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> Easy for folks like me who got to work from home but pretty damn vile if you were an hourly wage worker. So I get where a lot of the anger comes from. Right.
by dent9876543 3y ago
> Easy for folks like me who got to work from home but pretty damn vile if you were an hourly wage worker. So I get where a lot of the anger comes from.
Right. And that's if you bought into the principle of it.
If you looked around at real outcomes — rather than intentions and propaganda — then it was far worse. Government was spending a ton making their pals rich, and people like you and me a teeny bit safer. But it was also failing absolutely those that really needed it. That was not a cause to rally around.
- cmrdporcupine 3y agoThe problem is the rallying happened on the other side, and out of all of this the far, outright fascist, extreme right has recruited more people than ever before. And in large part what they've recruited on is extreme anti-social behaviour, conspiracy theories about the WEF etc, total bullshit lies about the vaccines (including crap I see commented on in this forum all the time), and laying the blame in all the wrong places. Did government mismanage COVID? Yep. Did they do in an unjust way? Yep. You know what's worse? Savagely letting the vulnerable die, and the rather .. deplorable ... people who built a whole ideological edifice out of complaining about social duties during the pandemic and pretending it was all fake. It's not like it wasn't possible to be critical of gov't approaches and also pitch in to help out. Lots of suspect motivations and people.