Thread by @rustie5555

The problem with being generally pro our government's COVID border policies is you get stuck in a common cause with some real ice-chewing sociopaths.

PEOPLE WHO DIDNT RETURN AS SOON AS THEY WERE ORDERED TO DESERVE TO SUFFER

Although I guess this is also true of people who oppose them.

Sympathetic but flawed protagonist. Sharply defined partisan valence. Cynical appropriation by bad actors. Bureaucratic fuckups. The fucking Taliban.

This discourse was doomed from the start.

There's a line between highlighting contributory negligence and outright victim blaming, and a lot of y'all have blown way fucking past it.

But this story is transparently being co-opted by a cynical rightwing media campaign in the US and UK to deligitimise the idea of fighting COVID.

So how the hell do we have a civil discussion here.

Also stop taking umbrage. There's none left to take.