>A Western Mass. lesbian bar required KN-95 masks. When it changed the rules, all hell broke loose.>The people running the bar were accused of being ableist—eugenicist, even—for relaxing their signature policy in the face of what commenters consider an ongoing pandemic (Greenfield hasn’t reported any COVID cases in more than two months).>Two days later, Last Ditch posted an apology. “We are sorry for our passive and dismissive tone of our change to the norms and schedule impacting the most intersectional of us,” management wrote on Instagram. “We understand everyone faces different intersections and we are always working to consider all needs fully.”Thoughts?
I was just in western mass yesterday, strange place. Lots of run down old houses but also some rich people and fancy places. Didn't see much too the road to the summit of the highest mountain, got some pictures and came down. There were people hang-gliding. Lots of old people there, it doesn't seem sustainable. There's some colleges in the area to keep it young I suppose but not a whole lot going on other than the Appalachian Trail. The town you are talking about is ~ 60 mi east of pic related, this is the highest mountains in the area, Greenfield is more like on the main highway/valley/strip of towns and is near Northhampton which is like a famous lesbian town and almost near Vermont which is lesbian central other than maybe Oregon.
>>44868481>what commenters consider an ongoing pandemic (Greenfield hasn’t reported any COVID cases in more than two months)lmao
>>44868481I am happy to hear that mental illness is also alive and well among cis lesbians
>>44868481Unless that quote is taken completely out of context, it's pretty tasteless to try to specifically shout-out the immunocompromised people while announcing they are getting rid of the policy that protects them.I don't care much about the policy either way. I'm able-bodied and healthy, so the fact that I choose to continue to wear my mask in shared spaces is "good enough" for me to feel safe and protected, even if other people aren't masking. It's slightly unfortunate society-as-a-whole couldn't do more to keep the changes that helped our most vulnerable people, but I still feel like I'm doing my part by masking even if I don't feel like exhausting myself clawing back against the tide of changing social norms.I will mock anyone that doesn't get the seasonal flu/COVID vaccine and then proceeds to get seriously ill. Get fucked!
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>>44868481The last covidians should be forcefully injected with it.
>>44868702I AM SANCHO
>>44868481Let's see what the zero covid community has to say about this
>>44868755Israel is behind it
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>>44868755>Let's use our brain cells for a moment andThese people are emotionally invested in their own righteousness to they point they are incapable of having rational discussion. They should never have been given the time of day. This is the only bar in this half of the state I'm aware of with any masked events at all and the branch covidians have chosen to bully the owner of this particular bar out of community because they have no capacity for strategic thought. They are addicted to getting angry on the internet.
>>44868755I think it's funny how ''reporting on local drama and cultural scenes'' is an alien concept to this guy. ''Why would they choose to report on that?'' THAT IS WHAT REGIONAL NEWSPAPERS DO YOU ABSOLUTE MONGOLOID.
>>44868481American leftists are only margically less insane than its right counterpart. The more you dig, the more insanity you'll find
>>44869577The entire country is a lunatic asylum
>>44868481>The people running the bar were accused of being ableist—eugenicist, evenONLY THE STRONGEST WILL SURVIVE
>>44868481KN-95 masks should be mandatory.
>>44869709If long COVID and COVID consciousness are important to acknowledge, why do I only see Americans arguing about it?
>>44869696BRING ME TO HEAVEN WHEN WE DIE
>>44869709Sorry, trannyWe now know them as Queer masks because you.can try to hide your faceIt's a Queer-clocking tool
>>44869577Maybe I'm terminally malebrained but I always end up on edge talking to leftists, especially from New England, because there's a million minor social cues I have to be attentive to so I'm not problematic whereas right wingers I can just love bomb them over their gun collection being cool or their truck being shiny and that's that. Talking to political people is exhausting in general.
this saturday at this very venue!
>>44868481I had no idea this was still a thing.
