The motto of the Ba'athist party is "Unity, Liberty, Socialism."
... But sure, we're the bad guys, amiright?
That whole "unity" schtick sure didn't last long, did it?
Reality Winner.
(Friendly reminder for anyone here that has anything they need to blow the whistle on: only one Wikileaks whistleblower was ever exposed, Project Veritas as far as I know has kept everyone safe, and almost every whistleblower to go to Glenn Greenwald's venture, the Intercept, has ended up arrested. Please, for the love of God, don't go to the Intercept.)
Could you please explain the difference between preventing the spread of a disease and reducing spread of a disease?
Also, why not Iraqi wet markets? Or Jamaican? You realize there are even wet markets within the US and Canada, right? Why doesn't the flu start there?
https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn13724-revealed-the-asian-source-of-the-annual-flu-epidemic/
If the masks work in Asia, why does the flu come from Asia?
edit to add: but yeah, the surgeons generally don't like mouthfuls of blood, which is how the original masks were sold because surgeons and doctors had a pretty rough time accepting that perhaps they were actually the ones causing infection.
No, it's bacteria. You've provided a moist warm environment that you then dump your own mouth goop in, day in and day out. After a very brief amount of time, a few bacteria becomes colony, and boom! stink city.
Most masks give a max useage time of 2 hours. As in, everyone should be wearing four different disposable masks every single day. Also, every mask except disposable medical grade has been proven to do nothing but increase every metric that would probably exacerbate the spread of disease (but we can't study it because reasons).
That's why all the real surgical masks have instructions on them to be changed every few hours: because if you don't, you're just carrying a petri dish around your face. Also, real surgical masks make clear that if you are actually infected with a disease that it won't prevent disease spread, which is why surgeons aren't allowed to operate when they're sick--they really are just to prevent particulates from falling on, or worse in, patients.
But admitting all this and changing the orders accordingly would bring up some questions about whether a Governor can unilaterally order everyone to use a medical device without prescription of a doctor. It legitimately undermines the whole argument for abortion: if my own Governor can just order a medical intervention, then I don't exactly have a "right to privacy" in my medical matters.
... But you know, if it saves just one life... fucking gag...
lol They don't believe in American morals though.
Just from what I wrote above, you can guess a few: they don't believe in freedom of religion or assembly. They also don't believe in freedom of speech or the right to keep and bear arms, because all that just leads to scary things. We're not even far down the list, and you should already be getting a picture.
They do believe in "human rights" as defined by large international organizations. They believe everyone, worldwide, has a "right" to the most expensive and advanced medical care known to man and that it should be completely free. They believe everyone has a "right" to some form of (probably pod-like) housing provided by the federal government. They believe everyone has a "right" to all the carbs they can eat because breadlines are a good thing.
Oh, and they've been turning in their own neighbors to "health authorities" for the serious crime of celebrating holidays for about a year now.
... You got any suggestions? Or are you saying there is still "hope left" that they won't come for me...
Don't have to imagine: that literally happened to me.
In my state, we made eugenics illegal a few years ago. Basically, we saw the Nordic countries suddenly "lose" all their disabled children, and we got a bit concerned about exactly how they did that. Couple the Democrat celebration of that with with the influx of immigrants over the past few years, and it became pretty apparent that we had to do something to prevent it happening here.
So in my state, you can no longer legally get an abortion for the sake of "getting rid" of an undesirable trait in your own child. I support this change to our law. It's not even very enforceable, mind: more of a backstop from obvious heinous acts on a larger scale. My family said that meant I wanted to control women's bodies because I was brainwashed by the evil right wing media. Just like a Nazi.
Also, they think DeBlasio is doing a great job. They think the religious minorities of his city obviously are a huge vector for disease, as they aren't very hygienic and their practices are backwards and old fashioned. They believe it's okay to shut down their schools permanently because the orthodox religious shouldn't be teaching children anyways, even their own. They see no issue here, and believe that this is all for the greater good.
... This is where we're at now.
It's very easy to #resist a President who uses the Constitution to guide his presidency. Basically, what the fuck did he do that they could resist in their daily lives? "Oh they marched against ICE that one time!" So brave, much resist... Not sure how doing a few protests against a single government agency that's existed for decades "resists" Trump, but it was adorable.
