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Pookah posted:Speaking as a nonUS person, your generalised media circus is a car crash, plus at least half your politicians are INSANE by international standards.
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Pookah posted:Lads, I'm not laughing, I know the majority of SA posters are decent, clever people. It's insane that you are represented by lunatics and I am very sorry that this is the case. They don't really think it's funny. It's just that it is SO. hosed. UP. and we've found that there is nothing we can do about it that we just sort of give up. We're dead inside.
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Pookah posted:Lads, I'm not laughing, I know the majority of SA posters are decent, clever people. It's insane that you are represented by lunatics and I am very sorry that this is the case. You have to laugh at it after a certain point or else the depression will crush you
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If you really want a solid lol moment, remember that in 2015 a republican governor tried to impose a strict quarantine on anyone returning to the US who was exposed to ebola. A nurse sued because she didn't want to have to isolate, and Dr. Fauci was on her side. https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2015/10/22/450908372/new-jersey-governor-facing-lawsuit-from-quarantined-nurse quote:But Fauci disagreed, saying that there are other options besides a plan that he called 'a little bit draconian' in an interview on Meet the Press. So back then, when the number of healthcare workers who were temporarily unable to work was several orders of magnitude smaller than we are facing now with covid19, Fauci thought quarantine was too disruptive and uncomfortable to tolerate for a disease that was about 50x deadlier.
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Ginette Reno posted:You have to laugh at it after a certain point or else the depression will crush you oops thought this was the trump lol thread. No Covid19 is not legitimately really funny and you do not gotta hand it to it.
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Jan 9, 2022 22:00
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Pookah posted:Lads, I'm not laughing, I know the majority of SA posters are decent, clever people. It's insane that you are represented by lunatics and I am very sorry that this is the case. It's this: Pennywise the Frown posted:They don't really think it's funny. It's just that it is SO. hosed. UP. and we've found that there is nothing we can do about it that we just sort of give up. We're dead inside. And this: Ginette Reno posted:You have to laugh at it after a certain point or else the depression will crush you It's incredibly hosed up and the powers that be are so entrenched that social and political change is incremental at best. Especially in the face of a deadly pandemic. Laughing at it is a way of dealing with the existential dread.
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Call Your Grandma posted:DelCron 3030 
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Ginette Reno posted:You have to laugh at it after a certain point or else the depression will crush you https://twitter.com/papapishu/status/746803108949409793
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Pookah posted:Speaking as a nonUS person, your generalised media circus is a car crash, plus at least half your politicians are INSANE by international standards. Actually everything is going great over here.
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I'm assuming all the 'preppers' who planned for everything, never considered they'd feel obliged to insist the very thing they'd been waiting for was infact not real when it did actually happen. I kinda want zombies to happen now just to watch the chuds insist they aren't real as they are getting bitten.
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yook posted:I disagree with that, especially when the 1/6 anniversary just happened. There's politicians that clearly thought the lead up to that was going to be procedural bullshit showboating up until the riot happened and their lives were threatened. Less than a year later and we're already back to pretending this poo poo is politics as usual and decorum and grift will rule the day. The GOP members sincerely angry and outspoken after that lasted, what, like less than a month before folding again? To the extent they actually respond to civil unrest, it'll be to appease the crazies, just like they're already doing right now. 1/6 not a big deal, get over it. Some weirdos got together and walked in to places they weren’t allowed, not omg 911!!
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Baconroll posted:I'm assuming all the 'preppers' who planned for everything, never considered they'd feel obliged to insist the very thing they'd been waiting for was infact not real when it did actually happen. I think a lot of those preppers are psychos and would love a reason to go out and shoot up their neighbors.
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Salt Fish posted:Actually everything is going great over here. Great relatively anyway. Better than borat land right now for surez
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Tnuctip posted:1/6 not a big deal, get over it. Some weirdos got together and walked in to places they weren’t allowed, not omg 911!!  and furthermore, attempted murder shouldn't be a crime. if someone stops you, then what's the big deal?
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Funky See Funky Do posted:oops thought this was the trump lol thread. Covid19 isn't funny but the people's inaction to it is genuinely tragicomic funny
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Bad Purchase posted:
It was a riot, broke some laws about that, but it certainly wasn’t a huge coup overthrow of congress and establishing a new government. People got bored and wandered off after stealing stuff, that’s not a revolution or a coup.
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Tnuctip posted:It was a riot, broke some laws about that, but it certainly wasn’t a huge coup overthrow of congress and establishing a new government. People got bored and wandered off after stealing stuff, that’s not a revolution or a coup. I honestly haven't been following the investigations, is that what's been borne out through them?
