It has been very depressing since the pandemic started to learn that "maybe all suffering/cruelty is bad and we should try to stop it?" seems to be a minority opinion.

Way too many people either actively revel in the suffering and/or are completely indifferent to it as long as it isn't hurting them

It has continuously saddened me throughout the pandemic seeing how such a large chunk of people either revel in watching suffering or are completely indifferent to suffering.

we're in a cursed world where only **vibes** matter as opposed to any sense of objective reality about anything

the hypernormalization of *gestures broadly at everything* has really been something to behold.

It would make for an interesting study if it wasn't so absurdly cruel and damaging to millions of people.

Glacier rules, one of the best places this country has to offer.

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Even ignoring that the strategy is morally bankrupt, it is also really dumb! Do they really think that the people itching to do a bigotry are going to vote for Diet Hatred(TM) over Hatred Classic(TM). They're so fucking delusional.

"Here's why Biden needs to prove he actually isn't a clone" - New York Times

RFK Jr.'s "MAHA" movement doesn't want to eliminate chronic illness. They want to eliminate the chronically ill. Public health, modern medicine and disease mitigation will suffer under RFK Jr. because he sees sick people- not sickness- as the problem.

People like him are big on eugenics. They unironically think that the sick deserve to die off for being weak and weighing down the species.

This is a great read that sums it up.

www.thegauntlet.news/p/rfk-jrs-ma...

my brain first read this as "WCHA" and I was confused what the Western Collegiate Hockey Association had done to elicit such scorn.

They're just creating the justification for banning vaccines and their eugenics fantasies of eradicating anyone who doesn't fit their narrow definition of "normal" and "healthy."

At this point, it is clear that the vast majority of the people and institutions with any power have decided to either be active collaborators or abject cowards.

Regular people are on our own. The media, the Democrats, the law, the corporations; none of them are going to save us.

COVID denialism and mass infection rhetoric has normalized eugenics for the masses.

we appreciate your bravery and determination in the face of all of this evil and bullshit.

Even after the COVID denial and mass infection normalization, I somehow wasn't ready for the flagrant fascism to get so hypernormalized and downplayed. Silly me.

It feels like living in another dimension watching *gestures at everything* getting either ignored, denied, or cheered

Most states don't even have enough total trans athletes combined to fill an entire team in any sport.

Reunion be like

But I was told The Line is only supposed to go up!

Him and Noodles I noticed as great names doing an OOTP historical replay

my group of randos

I think there are different types of "intelligence" at play

Many are cunning in the sense of realizing that brute force & ruthlessness are rewarded in our cruel society (& having no qualms at exploiting that

They can also at the same be laughably inept at the actual "run the govt properly" skills

It feels like manufacturing consent for the inevitable mass infection/do nothing strategy that'll come if/when bird flu goes nuclear.

The never ending narrative of "the real tragedy was not being to consume regularly." No Think, Only Consume.

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Yet again I am reminded of this post

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Me looking at basically any news over the last two months.

I'm amazed my view of humanity and *gestures at everything* can still get lower. There's no bottom!

Maybe the masses eventually wake up and try to change things for the better, but I'm not optimistic after watching pandemic denial

I am continuously amazed at how absolutely goddamn stupid the fucking collapse has turned out to be

sex pests have to stick together it seems

a close up of a man with long hair and a beard says glory to you . ALT: a close up of a man with long hair and a beard says glory to you .

Unironically Gowron would be a better leader than the current crop.