I have seen this on FB recently: "I am not living in fear!"

[Thtwudbeme]

Are these people history flunkees? "Living in fear" means being a minority in an area where rednecks despise them.

Or living in fear of going to a concentration camp.

Or having an abusive partner or person in their lives.

Or being told you have a terminal illness.

Every now and then it means having to drive down an icy road, or hearing that you are under a tornado warning.

How the EVER LOVING FUCK is wearing a thin cloth over your nose and mouth "living in fear?"

I am perplexed.

[SheltieLover]

1. RWNJ talking point.

I've heard this, too.

[Thtwudbeme]

3. It's shocking as crap

isn't it?

I can't believe people are that stupid. I read about the comparisons to the flu pandemic- are folks missing the part about the 2cd or 3rd wave?

[HUAJIAO]

5. I've seen it here right on ye ole DU....

[Crunchy Frog]

14. Even DU sometimes picks up talking points from RW think tanks. nt

[Ocelot II]

2. I guess some people scare easily.

We might refer to them as "snowflakes."

[Thtwudbeme]

4. They really are

My (now deceased) brother in law told me that he hated that I was a liberal- but, that he would "shoot to defend me" because we are family.

I told him that I have my own guns, thank you.

What is wrong with people?

[Scrivener7]

6. If I were them (they?) I would be living in fear. The Delta

variant has a good chance of getting them and it's too late to vax now. They wouldn't have immunity for 6 weeks if they got the first shot tomorrow. Delta will be ripping through the non-vax pockets by then.

[ZonkerHarris]

7. Almost a year ago a guy gave me shit for wearing my mask. "You can't live in fear!" he said...

"No, but you can die from ignorance" I replied and kept walking on to the sounds of his girlfriend's laughter

[Diamond_Dog]

10. Ooooooh that's a great comeback!

[Thtwudbeme]

12. my retort is: "I AM living in fear

of jackwits in this country such as yourself"

I am over it. I don't care if I sound rude now.

[stillcool]

8. they like getting pumped up

They remind me of bar-brawlers. Two guys get in a fight and the entire bar empties out into the parking lot, everyone throwing punches, kicking, and it's about??? Not even the guys who started it remember. But boy did they have 'fun'.

[Mariana]

9. They must have had very sheltered lives up to this point. nt.

[Downtown Hound]

11. My retort:

"If you're not living in fear, then why are you so afraid of getting the vaccine? It's been given to literally hundreds of millions of people at this point with little to no side effects and is proven effective. So why are you so afraid of it?"

[smirkymonkey]

13. Really?

Then why do so many of them need to carry guns to go to the grocery store or to go get a cup of coffee?

I don't know, but that sounds pretty fearful to me.

They aren't fooling anybody. They are the most fear-based people on the planet. It's why they are so defensive, hateful and aggressively backwards.

Fear and Stupidity is all they have left.

[Swede]

15. Living in fear of wearing a mask during pandemic

is like living in fear of oven mitts when removing a roast from the oven.

[TexasBushwhacker]

16. Or wearing a seatbelt

Not to mention, when someone throws out the "You can't live in fear!" I want to say 2 things.

1. I am a 64 year old grown ass woman and I can live as I please as long as I'm not hurting anyone else.

2. How many guns do you own?

[YoshidaYui]

17. meh...

Maskholes....

[Martin Eden]

18. The RWNJ mindset is just that -- NUT JOB

To embrace today's "conservatism" requires abandoning critical thought and engaging in Orwellian doublethink.

[FakeNoose]

19. If they aren't fearful why do they all need guns?

[Paladin]

20. Mask avoidance is the very definition of a Snowflake. (nt)

[gratuitous]

21. They say "fear" because "ignorance" is too long a word