Stevie Lee posted:

Ice Phisherman posted:

I have this personal theory that chuds have been maneuvered into a position by elites that kills and debilitates them in large numbers because they're really the last revolutionary portion of our society, no matter how stupid their revolution would be. They're just too big a threat to capital to exist in the numbers that they do right now and so they're being specifically targeted.

Arsenic Lupin posted:

Did everybody see that the one study everybody was using to prove ivermectin was good was actually both plagiarized and based on made-up data?

https://steamtraen.blogspot.com/2021/07/Some-problems-with-the-data-from-a-Covid-study.html
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ZFKX_lPK7neEq0e0Sxe8iG5jkqrU7L1l/view

Shifty Pony posted:

just wanted to say again that cross stitching (and other fiber arts) is a great Covid activity. keeps your brain busy enough to keep your thoughts from wondering and your fingers too busy to doomscroll. for a social aspect there are a bunch of stitch-a-longs where they release a new part of a pattern on a schedule and people all stitch it together, everything from Pokémon to penises, people sometimes organize zoom hangouts where people work on their stuff while bullshiting together.


just finished this myself. been working on it since March since having a baby tends to give me less time to do things.

Arsenic Lupin posted:

Did everybody see that the one study everybody was using to prove ivermectin was good was actually both plagiarized and based on made-up data?

https://steamtraen.blogspot.com/2021/07/Some-problems-with-the-data-from-a-Covid-study.html
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ZFKX_lPK7neEq0e0Sxe8iG5jkqrU7L1l/view

Lacrosse posted:

Popping into HermanCainAward for some lolz. Let's see how the whole self-medicating ivermectin crowd is holding up.



Whoopsie doodle!

nexous posted:

but then who will vote republican

Stereotype posted:

yes

Soap Scum posted:

[COVID-19] 😡 mask

Lacrosse posted:

Popping into HermanCainAward for some lolz. Let's see how the whole self-medicating ivermectin crowd is holding up.



Whoopsie doodle!

Ice Phisherman posted:

I have this personal theory that chuds have been maneuvered into a position by elites that kills and debilitates them in large numbers because they're really the last revolutionary portion of our society, no matter how stupid their revolution would be. They're just too big a threat to capital to exist in the numbers that they do right now and so they're being specifically targeted.

Just a pet theory though. They're going to die in droves no matter what.

nexous posted:

but then who will vote republican

mod sassinator posted:

https://twitter.com/BNODesk/status/1435403220642373637

Ice Phisherman posted:

A couple reasons why that no longer really matters:

The republican party already got their judges. They're locked in for a generation. Unless someone adds a tenth, eleventh, etc members to the supreme court and effectively nullifies it, it doesn't matter. So republicans are going to quietly work the courts to push their agenda.

The senate represents states or land, not people. And there are a lot of large, fairly empty states.

Also the dems are going to hold the bag for how bad covid is going to get and they're not going to cough up more money so people can stay home.

The republican party thinkers are also incredibly disciplined and organized, no matter how dumb and lovely their leadership actually is. For every chud that falls they have five names to replace them to push the agenda. In very literal terms the only things that matter to the republican party are their actual constituency, which are the ultra-wealthy and ultra-influential donors and their agenda, which they push.

This is the main difference between the democrat and republican parties. The republicans are organized and want things and pursue policies that give them what they want. The democrats largely aren't or don't do any of those things.

Unless the US balkanizes, the republican party is going to do fine. The democrats are looking to take a real loving bath for how bad covid is going to get.

Shifty Pony posted:

just wanted to say again that cross stitching (and other fiber arts) is a great Covid activity. keeps your brain busy enough to keep your thoughts from wondering and your fingers too busy to doomscroll. for a social aspect there are a bunch of stitch-a-longs where they release a new part of a pattern on a schedule and people all stitch it together, everything from Pokémon to penises, people sometimes organize zoom hangouts where people work on their stuff while bullshiting together.


just finished this myself. been working on it since March since having a baby tends to give me less time to do things.

mod sassinator posted:

https://twitter.com/BNODesk/status/1435403220642373637

mod sassinator posted:

https://twitter.com/BNODesk/status/1435403220642373637

Ice Phisherman posted:

I have this personal theory that chuds have been maneuvered into a position by elites that kills and debilitates them in large numbers because they're really the last revolutionary portion of our society, no matter how stupid their revolution would be. They're just too big a threat to capital to exist in the numbers that they do right now and so they're being specifically targeted.

Just a pet theory though. They're going to die in droves no matter what.

Zurtilik posted:

Impossible. COVID is Over!

Edit: Lot of COPE in those comments.

McNugget Buddy posted:

What happens to guns when people die

Do people like leave their guns to their children in wills and poo poo

mod sassinator posted:

https://twitter.com/BNODesk/status/1435403220642373637

Coldrice posted:

This would have been the perfect time to have a second lock down. Right when the numbers were lowest and potentially containable. But as you said, we don't give a poo poo about children.

Ice Phisherman posted:

I've been thinking about what happens to all of the stuff in America that is around when, in my opinion, ten million or so people just die from covid and another ten million die from suicide, drug overdose and just plain old heartbreak. Along with every new round of deaths as each new variant sweeps through us as we fail to adapt. There's just going to be a shitload of stuff that's left over.

Three big takeaways:

One, there's going to be a massive transfer of money and stuff as people die. Mostly through inheritance.

Two, there's going to be just so much loving stuff around that we'll probably create industries around dealing with all of the excess stuff. I've been calling it the carrion economy. Where the land and stuff of the dead is obtained and sold. Some gets illegally seized through theft and sold. But it'll just be picking over the stuff of the dead and distributing it or repurposing it.

Three, depending on how many people die, a lot of land and productive power is going to become worth less because there will be fewer consumers. This will have an inflationary effect on money, land and stuff. Though I suspect the wealthy will buy even more land and property to keep prices stable. Bill Gates is already the largest landowner of farmland for example and I expect him to grab a lot more. Capitalists love a good old disaster to make their profit.

So a lot, and I do mean a lot of guns are going to hit the market at some point that used to belong to some covid denier or anti-masker or whatever. A lot of land and property too.

mod sassinator posted:

https://twitter.com/BNODesk/status/1435403220642373637

Zokari posted:

why is smoking the one industry that theres a conspiracy to stop

nexous posted:

yes hello I was making a rhetorical joke, not inviting you to preach to the order box at Arby’s

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jk you’re a good poster

Spergin Morlock posted:

on an unrelated side note, that very same set of people are some of the world's most prolific consumers and CO2 emitters

Zokari posted:

so is smoking actually not bad for you

Glumwheels posted:

How have we not hit 5k deaths a day yet

Glumwheels posted:

How have we not hit 5k deaths a day yet

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