Do you have a sauce for this? I'd kinda like to be a dick about it to someone.
lol Yeah, that's not an accurate viewcount. Wanna know how I know?
... Because now it's at 5k views.
The long term effects... of a strain of a disease that has only been around for a year?
Do ya see the problem here?
I mean, if we wanna compare it to the usual upper respiratory infection, then we can safely say that yes there are often some long term effects especially with the elderly or infirm... But I'm sure you see the Pandora's box that would open: if we treat it as a normal uri here, the public might try to do that in other areas and we can't have that. So instead they have to turn it into some big Doompornfest that frankly is based on nothing.
(My own grandmother died of pneumonia caused by lung damage brought on by a mild flu she had almost a year prior. It's incredibly common. Hilariously, the CDC reported her death as flu, her death certificate said pneumonia, while we all just agreed our 95 year old gramma passed of old age.)
I'm from a red state that's locking down again. We're going carryout and delivery only. We had no warning.
A guy down the road bought like $40k worth of steaks for his restaurant a few days ago. He was saying he assumes he'll have to just give it all to charity.
I'm not sure how that local business owner could have possibly successfully navigated this situation. The very nature of his business relies on the stability offered by bulk purchases and a desirable location accessible to the public: if you remove those things, then there are no more steak houses for the general public.
... So you know, add that to the list of banned things I guess.
If the affidavits of poll watchers don't count for much, then why do we have poll watchers in the first place?
Yunus was the founder of Grameen Bank, which pioneered the concept of microcredit... Others, such as former Indianapolis mayor Stephen Goldsmith addressed social efforts on a local level by using the private sector to provide city services.
... Well, props to the globalists for tricking the American left into supporting loan sharks and privatization, I guess. That whole page is a wild ride, btw.
But I would suggest this is an older term that is unfamiliar to many because it's a bad term. Just between you and I, the left can in fact sometimes meme; they just haven't been able to lately because they keep sticking on really bad memes like this. It just doesn't make any goddamn sense even as a nuanced concept: they even admit this in the first paragraph of the damn Wiki page! And they expect the public to pick up on it and vibe with it just from throwing it out there?
That's not how that works--you gotta pick clear, concise, understandable messages that aren't cloaked in thirteen layers of socialist doublespeak require reading entire Wiki articles that even admit they can't fully explain it. (Hence, why they've been sucking so much lately--they went full commie retard.)
I love how everything has to take longer and be some new, complicated process no one has ever heard of because the varus...
Except this one thing.
This one thing has to be even faster than normal and the process simplified with no delay, because of the varus.
Just commie things, I guess.
lol Well, yeah, obviously. And they would know we'd see it, of course.
I'm more wondering what they want normies to think of when they read that, and I can't come up with anything. Maybe just hoping they skim over it and don't notice?
social entrepreneurs
... Pimps?
They're just playing with words to avoid saying 'communist' out loud obviously, but... What am I supposed to think this means? At least 'community organizer' made you think of a church lady doing a potluck. This is just mangled garbage, so I have no idea.
totalitarian tō-tăl″ĭ-târ′ē-ən
adj. Of, relating to, being, or imposing a form of government in which the political authority exercises absolute and centralized control over all aspects of life, the individual is subordinated to the state, and opposing political and cultural expression is suppressed.
Real talk; we need a gamers.win.
Yeah, then she kept the money. The FCC just issued a pretty big fine to her over it.
My favorite part is when she sued PA to force them to do things they already did. Even the judge said the only benefit to the case was that the lawyers got payed.
My husband actually has this too. He hates getting a tan because of it; it's very hard to notice at all otherwise. The thing is, apparently you can lighten all your skin. You can't darken the vitiligo spots. (Or at least, you couldn't. I donno; maybe they have some expensive new treatment I haven't heard of.)
So Michael Jackson had to either keep the great big bright white spots all over his naturally dark complexion, or just lighten all his skin to match.
... It's sad that he was so self conscious about it, but completely understandable given his history and career that he would make the choice he did.
"Republicans are Nazis!!! Punch a Nazi!!! It's all freedom of speech, you can't criticize anything I say! #notmypresident!!! Drumpf is a tyrant and a dictator that stole the election with the help of PUTIN!!!!!!!!!"
to
"OMG, I can't believe you want to wait for court cases and recounts to be finished to find out who won the election you bigot; you're killing democracy; we gotta shut down everything you say now because it incites violence."
All in two weeks. Pardon me for lacking the urge to unify, and frankly being quite skeptical of their motives.
Wow, this back-and-forth takes me back.
I remember when the narrative turned on this. It went from "that's crazy you're crazy you crazy conspiracy theorist" to "lol of course they do everyone unwinds on the weekend don't be a bigot bro" in like a fuckin' week. Conflating the normal American frat to something like Skull-and-Bones or some of the upper class English shitshows was one of the nicer touches here, to help really confuse the issue for your average joe who now thinks they're talking about a kegger.
