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Welp, the first "I'd rather have four more year of Trump than vote for Biden"-post from my American friends on social media. Followed up by a lengthy justification for their "principles", and I "I needn't worry", they're not voting for Trump, they're writing themselves in. I think I might just either stay off my FB feed till November or something, idk. Not sure where to post my chili pics then
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Mar 4, 2020 19:25
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I really like Facebook for the ability to keep in touch and see experiences from all the folks I cannot connect with otherwise due to platform usage, region, etc. I think I'll just snooze posts like that indefinitely and move on.
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Mar 4, 2020 19:46
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What's with the "write yourself in" angle, by the way. That breaks my brain a bit since I can't make sense of it under a first past the post, winner takes all system.
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Mar 4, 2020 19:48
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LtCol J. Krusinski posted:Biden > Trump
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Mar 5, 2020 19:29
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bulletsponge13 posted:Biden would be a continuation of Trump Light, but that's IF he wins. Which is crazy unlikely. I have absolutely no words. Not liking Biden is one thing, I don't like him either. But this rationalizing is just completely and utterly beyond me.
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Mar 5, 2020 19:31
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I guess I really should excuse myself from this debate again. I know I don't get the inner cultural workings of the US as a foreigner, despite understanding and being aware of all the electoral and campaigning issues we've discussed in here for the past 8 years or whatever. If the result of this election is that the country chooses Trump for a second time and the excuse is that "it was the other candidate's fault" again, there's nothing else to say, really.
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Mar 5, 2020 19:43
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First Corona death in Germany today. This is not gonna help the current panicking at all
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Mar 8, 2020 21:10
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BaconAndBullets posted:Can we root for COVID now? The real Greatest Generation will take a major hit but at least a good amount of boomers will go too. The poor countries upstream of rich countries' supply chains are getting turbofucked by the increasing panic, untold millions there alone are/will be out of a job and thus out of a way for providing for themselves and their loved ones. The health effects of the virus will - again - impact those countries with the poorest health-coverage the worst, compacting that effect. Some rich folks might kick the bucket, but the majority of them will be fine on account of being able to isolate themselves from Poors by self-quarantining with comparatively mild inconvenience while getting the best possible health care they can throw money at. The markets crashing will lose rich investors some money, but they'll pull their poo poo, reinvest in High-Security prepper Portfolios for a while, and be fine. Them pulling their poo poo amplifies the adverse effect on the overall markets, and global markets plummeting from this affects - you guessed it - poorest countries disproportionately harder than rich folks. "Rooting for Corona" is stupid as hell, and a really loving dumb meme at this point.
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Mar 10, 2020 04:55
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Woofer posted:I would vote for a wet paper bag before I’d cast a vote that has a net benefit for trump. This is the type of post I'm furiously clinging to. We've come a long way from last year's state in here, and it's scaring the gently caress out of me.
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Mar 11, 2020 17:48
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facialimpediment posted:Here's a bit of fun in a lovely, lovely time. Was this the guy with the odd steam handle and the vape and whatnot
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Mar 12, 2020 17:34
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All schools, Kindergartens and day-cares closed in Bavaria as of Monday. Other states seem to be following suit. Pretty much every parent at BMW is working from home now, so the next couple of weeks are gonna be interesting.
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Mar 13, 2020 22:21
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Bavaria is declaring a state of emergency as of Tuesday. All non-essential services to suspend, all non-essential businesses to close as of Wednesday. Unified crisis staff to be formed in order to get the healthcare-response on the same page. Ultimately, having the administration react sooner than later is the right thing to do, so I can't be mad, especially since my personal happiness in this matter is completely irrelevant. This does, however, confirm my current work-related fears since this essentially negates the majority of my work over the last two months, and puts my project into a really lovely position. We're expecting the mandatory home-office call to be made before noon today, so the only good thing to take away from this is that I can focus entirely on damage control working from the confines of my home since all validation testing "in the field" over the next three weeks at minimum is probably going out the window. /edit: Okay, that came out wrong. It's "the only good thing in the state of my work to come out of this", an organized response to a pandemic obviously has much more relevant good things coming out of it in the long run.
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Mar 16, 2020 06:17
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 Defenestrategy posted:Running Hillary Clinton as the D nominee led to Trump getting elected, which ended up with all the stuff that has followed. *sigh* facialimpediment posted:The world's response to this thing has been a criminal loving conspiracy. Welp. 
