• Echarmion
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    Yeah, it's not like South Korea was the worst affected country after China at the start of the pandemic...
  • Chester
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    Those Asian countries are completely different to Western ones...their populations tend to be easy to control...as we are seeing in the States right now Westerners don't always obey their governments...which can be a good thing.

    Another thing, who is to say that what looks like failure now may be good in the long run...herd immunity if there is a second wave...the Norwegians seem to think lock down may have been a mistake.
  • praxis
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    ...even the Norwegians are admitting that lock down may have been a bad idea because of the economic costs and the fact that they have built no herd immunity unlike Sweden.Chester

    Sweden isn’t even close to herd immunity. And what, if there were no lock-downs people would dutifully go to work and continue being good consumers, regardless of the risks?
  • Chester
    377
    Sweden is closer to herd immunity than Norway. Sweden also maintained sensible distancing rules...not having lock down isn't the same as running around like loons!
  • 180 Proof
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    The red pill, Alice ...

    Good luck with that "dittohead" MAGAt cluster-FOX'd Noise - tRumptard is as tRumptard does - you're probably not as misinformed or hypocritical or stupid as your posts suggest, just malignantly tribal & selfish AF like that dead twat tweeting in the WH.
  • Chester
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    You look at something like the video I just linked to , and you know what, some of you are culpable for those events.
  • Benkei
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    Do you have an argument other than stating the opposite? I already explained by example how a small country will come off a lot worse in the short term than a large country. The virus spreads at more or less the same speed so in the short term, all things being equal deaths per million will be higher in smaller countries. Mortality rate is therefore uninformative until such time as herd immunity starts to kick in - in which case you're going to start to notice difference in quality of health care.
  • Chester
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    I think you are wrong...if a big percentage of the population in a large country live in big , inter-connected, cities then your premise fails.
  • 180 Proof
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    If you're more concerned about sporadically violent resistance to domestic terrorism than to the systemic domestic terrorism & violence itself, how are you not, then, part of the fucking problem? :shade:
  • fdrake
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    Your "source" edited out the white storeowner charging a black skateboarder with a fucking sword.
  • Chester
    377
    I think it's important to bring the video link that I used on the previous page to this one in order to highlight what the left's protest really is...

    https://twitter.com/i/status/1266956302145601536
  • Benkei
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    You really didn't read the original reply did you or the last where I state "all things being equal"?
  • NOS4A2
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    I’m not aware of any evidence of Antifa agitators, but Barr’s recent statements and Trump’s tweets suggest they have enough intelligence to make this move.
  • Chester
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    Wallow in your protest ...filth. Even if that man ran at them with a weapon to protect his property so what? They piled into him when he was already defenceless...utter scum.If he dies it's on leftist "protesters".
  • Chester
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    All things are never equal...we live in a place called reality and in this place the US has done no worse than most advanced European countries.
  • Streetlight
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    One could see how a wannabe fascist would be scared of antifacists.
  • Maw
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    James Wood is a washed up actor turned twitter fascist
  • Chester
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    You haven't got a fucking clue what fascism is.
  • Chester
    377
    Don't shoot the messenger just because you don't like the message.
  • Streetlight
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    It begins with bootlickers like you, of course.
  • Chester
    377
    antifa are the fucking very definition of fascism.
  • Chester
    377
    They even dress in black to give morons a fucking clue...
  • Maw
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    antifa are the fucking very definition of fascism.Chester

    Does your mom help you dress in the morning? Does she pick out the cloths the night before?
  • NOS4A2
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    It certainly isn’t about the injustice of George Floyd’s murder anymore. They gunned down an officer in Oakland, not because he had anything to do with the assassination of George Floyd, but because he was wearing a uniform.

    https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-05-30/federal-officer-killed-by-gunfire-outside-u-s-courthouse-in-oakland
  • Streetlight
    9.1k
    It certainly isn’t about the injustice of George Floyd’s murder anymore.NOS4A2

    Damn straight it isn't.
  • 180 Proof
    15.4k
    antifa are the fucking very definition of fascism.
    — Chester

    Does your mom help you dress in the morning? Does she pick out the cloths the night before?
    Maw
    :rofl:
  • praxis
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    The point about the economy is that a downturn was inevitable. It only takes the slightest prick to deflate a balloon. A wide range of things could do it. You can't blame 'leftists' or even the virus for spoiling the Ponzi scheme, though you might take partial blame yourself for playing up the lefty/righty bullshit rather than looking at the real problem.
  • creativesoul
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    The point about the economy is that a downturn was inevitable. It only takes the slightest prick to deflate a balloon. A wide range of things could do it. You can't blame 'leftists' or even the virus for spoiling the Ponzi scheme, though you might take partial blame yourself for playing up the lefty/righty bullshit rather than looking at the real problem.praxis

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