existentialist
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Look how far away from her everyone else is!
COVID-19 in America
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little_legs
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little_legs
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Florida's 65 or over is 20% of the population. There'll be mass graves in Florida soon.
Fez909
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petee
no gods, no malarkey
What a fucking blithering bellend
Trump calls protesters against stay-at-home orders 'very responsible'
President tweeted that Minnesota, Michigan and Virginia should be ‘liberated’ after demonstrations against social distancingwww.theguardian.com
he's just guaranteeing his base vote in November. that's what the jiu-jitsu i described above was designed to do.
elbows
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Right-wing scum are probably making a medium-long term calculation too - that no matter how bad the pandemics direct toll, the economic damage will last much longer. And they will want to paint themselves as having been against all that economic damage in the first place.
cupid_stunt
Chief seagull hater & farmerbarleymow's nemesis.
Bunch of uneducated potatoes.
phillm
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Alex Jones wades in.
www.businessinsider.com
An anti-lockdown protest in Austin, Texas, drew anti-vaxxers and Trump supporters chanting 'Fire Fauci'
Despite not having adequate testing in place, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott on Friday announced he would begin reopening Texas businesses by May.
www.businessinsider.com
existentialist
Tired and unemotional
What an unmitigated, self-regarding prick that man is.Alex Jones wades in.
An anti-lockdown protest in Austin, Texas, drew anti-vaxxers and Trump supporters chanting 'Fire Fauci'
Despite not having adequate testing in place, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott on Friday announced he would begin reopening Texas businesses by May.
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phillm
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There is in the second photo one 'protestor' with latex gloves and a mask and a camera - FBI undercover maybe? as he has half a brain cell unlike most of the others.
platinumsage
HaveMyPassword123
You can't catch coronavirus from your own camera through the skin on your fingers.
Yossarian
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It definitely won't be a tragedy if Alex Jones gets the coronavirus, but while I don't agree with them, I do have sympathy for some of the anti-lockdown protesters in the US, especially the majority who stayed in their cars - unlike people in most countries dealing with major outbreaks, a lot of Americans losing their jobs are also losing their health coverage, which must change their outlook on the benefits of a strict lockdown in a way that's beyond my experience.
It makes it seem even more of a shame that Bernie Sanders is out of the running for the presidency, there's never been a better time for his message on universal healthcare, I don't think Joe Biden and his "Let's Tinker With ObamaCare a Little Bit" policy has much chance of reaching people in the same way.
It makes it seem even more of a shame that Bernie Sanders is out of the running for the presidency, there's never been a better time for his message on universal healthcare, I don't think Joe Biden and his "Let's Tinker With ObamaCare a Little Bit" policy has much chance of reaching people in the same way.
bimble
floofy
Sometimes it's just impossible to try to guess whats going on someone's head, like this guy for instance, does he think he's wearing a sort of halloween costume ?
emanymton
A cat politely sat on the flaming gardener.
Probably yes. People dress up for demonstrations all the time. Just a bit of theatre. Just because we may may disagree with the point it doesn't make it any more stupid than people who dress up as Torres or whatever on save the NHS demos.
phillm
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The fact that they are infantile is a given. Apparently many of them want a "boogaloo". It can't be long before the shooting starts sadly. All egged on by Trump from the sidelines so his crime family can take over the country and restart his real estate and resort businesses.
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existentialist
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Sums it up, really, though.
30 years of right-wing media bullshit, and rampant neoliberalism, and we've created a generation (or two) for whom the idea of social connectedness is an irrelevance.
"Why should I wear a mask? I'm not scared of some virus?"
"What do you mean, I am protecting others by wearing a mask or self-isolating? Fuck them, they can do the same as me, and protect themselves - I'm not responsible for their safety."
Of course, when the chickens all come home to roost - and, much as I'd hate to encourage it to happen, a massive US death toll would definitely be roosting chickens - they might discover, belatedly, why acting together for the common good would have been a good idea. Meanwhile, it's all small-picture stuff, and WIFM ("what's in it for me?").
And we shouldn't crow too much - we (collectively, in the UK) are not that far behind the US, and we do seem to be making a habit of electing politicians whose attitudes are straight out of the same neolib Trumpian playbook as the Americans'.
ska invita
back on the other side
Amazing pick up trucks aside, what do you think of these protests and Trump's role in encouraging them?
Potentially dangerous.
Lord Camomile
Yipchaa!
Not the first to suggest it, but it does seem like we/they took the wrong 'lessons' from the two World Wars they so eagerly like to harp on about.
bimble
floofy
This is really helpful, please read it, on the protests that have received so much attention and who is behind them and why.
www.inquirer.com
Trump, Fox News are trying to gin up a new Tea Party to distract you from their deadly failures | Will Bunch
Don't be fooled by a tiny band of protesters. Trump, Fox News and the DeVos family don't want voters to dwell on their failures.
www.inquirer.com
two sheds
Least noticed poster 2007
This is really helpful, please read it, on the protests that have received so much attention and who is behind them and why.
Trump, Fox News are trying to gin up a new Tea Party to distract you from their deadly failures | Will Bunch
Don't be fooled by a tiny band of protesters. Trump, Fox News and the DeVos family don't want voters to dwell on their failures.
"Maybe we should call this one the Ventilator Party, or maybe the Branch COVID-ians."
phillm
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I don't have any with choos-choos I'm afraid.
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