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Mar 16, 2020 19:40
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Proud Christian Mom posted:Watching Biden lose worse than Hillary despite a global pandemic is gonna be hilarious No it's not. Maybe in meme-country. I don't think it's gonna be hilarious. Mostly because the last four years of Trump have not been "hilarious", and four more years of him are going to be substantially less "hilarious". With the current state of the rhetoric, I'm starting to entirely lose hope that your country will manage to not gently caress this up in November. I went on an on like a broken record over the last couple of years about how I believe that voting - especially in times like these - is a civic duty, or how I think that the primaries going on an on with voters literally being financially invested into their candidate of choice is not a good thing. Something like just over a year ago, even in here the rough consensus was that people would - grudgingly, but ultimately - vote for the democratic candidate in the general election. I'm getting the feeling that this notion has already fallen apart substantially, and coupled with the notion that I keep seeing the sentiment (also in here, but predominantly on social media) that voting for Biden is voting for the "status quo" (which, with the status quo being Donald Trump in office, is just  ).I just feel really, really loving bad for the minority groups in the US, and poor countries around the world that will be turbofucked by four more years of Trump, when privileged folks give this away and pass on damage-controlling their 2016 gently caress-up yet again.
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Mar 18, 2020 06:11
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shame on an IGA posted:Big 3 shut down all US production indefinitely VW, Daimler, Audi and BMW shutting down as well.
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Mar 18, 2020 19:36
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smertrioslol posted:Today I found out my job is not only failing to help out the wage slaves, but also plans on laying people off and making them pay for their health care completely out of pocket if the state government shuts down our ability to keep working. I'm confused, weren't you our resident North Dakota snowmilgoon? Sorry if I'm confusing you with someone else
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Mar 19, 2020 18:00
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smertrioslol posted:I was for 5.5 years! Went to Korea and got out at JBLM about two years ago now. poo poo, sorry to hear about that situation. But going back to school with a purpose is always a decent course of action. Stay safe, Shay-Denn, FC of my heart (it's still not how that drat word is pronounced  )
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Mar 19, 2020 20:54
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bird food bathtub posted:They just absolutely do not give a gently caress at all do they? More money for us. gently caress you.
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Mar 20, 2020 06:28
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Bavaria's Minister President just issued a curfew beginning at midnight.  
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Mar 20, 2020 14:49
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bloops posted:Citrix Receiver loving blows Horizon supremacy
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Mar 20, 2020 19:57
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I don't know how to embed imgur videos, but have a public address vehicle rolling through my neighborhood enforcing the curfew. https://imgur.com/a/FctJlIQ
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Mar 21, 2020 12:39
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Madurai posted:...is there supposed to be sound? Right-click => show controls => enable sound https://i.imgur.com/okXOecp.mp4 VNIMANIYE, VNIMANIYE, (indistinguishable German gibberish)
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Mar 21, 2020 19:12
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Duzzy Funlop posted:Right-click => show controls => enable sound Oh, if you were wondering, the translation of their sick soundtrack is the following: "Dear citizens, currently, a strict curfew is in effect. Remain at home. Exceptions are: commuting to work, doctor's visits, and essential groceries. Transgressions will be punished harshly." This loving thing, and - occasionally, the loving thing with a police escort - has been rolling through my neighborhood almost every loving hour today. I've given up and opened my first beer at 4, because I legit can't take it anymore. https://twitter.com/MAXVORSTADT23/status/1241400201144946690
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Mar 21, 2020 19:18
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The hell is all this tactitech talk in here
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Mar 22, 2020 18:11
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Yeah, we had G36s, and MG3s and some old G3s, majority of the ammo we used was 5.56... ...oh wait, that's right, we didn't have money for ammo.