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Tnuctip posted:It was a riot, broke some laws about that, but it certainly wasn’t a huge coup overthrow of congress and establishing a new government. People got bored and wandered off after stealing stuff, that’s not a revolution or a coup. lol, yeah, they certainly weren't attempting to stop the certification of an election, the timing was an unfortunate coincidence of their otherwise unrelated "stop the steal" sightseeing convention e: this is also the wrong thread for talking about the coup, you should take your views into the gbs trump thread and present them there
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A Strange Aeon posted:I honestly haven't been following the investigations, is that what's been borne out through them? That poster is literally talking out of their rear end. Even if 90% of the wandering jackholes weren't "in on it", it was an attempted coup. It was set in motion to undermine democracy and steal an election in favor of that election's loser. It was a coup. Anybody arguing that it wasn't is arguing in bad faith and has an agenda. Bad Purchase posted:So back then, when the number of healthcare workers who were temporarily unable to work was several orders of magnitude smaller than we are facing now with covid19, Fauci thought quarantine was too disruptive and uncomfortable to tolerate for a disease that was about 50x deadlier. Fauci is kind of a dipshit, and it sucks that he's been propped up as some "enemy" of the rightwing or "bastion of truth and goodness" by the left. He's neither one, he's just another neoliberal stooge and the CDC operates entirely under the guidance of whatever corporate powers pay them. I was done with Fauci and the CDC after this whole "just go back to work if you're sick!" bullshit. gently caress all of them. King Vidiot fucked around with this message at 23:19 on Jan 9, 2022 |
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King Vidiot posted:Fauci is kind of a dipshit, and it sucks that he's been propped up as some "enemy" of the rightwing or "bastion of truth and goodness" by the left. He's neither one, he's just another neoliberal stooge and the CDC operates entirely under the guidance of whatever corporate powers pay them. I was done with Fauci and the CDC after this whole "just go back to work if you're sick!" bullshit. gently caress all of them. Hey now, he also set himself up as the bastion of The Science  https://twitter.com/dcexaminer/status/1402696181185224707 Also it's not quite accurate to say that he's been set up as a "bastion of truth and goodness" by "the left" because a LOT of leftists have distrusted him all along. Centrists/liberals mostly love him but they're not "the left".
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Sorry, I guess I meant "left of center-right" but misspoke. The actual left don't actually like the guy  I admit that, at least at the start I half-heartedly liked the guy only because the right hated him so much. But he was the same guy who told everybody that "masks don't work" and then flip-flopped immediately afterwards.
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Bad Purchase posted:lol, yeah, they certainly weren't attempting to stop the certification of an election, the timing was an unfortunate coincidence of their otherwise unrelated "stop the steal" sightseeing convention You’re right I probably shouldn’t bring it up out of the blue instead of quoting someone.
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So is there anything to be hopeful about this year or no? Is it going to be another year of dread?
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Crass Casualty posted:So is there anything to be hopeful about this year or no? Is it going to be another year of dread? The COVID pills are being mass produced right now and reports say they are very effective at preventing death. Omicron appears to peak very fast. The doctors in South Africa say the worst is already over. Doctors in USA say it might be another two weeks before it peaks here.
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Crass Casualty posted:So is there anything to be hopeful about this year or no? Is it going to be another year of dread? Lol another year that would be nice
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It'll be the least dreadful year of the rest of your life!
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Crass Casualty posted:So is there anything to be hopeful about this year or no? Is it going to be another year of dread? 'Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse' sequel!
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Pookah posted:Lads, I'm not laughing, I know the majority of SA posters are decent, clever people. It's insane that you are represented by lunatics and I am very sorry that this is the case. To lol is to live
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I have a keen eye on the situation and it's going to be bad and continue to be bad but it[s not going to be a big collapse anytime soon like the CSPAM thread thinks........
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Pookah posted:Lads, I'm not laughing, I know the majority of SA posters are decent, clever people. Hey if you're going to fakepost please put some more effort into it Spazzle posted:The amount of cope from non Americans about their own countries is always amusing. Us Australians used to be real smug about our successful Zero Covid policies but when our government decided that was too expensive and pivoted to "Open Up And Learn To Live With The Virus' we immediately pissed it all away  We hosed up real bad. 
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Snowglobe of Doom posted:Hey if you're going to fakepost please put some more effort into it 
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Snowglobe of Doom posted:Hey if you're going to fakepost please put some more effort into it I love the tiny little bump in August 2020 that people wanted to throw Dan Andrews in jail for
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Yolo Swaggins Esq posted:As an Australian, that graph dealt me some serious psychic damage. Jeeeeeeesus Now consider how difficult it is to get a test in Australia atm and how many cases aren't getting recorded and added to that graph .......... Also you probably don't want to look at this hospitalizations graph  It's not as bad as the cases graph but it's headed in a real bad direction gay picnic defence posted:I love the tiny little bump in August 2020 that people wanted to throw Dan Andrews in jail for It's loving crazy thinking about the months we spent in lockdown where we were only allowed to leave the house for exercise for 1 hour a day and we had a strict curfew at 9pm every night and all those schools and businesses shut down ............ for what now?
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Snowglobe of Doom posted:Now consider how difficult it is to get a test in Australia atm and how many cases aren't getting recorded and added to that graph .......... I mean it did avoid the mass death experienced almost every other nation over the last two years, so we’re finally letting it rip on a highly vaccinated population
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What are you all doing to get exercise right now? My apartment gym is packed. My local gym is packed. By the time I get off work it’s dark and 18 degrees F outside. I’m in a 3rd story apartment so treadmill is out of the question. Im considering picking up an exercise bike and occasionally dragging my fiancé out for pitch dark 20 degree runs. Gym could be ok with n95 but it’s just full of heavy breathing New Years resolution people and makes my skin crawl. E: Mostly asking about cardiovascular but the weights-oriented responses are helpful too. Cretin90 fucked around with this message at 02:16 on Jan 10, 2022 |
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