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you need to go out (hexbear.net)

submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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here's the thing: everyone complains about late capitalism and how alienated and isolated we all are. everyone acknowledges this, and reassures each other of this, alone.

you need to get out of yourself, and your head, and your small bubble of one, and you need to go see old friends, or former friends, or people in your social circle who are just meh, or your annoying roommates, or your co-workers, or your former co-workers, or your lame family members, or your lame and bigoted family members, or strangers at a bar, or whomever, and party. meeting people is praxis, strengthening relationships is praxis, making yourself seen and vulnerable to another is praxis. please, guys, go out.

this, here, now, is a facsimile, mediated through a thousand screens. go kiss, go get kissed, go reject a kiss, go be denied a kiss. go out.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

It is infinitely easier to catch covid outside with other people than inside my house where no one who has ever had covid has ever set foot.

Which is why I said outside, rather than "with other people".

At the height of covid you were allowed to go to superspreader parties if you wanted to, no one ever stopped you. What is this stock chud argument supposed to get across? You're allowed to do whatever you want and I will continue to criticize you for it and push back against you when you try to bully other, more careful people into spreading covid.

You are putting words in my mouth again. I did not say "you can go to parties and meet strangers no problemo". I said you can meet people and still be responsible, and I used the "bubble" as an example of this.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

What the hell does going outside alone and not meeting any other people have to do with this post? Are you lost?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

The title of the post is "you need to go out"

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Meaning, go out to holiday parties. That's what the post is about.