I don't talk about this much and probably won't again, but I have a loved one who has slowly but surely been sucked into the ecosystem of beliefs that fueled today's events. It is a loss already, and I wonder how the loved ones of the person killed today are feeling.
You hope they'll come back from it. You try talking to them. You try engaging with the meda and videos and papers they share. You try refusing to talk to them. You try setting out basic parameters around what you will and won't talk about. You try to agree to disagree.
You try finding areas you agree on. You try finding basic ideas you agree on. You try refusing to talk to them again. You try avoiding the topic altogether and focusing on niceties, the weather and sports.
But eventually — in my case, at least — it always come back to some combination of the underlying ideas that "they" want to control us, the media won't tell the truth and leaders are complicit. And it *always* comes up, somehow.
Mental health issues are present, but you have no idea how much responsibility they bear. And you know there are people who struggle with mental health issues who don't act this way, and people without mental health issues who do.
You don't want to absolve them of all responsibility but you also don't want to believe they are wholly responsible and acting like this
Listening to that leaked presidential phone call was hard, because it was almost exactly like the most recent conversation I had with this loved one. Just idea after idea being thrown at the wall, and always the burden on you to prove this didn't happen. But you know even if...
... you do, they'll just be back with some other version of the idea tomorrow. Or even the same idea again.
I have no solutions. I don't know if I am doing the right thing or the wrong thing by cutting this person off or continuing to support them. I'm not asking anyone for sympathy or to show sympathy to the people in their lives or strangers who have followed this path.
I do know I wish there weren't enough people like this that it's become profitable for them to fuel each other's rage.

And I know that anyone who is aware of reality but decides there is money or clout to be pursued from pretending otherwise should know they are ruining lives

• • •

Missing some Tweet in this thread? You can try to force a refresh
 

Keep Current with andrew kurjata 2021 edition

andrew kurjata 2021 edition Profile picture

Stay in touch and get notified when new unrolls are available from this author!

Read all threads

This Thread may be Removed Anytime!

PDF

Twitter may remove this content at anytime! Save it as PDF for later use!

Try unrolling a thread yourself!

how to unroll video
  1. Follow @ThreadReaderApp to mention us!

  2. From a Twitter thread mention us with a keyword "unroll"
@threadreaderapp unroll

Practice here first or read more on our help page!

More from @akurjata

8 Jan
What.
The.
Actual.

The person in charge of Canada's Office of Border and Travel Health has been doing international travel during the pandemic on her side gig as an "influencer" theglobeandmail.com/politics/artic… ImageImage
Putting aside THE PANDEMIC, why is a senior civil servant accepting FREE TRIPS from ANYONE???
Also not for nothing but @AirCanada can't provide refunds in a timely manner but can give out free trips apparently
Read 4 tweets
6 Jan
The Rebel's man in Washington ImageImageImageImage
In appealing to new members, Bexte laments the fact he is from Canada so I guess patriotism is no longer a thing for the Rebel? Image
ImageImage
Read 4 tweets
6 Jan
Nepotism is not great overall but I guess I don't really understand what the point is of having a list of every journalist who is related to some other journalist?
And I guess also I am not sure you can say "it is just a list" because, well, you are publishing it and that implies there is some sort of point? Idk.
And I mean I am saying this as someone who didn't know anyone in journalism starting out but I would probably be more interested in finding out which schools everyone went to or something like that because from the outside that seems to be far more of a pervasive clique
Read 5 tweets
11 Dec 20
OK a lot of COVID-19 stuff has been happening today in Northern B.C. so here's my best attempt at gathering it into a single thread. #cityofPG #bcpoli
First the big news: a rapid-response team is in Fort St. James, two hours away from Prince George, as there is a major cluster of cases there. cbc.ca/news/canada/br…
This morning, BC Emergency Health Services said they'd been told 60 active cases in the community. I was told that number was accurate by a health care person in the community. But as of this afternoon, Northern Health says the active case count is approx. 40 active in Omineca
Read 11 tweets
10 Dec 20
1 in 25 people have COVID-19 in a small, rural community. Did residents get a warning from health officials? No, because that would violate "privacy". Instead they find out when an emergency team is deployed because local paramedics are overwhelmed #bcpoli cbc.ca/news/canada/br…
Literally since the beginning of this pandemic local officials and First Nations have been pleading with the B.C. government to release more local health data in line with what people get in nearly every other province in Canada. There has been an outright refusal to do. Now this
I said this yesterday but you have to understand: Health officials would have seen case counts rising in Fort St. James. They would have seen it go from 1 in 50 people to 1 in 30 to 1 in 25 and still, nobody thought that the people who live there had a right to know #bcpoli
Read 9 tweets
10 Dec 20
"With 60 confirmed cases of COVID-19 in a community of roughly 1,500, BC Emergency Health Services has deployed a Major Incident Rapid Response Team to Fort St. James Wednesday, Dec. 9.

"This is the first time the team has been deployed, a BC EHS spokesperson said."

#COVID19BC
This was publicly posted by a doctor in Fort St James yesterday
The Nak'azdli Whut'en First Nation says they are now in 'shut down mode' given the high case counts in the Fort St. James area. A special emergency response team has been deployed to the community to help deal with COVID-19. #COVID19BC
Read 5 tweets

Did Thread Reader help you today?

Support us! We are indie developers!


This site is made by just two indie developers on a laptop doing marketing, support and development! Read more about the story.

Become a Premium Member ($3/month or $30/year) and get exclusive features!

Become Premium

Too expensive? Make a small donation by buying us coffee ($5) or help with server cost ($10)

Donate via Paypal Become our Patreon

Thank you for your support!

Follow Us on Twitter!