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So it appears the God of pestilence is still doin' the do "Special Report: Five days of worship that set a virus time bomb in France" https://www.reuters.com/article/us-...e-idUSKBN21H0Q2 snype 
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The Villages also has something like ~70,000 senior residents with a median age of ~70. It's like a giant live-in Disney World for rich retirees, and pretty much a ready made buffet for Covid.
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God, I can't wait to see how much god awfulness is inside that stimulus package. Cheeto brains is bitching about it on Twitter this morning, which is at least encouraging.
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Ataxerxes posted:Ah, now I understand why it keeps popping up as corona risk place. Old, stubborn, rich people who have the money to travel around. It's not really full of rich people (though it has its share). It's more of a make middle and upper-middle class retirees feel like they're rich people type place. With all the poor taste that goes with that (think cruise ships). Maybe it's changed but my grandmother and grandfather moved there like a decade ago because it was cheaper to live than MA and my grandfather's health couldn't deal with the winters anymore. I visited once about 5 years ago and it felt like being on a college campus full of 70 year olds. Edit: oh and can confirm: super Republican
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From what I understand they took the wrong interpretation of swing state
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Here's all you need to know about The Villages: it has the highest number of veterans per capita outside of areas near military installations.
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Vincent Van Goatse posted:Against who? Where? Smashing up a McDonald's in Idaho Falls or wherever won't do jack poo poo about the assholes controlling the government. Good point, congregating everyone in the Idaho Falls McDonals is a bad idea. Although for some weird reason, currently doing nothing is probably the best option.
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Vincent Van Goatse posted:Against who? Where? Smashing up a McDonald's in Idaho Falls or wherever won't do jack poo poo about the assholes controlling the government. I bring this up all the time at work. Unless you have a very significant portion of the nation taking to the streets all at once, nothing will happen. Everyone gets really quiet when people ask who is the first to die.
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Coooooooooool https://twitter.com/balazscseko/status/1244612142831198209
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Being an expert in one thing makes you an expert in everything https://mobile.twitter.com/GuardianAus/status/1244491270531284994
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Jarmak posted:It's not really full of rich people (though it has its share). It's more of a make middle and upper-middle class retirees feel like they're rich people type place. With all the poor taste that goes with that (think cruise ships). Yeah - my parents live in a smaller "active living community" of ~10K people in Southern California. Mostly republican and lots of retiree drama. Some family friends just bought a place in the villages and were planning on moving there this fall. My mom is sheltering in place mostly, but all her friends are still getting together to play cards, drink wine, play pickle ball, etc. It's mostly middle/middle-upper class. My mom knows a lot of folks who are on reverse mortgages and basically paycheck to paycheck until they tap out.
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Is Congress still planning on a month recess or did that get scrapped?
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Cancelled/postponed planned recess. Not clear when or for how long they will eventually recess.
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ASAPI posted:I bring this up all the time at work. Unless you have a very significant portion of the nation taking to the streets all at once, nothing will happen. Not to mention the USA population has been brow for decades into believing that change is impossible.
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A Bad Poster posted:Here's all you need to know about The Villages: it has the highest number of veterans per capita outside of areas near military installations. Well, that seems a little strange as none of you folks, many who are veterans, are Republican? Or is it older veterans who are more Republican? Vietnam was such a mess that why would anyone who saw that be a Republican?
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Ataxerxes posted:Vietnam was such a mess that why would anyone who saw that be a Republican? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetraethyllead
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TCD posted:Yeah - my parents live in a smaller "active living community" of ~10K people in Southern California. I love how the boomers are in such denial about absolutely everything that you even their retirement communities can't be called retirement communities because then they would be old and feeble which they are.
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Ataxerxes posted:Well, that seems a little strange as none of you folks, many who are veterans, are Republican? Or is it older veterans who are more Republican? Vietnam was such a mess that why would anyone who saw that be a Republican? This forum is not typical bird cooch posted:I love how the boomers are in such denial about absolutely everything that you even their retirement communities can't be called retirement communities because then they would be old and feeble which they are.  Marketing: a thing that only works on boomers
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Shut up Meg posted:Coronavirus in F1: Red Bull's Helmut Marko told team's drivers to become infected SniperWoreConverse posted:Lol is this an April fool's?
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Ataxerxes posted:Well, that seems a little strange as none of you folks, many who are veterans, are Republican? Or is it older veterans who are more Republican? Vietnam was such a mess that why would anyone who saw that be a Republican? Bernie was leading in donations from active duty military a few weeks ago. Lots of the military is not white. Women can now serve in combat roles. It's not the 70s anymore. Or the 80s. Also the military is a socialist community, and when people get out now, they realize it's like leaving an uncomfortable couch in the living room of a decent little house to sit on a pile of tires that are burning in the garage of a capitalist society that surrounds the military. Throw in that touch of socialized health care (VA) and education (GI Bills) during endless wars and drat right you're going to have more liberal veterans over time. Vietnam was a different time, different military. The wartime experience now is nothing like Vietnam. Old vets like to play the gently caress you got mine fiddle, that's why they're so republican bent, besides the decades of pandering to the military with giant budgets. They like to believe their health care, or any other benefit, has to be earned. And you know, living through the best decades in human history believing every bullshit John Wayne or Clint Eastwood or republican lip service line about manliness and sacrifice regardless of any of it actually applying to them. I'm just rambling at this point, but the military now is definitely not the military of any prior generation.
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Personally, I wouldn't mind if Fraudulent F1 team Red Bull Racing and Max went away
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Outside of the other troublesome issues there, my first reaction to "spreading fake news" being punishable was "well, it's good that legislation is passed to address the spreading of fake news, bit loving harsh penalty though, what's up with that?" And then it dawned on me. They're probably using Trump's "definition" of fake news, aren't they? 
