- quarantine-and-stimulus had cross-aisle support before the congressional Democrats spiked it to spite Sanders
- every economic indicator except the stock market has been in freefall since March
- the anti-mask movement was mainstreamed by DeVos family astroturfing
- the experience of the US with the plague has been worse than Sweden's, after Sweden's government spent the first wave doing literally nothing
- masks were known to be effective as early as March
- retail & restaurant orgs pushed junk science to support reopening
- we were lied to at every step of the way by experts acting in the interest of the economy over people, and when they began acting and speaking against the interests of the economy they were muzzled by bipartisan political consensus
america's experience of the last 6 months have been dominated not just by late capitalism but a death-cult form of late capitalism which would sacrifice 100 million people as quickly as it sacrificed 1 if it meant the power structure was perfectly preserved
and the sick part of it is that arguments like "a better response would have made more economic sense" don't actually land. the objective is to rob. the people on top got trillions of taxpayer dollars from the government and pocketed them in exchange for continued fealty
the objective is to take blood and treasure from the public and distribute them to the rich. that's an L for us, baby. now let's see what game 2 looks like
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