There's been so much argument over whether these loud unison cries to reopen schools are an indictment of a society-wide failure to support parents (especially mothers) or pure cruel selfishness on the part of said parents Personally I see no reason not to say it's both
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Arcane_Syntax and
Yes, no one should have to make a choice between their own "sanity" having to deal with kids underfoot at home all day while trying to keep their own jobs and their finances afloat, and essentially sentencing older teachers to death for your own benefit But also, fuck you
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Arcane_Syntax and
I mean, it's ultimately harmful to you too, because those kids carry infection back into their homes, and the parents aren't all as young and hale and hearty and immune as they think But if they *were*, that would make it morally *worse*
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Arcane_Syntax and
This whole pandemic has just been one long cascade of the wealthier classes offloading risk onto poorer people who work for them And no, it doesn't just stop at "billionaires" and "everyone else" Your middle-class friends have all been real pieces of shit about it too
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Arcane_Syntax and
Whining about wanting to have cleaners back into the house, whining about wanting to go out to bars and restaurants to be waited on, whining about going to the gym And this school thing is worst of all
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Arcane_Syntax and
It's not really about your kids' education or long-term prospects, it's about you, right now, not being able to handle looking after them all day and wanting someone else to do it And not caring if your little brat spreads that paid employee a deadly infection Fuck you
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Arcane_Syntax and
What really comes across with this pandemic is how much people think they *own* you just because you work some shitty job
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Arcane_Syntax and
Like if you exercise your rights as a free human being to say "No, I don't want to do this job anymore, in my view the risk of my own death is too high" you're some kind of asshole You've betrayed the social contract
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Arcane_Syntax and
It's at its most absurd when it's not even about employees but *customers*, like all these people fuming about "COVID-shy millennials killing restaurants!" But when you're actually trying to exert leverage against employees over this shit it's absolutely fucking evil
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Arcane_Syntax and
It's so frustrating that people who are love telling people worse off than them they don't have the "right" to anything -- "You don't have the *right* to a roof over your head, those things are *earned*" -- absolutely think they're entitled to every little thing they have
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You didn't have the *right* to fucking eat out at a nice restaurant or go see a movie in a theater or work out at a full-service gym with a personal trainer You *never* had the "right" to those things, but especially not at the cost of a human being's life Christ
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Arcane_Syntax and
I appreciate this rant. Greatly.
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Replying to @amazingprizzini @arthur_affect and
I hate these people who keep pushing the limits of it. They, along with our miserably incompetent federal government, and keeping us in this mess for longer and longer and killing so many people
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