I don’t think Nintendo could’ve ever predicted the insane black market economy that would explode forth from their simple children’s game through a combination of the social media era and everybody being locked in their houses with nothing better to do right now. There are entire websites dedicated to trading and selling items, turnips, and even villagers. People have reversed engineered the game’s code to crack the turnip pricing algorithm. People are hiring bouncers to guard their islands when they invite over visitors to conduct trades. Animal Crossing: New Horizons is an experiment in pure, cutthroat, anarchocapitalism.
anyway while I think there is much to blame institutionally for the handling of the coronavirus, i think it is safe to say that american protestant individualism also played a fine role in this mess.
our culture does not value collective effort. we lack the empathy of caring about society as a whole. i am hearing people in public complain about others wearing facemasks. like the idea of caring about the health and safety of other human beings is mocked! like what kind of selfish heartless bullshit is this.
oh and this idea that we should sacrifice the “weak” is reflective of cultural idealologies such as Social Darwinism and Calvinsist theology on predistinaition. these ideologies are so prevelent in our cultural landscape and they perpetuate the notion that some people are inherently more deserving of life and salvation more than others.
In
a letter addressed to the district attorney’s office Thursday, attorney
James Lea claimed that an armed group of people, all white, knocked on
the door of the home of Monica Shepard late Sunday night. She was
asleep, but her son, Dameon, a high school senior, was awake and playing
video games and answered the door.
Lea
said the group demanded to know information about a young missing girl.
The group was apparently looking for an individual named Josiah, who
lived next door to the Shepards but left that neighborhood a month
earlier.
Lea said Dameon identified himself by name several times, but the group continued to press for information that he did not have.
Among
the people on the Shepard’s porch demanding answers was a person
carrying an assault weapon and another with a shotgun, Lea wrote in the
letter.
Also
part of the group was an off-duty member of the New Hanover County
Sheriff’s Office. Deputy Jordan Kita, who was assigned to the detention
division, was in uniform and armed, according to David.
When
Dameon attempted to shut the door after telling the group who he was,
Lea says the New Hanover County deputy stuck his foot in the door and
demanded to come inside.
Shepard
woke up during this commotion and also tried to get the group to leave
her property, indicating the person they were looking for did not live
there. Once again, according to Lea, the group continued to question the
Shepards, demanding to come inside.
The deputy also blocked Shepard
from closing her door.
Lea
says at some point the group realized they were at the wrong residence
and started disbanding, but by that time the Pender County Sheriff’s
Office was called to the disturbance. [WECT6]
history repeats itself the problem is y’all don’t care to listen to it. stripping guns away from marginalized communities has been intentional and has directly contributed to the efficacy of and prevalence of lynch mobs and other white terrorist threats in the US throughout the “post-slavery” era.
never forget that the NRA supported the Federal Firearms Act of 1934 and the Gun Control Act of 1968. Both of these laid the groundwork for current gun control measures, but the 1968 Act specifically began the ban of specific weapons and firearm categories to disarm the Black Panthers, who would patrol local police to discourage them from brutalizing Black and other marginalized communities.
white people can storm capitols fully armed in the same weeks that Black people are brutally detained for wearing or not wearing masks during a pandemic because the history of gun use in this country has always rested on the idea that the state has a monopoly on the use of force, but any white person can act as an arm of the state should they feel like it. it’s terrorism they sell as patriotism. it’s purposeful. this shit isn’t accidental or arbitrary.
deeply glad that this family was unharmed, physically, but this cannot continue.
Our country’s national crime is lynching. It is not the creature of an hour, the sudden outburst of uncontrolled fury, or the unspeakable brutality of an insane mob. It represents the cool, calculating deliberation of intelligent people who openly avow that there is an “unwritten law” that justifies them in putting human beings to death without complaint under oath, without trial by jury, without opportunity to make defense, and without right of appeal.
But the spirit of mob procedure seemed to have fastened itself upon the lawless classes, and the grim process that at first was invoked to declare justice was made the excuse to wreak vengeance and cover crime. It next appeared in the South, where centuries of Anglo-Saxon civilization had made effective all the safeguards of court procedure.
No emergency called for lynch law.
It asserted its sway in defiance of law and in favor of anarchy. There it has flourished ever since, marking the thirty years of its existence with the inhuman butchery of more than ten thousand men, women, and children by shooting, drowning, hanging, and burning them alive. Not only this, but so potent is the force of example that the lynching mania has spread throughout the North and middle West. It is now no uncommon thing to read of lynchings north of Mason and Dixon’s line, and those most responsible for this fashion gleefully point to these instances and assert that the North is no better than the South.
This is the work of the “unwritten law” about which so much is said, and in whose behest butchery is made a pastime and national savagery condoned. The first statute of this “unwritten law” was written in the blood of thousands of brave men who thought that a government that was good enough to create a citizenship was strong enough to protect it.
Perhaps you love the meditative nature of caring for rose bushes but one day you will die, and no one will be able to manage the weirdly intense Gardening Regime that you set for everything you planted and your roses will become overgrown and dangerous and someone, perhaps, even, your beloved grandchild, will be obligated to take a pruning shear the size of their own fucking arm to a bunch of rose canes that are as big around as their own fucking wrist, PERHAPS, PERHAPS THESE THINGS MIGHT HAPPEN. JUST SOMETHING TO KEEP IN MIND.
i hope people realize that southern states reopening even when they shouldn’t is not because southern people are dumb. it’s because their mayors and governors want them to die. they care about the economy more than the people there.
and because they don’t want to pay unemployment anymore. they’d rather people die than pay unemployment
I live in Florida and I need y'all to know, this is 100% true. It is entirely and completely about the FL unemployment system being broken, not about any deep patriotic sense of freedom.
