pgcd on Nostr: I think COVID was the inflection point. The forces were already at play, of course, ...

I think COVID was the inflection point.
The forces were already at play, of course, but the very first few weeks of the pandemic are what convinced the Kochs and Putins and Thiels and assorted scum that it was time to step up the game.
Because - and this is something that we don't remember often enough - in those first few weeks most people *came together* to fight the enemy.
We showed we could do it, and that's when they knew they had to break us sooner rather than later.