The treatbrained rage against social distancing and masking mandates shattered my hope of Burgerlanders ever collectively agreeing to do anything meaningful about crises ever again.

looking at just the most deranged loud reactionaries and their screeds and tantrums and ignoring the huge masses of people which did distance and mask, as well as the HUGE volunteer movement which undergirded the entire vaccination program, as well as ignoring in general the huge masses of people who have been and are organizing all the time for food distribution and food banking, and the communities that came together and literally chased cops who were trying to evict people during covid out of their town, and those distributing supplies in homeless communities, and who are helping each other in crises and always do (sharing generators, food, gas, water, entertainment, sending food on kayaks or handmade floating crates in floods etc.) as well as who literally travel into disaster regions to bring supplies and help and transport… and those organizing in labor and labor actions, and those coming together in masses for various local and nationwide protests and sit-in encampments and for socialist political organizing, for leftist firearm training, etc. etc.

is really myopic and a misanthropic and reactionary attitude, and I’d urge you to reconsider taking these kinds of stances, Comrade. Maybe you’re speaking for yourself that you aren’t collectively agreeing to do meaningful things about crises, but that doesn’t mean that people didn’t, and aren’t still today. There are people in Hexbear who have talked about their and their friends’ organizing work and also their volunteer work in Carolina right now, as well as have shared links to pool resources for alleviation on top of the general mutual aid threads. Speaking in these myopic and reactionary terms actively impedes these collective acts from growing and being recognized within the communities you speak them, and actively inhibit awareness, inspiration, and growth in people to join those making the world better; by instead pushing essentializing and fatalistic narratives which only serve to drive people to become more insular and atomized and reinforce backwards-facing and misanthropic biases in ways that are not much different from how people get pulled into and into believing narrative frameworks in incel communities.

People coming together, even in “Burgerland,” to do meaningful things for each other and their communities both during crises and outside of crises has happened and is happening all the time — and more and more people are joining not just symptom-alleviation activities and organizations but also organizations which help do so while targeting the core causes of the issues than ever before. More people have been interested in socialist organizing itself than have been in 3 decades. It is essential to not lose sight of that and to not believe or speak misanthropic untruths which only serve to undermine progressive movements and strengthen reactionary ones.