Why are they associating anti-lockdown sentiment with the far-right? Not everyone who is against lockdowns is even right-wing. Lockdowns are classist. Hell the SJWs can even claim that lockdowns are racist and sexist and they wouldn't actually be wrong (black and brown people are less likely to work from home. More women lost their jobs to lockdown than men apparently). There are leftist critiques of lockdowns that exist online.
I am sickened by what has become of modern liberalism. I understand the leftist impulse to want to save lives. But they are creating bigger problems with these lockdowns for the working class, the poor, the young. People that are supposed to be their base. My NDP-supporting friend who ghosted me for supporting lockdowns and me disliking Biden, he works from home and he's a 53 year old bald gay manlet. Sheltering in place is not a big deal for him. He's had plenty of dick in his life and he's getting old so for him it's not a big deal to avoid hooking up with dudes until a vaccine (yes he told me he doesn't plan on dating until a vaccine). He's blind to the realities of what stay at home orders mean for a lot of people in society. If you feel like your liberties are being infringed upon by not being allowed to go outside and live your life, you are shamed as being selfish by the left.
I was a leftist when I thought it was about empowering the poor. But it's really about destroying the individual in the name of some collectivist goal. I understand corral the individual to some extent like say taxing the wealthy to ensure that the homeless are housed, that we have more affordable housing, that jobs return to Canada, the drug addicted are put in rehab, that we have a robust health care system, etc. But it is literally fucking illegal here in Peel for me to go fuck my gf because we don't live with each other. That is very different than paying taxes. And our taxes are squandered on a bunch of bullshit anyways so I agree with the statement that taxation is theft as things stand now. If our taxes were spent wisely, I wouldn't say taxation is theft. That's why I consider myself left-libertarian more than right-libertarian.
A lot of hours and column inches have gone into training the dopes who read their shit to react with the singular horror, " I SHORE DO HOPE NO ONE EVER THINKS I'M A NAZI TOO!!!11!"
Even people on r/toronto, about as far left and sjw as a sub you will find, seem to be increasingly against lockdowns these days.
Because people have a breaking point. People want their fucking lives back. And we're tired of being shamed for being "selfish" for wanting our lives back after 8+ months of COVID lockdowns and restrictions. COVID-19 is most likely a bad flu. The accounting of COVID deaths is far more liberal than the accounting of flu/pneumonia deaths ever was. If COVID is far more lethal and severe than the flu, why is the median age of death about the same for both illnesses? The median died with COVID age is 84 in Peel and that pattern is repeated across Canada and much of the developed world probably. I think I heard in Alberta the median COVID death age is 82. So it varies a bit from jurisdiction to jurisdiction. It's more or less in line with flu outcomes I think.
Why are they associating anti-lockdown sentiment with the far-right? Not everyone who is against lockdowns is even right-wing. Lockdowns are classist. Hell the SJWs can even claim that lockdowns are racist and sexist and they wouldn't actually be wrong (black and brown people are less likely to work from home. More women lost their jobs to lockdown than men apparently). There are leftist critiques of lockdowns that exist online.
Because they know screeching "racist" at people is an effective way to get them to submit.
I am sickened by what has become of modern liberalism. I understand the leftist impulse to want to save lives. But they are creating bigger problems with these lockdowns for the working class, the poor, the young. People that are supposed to be their base. My NDP-supporting friend who ghosted me for supporting lockdowns and me disliking Biden, he works from home and he's a 53 year old bald gay manlet. Sheltering in place is not a big deal for him. He's had plenty of dick in his life and he's getting old so for him it's not a big deal to avoid hooking up with dudes until a vaccine (yes he told me he doesn't plan on dating until a vaccine). He's blind to the realities of what stay at home orders mean for a lot of people in society. If you feel like your liberties are being infringed upon by not being allowed to go outside and live your life, you are shamed as being selfish by the left.
I was a leftist when I thought it was about empowering the poor. But it's really about destroying the individual in the name of some collectivist goal. I understand corral the individual to some extent like say taxing the wealthy to ensure that the homeless are housed, that we have more affordable housing, that jobs return to Canada, the drug addicted are put in rehab, that we have a robust health care system, etc. But it is literally fucking illegal here in Peel for me to go fuck my gf because we don't live with each other. That is very different than paying taxes. And our taxes are squandered on a bunch of bullshit anyways so I agree with the statement that taxation is theft as things stand now. If our taxes were spent wisely, I wouldn't say taxation is theft. That's why I consider myself left-libertarian more than right-libertarian.
A lot of hours and column inches have gone into training the dopes who read their shit to react with the singular horror, " I SHORE DO HOPE NO ONE EVER THINKS I'M A NAZI TOO!!!11!"
Even people on r/toronto, about as far left and sjw as a sub you will find, seem to be increasingly against lockdowns these days.
Because people have a breaking point. People want their fucking lives back. And we're tired of being shamed for being "selfish" for wanting our lives back after 8+ months of COVID lockdowns and restrictions. COVID-19 is most likely a bad flu. The accounting of COVID deaths is far more liberal than the accounting of flu/pneumonia deaths ever was. If COVID is far more lethal and severe than the flu, why is the median age of death about the same for both illnesses? The median died with COVID age is 84 in Peel and that pattern is repeated across Canada and much of the developed world probably. I think I heard in Alberta the median COVID death age is 82. So it varies a bit from jurisdiction to jurisdiction. It's more or less in line with flu outcomes I think.