You're saying that we're all fine, but you know that's not true. You've been confronted with various counterexamples, and in the past you've shrugged and admitted that *you're* fine and that's what matters to you.
Let me be clear. You are
fine. Everyone here is
fine. You may think you have confronted me with counterexamples, but I dispute their validity.
The COVID threat is constant, immediate and existential - people are dying constantly. It's directly attributable to him mismanaging the response and - let's not forget - deliberately lying to us about it.
Neither of those sentences are true statements. You will almost certainly not catch the virus and if you did you would almost certainly be fine. Nothing Trump, Hillary, Biden, or anyone could have done could have materially changed the situation on the ground either.
Also, if I and he were currently on 5th Avenue, it is the opinion of his attorneys and the Justice Department that he could shoot me dead.
I'm not supposed to consider that as a threat? It seems like an existential threat to American rule of law, if nothing else.
It's only a threat if you are insane enough to think he
would.
If you were here in my house or on my property, then, because you would be trespassing, it is my opinion, the opinion of my attorneys, and the opinion of New York State that I could shoot you dead. And I absolutely would. Is that an existential threat? Don't break into my house and you'll be
fine.
I'm going downtown again in an hour, at significant personal risk, to join a demonstration in favor of finishing the vote count. I am doing this for myself, my friends, this American Experiment, and even you. I guess this is a virtue signal which I'm rubbing in your face because it seems like the most wholesome and productive way to respond to your disingenuous campaign of deceit.
This is fine, I'm happy for you. You should, indeed, exercise your first-amendment rights to the fullest extent of your desires, and all legally valid votes should be counted.
The fact that you somehow think that this is pettily hurting me is baffling, but doesn't bother me.
ETA: Putting this here rather than in a new post because it's to you specifically.
What you don't seem to understand is that my position isn't "whatever happens, I'll be fine"; it's "whatever happens to me, I'll be fine
with it". I've made my peace, man. I have ataraxia. Now I want everyone else to have the same.