I'm back and honestly, I'm only madder than I was two days ago because I've had time to mull the bullshit over. Link, for those of y'all out of the know.
It appalls me that any community of people that claim to be marxists, that claim to follow the scientific method in all things that would contribute to the betterment of the world we're forced to share, that claim to be really out here performing praxis and making differences in their communities; it fucking galls me that a community like everything I just described can still look at a still on-going pandemic and still have such a tacit anti-mask stance.
More of you admitted to not masking than I'm comfortable with and y'know what, maybe we could've left it at that. It'd have been a form of liberalism to not dig my heels in on that and take a swing at that mindset because again: I took on a new disability in the wake of a COVID infection. My partner took on a new disability in the wake of their infection. I was put in a hospital bed, my grandparents were put on respirators, so many members of my family and my community were genuinely out of commission and a good number of us really had to question if we were going to make it to see the next morning under those infections-- but maybe, we could've left it at that.
But then, I have to see you people not only trying to justify it, but taking up for smuggards who just think it's all some big fuckin joke, like they're their favorite podcast crackerbro getting to have their own personal Matt Christman moment. I expect "u mad bro" smuglord fuckery out of crackers who can't even be trusted to properly wipe their asses after they shit, or to wash their hands after doing so. And worse, you expect me to not be heated about smug-assed crackers making light of genuinely-disabling infections after the fact.
I stand ten motherfucking toes down on what I said to Cantaloupe Ass and Ghost of Faso; any plague rat motherfucker who wants to take issue with how I feel about people who won't mask can catch the same cases my partners and my family caught. It's a whole lot of you motherfuckers that are so unserious, so emphatically not my comrades that it sickens me seeing you call yourselves so.
Do better. Deuces.
To date, the single worst post I've ever seen on Hexbear, the one that did the most overall damage, that drove away numerous people that I still haven't seen since because of the toxic assholish bullying that the poster and likely alts performed afterward, was a post titled "you need to go out" by "RonJeremyCorbyn" and seconded by numerous dubious probably-alt accounts. It had a slimy opener about "loving you all" that then went and called people "shut-ins" if they weren't going out on New Years to "kiss strangers" and otherwise be boomer-tier plague rats all for the sake of "normalcy" that would supposedly "stop embarrasing leftism."
That shit went on for days afterward, probably from that piece of shit's alt accounts. I still miss some of the people that were bullied off the site, and I still utterly loathe that piece of shit for that post.
Hexbear isn't exempt from treat hogs that have superficial leftist beliefs but also a whole lot of "DON'T TELL ME WHAT TO DOOOOOOOOOOOOO" selfish asshole attitude beneath that that goes off from even the suggestion of personal inconvenience for the sake of others. Such attitude has material consequences and can and will do actual harm to others in the offline world.
Jesus I think I memory holed that one, was like a fucking post by a disciple of Nurgle trying to edge people out to perpetuate a plague during one of the worst periods at that time with an ongoing covid surge. It's freaking weird how so many countries have a tradition of masking even before covid during seasons of high flu and yet western people aren't just baffled but outright RABID whenever masking is discussed, as though covid doesn't fucking exist and the latest surge never fucking happened (then again mainstream news said very little about it so for most Americans it never happened or was fake news).
EDIT: I considered linking to it, but considering that some people that were bullying "shut-ins" back then are still posting now, maybe I should just send a private message and just hope that those boomer-brained plague rats found a conscience and some empathy since then.
one can hope