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.
Nobody wants endless restrictions. We just want Covid to actually end; they don’t.
https://twitter.com/shadihamid/status/1475123040988155911
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.
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.
The old adage of having your mind so open that it falls out has never been more relevant.
What we need to do is start making the people who insist on extending and deepening the problem pay the cost of the problem.
What we need to do is start making the people who insist on extending and deepening the problem pay the cost of the problem.
https://twitter.com/shadihamid/status/1475124225832857603
I’ve come to the regrettable conclusion that these enablers and both-siders, respectable accommodators of atrocious behavior all, diligent bridge builders to supremacy and ignorance and abuse, are greater part of the problem than the die hard Trumpers.
https://twitter.com/shadihamid/status/1475134153037385733
Covid zero sure isn’t happening as long as we’re willing to accommodate the nonsense beliefs and malign preferences of people who don’t want to prevent Covid—including saying things like “Covid zero isn’t happening.”
We know how to end this. We just haven’t done it.
We know how to end this. We just haven’t done it.
https://twitter.com/cbrownetown/status/1475303763216793603
The whole thread is unbelievable horseshit. It’s tantamount to taking the side of people blaming the cleanup crew because their activities are shaming the people throwing bottles down the stairway about what they’re doing, which they claim makes them want to throw more bottles.
“A small number of extremists.”
https://twitter.com/lizhighleyman/status/1475309263446814720
A small number of extremists including 100s of Republican congresspeople at state and national level, their former president, multifarious governors, and their entire multibillion dollar propaganda apparatus.
Again, we know what to do.
Vaccine mandate (or *valid* *medical* exemption) for access to all public spaces.
Full quarantine and mask mandates enforced with fines during outbreaks with guaranteed full pay and rent relief.
Release on vaccine IP with full global deployment.
Vaccine mandate (or *valid* *medical* exemption) for access to all public spaces.
Full quarantine and mask mandates enforced with fines during outbreaks with guaranteed full pay and rent relief.
Release on vaccine IP with full global deployment.
https://twitter.com/2020gtoy/status/1475344737452187648
And, again, it’s in no way crazy to say that the conservative response to Covid is to not want it to end. Everything they’ve done and said since it started was to normalize their hostility to every remedy, to get us to resign ourselves to the lie that zero Covid was unattainable.
If Covid zero is unattainable, we’ve made it unattainable by being more committed to accommodating the institutionalized selfishness and greed of capitalism and the conservative desire to place their convenience over the lives of others than we were in fighting the pandemic.
And this accommodation—not only of the conservative desire for their convenience over their neighbors lives but even of the conservatives own self-exonerating framing of their motivations for what they do—is exactly what the QT'd thread is is doing, and what makes it so noxious.
I don't want to build bridges to ignorance and selfishness and hate and greed; I want to build bridges to all people who are threatened by ignorance and selfishness and hate and greed.
Building bridges to the former is supremacy.
Building bridges to the latter is justice.
Building bridges to the former is supremacy.
Building bridges to the latter is justice.
Always pay attention to the compass.
From the very start, the conservative compass statement has been "zero Covid isn't possible."
Not because it was true, but to avoid the inconvenience of preventing it.
Don't accept their frame.
From the very start, the conservative compass statement has been "zero Covid isn't possible."
Not because it was true, but to avoid the inconvenience of preventing it.
Don't accept their frame.
https://twitter.com/JuliusGoat/status/1371102286110461952?s=20
Always fun when somebody comes along to offer an argument against what I'm saying that literally presents an example of exactly what I'm saying.
https://twitter.com/tjwhale12w/status/1475438046531178499?s=20
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