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"what Trump and his supporters hate most of all is reality. They know what they want to believe. They fly into paroxysms of rage whenever someone points out that the world isn’t what they want it to be." paulkrugman.substack.com/p/reality-is...

I think Covid inspires such rage and frantic dissembling because it was a moment when denying social solidarity and the importance of quality government could literally kill you. a lot of conservatives did just that

reminded of this piece I wrote after a half dozen right-wing radio guys killed themselves by refusing to get the Covid vax theweek.com/politics/100...

another thing about this pitiful fucking pissbaby whining from conservatives is that Covid was a real straightforward and not particularly deadly pandemic. it could have been SO MUCH WORSE bsky.app/profile/schw...

"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

You: "ok but this could have ended up with your plague-ridden corpse shoveled into a mass grave and burned alongside 50,000 others" Them: "so long as most of those others were freakin' libtards!"