I'm getting annoyed with takes about how Americans got tired of quarantine bc it was too hard. If you want to make this about Americans being spoiled, weak or fickle, while one of the greatest failures of any world government in our lifetime plays out, that's a narrative choice.
Do not accept or perpetuate the idea that that's about to happen is the will of the people. https://twitter.com/MsKellyMHayes/status/1258554050527797251?s=19
The narrative that this is happening because it's what the public wants is a hall pass for the fascists. Please be smarter than that.
Americans ripping on the U.S. usually get applause from some folks no matter how vacuous the critique, bc this country largely sucks and so do a lot of people who live here. But you don't have to clap for a narrative that puts the blame for what's coming on the public. That's BS.
If you don't like the cultural norms that are at work in this moment, then maybe do some mutual aid work to disrupt that shit.
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