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(If you’re lucky enough to live in one of the countries that’s hoarding the vaccines from the rest of the world… because profit before people is a great long-term strategy, I guess. I wonder if those dickhead spreadsheet wizards understand how variants arise. More than likely they do, but who cares, because profits amirite? Asshats.)

So what does all that mean?

It means fix your fucking system so it’s worthy of being trusted and don’t be surprised if people find new, novel, and quite possibly entirely nonsensical ways not to trust even those aspects of your system that may deserve trust because, in general, they’re right not to trust it for the much more mundane reason that it’s built on the worship and glorification of the few exploiting the many.

You bind science to corporate greed and then get surprised when those who don’t trust corporations stop trusting science also.

You teach us to respect, worship, and glorify supernaturalism and irrationality and then get surprised when we end up with dogmatic attachments to other sets of nonsense.

Those of us who want our societies based on social justice, science, and reason aren’t lofty idealists or hippies. We want this because the alternative is so foolish, so shortsighted, that it isn’t even in the long-term interests of those who benefit the most from it today. Was the profit from your patent worth the death of your child from the variant that might not have existed were it not for your patent? Will you breathe your wealth when you can no longer breathe the air? We must do better.

@everlastingrocks I know it when I see it; neo-nazi racist cunts by a different name. Or, if you prefer longer reads: https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/extremist-files/ideology/alt-right

@aral
Does that include anyone critical of CRT (such as I think this quote from that page expresses).

Is it possible to disagree with critical race theory without being alt-right?