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Mar 22, 2020 18:15
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SimonCat posted:If you're using 5.56 in an MG3, I think i have discovered your problem. The connected joke there was supposed to be that we barely used our MG3s, and never used the G3s, because - again - money. There was one occasion where we were on manoeuver (loving christ, I tried typing this like three times and Chrome autocorrect is still unhappy with it, so you get MANÖVER), and for some completely undiscernible reason, we suddenly had an absolutely abundant load of ammo to go through. And I'm not just talking a regular day on the range that was "blessed by the gods" and we had enough live 5.56 for our G36 STANAG rifles, and enough plastic 7.62 MANÖVERMUNITION (plastic cartridges with blasting caps that produced just enough recoil for a firearm to cycle with a mounted MPG) for our LAGEDARSTELLUNGSPERSONAL (German OPFOR). I'm talking "enough 5.56 for every single deutschbag to stock up six full mags, and upwards of 14.000 rounds of BRASS 7.62 Manövermunition (the expensive kind of fake ammo) for our 8 unmotivated OPFOR duders. None of us could ever wrap our heads around that situation, and we never got a good explanation for it. Some of us were so dumbfounded at the sudden availability of funds for training that they legit believed an actual shooting war must have been on the horizon. Nick Soapdish posted:https://twitter.com/kbrady90/status/1241775101001043968?s=20 The irony of today's announcement by Mutti is that it's not actually a legal escalation of what's already ongoing. The thing that was expected in her address today was a country-wide curfew, and that didn't happen. The only state-wide curfew still in effect is in Bavaria, and I'm assuming the government eyeballed the large reduction in infection-quote over the last three days and decided against shutting the entire motherfucker down. I haven't had a public-address vehicle rolling through my neighborhood, telling me to "VNIMANYIE, VNIMANYIE" since 1pm today, so I'm chalking that up to an improvement.
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Torrannor posted:Well, she had a teleconference with the Länder (state) heads of government, and they agreed on uniform restrictions on public life for all of Germany. So I simply expect the other Länder will declare state wide curfews like in Bavaria very soon. Yeah, as I just confirmed with my local DnD RECHTSANWALT in the Germany thread, that was my suspicion. To be fair, it's a "smart move" from a marketing position that also fits into the federalism argument, so pretty much another case of "don't hate the player, hate the game". Her announcement underlines the measures that need to be legally enforced, while deferring the actual Rechtsgrundlage of verhänging those measures to the Länder. To be fair, I'm not even sure she has the legal authority to verhäng those measures bundesweit without legit breaking the glass and pushing "DAS BUTTON", so this is probably - and quite honestly - the smartest course of action to announce overarching restrictions that will come into effect, without carrying the panic-element you'd expect when the leader of a country goes on TV to announce that poo poo is getting shut the gently caress down. Well loving played, Mutti. (Now go drink those two wine-bottles you bought for imaging-purposes while on Quarantäne  )
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lightpole posted:She is playing the 2 weeks card like everyone else and avoiding the truth. Short term wise, long term who knows how populations takes it when its week 5 and "just two more weeks of isolation" continues to play. Also the struggle between federal/local control and a coherent narrative for an invisibile, unknowable threat. I'm not entirely sure what you're trying to say here. There's no "truth being avoided" here. The largest state in Germany has already officially enforced a curfew, so this isn't some House-of-Cards type of finagling to say the right thing while not actually doing anything. It's essentially carte blanche for the Länder to follow-suit with the more strenuous measures without causing the panic-effect a country-wide curfew would cause to spike, without overruling the federalism aspect. There's, of course, the political shenanigans-aspect to it that she's not giving an official attaboy to the first minister president of her party to enforce a curfew in his state, while simultaneously quietly giving the go-ahead for states not run by her party to implement the same measures.
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Mar 22, 2020 20:01
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New York had more new cases yesterday than my entire country had over the whole weekend. 
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https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1242202291718979587 Gee, I wonder why your followers would single out Asian Americans and blame them for this. 
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Mar 24, 2020 06:15
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I've been struggling with keeping up with the current relief/stimulus bills being proposed. What's the difference between the stimulus the GOP proposed, which got blocked, and the current bill Pelosi is pushing for? /edit: I mean, out of experience, I'm assuming the GOP bill was more money for rich people and corporations?
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Mar 25, 2020 05:41
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Audi just sent their entire development home in addition to shutting plants down. Holy loving poo poo.
