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Pants Donkey posted:Would this poo poo have been reduced at all had Congress just established guaranteed income for people furloughed or laid off? I get that a lot of this is boomers being told “no” for the first time in their lives and throwing an absolute fit over not being able to go to the mall, but a lot of them are using the unemployment numbers to back-up their tantrums. Would what have been reduced? The Astroturfed protests featuring upwards of a hundred people? No, and they’re inconsequential. The way some of y’all are reacting to this you’d think there were 30 million protestors out there.
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Crain posted:100% no. Yeah, if you told all of them that if they went home they could say the N-word, they'd probably disperse.
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Parakeet vs. Phone posted:Yeah. The people who are really struggling are too busy struggling to post spicy memes or do these dumbass protests. i dont understand it. i am sure parts of my dads family is acting like this but i dont talk with them much. like yeah, id rather be looking for a job and such but i am fine sitting at home/neighborhood. like sure, id love to be visiting friend or going to stores, but tough poo poo, make sacrifices, hell, if i get this. i may die or end up on dialysis again. i'll stay in as long as it takes. also the end date poo poo is dumb to latch on to. its not gonna just end. at best stuff will get a little better by end of may/june/july. but with theses loathsome fucks doing this poo poo, it will probably be longer. it doesnt help that we dont have the tests and such to check.
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for that, but if you look at these complaints none of them are for anything important. No one's airing real grievances. It's that they can't go to the playground, or go to the beach, or get a haircut, or go to the loving Texas Roadhouse. There were a few events I was really looking forward to in the summer that are almost certainly going to be canceled. It sucks, I said it sucks, I moved on to other things.
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Fallom posted:Would what have been reduced? The Astroturfed protests featuring upwards of a hundred people? No, and they’re inconsequential. sure but that the way the virus is, thats enough to spread it and i am sure some of them have it or are asymptomatic.
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Fallom posted:Would what have been reduced? The Astroturfed protests featuring upwards of a hundred people? No, and they’re inconsequential. Eh, it's starting to get a little worrying. The Olympia rally was decent sized and polls are drifting from 70-80% support for lockdown to about 65% support. And while there aren't too many LIBERATE people, it seems like more people are getting fed up and want to reopen. The news won't shut up about it either. There's a good chance that we're going to see a botched early opening if we don't get a scary enough spike from the elections, protests or Florida being Florida. Cooler heads aren't prevailing. Dapper_Swindler posted:i dont understand it. i am sure parts of my dads family is acting like this but i dont talk with them much. like yeah, id rather be looking for a job and such but i am fine sitting at home/neighborhood. like sure, id love to be visiting friend or going to stores, but tough poo poo, make sacrifices, hell, if i get this. i may die or end up on dialysis again. i'll stay in as long as it takes. I don't get it either. I've had a few bad days, but you just do your best to adapt. My sister quieted down a little after my mom told her point-blank that my dad does not have good survival odds if he gets it and the lockdown is for people like him. That seems to have worn off though. Now she flips back and forth between dreaming of May 1st and worrying about whether her daughter will be able to have a graduation party next year. 
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BigBallChunkyTime posted:This guy gets it. yeah. like i am sure i will start bitching more if its loving august and there is no end in sight and no stimulus and every game i am looking at has been delayed. but right now i am ok.
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Parakeet vs. Phone posted:Eh, it's starting to get a little worrying. The Olympia rally was decent sized and polls are drifting from 70-80% support for lockdown to about 65% support. And while there aren't too many LIBERATE people, it seems like more people are getting fed up and want to reopen. The news won't shut up about it either. There's a good chance that we're going to see a botched early opening if we don't get a scary enough spike from the elections, protests or Florida being Florida. Cooler heads aren't prevailing. I predict mid-May is going to be brutal. The Trumpbux and other stimulus will run out and you'll have a ton more people in dire financial straits after May rent is due. Congress won't be back in session until May and I think it's unlikely they'll move quickly (if at all) on more stimulus. Then you'll have more waves of infections hitting hospitals.
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Fritz the Horse posted:I predict mid-May is going to be brutal. The Trumpbux and other stimulus will run out and you'll have a ton more people in dire financial straits after May rent is due. Congress won't be back in session until May and I think it's unlikely they'll move quickly (if at all) on more stimulus. yeah. like with the protests and not having a real number with testing issues. i have no loving idea when this shits gonna get better. its clear the senate isnt gonna send stimulus to help folks.
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Wilbur Swain posted:I am continually impressed by the biblical knowledge of this thread. Unlike Evangelicals, it seems like most of us actually read it TulliusCicero fucked around with this message at 06:04 on Apr 20, 2020 |
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BigBallChunkyTime posted:This guy gets it. two years in an attic being quite as a mouse, no windows, no lights at night. lol at the worst of Mericans being the most entitled POS.
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TulliusCicero posted:Unlike Evangelicals, it seems like most is actually read it Exactly. Evangelicals exploit the bible. Anyone with actual knowledge of the new testament can easily contradict their claims, but it's pointless if the ones they're exploiting are clueless.
