This will make me many friends, I am sure.

Let me preface this by saying that this sub is, generally, a bastion of reason where people actually seem to care about human rights, the future of our society and the plight of entrepreneurs who are constantly victimised by lockdowns and covid measures. It's helped keep me sane and made me realise I am not alone in thinking the cure is worse than the disease. Thank you all for that.

But browsing through this sub I see a lot of posts that, for example, highlight the actual benefits of the vaccines, display how some of the COVID propaganda is based on actual science or otherwise voice an opinion contrary to our own that not only tends to get ignored but often downvoted. News links sharing news that vaccinations do indeed tend to work, for example, are met with downvotes and cynical comments dismissing everything in the article outright.

Don't get me wrong : I'm tired of the bullshit, hyperbole and cultish adherence to a narrative. But downvoting and dismissing everything that contradicts the general opinion of this sub? Isn't that what we accuse the COVID cultists of doing? Don't we accuse them regularly of cherry picking what they choose to believe so it all fits their apocalyptic narrative?

What I also find worrying are the increased calls for violence against the political elite and the governments that put us into this mess. Again, I get it. I despise them, too. But wouldn't violence make us just as bad as the COVID folks who want to see unvaccinated people get marginalized and violated?

Finally, what worries me is the amount of people that believe that our governments are using covid to subjugate and oppress us. I'm not saying they're wrong or that it is impossible. It's just that such thinking leads to the previous point and is exactly what the lockdowners do : projecting evil and malice unto them to justify our hate and, god forbid, eventual violence. What would violence achieve besides vindicating the lockdowners and setting the precedent that violent revolutions are the best way to achieve one's political goals? Is that the future we want?

This is what I don't want to see happen in this sub. We're better than them and we're above their tricks. We don't just preach that we follow the science but we actually follow it, wether it confirms or contradicts what we're saying. Our political and ideological opponents do not deserve death for being our opponents. We are here because we want a better future and because we want to manage things the right way. I just don't want us to forget that.

Thanks for reading.

EDIT : for those who absolutely want to see the people who caused this suffer, think of it this way. If you join a violent revolt and hang them they'll be dead, sure. It may bring you brief satisfaction and a fleeting feeling of victory, but to the one in the noose? They're dead. It's over. They don't have to face any more consequences, suffer any more punishment etc. It's done. If you keep them alive, however, and beat them via politics and the justice system you can be satisfied knowing that they'll be there every step of the way as all they worked for and all they achieved crumbles around them. You can feel satisfied knowing that they'll always rue the day they decided to put personal gain before the people's interests. That they'll forevermore be confronted with the fact they are now irrelevant and powerless. Doesn't that sound much better revenge?