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My mom just let me know she had to go and get tested because she has flu-like symptoms as a risk-group that just returned from a risk-region. I'm legit stabilizing my fingers as I'm typing this because this is unfortunately not the full extent of the story. Three and a half weeks ago, my old folks visited me in Munich on the weekend before planning to embark on a trip the following Thursday. My mom shows up in the strairwell and tells me she'D rather not hug because she's sick. Sure enough, she has a pretty bad cold. I immediately joke around how she should please keep her distance because "I couldn't afford to get ill due to my current workload". At this point, it did not quite dawn on me that this would pose a problem for their trip, because I was honestly still not quite sensitized regarding Corona, and - and even more honestly - still worried more about myself catching the cold. So we tour around Munich because she wanted to see her old "somtping grounds", all while caughing and sneezing, and at this point, I've essentially made my peace with catching the cold and being out for a week, but I chill out, because hey, it's my loving parents and I love them. Once we start touring the Viktualienmarkt, it starts to hit home that she wants to go flying intercontinentally not even five days in the future, and I start getting pissed. I slowly start raising the issue of her fitness to travel and experience ye olde wave-offe on account of being the "over-concerned son" that no one takes seriously. At this point, they let me know they want to attend an 80th birthday of a friend on the following day. My concern increases. As we hit the penultimate location of our trip around Munich, I'm now in full-on gloves-off mode and tell my parents in no uncertainty, that they'd be loving stupid to a) go to the cabaret event planned for the evening and b) attending the 80th birthday the next day in the state my mother is in. All with their trip on the following Thursday in mind. I still receive the same hand-waving response I did before, but after turning up the volume, I manage to convince them to shitcan the cabaret, as well as the 80th birthday, and drive home so my mom can chill and recover at least before flying. My reservations of them flying at all in the state that my mom's in are dismissed because "it's just a cold and she'll be fine by Thursday". I make my peace at this point, having at least negotiated some responsible behavior and call it a day. Sure enough, three days after they peace out, I come down with a cold, work through Thursday and Friday, and take Monday and Tuesday the following week off while recovering from being a contagious rear end in a top hat. As a brief, mid-post-disclaimer: This isn't about me claiming to be in any form of COVID-danger, because my mom is 75, her health is borderline-not-bad, she recovered after a total of 11 days of symtpoms and i was fine after 5 days. This wasn't Covid, this was a stupid-rear end-cold. So my parents fly on that Thursday with my mom still sniffling, and three days later, they post pictures from a cruise ship. At this point, I start to get worried, because reporting about Covid was increasing, and I had no idea their trip included a loving cruise. So I tell them to stay safe and be reasonable and up-front about my mom possibly still showing symptoms of what is starting to get considered the loving plague. A week goes by, they're enjoying their vacation, poo poo starts going south in Europe, I calmly ask them when their cruise is over and whether they would please consider to cut their vacation short after disembarking (because they had another 8 days of vacation in Chile post-cruise). I, once again, am placated as irrational and the vacation goes on. It's now the 14th of March, shti starts "low-key" hitting the fan, talks of travel restrictions are afoot. Cases are spiking in Germany, and Bavaria in particular, I strenuously ask them to consider grabbing the next flight and coming home. Same response as before. Now it's the 16th of March, talks of curfews in Bavaria, sharp spikes of cases all over the planet, travel restrictions in place everywhere in Europe, I legti loving beg them to take the next loving flight. Their response is "there's only three reported cases in Chile" and that I should calm down, they're flying on the 20th and "everything will be fine". 18th of March, they're chilling in the Atacama desert, and not too worried by a cautiously-worded notice by Air France that - at this point - only EU citizens would be allowed to fly home via connection flights through Paris CDG. My responses at this point are dripping with frustrated sarcasm/apathetic resignation. 19th of March, their travel agent notifies them that - while Air France vows to ship all EU citizens home - the airport at Santiago de Chile may not allow them to board on account of local restrictions barring non-French citizens of boarding flights into France. I startr drinking. 