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This, too, is Stancilism

Facts have a liberal bias. Where have I heard that before? As for 'communists' concern, Trump may be thinking of the final result for someone he obviously emulates.

“Like it or not, we’re all living in Trump’s world now. This is a book about what happens when a politician knows he can’t win by competing in everyone else’s reality, so he creates his own” - Amanda Carpenter

Yes, even more fundamentally because all that goes against the right-wing mindset of "you don't tell me what to do, but I get to tell you what to do."

yes- and there was a brief moment of social cohesion and it freaked them the fuck out that people might actually care about one another

I always wonder how much more insane and frightening it would have been if it made kids really sick.

Except if it had been much deadlier, all of the reactions would have been different

"wahhhhh I couldn't go to restaurants and there were not-at-all-enforced orders to stay at home for a few months" ok but this could have ended up with your plague-ridden corpse shoveled into a mass grave and burned alongside 50,000 others

It was deadly for 1.2 million people.

I could have done with some of that old time stealing. As I was in a key industry, I worked right through it. I’d much rather sitting around on my arse playing Fallout 4, or reading a book.

“They stole years of your life” says shut in who would’ve spent that time being mad on the computer anyway

To be fair to guys like this, if you accept the premise that a spike in death rates two or three times greater than the one we saw would have led to social collapse and widespread chaos that the security state could not have contained, it does pretty much put a pin in their whole project.

good riddance. they belong in the grave

And then they turned "ignoring the social contract" into their whole personality. Soooo much antisocial behavior continues today that I think was triggered by Covid.

I think it’s because the lies and contradictions upon which our system is built were laid bare for all to see and the only people who had an explanation for that other than telling more lies were the gay commie Muslims that no conservative could hear.

Fundamentally, right-wingers do not understand, and fear, the idea of interdependence. They also fundamentally do not understand, and fear, the fact that the world is often ambiguous and does not admit of single, simple answers.

The Lt governor of Texas who was a senior citizen at the time said it’s okay if seniors die to keep the economy running.

So stark, the difference between current right-wing and the now near-extinct trad conservative. Social contract was a huge part of conservatism. Me, leftist, disagreed on most points about what that contract was or should be but we were aligned that there was one.

I think there is a lot of guilt because so many of them died. They want to blame Fauci or vaccines or Big Pharma rather than accept the fact that if their friends and relatives had been vaccinated they would still be here.

The truth is on the side of the oppressed. Malcolm X.

I love Paul Krugman unshackled by MSM