It's a little harder when a President starts making executive decrees demanding individual citizens actually relinquish rights. For instance, Biden has promised to EO gun grabs and mask mandates, and if I recall correctly even lockdowns.
So, while their "resistance" was mainly posting stupid shit to Twitter and calling their Trump-supporting family fascists, my resistance would involve actually not doing what a government official tells me I have to do with the force of law.
But that's all up to Biden and the Democrats, isn't it?
Did you actually read my last comment?
Okay I guess I didn't word that very well as I needed more covfefe:
That act of self defense legally is on the organizers of the riot and the living hamburger armed guy, and in normal times would count against them as murder. Like if you and a buddy organize a robbery on a store, and the store owner shoots your buddy, you are going to be charged with that death; not the owner who actually pulled the trigger, as he was just using his right to self defense.
... I mean, it won't, but according to the law we're ignoring right now it should.
Back when I was a dirty hippy, one of my favorite forms of entertainment was to throw out the bomb of "is yeast vegan?" into a gaggle of vegans. Then, after a solid 5-10 minutes of very intense arguments going back and forth (because it's so fucking important to prove you're more vegan than the next vegan for some reason), I'd ask "is abortion okay for a vegan?"
Suddenly, all the interpretations and nuances about what qualifies as animal life and rights being argued by the group would be thrown out the door. "OF COURSE IT'S OKAY!" they'd all agree immediately. "IT'S JUST A COUPLE CELLS YOU BIGOT!"
Forgetting entirely that they had just had a heated debate about whether a single celled organism qualified as life.
No, Byrd even talked about it in his own memoirs.
This isn't some secret: he was a very high ranking member of the KKK. He "apologized" in the same way Democrats always do when times change and their old views are suddenly wrongthink: he said "my views have evolved" and then tried to never mention it again. The only time anyone got him to really dig down into exactly how he "evolved" it came out that now he thought white people were n*ggers too. Which is probably why Obama wrote such a glowing eulogy.
The "fact check" you see being pushed by AP and other retards is supposedly someone somewhere thought he was the Grand Wizard of the KKK, and no he was merely an Exalted Cyclops so fact check: false, you bigot. They are relying on you not doing the simple task of bothering to read the actual fact check and instead just reading the headline.
It's probably my favorite fact check from the fact checkers, though.
(BTW, unrelated: This is why I refuse to carry water for any "new" "centrists" like Gabbard: they need to explain why all their views changed so drastically since their initial run for office. I bet they just "evolved.")
lets kids on the internet, the greatest collection of information in mankind's history: :D
sees what's actually on the internet: D:
There's a lesson to be learned here. Please pedes--unless your child is legitimately brilliant beyond their years and you have the time to carefully monitor what they are doing every moment online, just... give them Legos or something, ffs.
Legally, it does.
If you are committing a felony with a group and someone dies in the commission of that felony due to the victim acting in self defense, you are responsible and I believe it's charged as murder.
One of those instances that makes it a bit too apparent that the law is just for lowly plebs, and not Party favorites like BLM and Pantifa.
Wait... So Tim threw away his biggest cash cow... For a married, stupid, bitchtastic 4/10?
I've heard of simping but holy begeesus, at least those weirdos usually nope out once they find out their OnlyFan girl has a boyfriend. Signing up for it knowing that she's married?
Like... WTF kind of 4d cuckery is this?
Yes, a private company that is doing exactly what Democrats in the Senate on the floor of Congress demand.
Could someone remind me how these faggots define fascism again?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Guards#Suppression_by_the_PLA_(1967-1968)
Yes. That "trouble making" keeps happening even after they've taken control. When you normalize political violence, it's... Well, normalized: don't expect people to just stop it for no fucking reason.
If you want an example here in the US, remember the IRS totally-non-political targeting of hundreds of TEA Party groups? Well, the "non-political" part came from the half-dozen anti-war groups that actually organized against the Obama administration and got shut down. The IRS literally was just going after anyone who said mean things about The Chosen One, regardless of "sides."
And yes, those very same groups had organized in favor of Obama pre-election, back when he was making empty promises to secure their support.