20th of March, they are sequestered from regular boarding passengers from the flight they were originally scheduled to catch, and promised "there will be other flights with connections through CDG". I'm screaming into empty beer bottles like they're a loving pan-flute at this point. On the eve of the 20th, they actually catch a flight, are ushered through their connection in Paris under containment measures and touch down in Nürnberg on the 21st. I am the loving face of relief. The following events were kept from me, because my family apparently decided to keep me in the dark because you definitely can't have the "constantly finger-wagging negative son aware of what may be a gently caress-up caused by gross-negligence". Two days ago, my mother starts developing a cough and joint-pain, quickly followed by your average flu-like symptoms yesterday. Today, she wakes up with an elevated temperature and needs to be told by my dad and my sister, that this "might actually be noteworthy to the authorities" (without, of course, mentioning a word to their totally-pessimist son). She calls the hotline of her healthcare provide and the department of health, decides to hang up after "being kept too long on hold", calls again later, is assigned a test at a designated facility, and got tested around 5pm today. What eventually sent me over the edge this evening isn'T the stupidity of my parents' travel plans, their ignorance in the face of clear loving risk, or their compounded ignorance in the face of clear loving indicators of risk spiking everywhere across the planet, because I loving love my parents, and I want nothign else but for them to get through this. What sent me over the edge is my sister's comment after I was casually advised of the mandatory testing a couple of hours ago, and I quote: "The question is probably overdue, but I hope the containment measures taken at the testing site were sufficient? I'm worried about you having contracted this while standing in line due to poor organization?" If my mom ends up testing positive, which probably means that so will my old man, and they both end up pulling through, I'm strongly considering breaking off casual social contact with my sister outside of family meetings. If the scenario tha t I cannot even put into words at the moment comes about, I'm hard-cutting any form of contact with my sister and anyone that associates with my sister until hell loving freezes over. /edit: If that last line seems harsh, I apologize. It stems from 37 years of my sister being completely immune to any form of self-reflection that may point to her being wrong, and her tendency to not just deflect blame, but attacking everyone who dares to imply that an error of hers may actually be her own fault. Sorry for getting emotional. I'm drinking a beer and going to bed /edit: I cannot loving express how goddamn concerned I am for my old folks' health at the moment /edit: cut that last bit, because - for some loving reason - I still seem to have a guilty conscience that my sister lacks. I'd be grateful if you didn't quote it, or could edit your quotes Duzzy Funlop fucked around with this message at 21:17 on Mar 25, 2020 |
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First of all:Stultus Maximus posted:Acebuckeye13, I really admire your commitment to effortposts despite... all this. Quadroupling down on this, because I really, really appreciate the effort you some of you folks still put in to genuine posting in times where it's easier to just snipe, dunk and sarcasm-post snide jabs at each other. Because, at the end of the day, I really do like you big bunch of idiots, and I would really prefer if you all stopped making GBS threads on each other during a time where you possibly may not change a lovely situation for yourselves and your party of choice, while approaching a point in November where you will absolutely be able to change an incredibly lovely situation for not just your country, but the entire loving planet and every single person that has been wronged monumentally, suffered or died under the last four years of the Trump administration. Roboto, I like you, Bernie has my heart, and he had it in 2016, even though I also raised some points about how I think he should have campaigned differently in this here very forum of ours. He'd be the perfect candidate for not just you, but probably for everyone. How he got screwed by the establishment influencing his chances to succeed in the primaries in 2016/2020 was absolutely not fair. I still wish him the best in this ongoing shitfest of a primary. But this isn't about "fair" or the perfect - or hell, even the "good" - candidate anymore. Comrade Blyatlov posted:You no longer have the option of refusing to vote for the lesser of two evils, because a lot of people have already died and countless more will if this is not stopped. It's this, and it's not just restricted to the specific topic of Corona that 2F points out, but applies to such an incredible breadth of issues that it wouldn't do it justice to casually list them off, and it's disingenuous to counter that breadth with singular topics like "Well, candidate's position on x is also bad, and it would hurt a lot of people". In 2016, America had a chance - and, in my opinion, a responsibility - to vote for a non-poo poo candidate vs. Trump. It failed. America had a chance to choose not to screw over minorities and disenfranchised people not only in its own nation, but in poorer countries affected by America's policies over the entire world. It failed. Four years later, America has a no poo poo responsibility to vote to attempt to mitigate not just the damage it caused to minorities/disenfranchised people/less fortunate countries/poor people/the environment over the last four years. I'm sorry this is how the situation is. I truly am. But this isn't just the hand America was dealt in 2016 and chose to fold. This is the shittier hand America was dealt running up to 2020. Folding again isn't an option. Once again, I like you guys, and I would really love to see if we manage to return to more civil conversation in here. I'm okay with moving primary/general chat to a seperate thread. As I'm currently almost literally praying that my mother get's a negative from her pending Corona test today/tomorrow, I'm asking you guys to stay healthy, and I wish nothing but the best for you and your loved ones out there. Here's a chili picture:  <3 Duzzy Funlop fucked around with this message at 06:59 on Mar 28, 2020 |
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LtCol J. Krusinski posted:McNally ate a 100,000 hour ban, lol. What is even real anymore. *dusts off pitchfork with a tired facial expression* Oh well, here we go again.
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