Apparently when they couldn't just beat on mostly barely equipped and totally surprised public servants who were horrified at the idea of firing on other citizens, it wasn't fun no more! Awww poor babies. And they were SO SHOCKED they got put on watch lists and arrested and that there were actual consequences. It wasn't like how it was supposed to be in the movies! It wasn't how they had fantasized about it in the chatrooms!
I mean, everyone goes on about how Trump lies to these people, but there was a REASON they believed his lies, and that reason was the crippling of the US public educational system by religion and Republican refusal to fund it. "If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be." -- good old TJ America has always been especially vulnerable to Know-Nothingism (altho the UK gives it a run for its money) and Trump was like the grand culmination. "The scientists think I'm so brilliant! I could do this stuff!....I don't think science knows, actually." "Science" "knows" nothing. What the fuck. //digression
I'm still surprised that they learned the lesson and held off. I'd expect them to double down on the 'we'll retake this country!' mindset. Invincible ignorance ought to be invincible, as it is with anti-vaxxers and anti-maskers.
Maybe they honestly didn't expect to be arrested?? since nobody is facing any penalties at all, from what I can tell, for violating mask mandates and social distancing requirements.
Here in Seattle, there's now some weird-ass "regulation" that if a restaurant has a lot of windows and roll-up doors, it counts as outdoor dining! because the powerful restaurant lobby (Seattle has gone in for tourism in a big way) whined and screamed about being shut down for so long (while they were doing delivery and takeout, but anyway) and said "it makes no sense to make us put up plastic shelters in the street where there are homeless people and cars when we can do outdoor dining inside because of windows!" And Inslee actually fucking bought it. So now there are restaurants opening up that have one or two big windows and a door open, at best, and there's going to be another goddamn surge, because God forbid we save lives instead of trendy restaurants the tech people WFH want to go out to after a long hard day of working inside at a laptop. //bitter
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I mean, everyone goes on about how Trump lies to these people, but there was a REASON they believed his lies, and that reason was the crippling of the US public educational system by religion and Republican refusal to fund it. "If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be." -- good old TJ America has always been especially vulnerable to Know-Nothingism (altho the UK gives it a run for its money) and Trump was like the grand culmination. "The scientists think I'm so brilliant! I could do this stuff!....I don't think science knows, actually." "Science" "knows" nothing. What the fuck. //digression
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