Just in case you hadn't read this excellent article yet. It's a bit long but here's a couple quotes from it:
“The defining feature of gay men used to be the loneliness of the closet,” he says. “But now you’ve got millions of gay men who have come out of the closet and they still feel the same isolation.”
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“We see gay men who have never been sexually or physically assaulted with similar post-traumatic stress symptoms to people who have been in combat situations or who have been raped,” says Alex Keuroghlian, a psychiatrist at the Fenway Institute’s Center for Population Research in LGBT Health.
Gay men are, as Keuroghlian puts it, “primed to expect rejection.” We’re constantly scanning social situations for ways we may not fit into them. We struggle to assert ourselves. We replay our social failures on a loop.
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A stark reminder that actions have consequences. The worst part is that he leaves behind three children who are innocent.
What could possibly lead someone to decide not to take a proven vaccine with full FDA approval taken by hundreds of millions of people worldwide, but be perfectly fine with taken unapproved horse medicine is beyond me. And ironic that in the name of "freedom" he caused a complete loss of freedom for himself and drastic reductions in freedoms for his wife and children left behind.
You couldn't ask for a better sign to get vaccinated San Angelo!
These personal accounts may sound all too familiar, but may be helpful to those here:
https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/children-of-qanon-believers_n_601078e9c5b6c5586aa49077
Here are some text clips from the script that I used for my last interview. Would like to know if you all agree.
Interviewer:
It seems like people have really bought into this cause and are willing to take signficiant losses
why do you think that is
heapsp:
I think you have a combination of rising expenses such as student loans, rent, and stagnant wages causing a whole generation of folks to lose faith that life for them will be the American Dream that everyone talks about. With crippling debt and no way out anytime soon, you have people who want to succeed but feel like they can't. Then they see Wall street folks or CEOs making record profits, they know it is wrong but have no way to fight back. A bunch of people get interested in activism or politics thinking that they can make a change for the better and improve the situation, but the game is still rigged against them. This is an opportunity to fight back. The fact that everyone is worshipping /u/deepfuckingvalue is obvious, because he is also a father of two and took all of his savings and made it. Everyone is just looking for an opportunity to level the playing field.
heapsp
The idea that you can succeed by pulling yourself up by the bootstraps in this day and age is so false. I have a good job and career that I've been working at for 11 years. I work in technology. I still worry every month about buying formula and paying rent in a decent neighborhood so my kids can have a normal life. I have no savings and I don't waste my money. Half of my friends in their 30's either still live with roommates or at home with their parents. I am fortunate to be working with a great company, but I work incredibly hard. 60 hours a week, sometimes nights and weekends. The board of directors is insanely wealthy - I am scraping by. I can't imagine how difficult it is for people who are out of work or are under-employed and trying to make a decent life for themselves. For a lot of us, joining this community and banding together is about a lot more than trying to make a quick buck. We see it as our 'French Revolution' where we can strike back at the greedy and corrupt. Who better than greedy hedge fund managers that have pushed their greediness to the maximum level by shorting businesses into oblivion. The fact that we are in a pandemic and a hedge fund can short a brick and mortar store into the ground with illegal naked short selling and no one is going to do anything about it - well we are doing something about
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