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BigBallChunkyTime posted:This guy gets it. He's not wrong, but it's not just down to folks being stupid. These aren't working people who want to go back to work, these are small business owners who want their employees back to work, funded by Betsy Devos and her millionaire ilk. https://twitter.com/jeremyscahill/status/1251877070621290496 Pomeroy fucked around with this message at 06:11 on Apr 20, 2020 |
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Fallom posted:Would what have been reduced? The Astroturfed protests featuring upwards of a hundred people? No, and they’re inconsequential. The tea party was AstroTurf poo poo too and thanks to Fox News picking it up and slamming it through their viewer’s skulls it became a real thing. I don’t give a poo poo about a few dozen flat earthers screaming at health care workers to go to China. I care about the Fox News cameras that are very carefully capturing a view that makes the crowd look like it has thousands of people in it, and the personalities who will be telling millions of Americans that this is their moment to “take back your country”.
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Is there a single non-white person at any of these "protests?: It's just a sea of expired Mayo as far as the eye can see
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Crain posted:So I wrote a big effort post on facebook for friends and coworkers about isolation, cabin fever, and the like when the stay at home stuff first started. I'm not a real expert on the subject, but I did have some tips to share from the time I went to Antarctica for work since it was part of the initial training we did before we left/once we got there. You know, cause they don't want you losing your goddamned mind at the bottom of the world 2000+ miles from the nearest piece of civilization. Most of it was fairly obvious stuff like keeping busy, have a hobby to do, etc. There was one thing however that I felt was really important: Not setting an end date for your "release".
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TulliusCicero posted:Is there a single non-white person at any of these "protests?: What's amusing about this is that blacks and browns are the ones suffering the most from this (per usual).
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Wilbur Swain posted:I am continually impressed by the biblical knowledge of this thread. It's not hard, you just need to crack open that book once in a while instead of beating others with it Well, every one of these protesting morons should be denied medical treatment if that's the way they're gonna be. Not just not made a priority, flat out nothing. Don't give them a goddamned thing and let them drown in their own fluids. gently caress'em Parakeet vs. Phone posted:Eh, it's starting to get a little worrying. The Olympia rally was decent sized and polls are drifting from 70-80% support for lockdown to about 65% support. And while there aren't too many LIBERATE people, it seems like more people are getting fed up and want to reopen. The news won't shut up about it either. There's a good chance that we're going to see a botched early opening if we don't get a scary enough spike from the elections, protests or Florida being Florida. Cooler heads aren't prevailing. Well, we are the nation that avoided war because Iran was more loving sane than us I wonder, at the end of this, will it inspire some future rhymes like the Black Death did "Ring around the rosie So we can all catch the roni Protest, Protest Now we all fuckin' die!" SocketWrench fucked around with this message at 06:58 on Apr 20, 2020 |
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I'm so mad about this astroturfed bullshit. I don't want these people or their loved ones to die, but it's going to be hard to get my sympathy gland working when we start seeing headlines about "X people dead who attended lockdown protests". I wish I could force the horrible rich fucks in power to understand what they're doing. Just really make them feel the scope of the deaths they're funding. I wish I could force the protesters to understand what they're doing too, but unfortunately that'll happen the hard way. gently caress. These loving people would protest against rationing and salt their neighbors' Victory Gardens.
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GeminiSun posted:I'm so mad about this astroturfed bullshit. I don't want these people or their loved ones to die, but it's going to be hard to get my sympathy gland working when we start seeing headlines about "X people dead who attended lockdown protests". This won't be the headline, though, and it won't be what happens. Instead, it'll be an outbreak with a ton of cases that have barely any connection back to the protests, as all these people infect everyone around them at grocery stores, work, or wherever the gently caress. These are also the exact people who won't wear a mask or probably even cover their mouths when they cough. This astroturfed bullshit is creating the perfect carriers.
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GeminiSun posted:I'm so mad about this astroturfed bullshit. I don't want these people or their loved ones to die, but it's going to be hard to get my sympathy gland working One of the states that had the first set of protests/relaxed churchevehts already had an uptick. This poo poo is gonna be really bad.
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GeminiSun posted:I wish I could force the horrible rich fucks in power to understand what they're doing. Just really make them feel the scope of the deaths they're funding. Some of the main people behind this are literally mercenaries who are in the business of death on a mass scale, hth.
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Dapper_Swindler posted:yeah. like i am sure i will start bitching more if its loving august and there is no end in sight and no stimulus and every game i am looking at has been delayed. but right now i am ok. I’ve never been happier I have a huge backlog of switch and PS4 games... but knowing this will go on for a few more months is still rough. When it gets hot out and I can’t go swim... brutal.
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GeminiSun posted:I wish I could force the horrible rich fucks in power to understand what they're doing. Just really make them feel the scope of the deaths they're funding. I wish I could force the protesters to understand what they're doing too, but unfortunately that'll happen the hard way. Unfortunately the desire to put these people through what they put others through is tempered by the fact that what they put others through is sociopathic.
