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When someone wants to die of fentanyl or heroin in their own home, or have a cuddle puddle on MDMA at a boogie, that's all well and good. When they start stealing catalytic converters and turning neighborhoods into dystopian hellscapes then it's not about personal responsibility anymore.
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No books are not Reddit memes. Yes reading is a better way to get informed on the issues than media and social media. Words matter, people are not getting real vaccines now. Did you not read the previous arguments I made about it?
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It's not Elon's cryptocurrency, it was made in 2013. It's a meme, it's funny. Make America Funny Again.
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Some of them get it -- Sullivan Before the Election
base698 replied to base698's topic in Speakers Corner
It's a play on this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_triangle_(US_politics) but adds the media and universities to it. -
Some of them get it -- Sullivan Before the Election
base698 replied to base698's topic in Speakers Corner
Trump and Biden both were under administrations that printed a ton of money and had reckless spending. Again, I voted for Elon who has been cheerleading fixing the budget everyday since mid summer (and had an exchange with Ron Paul about it) and Vance who acknowledged maybe the Fed needs some oversight and he's "come around" on the fed thing. -
He was buried by the press. Maybe dog piled is a better word. Snopes didn't publish that for 7 years.
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Read this: https://www.amazon.com/Dreamland-True-Americas-Opiate-Epidemic/dp/1620402521/ref=asc_df_1620402521?mcid=a7773f791d803163b45b4b743704a54e&tag=hyprod-20&linkCode=df0&hvadid=693584938053&hvpos=&hvnetw=g&hvrand=17850441615144603555&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=&hvdev=m&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=9011659&hvtargid=pla-432547231653&psc=1
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You can make that argument with a known risk profile in someone who has a risk of transmitting the disease. It's pretty difficult to make that argument when someone has no risk of transmitting the disease. No distinction was made.
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Most of the younger ones are cool with gays. All the gays I know voted red, the couple I was best man for moved to Texas and his company with it out of SF. One of the gays I know that voted red reports to Elon, so I don't know if he counts. IIRC, the total gay vote to Trump was 12%.
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Congrats! You've just invented democracy. Some people are authoritarian about certain issues and others are authoritarian about different issues. Everyone gets together every 4 years or 2 years and votes. You guys should really stick to this because some people seem to really like it. Yes, I think heroin and fentanyl are beyond personal responsibility given only about 2% of people that try to quit it can.
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It was both. I pointed to the fed issue of the mandate which is what I've discussed most of this thread. I tacked on the lockdown issue which is a state issue which you should have been able to easily understand what I meant given people talk about lockdown states and all of them are blue. Again, I switched teams because of policies that I lived under.
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Is California a democratically run state or is it a republican run state?
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Are you going to take the position that none of the ones crossing the border are rapists? Or maybe that drugs aren't actually crossing the border and immigration is good? My mom died of an overdose. I care about that fact. If Trump used hyperbole to give attention on an issue, that's killing 100,000 people, I think that's pretty smart given it was ignored up until that point.
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No: https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2021/11/04/fact-sheet-biden-administration-announces-details-of-two-major-vaccination-policies/
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I don't recall discussing that here. My body my choice, unless we can give the pharmaceutical industry $1 Trillion.
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I'll pick my two favorites: - https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/trump-very-fine-people/ - Him being racist for saying Mexicans bring drugs across the border during his announcement speech (in the face of 100k Americans dying a year) and Heroin supply chains starting in Mexico
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I go by experience. Trump didn't try to lock me in a 1000 sq ft house in West LA and force me to take an untested product or lose my remote work job.
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So you don't find it funny that the politics around it switched 180, often in the same people as many as 3 separate times?
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They can go mine lithium in the Salton Sea so we have more solar panel batteries to enrich Elon. Ahem, I mean stop climate change.
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Spoken like a true authoritarian. "Your kids won't have food, so you don't have to get it."
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What's funny is it was propagating right wing Twitter before all that. When Pelosi said it was racist to be concerned about it and photographed herself at a Chinese New Year festival. Right wing people were wearing masks in February 2020 and saying it was going to end civilization. In addition the Trump vaccine association at first to posting vaccine emojis to your profile. Covid did more political flip flopping than John Kerry!
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This does not at all address what I said. I was concerned of when it was introduced and forced. If you want to make an argument for it being forced across the population today I would still fight you on it, but it's much better than 2021 when the risk profile was completely unknown and some populations, like remote workers, had near zero risk of transmitting it. Authoritarians sacrificed the youth for your fear. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moloch
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The vax was not a political issue for me when I originally posted about it. Any new product has unknown risk (737 MAX), a quick Google shows 1/3 of medical products have a major unknown side effect AFTER launch. You can't look at the risk profile of covid for younger populations and say that was worth the risk of forcing everyone to get it, especially if they had other mitigations (remote work) or prior infection.
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We should force everyone to get it, even the low risk groups who aren't IV drug users and prostitutes. I actually didn't know Hep B was an antigen only vaccine, but yes I am aware they exist. As stated it does not meet the old definition that specifically included a pathogen and not parts of one. I guess the newer subunit types would not quality under that definition either. Marin County used to be antivax central and it was a hippy thing. Yes sometimes things need to be branded a certain way. "Trump vaccine" for example was effective in getting everyone to shun it.
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Yes, but not enough to be bragging from a Challenger Jet on my way to Santorini. At my peak I had 200, when I made $30k I thought I was a genius.