My feeling on the conservative asshole who said the asshole conservative thing is, conservatives are presently working very hard to spread a deadly pandemic and end democracy in this country, in order to install an authoritarian dictator with a white supremacist agenda.
Never mind "Trumper," an ex-cop who self-describes as a "free-thinking American & follower of Jesus Christ" is easy shorthand for "biggest chowderhead asshole you can possibly imagine."
This has been the end of my commentary on this dumb discourse.
Somebody describing themselves as "an imperfect follower of Christ" has got to be the #1 red flag on here. Run away; they've already forgiven themselves for every shitty thing they want to believe and every shitty thing they'll ever do based on those beliefs.
Which, by the way, is what in Christian tradition I'd argue "taking the name of the Lord in vain" actually is: saying you follow Jesus and then being the kind of person that other people would cross the street to avoid.
It really says something doesn’t it but every single one of these “open-minded” takes depends on a completely bananas misrepresentation of reality-based positions.
Nobody wants endless restrictions. We just want Covid to actually end; they don’t.
Their position is let’s just carry on as though Covid is over even though it isn’t, and whoever dies dies, and that will be acceptable losses.
That’s not a misrepresentation, that’s what they’ve been saying in just so many words from the very start.
The fuck out of here.
The idea that being in favor of both vaccines and preventative measures is an incoherent position is itself a position so incoherent, relying so much on the wholesale acceptance of the bad faith claims of malicious actors, it makes my eyes want to melt down my cheeks.
Maybe the way to stop the pandemic is to stop acting like we’re out of the pandemic and the problem to solve is people acting like we’re in a pandemic, and to finally start acting like we’re in a pandemic and the problem to solve is THE FUCKING PANDEMIC WE’RE IN.
What if our leaders started acting like the pandemic and the fascists trying to exacerbate it for political gain were what they are, namely threats on the level of a World War, and acted accordingly, what then.
Trying to imagine a newspaper headline talking about “a post-WW2 world” the day after Pearl Harbor. That’s the mentality we’ve been dealing with.
Where I Live, Nobody Cares About Anybody But Themselves
I’m from West MI and I can attest that the proud lack of regard for human life is quite normal here. 800,000 have died in the US—1 in 100 elderly. Schools and hospitals here are near the breaking point. He says caring makes you out of touch.
The Atlantic should be ashamed.
He should be ashamed, too, but he won’t be. He fully expects to not only be permitted to go on sharing his community’s selfish degeneracy, but to be preferentially accommodated. He thinks caring is for urban snobs.