We have mostly spent pandemic lockdowns alternating between boredom, frustration, wine, a lot of Netflix and trying to locate our trousers before Zoom meetings. Recently, we’ve also become aware of a disturbing myth that appears to be enthusiastically fostered on the American right: Our experience of the pandemic, apparently, has been that of a violent police state. We must have been too busy taking out the bins to notice.
Who's "we?"
[ + ] Flabbygasted
[ - ] Flabbygasted 2 points 3.7 yearsOct 17, 2021 11:27:39 ago (+2/-0)
[ + ] dulcima
[ - ] dulcima [op] 1 point 3.7 yearsOct 17, 2021 12:00:30 ago (+1/-0)
Vanessa Badham is a celebrity (of sorts) down here. Extremely obnoxious, extremely left, extremely woke.
As her article shows, she is clueless as to how lockdowns has affected most working people.
[ + ] Paradoxical003
[ - ] Paradoxical003 1 point 3.7 yearsOct 17, 2021 13:17:47 ago (+1/-0)
Leftist writers know that their readers are just looking to sone authority on their side to tell them what others are saying is wrong, any argument is a good one, their cognitive bias basically does the work for them, transforming a terrible response into a great one.
The only thing that settles any issue for them is that the people they look to in their community who have set themselves up as the arbiters of truth disagree with the thing their enemy claims.
There's no need for the response to have any substance to it, the existence of a response is adequate enough to keep them loyal to their dogma.
It's the lefties version of "God said it, I believe it, and that's good enough for me".
[ + ] Deleted
[ - ] deleted 0 points 3.7 yearsOct 17, 2021 14:54:23 ago (+0/-0)
[ + ] TheGreatWhiteHope
[ - ] TheGreatWhiteHope 0 points 3.7 yearsOct 17, 2021 12:00:30 ago (+0/-0)
[ + ] 11hrr
[ - ] 11hrr 0 points 3.7 yearsOct 18, 2021 10:13:37 ago (+0/-0)