History is laughing at #BlueMAGA poseurs already, as much as it is at team #MAGA#GQP.
The evil you make excuses for, the evil you rush to defend, the evil you sanction… you refuse to countenance the harm done by your cul… ahem… team: white western empire & capitalism.
The best part is it enrages them when anyone points out that despite the theater and different roles being played, both teams are pro: US imperialism, capitalism, corporatism, white supremacy, eugenics, global hegemony, creating poverty then punishing the poor. Sadistic stuff.
#BlueMAGA like Red MAGA is 💯 % disinterested in accountability… for their team. They will shamelessly point towards the ill deeds of their political enemies EVERY SINGLE TIME they are challenged to account for the harm their team is directly responsible for. Always deflecting.
They will claim they are the only adults in the room, the only politically mature and pragmatic ones, “the realists”, while simultaneously insisting that the leadership of their party is responsible for no harm (or harm so minimal it should not even be discussed or acknowledged).
This is not a serious position.
Serious adults do not assert that their team is magically exempt from accountability, as if somehow above it all.
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I feel like the Covid minimizers give away their intellectual dishonesty right from the get-go because they refuse to even acknowledge the POSSIBILITY that a novel pathogen that we have the teeniest tiniest amount of evolutionarily history with (3+years) could be devastating.
The denial that we are experiencing a plague is reflexive, despite the fact they are a recurring theme through human history. And a reactivity to the mere suggestion that the odds of experiencing long term damages due to the novel pathogen SARS-CoV-2 are anything but minuscule.
An insistence that the only reasonable position to take is that Covid couldn’t possibly be an extremely complex, damaging pathogen, nor anything to take seriously beyond the acute infection, despite mountains of data revealing that Covid initiates extremely complex, disabling and
You must pay attention to the vicious mischaracterizations of the most marginalized ppl the media/government shoves down your throats every fucking day.
They are escalating the rhetoric. They are targeting the disabled, elderly, the medically vulnerable & CHILDREN FFS
They are targeting Black, Indigenous and brown people. They are targeting trans and queer people, they are targeting the poor, and the homeless, while imposing policies that make sure that scores and scores more of us end up poor, homeless, disabled, dead.
And then the narrative management class gets to work selling the masses on the idea that the real problem isn’t capitalism, oh no, oh no no, the real problem are all the millions of people being shoved to the margins by an epically greedy & depraved ruling class. And most buy it.
I need to learn how to remove my attention, efforts and energies from the people who simply, for one reason or another, have no intellectual honesty or desire for the truth.
Time to recognize that a lot of people don’t care what’s true, and will buy into whatever narrative is most convenient for them.
None of these people are going to help us survive or navigate courageously the crises of our times.
These people are status quo preservers, one way or the other.
These people are still invested in capitalism, consciously or unconsciously.
They are training you to automatically and unquestioningly perceive a whole class of people as utterly disposable, as in our lives don’t matter to you and you consider our “unfortunate” deaths to be an acceptable cost as long as your Normal isn’t too disrupted.
Meanwhile there are millions of disabled & chronically ill ppl, esp many w ME/CFS & LC trying to communicate to you that until you experience it, you can’t understand the ravages of chronic illness, so for that reason you should listen to us.
We have experience & we want to help people stop making the mistake of assuming they’re invulnerable. Or assuming that long covid “can’t be THAT bad”, or that they’d just tough their way thru it if they got LC, & we’re trying to say — y’all are making a terrible mistake.
Maybe what’s happening underneath all the denial and minimization is that people have a sense, even if they are buying-in hard to the lies, they have a subconscious sense that societal collapse is underway. Those who lack the will to confront it honestly are dissociating.
Of course it’s also true that peoples’ character is being revealed - many people, it turns out, simply don’t care how horrible things are as long as it’s not them experiencing it. And they just keep telling themselves, it won’t be me…
As quoted in @adriennemaree’s excellent book Emergent Strategy, “Angel Kyodo Williams once said that our access to the global scale of suffering has become immediate, through technology, but we have not developed the capacity to be with that increased awareness of suffering.”
From “NYT Scolds China for Not ‘Learning to Live’—or Die—With Covid” by JIM NAURECKAS: fair.org/home/nyt-scold…
“The New York Times maintains it’s the country with the orange line, not the dark blue one, that has the Covid policy problem.” @NYTScience
“The New York Times (9/7/22) reported that China ‘suffered from low vaccination rates’—but a glance at the Times‘ own vaccination tracker shows that China in fact has one of the highest vaccination rates in the world.”