Catoblepas

Didn't see a guy with a face tattoo, but there are definitely Trump supporters and thin blue line people here too even though I'm in a blue urban area. A guy with huge obnoxious Trump flags attached to the back of his wheelchair was on the bus I took today 😬 Not so many people like that around that I feel like I'm back in The Bad Place, but any is more than you want to see, you know?

I'm sorry you're having to be in the eye of the storm and I hope you can stay safe.

Same for my parents’ house when I was growing up, except that’s just how they chose to lay it out.

I’m sorry.

-southern escapee

It’s not nothing for sure, but statistically it’s almost impossible that all of that represents uninformed voters. Children and people ineligible to vote can also do internet searches. So with that in mind, to my eye this doesn’t represent that a significant portion of the voting public had no idea Biden wasn’t running before Election Day.

Some people are so sucked up in a COVID denialist media bubble they can’t help themselves. Seeing a mask isn’t just seeing someone minding their own damn business, it’s evidence of an existential threat to society.

Yeah, it’s stupid as shit, but that’s how they function. Nonreaction or minimal reaction as you’ve been doing is definitely the way to go. Anyone confronting you over a mask in public is probably not stable enough to have a discussion or argue with.

The spike when you zoom out to the past year:

There are uninformed voters for sure, but always be suspicious of stories that confirm your biases a bit too much.

It is, but you don’t have to hand them the evidence yourself ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Reminder to never post anything on social media, ESPECIALLY on federated social media where federating deletions is a courtesy, that you wouldn’t be comfortable explaining in front of a hostile judge.

Unironically, congrats on breaking free of the brainwashing. I grew up in an insanely red rural area and a very conservative religious family, unlearning all that shit has been a decades long process (and still continues).

Octavia Butler was an absolute artist with story telling, they didn’t just name part of the Los Angeles Central Library after her because she’s from here! You’re in for a treat.

They're not really biblical in the sense that they're about the Christian Bible, although they're certainly religious (in the sense that the main character is developing a new religion focused on long term survival of humanity). They're sci-fi books set in the near future of the US, basically during end stage capitalism. It's hard to give an exact summary because those books are about a lot, but I would say primarily they're about the importance of empathy and community.

If you didn’t read The Parable of the Sower and The Parable of Talents by Octavia Butler in/before 2016, now is a good time to do so.

We save us, because nobody else is.