Democrats gutted my social services in the state I’m in. As did republicans. Fuck off, lib; blue-MAGA will cut them too.

Instead they’ll take the surplus money from budget cuts and send it to Ukraine and Israel.

Yes, yes, do leave and go to China. That’s where the money is porky.

(would they go to China in the 70s? Not sure where cheap manufacturing was being offshored too during the 70s)

All of those weapons are horrific. Agreed.

This one was not well-received in the libsphere.

They literally did the meme. “But it’s true though”.

Honestly, after having six people agree with someone telling me they’re “indifferent to what happens to me” and completely misinterpret what I said into standing up for anti-maskers, I feel you. Kind of realization to put energy and feel a kinship with people who don’t feel the same.

Lurking on hexbear might be the better option for now, I guess.

That’s part of the point. We know COVID isn’t always “severe”. That’s what is insidious about it and any other disease that could follow.

edit: not always severe as in can cause long-term issues and other plethora of afflictions instead of death. Maiming instead of killing.

Exactly. Billionaires get the wall. Where you get to do with your hands.

“I’ve already had to watch it ravage my community. There’s people I knew that don’t come around anymore. Became agoraphobic. That’s not even talking the people that did die in my community, and their families still feel those holes to this day. Most of the people in my orbit, they survived-- but not a one came away without something permanent left behind. Brainfog, asthma-resembling hacking fits, compromised immune systems, the works. I wouldn’t feel so comfortable saying what I did to someone if I didn’t already know, down to the scars at the bottoms of my lungs, what this disease does to the people who are lucky enough to have survived it”

As did I.

“Way I see it, if you’re going to be as indifferent to death as to take up for anti-maskers”

The way I see it is that you’re staring at something as brutally indifferent and deadly as disease and are advocating it upon anti-maskers who will then infect others who may, even by chance, infect people who truly do mask or take preventative measures. Nowhere am I standing up for them.

“I’m going to be indifferent to what happens to you”

So quickly. A shame. I can’t say the same. Peace to you.

Who do they spread it too? Sure, their servants or their “dogs” if you want to say that. Who do they then spread it too? It is not like a nuclear weapon; or any weapon of mass devastation even chemical. It is actual, ultimate desolation that will kill far, far more than you want to.

It is not something to toy lightly with.

I do want to say, wishing COVID on someone isn’t cool. I’ve lost one of my best friends to that. You have lost more. I don’t wish COVID or any disease on my worst enemies. I view it in the same breath as “biological/chemical warfare” sort of thing. There is just indifference to death. There is a reflection there that I see that I wish to avoid.

What a shit-show that thread was. For some strange reason, the warped mind runs sickeningly deep in every corner of the culture of the west. The inherent need for blood in exchange for justice that was designed through every facet of our media, our art, our relationships with each other in an fierce individualism that demands “justification” for why a person themselves should change or adjust to the conditions around them.

A design to slaughter Native-Americans, to separate the sick, the poor, the different. To make a culture where even if there is no divide, to create one. It’s something that we all must fight every day. I wanted to ask, are you leaving? I appreciated your posts.

In the area I was in, I was pretty much the only dumpster-diver. Was nice to not have to shop for groceries all the time.

No problem! No need too, it’s just that it’s truly bad country.

Sadly, a lot of people lost a good chunk of their friend groups during COVID. I consider myself a super social person but I have only a handful of people I could really ask for a favor. Someone who’s more anti-social would seriously struggle. A lot of the connections and social interactions we had on the periphery of our lives were severed entirely; never returning.

Yeah, seriously. We waste so much.

If you live in the United States, yes. We waste so, so much food. Like seriously. You could go into a dump at “garbage time” (easy to figure out by just watching store employees) and grab an entire fridge-worth of food for multiple people. A lot of food banks or churches can do exactly what OP described as above; deem you for whatever reason not able to grab shit from their expired food section. Often than not, the food bank near me gives you a variety of cans that are more “baking goods” than actual food you can eat out of the can. 8 cans of applesauce is great for keeping full but not exactly nutritious and makes you feel like Steve Jobs on a fruitarian diet.

Dumpster-diving wasn’t meant to be “insulting”. It’s seen as that because we look down at scavengers in America for whatever reason. When I was scraping by and jumping from place to place; dumpsters were literally the best place to get free food, free drinks and free beer.

Sadly, they lock them up, put security cams or dogs around the cans to prevent people from rummaging. Just gotta be smart.

heckin weirderino! Got any more Walz-scripts, sock-puppet?

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