This is the struggle a lot of people I know are still having, being afraid to upset perfect strangers. I keep trying to tell them they have no obligation to appease neurotic lunatics who have zero factual basis for their exaggerated paranoia. Once you realize you have the factual and moral high ground it becomes infinitely easier to shrug them off.
It's like having plankton hate you. Who fucking cares, it's plankton.
I never considered plankton friends and family in the past. But as far as strangers I feel you. I don't care what they think. But I do get concerned about my familys safety. As well as my own
Oh yeah, I was referring to people I know being afraid to upset strangers.
But yeah, it's harder with friends and family. I've had to write off some friends, too. Even tougher to do with family members. You definitely go through the stages of loss realizing people you cared about would use the government to force your freedoms away if they could.
For me, I hope those people can be reached eventually, but I'm not counting on it. I'm just focused now on building new circles of people I can count on not to abandon every tenet of Western civilization at the very first sign of trouble, haha.
I’m not worried about getting dirty looks or having people yell at me for not wearing a mask. I’m worried about taking 45 minutes out of my day to drive to the grocery store to get things I need, walk around the store adding things to my cart only to find they won’t check me out without wearing a mask. Same at a restaurant, places here will not serve you. No matter how tough you are or how little you care what people think, if the store won’t take your money, what else can you do, throw money on the counter and steal it?
I would love to not wear a stupid mask and I take it off the second I can, but where I live it seems to be different than what it’s like for most people here.
Are you in Canada? I know there's some places where it seems like it's too big to fight as an individual.
I know it's not an option for everyone, but we moved. California was passing a lot of mandatory vaccine laws before covid hit and we decided we weren't sticking around to see the path that was going down. So we packed up and left. You can't run forever but I feel like we bought ourselves some time at least.
Now we're trying to focus on building a network of people and businesses to support and use as things get progressively worse, because they will. Even in less hostile areas.
As far as what you can do when they won't take your money, I think lawsuits are the way forward but that takes a lot of money and time. I wish we were as organized and bloodthirsty as the left. We'd have businesses bending over backwards to appease us instead of the other way around. I don't know how they got the upper hand they way they have but they're running the show now.
This is the struggle a lot of people I know are still having, being afraid to upset perfect strangers. I keep trying to tell them they have no obligation to appease neurotic lunatics who have zero factual basis for their exaggerated paranoia. Once you realize you have the factual and moral high ground it becomes infinitely easier to shrug them off.
It's like having plankton hate you. Who fucking cares, it's plankton.
I never considered plankton friends and family in the past. But as far as strangers I feel you. I don't care what they think. But I do get concerned about my familys safety. As well as my own
Oh yeah, I was referring to people I know being afraid to upset strangers.
But yeah, it's harder with friends and family. I've had to write off some friends, too. Even tougher to do with family members. You definitely go through the stages of loss realizing people you cared about would use the government to force your freedoms away if they could.
For me, I hope those people can be reached eventually, but I'm not counting on it. I'm just focused now on building new circles of people I can count on not to abandon every tenet of Western civilization at the very first sign of trouble, haha.
I’m not worried about getting dirty looks or having people yell at me for not wearing a mask. I’m worried about taking 45 minutes out of my day to drive to the grocery store to get things I need, walk around the store adding things to my cart only to find they won’t check me out without wearing a mask. Same at a restaurant, places here will not serve you. No matter how tough you are or how little you care what people think, if the store won’t take your money, what else can you do, throw money on the counter and steal it?
I would love to not wear a stupid mask and I take it off the second I can, but where I live it seems to be different than what it’s like for most people here.
Are you in Canada? I know there's some places where it seems like it's too big to fight as an individual.
I know it's not an option for everyone, but we moved. California was passing a lot of mandatory vaccine laws before covid hit and we decided we weren't sticking around to see the path that was going down. So we packed up and left. You can't run forever but I feel like we bought ourselves some time at least.
Now we're trying to focus on building a network of people and businesses to support and use as things get progressively worse, because they will. Even in less hostile areas.
As far as what you can do when they won't take your money, I think lawsuits are the way forward but that takes a lot of money and time. I wish we were as organized and bloodthirsty as the left. We'd have businesses bending over backwards to appease us instead of the other way around. I don't know how they got the upper hand they way they have but they're running the show now.