Not reasonable, perhaps, but theoretically understandable. The escalating price of just about everything implies an increase in value that, in most cases, is not delivered. So some folks simply create their own perks — giving vent to rage or breaking traditional rules of social conduct (i.e., doing whatever the hell they want.)

If you feel you are paying VIP prices, you may well expect to be treated like a VIP.

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      I’m still pretty sure that’s from the mass layoffs. The mask off death cult shit didn’t kick in until after April or so. Media was still pushing a “flatten the curve” narrative until then.

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        Media was still pushing a “flatten the curve” narrative until then.

        I know several recent public health graduates for whom the transition away from this and more broadly away from other mitigating policies was a radicalizing moment

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          Yeah, I’ve gotten a couple of short-lived sparks to pop up in people’s eyes when I’ve asked them when’s the last time they saw the news encouraging the flattening of the curve, but nothing’s ever caught fire. That was a while ago tho. I’m not even sure they remember that happened tbh. The lockdown and masking periods have been largely rewritten as failures among the populace, it feels like.

          • “No, we are in 1320 motherfucker. You are a serf. Bitch, you live in Alsace. You are a peasant. You need to give your fuckin’ lord the grain. Your fucking children, you’ve had 15 children. You’ve never taken a bath. You’ve literally never. washed. your. penis. You’ve never used toilet paper. Motherfucker, you have worms. You are dying. You’ve had 40 children, 3 of them are alive. 2 of them are child soldiers in the Duke’s army.

            Bitch, the greatest thing you can hope for is to die at the old age of 36. You fucking can’t read. You don’t know what TV is. If you were transported into today, you would be the worst gamer of all time. You don’t know shit. You literally probably don’t even know what the direction ‘left’ is. I’m sure some Medieval guy is gonna get mad at me for this, bitch I’ve been to the Renaissance Fair. I’ve eaten a large turkey wing, which the Juggalos call ‘bitch beaters’, which I think is problematic but a funny thing to call them.

            Motherfucker, you gotta recognize where you are, and then you gotta get passed that. You gotta be unemotional. You can’t sink into this hole. You live in the oubliette. Your job is to crawl up the ladder, motherfucker. You live in the HOLE. You’re in the HOLE. You are a RAT. And the rat, when he’s in the hole gets fucked. People only throw trash in the hole.

            You need to eat a body. And you need to carry the plague. And you need to carry a plague around this whole world, that will change this whole fuckin world. And all your enemies will vomit black bile and will choke on blood and will grow boils and die. But only if you get together with your other RATS. And you come up with some kind of super plague, to fuckin end your enemies and…

            End. This. Nightmare.”

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          Damn. It makes me think of when I used to listen to Last Podcast on the Left and one of the hosts separated arrived at the concept of social murder. I definitely noped out of that when their drop in quality paired with a doubling down on red-scare propaganda. And like, a later realization of how lurid and disrespectful this true crime stuff can be.