Telling people at the time makes it far more credible than someone who didn't or can't verify that they did.
Even if you don't consider evidence to be sufficient in either example, it shows how insincere the left is with these accusations. Acting like any weak evidence should be believed when it favors them and then dismissing out of hand stronger evidence against their own. Something demonstrating their hypocrisy as well as Clinton and now Biden does is excellent inoculation against a whole category of emotional attacks they are constantly making.
This is actually a very good opportunity to differentiate. Tara Reade is someone who worked on Biden's own campaign, has a clear story, and told multiple people willing to corroborate this at the time some of which are verified as responding as if they had been told long before the election
Force them to think about it. The case is so much stronger than the ones that were raised against conservatives. If this isn't enough evidence against Biden, why did the press and dems go after kavanaugh, for example, on a less serious hazy accusation. A story where all who were supposed to corroborate not only failed to do so, but found their own roles in the story to not be credible.
Even if someone thinks the evidence is insufficient in both situations, it shows that the democratic party and press has stooped so low they are willing to destroy and humiliate a man in front of his family based on substantially less evidence than they ignore today. It shows people they weren't truly motivated by overzealous sincerity, and starts to reveal them to be pretty slimy.
Pretty much what I have seen in my city. Not that there aren't a lot of black people doing the social distancing thing as well. In most of the places I frequent, everyone acts about the same, but the few large groups who are completely ignoring the whole thing looks like this demographically.
I think going after Bin Laden was Obama's singular foreign policy success. If you look at Libya, or toppling Assad, or letting half of Iraq split off to form ISIS, everything else he did was a disaster. Biden managed to disagree with Obama making his only good decision.
There could be something added about their affiliation with the accused. Didn't Ford have no confirmed affiliation whatsoever whereas Reade was a campaign worker? It also follows while Ford is a left wing activist, Reade does not have the obvious political motive
It has come to the point that it is impossible to advocate for policies that have even the remotest chance for success without being called racist by someone. It is probably just to give him some credibility in this case anyway. Since he was calling Trump a xenophobic bigot conspicuously close to when Trump initiated the travel ban, it seems likely he is just captain - hindsighting with his support for it now after opposing it when it mattered. If he supported it, he should have said so then when Trump was getting heat from other leftists.
I have seen a survey before where > 90% didn't give a crap about the redskins name for example, but were being spoken for which puts it about in line with most other sjw causes. Being an SJW is much more about being preachy and feeling superior than advocating for the real concerns of a group.
Also, it is hard to know what the point would be. This is bad for their economy and world image as well as hurting their own people first and foremost.
Something like this virus would made a terrible weapon for them as they are less able to handle the results of it than the countries they would supposedly be attacking, and it is hard to see how that could be prevented in a way that didn't require the impossibility of keeping a secret amongst 100s of millions of people.
The whole thing makes way more sense as a negligent mistake by a communist government rather than some deliberate plot
Would be fine with me if they just provided them to everyone anyway without extra charge. Just fund it from tax revenue instead of charging when you go in. It is a rare instance where everyone basically needs something. It is not like most government services where the people who pay for it through taxes often get no benefit from the service.
Here is one which has the data. Looks like spain is 62, Italy 92, US 16. WHO
This is from 2014, and I believe that more recently Mexico had moved higher than the US though the closest European country I had thought was the UK.
Edit* Here is one with more recent data from a few sources which has similar rankings: obesity rates by country
It is even more telling when you consider the cultural problem in the US with being overweight. If health care systems were equal, this should show up in the numbers as somewhat worse for the US to reflect the higher obesity rate as a potential underlying condition.
They've been building to this for years and have truly earned it. Not just because of the false things they print, but because the things they choose to print and even moreso not print are basically chosen to manipulate people rather than inform them.
The public is catching on to that at the same time as the media is ramping it up against their ever increasing enemies list. Trump, wikileaks, and information availability on the internet are a perfect storm revealing too much all at around the same time.
The idea that there is an objective media giving people all the information available to make their own informed decisions is pretty much dead.
That is basically what I do too, but I would rather they add more forums here than use them on reddit. Most of the popular ones end up sucking for political reasons so could be done better just by not doing that. It isn't that hard to type in a website...I'm here after all, but still think a lot of the more casual TD users are not.
While that is probably both true and typical for the most active posters on a forum, it might be a different story when you are talking about numbers of people. I visited most forums casually, and came to TD largely because the other forums became so hostile to opposing viewpoints that they were effectively eliminating them. If you are talking about red pilling people, at some point you have to be attracting people outside the choir.
They need something else for people to do here. On reddit, I started using TD after other forums. I think a larger number of people will keep using TD rather than come here because they are already on reddit for more than just political discussions. Most TD users probably aren't on reddit even primarily for political discussions.
That last part about claiming it proves your assertions was truly incredible. They must have just thought the public was so scientifically illiterate and the press so dishonest, that the whole thing would be allowed to pass as some sort of difference of perspective. I never thought taking the test was bad though. As long as you could trust the testers at least. Who knows, she may have gotten lucky and had a great-grandma who played around with an Indian on the side. Then she would have something to crow about.
They have been and continue to be the greatest obstacle to any kind of realistic quarantine. If people can just come across the border, hide out in a sanctuary city, and have left wing public officials undermine efforts to manage this on all levels, sacrificing public health is just one of the many inevitable consequences.
I still think it is a good idea to have a presence on other social media platform, but you need your home base to be someplace where the community can at least expect to be treated the same as other communities, and that sure isn't reddit.
Ebola did seem remote, but with a potential pandemic, a great deal of the worry is that it will infect so many people that it won't be practical to stop it so worry a lot about the infection rate. If something like that popped up in a western nation, the health system is more likely to be able to head it off. Africa is the opposite. It would hit 10 million people, and people would still be trying to fix it with crushed bone from some poor albino. I think I also remember the symptoms being like vomiting, diarrhea, bleeding out. Not a pleasant way to go.
That is definitely a Karen thing to say. Political activism as fashion.