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11. They're not going to go quietly

Reply to niyad (Original post)

Thu Jul 9, 2020, 09:54 PM

Jul 2020

A lot of these people have lived their entire lives in a cocoon or bubble or sanctuary that assured them they were superior to other people. Reality is impinging on their chrysalis, and they don't like it. Granting other people legitimacy or agency is not necessarily a problem in and of itself (they're not racists or bigoted or prejudiced), but when "those people" start trespassing on their turf, Something Must Be Done.

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It occurs to me that the karen/ken hysteria, and the anti-maskers psychosis, reminds me of the [View all] niyad Jul 2020 OP

hard to understand, I know they don't Demonaut Jul 2020 #1

Fuck.... Maybe we should check our wheat crops Nevilledog Jul 2020 #2

Yup, maybe it's ergot poisoning! The Velveteen Ocelot Jul 2020 #3

I have been maintaining for years that there is something in the water. But the grain crops niyad Jul 2020 #4

They're missing something in their DNA sequences Nevilledog Jul 2020 #7

Wow. Interesting correlation. tanyev Jul 2020 #5

Those same people are gonna sign up for the ICE immigrant hunting license BamaRefugee Jul 2020 #6

A truly frightening prospect. niyad Jul 2020 #9

The followers of a cult getting their self worth by taking on policing and applegrove Jul 2020 #8

I've seen Covid described as a blood disease SledDriver Jul 2020 #10

Both extremely interesting hypotheses. We are only beginning to see some of the other effects niyad Jul 2020 #13

They're not going to go quietly gratuitous Jul 2020 #11

They are products of a generation of Fux Ruse watchers. BigmanPigman Jul 2020 #12

I do like that name! niyad Jul 2020 #14

I think the Karen meme is being used by the would-be witch burners delisen Jul 2020 #15

History is filled with village idiots. C_U_L8R Jul 2020 #16