There is a small grocer near my parents house just outside of Boston. The guys been there for decades and enjoyed the communities support especially considering there are Costco's, Wal Marts and other shit holes like that all around.
During the plandemic I went in there mask less and he gave me shit every time. It's like he completely forgot who I am, how long my family has been supporting him and just how much money I've poured into his business.
Eventually I just stopped going cause he pretty much without banning me directly, banned me.
My parents told me he's struggling as costs have soared and most people are shopping at wal-mart etc.
I ran into this just a few minutes ago leaving my parents house and he's all friendly and asking me shit like "where you been? we missed you!" yada yada...
I cut him off before he could go on with the fake pleasantries and trying to get me to come back. Told him without mincing words that he's never getting a dime from me again and that him and every other business like him deserve exactly what they are getting because when I tried to support him, he gave me shit in order to win the favor of a bunch of virtue signalling cowards in the store he assumed would remain loyal. And that now they are nowhere to be found as Costco has what he has but cheaper which is exactly where they all are.
He looked defeated and I walked away.
Not trying to sound hard or anything but I genuinely don't give a fuck about any of them facing hardship. If you're too stupid to take my money as I argue for to you have it, you don't deserve success.
It's identical to what my BIL up in Canada told me about the area the convoy was in. All the businesses that remained open against the suggestions of police made a killing and the virtue signalling faggots complained to the government later that they lost all sorts of revenue.
Fuck every single one of them. I have zero patience for these people. None.
This also doesn't take into account how terrified MA retail is because crime has rocketed and over Christmas, people were legit scared to shop in person so that caused massive hits to walk in shops.
Honestly normies need to have stuff like this happen to them to wake them the fuck up. So many people are dissatisfied with their life and society yet they feel they must go along to get along. It's quite the rude awakening for some people to discover going along to get along is the entire reason their life is so miserable, but honestly some people are so far gone that the only way to awaken them is rudely.
People have become so caught up with the world of words, thought, abstractions and symbols, that they forget the real world is none of these things. They have confused life as it is with life as they think about it. They stress out constantly about the past, and worry endlessly about the future, all the while forgetting the past and future are abstractions, symbols, words, they don't actually exist. They have stopped being curious about life and this thing we call reality or existence, schooling and modern religion or lack thereof has beaten curiousoty out of them. People literally prostrate themselves before the written word, mere symbols and abstractions rather than bask in the magnificent glow of God, reality, nature, existence, etc. Pick your word as they all fall flat before the truth of what is all around, and is a part of, us.
It is tough not to get frustrated with the way things are going right now but if this dystopian clown world can teach us anything, it's to stop taking life so seriously, to stop getting so caught up in all these abstractions. That isn't to say to completely cut yourself off from everyone and everything, but rather to not get so attached to desiring a certain outcome, and remember the relative nature of all things. The more we chase after pleasure or a positive outcome, the more we ensure that we will face negative outcomes as something can only be felt to be pleasurable or positive in relation to that which is felt to be negative or not pleasurable. Much like how the two faces of a coin are not truly seperate things, positive and negative are the same, they go together.