I think it's my favorite moment of collective cognitive dissonance and media manipulation in our society.
My parents are hardcore leftists. My mother had several abortions before I was born... Look, they may have ended up socialist. They may have even ended up felons. But man, I really wish I had gotten to meet my siblings.
Also, somehow, after at least three generations of my family falling down that path, I ended up pretty conservative. They may have too.
We'll never know, because instead they were killed: judged and found wanting before they took their first breath. Does that really seem fair to you?
Not to necessarily disagree, but what purity spiral did the LP have? And do they not recognize how ironic it is that at the end of it, they are no longer libertarians at all?
(Simping for Communists who burn down businesses, pro-open borders immigration, pro-social security, calling tax breaks subsidies, against payroll tax cuts, and praising huge multinational corporations. And all that is just in the past year.)
At least when the socialists did the purity purge on the left, it ended up with everyone over there becoming socialists.
This... This is just retarded.
Yes, I'm hung up on the "technical definition" of a specific policy proposal with a technical definition: that was exactly the point of my comment. He grabbed a phrase that he thought sounded good, but he did not propose UBI.
He didn't even propose it be universal by any definition: that was never part of his plan. Not "oh but it won't be for us!" or something--no, like it already wasn't for huge groups of people, namely the wealthy. One of the most important aspects of the idea was to give it to every level of income, and without that it really is just a welfare expansion by another name.
... Maybe if I phrase it differently, using a more colorful example:
He claimed he was proposing to open a water park for the poor, but then you look at the policy and it's a just an expansion of the section 8.
Do you see the issue here? Those are two different things with little overlap, but one would probably be more likely to garner support from the morons he was trying to entice, and is a weird enough proposal to get a bit of media attention. That's all Yang did.
I agree it wouldn't work. My point is that it literally was never even proposed.
I have to start by stressing that I endorse NONE of this, as I don't think the positive aspects as portrayed are realistic, and that I'm just passing on this information as what the actual proponents of the idea outlined:
UBI is literally that: universal basic income.
Universal as in, everyone is part of the program. Basic as in it replaces the various welfare mechanisms, reducing the regulatory overhead and thus saving money in the long term. Income as in not a subsidy or government provided goods, just a straight money check.
His proposal only qualified one of these three requirements: it was just handing out money, so yeah it's income.
He basically booted the rich from the program entirely and wanted to add this on to the current existing programs instead of replacing them, making his proposal both non-universal and non-basic.
... Honestly, deep in my heart, I believe we're heading down a very baaaad road here, yes. And yes, I believe it has to be stopped, or it is our future.
DeWine is in office for another 2 years, and he's going to continue to get attention and power from this if he can. You can believe a tyrant will just stop being a tyrant for no reason if you like, but that doesn't seem realistic to me: if a disease no worse than the seasonal flu can elicit this response, why not the flu? Hell--why not any outbreak of disease?
So we've got at least 2 more years of mask mandates and nonsensical rules, at which point my nephew will be about 4. If he wins reelection, then my nephew will be eight when it's all said and done.
Realistic? No. Realistic for Clown World? Oh, hell yes--this isn't crazier than anything else I've seen in the past few years.
For the record, what he was pushing wasn't UBI: he just stole a fun buzzword that made his ideas more palatable to the public and captured the attention of the legacy media.
His actual policy proposal was basically just a massively expanded welfare state.
... Yes, I know this is what every Democrat pushes. That's why he pretended it was the "new and exciting" idea being passed around lolbertarian message boards (and Salon, which should have given them a hint that it maybe wasn't libertarian) for the past decade.
Worth noting, that guy is literally just that: some guy. He had to have something to hang his hat on as a candidate or people would have never even bothered to find out who the fuck he was.
He picked UBI out of a hat, slapped on a math pin, and now here we are. Can we please just remember that he's a has-been who never-actually-was?
I have a nephew who's less than two and lives in Ohio.
That means that he's gone nearly half his life without seeing the faces of anyone outside of his immediate family.
I don't look forward to telling him what it was like to actually be able to see friends smile, how beautiful women can be, and how fun it is to see a whole room of people laughing.
My husband was stopped by two blue haired dykes at our local liquor store. "You know, wearing a mask helps prevent the spread of the Coronavirus blah blah blah."
So my husband said, "You know, dying your hair stupid colors doesn't make you interesting."
The employees busted out laughing. The ladies turned red and left.
... I love KY. For all the decrees of King Andy, we just keep on keepin' on.
That's a direct quote from Pope Francis' op-ed.
Just so we're all clear, he's calling for an end to our republic and free market system to shift into a system in which the government controls the access to commodities and weights political power based on class.
He's just out-and-out calling for Communism in a NYT op-ed.