frauddogg [they/them, null/void]

My camaraderie is earned, not given.

https://readsettlers.org/ || Never surrender, never retreat.

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Cake day: September 23rd, 2024

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  • Yours might be one of the only replies in this thread I plan to reply to, because I plan to massively cut down on how much I interact with this fed. I have no further faith in the moderation here, and lost a good deal of respect for a good number of regulars here in the doing.

    I do want to say, wishing COVID on someone isn’t cool.

    This is maybe the only place where I could see one having a genuine issue; and y’know what? That’s fine that that’s your take.

    I’ve already had to watch it ravage my community. There’s people I knew that don’t come around anymore. Became agoraphobic. That’s not even talking the people that did die in my community, and their families still feel those holes to this day. Most of the people in my personal orbit, I thank the divinities I pray to every day that they survived-- but not a one came away without something permanent left behind. Brainfog, asthma-resembling hacking fits, compromised immune systems, the works. I wouldn’t feel so comfortable saying what I did to someone if I didn’t already know, down to the scars at the bottoms of my lungs, what this disease does to the people who are lucky enough to have survived it.

    Way I see it, if (the hypothetical) you’re going to be as indifferent to death as to take up for anti-maskers, I’m going to be indifferent to what happens to (the hypothetical) you, because there is nothing that can unite us at that point. In fact, it’s my hope that surviving a tribulation like that might actually inspire a level of understanding of why I approach this the way I do; but gods only know I’m already out of reasons to unite with the average settler so it is what it is.

    “How did one straw break the camel’s back? Here’s the secret: the million other straws underneath it.”

    Edits for clarity.