“All of us” means “I am” and “narcissism” means “that sin I certainly do not possess”. https://twitter.com/merlesquirrel/status/1354802801411407872

These people are wealthy enough that they genuinely believe *everyone* has literally just “paused” their life, instead of most people watching it spiral down into disaster. There’s no convincing these folks b/c they only ever talk to ppl just like them. Anyone else is the rabble. https://twitter.com/musingsofyouth/status/1350214204213653513

You can’t ask any of these ppl questions like “how many lockdown deaths are acceptable?” because that’s not really the point. The lockdown is now an integral part of their identity as a rebel. But what is a rebel without a cause? https://twitter.com/merlesquirrel/status/1354806170062479368

The cause is “anti-fascism”, it’s “Trump.” But the citizen-fascists they fight are poor people who go to church on Sunday, and “Trump” really means “Appalachian working class.” There’s nothing more repulsive to these folks than poor, uneducated people.

Lockdowns, Covid, all of it is just a tool people use to shame and oppress their enemies.

It’s a grave dance: the higher the death number, the more valuable the movement...

The more important the pro-lockdown advocate becomes.

Don’t get it twisted.

The only “human beings” to these ppl are “those like me”. That’s why they don’t care that my home city ran out of food. It’s “pithy” to them. Working class ppl starve to death, but that doesn’t make *Merle* feel good, it makes them feel *wrong.* https://twitter.com/merlesquirrel/status/1354802352180449281