Meanwhile in Alabama
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The sheep will still be sheep. I wonder what excuse they'll use for the conformance of their hatreds, after Trump is gone. They'll be questions in search of answers, but, as always, only surrounded by those who are programmed to nod in unison regardless of what answer is invented. We'll see which answer that is.
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@horace said in Meanwhile in Alabama:
The sheep will still be sheep. I wonder what excuse they'll use for the conformance of their hatreds, after Trump is gone. They'll be questions in search of answers, but, as always, only surrounded by those who are programmed to nod in unison regardless of what answer is invented. We'll see which answer that is.
I can’t wait for 20 days from now. I will have 4 years of material to use, theirs.
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@jolly said in Meanwhile in Alabama:
@mark said in Meanwhile in Alabama:
Still have people I know, telling me that it's just a bad cold.
That's because for many, that's all it is. When people don't see or experience the bad cases, they don't understand.
It's completely within reason for many individuals to weigh the risks and rewards of not taking the virus so seriously. We've convinced ourselves we know the righteous path, but it's not so cut and dried. It's just group think, and the fact that those who conform to the groupthink have the podium. Or soap box. I've watched my elderly parents accept the risk. And I've watched the righteous defenders of COVID hawkishness imply that they are just wrong to weigh their expectation of lost life expectancy against their own quality of the remainder of their life.
Sorry, forgot to mention that "it's not one's own risk, but the risk you pose to others". That's what I'm supposed to recite. Again, I suggest that those who are terrified of getting COVID, modify your own life drastically. Don't put that on everybody else. I'm willing to wear a mask. I'm not willing to take on your terror though.
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@horace said in Meanwhile in Alabama:
It's completely within reason for many individuals to weigh the risks and rewards of not taking the virus so seriously. We've convinced ourselves we know the righteous path, but it's not so cut and dried. It's just group think, and the fact that those who conform to the groupthink have the podium. Or soap box. I've watched my elderly parents accept the risk. And I've watched the righteous defenders of COVID hawkishness imply that they are just wrong to weigh their expectation of lost life expectancy against their own quality of the remainder of their life.
Acknowledging that personal choices are personal doesn't absolve you from making horseshit personal choices, just like reciting "just bein' honest" doesn't make you not an asshole.
My parents are kinda-sorta staying safe, even though they stand a pretty good chance of getting wrecked and/or dead from the virus. But they've waited a long time to retire, they want to enjoy themselves, and so, yeah, fuck it, they're taking risks I personally wouldn't be comfortable with but I don't blame them.
My FIL on the other hand has gone through many, many surgeries in the past year because his kidneys are failing him. He's a pretty old, pretty big guy, with lots of health complications. His family is doing basically nothing to keep him safe, and he's not taking it entirely seriously himself. If he had a death wish, that'd be one thing maybe, but no, I'm going to go ahead and call their behavior reckless. That this makes me sound like a virtue-signaler I care not a damn. They're not taking care of him, period.
Sorry, forgot to mention that "it's not one's own risk, but the risk you pose to others". That's what I'm supposed to recite.
...I'm willing to wear a mask.
That's literally what they mean about "the risk you pose to others." You're wearing a mask. I don't see what further public expectations could be made without those expectations becoming unreasonable.
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@jolly said in Meanwhile in Alabama:
And it quickly dissolves into political horse shit.
When talking about twitter, if someone says ‘read the whole thread’ they’re talking about the guy’s string of tweets. Not all the randos replying afterward.
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