Listen, fat.
a) Half the people are below the average IQ
b) Herd instinct is very strong. To overcome it, one needs the power of logic and training that's hard. Like weight-benching hard.
I really cracked up at the "projector go brrrrrr" :D :D
This one really hits the buttons for me. Like, how low much one's IQ be to accept hearing "news" from "those familiar with his thinking". Can't be on the double digits.
Thank you for the detailed explanation.
Dragon energy! :D
Thanks, I ... have no words.
It would be suicidal politically for GEOTUS to flat out ignore the matter, because fear is irrational for most people. Therefore, he needs to captain the boat along the current. But he ain't about to get dragged down the waterfall. That's his genius.
This is exactly what nails the hypocrisy of "we have to shut down everything because people will die". Weeeelll? How about those poor people who drive perfectly legally and a drunk driver slams them and sends them out of this world? Don't we need to save their lives by staying home, banning all non-essencial activities outside of walking distance?
"..... REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE"
Exactly. What he thinks as bad is really top notch in my book. So he fails to understand that he's using his personal value scale to choose a religion, therefore ironically placing his own individual preferences about all others :D
How does one actually misuse a condom? Serious question.
"And the proof that you model is accurate is ?"
" .... .... REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE"
And such a severe case of projection, I see.
Hahahaha :D
Your ailment is so common that psychiatrists have a name for it - projection.
As for my ego, it is YUUUUGE, no problem there, believe me. And once you have such great quantity (and quality) of ego, it can't really get hurt. Otherwise, it wouldn't be YUUUUGE, would it?
As for the concept of losing face, it makes no sense. Losing face to whom? A nobody on the internet, anonymously? Where is the logic in that? Plus, losing face implies that one is in the wrong, which is clearly not the case for me - hence a second fallacy.
But it's fun to post shit like this, so we can ping pong here until you have lower energy than JEB!
Anecdotal literally means "unpublished", i.e. not moved through the officiated channels of "knowledge". And guess who controls those officiated channels...
"So you can't show me where I was wrong, you know why?"
I already did, regardless of your ability to understand it.
But if you want to know the answer to your latest question, it's "because it takes more time than you're personally worth it".
Simple as that.
Mate, if China was a weak-ass bitch as you describe it, it would have been blown out of importance since a long time ago. Like it had been in the past by multiple empires, when it really was a weak-ass bitch. But now? Yeah, no.
Wait, you mean that the pool of people dying is more or less the same pool of people that would have died soon anyway? :D
Imperial was estimating at some point earlier that if 7 billion get infected (by taking no preventative measures) 40 million would die. The crude global mortality rate is 7.7/1000, ie ~53 million deaths.
Let's be overly generous and say that 1/3 of those covid cases where outside of the "almost dead anyway" pool, so we're talking about an extra 12 million deaths worldwide, which translates to roughly an increase in 0.15% in the crude global mortality rate.
Doesn't look like the plague to me.
They're doing their thing, the institution is doing its thing and both are happy with the arrangement.
You - the tangentially concerned party - on the other side are complaining based on a feeling of injustice that stems from a Disney-esque model of reality.
So what is the lesson here? To understand how the world works and adjust accordingly in order to meet your goals.
How dare you be reasonable??????? REEEEEEEE!!!!!
Everyone is trying to profit from the situation. Instead of fighting an uphill battle of promoting sensibility in a hurricane of hysteria, they'll just pass huge things that would be really hard to pass otherwise. And that goes for both sides.
But if the despot, for whom his own arbitrary decision is the only principle·of government, appoints a governor and says to him: "Be my deputy in this province," he makes the deputy's arbitrariness supreme in this province. He renounces, at least temporarily, his own power to the benefit of the governor.
In order to avoid this outcome the king tries to limit the governor's powers by issuing directives and instructions. Codes, decrees, and statutes tell the governors of the provinces and their subordinates what to do if such or such a problem arises.
Their free discretion is now limited; their first duty is now to comply with the regulations. It is true that their arbitrariness is now restricted in so far as the regulations must be applied.
But at the same time the whole character of their management changes. They are no longer eager to deal with each case to the best of their abilities; they are no longer anxious to find the most appropriate solution for every problem.
Their main concern is to comply with the rules and regulations, no matter whether they are reasonable or contrary to what was intended.
The first virtue of an administrator is to abide by the codes and decrees. He becomes a bureaucrat.
Let's see what our boy Karl M. has to say about that:
" The bourgeoisie, historically, has played a most revolutionary part.
The bourgeoisie, wherever it has got the upper hand, has put an end to all feudal, patriarchal, idyllic relations. It has pitilessly torn asunder the motley feudal ties that bound man to his "natural superiors," and has left remaining no other nexus between man and man than naked self-interest, than callous "cash payment." "
Not only has capitalism got you out of the literal shithole, you've also not a serf to your "natural superiors". Imagine that.
But wait, there's more! Hit it Marx:
" The bourgeoisie has subjected the country to the rule of the towns. It has created enormous cities, has greatly increased the urban population as compared with the rural, and has thus rescued a considerable part of the population from the idiocy of rural life. Just as it has made the country dependent on the towns, so it has made barbarian and semi-barbarian countries dependent on the civilised ones, nations of peasants on nations of bourgeois, the East on the West. "
" It has been the first to show what man's activity can bring about. It has accomplished wonders far surpassing Egyptian pyramids, Roman aqueducts, and Gothic cathedrals; it has conducted expeditions that put in the shade all former Exoduses of nations and crusades. "
Easy question to answer though.
What they have in common inside the US? The same enemy, namely you and your freedom loving conscience.