Of all the things you could critique DSA on, this is the hill you’re going to die on? 
DSA deciding to do a mask mandate at this event is unequivocally good and based. Shut the fuck up, you fucking dipshits.
Imagine being this much of a fucking goddamn crybaby about masking. Eat shit, you ableist fucks.
One of the biggest lessons this pandemic has taught me is the astounding number of people for whom leftism is really just performative, and that when push comes to shove, these people will make the biggest fucking stink about having to do something even mildly inconvenient for even a single fucking event or context and show themselves for who they really are.
Dear leftists that don’t want to mask to protect others (including the vulnerable), please post your sad faces on Twitter so I can at least get a little satisfaction from this pandemic and all the suffering I get from your selfishness.
Even in 2020-2021, during the fucking mask mandates, I had to stop doing heaps of shit I enjoy because you dipshits can’t follow simple requests to save lives. Go watch a film? Nope. Coffee shops? Gone forever. Gyms? None for me. Mass transit and food shopping? Yes because I have to, but fuck I’m terrified. Work? Sadly yes but you fucking need to put the fear of death in me.
well you’re talking about people who attends DSA convention, only a few true leftists will be there, most are Berniecrats.
The new elected majority to the NPC (highest body in the org) are of the left/marxist side of the DSA. Now of those you have a lot of neokautskyists and the like but they deserve a little more credit than berniecrats.
neokautskyists? Thats even worse. Ignorance by choice is worse than ignorance due to inexperience.
If this was about Marxist Unity, calling them Neo-kauts is kinda unfair to them. It’s more like “Kautsky’s writings have things we could learn from, but he was a renegade and Lenin was right about him.” They’ve explicitly said this.
I honestly don’t know a whole lot about neokauts (I think they are also pro-lenin? Whatever the politics of cosmonaut magazine are) but from what I have seen the organizational strategies they’ll push for are much better than that of “berniecrats”.
please correct your post and put leftists in scare quotes
I still can’t fathom why people get so pissed off about wearing masks. I’ve heard tons of explanations but they just slip off my mind. Like just… don’t catch a shitload of respiratory viruses and con crud! The horror!
My partner was fucking healthy before her first and only COVID infection. Also if one includes those “at risk” (old, chronically ill, cancer surviving, diabetic, too young to vaccinate, etc), it’s like 50% of the human population.
I mean I don’t want it to be the norm forever, at least not outside of big events where it makes sense, but with covid still going around in waves…
Plus, the way to not have to wear masks in the future is to actually wear them when there is a pandemic and actually tamp down on that shit
At this point I believe it’s just cognitive dissonance, everyone said it was time to stop masking, and repeated a bunch of thought terminating simple explanations as to why, and the mandates all dropped, so it was normalized. Accepting that they should still mask at conventions now has implications for what they should do day to day, at the store, and what they should have done over the past year or two, so they reject the new thing instead of doing some self refelection
I still can’t fathom why people get so pissed off about wearing masks.
For the same reason they threw a fit about seat belts and motorcycle helmets. Its a generic “You can’t tell me what to do!” impulse that runs rampant among American libertarians.
impulse that runs rampant among American libertarians.
It didn’t stop with the libertarians.
I don’t consider someone a leftist by default if they can’t even be bothered to care enough about other people to wear a fucking mask, even if it’s mildly inconvenient to them.
Masks should be required at conventions even if we magically made all covid disappear today. I don’t want your cold, your flu, or your strep either!
Ironically the pandemic has taught me that disease spread is actually much more possible to manage and prevent and we simply choose not to. With a couple years of dedicated effort that isn’t even that difficult as a society we could pretty much eliminate contagious disease. Imagine never getting the flu, or even a cold again. This is the world that capitalism keeps us from.
Yeah, influenza B was eradicated locally even with our very performative COVID measures, zero wastewater detection and no confirmed local cases for months on end. Stayed that way until mask mandates were dropped.
Yeah, I’ll never travel again without a mask on the airport/plane/train. It fucking sucked to get the crud while I was on vacation, and it was like 50/50 whether I’d get something.
Airports and conventions are like these big petri dishes where everyone tracks in their bugs from all corners of the world and then take them back home. It’s wild that any of them don’t require masks. Convention crud was a meme before covid, and it sucks.
Oh god I know. I got sick so often when I flew. The only time I’ve left North America in my whole life I spent half of the week I was in London in bed sick. It was awful. Never again.
And I got con crud a bunch of times, too. In fact the only time I didn’t get Con Crud was when I was staffing a kissing booth and we were all swigging vodka between kisses for sanitation reasons.
🫦 kissing booths are not sanitary eww I was young and dumb. If you’re going to do a kissing booth have, like, plastic wrap or something to use as a sanitary barrier. 🫦
Airports are so gross. The last flight I was one there were two people clearly sick and coughing up their lungs without masks.
Hospitals are even worse and yet somehow I’ve seen like half the people there not wearing masks which is just absolutely wild
fucking love to bring a baby to the hospital for severe respiratory distress as a result of viral infection, and then multiple followups and CT scans after the respiratory distress and every time, the medical staff see our masks and are like damn, do you want us to wear a mask? Hold on I’ll go get one
Masks should be required. We should all wear masks all the time. Source: The Dread Pirate Roberts
I hate wearing masks but its not fucking hard to do if youre just glad handing a bunch of people in an air conditioned space. As you long as you arnt doing hard work in the sun/humidity theres very little reason to get mad at masking.