>>44868481>look up the he/him gender expansive lesbian painted as the most vocal critic>exactly what I expected
>>44870766Well? Share with the class
>>44868481You got this from the Boston Globe, which is one of the dogshit news orgs that attacked the dissenting juror in the Lindsay Clancy case recently. Worthless trash newspaper.
>>44870766This should come as no surprise, the “lesbians” in this part of Massachusetts are all pooners who can’t let go of womanhood or gigahons.
>>44871843They also broke the story of childhood sexual abuse coverups within the Catholic ChurchCall it a wash
I’m kinda glad this is blowing up because I know this place, the last queer bar that was in that spot was called 10 Forward and while it was super duper woke it wasn’t this bad, the mob did the same thing to the last owner. And to my favorite bar that was the last full blown gay bar in the area, The Majestic Saloon, people acted like it was some kind of fucking community center and the owner tried to appease the mob and also got dragged and just said “fuck this” and now there’s no explicitly gay bar anymore, good job. I’m a transfemme and I was not into the Covid cult shit at all, being associated with hypochondriac authoritarian fags probably kept me repping longer than I needed to, it’s 2026 I’m not wearing a god damn mask in a bar, maybe these people would be happier doing something else and nightlife is not for them?
>>44868701>it's pretty tasteless to try to specifically shout-out the immunocompromised peopleOh give me a break. Left-wing people have used them for years as an excuse to bludgeon others into wearing masks and now you are upset they are being criticized
>>44868481https://www.bostonglobe.com/2026/09/22/magazine/greenfield-last-ditch-bar-backlash/It's worth reading the whole article.To bypass paywall, turn on reader mode in firefox and refresh once or twice.>But by the time of Last Ditch’s monthly community meeting on September 11, only one of the original founders, Matellian, is still involved. The two others stepped back from the daily operation months before, Matellian says, citing various pressures and health issues. One had enrolled in clown school.
>>44870766>>44871741Kek
>>44872292>One had enrolled in clown schooltfw going to clown school is the rational choice
>>44872324This screenshot has unfathomable aura
>>44872373This one has -67000 aura
>>44869044This sorta thing + attempts at political activism + retail work genuinely has made me become less communist because i just stare and watch masses of people like this, and i'm truly aware we're just fucked. Totally fucked.Ohhhh woe is me? No. Some doomerism? Nuh-uh, we can totally make our own atomized, isolated little oases and achieve personal happiness. So no, none of that.Just the complete inability to care, the absolute certainty humans as a whole will consistently choose emotional masturbation to genuine engagement until they're drowning in a shallow pile of mud, a helpful boot in the back keeping them from losing their way.
>>44872537Noire world more like norwood
>>44872542*consistently prefer / consistently choose over. Mixed those two in my addled brains. >>44872292Clown school goes so fucking hard. I'd be proud as a mom if my kid went to clown school, no matter what age.
>>44868481>Thoughts?sitting down my white ass and listing rn
>>44872787>so help me god if you don’t hold space for my life ways!
>>44868481I don't understand. It's been 6 years since Covid, and they required people to wear masks inside? Now they are lifting that requirement, they are sperging out? Is it because now they have to face facts that they are all so ugly?
>>44868701Mask don’t work. Japan is proof.
I brought an iced coffee to the immunocompromised lesbian bar in MA and they shot me
>>44868481>2026>COVID
>>44872843>Now they are lifting that requirement on one day per weekftfy lol
>>44872787>>44872843I don't understand who the customer base is for a bar like thisare there really that many immunocompromised black lesbian communists in greenfield massachusetts?
>>44868502western mass is beautiful
>>44868481>2026>people are still pretending like they're wearing a mask every day for health reasons
>>44873786I stopped getting 2 or 3 colds a year. I think my last sick day for an infection, rather than an injury or just insomnia, was 2024.Good enough for me, even if it's not a magic bullet.
how are you supposed to drink at a bar with a mask on?
