The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
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The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
1hr ago
I knew damn well the namesake of my car make was a Nazi when I bought it. If it's OK for Nazis to make moon rockets for Americans, it's OK for them to make cars too.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
1hr ago
You're off by one.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
2hr ago
Certainly the bottleneck governments impose on medical training has a pile of skulls associated with it, unless you think doctors are utterly useless.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
2hr ago
But like I said to KMC above, if you actually want to win the argument and prevent lockdowns next time, you need to stop very easy wins for the other side like being tied to extremely dumb conspiracy theories.
That's not your choice. It's the enemy's. (Or, equivalently, the media's)
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
2hr ago
Also, quarantines were NOT an effective measure to mitigate infectious disease outbreaks for a thousand years. The original quarantine was a measure against the Black Death. It failed.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
2hr ago
No, despite the memes, COVID wasn't the Boomer Doomer; it was the Silent Killer. And the Silent Generation is both too old and too small to have much effect on the inverted population pyramid. COVID did essentially spread unchecked; it didn't "help".
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
2hr ago
"Common sense" doesn't work. "Common sense" gets you to Darwin's argument -- that the disease can't spread if people aren't near each other, so lockdowns are good.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
2hr ago
Could you imagine any post including "...before driving off in his Hyundai." No?
Well, maybe. There was the Rodney King chase, which involved King and two buddies going well over 100mph in his 1988 Hyundai Excel.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
15hr ago
What you post was the pravda. The claims that the Very Smart People made to support lockdowns.
They were patent nonsense, and they were always patent nonsense. The hammer and anvil didn't work and could not have, if they disease had followed the models the epidemiologists were using. In fact, it did not, and the epidemiologists continued to use those models (with more and more bizarre parameters, as shown by the Canadian COVID people constantly showing hockey sticks which never materialized). The lockdowns were not a good faith mistake. They were something some people wanted and were willing to manufacture theories and evidence to support, and to stick to long after it was clear none of that was true.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
17hr ago
Diamond Princess had 3,711 on board and 14 deaths, a rate of 0.38%. The 0.44% I gave was mortality due to COVID (36 million divided by 8.1 billion), not case fatality.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
17hr ago
Hospitals were overwhelmed.... in villages in Italy where the average age was over 80. Some of those images were later recycled and falsely claimed to be hospitals in the US.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
20hr ago
Pick any, they can all make the same statement. Substitute "Allah" or "God" in appropriate places for theocratic versions.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
20hr ago
Even among some of the most restrictive societies on Earth are not entirely against personal liberty. They just don't conceive of it the same way others do.
"You think personal liberty is you doing what you want. I am not against personal liberty, I merely have a different conception of it. My conception is very similar, it is you doing what I want" -- Kim Jong Un, probably
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
20hr ago
20 to 36 million people died of COVID
0.44% of the world? Almost certainly not true; the Diamond Princess, a cruise ship full of old people, had less than that. We get 7.1 million from WHO. Anything more goes down to counting excess deaths, which is both unreliable and also counts excess deaths due to lockdowns.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
1d ago
"Everyone dies" and "the country is conquered" are two entirely different things. Societies are not literally living entities, and even if they were (as fascism suggests), the death of the society would be "it dies", not "everyone dies". "Everyone dies" is rank hyperbole at best.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
1d ago
Not "everyone dies". But "Ukraine ceases to exist as a separate political entity". Sometimes rather obvious versions of "We take half now, the rest later".
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
1d ago
Marines are still on their way. I was expecting the opposite -- Trump announces a deadline, then before the deadline, there are strikes. But either way, watch troop movements, not Trump's mouth (or Truth Social account).
Theoretically, certainly, the Iranians could make a deal. But I doubt any Iranian capable of controlling the country is an Iranian willing to make a deal.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
1d ago
Police officers can and do get charged and convicted of crimes committed on duty, and police departments can and do get sued and pay out for civil rights violations committed by officers.
And sometimes when you flip a coin 100 times, it lands on edge every time.
Any issues that you have with whether a specific act by a police officer is a crime or civil rights violation should be taken to your legislature.
Thank you, Marie Antoinette.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
1d ago
There is no legal recourse against them, therefore complaints about recourses actually possible against them amount to wanting them to be immune to all consequences.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
1d ago
Whoever owns the page will just delete them again.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
2d ago
Rude, but I can't say I'd be any nicer to the guy who tried to put me in prison.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
3d ago
Sovereign immunity! Even if they waive it, he sues (in their own courts), and he wins, it's likely the city simply won't pay him; there's no way to collect.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
3d ago
Gotta admit, it would show dedication if in order to ensure he could win a libel case for saying he fucked the cop's wife, he actually fucked the cop's wife.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
3d ago
If he does, a roundhouse kick to the face should convince him to straighten things out.
Again? This "news" from unnamed sources came out a week ago.
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