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LionArcher posted:I’ve never been happier I have a huge backlog of switch and PS4 games... but knowing this will go on for a few more months is still rough. When it gets hot out and I can’t go swim... brutal. at least you can always swing by gamestop amirite? 
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Pomeroy posted:He's not wrong, but it's not just down to folks being stupid. These aren't working people who want to go back to work, these are small business owners who want their employees back to work, funded by Betsy Devos and her millionaire ilk. Do we have receipts here cuz idk this feels like left version of Sorosizing poo poo otherwise
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Crain posted:So I wrote a big effort post on facebook for friends and coworkers about isolation, cabin fever, and the like when the stay at home stuff first started. I'm not a real expert on the subject, but I did have some tips to share from the time I went to Antarctica for work since it was part of the initial training we did before we left/once we got there. You know, cause they don't want you losing your goddamned mind at the bottom of the world 2000+ miles from the nearest piece of civilization. Most of it was fairly obvious stuff like keeping busy, have a hobby to do, etc. There was one thing however that I felt was really important: Not setting an end date for your "release". That's a really good point. Despite some poor messaging early one, one of the things here (Australia) that the government has done well from really early on is being consistent with messaging that people should be expecting this to last six months at least. If it comes earlier then great, but very few people are holding onto the idea of there being a specific day when we can all suddenly go back to our out and about lives.
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Senor Tron posted:That's a really good point. Despite some poor messaging early one, one of the things here (Australia) that the government has done well from really early on is being consistent with messaging that people should be expecting this to last six months at least. If it comes earlier then great, but very few people are holding onto the idea of there being a specific day when we can all suddenly go back to our out and about lives. The furthest they've gone is "mid-May we'll maybe [i]think[\i] about loosening the restrictions slightly, but only if (long list of stuff) is all in place and working well."
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Parakeet vs. Phone posted:Yeah. The people who are really struggling are too busy struggling to post spicy memes or do these dumbass protests. That's exactly what I think it is too. I would hazard a guess that probably a lot of these people haven't experienced existential dread before. This crack PING rear end response is at least partially caused by how your average dipshit incorporates both their profession and their ability to purchase things into the critical Jenga blocks of their personality.
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Tayter Swift posted:Do we have receipts here cuz idk this feels like left version of Sorosizing poo poo otherwise The Michigan protest is fishy, even if they didn't directly control the protest. Somebody also traced all the Facebook ads and organization back to a single person/cut-out in Jacksonville. https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/salvadorhernandez/coronavirus-quarantine-protests-facebook-groups quote:
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Objurium posted:That's exactly what I think it is too. I would hazard a guess that probably a lot of these people haven't experienced existential dread before. This crack PING rear end response is at least partially caused by how your average dipshit incorporates both their profession and their ability to purchase things into the critical Jenga blocks of their personality. To be fair to average dipshits, American life doesn’t leave a lot of room for things outside your profession and the things you purchase and consume. And the people at that protest are universally people who truly believe that those pathetic things constitute actual “freedom.” Also nothing like this has ever happened here in the imperial core in the lifetime of anyone young enough to be at a protest like that. Hell, the “Baby Boomers” are literally named for all being born following the last time there was an event that affected everyday life for everyone like we’re seeing now. Everything since WW2 has been someplace else or far more limited in scope—terrible things happened to individuals, but society never stopped outright. But whatever. A lot of money is absolutely being poured into these astroturfing efforts; Fox News alone can manufacture a cultural movement out of nothing if they just spend a week yelling at olds through the TV. Maybe our dumb death cult culture will finally get what it’s been begging for. I just hope it doesn’t involve me suffocating in a room with a half dozen strangers in a makeshift hospital.
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Fallom posted:Would what have been reduced? The Astroturfed protests featuring upwards of a hundred people? No, and they’re inconsequential. I dunno if it was here or on twitter, but someone pointed out that the point of these 'protests' ...and the strategy that the right generally follows, is to have a sort of spread out, rolling, series of small protests that give the illusion like there's this ongoing, popular 'revolt' going on. Same thing that happened with the Tea Party. And that poo poo worked, too. Beware being dismissive.
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This is the perfect situation to try to explain the just world fallacy to my son. I have a feeling that in FL DeSantis is going to get a lot of people killed and he is not going to help people that lost their jobs in any signficant way. Is this going to be the moment that people don't have a lot to lose and just go after the rich people?
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Parakeet vs. Phone posted:The Michigan protest is fishy, even if they didn't directly control the protest. Somebody also traced all the Facebook ads and organization back to a single person/cut-out in Jacksonville. The fact that every one of these protests is full to bursting with Q flags, Trump merch and the same type of accessories you see at Alt Right gatherings should be literally all the evidence anyone needs to know these are astroturf protests. These are Trump Rally audience members who's only goal is to help daddy get re-elected by giving him cover to declare Covid defeated on the teevee.
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