The lib goal is to claim all attraction is sex trafficking unless algorithm-infused neoliberal capitalism approves of the match after judging it will increase profits.

There is nothing deeper behind it than this.

when someone asks me "indoor masks forever?", I reply with "what level of daily death will you tolerate?" because its been above 1,000 per day for six months now.

— abdullah elementary (@AShihipar) February 26, 2022

And yet masks in most places provide marginal benefits at best (with a few exceptions). But for these people it’s just signaling anyway. Efficacy doesn’t matter. They wouldn’t even know what “efficacy” means in this context, or their ARR, etc.

They never advocate for better ventilation or smacking down anti-vaxxers, so you can tell what this is really about. It’s performative bullshit to virtue-signal to their blue state scoldy friends.

Analysis of nuclear standoffs usually assumes that both parties want to survive, but liberalism is a negative ideology and, like negative utilitarianism, still triumphs if there’s nobody left alive.

— scientism (@mr_scientism) June 10, 2019

Hmm. Mostly agreed. A deontological orientation tends to push in that direction, and if anything modern libs have gone nearly full deontological of late.

No, I have not gone anti-vax. But I have seen others undergo this “mask and vax to save lives” to “nuke Russia” transition recently. And it makes no goddamn sense.

Libs now: sex is terrifying but Putin’s glorious invasion of Ukraine is righteous, invigorating and anti-US-imperialist!

Left wing Twitter is sort of an echo chamber of covid misinformation imo.

Weird lack of confidence in vaccines. Weird, quasi religious faith in masks. Extreme anxieties about children that aren't borne out by a sober look at the data.

— Angie Schmitt🚶‍♀️ (@schmangee) March 4, 2022

Left Twitter (and the left in general) is more anti-vax now than the actual anti-vaxxers de facto, because they have more sway and believe restrictions should persist indefinitely.

But in reality all of this just due to the fact that they are incandescently enraged that their ideas for social change got rejected.

Fat Acceptance acolyte: Weighing 400 pounds is natural and good. It’s just how my body wants to be. It’s healthy and nothing else is possible. HAES. HAES!

Brute reality: Hello, you’re going to die of a massive heart attack when you’re 48, your quality of life will be shit the entire time, and you’ll probably lose a limb or two before that.

Food consortiums: I see no problem here.

Wars generate chains of unintended consequences, so you know when they start (if you trigger them) never when they end. Their duration is also fat-tailed. https://t.co/PDvtDhp2qR

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb (@nntaleb) March 2, 2022

I guess the war in Ukraine will last 3-5 years. Unless it goes nuclear, then it’ll all be over very quickly. But 3-5 years is my current best estimate.

Watching the work video about bisexuality and now it's talking about Ethical Non-monogamy.

a video from my employer. Like I dont care what people do. I don't care if someone shows up at the company bbq with 10 wives. But why is my employer talking about it

— Ourania, unmasked retard² PhD (@ouranometrian) March 3, 2022

Both liberals and conservatives care very much about what you do in the bedroom, the libs just want to regulate it “for your own good.”

I hate both sides.

I think this is so far the best diagnosis of the truly sick pathology of the liberals regarding Covid and how they are bitterly reacting to their utter rout in their failed effort to remake society using Covid as a pretext.

There’s a reason the argument for an indefinite emergency footing has taken on an increasingly desperate tone in recent weeks, even as the objective pandemic conditions have rapidly improved: The better arguments for temporary continuation of mitigation policies are falling away, and the ones that remain are less convincing. And for all the claims that the public wants transformative change or persistent emergency (or even wants a significantly longer continuation of the tighter rules that were imposed as the Omicron wave hit) there’s no sign the politicians taking the back-to-normal approach are paying any political penalty. That, not anything Leonhardt has written, is why Democratic governors are stampeding to copy them.

So Yong has resorted to arguing people trying to do self-interested cost-benefit analysis are doing it wrong; that they’re underestimating how likely they are to benefit in the future from a society that imposes a lot more restriction in the name of a newly protective regime for the immunocompromised. For all the wishing that COVID could have been a turning point in our social values, his argument still accepts the premise that we will make individualistic policy decisions rather than communitarian ones. He’s also wrong because he (like so many progressive commentators on COVID over the last two years) undersells how disruptive all the disruption has been to the disrupted.

That’s it exactly. “Progressives” thought they were winning when they were losing — and the exact moment they went down in defeat is when they started telling people utter balderdash like “it’s good for you you that you haven’t been able to see your parents in two years” or “there are no drawbacks to masking” or “even though you are fully vaccinated, nothing has changed, and you must still cower inside with no end in sight.”

And people are still advocating for absurd restrictions, though there’s no chance of those returning. They are pretending to care about the immunocompromised but most don’t give a shit about them. Not really. What the libs are reacting to is that they thought they had the chance to morph society into some other, better shape and they failed in laughable ways. That’s all that’s going on here.

While the whole month childless young men screeched at moms that "SCHOOLS ARE OPEN" "EVERYTHING IS OPEN"

Meanwhile: pic.twitter.com/TStyoj6qqT

— Angie Schmitt🚶‍♀️ (@schmangee) February 28, 2022

Yeah, everything is not open. Most things that well-off white men or services and locations that people who leave the house once a month need are open.

Not quite the same thing….