometimes you lead them to the water and they drink, can't win em all
Yeah, that's incredibly bleak. Not even gonna dunk on them, it's just too incredibly sad.
Justice is a human ideal, not a natural law. There was never going to be any justice in this world that we did not put in it.
So let us make the world just.
The Onion sees all: https://local.theonion.com/tell-the-world-i-also-had-asthma-conservative-begs-d-1844932197
I still cant believe they nailed it so perfectly:
https://politics.theonion.com/bush-our-long-national-nightmare-of-peace-and-prosperi-1819565882
Jesus, lol. That is crazy.
I'm just more and more convinced that you just have to have the most cynical nihilistic take on everything and you'll be right more often than not. It just sucks because everyone ends up hating you for being a cynical asshole if you voice your true opinion on matters.
I think I'm in a transitional phase as the last vestiges of hope are leaving me. I'm still an asshole, have increasingly stronger and more entrenched opinions, and argue heatedly with people over said opinions. And even though I hold stronger beliefs, I still want to be compassionate, courteous, and want the other person not to hate me at the end of the discussion - but that's only half the time. The other half of the time I just can't bear to say anything on the subject, so I just shrug my shoulders and offer little feedback. I hate both of these reactions, but have no solution for changing them until capitalism has been destroyed.
These fucking dipshits are tying up resources that should be spent on people with issues that isn't their fault.
Every fucking ICU bed taken up by these fucking people is one less ICU bed that could go to save someone that's having a heart attack or a stroke.
Fuck these selfish motherfuckers
Advocating for means testing healthcare on chapo dot chat you love to see it
That would start to get really sticky with the hippocratic oath and the idea of "first do no harm"
Not that private insurance doesn't already get fucky with it but still
"The party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command."
I would respect this quote much more if it didn't come from a man who wrote about authoritarian police states while snitching on his friends, coworkers and acquaintances to his own country's secret service.
The quote is good, but it really should be a gulag-able offence to quote 1984. Tho i've probably just been poisoned by Redditors who use it litterally every time they experience a minor inconvenience.
At least in my area people accept reality, even if they don't always take proper precautions.
Thats fucking bleak
Imagine having such a shitty deathrattle. Even if it wasn't context appropriate, I'd say some shit like, "My treasure? You can have it! I left everything I owned in One Piece"
Tell my wife... [GASP] ...it was... [GASP] ...seasonal allergARRRRGH
to anybody that thinks covid was fake and got it and is now dying: get fucked.
to anybody that knew it was real and was taking precautions: get well, we love you <3
