Look at that sexy, irresistible face.

There’s just no way to know.

It’s a terrible idea the more you look into it. Seems great at first for sure, but you do not want it. Too easy to mess with it.

Rest longer than you think you need to, and don’t believe the first wave of relief when you first feel better.

Covid is mean. It makes you feel better when you’re not better yet, so you start doing stuff again, which wipes you out, and then covid really pins you down and fucks you right after you just weakened yourself for it. People get forever-covid that way, and you avoid it by not doing a god damn thing.

Family is usually everywhere in your life. Not everywhere-everywhere, but everywhere for you. The ways it’s fucked up aren’t obvious from that perspective because there’s no contrast from inside the system.

Your aunt is displaying a pretty gross and spineless “genes over well-being” attitude present in a lot of families. It can be very useful for getting through lesser hard times together, but it’s poison when used to excuse treachery.

It gets used to excuse treachery like your aunt did because not excusing it implies seeing how awful it is, and the realization could break her conception of the family, which could break her. While your aunt’s words are dumb as fucking bricks, the thing to picture here is her nervously texting you, trying to cobble together some victim blaming horseshit as a way of not having to make eye contact with the Madness Demon staring at her from across the room.

A lot of what gets labeled as (and is) “complicity with evil” is fueled by this. People blame victims because they don’t have the strength to see that the victim is actually just in that bad of a situation. They can’t handle the heartbreak of seeing it, or the fear that it could happen to them. So they blame you because that means (it doesn’t but they tell themselves) you could have done something to prevent your own awful situation, and by extension, so can they. Your crappy situation dispels their illusion of control; victim blaming scotch-tapes it back together. They don’t see that they’d be safe without it; they think if that illusion of control goes, the universe ends. They’re scared. Very tense, no way to live.

I don’t have advice, I can just tell you for sure that you’ll see this much more clearly, if not more simply, with distance, by seeing the family system from the outside. But that does mean leaving the family in some sense, which isn’t for everybody. So maybe reading this can give you some sense of what your own eyes would probably tell you if you could get the angle on it you needed to verify it yourself.

If it wasn’t the exact opposite of the truth, he, as a fascist, wouldn’t be saying it.

You aren’t doing youtube correctly.

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Oh yeah that’s a really bad ambiguity to end up in an article.

It is true that it would be different if it were different.

Why did they get the black eye I gave them with my status quo?

Still good to have it out there.

This is it.

They aren’t even gonna try to prove the accusations are legitimate.

Blatant disregard for anything in the way of violently grabbing power. This guy is gross.

Even if you’d get a vengeance kick out of it, the suffering won’t produce the good results you want.

This is dumb.

It’s not benign. Long covid can be and often is permanent. You get that shit, and everything you care about in your life is now a distant second place.

What you’re calling “benign” is everybody consciously choosing to ignore it, and act like anyone smart enough not to is somehow weird and wrong.

Some lost their ability to regulate from everybody else being critically stupid, some see everybody still being dumb about it and aren’t gonna play such a transparently stupid game. Some got long covid, the worst outcome of all, the thing you wear a mask to stop.

Multiple causes.

Yeah in the old world where a little elbow grease was all you needed to afford a house, this would have been a coward’s move and creepy as hell.

Now, it beats the pants off of most jobs. Which is all the evidence you need of how much of a failure society has become. This situation should be awful, but it’s pretty nifty by comparison.

No, we don’t know. It makes less sense than it ever did seeing it play out in real time.

And it’s still, for the moment, a screw-up. Something that slipped through the cracks. Deregulation means not even trying to stop it anymore, so it’ll be normal. Or, one layer of protection will be gone.