Does anyone else have a scroll through social media some days and feel like you are living in an alternate universe?
I understand we "take breaks" for our sanity, and that it's especially weird and strange to be expected to go about your daily life while there is genocide, war, climate catastrophe, and other horrors happening every day.
But when I see people casually posting about going to Starbucks because they can't be assed to boycott and make their coffee at home or go to a different cafe, or McDonald's, or Hobby Lobby (craft store that has a rap sheet full of artifact theft, anti-rights activism, and Christian theocracy), or any damn place, they're just enjoying their lives, shopping and consuming as if nothing at all was the matter anywhere and corporations were politically neutral (ha!), I just...
I wonder how people can just "hear no evil, see no evil" their way through the world and sleep at night. I mean, I get it, nobody is perfect and we will have different circumstances. Like Amazon is a pretty shitty fucking company, but too often it's the best price for someone who doesn't have much money, the only way a disabled person can get goods delivered without a substantial markup they can't afford, etc. Walmart is evil, but often the only choice in a small town. Etc. I'm not expecting boycott perfection here.
But surely you can ...make coffee at home? Go to Hardees/In n Out/Sonic/whatever idk burger joint that isn't on a boycott list? Buy your latte at a mom and pop cafe? Get pizza from a local joint instead of a chain on a boycott list? It's a luxury to eat out, I don't think it's asking too much to ask people to put that luxury money elsewhere?
I don't know, I just feel like I am losing my mind some days when I see people that it doesn't even seem to enter into their thought process.
Bisan posted that polio is now in Gaza after being free if it for 25 years, but sure, enjoy your Happy Meal as children too young to have gotten the vaccine now will be killed and paralyzed, I guess.
We live in a nightmare society, and some people apparently are perfectly content to watch it all burn as long as they have snacks.
Sorry, I just was feeling particularly frustrated today, and I needed to rant. I am not perfect by any means, none of us are, but I try? I'm just concerned by how many people are more concerned about their comfort and convenience than, yanno, other people's lives.
memes floating around the internet, I didn't think you can attribute a meme