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On the one hand, yes, definitely.
On the other hand, PANDEMIC. DEADLY AND DISABLING PANDEMIC.
Like I'm seeing all these takes about why 2020 was not uniquely bad and how people shouldn't be happy it's over without specific b plans to fix shit and it's EXHAUSTING. https://twitter.com/Vinncent/status/1344666192791830529
On the other hand, PANDEMIC. DEADLY AND DISABLING PANDEMIC.
Like I'm seeing all these takes about why 2020 was not uniquely bad and how people shouldn't be happy it's over without specific b plans to fix shit and it's EXHAUSTING. https://twitter.com/Vinncent/status/1344666192791830529
Was 2020 uniquely bad? In some ways, no. The rich got richer, the poor got poorer, tale as old as time.
In other ways, THERE WAS A NOVEL FUCKING VIRUS GONE PANDEMIC KILLING AND MAIMING PEOPLE and that accelerated a lot of that shit.
In other ways, THERE WAS A NOVEL FUCKING VIRUS GONE PANDEMIC KILLING AND MAIMING PEOPLE and that accelerated a lot of that shit.
And the people on Twitter being happy this long, exhausting, miserable trash fire of a year is about to end can't do a fucking thing to fix the systemic issues at hand and living in the unrelenting misery of your own helplessness is no way to have a life.
So we do one thing we can do: we find joy in the symbolic death of the year that tried so hard to kill us. We mourn the losses of loved ones, jobs, financial stability, dreams and certainties. But in this moment, we are alive to see the year turn.
We're not fucking stupid. We know the coming year will have its own problems. But in THIS moment we are snatching back some joy from the darkness and celebrating that we made it this far. Fuck all these people who can't handle that.
