This post has content warnings for: COVID related, a bit ranty.
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in reply to @pervocracy's post:
Yeah part of the reason why I'm capital-L Like This nowadays can be traced back to some covid safety related betrayals in 2020 and the accompanying feelings of mortal terror
Shit, same, though more for anger than anxiety. Like I had issues with cynicism and outrage addiction before but then the world had to come along and completely validate all my worst fears
Oh yeah there's definitely a rage component for me too, and the fact that I was living in a queer co-op when the pandemic hit is part of why I'm good at providing reality checks to those newly-out people who think that starting a queer commune will solve all their problems
I feel like instead of asking about our childhood the disaster counselor is yelling “why don’t you want to work” but: big yeah
I also feel like it's just revealed that a lot of cultures are just... broken. Like really fundamentally broken, in a way I don't know how to process.
a whole lot of people saw through the looking glass to what capitalism really is, and media and capital are desperate to put the lid back on that pandora's box, and exploiting people's grief and desperation for normalcy in the process
i think it's why everything feels like it's escalating even faster than it was pre-pandemic. we have witnessed an incalculable breach of trust on every level, and now everyone is out for themselves.
I mean that's the long and the short of it, right? The capitalist class wants the fact that they slaughtered millions of people to make line go up swept under the rug. They want anti-police sentiment forgotten. In other words, they want everyone who went through this shit to think it wasn't that big. And, of course, it was, and remains so, and the consequences are still being felt throughout society, and that's a threat.
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