Well, to be fair to them, that's not what the Democrat Senators demanded: in fact, they demanded you bake that cake you bigot.
So, really, the standing rule is: "private business has the right to do whatever a Democrat Senator demands from the floor of Congress, and no other rights whatsoever."
... Can someone remind me how the left defines "fascism" again?
Thank you.
Also, 230 isn't just some "free for all," even if the courts mangled this issue. There were specific demands made of the organizations that take the benefits of this law, of course the largest and most obvious being a fealty to the American construction of free speech.
But they also required tools for parents to help curate content for their children. Lookin' at you Google, who decided the EU "right to privacy for babies" is more important than following US law.
As well as restricting obscenity, which is already defined by American law. Lookin' at you Twitter, who decided literal paedophiles, terrorists, and pornographers advocating their causes to children is fine, but allowing someone to say "illegal alien" is obscene.
I like how private business has the "right" to exclude whatever content and whichever people Democrat Senators demand they censor from the floor of Congress.
Wow, such private. Much business.
I'm sorry, I didn't mean to upset you: I thought I was being witty. I know everyone is a bit sensitive right now, so I should have been more thoughtful. I honestly haven't heard anyone else talking about it outside of a few randos on the internet well after I brought it up. I should have been clearer instead of being snarky. (Also, you should see me being salty: that ain't me being salty. lol)
No, I have a ton of reasoning: I don't think they're incompetent. I don't think everyone at every single level of government sucks at everything they do because they're just so stupid--I think that's a cop out that is used to protect these amoral assholes whenever they do something untoward.
But hell, if they are in fact hiring high school drop outs "cuz dey so smurt," then yeah maybe that is the issue... But I also think that's actually way, way worse than if they were just having an inter-agency war over funding, as ugly as it got. Remember the power these groups have. The idea that they're just that fucking stupid is terrifying.
Honestly, I'm not even really sold on the "interagency spat" idea, tbh: it just seems like a decent explanation given the information we have. If you've got a better one--one that doesn't rely on everyone being a retard--again, I'd love to hear it.
... But still: job fairs? The CIA does job fairs? You gotta admit: the image brings a smile. ;)
I hate to be a "doomer" on this one, but if we require voter ID then the other half the country will consider our election process "corrupt." Hell--at this point all the lefties I know now seem to believe that it's corrupt without widespread mail-in ballots being allowed, let alone something as "crazy" as a normal election like held everywhere throughout history in democratic states.
I'm Kentuckian to my fucking bones: my state motto is "United We Stand, Divided We Fall." If I believed in tattoos, I'd get my husband's name and our state flag which has the motto on it because that's where my heart truly is. I say this as a preface to truly impress the emotion this next sentence should convey:
I don't know if we can restore trust in our country from both sides at this point.
This "narrative" isn't recent: it's something some of us crazies have said since he first came out with the info. I was banging this drum in the Gruaniad circle jerk comment section before I got banned and GG got paid off.
The other option, is that the CIA is so fucking stupid and shitty as an organization that they can't manage basic opsec: they hire random dropouts from fucking job fairs, let them blow up top secret missions overseas then quit with no reprisal, don't mess with their security clearances, then allow sister organizations to hire them on as contractors apparently without even a warning.
Oh, and the NSA too: they apparently ignore work history. This guy was low level, Valerie Plame type of guy; he wasn't a real agent or anything, so his identity wasn't a secret. Either the NSA didn't know, or they didn't care. If they didn't know, it's because this was kept from them. If they didn't care, then why did they suddenly start to care massively when he did the exact same thing he supposedly did at the CIA?
If you've got a better idea--one that doesn't assume that every single level of the CIA and NSA are so goddamn incompetent that they couldn't run a diner let alone an intel agency--then I'd love to hear it.
And as far as where I got it... Like I just sometimes spontaneously have these things called "thoughts" that arise from the ether I guess.
God yes, do that. Surely, the MAGA crowd will come around. :D
And I'm positive that the 57% of Democrats who still trust the legacy media will have no problem whatsoever with this move. They'll probably be really understanding about you guys just trying to retain the conservative audience. XD
Seriously, do this. Axios, you are brilliant, don't let any of those evil alt-right trolls tell you otherwise.