this is deeply weird

I am not QTing because I truly don't want to start any shit but this is really really weird

there's shit posting and then there's shit posting, you know? so weird

IDK folks just to make this something than about my guy here and not pretending to have more knowledge of current NZ politics than I do I firmly believe settler colonial history generates a kind of endless repetition and reperpetration of trauma that you either confront or abet

like, you don't need to buy into some arcane theory of atavism to see an uncanny repetition of originary, primal scenes of human liquidation - both at gunpoint and literally by plague - in how anglosphere settled countries are now "managing" COVID mass death to "Re-Open" markets

as  @curtismharris (who is a great follow BTW if you don't already) put this very sharply the other night - the way "re-opening" markets entails mass death as a feature, not a bug, recapitulates the original "opening" (conquest) of them https://twitter.com/curtismharris/status/1249510857647759361?s=19