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CRUSTY MINGE posted:Bernie was leading in donations from active duty military a few weeks ago. Lots of the military is not white. Women can now serve in combat roles. It's not the 70s anymore. Or the 80s. Also the military is a socialist community, and when people get out now, they realize it's like leaving an uncomfortable couch in the living room of a decent little house to sit on a pile of tires that are burning in the garage of a capitalist society that surrounds the military. Throw in that touch of socialized health care (VA) and education (GI Bills) during endless wars and drat right you're going to have more liberal veterans over time. On the other hand, the military is increasingly being composed of people who join from military families, creating an insulated warrior-servant caste that is protected from the ills of society at large while kept in constant servitude to the state because of patriotism/indoctrination.
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Vincent Van Goatse posted:Against who? Where? Smashing up a McDonald's in Idaho Falls or wherever won't do jack poo poo about the assholes controlling the government. How about along primary voting lines, I'm about a five minute walk from a solid Bloomberg neighborhood
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I don't have data on this, but what I've heard and in my own (worthless) anecdotes, Vietnam combat vets broke left, Vietnam era non-combat vets broke right.
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Duzzy Funlop posted:Outside of the other troublesome issues there, my first reaction to "spreading fake news" being punishable was "well, it's good that legislation is passed to address the spreading of fake news, bit loving harsh penalty though, what's up with that?" It is absolutely going to be used for wrongthink and punishing opposition members.
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Ataxerxes posted:Well, that seems a little strange as none of you folks, many who are veterans, are Republican? Or is it older veterans who are more Republican? Vietnam was such a mess that why would anyone who saw that be a Republican? While the draft plays a huge role in our cultural memory of Vietnam, only a third of the US troops who fought there were drafted. Even during the worst parts of the war, there were still plenty of good 'ol boys willing to fight the commies for Uncle Sam. And afterwards, a huge number of them didn't believe we lost because we spent a decade and fifty thousand American lives playing not to lose with a complete lack of any coherent political or military strategy, but instead that we could have won if not for those goddamn longhairs and gutless politicians, who protested the war and dodged the draft while they and their buddies fought and died to preserve the American Way in Southeast Asia. Didn't help either that the Democratic Party somehow managed to be on both wrong sides of the issue, with the war really kickstarting under LBJ (but not, these vets would say, to the point that it could have been won), while the most prominent Anti-War activists and politicians were Democtats (who betrayed our troops and let them die for nothing).
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Best Friends posted:I don't have data on this, but what I've heard and in my own (worthless) anecdotes, Vietnam combat vets broke left, Vietnam era non-combat vets broke right. There's a lot of truth to that assessment from my own experiences as well.
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Internet Wizard posted:On the other hand, the military is increasingly being composed of people who join from military families, creating an insulated warrior-servant caste that is protected from the ills of society at large while kept in constant servitude to the state because of patriotism/indoctrination. That's been a thing for 70+ years. "Daddy was a marine so that's what I wanna do" poo poo has been around since we decided to keep an active duty military on hand at all times. Lots of disenfranchising goes on once those children of veterans realize what kind of bullshit dad was huffing. They tend to stay if they see no other option in the world outside of the military, or knocked up a stripper from the Cat West and now need 18+ years of steady income and benefits for their herd. Lots of mormons in the military now though. I guess they'd rather be on the side with all the guns. After all, they have plenty of experience being the target of the military some 150+ years ago.
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Internet Wizard posted:On the other hand, the military is increasingly being composed of people who join from military families, creating an insulated warrior-servant caste that is protected from the ills of society at large while kept in constant servitude to the state because of patriotism/indoctrination. The military also seems like one of the highest probability ways to turn a poor kid into a middle class kid. As much as the army sucks, it sucks slightly less than not being able to afford rent and groceries.
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Crazy Mike posted:The military also seems like one of the highest probability ways to turn a poor kid into a middle class kid. As much as the army sucks, it sucks slightly less than not being able to afford rent and groceries. And on the officer side of the house it's probably the easiest and safest way to turn any bachelor's degree into a comfortable, middle-class life.
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https://twitter.com/Christo41978344/status/1244387383555981312?s=19 did trump go to area 51 and ask the aliens how to deal w/ coronavirus?
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Bulky Bartokomous posted:And on the officer side of the house it's probably the easiest and safest way to turn any bachelor's degree into a comfortable, middle-class life. “Birthday card Officer” included.
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Considering this is the Hellfucker 2020 timeline, it would be only fitting that we made first contact during COVID, and Trump was the one to greet the aliens. Also regarding hydroxychloroquinine- as predicted, there's been a run on those drugs in places that may not even have a lot of COVID cases, which has resulted in shortages and price-gouging for the drug that people use to treat malaria. In one West African country, the price has increased 10x in the past few days.
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I just lost an aunt to this poo poo and I had just last night looked at the timeline of hate mango denying this all and failing any sort of containment until it couldn’t be ignored and it strikes me that her death was very preventable. gently caress this dark timeline forever
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Internet Wizard posted:On the other hand, the military is increasingly being composed of people who join from military families, creating an insulated warrior-servant caste that is protected from the ills of society at large while kept in constant servitude to the state because of patriotism/indoctrination. the demographics are increasingly trending towards the military being a lifestyle choice rather than a "this was the only way out Podunksville" choice. part of this has to do with the lower strata of America becoming increasingly unfit due to poverty and decades of right wing white holy warrior propaganda.
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