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AndroidAggie

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  1. qualify that difference for me. i'd love it if you could do it first dispassionately, like, fact based. and then again with values identified and attached.
  2. so was their cause just? are the grievances listed by trump supporters who stormed the capitol building yesterday like terrorists comparable to 300 years of slavery, jim crow, disenfranchisement, redlining, and regular old racism against black folks?
  3. yes, everyone is stupid except you. everyone who disagrees with you is in an echo chamber. if it doesn't make sense to you, it must be wrong! 26 Behold ye are worse than they; for as the Lord liveth, if a aprophet come among you and declareth unto you the word of the Lord, which testifieth of your bsins and iniquities, ye are cangry with him, and cast him out and seek all manner of ways to destroy him; yea, you will say that he is a dfalse eprophet, and that he is a sinner, and of the devil, because he ftestifieth that your deeds are evil. 27 But behold, if a man shall come among you and shall say: Do this, and there is no iniquity; do that and ye shall not suffer; yea, he will say: aWalk after the pride of your own hearts; yea, walk after the pride of your eyes, and do whatsoever your heart desireth—and if a man shall come among you and say this, ye will receive him, and say that he is a bprophet.
  4. no, to both. this wasn't the democrats fault. it was a direct result of president trump's BS in a speech just moments before they rushed the capitol building. there is no evidence whatsoever the dominion software failed. there is no evidence whatsoever of a massive fake ballot campaign. nothing was stolen.
  5. Yea, and they also became idolatrous, because they were deceived by the vain and flattering words of the king and priests; for they did speak flattering things unto them.
  6. funny thing is that episode is where they let off stink bombs or something in the capitol building. when all the elected officials leave, pinky and brain try to rush in and "seize power." that happened today. sorta.
  7. ugh, no kidding. this is what has been wrong with trump the entire time. tearing at the fibers that tie us all together.
  8. i don't understand this one. abe lincoln i get. mccarthyism i get. what's the punchline?
  9. and we had tickets to that donkey show in cuba with fredo and that coked out senator
  10. every one who marched into the capitol building today was an ardent trump supporter.
  11. they will be soon. the air national guard is in charge of protecting the capitol area. a buddy of mine is probably gonna be called in very soon. they typically provide backup to dc police and are brought in when requested
  12. It only feels that way because I hate trump so much
  13. Mmmmmmmmmmm that's good. That's real good.
  14. lol in all seriousness, that sort of thing wasn't really talked about much in my house growing up. the only people i heard it from were people who were really animated by and interested in fringe theories and prophecies that turned the world upside down. as such, i dismissed them. humans have always been really animated by end of world prophecies and doom cults. seems like every few years we've got people thinking "this is it, this is the apocalypse, this is the return of Jesus, this is the end of the world" and the world keeps on turning. the sentiment that the world is ending is cut from the same fabric of "kids these days" and "back in my day x was way better" all the same, stuff's different these days and governments don't last forever. civilization has collapsed multiple times in the past and it's possible it'd happen again. so i don't know.
  15. i've noodled on that a lot lately. i grew up hearing it as folk prophecy and the people who seemed to be really animated by the idea of it were attracted to ideas, candidates, and... ahem... working ideas that involve cooperation of a small cadre of powerful people who operate behind the scenes... (yes that ought to be neutral enough but still descriptive...) that i found ... (oh boy i'm struggling here) unpalatable. and now that it appears as though there's a real constitutional threat to legitimate elections and transition of power, probably the most american thing to have been invented in the history of government, what do we hear? certainly not a 'voice of gladness...'
  16. holy freaking crap i never realized this this is really insightful
  17. hey @Bob, and anyone else who is looking at his posts and going "hey he's got a point!!!" here's how it works: not all masks are created equally. not all masks are worn at all, let alone worn correctly. under the best circumstances, they help. but they're not impenetrable. but seeing as how without them it's definitely worse, let's see if we can help ourselves out by wearing masks. if people won't voluntarily do this, then we need to mandate them. we can debate the efficacy of a govt mandate in another conversation but the scientific thinking goes like this: covid-19 spreads in many ways. one way it spreads is transmission of water droplets from our mouths and noses. effective mask construction and wearing protects the wearer from both spreading water droplets as well as receiving water droplets from coughs, breathing, talking, etc... they can even help us refrain from touching a surface that has water droplets and then touching our own eyes, nose, mouth, etc to give the water droplets a way into the body. so let's keep apart and wear a maks, all to keep the physical transmission of the virus at literal arm's length. that's it. there's no magic. there's just a "oh hey this stuff spreads pretty easy, lots of people get it, how can we stop it with minimal effort? a mask? ok, let's do it." so if you see numbers going up that means one of a few things 1. the virus is transmitted in ways a mask can't prevent or be an effective measure against 2. people aren't wearing them at all 3. people aren't wearing them effectively 4. people are not social distancing japan has 125 MM people. if only 1% of the population doesn't wear a mask or doesn't wear it properly, you still have 1.25MM people going out and about w/o masks. i really don't think 4000 cases, or even 10000 cases, is an indictment against japan's mask wearing traditions and practices until we can establish how it spreads. is it happening in tokyo where the concentration of people is sky high? is it happening in rural areas? a mix of both? what were the social distancing practices of the people who got infected? there's too much to dig through before we can say "see? masks are ineffective." don't be lazy, @Bob
  18. laziest analysis ever "country that is known for wearing masks has rising numbers of confirmed cases therefore masks won't save us"
  19. i'll call matt stone and trey parker and tell them they gotta watch out for this guy ^^^
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