Definitions by Solid Mantis
Sheep
He/she thinks you're a sheep who hasn't changed anything because you're scared to. The fucked up thing about it is when someone allows someone more hopeless and cynical about life than themselves to convince them of what is best for them.
Sheep by Solid Mantis January 14, 2021
Unrest
The unrest was there long before the capital incident, and at least a few people have wanted it to spread like wildfire, rather than send the wildfire to go fuck itself. The people who always talk about or try to hold everyone else accountable are seldom held accountable by anyone themselves, which makes any talk about accountability a joke in the first place.
People were already uneasy about the lockdowns before the masks, then protests went from being about George Floyd, a guy most of the protestors never met and never would have met, to being about shit that had nothing to do with George Floyd's death as an excuse to remove statues and vandalize other public areas, which is really not much different than what the election protestors are doing now. As long as the arsonists and warlords keep lighting fires and there's no consequences for them, there won't be much left to burn down, but the unrest will continue. This is the change some people said they wanted, when really sometimes things were as good as they were gonna get, and some people still fucked it all up by wanting everything to change.
Unrest by Solid Mantis January 14, 2021
Posing
You are not your grandmother you never met, the other people you've been imitating most of your life, or anybody else you've been posing as. You're you, even if you'd rather be those other people.
Posing by Solid Mantis January 14, 2021
Sheep
It's clear the next government thinks of most people as sheep if they're looking out for a few more violent ones blended in with the peaceful protestors.
Sheep by Solid Mantis January 14, 2021
Roy Cooper
Roy Cooper isn't frustrated, he doesnt have to be frustrated with anything, he's a governor. At least part of his job involves frustrating other people, not getting frustrated himself.
Roy Cooper is trying to persuade people in his state that he's as frustrated as they are, but they are not the governor, just like he is not one of them, he's the governor. He's no more on their side than the media or any other corporate entity.
Roy Cooper by Solid Mantis January 14, 2021
Democracy
Its interesting what people have called democracy since 2020. Trying to force everybody to wear a mask anywhere they go is not democracy, its a nearly totalitarian government. People that think Biden is democracy are not as different from people that think Trump is democracy as they may think. Neither Biden nor Trump gives a fuck about them, and they'll never really see that, because they still think Biden is on a different side than Trump. Its two sides of the exact same coin, Democrat and Republican.
The reality of democracy is any rights you're not fighting for, you don't have. As long as you never wake up, the people calling themselves the government will take right after right away as long as nobody is governing them, reminding them that they are of the people, for the people (and not over the people), and the same is true of everyone else.
Democracy by Solid Mantis January 14, 2021