honestly i don't think Americans care primarily because they view any form of social control/restriction as a personal affront, no matter the human cost. it's why you have the post-COVID anti-vax turn
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Hence I am deeply skeptical about that acclaimed "deep sense of belonging and community" in rural Trumpland. Whatever left of collective effort likely to be found in bigger cities.
sep 1, 2025, 3:01 pm • 4 0 • view
Then why are they voting so enthusiastically for authoritarians who are turning our cities into police states?
sep 1, 2025, 1:49 pm • 2 0 • view
because cities are blue cosmopolitan areas that they view as hellholes that must be destroyed. the rural voters took a much more negative hit of COVID restriction than urbanites
sep 1, 2025, 1:50 pm • 12 0 • view
Well that sounds like a totally different issue. More like a power struggle between urban and rural.
sep 1, 2025, 1:51 pm • 2 0 • view
Because the social control/restriction is landing on people they don't like, not themselves.
sep 1, 2025, 1:53 pm • 14 1 • view
Yep. Wilhoit's Law as always!
sep 1, 2025, 1:57 pm • 2 0 • view
anything with a cost cannot be allowed, and this isn’t even strongly partisan you also see leftists opposing leftwing policies that would benefit huge groups because they or someone they personally know would bear a small cost
sep 1, 2025, 1:50 pm • 41 2 • view
I've seen this personally when I've advocated for raising local property taxes and/or densification. Actual leftists with actual "I support the CBC" get really twitchy about paying for them.
sep 1, 2025, 9:47 pm • 11 1 • view
yeah you got your NIMBYs and you got your “no tax, only spend”s but you also got your “it shouldn’t be illegal to beat off on the subway because some people don’t have homes, KAREN”
sep 1, 2025, 9:54 pm • 6 0 • view
Oddly, most of the people I've met who are Pro-Subway-Wanking drive to work.
sep 1, 2025, 10:01 pm • 2 0 • view
This is why it’s basically fascism to not allow me I mean my friend to smoke crack on the subway
sep 1, 2025, 2:56 pm • 8 0 • view
I blame it on the Right's embrace of Ayn Rand, which views all government force (especially against Galtian white males) as illegitimate. Which is stupid because our republic was founded on the belief that government force was legitimized by the consent of the governed.
sep 1, 2025, 3:51 pm • 5 0 • view
That’s why it’s more prominent on the right, I think, but we Americans have a largely psychotic inability to accept any tradeoffs we personally would be effected by, and that’s older than Rand.
sep 1, 2025, 2:12 pm • 6 0 • view
I know American culture is individualist to a fault but we also have to recognize the massive right wing media and political campaign to delegitimize public health interventions during and post-COVID
sep 1, 2025, 3:22 pm • 2 0 • view
Unless those restrictions are on trans people
sep 1, 2025, 4:37 pm • 0 0 • view
Allowing the entire country to go antivax will have catastrophic consequences.
sep 1, 2025, 3:27 pm • 0 0 • view
like, if the Blitz happened in the US now i have genuine questions whether the US would be able to come together like the UK
sep 1, 2025, 1:49 pm • 66 1 • view
a self-Blitz (preemptive)
sep 1, 2025, 3:41 pm • 0 0 • view
In 1942, businesses on the U.S. East Coast refused to dim their lights at night, which gave U-Boats perfect illumination to torpedo American ships. 86 ships were sunk, killing 1,200 sailors.
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