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14 Dec, 4 tweets, 2 min read
Okay but the willfully unvaxxed also have family members that care about them, children they're caring for, live in communities with people vulnerable to breakthrough infections, and can take up hospital beds that you or your loved ones might need.
It's possible to feel nothing but contempt for the unvaccinated, while also recognizing that "let the pandemic rip through the population uncontrolled" imposes massive costs on society that won't fall on the unvaccinated alone.
Part of being an adult is learning to resist the temptation to believe the universe is fair. You know who thinks that things tend to work out just right, that people deserve all the harms they suffer, and the rest of us don't have to worry about it? Children, and conservatives.
There is no way to "move on" from covid until it subsides! We can forget the pandemic, but it's not going to forget us - it's going to kill people in YOU know, it's going to clog YOUR hospitals. By "move on" do you just mean "take the masks off"?

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15 Dec
I know it was all the way back in November, but remember that Pelosi was APPLAUDED for breaking the progressive blockade of BIF using the Congressional Black Caucus as her sockpuppet.
Of course everyone at the time had all the information they needed to understand that this would place BBB on life support, but just kind of goaded each other into thinking it would work out. "What's the worst that could happen? We have Biden's assurance, do you not trust him??"
I think that's the maddening thing here. It's not a failure of prediction, but willpower: people who swore they'd NEVER untether BIF from BBB started feeling a little heat, and immediately decided they could take the path of least resistance and the problem would solve itself.
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15 Dec
For the 100th time, why are we letting Manchin go through the bill with a red pen and change everything to his liking? Is he really going to kill it based on whether means-testing of EV tax credits is slightly more generous than he likes?
This dynamic, where Democrats feel totally dominated by Manchin and thus dignify his every last demand, is a huge part of why we're IN this mess in the first place! They're voluntarily crawling around on his leash and then they're shocked he won't just take a deal.
This is not how ANY negotiation should ever work. Even if Manchin can blow up the bill, he can only do it once. Letting him come back into the negotiating room every twelve seconds with new demands is ridiculous, like giving a hostage-taker 10 separate ransoms.
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15 Dec
It should have happened five years ago, but it's truly time to start talking about how the weakness of the gerontocratic Dem leadership class is a critical factor in America's political crisis. The party is totally calcified and incapable of exploiting any political advantage.
Because they've been around forever and control the left-of-center political infrastructure, Dem leaders have no shortage of defenders willing to excuse their every failure - arguing that anyone else would have screwed up worse, or Dems flopped for reasons outside their control.
Here's the hard reality: Dems spent years up against a very unpopular president and party submerged in an ocean of corruption and caught in nonstop scandal, including attacks on institutions unseen in modern history.

They did nothing with it. They governed like it was 1995.
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15 Dec
Well if any buzzed-about election consultants convinced the entire political media to attribute Dem weakness to “defund the police” turning off Hispanic voters, congratulations for wasting literally a year of incredibly critical time for the party
There was, as I have pointed out time and time and time again, never even the slightest iota of evidence that “defund the police” has hurt Democrats
You could tell "defund" didn't hurt Democrats because this slogan was adopted in a high-profile way at a discrete point in time and there was no change at all in topline polling figures
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14 Dec
Herd immunity exists. Hospital capacity exists. And even if they didn't, saying that WEARING A MASK is too much "sacrifice" to protect the ACTUAL LIVES of people, just because they made a terrible vaccine decision, doesn't balance out at all, morally.
There's this group of guys on here that style themselves ultra-rationalists - and yet their approach to covid isn't governed by reason, but a crude moral logic that says because they've gotten vaccinated, they DESERVE to move on, no matter what happens to anyone else as a result.
If your approach to the pandemic is to impatiently declare that the time has arrived in which you no longer have to worry about anyone but yourself, you're not that different from the various anti-vaxxers you hate, no matter how much you claim you believe in numbers and science.
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13 Dec
Every time some schmuck in political media tells you that Real Americans are done with the pandemic, remember that this is something that we can actually test in polls, and 67% of Americans are still worried that they or a family member will catch COVID. Image
As always, the people who are over the pandemic are privileged creeps who claim to be speaking for the average American, and manifestly NOT the average American.
If you don't know anyone who got boosted, if you don't know anything about new variants, you are not an everyman. Instead, you have proven yourself to be wildly out of touch with the American mainstream, stuck in a bubble with a small minority of the population. Image
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